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• Revealing mistakes: In the flashback where young Seth draws penises for amusements, the close-up views of the drawing hand is an adult's hand rather than the pre-teen's hand.
  
  
• Continuity: Seth has period blood on his jeans, but when the officers confront him after the party, the stain is gone. It reappears later, when he gets to the next party.
  
  
• Continuity: When Seth arrives at Becca's party, the same verse of the Roots "Here I Come" plays twice.
  
  

• Continuity: In the scene where Seth is holding the detergent bottles and arguing with Evan, you can clearly see that the dent on the front of the detergent bottle in his left hand keeps mysteriously disappearing and reappearing.
  
  
• Continuity: When McLovin is punched in the liquor store, his wound is on the side of his face under the stem of his glasses. Later, the wound appears on the front of his cheek.
  
  
• Continuity: When Evan and Seth are first looking at Fogell's fake ID, you can clearly see that there is no black magnetic strip on the back. When the police are looking at it in the liquor store the magnetic strip is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: On their way to the bar, the cops run the same red light (James St) twice in succession.
  
  
• Continuity: When Evan and Seth are in the store near the start of the film, you can see outside it appears to be getting dark with car and street lights on. However when the boys enter and exit the store it is sunny.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Seth is running through backyards with the laundry detergent bottle supposedly full of beer, it is obviously empty, such as when he throws it over the fence.
  
  
• Continuity: At the very first shot of of the opening scene where you see Seth driving in his car and using his mobile phone, his seat-belt is twisted at least once. In the next close-up shot and the following wide shots, the seat-belt, however, is not twisted anymore.
  
  
• Continuity: When Evan and Seth are talking to the creepy nerd guy outside the liquor store after Seth gets hit by the nerd's car, the "open" sign behind the nerd guy can clearly be seen changed from off to on from shot to shot.
  
  
• Continuity: After Seth gets hit by the car in front of the liquor store, when the driver of the car pulls out his wallet and offers them money, the wallet goes from being in his left hand to being in his right pocket and back again between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Seth is hit by the cops, the cops yell at Seth and Evan to lay down in the street. When the camera is filming them from the side you see that their legs are crossed over each other's, but when they are filmed from the front their legs are touching but not crossed. They switched back an forth between crossed and uncrossed throughout the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: As Seth and Evan leave Fogell at the liquor store to talk, the white sedan parked behind them disappears instantaneously between camera switches.
  
  
• Continuity: When Seth and Evan are at lunch, the red chair at the end of their table disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the scene where Evan is unintentionally cursing Becca over the phone, a boom mic's shadow is visible on the asphalt behind him.
  
  
• Continuity: After Seth dances with the period blood girl, she goes away and he tries to stash a bottle in his pocket. When he goes to put the bottle in the pocket, we see the blood stain is not on his pants yet.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Evan is playing video games he comments on the use of an M16 assault rifle. The games he's playing is 'The Getaway: Black Monday', a British police game where M16s are not used.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the scene outside of the grocery store where Fogell works, the license plates on the fronts of the cars are California plates. The license plates on the back of the cars, on the buses, and other vehicles are not from any state and don't have a state name on them.
  
  
• Continuity: One of the partygoers (Clark Duke) appears first at Jules' party when Seth enters with the liquor, walking behind Seth, and in the very next shot, he is in the backyard gazebo where Becca is waiting for Evan.
  
  
• Continuity: When Officer Slater is driving erratically to damage the cruiser, he is not wearing a seat belt. During the crash, his seat belt is fastened but immediately afterward it's off again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Seth and Evan are at lunch, on the table behind Seth a guy is dispensing the drinking cans two times between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fogell grabs the bags from the cop car they are full. When he runs the bags are clearly empty. Then later on when the bum grabs the bottle they are full again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Evan and Seth are first approaching the school the sign says there are 2 weeks left of school for seniors. When confronting the Home Ec teacher in the beginning, Seth claims there are 3 weeks left in the school year. Later in shop class, Evan says it's the last 2 weeks of school.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: According to Evan, he has one signal bar in his cellphone everywhere, but when he is called by Becca, in the close-up we can see the signal bar is full.
  
  
• Continuity: Evan's string on his hoodie while he is talking to Seth about moving on with his life.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Fogell's fake ID is shown, it clearly shows the birth date as 1981, and throughout the movie he is referred to as being 25. This is more or less in line with the movie being made in 2007; the 2008 date on the license that would seem to make him older is the expiration date.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene where Seth is ranting to his Home Ec teacher about being left alone at his station, the shot from behind his shoulder facing his teacher shows Seth in a yellow shirt, yet Seth is wearing a blue shirt in every other scene.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Whilst Evan is in class staring at Becca's cleavage, the teacher says "If i is the square root of negative 1, i squared equals negative 1". "i" is not a variable, but is an imaginary number used to designate the square root of negative numbers. As a result, it is possible for i squared to be negative. Any real number squared must be positive, but i is not real, it's imaginary.
  
  
• Continuity: When the bottle of Goldslick Vodka breaks on the bus, you see broken glass and liquid spilling out. When they show the closeup, with Evan's hands nearby, it just shows glass bouncing around and while there is liquid on the ground it is not constant with the amount that would came from a bottle just breaking.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The "Green beer" that the main characters bring to the party is obviously a mixture of beer and detergent. In actuality even a small amount of detergent would have caused the beer to be really foamy and disgusting. The "Green beer" would have been unbearable to drink and would have made anyone who drank it sick.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the beginning of the movie while Seth and Evan are in the gas station Evan is filling a cup with a slushy while they are talking. Although you can hear the cup being filled, there is nothing coming out of the slushy dispenser.
  
  
• Continuity: When Evan looses cell reception he makes a call to Becca from a land line. When her phone rings she tells her friends to be quiet - it's "him" calling. How does she know it's "him" if he is calling from a stranger's house. His cell number would obviously not show up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fogell is riding in the back of the police car, the second time they run a red light, headlights of a car close behind them are shown in the immediate next scene, when the camera is in front of the car, looking at Fogell's face. If they really had run the red light, there would be no cars behind them for a while.
  
  
• Continuity: The loogy on Seth's shirt vanishes by lunchtime. His shirt would have had to been stained from the loogy.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In the end credit music listings for Motorhead's Ace of Spades, Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister's last name is misspelled as Kilminster.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Young Becca is looking at the penis drawing, the drawing itself obviously changes from the "in front of Becca" to the "behind Becca where we see the drawing" scene.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Seth is speaking to Evan on the phone at the beginning of the movie, Evan asks that which website is "The Vag-Tastic Voyage". Though, later that day, when Evan is telling Becca about his Saturday night, you can see on Evan's flashback, that he and his friends were watching "The Vag-Tastic Voyage" last Saturday. However, in the past they could have paid one-time use fees to various porno sites like this, and if this happened, it wouldn't be surprising for Evan to mix the sites up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Slater crashes the patrol car into the cement piling, we see lightpole break off and hear it hit the ground yet in the very next frame the lightpole is back on the piling and is now just dropping sparks.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Seth and Evan are sitting at the table, Evan says he has to leave to see his counselor and pick his classes for next year. Evan really would not be picking classes again, since he is going into college.
  
  

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