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Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, and Lily Tomlin in 9 to 5 (1980)

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9 to 5

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Continuity

When Violet and Judy drive to the hospital in a panic, Violet parks her car at an angle taking up two spaces, but when she goes back to her car to put the corpse in the trunk, the car is parked perfectly straight within one space.
Violet's taillights repair themselves after she's been stopped by the police.
When the women flee the hospital with the body, Judy's coat is caught in the door. For the rest of the ride, the coat has disappeared. Until just before they crash, when it is suddenly back hanging from the door sill.
When Violet and Judy frantically leave the office to go to the hospital, it is still daytime. When they arrive at the hospital, it is nighttime.
In the first few scenes, Violet's hair changes from being parted on the side to being parted down the middle.

Factual errors

Mr. Hart refuses to get X-rays at the hospital, and tells the doctor that he is not going to sucker him into a lot of hospital bills and doctor's fees. However, Mr. Hart was injured at work, so the company would pay for the hospital bills and doctor's fees, at no cost to Mr. Hart.
When Violet's car (with the three women in the front seat) crashes into the dumpster, not one is wearing a seat belt, yet none of them flies forward on impact, despite a high speed.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

It's a fantasy sequence where normal rules don't apply, but: In her fantasy sequence, Judy fires 15 shots from a double-barrel shotgun, with no time between shots to reload. Furthermore, numerous shots have the distinctive sound of a ricochet, which buck-shot does not do.
It's a fantasy sequence where normal rules don't apply, but: When Doralee is fantasizing about giving Hart 'a taste of his own medicine', Hart stands up to leave her office. When he does, the chair he was sat on is empty, but in the next scene, Doralee's lasso is hanging on the chair.

Revealing mistakes

When Frank gives Doralee the scarf, she says "You didn't have to do that," but her mouth doesn't move and the audio echoes oddly, making it clear that the line is dubbed.
When Franklin Hart is on the phone discussing the Ajax warehouse, none of the line buttons on his phone are pressed down nor lit as they would during an actual call.
Violet meets Judy at the personnel office, Suite 1100, and takes her upstairs to the 12th floor in what seems to be one slow elevator.

Miscellaneous

Even if the ladies didn't notice Roz's shoes in the stall when they were talking about events from the night before, it should have been obvious that she was in the stall.

Crew or equipment visible

In some versions, when Doralee lassos Hart and he falls backward, the crash mat he falls onto can be seen.
When Violet and Judy are on their way out of Hart's office for the first time, a crewmember is briefly reflected in the mirror on the wall, ducking quickly out of the shot.

Plot holes

There is a bullet-riddled window and at least four slugs somewhere in the office, yet no one ever comments on suddenly working in a crime scene.

Boom mic visible

When Violet asks Roz where the coffee cup is in Hart's office, the mic almost hits her in the head.
In earlier versions it is visible while Violet and Judy are in Mr. Hart's office for the first time. It has been removed in later versions.
[top]: When Violet worries about putting rat poison into her boss's coffee.

Character error

When Hart attempts to attack Doralee while in the harness, she hits the remote control button and he is swept up in the air. He can be heard to yell, "Dolly", rather than "Doralee" (the character's name in the film).
In the ladies' room, when Violet, Doralee, and Judy are talking about the previous night's events, Doralee has checked to make sure Roz's legs aren't visible in any of the stalls, but no one's noticed that Roz's stall--where she's sitting with her legs up--is the only one with the door not ajar.
When the three women are in the hospital thinking that Violet accidentally poisoned Mr. Hart, Violet says that maybe she did it "unconsciously" (which means that she was not conscious when she did it). She should have used "subconsciously".
Despite Roz being the one to tell Mr Hart about what she overheard about the plot to "kill him" in the bathroom, she's never once suspicious that the 3 ladies that were involved are always around when she continually seems to have "just missed him" and then happily goes abroad without considering she's leaving her boss with the 3 women she told him were trying to kill him.

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