Goofs

Spicoli ordered a double-cheese and sausage pizza for Mr. Hand's class, but when the box is opened there's only cheese on top.

The football game against Lincoln occurs after the Christmas scenes. A regular high school football season would have been over by then.

When Brad is being fired in All-American Burger, the Coca-Cola clock on the background keeps shifting time out of sequence.

When Damone apologizes to Ratt at the graduation dance, the entire crowd is fast dancing to "Life in the Fast Lane." However, during the conversation, everybody is slow dancing.

When Mr. Hand is asking Spicoli about his truancy, he writes, "I don't know," on the chalkboard. As he does this there is a shot of the class where Stacy is wearing a completely different outfit than in the rest of the scene. It is established that she is wearing a brown sweater, beige pants and a brown headband, but in this one shot she is wearing a red vest over a pink shirt.

When Jeff Spicoli arrives at the school dance, he ducked underneath the balloons and flipped his hair. Sean Penn wore a fall, which is a wig only for the back. The front was his, but the back wasn't, so when his real bangs are in midair, the lining of the fall can be seen.

When the girls get off work at the mall they are exiting through the mall itself. Store employees leave through the back doors of their shops. Depends on mall policy and layout- may not have been a back door or might have been on an upper floor.

Rat plays "Kashmir" from Led Zeppelin on his date with Stacy which is from Physical Graffiti, not Led Zeppelin IV. Despite numerous previous submissions, this is NOT a goof. A rock journalist like Cameron Crowe would never make this mistake. The producers weren't able to secure/license songs from Led Zeppelin IV but had access to Kashmir. From a character/in-universe standpoint, one could say Rat was clueless and played a song from the wrong album.

At one point, Brad claims he has to work before school. But this is during the part of the movie that he works at the seafood restaurant. No fast food restaurant like this would be open early enough that someone has to work there "before school." One possibility is that the scene was originally meant to be put later in the film when he got the Mi-T-Mart job. This theory is backed up in the alternate broadcast version where Hamilton is in a guidance counselor's office talking about his future and he says "I get up at 5:30 to go to work at Mi-T Mart, THEN I go to school, THEN I go back to Mi-T Mart!"

When Rat forgets his wallet, he calls Damone and asks him to borrow his mother's car to bring it to him. But later in the movie, he drives a Gremlin from the apartment he is also not supposed to have, clearly indicating it is his car.

These two scenes are separated by several months, so it's entirely possible he could have bought the car in the interim.

Stacy is giving change for a piece of pizza a customer is waiting for, while Ratner waits patiently behind waiting to ask her out, she says "$1.10 and you get 5 cents back." For most coin combinations this is nonsense, but three quarters (75 cents) plus four dimes (40 cents) is $1.15 and would yield a nickel change.

Stacey tells Damone that she had not been with anybody else to make her pregnant and blames him for getting pregnant. In fact, Stacey lied, having been with Ron, the "audio specialist" from the mall a few weeks earlier.

Her tryst with Ron was early in the school year, several months ago, not weeks ago (she did it with Ron before Christmas and didn't meet Damone until after Christmas). Damone is the only man she was with sexually at this point in time, so she didn't lie.

When the little kid wets his pants, Santa's knee is completely soaked but the kid's pants are dry.

During the "No shirt no shoes no dice" scene when the camera goes back to Spicoli saying no dice then laughing, the guy behind him is moving his mouth along with the words then laughs when Spicoli does.

During the fantasy interview, Sean Penn can be seen repeatedly looking down and to the side, picking up his lines from cue cards.

Correction: As indicated twice in this section, Stacy mentions to a customer at Perry's Pizza an amount of $1.10. She then gives him five cents change. The $1.10 is the amount he gives her. The cash register reads $1.05. So he would, indeed, receive a nickel.

During the football game scene, it appears as if Ridgemont is celebrating an end-of-game victory, yet the scoreboard shows that it is only the second quarter.

Mr. Pizza Guy says Spicoli's pizza is a double cheese and sausage but there's no sausage on the pizza.

During the pizza scene in Mr. Hand's history class, Mr. Hand opens the pizza box to reveal a complete pizza cut into eight slices. Four students each remove a slice before Mr. Hand removes his slice, and there should be three slices remaining in the box. However, only two slices remain.

Stacy collects payment for a tab of $1.10 and provides the customer with 5 cents in change. An apparent mistake in the script, however if the customer is using pocket change it is plausible that he gave Stacy 3 quarters and 4 dimes ($1.15) and received a nickle in change.

During the pizza scene in Mr. Hand's history class, Mr. Hand summons only three students (Hamilton, Brandt, and Cornfeld) to the front of the class for pizza. Moments later, four students are seen surrounding the pizza box.

When Spicoli and his friends enter All American Burger and take their shirts off, Spicoli mouth is closed when he says "This one's on you dude."

When Brad drops Stacy off at the bowling alley, crew members can be seen reflected in the car door's window as she opens her door.

When the pizza guy knocks on the door, a crew member can be seen moving in the reflection of the glass.

When Spicoli jumps on stage to sing with the band at the dance, a camera and cameraman can be seen in the lower left part of the picture.

As Rat leaves Stacy's house at night, a crew members shadow can be seen moving on the overhang of the house in the upper right corner of the screen.

When Jefferson parks his car in the beginning of the movie, a light can be seen reflected in the finish of his car in the extreme lower right hand corner of the screen.

When the robber hits the cookies off of the counter in the Mi-T-Mart, the boom can be seen moving in the window reflection.

As Brad is attempting to open the safe in the convenience store, the boom mic can be seen moving in the reflection of the window.

Mr. Hand tells the students that the Platt Amendment is an Amendment to the US Constitution and is vital in their daily lives. The Platt Amendment is neither a Constitutional Amendment nor is it important in Americans' daily lives. The Platt Amendment established Cuba as a US protectorate after the USA helped free Cuba from Spanish rule during the 1898 Spanish-American War. Furthermore, it was passed in 1901, not 1906 as he claims.

At the beginning, when the kids are buying the concert tickets, it is said the tickets normally would cost $12.50, so two would be $25. The tickets are sold for $20 each ($40 total), and he says he made $16, when actually he only made $15.