Goofs

When Starsky is running on the beach he falls and his headphones fall from his head. The batteries fly out of the headphones and land on the sand, yet they still work when Starsky puts the headphones back on.

While dressed in pantomime, the eyebrows painted on Starsky's face change thickness.

After Starsky shoots the iguana, you can briefly see the case for the blank he shot is lodged in the action. In the next shot it is gone.

Throughout the movie, the transmission of the car can be seen to be an automatic, yet when the two Starskys are talking, they refer to its clutch and shifting.

When Starsky and Hutch (and the Torino) get shot at by the Korean gunman, Hutch frantically grabs the radio mike and calls in the license plate number of the gunman's car, then hurriedly throws the mike into the Torino and pursues the gunman. Moments later, after the gunman escapes, the dispatcher radios back with the license info and we see the radio with the mike neatly hung up on the clip.

In the credits, Brande Roderick and Molly Sims' character credits are exchanged.

Sniffer dogs detect trace amounts of drugs that get into the air and stick to objects that have been near or in contact with drugs. If cocaine was chemically altered to "smell" differently in order to avoid sniffer dog detection, the drug would no longer be cocaine.

In the chase scene on the golf course, Hutch tells Starsky there is a dogleg on a Par 3 hole. A Par 3 hole is not long enough to have a dogleg. A player is expected to be on the green in 1 shot on a Par 3.

During his speech, Reese Feldman attributes "To err is human, to forgive divine" to William Shakespeare. Huggy Bear credits the same line to God (presumably meaning the Bible). In fact, this line was written by Alexander Pope, in his "An Essay on Criticism" in the early 1700s.

As the script wrongly attributes this quote to two different sources by two different characters, it's obvious that it was a deliberate choice.

(at around 1h 30 mins) When the Torino lands you can see the white paint stripe reveal just how much the front of the car is deformed in these jumps. The owner would never do this for fun as it would ruin the car each time.

The scene precipitates a montage of several botched car stunts and crashes during filming, so it's not a goof to kick it off with this shot.

"Chau" is a Chinese name, not a Korean name.

It's not improbable for the man in question to be from Korean with an ethnic Chinese background.

When Reese and Friday are meeting with the drug dealers, a few of the buildings in the background were not around in the '70s, especially the Library Tower which wasn't completed until the 1990s.

The film takes place in the fictional Bay City, so whatever buildings were or were not extant in real life in the 1970s is irrelevant.

During the closing scene with the original Starsky and Hutch (1975) actors, Starsky is told about popping the clutch and jumping from 2nd to 4th gear. But, during the jump onto the boat you can clearly see that the Gran Torino has an automatic gear box due to the fact it has no clutch pedal. Just a gas pedal and large brake pedal.

When Starsky falls into the hallway after being hit with knives thrown by the Korean boy, the knife sticking out of his calf falls off of his leg. The blade is only an inch long.

When the German Shepherd is attacking a man because of the "old" cocaine, you can clearly see the protective covering on the man's arm.

During the car chase on the golf course, tire tracks from previous shots can be seen.

In the opening of the film, Starsky is chasing the perp in his Torino with the magnetic police light attached to the roof. The light is attached over the passenger side of the car, far out of Starsky's reach since he was driving alone.

In the opening scene, Reese pulls a pistol with a silencer on it out of his cooler. When he shoots Terrance with it, it was quite loud.

In the disco, the DJ/Announcer uses a Shure Beta58 microphone, distinguished by the blue band around the windscreen and the grey color of the body. The Beta58 was first introduced in 1989.

Hutch's motorcycle has a front disk brake, not available in the mid '70s.

In several shots at the beginning of the film, a building with the California Bank & Trust logo is prominent in the foreground. California Bank & Trust was established in 1998.

When pulling into the Beer Pool to meet Big Earl, Hutch hits the car in the parking lot with the motorcycle.

The Kleenex box in the hospital had a plastic liner to keep the tissue up no matter what. In the 70s, there was no plastic, and you sometimes had to dig for the next tissue.

When Hutch is playing the guitar, the sound coming from the guitar doesn't match the strokes made by his right hand.

When Starsky and Hutch (and the Torino) get shot at by the Korean gunman, you can hear the cartridges from Starsky's semi-automatic pistol hit the ground as they are ejected. When Hutch fires his revolver you hear the same sound. A revolver retains cartridges in its cylinder when fired.

When Reese and his girlfriend are speeding away in their car as Starsky and Hutch are shooting at them, you hear her say, "What's going on?", but her mouth is not moving.

When Starsky crashes his car into the marina while trying to catch Reese, you can see when the boat is getting away that the marina is just a background, and they are swimming in a small pool.

In the police station with the korean guy Hutch speaks korean yet when his son was throwing knives at them Hutch has to ask the man who was that little man when the kid calls him father out loud.

Kevin tells the coke dealers that the German Shepherd can "detect smells that even the most advanced technology in the world cannot." With that in mind, we see the fat coke dealer smoking a cigarette who is sitting closer to the dog than the man with the "old coke" (the one that the dog attacks) thus, the dog should have caught the man with the cigarette first.

In reference to his daughter's bat mitzvah, Reese mistakenly says "bar mitzvah" a few times. A bar mitzvah is for boys.

After Starsky drinks the coffee with cocaine in it, he then keeps sniffing and rubbing his nose after, as if he had snorted the cocaine, not taken it orally.