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Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)

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The One with the Butt

Friends

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Continuity

Right before stripping down to be Pacino's butt double, Joey takes a moment to thank the director for the opportunity. In the close-ups of Joey speaking, the images have been reversed. The walls of the shower, the shower curtain, the guy standing in the background, and the part in Joey's hair all flip sides.
When Ross is reading the Magic Eye book, he shows it to Phoebe and when she gave it back, you can see a bunch of characters together, one on top of each other. But when he gives it to Chandler, and he gives it back, you can see that there is a bunch of circles standing completely apart from each other.

Factual errors

When Ross is reading the Magic Eye book, the others claim to see the Statue of Liberty. In the actual book, there is no such picture. The page he is looking at is page 20, and that shows some stars; no boat, no statue.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

After Chandler meets Aurora and tells the rest about her he says she is Italian, yet when recounting their evening together he says she was in the Israeli army.

Which actually shows how impressive a life she has lived. Or she is lying.
When Joey was filming his butt double scene, the director wouldn't have done multiple takes like you would if you were filming a scene with dialogue. He would've just kept it rolling and told Joey what to do (don't clench, etc) until he got footage that he liked. Then later they would edit out the director's voice.

However, this is obviously done for jokes to make the audience think that Joey is wasting the director a lot of time and film.
With Aurora dating multiple guys, its unlikely that she would go to a play all by herself.

Unless it is part of her scheme to meet new guys.

Revealing mistakes

Where Joey is playing Al Pacino's "butt-double", Joey is supposedly naked but you can clearly see the shadow of a pair of shorts on the shower wall in front of him.
During the scene where Joey is on the movie set, behind the director is a box that says "Monica's", indicating that they did the simple thing and simply shot their own sound stage as a sound stage with no backdrop.
When Joey is telling about his new role, the bottle Ross is holding changes positions.
Before Joey's play starts, (in the DVD version) Ross reads from the program that the role of Man #3 will be played by an understudy. When the cast is later seen taking a bow, there are only 5 total cast members. Aside from Joey, the only other men are two guys wearing straight jackets.

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