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Billy Bob Thornton in Fargo (2014)

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The Crocodile's Dilemma

Fargo

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Continuity

At the motel, Malvo moves the phone from the bedside table to the desk before placing the call. When he does so, he disconnects the cord (phone to wall) which slides off the desk before he dials.
When Malvo says to Lester in the hospital, "If that were me in your position, I would have killed that man," Lester is smiling/straight-faced between shots.
At 12:49 Lester's hands are crossed and in the next shot they are on the chair's arms.

Factual errors

The car Lorne is driving has a Minnesota license plate with seven numbers (6286-330). A standard Minnesota license plate has three numbers followed by three letters.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Miscellaneous

When Lester and Lorne are waiting at the emergency room, a sign behind them points the way to "Eye Casualty." Eye casualty is a distinctly British term not used in the United States, but it is in Canada, where the show was filmed. American hospitals would have signs for Eye Trauma or Eye Injury.

It would be impossible to find a Canadian province less likely to be "distinctly British" than Alberta.

Of course there's Quebec, also known for anti-British sentiment, but then the sign would read "Accident oculaire".
When Gus is patrolling at night, at one point he drives by a plaza with a Giant Tiger sign. Giant Tiger is a chain of discount stores that only operates in Canada, revealing the scenery is not in the United States.
When Lester kills Pearl, there is blood splattered on the poster that reads "What if they're wrong and you're right?". When the poster is shown again seconds later, the poster is clean.

Mistaken observation. The poster has blood spray plainly visible and a rivulet down the left side, where droplets have coalesced (0:50:17)

Anachronisms

The chair that appears behind Lester at 06:05 is an IKEA product named Adde, which did not exist in 2006.

Plot holes

In talking with Lester at the Chinese restaurant, Lauren Malvo refers to Hess stuffing Lester in a barrel in high school. Malvo has no way of knowing about this incident. Viewers know because Hess alluded to it during his encounter with Lester while out with his kids, but Malvo wasn't present in that scene.

Character error

In describing his meal at the Duluth Marriott to Lester and Pearl, Chaz describes the steaks as being as big as a catcher's plate. Catchers wear big catcher's mitts and stand behind the batter at home plate.

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