Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 1954

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White Christmas picture

Continuity mistake: The train that transports The Haynes Sisters and Wallace and Davis from Florida to Vermont is shown as being of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in one sequence, and of the Southern Pacific Railroad in another. Neither railway ran on the east coast of the U.S.

Jimmy Short

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers picture

Continuity mistake: In the barn dance scene Gideon is doing flips on the sawhorse. His shirt becomes untucked and then retucked between flips.

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Living It Up picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene containing the Jitterbug contest, the waiter removes Jerry Lewis' dinner plate to give him champagne. After a cut away to the emcee, the waiter again removes the same dinner plate.

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The Runaway Bus picture

Continuity mistake: At one point bus driver Frankie Howard shins up a signpost to read road directions in the fog. The sign says WET PAINT and he slides down with his uniform jacket streaked and ruined. However, several minutes earlier, as he leans forward to peer into the night, Howard is already wearing the paint-stained jacket.

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Sabrina picture

Continuity mistake: Sabrina calls Linus from the lobby public phone and he leaves the phone close to the tickets. The next scene shows the phone on top of the tickets, even though the office is empty and no one has had the chance to move them.

Sacha

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Pigs Is Pigs picture

Continuity mistake: When Piggy is seated at the dinner table, there is a bowl of fruit with a yellow lid next to it, and Piggy has in front of him a plate with a spoon on one side and a knife and fork on the other. After Piggy's mother stops him from taking some fruit, we cut back to Piggy, and the bowl of fruit and yellow lid have disappeared, and he only now has a spoon by the plate.

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Puppy Tale picture

Continuity mistake: When Jerry and one of the puppies hear Tom whistling during the thunderstorm, you can see that there is a newspaper by the puppy when he and Jerry look out from their shelter, but when Tom falls into the river, we cut back to Jerry and the puppy and the newspaper has disappeared.

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Baby Butch picture

Continuity mistake: When Butch opens the door to steal the ham from the fridge, the handle is initially on the right hand side of the door, but when he opens it later on the handle has moved to the left hand side.

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Dragon Around picture

Continuity mistake: When Dale is reading the Fairy Tales book at the beginning, you can see behind him there is an acorn, a small twig and an empty beer bottle behind him. But when he picks up the acorn and twig to pretend fencing, the beer bottle is nowhere to be seen.

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Design for Leaving picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy pushes a button to start the massaging chair, you can see that the button panel is on the arm of the chair, but when we see Elmer receiving a massage, the panel has disappeared.

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Goo Goo Goliath picture

Continuity mistake: When John comes home and finds his son's toys on the lawn, the red truck has a registration number on the back of it, but when John is speaking to Ethel in the next shot, the registration number has disappeared.

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No Barking picture

Continuity mistake: When Frisky Puppy is looking inside the box at the dump, the fence behind him is grey, but in the next shot it is white.

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My Little Duckaroo picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy challenges Canasta to a fight, the door behind Daffy has a window next to it, but when Canasta reveals his muscles, we cut back to Daffy and the window has disappeared.

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Bugs and Thugs picture

Continuity mistake: When Mugsy falls onto Rocky after Bugs "let him have it", you can see the cigarette falls out of Rocky's mouth, but when Rocky punches Mugsy, the cigarette is back in his mouth again.

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Mice Follies picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom attempts to squirt Jerry with the bottle of seltzer, Nibbles sets the freezer to Quick Freeze which freezes the floor and Tom is left frozen. You can see that when Tom is frozen, the bottle leaves an icicle of frozen water, but when Jerry and Nibbles dance around Tom at the end, the icicle has disappeared.

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Little Boy Boo picture

Continuity mistake: When Egghead Jr. shows Foghorn Leghorn the formula for how he managed to dig him out of the ground, you can see that Egghead has nothing next to him, but in the next shot a spade has suddenly appeared.

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Hic-cup Pup picture

Continuity mistake: When Spike threatens to kill Tom for giving him the hiccups, you can see that there is a burst paper bag by Spike and there is nothing in Tyke's bed, but when Tom crashes on the ground after climbing onto the house's guttering, the paper bag has disappeared and there is now a pillow and blanket in Tyke's bed.

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Illusion Travels by Streetcar picture

Continuity mistake: The two workers are being dismissed by their boss after their 'too zealant' repairs of the streetcar. Shot from behind when he stops them as they walk away, you can see him place his right hand flat on the desk, directly on the wood. Next shot and his hand is in a different position and on the papers. (00:05:30)

Sammo

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