Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 1980

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Smokey and the Bandit II picture

Continuity mistake: At the Gator Motel, after Cledus and Bandit get part of the money, when Bandit starts crying about Frog and blows his nose into the money, there is a side shot showing a wad of bills in Bandit's shirt pocket before he actually puts the bills into his pocket in a following shot. (00:12:45)

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Midnight Madness picture

Continuity mistake: When at the poolside of the Bonaventure Hotel, Adam looks at one of the express elevators ascending. Then he turns and runs for the elevators, followed by the blue team. Miraculously, both elevators are now at the bottom floor. (01:40:55)

Benjamin Tiffany

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Continuity mistake: At the dinner party, when Danny continuously puts butter on Lacey's side plate, in the closeup Lacey's right arm is on the table, but in the following shot she is now holding a glass with just her elbow on the table. (00:29:00)

The-Immortal

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Any Which Way You Can picture

Continuity mistake: When the "fight" starts and they crash through the restaurant window, the lady who stands and screams on the left, does so twice as the camera angle changes.

MCKD

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The Gods Must Be Crazy picture

Continuity mistake: When Kate ask if Sam Boga is scared to admit he's made a mistake, Sam Boga is carrying his rifle in his hand. When it cuts Sam Boga has his rifle shouldered. (01:24:00)

Mortug

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Cheech & Chong's Next Movie picture

Continuity mistake: In the welfare office as Chong is pulling the numbers out of the number machine he sits down and the number chain falls to the floor, but when the shot switches back to the guy yelling at the woman behind the counter the numbers are still strung tight in the background.

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Herbie Goes Bananas picture

Continuity mistake: In the bullfighting scene Herbie's driver-side running board is dented upward in the middle, but in the following scene it isn't there.

john lancaster

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Popeye picture

Continuity mistake: Popeye goes to Bluto's ship. He finds his pappy there: he's tied to the chair hanging in the ceiling. Popeye gets excited, and notice that before he hugs his pappy he takes his pipe out of his mouth. When we see Popeye again, the pipe is back to his mouth. Too fast to be real.

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Motel Hell picture

Continuity mistake: At the end, the buried biker digs himself out of his grave and shuffles to the smokehouse. When he attacks Farmer Vincent, all the soil and mud stains have vanished from his clothing. Guess he must have stopped off at Zombies-R-Us for some fresh new duds. (01:30:00)

Jean G

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Private Benjamin picture

Continuity mistake: On her first day in basic, Judy is made to clean all the toilets in the latrine. There is a shot of her leaving the last stall and she is barefoot carrying her shoes. The next shot is outside the latrine and she can be seen wearing red rubber boots that almost reach her knees.

Tina Gilliam

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Little Darlings picture

Continuity mistake: In the bus scene at the beginning, the little girl with braces (played by a nonspeaking extra) is seen at the front of the bus, on one side of the fight. Then she is seen near the middle of the bus, on the other side of the fight.

Faye_Kane

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The Hollywood Knights picture

Continuity mistake: When the boys are up in the tree peeping on Sally and her two girlfriends changing, their red car's license plate reads BAD480, but when Brenda and Shirley pull up to the drive-in their white car's license plate also reads BAD480.

Super Grover

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The Private Eyes picture

Continuity mistake: In the last scene, the Butler and Groomsman load a Sarcophagus in the back of their station wagon. The tail gate is left open and both step back as the vehicle pulls out. As they are driving off down the driveway the tail gate is closed.

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Used Cars picture

Continuity mistake: When Mickey gets into the '57 Chevy to "test drive" it, there is no gear shift lever on the steering column. The camera then shows him buckling his seat belt, and when it returns to the previous angle, there is that missing shift lever.

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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) picture

Continuity mistake: Peppermint Patty can be seen in the same class as Charlie Brown and Linus, even though she says that her school has chosen her as a Foreign Exchange Student and is apparently unaware that Charlie Brown has been given the same honor.

Dristarg

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Suggested correction: Peppermint Patty lives on the other side of town from Charlie Brown and Linus in America, so she does not attend the same school.

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