Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 1984

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Protocol picture

Continuity mistake: Sunny, wearing black heels, runs up the stairs with the Emir. Then Sunny jumps the wall in white sneakers. Then a few seconds later she is then seen in black heels again. (01:17:50 - 01:18:10)

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Racing with the Moon picture

Continuity mistake: Right before the fight scene in the bowling alley, Gatsby Boy bowls a strike. However, when Hopper charges down the alley after him, the 7 pin is shown still standing.

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Hot Dog... The Movie picture

Continuity mistake: In the first skiing sequence with the rad pack, Michelle "Banana Pants" jacket changes from red to blue between shots. (00:32:10)

Mister Ed

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Oh, God! You Devil picture

Continuity mistake: When God and the Devil meet, God tells him that he wants the kid back. You see the Devil holding the cards in his hands. The camera angle changes and the cards are now on the table. The camera angle changes again and the cards are back in his hands. Happens about 3 times during the scene.

MCKD

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Seksmisja picture

Continuity mistake: When Max is taking with Lamia, while she is sitting naked on a bed in the final part of the movie, Lamia's position changes between the shots. Her left elbow rests on her left knee when she's shown from behind, while her left knee is in front of her left arm when she's shown from front.

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Tank picture

Continuity mistake: The Sherman gets stuck just before the Tennessee state line. Right after Buelton announces that Zack, Billy and Sarah can sweat out the afternoon sun inside the tank, the scene changes to a view of a bright sun in a blue and cloudless sky. Before and after that, though, the sky is thoroughly overcast, with no break in the cloud cover to let the sun through in the first place.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film, when Johnny is first climbing the stairway to his apartment, he climbs a flight, then there is a dissolve to imply that it's a very long stairway, and he's shown climbing another flight. You can see the ground floor only one flight below after the dissolve.

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Moscow on the Hudson picture

Continuity mistake: Early in the film, Vladimir and Anatoly are in Anatoly's car. The car has two dice hanging from the top of the windshield, but no rearview mirror. When Anatoly pulls up behind the gas truck, the dice are now hanging from a rearview mirror. (00:07:10)

William Yates

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension picture

Continuity mistake: At the beginning, Buckaroo tests his oscillation overthruster. Sitting in his test vehicle he's wearing a wrap-around mirrored visor that reflects a full panorama of the desert area in front of him. There is a thick black divider running down the center of the windshield that is missing from the reflection. Also, since it is a panorama seen on the visor, the edges of the front windshield should be reflected on the sides.

BocaDavie

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The Woman in Red picture

Continuity mistake: When Charlotte hastily makes the bed and shoves Ted out onto the window ledge, the bed covers rearrange themselves between shots: a purple sheet that she'd tucked in before is now peeking out over the bedspread. (00:15:05)

Jean G

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Continuity mistake: Yuen Biao by mistake splashes the policeman with his bucket. Behind the officer, the van has very little soapy foam left over the store logo. But once the policeman smears his face with the greasy rag, the quantity of soap has increased, effectively blocking out of the writing. (00:06:12)

Sammo

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The Brother from Another Planet picture

Continuity mistake: The social worker takes "the brother" to stay for a while at a female friend's place. Her son, "little Earl" has a bandage on his left knee. He peels the bandage off and sets it on the floor to show "the brother alien" his injury. A medium shot shows there is no bandage on the floor. The "alien" puts his hand on the boy's knee, and heals it. The very next shot the bandage is back on the boy's knee and the scene continues.

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Joy of Sex picture

Continuity mistake: When the coach instructs the guys telling them that their 'pistols don't shoot blanks', the clipboard under his armpit flips around at the cut. (00:06:00)

Sammo

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The Vultures picture

Continuity mistake: Legionnaires are being mowed down left and right by enemy fire in a Nazi ambush. One of them falls into a road construction excavation. He falls on his back, but the close-up of his feet touching the power cable shows them facing down.

Sammo

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The Funeral picture

Continuity mistake: Whilst the family are on their way to the parents' house, Inoue takes out a sandwich in his mouth to show to a driver in the car beside him. After he takes the sandwich out of his mouth, the sandwich and the hand he is holding it in, rotate 90° in between shots. (00:17:13)

Casual Person

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