Best family movie continuity mistakes of 1988

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Continuity mistake: When Jessica appears on stage, Eddie has Betty Boop standing next to him in all close-up shots, except for a wide shot of the public behind Jessica where Boop is missing. (00:18:15 - 00:19:05)

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Continuity mistake: During the "Why Should I Worry" song, Dodger goes with his "scarf" of sausages through a basin full of wet cement. Logically the cement should be stuck on the sausages, though that does not appear to happen, even though the sausages went through the cement. There is cement on his paws, though, that he needs to wash off.

Tricky

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Continuity mistake: When MAC is blown by the helicopter, he lands on a man's windshield, and the man has to start dodging traffic. Between shots the traffic he is dodging changes. (00:10:45)

Hamster

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Big (1988)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Tom Hanks goes back to his mother's house when he's "BIG", he tries to convince his mother it's him by telling her his birthday: November 3rd. However, in the scene (with John Heard and Elizabeth Perkins) showing the milk carton of Tom Hanks "missing" as a young boy, his d.o.b. is shown as 1/20/75. (00:16:50 - 00:53:05)

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Continuity mistake: The strings of lights for the reindeer reins change continuously from one strand to two.

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Continuity mistake: When Charlie (in Marshall's body) goes to the final executive meeting, he dons a pair of glasses with an ear receiver attached by wires to one of the bows. When he removes the eyeglasses prior to leaving the meeting, the earpiece remains in his ear.

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Suggested correction: It was established when the salesman was talking about the device that the part attached to the glasses was the antenna and it came with a separate earpiece.

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Continuity mistake: When Pee-Wee and Winnie are having the picnic under the tree, he wipes a big gob of something from his face onto her dress. In the next shot, there is absolutely nothing on her dress.

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Continuity mistake: When Garfield is entombed within the pyramid, Odie comes along and frees him by dislodging one of the pyramid wall's stones - the second one nearest the corner. But when viewed from Garfield's perspective an entirely different stone is missing from the wall, about two spaces closer to the wall's center. (00:12:15)

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Continuity mistake: When the condo manager shows up at Billy's house to take Purple, and chases him round the garage, some stuff, including a white plastic basket, falls off a shelf twice; first in the wide shot, then again in a closeup of Purple's feet.

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