Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 1996

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Continuity mistake: In one scene, in the middle of the movie, one of the older players is sitting in a chair near the basketball court, and he is wearing sweat pants, white ones I believe. He is then asked to come in to play by Eddie (Whoopi Goldberg). He then stands up. But in the next scene he is walking up to the other players on the basketball court taking off a light jacket, but no sweat pants.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Jjaks and Freddie escape and are driving in the red car, she opens the bottle of champagne and takes a drink with her right hand then hands it to Jjaks with the same right hand, but when the camera cuts to Jjaks, she is handing it with her left hand.

Melissa

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Continuity mistake: When Demi Moore just finishes her dance for Congressman Dilbeck, he helps her put on her blouse. When he puts it on, her hair is underneath the blouse, then a little bit later, you look again and her hair is above the blouse. (01:19:07)

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Continuity mistake: When the roaches are watching Joe and Lily make out on the couch, there are a few roaches swinging in the lamp. When the lamp tips over onto Lily, there are far more roaches that spill onto her than were on the lamp.

luchador

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette and Tea Leoni go to visit Ben's adoptive parents, Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal. Mary and George get into an argument and Mary picks up the 3/4 Brie cheese wheel and chases George into the other room. Cut to Ben yelling at them. Then back to them, the brie wheel now much smaller. Then cut again and the brie wheel is back to 3/4 size when they return to the living room.

Randy DeShong

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Continuity mistake: When Ricki Lake attends the 1st dinner with her mother in law, the servant puts an asparagus and some kind of a red thing on ricki's plate. In the next few shots, the red thing has disappeared. In the next scene, it is back on her plate.

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Continuity mistake: At the very end there is a shot of (Dennis Miller) opening the door of a car for the lady, then cuts to the inside of the car, where her door is slammed shut, obviously by Dennis Miller, and approximately half a second after her door is shut, the passenger door opens and Dennis gets in the car. He must be able to leap over cars in a single bound.

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Continuity mistake: When Mike first enters the theatre, he's wearing his exercise clothes, shorts and a college t-shirt. But when the film later breaks and Mike leaves the theatre, he's wearing his blue jumpsuit.

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First Strike picture

Continuity mistake: During the scenes on the makeshift snowboard Jackie uses to evade the skiing soldiers, every time you see Jackie's face he is standing left foot forward on the board, but whenever you cannot see his face he is standing right foot forward. (00:19:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Mr. Clark drives his car to the inner city school, he asks a punk where the faculty parking is. The punk points to the parking lot and as John drives away all of his tires are blown out by road spikes (he goes through a wrong way road). When he gets out of the car, notice that some of his tires have mysteriously reinflated themselves.

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Continuity mistake: When Michael brings the dog back to life, he first is shown standing on either side of a row of plants, the next shot he is standing between them. He did not move at all.

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Continuity mistake: At the pool, Dosmo's grip on his gun repeatedly changes from one to two handed between shots.

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Continuity mistake: The movie is set in summer in Southern California. Several times during the movie the characters complain about the heat. Yet towards the end of the movie when several of the castmembers are standing outside they all have sweaters and coats on.

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Continuity mistake: When Tommy walks into the bar while Samuel L. Jackson is there, he is wearing a greyish/blue t-shirt that is soaked in sweat. The shot changes to Samuel L. Jackson and then back to Tommy, but now he's wearing a plaid button-down shirt over it that he didn't bring into the bar with him. Where did he get it and how did he get it on in two seconds flat?

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Continuity mistake: When Dick is braking the bus with his feet, lots of sparks come from his shoes. When the shot changes to an outdoor view of the bus, there are no sparks to be seen underneath the bus.

RoyT

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Continuity mistake: When Ellen DeGeneres is looking through the family photo album, she partially lifts the page to turn it, showing that the following page is blank. The next shot from a different angle, she turns the page to see more pictures. The same thing happens again right before she finishes looking through the album.

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Harriet the Spy picture

Continuity mistake: After Miss Elson writes the word "Pirates" on the blackboard, its appearance changes twice.

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Continuity mistake: When Marcia and Gregg are making a playing card castle and Peter throws a ball, you see Jan walking in the corridor, then she has disappeared and you see her again near the horse statue.

Dr Wilson

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Continuity mistake: While Francis is sitting on his bed "getting his work done", he appears to be holding a magazine. When it changes to a frontal shot he is holding a legal pad. (00:09:00)

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