Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 2001

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Gosford Park picture

Continuity mistake: In the red drawing room, Freddie Nesbitt can be seen behind his wife, Mabel, putting his coffee cup on a bureau. They cut away to a wider shot, and he is holding the cup again.

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Corky Romano picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Corky first enters the Vet Clinic, and speaks to the "patients", the shot when he first speaks to the old man with the Bassett Hound, the dog is in the chair on the man's left, but in the next shot, the dog has moved to the right, and the man has shifted to the left side of the chair.

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Wasabi picture

Continuity mistake: After Hubert has kicked the transvestite in the nuts, he drops 7 bullets from his hand. When it cuts to the bullets landing on the floor, there are only 6 bullets. (00:09:40)

Mortug

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Harvard Man picture

Continuity mistake: When Chesney meets Kelly in the cafe, Kelly drinks Coke from a can. When Chesney spills the drinks, Kelly's Coke is in a glass and the can has disappeared.

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The Accidental Spy picture

Continuity mistake: When the police car lands on the row of cars, you can see that the BMW 323i is parked right behind the car it just crashed into. The BMW crashed at a completely different angle. (01:09:59)

Panther

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Two Can Play That Game picture

Continuity mistake: When Tony and Keith are playing dominoes, Tony picks up the ones in front of him and then they are back on the table as the camera angle changes from each guy talking.

MCKD

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Kissing Jessica Stein picture

Continuity mistake: When Jessica is telling the pregnant lady about her new love.. she is crouched down on the couch grabs the lady's arms and then in a flash she is standing and turned the other direction.

Pam-I-am

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The Wash picture

Continuity mistake: This mistake occurs during the scene where Sean comes home after work and complains that D-loc's music is too loud. Right after Sean and D-Loc get into it, D-loc stands up and you can see that the right side of his hair isn't braided. But in the next shot, he sits down and his hair is 'magically' braided.

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Ghost World picture

Continuity mistake: When Enid and Rebecca first visit Seymour at the garage sale, one shot shows Rebecca covering her mouth to hide her laugh, but in the next shot her expression and stance are significantly different.

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Continuity mistake: When Gordon and Benny are in Stephanie's apartment with James, you can see the clock behind Benny, but a few of shots later the time has changed to being earlier.

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Bubble Boy picture

Continuity mistake: When Chloe visits Jimmy's room for the first time, he reaches for his guitar and Chloe is seen from behind, at right, pulling her hair over and onto her right shoulder, leaving her left shoulder without any hair resting on or near it. When the shot reverses to show her from the front, her hair hangs freely down onto both shoulders again. (00:08:55)

johnrosa

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La Boîte picture

Continuity mistake: When the guy is stuck on the fence, sometimes he is hanging only by the fingers and sometimes his arms are completely stuck in it.

Dr Wilson

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch picture

Continuity mistake: In the childhood oven scene, there is a shot of the mother peeling steamed tomatoes, the shot of the tomato she throws at Hedwig shows fresh tomatoes, then the tomato looks steamed in the oven.

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Monsoon Wedding picture

Continuity mistake: While Alice is picking up glasses, she tucks a marigold in her hair. After she drops the glasses and she bends down to pick the pieces up, the flower disappears, then is back in the following shot.

Sereenie

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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection picture

Continuity mistake: When El Blanco is outside Burt's home, and leaves, there isn't any hole in the ground after him. Later, in the movie, when El Blanco gets underneath the earth, he leaves a big hole after him. Why wasn't it like that the first time?

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Head over Heels picture

Continuity mistake: In one scene Jim and Amanda run into each other and Amanda gets knocked down onto the pavement. She also drops the coffee, which starts to spill pretty close to here head and almost reaches her hair. In the next shot, both the spilled coffee and the cup are farther away from her head.

Christoph Galuschka

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Little Secrets picture

Continuity mistake: When Emily falls off the roof, one shot shows her falling with her back first and her legs together. Then the shot changes to her mom, and back to her, at which point her legs are further apart, she is angled more headfirst, and is still at the same height.

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Double Take picture

Continuity mistake: During the dance competition at the gas station, Freddy Tiffany's arm is folded across his chest underneath his tie during a dance move where he does a little twirl, just after he says this is how he danced before he joined the FBI. Freddy stops dancing for a moment, and the camera cuts. Freddy hasn't moved, but his arm is now in front of the tie.

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Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tibira picture

Continuity mistake: In Session 24, Faye gets into her aircraft and Ed all of a sudden looks down at Faye, from on top of the roof, and starts talking to her. Look at the back of Ed's shirt, it falls up and goes past her neck and rests at her head, when the camera cuts to a front view, the shirt is above the shoulder line. (00:14:20)

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My Sassy Girl picture

Continuity mistake: When Kyun-woo carries the drunk girl into the motel room, there is a framed picture on the wall above the bed. The next morning it's gone and there are visible marks on the wall from where the picture hung.

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