Best movie continuity mistakes of 2012

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Continuity mistake: In one scene, the family is watching SpongeBob SquarePants. However, the first time the TV is shown, one episode is playing. The next time the TV is shown, a different episode is playing (with a time difference between the episodes that doesn't make sense). The episodes involved are "That's No Lady" and "No Weenies Allowed", but I don't remember which order they come in.

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Continuity mistake: When Emily is standing in front of the swing, in a back view of her, her legs are close together, in her front view her legs are farther away.

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Continuity mistake: His best selling novel changes in quantity on the shelf in his office. After he signs a copy for the officer they increase in number, and lean one way then the other.

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Continuity mistake: Tom walks into Anthony's memory. Anthony is sitting by the pool next to a table with two glasses of beer, which are 1/3rd empty. A few minutes later the memory is replayed, but this time both beer glasses are mostly full. (00:49:50 - 00:58:35)

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Continuity mistake: When the mean Santa puts the little girl in his lap and asks her what she wants, she's wearing gloves. When it cuts to a different angle, suddenly her gloves are gone.

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Continuity mistake: When Sheriff Cooper writes "Karsson" and underlines it on the chalkboard, the way it is written changes between shots. In one particular shot, the line he underlined it with is suddenly rubbed out.

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Continuity mistake: In the intro, the mother is playing with her kid; notice that when she grabs the gladiator puppet she is holding it with the index finger above the shoulder in the wider angle, below in the frontal close-up. (00:01:00)

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Continuity mistake: In the car after Martin tells Hans about the throat slitting story, Billy and him get into an argument about the violence of the story. Billy says "It's going to be violent, it's about seven fucking psychopaths!" Martin then says "Hey!" But you can see in the back seat his mouth doesn't move for that. Then it cuts to a close up of Martin and his head is in a different position, facing Billy where he was looking out the window a moment before. (00:58:05)

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Continuity mistake: Alexandre Lagarde puts his fork into the plate of the attractive client, much to the scorn of her husband. The morsel in close-up and the one she actually puts in her mouth are different. (00:06:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Magic Mike is doing his raining men dance, where he starts twerking his junk the back dancer on the left takes off his vest. When he starts humping the ground a few seconds later the dancer again is taking off his vest.

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Continuity mistake: In the scene where Billy Crystal is chasing his grandson at the recital, he has day-glow paint on his face. A few seconds later in front of the stage, the day-glow paint is gone.

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Continuity mistake: In the middle of the film, the girl scouts and the leader are having a juice break and in walks the love interest (the father of one of the scouts). In the shot where the leader walks towards the love interest, the way she carries her glass of juice changes from the top to the side.

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Continuity mistake: The man with one arm in the projector slides shows his right arm removed below the elbow. The next slide shows his left arm missing, and then it goes back to his right. (00:35:34)

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Continuity mistake: Sheila is clutching the phone to her chest with both hands, since Melinda is reaching for it to delete the butt-flexing video. The door chimes and the bearded man enters the store; in the foreground Sheila is in a different position with her arms crossed, and in a third one with her arms down at the next cut. And even more noticeable, a 4th different one as she walks away, holding the phone across the chest to the opposite side of her body all of a sudden. (00:07:50)

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Continuity mistake: The position of Beth's truck facing her motel room (106 or 706?) changes during the time she is talking to Holly. Sometimes the truck is closer to the room next to hers (105 or 705) and to where Beth is standing. Also, the truck's front tires are different distances from the curb. (00:48:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Eddie Murphy's assistant makes assumptions about why Jack isn't speaking, he throws his notepad down and has empty hands as Jack pushes him out of the office. When the angle changes, he has a notepad in his right hand.

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Continuity mistake: When Jeremy and the cop girl are shooting for practice, the amount of cans changes between shots.

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Continuity mistake: After the funeral back at the house, Nicole's sister Annie goes to the bathroom and undoes her belt to sit down to pee, but when she hears a noise and stands up and pulls her pants up, her belt is buckled.

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Continuity mistake: Just after Bobby shouts "Close the doors!", an officer tells a mechanic named Angus to stop Vanessa. In one shot, Angus steps off the car ready to grab her, but in the next shot, Angus goes to step off the car a second time. (01:11:50)

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Continuity mistake: When the mother breaks the window to enter the neighbor's house the next frame shows the glass still intact. (01:07:00)

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