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80 for Brady picture

Continuity mistake: The amount of tomato juice in Lou's [Lily Tomlin] glass fluctuates with camera angle/distance, increasing two times. More distant views from the table show about one-third full, whereas close-ups show about one-half full. (00:27:10 - 00:28:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Coriolanus and Sejanus are eating lunch at the Academy, Coriolanus' sandwiches switch positions several times, stacking and unstacking, and turning several times.

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Continuity mistake: The smaller and larger bowls of candy on the counter switch approximate positions. The larger bowl is nearest the left edge of the counter, but the smaller bowl is to the left when Pam comes around the counter to the side by the stools. (00:03:40 - 00:04:15)

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Continuity mistake: Alice stands in the doorway on her way to the elevator. In the front view of her, a long fern leaf extends to the inner edge of the door frame. In the rear view, the fern leaf's long tip extends a couple of inches into the doorway. (00:02:40)

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Continuity mistake: Lily has 4-5 stacked pancakes on her plate, including a half-eaten one on top. After she pours syrup on the stack, there are suddenly 7-8 pancakes, arranged differently. Lily may have time to cut 1-2 pancakes into pieces, but nobody is close enough to the table to add any pancakes to account for the increase. (00:04:40 - 00:05:03)

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Continuity mistake: The front view of the desk shows a few neatly arranged and parallel piles of papers, but the view from the desk's chair shows the piles non-aligned and the highest pile (thick file folder) more askew than the others. None of the men are touching the papers. (00:07:30)

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Continuity mistake: When the girls are vandalising Jeff's house, when they're almost done, Josie and Isabel are in the van, almost kissing but then the bomb goes off. A second after the bomb, the van is empty and both girls are on the street.

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Continuity mistake: When Greg (Joel Courtney) is taking photos/videos and meets Charlie, rear views show strands of his bangs dangling down the side of his right cheek, but front views show his hair neatly combed back. (00:05:52 - 00:06:15)

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Continuity mistake: The pan of scrambled eggs (which contains much more than can be expected for the two eggs Vicente prepares) is several inches past Ian's hands and cup, but is right behind Ian's hands when he holds the photograph. Also, Ian's tall cup is not visible behind the photo he holds, with the exception of a tiny representative piece above the woman's head in the picture. The cup is visible after Ian lowers his hands, but his hands holding the photo cannot cover up the cup. (00:09:23)

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Continuity mistake: The cases of "Gatorade" next to Trevor's left side are stacked to his waist. Trevor moves the case that is under Megan's elbow. When Trevor turns around, the cases next to him are instantly stacked to his chest. (00:09:25)

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Continuity mistake: Cait plays the "forehead game" and correctly guesses that she is "snow". Cait apparently removes the paper from her forehead (off-screen). The timer bell rings, and the paper is on Cait's forehead as if she does not take it off. (00:57:28 - 00:58:08)

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Continuity mistake: When Uncle Ollie puts his hand over Delilah's mouth, he also clasps the right side of her hair, practically covering half of her face. Uncle Ollie does not remove his hand from Delilah's mouth, but her hair is to the side of her face. (00:17:30)

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Continuity mistake: Leah pours some wine, then sets the bottle near the centre of the counter (next to the bowl). The bottle is closer to the edge, back near the centre, then towards the edge of the counter again. Leah does move her cell phone with her right hand a couple of times and holds her glass in her left, but it doesn't appear she drinks any wine and there's no sound to indicate she refills her glass or moves the wine bottle. (00:07:45 - 00:08:50)

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Continuity mistake: The locations of Helena's headbands/ties vary. She has a small, tightly-bound red hair band on the right side at eye level and a yellow one about mid-neck (plus several others). The red band (which looks orange at times) is a couple of inches lower when she sits to talk to Nikolaj. After she shakes hands with Nikolaj, the red tie is above her ear (and others do not appear to be present). (00:07:56 - 00:11:38)

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Continuity mistake: Before "The Bailiff" shocks Killjoy in the chair, the skin above Killjoy's left lip is visible, not painted solid white like the rest of his face. Going down the elevator, that section of his mouth is uniformly painted white. (00:20:55 - 00:22:32)

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Continuity mistake: The husband takes photos of his bride as she walks towards him on the shore, which is free of rocks for yards in both directions. They take several steps along the shore, and there are big rocks in the water near the coastline. Alternating rear views show no rocks. (00:04:00 - 00:04:25)

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Continuity mistake: It is about 10:17 on the wall clock when the surprise birthday party guests shout "Happy Birthday." By the time the fourth guest hugs Lyra, the clock jumps to 10:55 (38 minutes within the 22 seconds of hugging). (00:02:13 - 00:02:35)

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Continuity mistake: The coat rack suddenly has a long-strapped tan purse/bag hanging alongside Juliet's coat. The purse soon disappears. (00:10:45 - 00:11:15)

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Time Boys picture

Continuity mistake: The teacup handle (left side of the screen) rotates about 45°, even though no one touches the cup. (00:11:50 - 00:12:30)

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Continuity mistake: The pony is let into the small pen/corral, and there are two stacked bales of hay. The pony apparently knocks over one bale while eating, but the bales are suddenly stacked again. (The inconsistency persists into the next morning when the bales are side-by-side, or someone feeds the pony and rearranges the bales.) (00:02:57 - 00:04:04)

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