Cheaper by the Dozen

Continuity mistake: When Nora phones the Bakers, and she is on speakerphone, in the background you can see some various blue and green glass ornaments on the red wall-side, in the background of Hank playing his video game. These ornaments have moved along in the closeup of Hank frantically tapping his controller. (00:16:00)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: As Tom is about to go to work, Kate hands him a printout of Nora's email. Tom takes the paper and holds it at the bottom middle part. In the following closeup though, Tom is holding the left corner of the paper. When it cuts he is holding the bottom middle again. (00:11:20)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Hank is sitting on the couch, waiting for his clothes to dry, Nora comes in with lemonade. Tom and Kate start talking to Hank about his acting career and we see that Nora is holding her lemonade glass, but in the very next shot, the glass is on the table in front of her. (00:35:30)

Emily

Continuity mistake: When Tom goes into Shake's office to resign as coach, the position of the football in the display case behind Shake, goes from being horizontal to tilted to horizontal again, between shots. (01:24:05)

mightymick

Continuity mistake: When the family runs out of the house to go and look for Mark, Jake is riding his skateboard and rides down the path well ahead of everyone else. In the next shot, several family members run out the gate ahead of Jake, who should have been first out the gate. (01:17:30)

mightymick

Continuity mistake: When Gunner is running under the table towards Hank, on the left we can see Henry's and Jake's legs as if they are sitting at the table. But neither Henry or Jake are sitting at the table at this moment, we see them come into the room a few seconds later. (00:38:05)

mightymick

Continuity mistake: When Sarah and Jake grab a handful of meat from the kitchen, Sarah is wearing purple and Jake is wearing red. Both are wearing different clothes a moment later when they are in the basement with Mike and Henry, soaking the underwear. (00:34:45)

mightymick

Continuity mistake: When the kids are playing apple shmeer with Tom Baker, Jake's t-shirt is covered with apple sauce, but in the next shot when Nora and Hank pull in the driveway, the apple sauce is gone from his t-shirt.

dell

Continuity mistake: When Dylan's mom makes Dylan leave the Bakers' house, he still has his rollerblades on. In the next scene, where he and his parents are walking on the sidewalk back to their house, he's in his normal shoes.

katherinelei

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Suggested correction: He probably changed into his regular shoes after they rolled him out. Even though they didn't show him changing doesn't mean he didn't.

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning when the twins go to work with Tom, you see a zoomed out shot of the entire field. You see two of the players slam into the mats that Nigel and Kyle are on, but in the zoomed in shot, they do it again.

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Continuity mistake: After breakfast at the beginning, when Mark leaves after Sarah says, "Nice move, Fedex", there is a white cup in front of Jessica which disappears when the camera changes angle.

Jennifer 1

Continuity mistake: When Mark and Tom get off the train, Mark is wearing his hat. When the rest of the family come around the corner, he is not wearing his hat. We see it fall halfway out the pocket of his coat when he hugs Kate, but it seems he did not have enough time to take it off and put it in the pocket of his coat, especially given the fact he was using both hands to carry the box with his belongings inside. (01:21:05)

mightymick

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Continuity mistake: After Mark is found, he runs into Kate's arms and hugs her and her sunglasses fall off her head, but then in the very next shot they're back on her head perfectly. (01:24:50)

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Kate Baker: He is not a doorknob!
Jake Baker: The man irons his jeans, Mom.
Kate Baker: Yeah, that's weird.

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Trivia: Despite playing one of the principal roles as Hank, Ashton Kutcher is not credited in this film.

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Question: Does it seem strange to anyone else that these kids, including teenagers, can't help take care of themselves for two weeks? My family has six kids and we can function for a week or two when Mom and Dad go out of town. In a large family, parents usually raise their children to help out a lot more and be more responsible.

Answer: It seems that the fact the family can't take care of themselves is added to part of the humour of the film. 12 children is a lot, and think about all those rows and all that mess.

Hamster

It's not like they couldn't take care of themselves. As shown with the breakfast scene at the beginning, they seem to function pretty well when they all get along. Tom and Kate were just usually home more frequently than some other parents. It also didn't help that it was the first time that one of the parents was gone for an extended period and the parent that was left home (Tom) had never had to deal with all the kids on his own. Also, the only time we see complete chaos in the house is the first day that Kate has been gone. After that the kids are more behaved (at home).

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