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3rd Jun 2019

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: At the betting window, Wimpy is holding the money he won with the top serial numbers toward his left side. When Olive grabs the money from him, she did so in a way whereby the money would not have been turned. However, the money is now the opposite way from how Wimpy held it.

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14th Jan 2016

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: After Wimpy and the Undertaker grab things off the sideboard, Papa Oyl can be seen at the table in the mirror. As the camera cuts to the dining room, he can be seen coming to the table.

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17th Jun 2014

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: In the beginning, there's a citizen ringing the bell. If you look carefully, the church appears to lit by strong daylight, but it's supposed to be stormy. After the bell ringer is done, the light strengthens as if the ringing awakens the town. The lighting on the church doesn't change at all.

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14th Jun 2014

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: When Bluto has the chain around Popeye, he squeezes the can of spinach open. Before he force feeds the spinach, Popeye has his pipe. On the close up, Popeye's pipe is missing. After his mouth is full and before he goes under, the pipe is back in place.

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12th Jun 2014

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: The gang of guys that knocked Popeye down and walked over him were the same ones that were moving a piano over the bridge where Popeye found his pipe only a minute before.

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12th Jun 2014

Popeye (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: When Nana Oyl is walking around the table and approaching the side board, the cameraman's legs can be seen in the mirror behind her.

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29th Jan 2014

Popeye (1980)

Other mistake: During the end of the movie, when Popeye sings the title song, if you look at the bottom right of the screen, you can see the runway type platform that he dances on until he goes off the end, and ends the movie.

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29th Jan 2014

Popeye (1980)

Revealing mistake: After Bluto knocks Popeye out and he falls into the water, Bluto goes to jump in after him. Watch the water. Popeye just landed, but the water is really calm. And when Bluto hits the water, it's right on top of a face-down floating Popeye. As Bluto hits, Popeye's body bends almost in half backwards, revealing that it's a foam rubber mannequin.

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29th Jan 2014

Popeye (1980)

Audio problem: After Swee'pea is safe and as they reach out to bring him in, the Undertaker is saying "Hoopla! Hoopla!" but his mouth isn't moving.

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29th Jan 2014

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: When the octopus is trying to get Swee'pea, Pappy lowers the hook that had his treasure chest on it to save Swee'pea. One moment the hook is right behind him, and after a quick cut to Pappy and back, the hook is missing.

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29th Jan 2014

Popeye (1980)

Visible crew/equipment: After Olive threatens Wimpy, she goes to enter the Commodore's boat. When the camera is looking up the stairs to see her foot entering the shot, you see shadows playing on the ceiling and stair well. If you watch closely, you can tell that the shadows are of the camera man and the camera.

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6th Dec 2013

Popeye (1980)

Revealing mistake: During the fight, Popeye ducks Oxheart's swings. If you watch carefully, it appears to be the same swing repeated multiple times from different angles.

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5th Dec 2013

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: When looking at the storm clouds in the beginning, the sun can be seen peeking over the clouds at the far right side of the shot. Then, after a flash of lightning, the sun is not only completely hidden by the clouds, the clouds at that spot are now much higher than they were. Also, the sun's position suggested late afternoon, yet the movie opens in the early morning hours, when Sweethaven is beginning its day.

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24th Aug 2013

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: Pappy's boat is 1/2 sunken in the harbor, sitting listed about 35 degrees to port (leaning about 35 degrees off center to the left side). Yet the interior shot shows the boat to be sitting about level, but about 5 degrees or so down at the bow (front).

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24th Aug 2013

Popeye (1980)

Plot hole: The mysterious stranger brings the basket down with Swee'pea in it, and replaces Olive's basket with it. How can she have a basket painted to look like Olive's when she didn't know Olive had a similar basket of a certain color?

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24th Aug 2013

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: After Popeye asks for an apology, the first guy grabbed offers his "heartfelt" apology, then gets thrown toward the door. After the camera cuts to him leaving, a hat he didn't have can be seen flying from his hand.

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24th Aug 2013

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: At the end of the "Food Food Food" song, Popeye gives Wimpy the hamburger and starts a conversation. There are two ketchup bottles on Wimpy's left. At the beginning of the chat, both bottles are nearly empty with just about a 1/2 inch in each one. As the shots progress, the one nearest Wimpy goes from nearly empty to completely full and back again several times.

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14th Jul 2013

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: During the "I'm Mean" song, when Bluto is destroying the Oyl's house, Bluto throws something out of the first of a set of three windows. Then, a second later, he smashes out the same window. Then, he smashes out the second window.

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14th Jul 2013

Popeye (1980)

Other mistake: As the people are going up the ramp to the Oyl's party, the man in the brown stops by the piling with a paper. As he bends over, there is a sound of the pelican pooping, and the man reacting to poop on his paper. The man and his paper are on one side of the piling, and the bird's tail is on the other. He couldn't have pooped on the paper unless he threw it.

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12th Jul 2013

Popeye (1980)

Continuity mistake: As the octopus pulls the rowboat under at the end, you catch a glimpse of Olive's legs, although the octopus was not near her at the time.

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