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Continuity mistake: Masha is trying her knitwear on Jerry. When Rupert asks her to take it off him, Sandra Bernhard's arm position in the reflection does not match the following shot. (01:10:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Jerry Lewis is kicking Robert De Niro and Diahnne Abbott out of the house, the delusional wannabe tells him "That's how you guys are, huh?", to which the late show star replies "No, not them, me." Suddenly in this shot the window door is closed, when it was not in the previous part of the scene. And at the next cut, Jerry is shown indeed closing the door. (01:00:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Jerry Langford tells Rupert "If I didn't tell you that, we'd still be standing on the steps at my apartment" he is leaning into the golf club held in his right hand. Cut, and you can see the club jumped to his left hand, and after the Hitler joke, the club is back in his right hand. (01:00:00)

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Continuity mistake: A lady at a payphone stops Jerry Langford and asks him to sign her copy of a magazine for her. He is doing it, and before he finishes, a lady with a beige hat walks past him. In the next shot the lady is followed by a guy that appeared suddenly. Likewise, the guy with green pants that was visible in the first shot moved into the next street, by the corner. (00:39:05)

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Continuity mistake: Margo Winkler's receptionist character phones to Jerry's assistant to ask about that Rupert Pupkin fella who just showed up. When she tells him that there's no record of his appointment, she is holding the telephone in two different ways in the two separate shots. (00:26:50)

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Continuity mistake: Rupert is waiting by the public phone. A line of people are angrily trying to shoo him away since the nearby phones are not working. You can see the various phone receives hanging down. But the one to the left in the closer angles is correctly hanged up as if the phone worked. (00:25:20)

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Continuity mistake: During the conversation between Rita and Rupert at the counter of her bar (when she asks him what is he up to), the beer in his mug is slightly above/slightly below the handle as shot and countershot alternate. Likewise as the editing goes back and forth between those two angles De Niro is also touching the side of the glass with his finger or not. (00:15:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Rupert in his dream is approached by a fan and asks her name (Dolores), Jerry Lewis has his left hand under his chin in the first shot, on the table in the next. (00:12:40)

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Continuity mistake: After Sandra Bernhard has been removed, watch Jerry dive back into his car. One of the people aggressively seeking him, behind De Niro, makes a frustrated gesture with an open right hand. In the next shot (when it's Rupert to sneak into the car), the same person is holding a yellow notepad. (00:06:20)

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Continuity mistake: Jerry Langford has just been kidnapped. He makes the first call to the network, but the receptionist hangs up on him. He then attempt again, but you can see him pick up the receiver twice in two separate shots. (01:05:50)

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Continuity mistake: In the country home, after Rita walks away, Jerry Langford walks Rupert out of the room, telling him he just wanted to get rid of him when he told him to call his secretary. During the scene, Jerry Lewis is leaning against the door in some shots and suddenly isn't at the cut. (01:00:05)

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Other mistake: The man (turns out to be a mafia bigshot) who goes to Iris' pimp Sport asks him if she's in the usual building, and walks off, no doubt about his intentions. It's broad daylight, and it's summer. Yet Travis, who is also on booze and pills after failing to kill the senator and surely did not bid his time, arrives in East 13th Street only when it's already pitch black outside, and the john is still with Iris in the 'work' room, with them being fully clothed and with the bed made (but she's on her knees so they are 'just about to do it'). (01:37:30 - 01:39:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Travis gets hit point-blank in the arm, there's a close-up of the gun falling down the stairs, which is re-established at the end when the camera pans back through the corridor showing the mayhem. But if you look at the shot that immediately follows that close-up, you can see Robert De Niro dropping the gun, that just bounces next to him, by the wall. (01:40:40)

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Continuity mistake: The John stumbles inside the room in his dying moments and falls back with his arms spread out. In the shot from an elevated angle, with Iris screaming, you can see he is a certain distance from the radiator (and Iris' feet). In the POV shot from the door he is much closer, and when Travis is tackled by the mutilated timekeeper the dead man, Peter Savage has both arms up. (01:40:50)

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Continuity mistake: When Iris sobbing says that Sport never killed anyone, her carb-bomb made of bread, jam and pure sugar is looking quite messy, with the slices of toast not quite matching in rotation and raised. When she picks them back up from the plate though, they are all perfectly matching and pressed tightly together. (01:26:00)

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Continuity mistake: During breakfast, Iris suggests Travis that he could come to the commune in Vermont with her. De Niro is making a joker-esque big grinning smile in the two following close-ups, but there's another shot in between, with Robert De Niro visible only from the side in foreground, and he is not smiling at all in that. (01:28:10)

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Continuity mistake: During the breakfast scene, Iris has her hair suddenly underneath the shades' arms, just for a single shot. It's the one when he asks her "You call that being hip?" and when asks who's a killer. (01:25:35)

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Continuity mistake: In the hotel room, Iris is taking her shoes off. The heart pillow next to her on the couch changes position depending on the camera angle. (01:20:10)

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Continuity mistake: Travis walks in the building where he is greeted by the 'timekeeper' of the prostitute. He asks for money for the room. Notice he has just a toothpick in hand, but when the shot changes and he checks his watch, he is holding a gun. (01:19:00)

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Continuity mistake: Travis witnesses one guy beating another and dragging him away while he is in his car waiting for the arrival of the young prostitute. The corner is well lit by direct natural sunlight, and you can see the pavement, the working girls and the overweight woman walking along the building, all moving in the sun. Cut to De Niro approaching the girls, same street, roughly same spot including the graffiti landmark, and that sidewalk is in the shadow of the buildings. (01:15:10)

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