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1. does the end of Teen Wolf count with the guy’s junk hanging out in the stands in the last scene? Or does everyone know that by now?

   posted by jeff akston on 7-11-2010 at 5:39 pm

2. I didn’t notice this one until I saw “Jaws” for the first time on DVD, even though I had seen it countless times on VHS. In the scene where Bruce the shark goes into the pond, Sean Brody is shown playing in the sand. In the next scene at the hospital, Sean’s bathing suit is a different color.

   posted by Barbara on 7-11-2010 at 5:40 pm

3. In “Stardust,” during the fight scene on the pirates’ ship between Septimus’ men and Captain Shakespeare’s, the “ting” sound of the clashing blades (and other battle sounds) match perfectly to the “can can” music playing in the background

   posted by Ian on 7-11-2010 at 5:43 pm

4. 1. The Whilhelm scream is used in every Star Wars movie at least once.

   2. In Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers the scene where Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli find the new white robed Gandalf skip to the part where he calls Shadow Fax and he is wearing Chuck Taylor converses instead of his boots.

   3. In Episode 1 of Star Wars when the council votes no, look to the lower left corner of the screen and you see E.T. and 2 companions from his home planet.

   This is all I can remember right now.

   posted by Austin on 7-11-2010 at 5:45 pm

5. In the first Lethal Weapon movie, Danny Glover and Mel Gibson are driving around in an Oldsmobile Delta 88 with the gearshift clearly in park.

   @ Austin–there’s also an Indiana Jones there.

   posted by Wayne on 7-11-2010 at 5:56 pm

6. In Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, when Vader insists the structure Piett has found is in fact the rebels, he whirls around to give a command to Needa, and nearly knocks the front of his mask into Needa’s face. It looks to me like Prowse just misjudged distance and moved quickly.
   ~Jenn

   posted by Jenn Zuko on 7-11-2010 at 6:40 pm

7. In the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, at the very end, when Charlie, Grandpa, and Wonka are in the glass elevator, Charlie hugs Wonka. You can see his underwear line when he gives Wonka the hug.

   In the Phantom of the Opera movie, during the opening sequence set to the Overture, one of the actors in the theatre rafters moons the camera.

   In The Sound of Music, during the Do Re Mi sequence, they have a part where they all stand on stairs and hop to different ones for different notes. One of the girls, Louisa, I think, messes up what stair she’s supposed to go on, and fixes it right afterwards.

   posted by Case on 7-11-2010 at 6:44 pm

8. Towards the beginning of Star Wars Episode 4, when a few storm-troopers walk through a doorway, the middle one hits his forehead on the door. I laugh every time.

   posted by Coop on 7-11-2010 at 6:49 pm

9. …..just before they find the droids hiding.

   posted by Coop on 7-11-2010 at 6:50 pm

10. There’s an awesome scene at the end of the Last Samurai where Mr. Cruise is riding his horse up and down the front line of the samurai. He dismounts, and walks along the line toward the camera. Behind him, the horse randomly kicks one of the samurai, who is alarmed, then looks at the guy next to him like “DID YOU JUST SEE THAT?”

    It’s high-larious.

    posted by Nicole on 7-11-2010 at 6:58 pm

11. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the name of the Chinese club in which it starts (as seen from the outside) is “Club Obi Wan”.

    In BTTF 1, according to the credits, the 1955 farmer’s son’s name is Sherman Peabody. Mr. Peabody and Sherman (his boy) were the time travelers from Rocky & Bullwinkle.

    Also in BTTF 1, the 1955 Hill Valley mayor who promises more jobs is “Redd Thomas”. He’s also the bum that Marty sees upon returning to 1985. Marty even specifically refers to him as “Redd”.

    posted by gmsc on 7-11-2010 at 8:19 pm

12. In E.T. when Elliot tells Micheal’s friends “Nobody go out there” you can see C. Thomas Howell lip sync the line with him.

    posted by Steve on 7-11-2010 at 8:21 pm

13. One more BTTF 1 catch: The 1955 mayor’s last name is Thomas. The 1985 mayor’s last name is Wilson. The actor who played Biff is Thomas Wilson.

    posted by gmsc on 7-11-2010 at 8:25 pm

14. In the Maltese Falcon, Spade refers to one of the characters as a gunsel. I was surprised that slipped by the censors in 1941.

    posted by CamilleR on 7-11-2010 at 8:44 pm

15. GMSC: Whoa, you just blew my mind again. The bum in ’85 is the mayor in ’55? I need to dust off the DVDs.

    posted by Jason English on 7-11-2010 at 8:47 pm

16. I always love at the end of “Christmas Vacation” when the police break in and the entire family freezes. If you watch, Ellen Griswold (Beverley D’Angelo) has her hand on Clark’s (Chevy Chase’s) junk. When she’s introduced to Clark’s boss, she lets go of Clark, shakes the bosses hand, then takes a hold of Clark’s package again. Hysterical!

    posted by R in CT on 7-11-2010 at 8:53 pm

17. I have two for you from classic musicals:

    1. At the start of the Quintet in West Side Story, you can just barely hear one of the Jets get a lyric wrong — most of them sing “The Jets are gonna have their day tonight / The Jets are gonna have their way tonight,” but one guy says “way” both times.

    2. As many may know, Marni Nixon did the singing for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, but there are a few words at the beginning of “The Rain in Spain” where you can hear Hepburn’s voice just under Nixon’s.

    posted by Maggie on 7-11-2010 at 8:55 pm

18. Everyone has probably already seen this but what about when Han grabs Leia’s boob in Empire Strikes Back! Classic!

    posted by Jackie E on 7-11-2010 at 9:01 pm

19. @Wayne-Yes, it is also in every Indiana Jones movie. Why? The sound guy worked for SkyWalker sounds and found a recording called “Man gets bitten (or eaten) by alligator” and loved it so much that everytime he works on a movie he trys to put it in there somewhere. The noise is also in Lethal Weapon 4 when the guy with the jetpack/flamethrower gets blown up.

    In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when Matthew Broderick is quickly kicking his shoes off at the end he kicks the right one off twice.

    Also in FBDO when his sister is talking to Charlie Sheen (the drug guy) in the police station everytime the camera goes from her back to him Charlie’s hair changes the way it is combed.

    posted by Austin on 7-11-2010 at 9:27 pm

20. In Star Wars Episode 6, when the Executor is falling towards the Death Star, you can hear someone in the Rebel ship yell “Die, dickheads!”, or something to that effect.

    posted by Mark on 7-11-2010 at 9:41 pm

21. In Grease, right before the Frenchie/Beauty School Dropout song, Frenchie stays behind and helps the waitress lady clean up a bit.
    The waitress has her hands full so she uses her elbow to shut off the lights.

    The problem is, her elbow hits the wall about a foot below where the light switch is, but the lights turn off anyway.
    It’s crystal clear how far away her elbow is from the light switch.

    It bothers me EVERYTIME I watch it.

    posted by holly on 7-11-2010 at 9:50 pm

22. In opening sequence of “The Godfather,” the introductory scenes for several characters include a little girl in a white dress. Not one of those characters survives the film.

    posted by Joe Maz on 7-11-2010 at 11:49 pm

23. Along the lines of the mayor/bum in Back to the Future…it took me about a thousand views of The Breakfast Club, but I finally noticed that “Student (or Man or something) of the Year” (from years past) was Carl the janitor. The picture is in the trophy case that they show in the beginning of the film, during the voice over.

    posted by TeacherPatti on 7-11-2010 at 11:50 pm

24. People who have seen “Rocky Horror” in the theaters all know this for sure, but those who have only seen the DVD (& not on a huge television) probably couldn’t tell that Columbia’s nipple pops out of the rip in her pajama top right before she’s turned to stone

    posted by Heather on 7-11-2010 at 11:55 pm

25. In the first Die Hard movie, as all the hostages get chased off the roof by Bruce Willis (they all got sent up there in a plan by the “terrorists” to blow the roof and kill all the hostages, but Bruce Willis sends them all back down the stairs and thwarts their devious plan). There is this scene I love where, as everyone is running down the stairs, the roof explodes, sending a ton of debris everywhere. This one guy whose back is to us gets nailed with this chunk of plaster, I mean it nails him right in the head, which is funny enough in itself as a little hidden gem. But! What makes it even better and more hilarious is that, while the main sounds you hear is the explosion and people screaming, if you listen, you can barely hear a slight, “bonk” noise that some sound guy took the time to put in there as it bounces off his head.

    It makes and awesome movie even awesomer.

    posted by The Joe on 7-12-2010 at 12:50 am

26. This might be common knowledge but then again…

    In “North By Northwest” the scene at the Mount Rushmore visitor center where Eve Kendall “shoots” Roger Thornhill watch the little boy seated at a table in the backround. He knows what’s coming and he covers his ears long before the gun fires.

    posted by elvin315 on 7-12-2010 at 1:58 am

27. One that’s always cracked me up, and is better seen in slo-mo – in Braveheart, at the end of the Stirling Hills battle where the nobles meet up with Wallace, there are two fighters in the background just dancing around, going through the motions.

    posted by Harvey on 7-12-2010 at 2:23 am

28. Although it’s not as popular of a movie as many of these, here’s one of my favorite tidbits:

    In The Mosquito Coast with Harrison Ford, in the scene where the big machine catches on fire, they zoom out to show the magnitude of the explosion. At that point, you can see a little frog jump in front of the explosion. The most powerful scene in the film, and I focus on that little “explosion frog” EVERY TIME.

    posted by Amauriel on 7-12-2010 at 3:39 am

29. The movie Enchanted begins with Gisele making a statue of her one true love after having a dream about dancing with him. Later in the ball scene, Robert is wearing the same outfit she dressed the statue in. When she wakes up she even says, “I knew it was you.”

    posted by Sam on 7-12-2010 at 3:57 am

30. Three continuity disasters in Braveheart.

    During the first big battle scene when William Wallace and his crowd are running to fight, you see him alternating between running with an axe and his sword. What makes it funniest is that to amp up the drama they cut between the Scots running and the English running numerous times, and very quickly. And every time, William Wallace is holding a different weapon and in a different position.

    Toward the end of the battle when Wallace tells the nobles to circle around and flank the English. right when they finally meet in the middle, you can see the extras (supposedly playing English and Scottish warriors fighting battling), they are barely trying, clearly not even aware they were even on camera.

    Lastly, when Wallace meets the queen in her tent for the first time, she has a veil on, and every time they show her, her veil is positioned differently – laughably so. All over he face. over her chin, under her chin. stretched, taught, left, right. Just chaos.

    posted by jeff akston on 7-12-2010 at 5:35 am

31. In 1984′s Red Dawn Charlie Sheen’s character Matt Eckert has a constant wardrobe error. His jacket is often seen switching from his high school Letterman jacket to a winter coat. It can be most prominently seen when they take a trip to town. Eckert starts off the journey in the winter coat, enters town in the lettermans jacket returns to the winter coat for the log cabin and has amazingly switched back to the lettermans jacket for the mountain. It is like this throughout the movie.

    posted by Chloe on 7-12-2010 at 6:17 am

32. Luke Skywalker never fights with a cape on!

    posted by jade shebear on 7-12-2010 at 8:15 am

33. The actor who plays serial killer Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs” is Captain Stottlemeyer on Monk! It rubs the lotion on its skin, Mr Monk!

    posted by Greg S. on 7-12-2010 at 8:37 am

34. One of my favorite things to look for when watching ‘Withnail and I’ is the ‘lighter fluid’ consumption scene…

    Apparently, it was practiced with water, but when the final shot was done, it was replaced w/ VINEGAR – without the knowledge of actor Richard E Grant, therefore his reaction is completely authentic.

    posted by Anon Emous on 7-12-2010 at 9:17 am

35. Hello.

    My name is Inigo Montoya.

    Watch my hair change positions several times after Fezzig dunks me in the water buckets.

    Prepare to die.

    posted by Mark on 7-12-2010 at 9:19 am

36. Everyone knows about the ‘diner scene’ in *When Harry Met Sally* (and probably this one as well, but I’m gonna try):

    Billy Crystal’s line “But, I would be proud to partake of your pecan pie.” is an adlib , which causes Meg Ryan to laugh

    posted by Amy on 7-12-2010 at 9:27 am

37. @CamilleR

    “In the Maltese Falcon, Spade refers to one of the characters as a gunsel. I was surprised that slipped by the censors in 1941.”

    Why? It’s not an obscene word in any sense. Unless you know of some definition of the word that is heretofore unknown.

    posted by Alice on 7-12-2010 at 9:36 am

38. There’s one in Braveheart. At the end of a big battle, when everyone is all chopped up and dying and moaning on the battlefield, if you look in the background there are still two guys fighting… or at least pretending to fight. The one guy does the most half assed sissy swing with his sword towards the other guy while he’s kind of looking around with a look on his face that says, “Did Mel say cut?” It’s kind of hard to explain in words unless you see it for yourself, but trust me, it’s pretty funny when you see it.

    posted by Eric on 7-12-2010 at 9:55 am

39. Here’s one that will only drive you crazy if you are from Savannah. In Forrest Gump, when Forrest is sitting on the parkbench and tells the old lady that he is waiting on the bus to go to Henry Street, she tells him that Henry is just a few blocks “that way”. She points east. Henry St. is north of the direction the parkbench is facing. Forrest runs straight down the road in front of him. In reality, he should’ve turned right. I’m probably the only person in the world that is bothered by this. Sorry guys.

    posted by Eric on 7-12-2010 at 10:07 am

40. Correction. I meant to say south. But he still should have turned right.

    posted by Eric on 7-12-2010 at 10:10 am

41. Others had mentioned details of “Die Hard,” so I thought I’d throw one in that I happened to see one day:

    In the scene where John McClain first enters the lobby of the Nakatomi building, he uses a touch-screen computer to find the floor on which his estranged wife’s office is located.

    At first he looks for McCLAIN, but the results come up empty. Then, when he finds her maiden name on the screen, it’s misspelled GENNARO. When he touches the name to highlight it, the colors reverse and the name changes to the correct GENNERO. (At least we presume this is correct, because it’s the name that appears on her office door once action switches up there.)

    A minor thing, but just one I was surprised to have noticed. Too bad I’m ineligible for a prize!

    posted by Sandy Wood on 7-12-2010 at 10:35 am

42. This always bothered me as a kid. I loved Over The Top with Sylvester Stallone but in one of the driving montages (he’s a truck driver)the hood ornament on his big rig appears and disappears constantly within one minute.

    posted by David Gleockler on 7-12-2010 at 10:54 am

43. In the famous shower scene in “Psycho”, Janet Leigh’s nipple makes a very brief surprise appearance.

    posted by 8rustystaples on 7-12-2010 at 11:15 am

44. Watch Eric Liddell’s last race carefully in “Chariots of Fire”. He starts with the paper in his hand – then it’s gone – no, there it is – no, it’s gone – wait, there it is – uh, where did it go?

    posted by PartiallyDeflected on 7-12-2010 at 11:41 am

45. In Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) The actor Peter Bull who plays Soviet Ambassador Sadesky, clearly cracks up when Peter Sellers can’t control his Nazi salute..he is obviously having a hard time throughout that scene.

    posted by Daryl on 7-12-2010 at 11:41 am

46. I’m not sure how many people have seen this movie, let alone noticed this in Galaxy Quest. When Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver’s character’s are trying to shut down the self destruct and encounter “the chompers” the audio has Sigourney saying “screw that” but watch her lips because they very clearly say “f**k that”. PG rated movie too.

    posted by Lisa on 7-12-2010 at 11:47 am

47. Little continuity errors like hair, or clothing position are easy mistakes to make, but there was one that always bothered me. In American Pie, the scene where one of the characters, um, releases into a clear plastic cup of beer, which Stiffler then drinks. The cup switches between being clear and being a red plastic cup. You’d think that since seeing what’s in the cup is a big part of the joke, they’d have made sure it was always the same.

    Also, in Days of Thunder, the actress playing Michael Rooker’s wife calls Tom Cruise “Tom” in a scene instead of by his character’s name, Cole. I know it made it at least to VHS, I’ve always thought it was a strange mistake to keep in.

    posted by Lucy on 7-12-2010 at 12:04 pm

48. Common knowledge or not?:

    The final group song(We’ll Always be Together),when ONJ and JT do the jump in for “whop bop a loo bop…”when ON-J jumps in she is not wearing any shoes when she clearly has worn those red cloggy heels w/ the black outfit in the whole carnival scene.

    posted by lisaj6112 on 7-12-2010 at 12:08 pm

49. @ Greg S.

    “The actor who plays serial killer Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs” is Captain Stottlemeyer on Monk! It rubs the lotion on its skin, Mr Monk!”

    Holy shnikes!

    Mine:

    In The Princess Bride, the first time Wesley and Inigo fight (on top of the cliff), Wesley throws his sword so it’s sticking up in the ground then does a few flips over a branch. He lands really far from the sword, but then “lands” within arms reach in the next shot.

    In Clueless:

    When Cher is in debate class, she actually did mispronounce “Haitians.” They left it in because it fit the character.

    posted by Caitlin on 7-12-2010 at 12:14 pm

50. I got a great one for you. Santa is a Murderer! Watch the classic Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer with the Island of Misfit Toys. When they first go to the island they are introduced to all the toys including a bird that doesn’t fly but swims like a fish. Later, at the end of the movie, Santa is delivering the toys to the children by pulling them out of his sack, giving them an unbrella and tossing them over the side of his sleigh (presumably to float gently down to the houses). When he pulls out the bird (that doesn’t fly..remember!) He doesn’t give it an umbrella but just tosses it over the side. I’ve seen that movie every Christmas for the past 20 years and I just noticed it a few years ago. I was like OMFG!! Santa just killed that bird!

    posted by Sarah on 7-12-2010 at 12:23 pm

51. @Alice, re: gunsel.

    IIRC, it was slang for a gay man as well as slang for a gun-toting gangster.

    posted by mjm on 7-12-2010 at 12:30 pm

52. I know someone mentioned the scen in Staw Wars Episode 4 but I can’t help but bring it back up. I had seen the movie hundreds of times but the part where the stromtroopers walk through the door and the taller one smacks his head caught me one day and it was the funniest thing ever!! They even kept the clang sound from the impact! When I noticed it I watched the scene about twenty times in a row, classic!

    posted by Lead on 7-12-2010 at 12:30 pm

53. There is a scene in Three Men and a Baby where it appears as though a young boy is caught in the background (seems like this is just after one of the main character’s mother visits). The “boy in the background”, it turns out, is a cardboard cut out of Ted Danson.

    posted by Patrick on 7-12-2010 at 12:37 pm

54. I know it’s a well know fact that Pixar hides Easter Eggs in all their films, i.e. Boo from Monster’s Inc. holds up a Nemo to show Sully. But, I just noticed EVE from WALL-E scans the Pizza Planet truck from the Toy Story movies.

    Also, in Star Trek: Generations during Lt. Worf’s promotion scene; Michael Dorn’s knees are bleeding as he is climbing back onto the ship (as Gates McFadden is falling) The pirate ship scene was obviously filmed in a pool or shallow water causing Michael Dorn to bloody his knees as he landed after his fall.

    But my favorite is The Princess Bride, when Buttercup and Wesley are rolling down the hill, Buttercup clearly has a beard.

    posted by Stephanie on 7-12-2010 at 12:39 pm

55. I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WITH THE BUM ON THE PARK BENCH. I NEVER KNEW HE WAS HE GUY RUNNING FOR MAYOR IN 1955. COOL!

    posted by JOHN THE THIRD on 7-12-2010 at 12:43 pm

56. Well, some of these are Easter eggs, some are continuity errors… I have a weird one. Okay, we might have been a little altered at the time… but we were watching Kristy McNichol in The Pirate Movie, and we freeze framed on a scene with a kid in the background on a horse making a really weird face… blink and you’d miss it! Low budget movies are the best for background booboos!

    posted by Marion on 7-12-2010 at 12:59 pm

57. BTW – I nearly died laughing when my nephew, watching my other nephew suffering in agony as his girlfriend put cream on his first degree sunburn, quoted that line: “It rubs the lotion on its skin…”

    posted by Marion on 7-12-2010 at 1:00 pm

58. The Goonies is one of my favorite movies. I had only seen this scene once when I was a kid, and it was on TV. After the kids go down the water slide and land in the water they battle an octopus. Like I said I have only seen this scene once but remember it. Without the scene you see the kids celebrating in the water after they fall in the water you can see a huge dead octopus in the background. Also when the cops are talking to them at the end, Chunk mentions that they battled an octopus, which the cops of course think Chunk is lying about.

    posted by Addie on 7-12-2010 at 1:23 pm

59. I don’t know when we first started noticing this at my house, but in Titanic, we usually have the running Rose body count. Aside from telling Jack she won’t ever let go, she takes a seat on a lifeboat, then climbs off. I know there are others if you watch the movie, I just haven’t seen it in a while.

    posted by Jamie on 7-12-2010 at 1:23 pm

60. In LOTR The Fellowship when Boromir is in his big dying scene there’s an extra Uarakai (however you spell it) that is supposed to be dead but lifts his head and then quickly lies down.
    In LOTR The Return of the Kind- when they first get to the gates of Mordor they are on horses, when they start running to fight where are the horses? What they ran away? It looked cooler on foot so they just did away with them? It drives me nuts every time I watch it.

    posted by Hermione on 7-12-2010 at 1:26 pm

61. Movie: Without a Paddle (DVD)

    In the scene where Seth Green & Matthew Lillard are being chased through a field of marijuana; in the background you can see one of the crew members crawling on the ground.

    posted by Christopher on 7-12-2010 at 1:36 pm

62. Also, can anyone answer me this question: When Marty goes back in time to 1885 and breaks the gas tank, why don’t Marty and Doc use the gas from the Delorean that took Doc to 1885 that is in the mine? When Marty goes back there should be 2 Deloreans in 1885.

    posted by Addie on 7-12-2010 at 1:44 pm

63. I’ve always been a fan of Sonny’s “phantom punch” in the Godfather after he finds out his sister’s husband beat her up.

    posted by andy on 7-12-2010 at 1:54 pm

64. In you’ve got mail, during the scene where Tom Hanks takes his aunt and brother to the street fair, the little girl is playing ring toss, the ring she throws is green and is pink when it lands.

    posted by nancy pants on 7-12-2010 at 2:11 pm

65. In reference to the moment in ‘Grease’ when the waitress leaves. The waitress was played by the great Joan Blondell, who was suffering badly from arthritis. No matter how many times they did the scene she couldn’t reach it when holding the plates. So they just left it as it was.
    In Chaplin’s ‘Limelight’, right before Claire Bloom’s big ‘I’m walking’ scene, her shaw moves on to her and then off and then on again in the same scene.

    posted by Seiyuri on 7-12-2010 at 2:11 pm

66. In ‘Sixteen Candles’ when the family is rushing to get into the cars to go to the wedding, you see grandma get in the car, but as car backs out you can see grandma hunched down beside the car in the driveway. I guess in reality they couldn’t fit all the actors in the car!

    posted by Ashley on 7-12-2010 at 2:33 pm

67. In the movie “Catch-22″, there’s a scene where Major Major is telling his assistant not to let anyone in to see him unless he’s not there. There’s a picture on the wall of FDR. As the scene progresses, the picture goes in and out of the scene. The first time it does this, the picture changes from FDR to Winston Churchill. The second time, the picture changes from Winston Churchill to Joseph Stalin.

    posted by Jeff C. on 7-12-2010 at 2:34 pm

68. @Alice, mjm re: gunsel

    The term specifically refers to a young man in sexual congress with an older man for some practical benefit (money, shelter, etc.) The term only came to mean a gunman after Dashiell Hammett used it in the Maltese Falcon and people unaware of the term’s racy meanings (including both film censors and the editors of the book) assumed it meant a gunman or something similar.

    posted by Matt on 7-12-2010 at 2:42 pm

69. Fabulous Baker boys–near a chain link fence you can very briefly see a crew member in blue clothing and a blue knit cap look really surprised before he jumps out of the scene.

    posted by Anne on 7-12-2010 at 2:55 pm

70. In “Bird on a Wire,” much of the opening action takes place in Detroit. At one point, Mel and Goldie discuss taking a ferry boat from Detroit to Kenosha, Wisconsin. Shortly thereafter, a neatly lettered sign appears on the screen with an arrow directing us to “Ferry to Kenosha, Wisconsin.” I saw this in suburban Detroit theater, and the entire place erupted in laughter. The movie instantly lost all credibility (not that THAT was too hard!).

    I can’t say there was never such a ferry service, but it certainly didn’t exist in 1990.

    posted by Tammy King on 7-12-2010 at 3:01 pm

71. In the Disney comedy “Rocketman”, there’s a scene with a press announcement. If you watch closely, there is a BBC reporter in a yellow sport coat who is continuously interrupted. Each time, his facial expression gets a little more outraged. By the end, I’m rolling!

    posted by Amber on 7-12-2010 at 3:31 pm

72. All these comments are continuity errors and Easter eggs. They’re nothing like the BTTF 3 clip.

    posted by reid on 7-12-2010 at 4:21 pm

73. If anyone watches House of the Dead (so cheap and bad it’s funny!), watch for one zombie walking along in the background during the big cemetery fight scene. It’s easy to spot because it’s so funny – all the actor does is walk along normally while waving his/her hands slowly up and down.

    At the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, the cast was not told that Captain Barbossa would be coming back (they were told that another character from the first movie would be there). If you look carefully when Barbossa makes his appearance at the end, you can see Orlando Bloom’s fake expression of surprise change into a real one.

    Similarly, in Star Trek IV, during the scene where Chekhov inquires for the whereabouts of a “nuclear wessal,” some of the people he talks to are genuine passers-by and not actors. Look closely and you’ll see that they’re quite shocked.

    posted by Jina on 7-12-2010 at 5:03 pm

74. The Star Wars ones are all well known, so I’ll go with another equally geeky movie, yet not so well known set of mistakes — The X-Files: Fight the Future.

    In the opening scene where the cavemen from roughly 35,000B.C. are trolling through the cave, pay attention during the shot where you see the cavemen’s feet: you can clearly see a sneaker footprint, probably left by one of the production crew members.

    At the end, when Mulder is reading a newspaper, the viewer can not only clearly, but almost forcibly see that the inside of the newspaper is completely blank. This has always ruined for me what should have been a touching, look-to-the-future, “we have each other” scene. Instead, I can’t do anything but laugh as David Duchovny tries to act and emote from across a blank set of papers.

    Another great weirdness from the movie is when you see Mulder on top of the building in “Dallas” looking for a bomb on the rooftop. No one bothered to CGI out the Los Angeles skyline (obviously cheaper to shoot in LA than to travel to Dallas for 2 scenes), so you can easily make out some pretty well-known LA landmarks (One Wilshire Building and the LA Pac Bell Building) that were somehow teleported to the Northeastern Texas city. Now THAT is an X-File worth Mulder and Scully’s time!

    posted by CL Robertson on 7-12-2010 at 5:14 pm

75. I don’t know how many times I saw Time Bandits before I realized that all the characters fighting at the end of the movie were toys from Kevin’s room and the things that looked like ruins of the building were Legos.

    posted by Barbara on 7-12-2010 at 5:45 pm

76. I remember years ago watching a VHS of “Bambi”. Near the end, there are a bunch of animals swimming to an island away from a forest fire. The mommy raccoon is licking a baby raccoon, which suddenly vanishes. I rewound/rewatched that a million times.

    posted by Dinosaur on 7-12-2010 at 5:49 pm

77. At the end of “Clueless,” when Ms. Geist and Mr. Hall get married, you see a man and a woman at the altar. The man in question has hair, while Mr. Hall does not. Cut to a closeup of Mr. Hall (Wally Shawn, himself) and BOOM! Man with a head of hair is gone.

    I mean, I know that marriage can be stressful and one could lose his/her hair over it, but almost instantaneously? That’s something I’ve never heard of.

    posted by Rebecca on 7-12-2010 at 6:37 pm

78. Also, can anyone answer me this question: When Marty goes back in time to 1885 and breaks the gas tank, why don’t Marty and Doc use the gas from the Delorean that took Doc to 1885 that is in the mine? When Marty goes back there should be 2 Deloreans in 1885.—>

    The two Deloreans in 1885 – yes, there were, but if they tried to use the one that Doc took back, it wouldn’t be available in 1955, thus creating a paradox. They can’t replace it with the one from 1955 because then the one from 1955 can’t possibly be in 1885.

    Why they couldn’t use the gas or gas lines, I think that wasn’t thought through. They should have been able to.

    posted by Mann Fairbanks on 7-12-2010 at 6:43 pm

79. This one is more along the lines of the original question, I do believe.

    Being a huge fan of The Rockford Files, I couldn’t contain myself when I realized that the location of the trailer that Riggs (Mel Gibson) lived in was in the exact same spot that Rockford (James Garner) had this trailer in Paradise Cove, Malibu, California.

    posted by Timothy Wade on 7-12-2010 at 8:14 pm

80. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl – Just as Jack says, “On deck, you scabrous dogs,” to the very left edge of the screen over Jack’s shoulder is a grip crew member with a tan cowboy hat, white short sleeve tee shirt and sunglasses, just standing there looking out to sea.

    posted by Abhishek Duggal on 7-12-2010 at 8:54 pm

81. In Boondocks Saints, there is a scene where a group of Russian mobsters come into a bar. A character, Rocco makes a comment about one of the Russian mobsters mothers (not a nice comment)and as Rocco is getting punched in the face his lines are continued as if he is still talking normally.Quite an accomplishment delivering perfect dialogue while getting punched in the face.

    posted by Whoffs on 7-12-2010 at 9:55 pm

82. Re my earlier posting about the Lighter Fluid consumption scene from “Withnail and I” (with the actor unaware that the ‘water’ was replaced w/ VINEGAR) , here is a YouTube clip of it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5EmCKbWS6c

    posted by Anon Emous on 7-13-2010 at 10:15 am

83. Oops! Forgot to put a possibly NSFW on the above

    posted by Anon Emous on 7-13-2010 at 10:17 am

84. So I’ve got one that’s really more of an Easter egg and another that is exceptionally creepy.

    In Enter the Dragon when Bruce Lee is fighting random thugs after sneaking into the underground lair one of the thugs attempts to bear hug Bruce only to get caught in an arm lock while Bruce Lee fights off the other goons. If you take a good look at the unfortunate thug that Bruce has caught hold of, you’ll see that it’s a very young (and uncreddited) Jackie Chan!

    My second one freaked me out when I re-watched this film just a couple years ago. In the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles there’s a few scenes when there’s a close up of one of the turtles while they open their mouth wide and laugh. Whenever they do this, you can catch a glimpse of the laughing mouth of the costumed actor *inside* the laughing mouth of the Ninja Turtle! Really freaky looking when you do it in slow motion and I’m very glad I didn’t notice that when I watching in my younger years.

    posted by Chris A on 7-13-2010 at 11:48 am

85. As for people saying that goofs and mistakes don’t count, because they are not answering the question, please look at the question again:

    “what’s something you’ve picked up re-watching a favorite movie that you don’t think most people caught?”

    I think a goof or mistake that people may not have seen definitely qualifies.

    posted by CL Robertson on 7-13-2010 at 11:56 am

86. In the new A-Team movie, there’s mention made of counterfeit plates and a billion dollars in hundreds being put into a semi. It shows the inside of the trailer at one point and it doesn’t even look full. That struck me as odd. A million dollars in hundreds would take up 24 cubic feet (I looked it up). So, a billion would take up 24,000 cubic feet. A semi holds 4,000 cubic feet. So, a billion would fill 6 semi’s.

    posted by bob on 7-13-2010 at 12:11 pm

87. @Addie

    Goonies was one of my favorite films growing up (I must have seen in the theater at least 6 times). A few years ago, I was channel surfing and saw it was on. The version they showed had at least 5-6 scenes (like the octopus one) that I swear were not in the theater release. I thought either my memory had failed or I had lost my mind! Thank you confirming that I’m not insane! (at least not due to alternate Goonies scenes…)

    posted by Ms. Blake on 7-13-2010 at 2:16 pm

88. When the 25th anniv. of BttF, we spent the weekend watching the whole trilogy. After having watched it for 25 years, I just noticed that the Twin Pines Mall became the Lone Pine Mall, because Marty ran over one in 1955.

    I’m not proud.

    posted by xadrian on 7-13-2010 at 3:40 pm

89. I love Happy Gilmore, and there is one striking scene, at least for me, in it. There is a flag in the background at the Portland Oregon Open, but it is not an Oregon flag. It is, instead, a Washington flag. I always found that rather amusing.

    And, there is a great scene in Shawshank Redemption, one of the best movies of all time. Andy tells Hadley that the IRS allows gifts to spouses tax free, but, at the time when the movie took place, the IRS was known as the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

    I never realized the former until I actually saw Washington’s state flag. The latter remained unknown to me until I was reading an old book that alluded to it.

    posted by Dan on 7-13-2010 at 3:52 pm

90. Not really an error in a movie, but something that never gets talked about is the “missing scene” from Major League. In the commercial trailer, there is a scene where, while describing a home run allowed by Rick Vaughn, they say it wouldnt get out of most parks. He says, “Name one.”, and Taylor says “Yellowstone?” This is a very famous line that has been repeated numerous times, but it’s not even in the movie! The scene appeared only in the commercial trailer shown on TV, never in the theatrical release. Somehow, the movie got a quote into pop culture without actually using it. A rather dubious feat, I must say…

    posted by Thomas on 7-13-2010 at 4:17 pm

91. I got a good one, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

    In the scene where Sir Bedevere is introduced (“What do we do with witches?” “BURN THEM!”). Watch Eric Idle as one of the townspeople. At one point it’s obvious he’s about to crack up during the scene — he even bites down on his sickle, trying very hard not to laugh. I’m sure the scene’s on YouTube….

    posted by Mark on 7-13-2010 at 5:12 pm

92. In Poltergeist, when the chair moves across the kitchen floor, Craig T. Nelson goes up to the chair and flips it over, almost hitting the camera with the chair’s legs; he looks straight at the camera crew

    posted by Anon Emous on 7-13-2010 at 5:53 pm

93. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indy surprises the nazis and holds up the rocket launcher in the canyon-

    when Belloq turns around, if you look close you can see a fly land on his face and go into his mouth!

    posted by Neal on 7-14-2010 at 12:21 pm

94. As a kid I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail over and over and over and over again, but it wasn’t til a couple of years ago that I realized that any time there are peasants in the background or milling about, they are just kind of goofing off doing useless things in the background. Even when he talks to the old man/lady (autonomous collective, etc) he just interupts them making mud pies. It kills me that I watched it so many times without catching it. Also, my brother and I have made a game of counting how many cats are maimed in the movie.

    posted by sddddddddd on 7-14-2010 at 2:50 pm

95. While watching Airplane! for the umpteenth time, my wife spotted something that neither of us had ever noticed. In the scene where Captain Oveur get’s the emergency call about the sick girl, they pan past the magazine rack. My wife says, “What did that say?” I rewind and see that on the rack it has a label that says “Wacking Material”. I thought that was hilarious.

    posted by nowheremen22 on 7-15-2010 at 12:47 pm

96. In its ‘Death Scene’, The Red Balloon is BLACK…

    JUST KIDDING! ;-D

    posted by Amy on 7-16-2010 at 2:04 pm

97. on the movie The Great Outdoors with John Candy and Dan Akroyd the scene where Chet (played by Candy) comes back home with his family after devouring a 72oz steak grizzle and all, he proceeds to “throw up”, you can see under the stairs Akroyd giving the family the 5 count countdown to exit stage left… i mean you see him do it… hes not even trying to hide off scene

    posted by 656 on 7-16-2010 at 5:01 pm

98. At the end of Carrie when Amy Irving is walking toward the cemetery, Brain De Palma wanted a dreamier feel for the scene so he filmed it in reverse. As Amy Irving is walking backwards out of the cemetery, you can see a car drive backwards in the background.

    posted by Riptide on 7-18-2010 at 6:39 pm

99. In the beginning of Independence Day, the guys are at the diner teasing Russ about being experimented on by the aliens. When they cut to the guys at the table, one of the guys apparently drank before he had to laugh and is now spitting it all over himself and the table.

    posted by Rebecca on 7-18-2010 at 9:30 pm

100. In “Smokey and the Bandit”, there is a continuity error. The scene is where the three thugs are being interrogated by Sheriff Buford T. Justice. When Jackie Gleason appears, he is wearing a holster with a gun. After every other camera change the gun belt mysteriously disappears, reappears, and disappears/reappears again. As does the sweat from his shirt. Its pretty funny so please enjoy.

     posted by Steve on 7-19-2010 at 11:44 pm

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