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Eddie Griffin: You know, high school's a lot like prison. Bad food, high fences. The sex you want you ain't gettin', and the sex you getting you don't want.

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When Dizzy is at the mall (right before he goes to preach about sexual abstinence) he is talking through the fish tank. The UFO looking thing is going up and down in the water. If you pay attention to where it is in shot by shot you'll notice that sometimes it's going up and then when its to all the way to the top the next shot it's at the bottom going up again. See more...

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Dizzy/Gil (Qualls) is taken to the new school by the police in the van. This scene is identical to the scene in Con-Air when Garland (Steve Buscemi) is taken to the plane. See more...

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The New Guy (2002) - 8 corrections

Directed by Ed Decter, starring DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, Lyle Lovett, Zooey Deschanel (add more)

Genres: Comedy

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

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Entry When Eliza is trying on bikinis and dancing at the mall, you can see people walking past the store window. Now really, if a woman as lovely as her was really doing that in front of a large plate glass window, don't you think the window would be full of watching men (and perhaps a few ladies.). [No. People in genereal are self absorbed and rarely notice things outside their immediate sphere of personal space. I have seen pedestrians hit by cars, and no one paid attention. That's a little more unusual than a woman in a bikini.]
Entry At the end of the scene where the crowd beats up the opposing school football player to save Gil, the new school bully holds out his hand to help the football player sit up. But the football player's face is covered by his shirt, how did he know to reach up and grab the outstretched hand? [The bully taps the football player on the leg to indicate that he wants to give him a hand.]
Entry At the football game, when Dizzy first arrives he looks out at the field and it shows a black guy lying on the ground flexing his muscles. His jersey number is 72. When Dizzy is giving his pep talk he says that we didn't give up when Pearl Harbor was bombed. A white guy steps forward and says that he thought that the movie made money. He is wearing jersey number 72. Does that mean that the Highlanders have two jerseys numbered 72? [It is very possible for a school football team to have more than one jersey with a certain number. I have seen it before at my school and on other sports teams.]
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Entry At the final game, the Highlanders show up in a scene similar to that of Braveheart. They introduce Rocky Creek and the players run through the huge thing of paper. After this, they notice that there are no fans and no opposing team. It is highly unlikely that the announcer would start the game without the opposing team present. [Game starts at a certain time, so the announcer starts whether the teams are there or not.]
Entry After Dizzy gets expelled he goes to the prison to go from bitch to bull. When he enters the prison he has a leopard type orange shirt, a green button up jacket, dark khaki pants and a visitors pass clipped on. The next shot you see Dizzy in he has a bright blue t-shirt, an orange button up jacket and black pants. [These shot were intentionally put out of order, watch again and you'll see even more outfits. This sequence would not have been as affective had it been shown in order, and they wanted to imply it took more than a day for Dizzy to learn all that.]
Entry Why do only two people in as many Texas football towns have southern accents? [I'm from Texas and the exaggerated accents seen in the movies are actually very rare.]
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Entry When Dizzy and Danielle are in the music store, a divider for Kid Rock is visible in the Country section. [Although Kid Rock's albums are labelled rock, some of his singles, eg Only God Knows Why, were played on country stations and performed well on those charts as well as the pop/rock. A record store may have filed those singles under country with another Kid Rock label in the pop/rock section.]
Entry When the guy who plays the tuba is trying to get some donations for the homeless from the jocks, why doesn't anyone make a big deal with him going up the tower, yet when Dizzy walks him up there, everyone is in shock? [It is made painfully obvious that no one really cares about the short guy and he is ignored a lot. Dizzy on the other hand is the new student and sticks way out of the crowd.]

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