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In the scene where Caesar orders his guards to kill and seize Mel Brooks, he calls for more wine and a servant comes to pour him some If you notice his shirt, it is clean and white. In the shot right after he calls for it, when the servant is walking up behind Caesar laughing, you can see that Caesar's shirt is stained purple. This is caused from repeated takes, because right after the servant walks up he spills the entire container on Caesar. But yet, in the finished movie, Caesar's shirt is purple before it even gets spilled on. See more...

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Gregory Hines was cast as a last-minute replacement for then controversial comedian Richard Pryor, who had severely burned himself while freebasing cocaine. See more...

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History of the World: Part I (1981) - 3 corrections

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The shot with the nuns rising from the water in the Spanish Inquisition segment is obviously a reverse shot of the girls lowering into the water, but not much care seemed to go into disguising that fact: the sparks fly back to the sparklers on their heads, and so does the smoke that comes from them. [This is a deliberate directorial decision. The scene is a parody of the water ballet scenes done in the golden age of Hollywood, where such primitive special effects techniques were often used. This does not qualify as a mistake.]

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In the first scene when they show the Vestal Virgins lying around, the girl on the right of the first pair can be seen quickly glancing at the camera. [She could have been looking at a fellow virgin just off camera. There is no proof that she is looking at the camera.]

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A running joke in the Roman Empire segment is the use of "V" in the place of "U" on all signs. However, on the "Annual Orgy" banner, there are two "U"s instead of "V"s. [Probably done deliberately as an inside joke.]

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