Continuity: When Charlie is trying to explain a football play to the kids, the little blonde girl moves among the group. Shots showing Charlie's face, she's at his left back side, but shots showing the kids faces, she's directly in front of Charlie.

Continuity: A few minutes into the movie when they are discussing who will wear the broccoli costume, a woman with black hair and blue blouse is holding two cups of coffee, sits down and hands one cup to a man. A few seconds later she is still holding both cups and walking toward the table.

Continuity: When Charlie comments on Ben's drawing, Ben is holding a yellow crayon in his hand. Suddenly in the next shot he is holding a purple crayon.

Factual error: There's a mistake when Charlie is reading "Green Eggs and Ham" to the kids. Right after reading "I do not like them here or there, I do not like them anywhere.", he shows them a picture of that character holding a fist and says "He was gonna punch Sam I am". The picture he showed them is not on the same page as that line in the book "Green Eggs and Ham". It only comes in about ten pages later.

Continuity: When Charlie pulls up in front of Chatman Academy for the orientation, Ben's shirt is untucked. Charlie kisses his wife and she picks Ben up. Ben's shirt is suddenly tucked in.

Continuity: At the dinner table, when Charlie says that he'll get a new job in a week, in one shot Ben is playing with his chopsticks, but in the next he's not.

Continuity: The third time the child services inspector comes, Charlie sees Phil wearing the make-up and drops most the cookies he was carrying, leaving only a few left in the tray. Throughout the scene, the remaining cookies change number and location on the tray.