Continuity: After the paint's poured on O'Bannion, he pushes Mitch and puts his hand on his car as he opens the door, but he leaves no paint on it. 

Continuity: Second, they are in the back of Pink's El Camino, but he rode with Wooderson. Pickford didn't drive it; he had his GTO.

Continuity: In the scene where O'Bannion gets paint dumped on him by the freshmen. He walks across the street and yells at and pushes Mitch. While he does this Pink is standing in front of Wooderson's 70 Chevy with his beer on the hood but during O'Bannion's' fit of rage Pink drops his beer then picks it up and sets it back down.

Continuity: In the scene in which Matthew McConaughey is wearing a frilled lace mock polyester shirt, while offering his profound theory upon living, you can see the bulge of cigarettes, in his upper left pocket, a moment later, they're gone.. then when the camera angle reappears on him, they're back.

Factual error: During the baseball game, the catcher's pads are extended to cover his shoulders. These type of pads were not available until the mid 80s.

Factual error: Benny's Black Chevrolet Truck has a "modern" looking steering wheel that appears on later models.

Factual error: The Coke sign in the background at some point when they stop the car is a new one.

Continuity: In the scene when they are initiating the freshmen girls, one of the freshmen is taken over to Dawson and she is told to propose to him. When she says, "Anything you want." she is kneeling. Then it shows Dawson telling her to make an O with her lips and when it goes back to her doing that she is sitting on the ground.

Continuity: In the scene where the seniors are at the baseball game waiting for Mitch, Pink is stopped by an older man who asks him if "this arm is ready", for football. It is clear that the man grabs his left arm when asking him. But later in the movie, when they are on the football field, Pink throws the no drug use form and it is clear that he throws with his right arm.