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Dumb and Dumber (1994) - 33 corrections

Directed by Peter Farrelly, starring Jeff Daniels, Jim Carrey, Lauren Holly (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance

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When the airbag blows it stays inflated. It should instantly deflate. [Early airbags didn't have an exhaust hole, so they stayed inflated (also suffocating the driver, in some cases)].
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When Lloyd attempts to pick up the Austrian woman at the bus stop, there are two extras standing against a wall behind her. As the camera returns from Lloyd to her a second later, the two men have disappeared. [It's about four seconds between the shots, which is more than enough time for them to have left the camera's view.]
Edit Corrected by Knever Time
A police office states that Harry and Lloyd were last seen heading west on I-80 towards Colorado. I-80 doesn't actually go into Colorado. [I-80 doesn't go into Colorado, but it heads straight toward it, and it almost goes into the state, but it turns away only a few miles at most from the border, and then circles around the north side of the state very close to the border. So the cops could definitely have determined that they were heading toward Colorado, and the waitress probably overheard Harry and Lloyd's conversation with Mental about going to Aspen, and the cop said that he talked to her, so he could have figured where the boys were headed, and the siting report of them verified it.]
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In the scene where Lloyd asks the old lady to watch his stuff so that he can break a dollar, he leaves with the big hat on. But when he gets back to his apartment and is crying about being robbed by a sweet old lady, he is not wearing the hat. There is no way that she was able to steal it from him when he left her. [This mistake is based on assuming the old lady took it. Since we see him walk away with the hat then she could not have taken it therefore not a mistake. Lloyd loosing the hat some other way between leaving old lady and returning is completely plausible and fits into his character.]
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When Harry, Joe, and Lloyd are at Dante's restaurant, notice the position of the brown pitcher sitting on the counter. It's almost in between Harry and Joe. When Joe moves the hot peppers, after Harry and Lloyd start gagging, the brown pitcher magically moves closer to the peppers. [It is probably a water pitcher, and while everyone was looking at them in the between shot of everyone turning to look at them, Harry and/or Lloyd could have easily drunken water from it to ease the burning of the peppers, and then placed it back down on the counter closer to the peppers than it was before.]
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When Jim Carrey says, "Eeny, meeny, miney, MOE.", the word MOE does not match his mouth. His mouth is in a tight smirk and it is near impossible to say MOE without moving your lips. [If you watch closely (you may even have to slow-frame it), you can see that he actually does move his lips to say "moe."]
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Right before Harry is telling Lloyd that he doesn't bet, they show an aerial shot of the van near a pond and a bridge, showing that they had already made it past this point. But then when Joe pretends to be a hitchhiker, he's in the same spot where the aerial shot was shown. Joe is being picked up by Harry and Lloyd at a place they have already passed. [This mistake has already been submitted.]
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When Harry and Lloyd are sitting at the truck stop, Harry spills the salt. Just before this you can hear the salt being knocked over. There are 4 quick noises then another about a second after that. When salt shakers fall, they don't make five noises just one. [The salt shaker is plastic, and therefore probably bounced a few times on the wooden table, creating the first four noises. And the last noise was Harry placing his soda glass back on the table (you can tell because it sounds different from the previous four noises).]
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When Lloyd is robbed by the old lady, it is night but when he gets back to the apartment, it is daytime. [The light outside the windows does not look quite like sunlight. It looks like moonlight or exterior lighting.]
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When the door to Harry and Loyd's apartment is shown from the inside of the apartment, it has an unpainted plywood patch over a missing panel. But when Mental and Shay are reading the "gas man" note, which was pinned to the outside of the same door, It has no panels missing. [Watch the shot from the apartment interior again. The panel is only on the inside of the door. Just before Lloyd slams it shut, the outside (the side facing out into the corridor) of the door is visible and has no panels missing.]
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When Lloyd first goes into the restroom at the gas station, he has to use a restroom key. However, when Harry enters the restroom later to douse his flaming pant leg, he enters the bathroom without the key. [Like many service station restrooms, the key is simply used to unlock the door. That is why Seabaz is also able to enter the bathroom after him and so too Harry thereafter.]
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Once Harry sits on the toilet at Mary's house, he lifts his legs off the floor, and his eyes are closed. Then it switches to a front shot of him a few seconds later, and his eyes are now open. [It only takes a split second to open one's eyes, not even "a few seconds". No mistake here.]
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In the scene at the truck stop when the waitress is taking orders from Harry and Lloyd, in the first shot the waitress has a silver name tag, but in the next shot it is blue. [If you look closely at the name tag, you can see it's blue, but the reflected light obscures the blue color.]
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In the scene where Lloyd is in the toilets and reading the graffiti the shot is cut to him looking at his watch to see if it's 2.15. If you pause the video and look closely you will see that it is actually a plastic arm with fake hairs stuck on it. [If you have to pause the movie to see the mistake, it is not a valid mistake.]
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After Lloyd has the briefcase and looks at the airport flight departure screens, he says "Eeny, meeny, miny, mo." and in the background there is a woman sitting on a bench staring and smiling directly at the camera. [She is not. Pay close attention to her eyes; she is looking at the other woman sitting on the bench and smiling to her. Also, her head movements implicate that she is having a conversation.]
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When Lloyd and Harry are in the hotel room watching TV, they are crying while watching a phone company commercial. The commercial is for Pacific Bell. They are in Aspen. Colorado was a Mountain Bell state (that is to say, back when the phone company in Colorado was still known as "Mountain Bell"). It makes no sense that a "Pacific Bell" commercial would air in Colorado. [Most of the very, very expensive "deluxe presidential suites" come standard with "Satellite Television Programming" for the TV set. They could have easily been watching a program that was broadcast originally on the coast. Furthermore, some "basic cable" packages include channels from other states as well. For example, I get WGN programming from Chicago on my basic cable, even though I live over 500 miles from there.]
Edit Corrected by Jazetopher
Why does the motorcycle cop let Harry and Lloyd go when they still have open bottles of beer in the car? He doesn't even give them a ticket for speeding. [Well, the fact that he drank what he thought was an alcoholic beverage while on duty shows the nature of his character. Given this, it's not surprising that he would wave them along after drinking their urine.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
While Harry is walking up the stairs of the ski lodge he turns around when the female undercover agent asks why he never called her. However, she never gave him more than the first three digits of her phone number at the gas station because he lit himself on fire. [Already submitted and corrected.]
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After Lloyd returns from the bar after waiting for Mary for hours, he and Harry laugh about the fact that its 10pm she meant to meet him and not 10am. Harry then says "Well you have your night sorted, I'm off to watch a flick" implying that Lloyd had a date with Mary that evening. But Lloyd then puts TurboLax in Harry's drink as Harry goes to get ready to pick up Mary. It was Lloyd who had a date with Mary and not Harry. [Did you watch this film? Lloyd suspects (correctly) that Harry is not going 'to watch a flick', but to meet Mary. He sabotages his plans by putting TurboLax in his drink. This is the plot of the film, not a mistake.]
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The 'Gas Man' thinks Harry and Lloyd knows who he is because of the notice they left at the door of their apartment which was directed towards the gas man. But he still thinks it's a good idea to hitch a ride on their van. For a guy who thinks Harry and Lloyd are following him around for weeks, it's not such a good idea. [Still it was a human decision that anybody could make. Does not classify as a movie mistake.]
Edit Corrected by Spaceboy_007

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