Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - 12 mistakes

Factual error: If we are to assume the film is in chronological order over the course of a single school year, then why does the football scene come after Christmas has occurred? High school football season ends well before the holiday season.

Other: When Spicoli supposedly takes a bong hit, you can see that he only inhales the air from the chamber - he takes his mouth away before the smoke gets to the top of the bong.

Continuity: When Mr. Hand shows up at Jeff's house to study history, the bong in Jeff's bedroom alternates between full of smoke and empty.

Visible crew/equipment: When Brad and Stacey pull up in front of the bowling alley and Stacey opens her car door, several crew members can be seen reflected in her car door's window.

Continuity: When Mark Ratner and Stacy Hamilton are having dinner, it's supposed to be at night but sunlight can be seen coming through, through the windows.

Continuity: When Mr. Hand writes his name on the board to introduce himself to the class, he underlines it. The underline changes a few shots later, and then the lines revert back to the way they were originally.

Continuity: During the pool scene, just before the two guys come over, the color of the bra on the girl who is lying on her back changes from darker red to almost orange during different angles.

Continuity: When Jeff Spicoli says, "People on ludes should not drive", you can see a Honda/Kawasaki dealership through his driver's side window. Six seconds later the car is shown from the outside and he passes by the same dealership again.

Factual error: In history class, Mr. Hand tells the students that the Platt Amendment was an amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed in 1906. In fact, it was a rider attached to the Army Appropriations Act of 1901.

Continuity: When the two kids are making out on the bed, right before the girl gets up, there is no phone at the top of the screen. But right after she says that she has to call home, she walks right over and uses one where nothing was.

Continuity: When Mike is trying to get Mark to ask Stacey out, there is a shot of her behind the counter and Stacey's hair is pulled back on the sides in french braids with ribbons on the ends. Then when Mark approaches Stacey, her hair is pulled back in a clip. The first shot of Stacey with the braid, is actually cut from a scene later in the film, when Mark and Stacey talk at the counter.

Continuity: You see the same shots of Sean Penn driving Forest Whitaker's car on the sidewalk and weaving between the same two cars over and over before he wrecks it.