The 40 Year Old Virgin

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

39 mistakes

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Continuity mistake: When Andy and Trish are in bed for the first time, Trish removes her black top and throws it to the floor. In the next shot it reappears back on the bedcovers, then back on the floor again. (01:10:10)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When the drunk girl that Andy picks up at the bar throws up on him in the car, only a little hits his face. When they cut to a close-up, his head and face are drenched in pink vomit.

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Continuity mistake: The leaflets, booklets, sheets of paper and books on the table keep changing position, during the talk session about sex. (01:35:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: On the 20th date, Trish and Andy are sitting on a chair discussing the date and that they are going to have sex. When Andy speaks, her right hand is on his top button. When Trish speaks, its back in her lap. This happens three or four times, all in the same conversation.

ian rasmussen

Continuity mistake: When Jay and Mooj are arguing over the commission from the sale that Mooj just made from the girl, between shots Mooj's hair goes from parts of it standing up on his head to laying perfectly combed flat.

Rollin Garcia Jr

Visible crew/equipment: In the final sex scene, a crew member's foot is momentarily seen on the upper right side of the screen.

Continuity mistake: When Andy and his friends are on the loading dock smashing the bulbs, there is a white mark from a smashed bulb on the dock next to Cal. But in the next shot the mark has vanished, and Cal smashes another bulb in the exact same place, producing the white mark again. (00:30:45)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: When Andy and David interrupt Haziz's smoke break, Haziz opens the back door to the store, enters, and the door begins to close behind him. In the following shot, the door is still closing, but is open a little wider than a moment before. (00:18:00)

Continuity mistake: The red plastic action figure that Trisha picks up and then places on the shelf changes position a few times as she talks with Andy, before she runs off. (01:54:25)

Hamster

Continuity mistake: During a conversation between Andy and Cal, the cord for Cal's name badge changes position. A few minutes later during a conversation between Andy and David, the cord for David's name badge shifts back and forth between two positions.

Wayne C.

Factual error: When Cal and Dave are playing videogames and coming up with different ways to tell whether or not they're each gay, Cal is using a Nintendo 64 controller. The version of Mortal Kombat that they're playing could only be for Playstation 2, Nintendo Gamecube, or Xbox.

Dandude776

Continuity mistake: During the scene where Beth is in the bathtub, all of Andy's shots have Beth's foot in the lower right hand corner, even though she only has her leg up for portions of the scene. Eg: when Beth puts her "friend" in the water, both her legs are under; we cut to Andy and the foot is in the shot, and then we cut to Beth and both her legs are still under.

Continuity mistake: During the "Aquarius" montage at the end of the film, Andy's "man-o-lantern" chest-wax job is visible in one cut (with the hair just starting to grow back), then completely gone in the next. Since the bedroom scenes in the song are meant to be from the same night, there's no way that his chest could fill in so evenly so quickly.

Continuity mistake: Before and after the dream sequence where he kicks the girl and gives her a bloody nose, the comforter he wakes up with is completely different from the one he went to sleep with, which matched his pillow exactly. When he wakes up, nothing matches the pillow.

Continuity mistake: When Andy hits the pothole and flips over his handle bars, it cuts to the shot after he flips and he is lying on the ground with the back gone, yet it should have landed at his legs from the way they went down.

Continuity mistake: When they are playing poker Andy collects the chips then, Mooj calls him a ringer and leaves, the chips are still in the pot, in the next shot they are gone.

Continuity mistake: Right as the drunk girl is about to puke on Andy, you see her facing forward, with her mouth opened, gagging. Then, in the next shot her mouth is suddenly closed and her head has started turning towards Andy.

Andy: I dated this girl for a while... She was really a... Nasty freak. She just loved to... Get down with... Sex all the time. It was like... Anytime of day... She was like, "Yeah, let's go! I'm so nasty! And I'd be nailing her and she'd be like, "Oh, you're nailing me! Cool!"

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Trivia: For Andy to get rid of the Teen Wolf look, actor Steve Carell's chest hair is really waxed by an actress, who is a non-professional waxer. Because there would only be one take of this disturbingly amusing scene, they set up five cameras - one on his 'friends', one over Andy, one on the waxer, one for wide shots, and one for close-ups of his chest. This scene was not scripted, so when the waxer laughs and Andy's friends are totally cracking up it was for real. Though it was strongly suggested to Steve to first trim his chest hair or to take a pain reliever before the taping, he refused, wanting to have the full cringe-effect caught on tape. In one close-up a bit of blood is actually seen bleeding up to the surface - it is not CGI. It took about seven weeks for his hair to grow back, much to chagrin of his wife, who wasn't crazy about his 'chest smiley'.

Super Grover

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Question: What's the deal with the song Paula sings to Andy in the scene at the store. I have a feeling there's something comical behind it. Does anyone know what she's singing?

Cody Bowers

Chosen answer: The words translated are "When you clean my room, I can't find anything. Where are you going in a hurry? The football game." Even if you can't understand a foreign language, the last word of the love song is recognizably "football".

Myridon

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