Directed by John Landis, starring Donald Sutherland, John Belushi, Karen Allen, Kevin Bacon, Mark Metcalf, Stephen Furst, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce (add more)
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In the scene where Bluto, D-Day, and Flounder bring Niedermyer's horse into the dean's office, the horse dies and collapses in front of the couch. When they show the office again with the man with the measuring tape, the horse is behind the couch. [Since the dead horse could not be removed in time for the Mayor's visit, Dean Wormer could have had the maintenance man move the couch in front of the horse.]
At the end of the movie when the ROTC men are in the parade twirling their guns, the second time around the first and third men on the far left row fail to twirl their guns. [Having been in parades and in Honor Guards, I can tell you, it happens. Character mistake.]
Corrected by Guy Brigman
How on earth can Bluto and his mate not know that the exam paper they are completing is different to the one they stole and studied for? They'd have to study for it - what's the point of stealing it otherwise? It is not a multiple choice exam - they are seen writing answers out in full. How can they not notice that the questions (and therefore the answers) are different to the ones they memorised? Why do they have to be told later that someone 'stole the wrong exam paper'? Nobody is that stupid. [Bluto has a 0.0 Grade Point Average. I'm pretty sure he IS that stupid.]
In the scene where Larry drops the drunk girl at her home in a shopping cart, he leaves her at the mayor's house In the next scene you see the dean talking to the mayor, with the drunk girl in the dean's house. [That's the dean's wife.]
As the Delta Tau Chi house is being gutted, you can see the old moving man tear down the letters as well as the Delta Tau Chi flag hanging above the balcony. Yet later, right before a beaten-up Otter is being brought in by D-Day, the flag is hanging back up in the same place. [They key word being 'later'. Someone put it back.]
In the "courtroom" scene, the chalkboard says "Pan-Hellenic Disciplinary Council." National Pan-Hellenic Council is the governing body for sororities, not fraternities. Fraternity disciplinary hearings would be handled by either the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC), or the school's Office of Student Conduct, in conjunction with the Director of Greek Affairs. [Since it is never stated that the National Pan-Hellenic Council is handling this case, the writing of their name on the chalkboard could be there from a previous meeting that took place in the same room that day.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
During the parade, part of an out-of-control float crashes through what is supposed to be an auto showroom window. At the top of the window is a raised sectional door on tracks; the opening is really a garage doorway with a fake window added. [That's a raised metal security grid that goes over the window when the store is closed.]
During the parade fiasco, Bluto climbs onto the awning of a building to get away from the ROTC geeks. You can see pre-fab steps installed on the awning supports to keep him (Belushi) from slipping. [They were supposed to be there, to enable parade workers to climb on top of the building in order to hang the "Welcome Alumni" banner over the street, and to take it down afterward.]
At Professor Jennings' place, the stoned Boon and Katy sing "Hey Paula." The movie takes place in Fall 1962; the song wasn't out until 1963. [The song, released by Ray (Paul) Hildebrand and Jill (Paula) Jackson, broke nationally in late 1962.
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Corrected by Dennis Gannon
When Bluto sucks down the jello he puts the plate on the tray. When they show the tray the jello is back again. [They do not show him put the plate on the tray, when they show the wide shot you can see the empty plate on the counter and a different full plate on the tray.]
The movie takes place in 1962, but in the frat party scene they are playing "Louie Louie" which wasn't released until 1963. [The original "LOUIE LOUIE" was written in 1955 by Richard Berry and released as a single in 1957 on Flip Records.]
In the Disciplinary/Probation Hearing scene, the State Flag behind the Council is that of Tennessee. [At no time in the movie do they reference where Faber College is located. Therefore, a Tennessee flag is not necessarily a mistake.]
When Boon hit the golf ball that hit Neidermeyer in the head, there was a severe slice on that ball but it still managed to hit Neidermeyer in the head. Any golfer would know that the ball would have been nowhere near its intended target. [This assumes Neidermeyer WAS the intended target. Looked accidental to me - not that anyone cared.]
When the dean's wife and the guy are starting to go at it in his room, she kicks off her shoe. It hits a glass table and you hear glass shatter, but the glass clearly doesn't break. [The glass does break. If you look closely, you can see the glass fall in a bit. If you look even closer, you can see broken glass, even though it is still part of the table, as none of it has fallen to the ground.]
In Dean Wormer's office, a man uses a measuring tape to compare the dimensions of the door opening and the dead horse. Then you hear a chainsaw, implying the horse was too large for the door. It might have been too heavy to carry in one piece, but by his measurements it would have easily fit through the door. [That is the joke - he measured the horse's length, which if you carried it the length across the door opening it would not fit. Even by looking at the horse, you can tell it would fit through the door if moved the right way..]
When the frat house is celebrating the new pledges they are all in a bunch trying to dance to Louie Louie. During this scene Bluto is completely out of sync and is banging into everyone. While he is banging into everyone watch Boon - he is laughing and tries to cover it up by putting his beer bottle in front of his mouth. [This is not a mistake- If I were at a party and someone acted like Bluto I would laugh as well. Also, if someone is s pledge they might not want the active members to think he is laughing at them so he might hide his laugh. No mistake-.]
At the end of the movie when the riot is taking place, Niedermeyer takes out a bullet and fires upon Flounder from maybe ten feet away and misses - all the bullet does is shatter the seltzer bottle and nothing else. In real life he would have hit not only Flounder because of the short range but if he had hit the seltzer bottle it would have done more than just break the bottle - it would have hit a pedestrian running behind Flounder. [You are assuming Neidermeyer was shooting to kill, and he wasn't. Bullets are highly unpredictable once they ricochet, and there is no telling where it could have gone after hitting the seltzer bottle, and no way of predicting what (or whom) it may have hit.]
When Neidermyer was on the horse he says "You're all worthless and weak. Now drop and give me ten." This line was used at the end of the Twisted Sister song "Were Not Gonna Take It". [All well and good, but not really trivia.]
At the parade scene near the end, after the car has turned into the death mobile, D-day drives towards the bleachers and yells, "Ramming Speed." As the shot quickly changes to face the bleachers, you can see that the bleachers are empty. [You can see people running away as the car is driving toward it.]
If all the fraternity brothers were expelled, how can they have graduation dates, shown at the end of the movie? [The year after the name signifies what their graduation year should be (as in "Class of XX"). My Dad didn't graduate from college because he became very ill in his last year and had to drop out, but he still got alumni mail with "'46" after his name.]
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