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Joe Dirt (2001) - 23 corrections

Directed by Dennie Gordon, starring Brittany Daniel, Christopher Walken, David Spade, Fred Ward, Jaime Pressly, Kid Rock (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance

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Entry When he's doing the "advertising job" for the dentist and he first sees the Orange Plymouth Roadrunner, he says, "67, competition orange; this thing's a Hemi, brother!" First-off, the first model year of the Plymouth Roadrunner was 1968. There was never any 1967 Roadrunner. Additionally, in 1968, the Roadrunner came standard with a Big Block 383cid V8. The option larger motor was a 440 Big Block Plymouth, not a 426 Hemi. Any 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner that did have a Hemi would've needed it Custom swapped-in. [Joe consistently gets things wrong and exaggerates during the movie. He's also shown to be not exactly quick on the uptake, after all, he never even thought to have his wig styled since he was a baby. Getting the year wrong by one year and automatically assuming the car has a Hemi just because he likes it, is consistent with his character being a dimwit. At best, it's a character mistake, but one that fits the character.]
Corrected by rswarrior Time
Entry When he stands on his parents' porch that has been condemned there is a brand new high pressure sodium light that's working, and not even dirty. [There is not enough detail shown to determine something like that, but there's more than enough detail to see that it's in no way "brand new".]
Corrected by Knever
Entry In the scene where Joe talks to the mean parking guy and then speeds away spinning his tyres, If you look at the pavement there is already a mark where the car had burned the tyres. The shot had been tried once before, leaving almost identical marks from his tyres. [It's a parking lot. Millions of cars have driven through and there's no way to tell where those other tire marks came from.]
Corrected by Knever
Entry When the Boeing bomb falls from the sky it's on fire. That would only happen if it fell from space, Not from an airplane at 36,000 ft. [It's part of a story being told by Joe. He embellishes things like that to make the story more interesting. "A flaming fireball came crashing down" sounds much better than "A big ball came crashing down."]
Corrected by Knever Time
Entry When Joe is stepping back for the second time, there's no roman candle in his hand. Then when he starts to fall there's the roman candle flying out of his hand. [It's a little hard to see, but he slowly pulls it out of his front left pocket before the shot changes.]
Corrected by Knever Time
Entry The kid supposedly made mustard gas in the Chemistry class, but if it was mustard gas, everyone should have been coughing up blackened pieces of lung by the time Clem pulled them out. They would have been in no condition to start chanting Joe's name. [This is also Joe recalling this story and a flashback and just like a dream are not always completely accurate nor logical. Also, it is in Joe's character to have embellished the memory. ]
Entry When Joe is doing the crocodile scene, you can tell that the cigarette is fake as there is no smoke coming of it. [Or maybe it went out...?]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
Entry When Joe is ordered to go secure the tooth balloon down it appears that there is a storm. The shot has high wind like a storm, but as the balloon rises in the air you can see perfectly clear skys. [The "boss" from the Dentist Office tells Joe that the wind is picking up. Wind can easily be created without a storm present, especially if the town rests in the valley of neighboring hills, which it does as shown during Joe's first arrival to the town.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
Entry Joe Dirt lives in the boiler room in the studio. Why was he driving to work if he lives there? You might say he was just driving around, but he had his nametag on... [Surely he does not have permission to live rent-free in the boiler room. It's highly likely that he leaves sometimes and returns later to not draw any unwanted questions.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
Entry Joe would be dead from spending the night in a fumigation tent. [It is a comedy. There are several times he would have died, such as freezing to death in a balloon at 37,000 feet at night, breaking his neck in the oil rig fight, falling from the top of the oil rig when he crashed into it, etc. It was done for comedic effect to make us laugh.]
Corrected by Jazetopher Time
Entry When Joe Dirt is working on the carnival ride, he has long body hair above his navel. Later, when Joe is in Buffalo Bob's pit, Joe has no hair above his navel. [Buffalo Bob is a spoof of the Buffalo Bill character from Silence of the Lambs. In that movie, and also referenced in this film, he was going to make a suit from the skin, hence the lotion. If the skin had to be smooth, it's likely he had Joe Dirt shave certain areas.]
Corrected by Jazetopher
Entry When Joe Dirt is floating around in the hot air balloon, the map shows that he's landing in South Dakota, but he says North Dakota. [He's an idiot; that's a character mistake.]
Entry Automotive enthusiasts will easily recognize the car Joe drives in the beginning as a Superbird, which came from the factory with a Hemi engine, which is what Joe brags about his custom ride having... [Joe Dirt's car is actually a 1969 Dodge Daytona, not a Plymouth Superbird. Additionally, the correct engine for this car is in fact a 440, NOT a 426 hemi. The 426 hemi was an option for this car, the 440 was standard and is the engine that was in the car on the set. It is possible that the GTX he drove later did have a 426 Hemi, as that was an option for the GTX. There is a website for Daytona at http://www.californiaclassix.com/archive/69_Joe_Dirt_Daytona.html.]
Entry When Joe is talking to Clem after he "dies", there is a pack of cigarettes behind Clem's head. An EMT wouldn't put cigarettes next to his head, and there's no point for them to be there. [Clem wasn't really dead, so he could have asked the EMT to grab his cigarettes and set them on the gurney for later.]
Entry When Joe storms out of his parents' trailer, he yells "And I don't want to see you for another 25 years." as if it had been 25 years since they abandoned him. But the movie was made in 2001 and he was abandoned in 1982, meaning it had only been 19 years since they left him. [Joe Dirt isn't all that smart, so I doubt he is good enough at maths to get the years right. Even if he is, 25 years sound so much more impressive than 19 or even 20, and he could've said it deliberately to show he didn't want to see his parents for even longer than he had initially been abandoned for.]
Entry On the second day of Joe's radio broadcast the three girls, most likely in the soroity house, are wearing the same clothes as the day before. [I'm a girl of about the same age as them, and I've been wearing the clothes for at least a week. Not everyone changes their clothes every day.]
Entry In the scene where Joe finally finds his parents in California, watch behind his parents when they sit down in front of their clown collection. Behind Joe's dad you can see a crewmember keeping a stuffed clown in place. [I agree that it looks a bit strange, but that is Joe Dirt's Mom's arm that was originally behind the couch.]
Corrected by JamesP Time
Entry At the end when Joe peels out in the Hemi, Robbie's windshield is fine. When you see Robbie again the Trans Am windshield is busted up. [The windshield was cracked because Joe's car kicked up gravel, rocks, etc., when he spun the tires while taking off. If you look carefully, they must have also punctured the radiator because there is smoke rising from the car.]
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Entry When the kid has the accident in the Chem. class, he says "This should make ice" and pours the stuff in, but it immediately vaporizes and he says "Oh, poison mustard gas." But how does he know what it is? He thought he was making ice. [This is just adding to the ridiculousness of the movie. For example, Joe's new wig at the end, or the whole Buffalo Bob scene. It's just for a cheap laugh.]
Entry In the scene where Brandi comes to rescue Joe from jumping off the bridge, you can hear someone yell, "Hey, it's Brittany." Brittany Daniel is the woman who plays Brandi's character. This was pointed out in the DVD commentary. [I've heard the DVD commentary and there's nothing about this. Mistakes like this are made in many films. These mistakes are always pointed out, but this one isn't incorrect. Brittany and Brandi just sound alike.]

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