X

Quotes

Brennan Huff: You are making an ass out of yourself, you geriatric fuck!

See more...

Trivia

When Brennan (played by Will Ferrell) and Dale say, "Say your favourite dinosaur on 3", on the shelf there is a sign that reads 'Hugalo's Pizza', which is the pizza parlor that Will Ferrell worked at in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. See more...

Picture

Movie Mistakes blog

Popular blog posts:

Top 15 biggest Harry Potter film mistakes

The 10 biggest mistakes in Iron Man 1 & 2

15 biggest mistakes in Titanic

30 Biggest mistakes in the Star Wars movies

The 20 biggest mistakes in Jurassic Park

Other great sites

Anything Hollywood

Bits & Pieces

Book mistakes

Bullz-Eye Movies

CanMag

Daily Stab

Defamer

Double Viking

EHOWA

Film Drunk

Foundry Music

Game mistakes

Geek Tyrant

Gone Hollywood

Hollyscoop

Hollywood Outbreak

I Am Bored

I Love Bacon

Joblo movie news

Movie Buzz

Movie spoilers

Movie timeline

Other crap

Rock Paper Everything

Screenjunkies

Sky movie reviews

Something Really Funny

Tengossip

Trailer Addict

Unreality Magazine

Update alerts | Exclude type?

Step Brothers (2008) - 41 mistakes

starring Adam Scott, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Will Ferrell (add more)

Genres: Comedy

Where is Step Brothers ranked on the ultimate best to worst list? Cast your vote and find out!

Mistakes
Trivia
Pictures
Quotes
Corrections
Questions
Submit
⇑
⇓

Updated recently Revealing: In the dog poo scene, as Brennan is licking the poo, you can see it's a powdered donut.

Edit Submitted by amycamille1975
⇑
⇓

Visible crew/equipment: When Brennan and Dale are talking about the drum set in the living room, you can see a crew member on the glass window.

Edit Submitted by dell
⇑
⇓

Continuity: The bottle of ketchup in the dinner table scene, early in the movie, alternates from right side up to upside down, from shot to shot.

Edit Submitted by Jeff Swanson Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Factual error: A video is shown of Derek Huff singing "Ice Ice Baby" at a school talent show that took place when his brother Brennan was 17. Robert states his desire to retire in "in two years," in 2010, making the movie's setting 2008. Brennan is 39 in the film, placing the talent show 22 years ago in 1986. The song "Ice Ice Baby", recorded by Vanilla Ice, came out in the summer of 1990.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Visible crew/equipment: When we see Nancy, Robert, Dale and Brennan on the boat, as the camera pans past Robert and Nancy, you can see the camera reflected in the shiny post of the boats wheel.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Revealing: In the scenes in which Brennan and Dale are fighting with the young children in the park, it is clear that in quite a few shots the children have been replaced with doubles.

Edit Submitted by Hamster
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the scene where Alice spells words with her food on her dinner plate asking to have sex, the very next view of her shows a smaller plate in front of her.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: Near the start when Nancy and Robert first meet and are undressing themselves, Robert removes his jacket in a wideshot and his shirt and tie are still on. But in the next closeup the tie has vanished and he is suddenly unbuttoning his shirt.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Brennan and Dale are watching TV, there's a blue can of Pepsi on a table, but in the next shot the blue can disappears from the table.

Edit Submitted by dell
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the scene with the bullies, as the bullies are approaching and one says, "Hey, fag stick," Dale and Brennan are stationary next to a tree. When he says,"Long time no see," they are moving to the same position again.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the christmas scene where they are decorating the tree, we see Robert eating a christmas-tree shaped biscuit. When he gets up, the biscuit is suddenly larger and more whole than before, where it was almost finished.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Brennan and Dale first meet on the front lawn, they stand and stare at each other for a while. With every shot change, it continues to change from either being sunny or shadowy in the spot where Brennan stands.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Time
⇑
⇓

Visible crew/equipment: When Brennan and Dale are on the stage at the wine mixer, Brennan sings opera and when Dale plays the drums you can see a crewmember reflected underneath the cymbal.

Edit Submitted by dell
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Dale and Brennan are fighting over the drum kit, Brennan throws Dale into the gong and it falls over. In the next shot it is standing again.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: After the first dinner scene with the family, Dale finally decides to leave and head upstairs. He places his napkin down next to his plate. In the next shot it has vanished. It then reappears a few shots later.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Dale tells Brennan he needs to hear him sing, Brennan has a sword and is swinging it around. After he sings, he gets up and the sword is shown on the floor in its scabbard. They flash to Brennan, then back to Dale and the sword is gone.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the step brother's bedroom, while Brennan is singing "Let's give 'em something to talk about" there is a Samurai sword on the floor in one shot. When they cut back to the same shot the sword is gone.

Edit Submitted by mattkurmas
⇑
⇓

Continuity: After Nancy and Robert ban TV for a week, Brennan throws the ice pack he was holding on the ground. The camera then cuts to Robert, and when it cuts back to Brennan again just a few seconds later, he has the ice pack again and does the exact same action as before.

Edit Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the dinner scene where Derek is over, he is telling a story to Robert about fishing. During the whole scene if you watch Alice who is sitting beside Derek, her wine glass repeatedly jumps from her hands to back on the table instantly.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Picture Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Nancy and Robert are yelling at Brennan and Dale for fighting in the front garden the food (green beans) on the plate and the can of Pepsi in front of Dale keep on moving between shots.

Edit Submitted by Hamster Picture Time