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Sam Sweet: [911 call being played] Oh my God! Oh my God! My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Asian gang or something... There was this guy, he looked Asian... and he was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... Asian.

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Mistakes

Steve turns on the TV to see Sleepless in Seattle, and the movie is just at the start, then Chip cuts his cable, but when he turns it on again, the scene that appears is one that is just in the middle of the film. See more...

Trivia

The girl who plays Steven's secretary is Ben Stiller's sister, Amy. See more...

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The Cable Guy (1996)

Directed by Ben Stiller, starring Jack Black, Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Thriller

The Cable Guy mistakes

Mistake Continuity: The morning after the party at Chip's, and Chip is at Steven's house making eggs for them, watch closely as Chip eats. While they are talking about Heather being a prostitute, Chip repeatedly loses the eggs off of his fork, but continues to put the fork in his mouth, and makes a sound like he is actually eating the eggs. He does it about 4 or 5 times during their whole conversation.

Mistake Continuity: During the "Midnight Express" scene, Chip opens his shirt and presses his chest against the glass. The shot moves to Steven, and as we pan back to Chip, he is sitting, phone in hand, with his shirt buttoned.

Mistake Continuity: In the scene at Steven's parents house as Steven is yelling at Chip for being a felon, Chip gets up and slowly walks right next to Steven and whispers something in his hear, Steven instantly is moved back one or two feet in the next camera shot before he had a chance to move and he punches Chip in the mouth.

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The Cable Guy trivia

Mistake The guy who starts to read when the satellite signal is lost at the end of the movie is Kyle Gass, the other half of the band Tenacious D, of which Jack Black is also a member.

Mistake The girl who plays Steven's secretary is Ben Stiller's sister, Amy.

Mistake In the beginning of the film, we see on the television some serial killer that is being busted, that appears two or three times in the movie, but the killer is Ben Stiller, he was the director of The Cable Guy.

The Cable Guy quotes

Sam Sweet: [911 call being played] Oh my God! Oh my God! My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Asian gang or something... There was this guy, he looked Asian... and he was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... Asian.