Best comedy movie continuity mistakes of 1972

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Nearest and Dearest picture

Continuity mistake: After the opening sequence, Hylda Baker goes into her house carrying a natural straw shopping bag. When she appears inside the house, the bag has turned into a bright red patterned one.

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Carry on Abroad picture

Continuity mistake: When Giorgio leaves Robin and Nicholas' table during the breakfast scene at the hotel, Nicholas has his hands clasped together, but in the very next shot he has his arms crossed.

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What's Up, Doc? picture

Continuity mistake: At the airport Howard stands in front of a departure sign that says local time is 11:08, yet just a few minutes later Eunice tells Mr. Larabee that it's 12:05.

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Carry On Matron picture

Continuity mistake: When Mr Bernard pulls Miss Banks' dress he throws it behind her. When she runs to her office she is holding the dress in her hand.

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Bless This House picture

Continuity mistake: Watch the hotplate in the café scene before Mike puts the sausages in the oven. You can see that on the left hand side of the hotplate there is a large portion of fried egg white, but when we see Mike putting the sausages in the oven, the egg white has changed into a fried egg.

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Continuity mistake: As Allen is preparing for his blind date, he knocks almost everything off the second shelf of the medicine cabinet, while trying to control the hair dryer. When the camera changes position, however, it's all back on the shelf. (00:21:30)

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Continuity mistake: After Bruce Lee kills Chuck Norris, he walks back and picks up Chucks Gi and Obi (karate shirt and karate belt). The belt is hanging and dragging on the floor but as Bruce walks from behind a column, the Obi appears to be folded properly.

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Mutiny on the Buses picture

Continuity mistake: When the fire starts in the bus depot, the manager tells Stan to reverse the bus away from it, and ends up crushing Blakey's minivan. The van changes from a Morris model to an Austin model, just before it is crushed.

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Chili Con Corny picture

Continuity mistake: When Mrs Meany puts the menu on the table for Woody to read, the position of the menu changes between shots.

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The Way of the Dragon picture

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, Bruce Lee enters a restaurant in the Rome airport and, because he can't read the menu nor speak the language, he accidentally orders five bowls of Campbell's Soup. When the waitress first delivers the five bowls, the soups are very different colors than they are in subsequent close-ups. Disappointed but hungry, Bruce plows into the soup. Ten sequential close-up shots show him dipping his spoon into bright red, tomato-based soups; but, by the time the spoon reaches his mouth, the spoon is dripping creamy white soup, every time.

Charles Austin Miller

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The Candidate picture

Continuity mistake: During the opening credits, Peter Boyle is seen loading luggage into a red Ford convertible with a rear license plate reading 677 EIY. When he parks in front of the Community Legal Services office, the car's front license plate reads 185 ENV. A few moments later, when he goes to meet Robert Redford, the front plate reads 772 DYD.

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Continuity mistake: When Clara is chasing Snoopy and Woodstock, she is holding a leash in her hand. When Clara is standing at the top of the stairs and sees Snoopy and Woodstock run past, the leash has disappeared, but when Clara slides down the banister, the leash is back in her hand again.

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