Best comedy movie mistakes of 1989

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Honey I Shrunk The Kids picture

Revealing mistake: When Nick is being sucked out of the hole/cave, you can see the wires visible from his waist. (01:20:35)

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Fletch Lives picture

Factual error: While Fletch is riding with the bikers, they stop at a stop sign where a family in a station wagon roll up their windows in fear. A sign at a service center in the background is the Castaic Junction, which is in the greater Los Angeles area. The movie is supposed to be taking place in Louisiana. (01:12:35)

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Continuity mistake: When Vigo throws the streams from the proton packs back onto the Ghostbusters, there is a wide shot of Egon getting thrown way over to the right. However, when they do a closer shot, he is way over to the left, closer to the other three Ghostbusters. (01:33:50)

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She-Devil picture

Continuity mistake: Ruth's pink checklist never looks quite the same throughout the movie. When she crosses "FAMILY" off her list, her line is crooked, but the next time they show the list, that line is very neat and straight. You can also see differences in the circles that she draws around the numbers. Sometimes the circles intersect the dashes, and sometimes they don't.

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Troop Beverly Hills picture

Continuity mistake: At the patch ceremony, Chica goes over to Phyllis to get some food and she has her patches on. The patches weren't given out until the next scene.

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Weekend at Bernie's picture

Continuity mistake: Bernie's facial expression changes from the smile on his face when he first get injected with drugs to a smirk throughout the movie, to no expresssion and back again.

MCKD

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Teen Witch picture

Continuity mistake: During the last scene, right before Louise takes off her necklace, Brad is seen dancing with his jacket on. Seconds later when we see him again he has his coat off and now he's on the side of the dance floor.

ACertainShadeofGreen

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Erik the Viking picture

Revealing mistake: During the Hy Brasil sinking sequence you can see a horizontal line in the water in the background, this is the edge of the water tank they used to film this sequence. It's also visible in several shots from the longship.

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Her Alibi picture

Continuity mistake: In one scene we are looking at a shopping complex known as Greenspring Station which Nina is being chased through. Somehow she winds up being chased through a K-Mart. Anyone familiar with the Baltimore area, where the movie was shot, knows for a fact that there is not a K-Mart anywhere near that ritzy section of town.

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Out Cold picture

Continuity mistake: In the race for King of the Mountain, Anthony wipes out and begins cursing. Then, in the next shot, he has to spit out some snow before he can curse again.

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Shirley Valentine picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Shirley and her daughter Milandra argue about Shirley going on holiday, Milandra gets out of bed and dresses quickly, her shirt is tucked into her jeans. She walks out and the camera angle changes to a view of her front, her shirt is now loose outside her jeans.

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Collision Course picture

Continuity mistake: During the "exciting" conclusion, Investigator Natsuo runs toward the villain's vehicle, jumps, and kicks through the windshield. Besides the fact that there are some poor special effects at work, watch this quick shot closely. As he is flying through the air in that split second, the villain's car changes colour! It is quite obvious, as the car goes from a dark red color to dull grey.

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Speed Zone! picture

Continuity mistake: When Lurleen changes lanes to pass the Ferrari, the lane change isn't reversed when Lea sees it in the Ferrari's rearview.

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The Wizard picture

Character mistake: In the finals of Video Armaggeddon the compere keeps making comments such as "Jimmy loses a life and starts over in world two", "Laura finishes world two", "Lucas finishes world two". All three times the relevant person is actually in World 1 - Level 3. In Fact at no point are any of the competitors in World 2 and the only time any of them is out of World 1 is when Jimmy uses the warp to access World 4.

GameBlade

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Continuity mistake: When Wallace races to get crackers, check the packet's logo. When the camera angle changes it's different. (00:08:57)

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The Tall Guy picture

Revealing mistake: In a shower scene, the camera moves to a point which allows us to see the shorts that Dexter is wearing to keep his modesty.

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Shag picture

Continuity mistake: After the girls arrive in Myrtle Beach and are getting ready to go out, Luannne has ratted Carson's hair really big, when Meliana takes over doing Carson's hair, in just a few strokes it is much flatter.

Pam-I-am

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The Toxic Avenger Part III picture

Continuity mistake: When the devil sets Toxie on fire, there's a group of five people standing there with empty buckets. But in the next shot the buckets are filled with water.

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