Revealing mistake: When the Hillards are at the pool, we see Stu, with his hairy chest, on the diving board. When the shot zooms out, we see a guy with no hair on his chest, who is obviously the stunt double. (01:15:00)
Continuity mistake: In the scene at the pool, when Pierce Brosnan dives into the pool and comes out, look at his hairline, then look at it again two shots later, after his hair stylist intervened. (01:15:00)
Continuity mistake: In the pool scene where Mrs. Doubtfire picks up and throws a lime at the back of Stu's head, when Stu walks away and the camera goes back to Mrs. Doubtfire at the bar, the lime that she threw is still on the top of the stack of fruit. (01:16:40)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel (dressed as Mrs Doubtfire) is at the pool bar drinking, the bartender is wearing a black suit jacket. In the next scene, he is wearing a white suit jacket. (01:17:15)
Suggested correction: The barman has a white jacket on all the time Mrs Doubtfire is there.
Continuity mistake: When he's in the empty studio playing with the dinosaurs there is a picture of a spider on the wall behind him that keeps moving. (01:20:15)
Continuity mistake: In the restaurant scene, just after Miranda takes Natalie to the bathroom, Chris begins to open his menu just a crack, then Mrs. Doubtfire starts talking. The camera cuts to a closer shot, and the menu is suddenly all the way open. (01:33:00)
Continuity mistake: When Daniel/Mrs Doubtfire goes to the bathroom after his false teeth fell out in his wine glass, you can see he is holding the teeth before entering, but when he is in the bathroom, the teeth have disappeared. (01:33:20)
Continuity mistake: When Mrs Doubtfire is pouring the cayenne pepper into Stu's dish of jambalaya, you can see that the container has nothing on the side, but when Mrs Doubtfire has finished, a label has suddenly appeared. (01:37:50)
Audio problem: During the final court case scene at the end of the film, Miranda's lawyer turns to her and says, 'Congratulations'. The lawyer's head is turned away from our view slightly, but you can see that she doesn't move her mouth. It does move about a second after 'Congratulations' is said, but it does not move long enough for the lawyer to have actually said 'Congratulations'. (01:45:00)
Character mistake: When Mrs. Doubtfire gets her own TV show at the end, she asks the puppet if he knows anything about England. The reply is, "I only know that it's an island", which is not true. Britain is an island, not England. (01:46:00)
Continuity mistake: At the end when the children learn that their dad is their new baby sitter, look at Chris' tassels on his coat from when they get to door to when Daniel says 'Go get your stuff' and he runs up stairs - between shots, his tassels are both hanging down, then hanging to the right, then hanging down etc. indicating this scene was shot at least twice. (01:52:30)
Continuity mistake: In the restaurant scene when Daniel puts the cayenne pepper on the jambalaya, Stu takes a shrimp and starts chewing it before he chokes on it. When Daniel comes and performs the Heimlich maneuver on him and the shrimp is coughed out, it's whole and unchewed.
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Doubtfire and Miranda are talking in the kitchen, Miranda's necklace' beads are crooked. In the next shot after Mrs.Doubtfire is seen, Miranda's necklace is astoundingly perfect.
Other mistake: The newspaper article Daniel reads (to pick the name Doubtfire) does not have a date on it.
Other mistake: In the Bridges restaurant scene when Mrs. Doubtfire enters the ladies room stall to change into Daniel, you hear a loud rip and Mrs. Doubtfire screams "damnit!" - however, when we see Daniel and Mrs. Doubtfire throughout the rest of the restaurant scene, neither of their clothes are ripped anywhere.
Factual error: The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the year 1720, in the 18th century. Miranda recommends a "17th-century grand piano" for Stuart's bed-and-breakfast inn.
Suggested correction: Could this perhaps be more of a character mistake Miranda made that there's reason to believe her character wouldn't make? A lot of people out there confuse centuries and think the 1700s is the 17th century, but if there's a good point that Miranda, as a character, shouldn't have made this mistake, this would still be a character mistake as it shouldn't have been written that way for her in that case.
