The Odd Couple

Character mistake: After Felix arrives at Oscar's apartment, he is looking out the window and comments on the view. He then asks, "What is it, twelve floors?" He had just come up in a self-service elevator, so he would have known what floor he was on.

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Character mistake: Shortly after Felix arrives at Oscar's apartment, he goes to a window and asks if it's 12 floors. Oscar rushes over, slams the window shut, and says it's only 11 floors. Since Felix had to push the button in the self-service elevator to get to the correct floor, and since he had been to the apartment many times before to play poker, he would have to know that it was 12 floors.

Continuity mistake: In the opening sequence, Felix (Jack Lemmon) goes into the Metropole Cafe. One of the people he passes as he enters is a young woman with a thin face and very distinctive nose and eyes. He goes in, has a drink, hurts his neck, and leaves. As he is leaving, the camera pans the band and go-go dancers. One of the dancers is the young woman who had just left as he was entering.

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Oscar Madison: I can't take it anymore, Felix, I'm cracking up. Everything you do irritates me. And when you're not here, the things I know you're gonna do when you come in irritate me. You leave me little notes on my pillow. Told you 158 times I can't stand little notes on my pillow. "We're all out of cornflakes. F.U." Took me three hours to figure out F.U. was Felix Ungar.

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