Old School

Continuity mistake: Right before the guys kidnap the 2nd pledge they are seen in their van driving towards a street corner with a traffic light but as they make the left hand turn into the parking lot, the street corner and the traffic light are gone.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Frank and the Dean of the university start rolling down the classroom stairs, they start off falling away from each other and then they are seen rolling down the stairs on top of each other.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Mitch's real estate buddy says that he knows about him and the boss's daughter, Mitch slaps him and points his right finger at him. In the next shot, it's his left finger that's pointing. (00:40:50)

Audio problem: When Will Ferrell breaks the glass with the hockey stick, the baby starts to cry, however you can see from the baby's face that it is not really crying. (00:14:30)

Continuity mistake: When Mitch is finished photocopying posters, he places the original white one on the bottom of the pile. In the next shot, it is on the top.

Revealing mistake: When Frank shoots himself with the trank gun you can see that he is wearing a prosthetic neck piece with the dart in it.

Revealing mistake: The shot of Luke Wilson rushing through a corridor of an unnamed airport to catch a plane (the name of the town/airport is never mentioned)- they show him rushing down a corridor of the "airport" which is actually a corridor in the LA Convention Center - the sign showing "South Hall," "Kenetia Hall", etc. is visible in the background.

Continuity mistake: At the end when Luke Wilson is moving out, there is a couch behind him in the U-Haul. It has boxes and a helmet on it. In the next shot, the couch has nothing on it.

Continuity mistake: The door to Will Ferrell's Firebird is closed in a tight shot when his wife is talking to him. When they cut to a wider shot, the door is open.

Continuity mistake: When the frat throws Blue a KY wrestling match, they have several matches before it's Blue's turn. However, when they show Blue and the two girls in the kiddie pool, the pool looks like it has never been used - there is no KY on the sides. There is no way they could've cleaned it all up, and I doubt they had a separate pool lying around just for him.

Audio problem: After Dean Pritchard spots the pledges jogging around campus, the Dean talks to his assistant. At the end of the scene, Dean Pritchard's voice says, "This is me leaving, this is me leaving." But it's the assistant who leaves, not Dean Pritchard. (00:39:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the end the women with the tape comes and plays the recording that she had earlier taped when she talked to the Dean. They are missing some of the lines that he said in the scene she taped.

Michael Piscitelli

Continuity mistake: At the wedding, the coffee stain on Nicole's dress is low and to her right in some shots, while it is high and to her left in other shots.

Revealing mistake: When Frank and the Dean are falling down the stairs in the classroom, the stunt double for Frank has short brown hair with yellow highlights, which is quite noticeably not Frank's hair type.

Continuity mistake: When Mitch arrives at his house to see he is being evicted, he steps over the caution tape and puts both hands inside his pants pockets. The camera angle changes and his hands are now seen at his sides as he walks up the steps.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When the guys are pulling up to kidnap Blue, his walker is seen to the right of him, but as the guys get out of the van the walker is now directly in front of him.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Frank shoots himself with the dart he falls down and his right arm lands on top of a folding chair. The camera angle changes and his arm is now seen stuck inside the chair.

MCKD

Factual error: Even though it is a women's event, one would assume that the rythmic floor routine (performed by Frank with the ribbon) would still have been judged by the same scoring means. In which case, they wouldn't have passed since the ribbon touches Frank's body and the floor a number of times which causes point deductions each time that happens.

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Continuity mistake: As they kidnap the 2nd pledge the wife is seen holding a grocery bag with a box of cheese balls sticking out in the middle of the bag but when Frank takes the box from the bag it is now seen on the side of the bag and no longer sticking out above the bag.

MCKD

Continuity mistake: When Mitch gets his housewarming gift from Frank he's seen holding it upright, then he's seen holding it on its side when the camera angle changes.

MCKD

Mitch: Wow. Cheese. Is that you?
Dean Pritchard: Hello, Mitch. Bernard. I see you guys haven't changed much.
Beanie: Who's this guy?
Mitch: Beanie, you remember Cheese, Rodney's kid brother?
Dean Pritchard: Actually, my name's not Cheese anymore. It's Gordon Pritchard.
Beanie: Oh, yeah. Cheeeeeese. Yeah, didn't we lock you in a dumpster one time?
Dean Pritchard: Yea, I got out.
Beanie: Cool man. Good. Glad you did.

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Trivia: It is rumored that this was thought of by director Todd Philips as a comedic version of "Fight Club" (1999) and there are a few obvious references to it in the movie. Some include the basement wrestling match, the photocopying of club propaganda at work, the men appearing worn at work, the restaurant scene, and the behavior of the men during the initiation phase.

T Poston

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Question: Who is the porn star in the video Mich's wife is watching?

Answer: Julie Meadows.

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