Cheaper by the Dozen

Corrected entry: In the scene where Sarah goes to get the dishes out of the dishwasher, she says "Mike's athletic cup?" Mike is her younger brother, who probably doesn't play, and would not use a cup.

Correction: Mike is normally wearing a jersey of some kind so it is very likely that he does play. He is also young and would see nothing wrong with sticking his 'cup' in with the other cups in the dishwasher.

Corrected entry: When the twin boys are the only children left at the football game, they are hitting each other with the W and the E from 'We love the coach'. At the end of the movie when the whole family returns to the field, the 'WE' is on one piece of cardboard.

Correction: The cardboards break in the film and you can see Kim or Jessica in one of the scenes in the background drawing a double one.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Tom Baker is talking to his wife after his morning jog, you can see the microphone dip into the screen while they are talking.This happens many times in different scenes.

Correction: The technician in your theatre most likely adjusted the image wrong. It's not the movie's mistake since it's supposed to stay out of frame.

Corrected entry: A college football stadium that seats 80,000 people would not have a football team consisting of 10-15 guys.

Correction: While this is true, you do see more of the team when Tom has to bring the team home with him. There seems to be 25-30 players at this point.

Corrected entry: When the new neighbours are walking home from their 'welcome' visit, they're walking along a footpath (US: sidewalk), yet they live directly across the road - no need to walk anywhere except straight across (as is done by the Baker kids on their way to the neighbour's birthday party later).

Correction: Although this is true, the neighbors seem to be very "uptight" (for lack of a better word) people, and they would probably wallk down the sidewalk to the crosswalk before crossing the street.

Corrected entry: At Mark/FedEx's first day at his new school, he runs into some bullies who knock his glasses to the floor. He kneels down and has to feel around on the floor in order to find his glasses, so obviously his eyesight is so awful that he can't see even 10 inches in front of his face. Yet in a later scene, he's laying in the bed and rolls over to look at a picture of his Mom and him on the bedside table, and sees it WITHOUT his glasses.

Correction: Although this is true, Mark has had that picture and has probably already seen it perfectly with his glasses. So, in this scene he is looking at the picture and may see his mom blury but he is only thinking of his mom,rather then try to discern who or what is in it.

Corrected entry: When Steve Martin announces that the family is moving, the kids cast votes on pieces of paper. When he counts them he says "Eight no's, 3 yes's and 3 maybe's". That is 14 votes, but the oldest daughter is living in Chicago and wasn't at home to vote. There should have only been 13 votes.

Correction: They were talking to the oldest daughter on the phone during the family meeting. It's safe to assume that she gave her vote by phone.

Correction: Pointing out what other shows and movies someone has been in is not trivia.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Hank (Ashton Kutcher) is telling Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt about his acting career he says that he is so popular he wishes there were 2 of him. This is a reference to the fact that Ashton Kutcher has an identical twin brother (called Michael).

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Correction: It's not a reference to Ashton's twin because Michael and Ashton are fraternal twins.

Continuity mistake: When the Baker's first move in and Dylan's family comes to visit, right after Dylan falls off of the Chandelier, Jake throws one of his shoes down (not both). In the next shot, the father is holding both shoes. (00:25:45)

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Kate Baker: He is not a doorknob!
Jake Baker: The man irons his jeans, Mom.
Kate Baker: Yeah, that's weird.

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Trivia: The name of Mark's frog is Beans. Steven Anthony Lawrence plays Dylan in this film, and his character's nickname on the Disney channel show "Even Stevens" is also Beans.

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Question: Does it seem strange to anyone else that these kids, including teenagers, can't help take care of themselves for two weeks? My family has six kids and we can function for a week or two when Mom and Dad go out of town. In a large family, parents usually raise their children to help out a lot more and be more responsible.

Answer: It seems that the fact the family can't take care of themselves is added to part of the humour of the film. 12 children is a lot, and think about all those rows and all that mess.

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It's not like they couldn't take care of themselves. As shown with the breakfast scene at the beginning, they seem to function pretty well when they all get along. Tom and Kate were just usually home more frequently than some other parents. It also didn't help that it was the first time that one of the parents was gone for an extended period and the parent that was left home (Tom) had never had to deal with all the kids on his own. Also, the only time we see complete chaos in the house is the first day that Kate has been gone. After that the kids are more behaved (at home).

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