Napoleon Dynamite

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Napoleon tells Uncle Rico to leave, Uncle Rico is throwing footballs in front of the video camera. There are three footballs; two on the ground and one in his hand, yet he throws four.

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Continuity mistake: When Uncle Rico tells Napoleon about the sale in Bemida the jar/ glass of milk was not lifted up before the shot of Rico putting it down. It doesn't seem like he had picked up the jar before then because we can see it in Napoleon's shots.

Continuity mistake: When Napoleon calls Kip from school, you see that he was grating cheese for nachos. When the view goes to Napoleon and back, you see that the position of the block of cheese and amount of cheese on the chips changes. This happens multiple times throughout the scene.

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Continuity mistake: When Napoleon is talking to Deb in the cafeteria, the drink is behind the plastic bag. Then when Napoleon notices that it's 1%, the drink is in front of it. (00:20:20)

Continuity mistake: During the opening scene on the school bus, they drive past a neighbor's barn as soon as they pull away from Napoleon's house. There was no gap in time because the dialogue is continuous, yet later when Napoleon walks out his front door to feed Tina, the closest neighbor in that direction is far off in the distance.

Continuity mistake: Napoleon is drawing lines from the back of the unicorn in class. When the teacher calls him up, it flashes to his notebook and the drawing but no lines on the rear of the unicorn. (00:05:00)

Toolio

Continuity mistake: At the very end, when Napoleon asks Deb if she wants to play tetherball, the sprinkler system behind her disappears.

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Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, when Napoleon first gets on the bus, he puts his hand on the seat in front of the seat that he's going to sit in, right by a kid's head, but in the next shot, the kid is gone. (00:04:15)

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Continuity mistake: After Pedro puts the cake down it moves closer to Summer's door and slides across her doorstep. The envelope under it also disappears and reappears. (00:26:35)

Continuity mistake: When Kipp places the bowl by the tire, the tire is to the left of the bowl with the curb behind it. When a full shot of the van is shown, the view is now opposite with the curb in front of the bowl, but the tire is still to the left.

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Continuity mistake: When Napoleon throws the fruit on Uncle Rico's van, it hits the windshield and leaves only splatters of juice on the windshield, but when Rico stops the van, the windshield has several chunks of the fruit on it.

Continuity mistake: When the class president candidates present their program and perform some skit, there are several shots of students sitting in the auditorium. Keep your eye on Deb. She sits in the third row on the left side, but in the first and second shot she isn't there. Then she appears, disappears and finally reappears and changes her position by one seat.

Continuity mistake: When Uncle Rico takes out the ship from the box, the box is near the woman's arm. In the next shot, when she tells her husband "I want that" the box is nowhere to be seen. (00:36:50)

Continuity mistake: When Napoleon arrives at Pedro's house just after he has cut his hair and is sitting on the lawn, his bike is upside-down with the reflector in the shot. When the camera comes back to Pedro, the bike reflector has moved out of the shot.

Continuity mistake: When Deb shoves the box of keychains into Napoleon's arm, between shots the green keychain on the far right disappears.

Continuity mistake: When Napoleon asks the woman if he can use her phone, the position of the phone's cord changes between shots.

Continuity mistake: When Napoleon is waiting for Uncle Rico, he checks his watch and it says Thursday, July 17. This movie is set during the 2004-2005 school year, as seen on Napoleon's lunch card at the beginning. July 17 was on a Saturday in 2004 and on a Sunday in 2005, not Thursday.

Continuity mistake: When Uncle Rico gives the "Bust Must" demonstration to Starla, he picks up two pots. The bottom of the pot in his left hand is nice and silver, and the one in his right hand is slightly brown, as if it had been burned. In the next shot, the silver one is in his right hand, and the brown one is in his left hand.

Continuity mistake: At the end of the movie when Napoleon is dancing for Pedro's campaign, you can see his boots have mud on them sometimes and sometimes they're clean.

Ben's Mom

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Napoleon watches the farmer shoot the cow, the film crew and camera are visible in the reflection of the glass door of the passing school bus. (00:16:20)

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Pedro: Do you think people will vote for me?
Napoleon Dynamite: Heck yes! I'd vote for you.
Pedro: Like what are my skills?
Napoleon Dynamite: Well, you have a sweet bike. And you're really good at hooking up with chicks. Plus you're like the only guy at school who has a mustache.

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Trivia: After Uncle Rico throws the steak at Napoleon when he's riding his bike, Rico sits back down on the porch and you can see him discreetly spit something into his hand and put it down. According to the DVD commentary, this was the bite of steak he was eating, because Jon Gries, who played Uncle Rico, didn't eat red meat. Between shots he spat out all the many bites of steak his character had to eat.

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Chosen answer: She has no cellphone or home phone.

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Answer: And / or does not wish to be eavesdropped on if she has a home phone?

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