The Pink Panther
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Continuity mistake: When Clouseau parks in front of the ministry of justice, he breaks the hood of two police cars. A few shots later, when we see him entering the building, only one of the cars is broken.

Dr Wilson

Continuity mistake: The Killer is no where near the football coach when he dies in the beginning, but in the flashback, the killer is right next to him.

Continuity mistake: In the flashback, when the trainer kills the coach with the dart, he stabs the coach but when he takes his hand away the dart is above his hand.

Continuity mistake: When the footballer is killed we see the girl enter the room, and the shot cuts the the dead body. The body is seen lying face down with his hands out to his sides. Later when Clouseau sees the body, the head is now to one side.

Scrappy

Continuity mistake: When Clouseau first meets Chief Inspector Dreyfus we see him flip his badge which flies out and sticks into Dreyfus' chest lying flat against it. As Clouseau is retrieving the badge, it is no longer lying flat, but is on an angle.

Scrappy

Continuity mistake: When we see the dead body of the footballer for the first time, we see that his right hand is on what appears to be some sort of white stand. Later when Clouseau is viewing the body the stand is now in front of the body and a few feet away.

Scrappy

Continuity mistake: When Clouseau is working late and Nicole asks him if she should stay, the camera moves behind Clouseau and you can see he is wearing a jacket. When the camera turns around, he is wearing only a white shirt.

Continuity mistake: When Xania is performing her song at the Presidential Ball, she has a long feather draped down her back. During the song, the feather disappears, but at the end of the performance it re-appears.

Continuity mistake: When Dreyfus is holding the ice-pack to his eye, the angle changes to show Clouseau entering. In this shot Dreyfus removes the ice-pack, but in the next shot he is still holding it to his eye.

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Suggested correction: Look again. He picks it back up off his desk.

The mistake is valid. He lowers his hand, with the ice pack and in the next shot it's back up, meaning no time has elapsed for him to do so. And this happens before he ever sets the ice pack down.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: When Clouseau tells Xenia that she can keep the Pink Panther, she puts it on her right hand. In the next long shot, when Clouseau explains how he knew that she had it, Xenia is still holding it, not wearing it.

Continuity mistake: When the Agent questions Clouseau at the airport, he takes Clouseau's bag from him and places the weapons on a table. When the Agent calls in the Army to come along, the weapons on the table are positioned differently.

Continuity mistake: When Clouseau is in LaRoque's office, you can see a table with his coat and a chair behind the desk before he hits the desk to break the vase off his hand. But when he hits the desk, the table and the chair have suddenly disappeared.

Continuity mistake: When Clouseau is playing "good cop/bad cop", he offers cigarettes to the prisoner, which he declines. Clouseau puts them on the desk, where they promptly disappear from the remainder of the scene.

Factual error: When Clouseau heard the footsteps of what he thought to be a lady and what we afterwards knew was the Russian trainer, he described how tall she was using the English system of feet and inches, not the metric system, which is used in France.

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Inspector Jacques Clouseau: The good-cop/bad-cop routine is working perfectly.
Ponton: You know, usually two different cops do that.

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Trivia: During the pre-credits sequence, Inspector Clouseau opens a door and says "You are under arrest!" to a baby in a cot. This baby is Pearl, daughter of Nina Ruscio, who has worked as production designer on several Shawn Levy films, including "Big Fat Liar" and "Cheaper by the Dozen".

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Question: When Clouseau and Ponton are in line at the airport. Is that Terrell Owens behind them? He only appears in a few shots. If it is, any idea why he's there? Is there a deleted scene with him?

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