Carry on Behind

Continuity mistake: When Ian Lavender is outside the shower room he has a yellow towel, but as soon as he gets inside it has changed to an orange patterned towel.

Continuity mistake: When Fred kicks the beach ball into the man's washing up basin, the ball is all wet and covered in bubbles. When the man throws the ball over the next door neighbour's caravan and falls into their salad bowl, the ball is now clean and dry.

Continuity mistake: When Fred and Ernie return to their caravan and find their dinner is on fire, they enter the caravan and you can see the door is open. A few shots later, the door is closed without no one having touched it.

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Suggested correction: This caravan has doors on both sides.

Continuity mistake: After Professor Crump and Professor Vooshka have finished inspecting the mosaic at the bottom of the cesspit, Professor Crump helps Professor Vooshka out of the pit. Initially Professor Vooshka starts out of the pit by leading with her right leg, but in the next shot, she is leading with her left.

Continuity mistake: When Ernie tosses the burnt sausages out of the caravan, he tosses them out of the back window. When we see the dog eating the sausages, he is eating them by the caravan door.

Continuity mistake: Before the chicken is run over by the archaeologists' van, the appearance of the chicken changes between shots.

Continuity mistake: When Ernie asks Sandra and Carol if they would like to have dinner with him and Fred, he is holding the cup and saucer in his right hand. In the next shot, he now has both hands on the saucer.

Continuity mistake: During the breakfast scene with Fred, Ernie, Carol and Sandra, Carol puts her hand on Ernie's hand while he is eating his cornflakes and then puts her hand back on the table, but in the following shot her hand is back on Ernie's hand again.

Continuity mistake: When Barnes leaves his caravan after discussing the rent with Professor Crump and Professor Vrooshka, Professor Vrooshka is holding a large knife, but in the next shot she is now holding a briefcase.

Continuity mistake: When Daphne tells Arthur that she won't have swearing after he hits his hand with the mallet, Arthur kicks down the awning on the caravan. At this point, Arthur is holding a mallet, but in the next shot when he is happy and rubs his hands together, the mallet is nowhere to be seen.

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the stripper film during Professor Crump's lecture, you can see the stripper is wearing tights. When Crump says "We see the sight partially uncovered", the tights have disappeared, and in the next shot, they are back again.

Continuity mistake: When Else enters the butchers' shop at the beginning of the movie, Fred is serving a woman wearing a scarf on her head and behind her is a blonde haired lady. But when Fred says "Hello, Else!" in the next shot, the blonde lady has just been served by Fred and the woman with the scarf is nowhere is sight.

Continuity mistake: When the couple who are about to have their lunch outside their caravan are interrupted by the beach ball, the ball knocks a brown bowl containing salad off the table. After a quick cut to Fred, we return to the couple and the bowl is back on the table again.

Continuity mistake: When Sandra is in Ernie and Fred's caravan, she says to Ernie that their stove isn't working. Sandra then hands Ernie the stove, but when the camera is behind Sandra in the next shot, she hands it to him a second time.

Continuity mistake: When Professor Crump says "I've been shot!" after the tent explodes outside his caravan, a bottle of tomato ketchup starts dripping on him and you can see his pyjama top is completely clean, but after a quick cut to the bottle dripping, we return to Crump, and his top is more dirtier than it was previously.

Continuity mistake: When Joe Baxter enters the shower room, the towel he is carrying has moved from one shoulder to the other.

Continuity mistake: Outside the showers, the man who takes the sign saying "MEN" writes "men" in chalk on the wood. The style of the writing changes constantly.

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Continuity mistake: When Fred kicks the beach ball into the man's washing up basin, the ball is all wet and covered in bubbles. When the man throws the ball over the next door neighbour's caravan and falls into their salad bowl, the ball is now clean and dry.

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Prof. Anna Vrooshka: Tomorrow, we are poking holes all over caravan site.
Prof. Roland Crump: I don't think they would like that at all.
Prof. Anna Vrooshka: It's ok, we are poking early.

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Trivia: Although Joan Sims plays Patsy Rowlands' mother in this film, Sims was only four years older than Rowlands.

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Suggested correction: There was only eight months between the two actresses.

Wikipedia has Patsy Rowland's date of birth wrong. Patsy died in 2005 and in a 2005 article by The Guardian, the article list her age as 71. This would put her birth year 1934, not 1931, which is also confirmed at the end of the article.

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