Hot Tub Time Machine

Continuity mistake: When Lou and Nick are playing pool in the bar, Lou goes to break the rack and misses. When Nick goes to break them, the balls are racked in a different pattern. (00:50:10)

Continuity mistake: When the guys reach the end of their downhill run, they encounter Blain, who is irked by their "shenanigans," going so far as to shove Jacob to the ground. When he pushes Jacob the large two-way radio that is in his pocket falls and hits the ground in front of him. However, when the camera angle changes to show only Blain and Chaz, the radio is back in his pocket without him ever having to recover it from the ground.

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Continuity mistake: When the guys are at the lodge in their room, and they're sitting around the table talking about the past, the glasses on the table keep moving around in each shot.

Continuity mistake: When Adam eats the mushrooms in the room and speaks with Jacob, when he leaves Adam is wearing just the sunglasses, but in the next shot is also wearing a hat.

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Continuity mistake: When the movie starts, Nick has his left hand over the bulldog's back and the right around the leash. When the phone rings, his left hand is now holding the leash, and the right one is grabbing the cell phone. The transition between both movements is missing.

Sacha

Factual error: In the scene where they are watching "The Drive", the TV is not showing an NFL game at all. The field is 110 yards long. There is an overhead shot of the field and you can see two 50 yard lines and a C in the middle. They are watching a CFL game.

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Adam: One little change has a ripple effect and it effects everything else. Like a butterfly floats its wings and Tokyo explodes or there's a tsunami, in like, you know, somewhere.
Jacob: Yes exactly. You step on the bug and the fucking internet is never invented.
Lou: Oh then you'll have to talk to girls with your mouth.
Jacob: Yeah. No. I was more concerned about bigger consequences like not being born.
Lou: Yeah. No. I don't care about that.

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Trivia: Chevy Chase makes his first appearance; he farts. This goes back to the movie Spies Like Us when he is taking the test and he farts during the test, blaming it on the guy sitting next to him. The guy says, "Excuse me," as everyone looks at him.

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Question: When the four main guys are first coming down the slope in 1986, the two from the ski patrol apparently don't recognize Jacob's snowboard. Though snowboards were still largely unknown in 1986, wouldn't someone who worked for a popular ski resort recognize them?

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Chosen answer: The James Bond film "A View To A Kill" came out the year before in 1985. In the film, Bond's snowscooter is blown up by the Soviets, so he takes a wrecked ski from it and improvises it into a snowboard. Snowboards existed at the time, however, it wasn't until that film that their existence became well known. One year later in 1986, they'd still be very rare, but it's likely that his wasn't the first that the ski patrol had seen.

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