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50 First Dates (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: After Ula has been stitched up by Henry, he pulls on his shirt. In one shot he has pulled it on over one arm, but in the next shot, he pulls it on again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alexa and Doug are waving goodbye to Henry at the boat dock, Alexa is wearing her watch on her right wrist; a moment later as she grabs Doug's behind the watch is on her left wrist.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: We see an Epson Stylus inkjet printer but hear the sound of a dot-matrix printer.
  
  

• Continuity: When Doug and Marlin are talking to Henry, Doug has sunglasses on. But when it cuts back to Marlin, the sunglasses are nowhere in sight.
  
  
• Factual errors: There are no walruses at Sea Life Park in Hawaii.
  
  
• Continuity: At one point we see Lucy at the grill through the kitchen window and there is a tall glass drink on her table. Moments later, when someone approaches her table, the glass is nowhere to be seen.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: The type of penguin used for the film was an African Penguin. The sound effect used is not the actual vocalization that bird. The actual call they make sounds like a donkey braying.
  
  
• Continuity: At one point in the diner when the waitress takes a guy's order, he says he'll have the pancakes and she takes the menu away from him. In the next shot, he is in the background and still holding the menu open.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end when the patient asks Lucy what he's doing, she tells him he's painting a picture and we see him holding a paint brush. But when we see the picture he "painted" it was actually done in crayon.
  
  
• Continuity: The lemon wedge on the glass of ice tea when Henry first meets Lucy.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ula takes his foot off Henry's pillow, there is mud. As he removes his foot and the screen shot is taken outward, the mud disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ula is beating up Henry, Lucy is taking off her sunglasses and pulls off to the left-hand side of the road. In the next shot, Lucy is farther away and driving up in the middle of the road.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Lucy is being ticketed at the café she runs to the newspaper machine to verify the date. She manages to open the machine without inserting any coins.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Vikings football game, the announcer informs the viewers that it is fourth down. However, the down marker on the goal line indicates that it is just third down.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time Henry tricks Lucy by pulling her over, she passes him twice on the road.
  
  
• Continuity: Alexa is dripping wet from jumping in the pool and diving in the fish barrel but when she leans over Jocko, she is dry.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first shot of Henry, Lucy, Doug and Marlin driving to the Callahan Institute, Henry and Lucy are sitting in the back seat and Lucy's hair is blowing around because the window is down. In all other shots of them driving, Lucy's hair isn't blowing around anymore and no one is ever shown rolling up the window.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Henry is taking the dingy to shore after his sailing mishap at the beginning of the film, he leaves the sailboat anchored but with the sails still up.
  
  
• Plot holes: It is mentioned that something had to be done, because one day Lucy would wake up and "see her face ten years older". But it was never mentioned why Lucy never seemed to notice how her hair had a year's worth of growth "overnight". Did her family cut it in her sleep?
  
  
• Continuity: As Lucy is driving towards Henry's jumper cable trouble, the camera shows her driving with the driver-side towards the island interior passing some parked trucks. As the shot changes, the close up shot shows the driver-side of the car facing towards the ocean.
  
  
• Continuity: After Henry has stitched up Ula's side, it is very red. However, when Ula and Henry are in Henry's that same night or the next, Ula's shark bite looks mostly healed, almost like a scar, without any visible stitches.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end when he turns the boat around, before the turn all the sails are up. After the turn, only the main is up, the jib is down.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ula is swinging at the golf ball, there is no scar or cut on his stomach from the shark. Afterwards, you see that there is one after they notice the stitches open.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ula is on the boat when Adam Sandler is repairing it, he has only the slightest white scar. It is only three days after he got bitten and it is only a pale, nearly invisible scar. When he falls through the boards and says his stitches reopened, that is nearly impossible seeing as how it was only a scar and there was no stitches.
  
  
• Plot holes: Lucy wears the same outfit every day, and her dad washes the outfit as part of the routine. However, there is no reason for Lucy to wear the same outfit as she changes her mind doing other tasks such as what she makes her waffles into and what she paints on the wall of the garage.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): A police officer tickets Lucy for having expired license plates while her truck is legally parked in the parking lot of the pancake house. Since the parking lot is on private property, and Lucy is not driving the truck when the police officer tickets the expired license plate, he does not have a legal right to write her a ticket. (In some cities police can cite cars on private parking lots.)
  
  

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