Goofs for
Yes Man (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Carl and Allison take cover from the rain in a barn. Carl, who should be soaking wet, has only a few water stains on his shoulders. His hair and face are completely dry.
  
  
• Continuity: During the conversation in the last scene a long thread from his hospital gown appears and disappears.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Carl is in the gown speaking to Allison you see his bare backside. Prior to this his character/stunt double is on a motorcycle speeding to her and you can clearly see that he is wearing shorts.
  
  

• Continuity: When Carl is avoiding Peter's phone-calls, Peter rings Carl's doorbell. When Cal gets up to get the door, his cell phone is clearly on the arm of the couch. When he gets to the door and begins talking to Peter, his phone is in his hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carl arrives at the gas station after running out of gas, the large sign with gas price information shows an unleaded price of over $5, but closer inspection of the gas pump screen shows the unleaded price to be under $3.50.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carl hops on the Ducati in his hospital gown to go see Allison, there is a scene where the back of his gown is open and we can see his butt. But in the next scene, which is shot from farther away, his gown is completely closed in the back.
  
  
• Factual errors: The motorcycle used in the film is a Ducati Hypermotard. This has an 1100cc L2 cylinder engine configuration, however the engine sound is clearly an inline-4 cylinder "supersports" soundtrack.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Harry Potter party Jim Carrey's lightning scar changes position.
  
  
• Continuity: As Carl and Allison enter Normans party you can clearly see, Allison is wearing high heels but, after when they climb over the fence to get into the arena she is clearly wearing a different pair of shoes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carl is picking out movies, the section labels say "Family" but the movies are clearly horror films such as 'The Thing', and then it cuts to him watching 'Saw'.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene where Carl is singing and playing guitar to the jumper out of the apartment window, the voiced over singing is out of sync with Jim Carrey's mouth during one of the verses.
  
  
• Continuity: During Terrence's motivational speech there is a crease on the bottom left part of his jacket that keeps disappearing and reappearing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alison and Carl are talking on the bench, Alison's hair changes with the change of the camera angle, and then it changes again within the same camera angle.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene after Carl is hit by the car and is in the hospital, Rooney's burrito changes sizes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Carl is filling up the gas container, the read out on the gas pump shows that he filled more than 5 gallons when in reality he does not have a 5 gallon container.
  
  
• Continuity: The photo of Allison and Carl taken on the running motorbike is different from the one she shows after the ride.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene when Carl is taking the Korean class, a North Korean (Democratic People's Republic of Korea-DPRK) flag can be seen on the teacher's desk. It is more likely that the instructor is using it to teach background on Korean history than it is the instructor is an agent of the North Korean government.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time Carl walks out his door, there is no nameplate there. The next time he is at his door, the name "Allen" is there. This occurs several times throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the film Carl's TV is a Sharp Aquos. Later on it is a Panasonic.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When they are riding on the scooter, both the first time with the gas can and the second time he is driving, they take red lights clearly visible in the background as they pass the intersections. However, this could possibly be on purpose as they are speeding and overtaking cars on the right side as well, with horns of cars blowing all throughout the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: After he saves the man from the ledge, the camera shows crowd cheering and a fireman is standing by Lucy, but in the close up, it's another guy.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Carl is singing and playing guitar to the jumper out of the apartment window, the adjacent window can be seen to have a thick curtain from the outside where it appears to be much thinner from the view inside the apartment. Also, this same adjacent window can be clearly seen from the inside of the room although at times it is blocked off with a solid wall.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Allison's arm change after she and Carl take a break to drink water after their morning jog. Her arm with the water bottle can be seen hanging off the rail but then quickly changes position after cutting to a different scene.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The end credits claim to list the cast in order of appearance, however Zooey Deschanel is listed second despite appearing later than other actors listed below her.
  
  

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