50 First Dates

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50 First Dates Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (plot holes): Henry is waiting on the side of the road, tied up in the back of his truck, as one of his ploys to "meet" Lucy again. But the plan is foiled when Lucy's father and brother drive up instead. They have Henry meet them back at the house, where they peek in on Lucy singing a Beach Boys song and painting. Lucy's father tells Henry that they figured out she only sings that song on the days where she meets him. But she hadn't met him that day.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Ula is on the boat when Henry 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (factual errors): There are no walruses at Sea Life Park in Hawaii.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): We see an Epson Stylus inkjet printer but hear the sound of a dot-matrix printer.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The first time Henry tricks Lucy by pulling her over, she passes him twice on the road.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The lemon wedge on the glass of ice tea when Henry first meets Lucy.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Alexa is dripping wet from jumping in the pool and diving in the fish barrel but when she leans over Jocko, she is dry.
Movie Goof (plot holes): When Henry goes to visit Suzy at the Institute, she says, "I don't know who you are, but I dream about you almost every night." Since she has no memories of anything after the accident, she could not possibly know that she had dreamed about Henry more then once.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (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.
Movie Goof (plot holes): In the scene when Lucy is painting and singing, Martin tells Henry that Lucy sings only the days she sees him. But that day Lucy hadn't seen Henry. Martin and Doug saw him tied up in his truck before Lucy gets there and Martin told him to go to his house.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (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.
Movie Goof (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.)
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (continuity error): 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.
Movie Goof (plot holes): When Lucy shows Henry the journal she's made, he asks her, "Don't you like the video?" (referring to the video he made for her to watch to bring her up to date on the events of the past year). She responds, "I love it, it's just that sometimes when I watch it I feel like I'm being told about my life from someone else." If Lucy loses her memory every day, how would she remember how the video "sometimes" makes her feel? Each time she watches it, she shouldn't have any memory of having watched it before, and consequently no memory of how she felt when she watched it before.