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Pulp Fiction Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): Right when Vincent shots Marvin, and the window is splattered with blood, Vince can be seen facing the front of the car.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): (Deleted scene) When Mia interviews Vincent on the video camera, the perspective of the video camera (and Mia) keep moving, but the cutaways to Mia holding the camera are the same, being stationary with the same background.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Winston Wolf opens the car door to inspect the cleaning job. However, when the camera looks inside (through the window), the door appears closed.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): Crew is reflected in the open front door when Lance goes outside to yell at Vincent for crashing into his house.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The position of Honey Bunny's hands (after she asks "What then, day jobs?") changes when camera switches from front to side shot.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the Big Kahuna Burger scene, when Jules shoots the guy lying down his gun shows no muzzle flash, but when Brett is shot, both Jules' and Vincent's gun show very clear muzzle flashes.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Winston Wolf rings the doorbell at Jimmy's house.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Butch is picking up his girlfriend with the chopper from Zed and he is outside waiting for her, the front light of the chopper is switched off and on in different cuts of the scene.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The amount of Brett's burger that has been eaten as Jules picks it up.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When they first enter the pawn shop, Butch (a professional boxer with a deadly punch) hits Marsellus four times in the face, with his head pinned to a floor. But when Maynard interrupts, Marsellus' face has no marks or blood.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When they are at Joe's auto dismantle, The Wolf is walking to his car and there are 2 trucks with railing on the side with a VW beetle and another car in between them. But when The Wolf gets in his car and jets off there is only one truck with railings and the VW.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Bonnie comes through the living room into the kitchen in The Bonnie Situation you can see the shadow of the cameraman following behind her.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): During "The Bonnie Situation", Jimmie's wall clock is stopped.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Mia overdoses and is taken to Lance's apartment, a dot is drawn on her chest to show Vincent where he will be stabbing her with the adrenaline shot. After she gets up, the dot is gone.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Jules and Vincent are riding in the car, it is possible to see the reflection of their car in the background, being towed on a trailer.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Butch reads the cab driver's name as "Esmarelda Villa Lobos" then she tells him she is Colombian. The correct Spanish spelling is "Esmeralda" (meaning "emerald").
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In "The Bonnie Situation" when the man fires the revolver, the bullet holes show up before they are fired, and it's clear that some of the bullet holes have been made from the other side of the wall at angle.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the Big Kahuna burger scene, Jules put down his drink and a paper bag appears next to it. The bag then disappears and reappears several times between shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the "gold Watch" scene, Butch falls asleep in the hotel room, and on his night stand there is a book that is opened faced down. When he wakes up the book is closed.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): During the coffee shop robbery, when Pumpkin has the manager's head pinned to the counter, a crewmember is reflected in the cash register.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After being back from Jack Rabbit Slim's, Mia has Vincent's coat on. When she is about to light herself a cigarette, she isn't wearing it, but when she reaches for the lighter, she is wearing it again.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Mia's cigarette in the diner.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Jules and Vincent are in the diner at the end of the movie, the ice in their water glasses changes. At one point, it's completely melted. Seconds later, ice reappears in the glasses.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Vincent Vega drives up to the house with Mia ODing and crashes, you can see tire tracks in the grass where the original car continued through out of shot so when the camera tracks around it shows only the placed car.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the end of Vincent's phone call, (when Lance exclaims "PRANK CALLER" twice), he has a cigarette in his left hand. Facing the window in the next cut, as the car rolls past and Lance throws his hands up, the cigarette is gone.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): In the taxi, Butch throws his boxing clothes out a fully-open window, and Esmarelda tosses a butt out her open window. The squealing tires, near-miss as she leaves the alley, and background indicate she's driving fast. But as Butch smokes the cigarette, its smoke drifts slowly through the car, indicating it isn't moving because no wind is coming through the open windows. However, the back projection is heavily stylized in black & white, so the director clearly did not intend this to be a realistic shot.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Vincent's arms when he is talking to Mia at her house after the OD.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During the Big Kahuna Burger scene, after Brett is shot by Jules in the chest, he covers the bullet-wound with his hand. When Jules lifts his gun again to kill him, he momentarily lifts up his arms in fear and there is no bullet-wound of any kind visible.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Winston Wolf departs in his Acura, he takes a hard corner, but the sound indicates continuous acceleration in a straight line. While the acceleration is possible, it would sound different going around a corner.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): As Vincent is about to inject Mia with adrenaline, he holds up the syringe, showing the plunger at the bottom of the syringe barrel, meaning the syringe is empty.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Winston Wolf drives an Acura NSX, a two-seat sports car, but (sarcastically) offers to give 3 people a ride at once.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The color of the cheese on the Big Kahuna Burger changes with the close-up.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): The Bonnie Situation scenes in the restaurant and the apartment play out differently from their earlier interactions in the film, to show different people's perspective of the same events.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After Mia regains consciousness from the adrenaline shot, her hand changes position from hovering near the syringe stuck in her chest to being on the floor in the next shot and then rising to hover near the syringe.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Butch and Fabienne are arguing about the forgotten watch, the coat hangers in the background cast different shadows in different shots.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In Jimmy's bathroom, the shot of Jules washing his hands shows blood all around the rim of the sink. In the next shot from behind, the blood has disappeared.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Mia gets the adrenaline shot, Trudi can be seen jumping onto the couch twice
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Butch parks the Honda and climbs out of the car, the sky is clearly gray and overcast. However, in the next shot when he is walking towards his apartment block, the sky is blue.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the taxi, Butch asks the driver about her name, which is Esmarelda Villalobos. She tells him it means "Esmarelda of the wolves", which is incorrect. "Lobos" does mean "wolves", but "Villa" means "town", so it means "the town of wolves".
Movie Goof (factual errors): When Butch opens the door of the Apt/Condo with a Brass Kwikset key, he turns the key clockwise, which in fact would actually lock the doorknob. Turning it counter clockwise unlocks a Kwikset entry lockset.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): As Vega walks through the corridors to find Marcellus talking to Butch's trainer (after the deadly boxing fight), some equipment, and a crewmember wearing a baseball hat, is visible through a door on the right.
Movie Goof (continuity error): The level of the milkshake in the diner.
Movie Goof (factual errors): In the 'Big Kahuna Burger' scene the bullet holes are perpendicular to the wall when they should be at an angle because the shots were fired from an angle.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Errors during the scene when Marsellus and Butch are trapped inside Maynard's basement: 1) When he starts sprinkling water to wake them up, Butch is seen bent further down in the back shot. 2) Maynard then sprays them upwards, but in the next shot the water is coming downwards. 3) When Maynard finishes sprinkling, Butch turns to Marsellus, but in the next shot he is facing away. 4) When Maynard goes upstairs to open the door for Zed, Marsellus's shirt is untucked covering his crotch and Butch's blood stain on his shirt looks darker. In the next shot, Marsellus's shirt has changed as well as the blood stain on Butch's shirt, which looks lighter. After Zed walks in, the shirt and the stain change back.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): As Jules yells "I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker...", you can clearly see Marvin in the background, looking rather bored.
Movie Goof (continuity error): At the start of "The Bonnie Situation" the kid with the hand cannon has his pants unbuttoned but when he comes out of the bathroom shooting they are buttoned.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the scene where Vincent and Jules are getting cleaned up in the backyard, Jules takes his pants off twice.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Whenever the two shots from inside the apartment are shown, they are shown in different perspectives, so it might be that all goofs spotted in the two apartment scenes can be considered as being different characters in the movie perceiving things differently.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Vincent walks into Mia's home, the crew is reflected in the window.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): In Brett's Apartment, when Jules is talking to Brett he appears to say "Look at the brain on Brad" instead of calling him Brett. However, he stretches out the name "Brett" (i.e. "check out the big brain on Breeeeeeeeeett") and so it sounds like he says "Brad", If you listen closely, you can hear the "T" sound at the end of the sentence, indicating that he said "Brett" and not "Brad".