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• Continuity: When David arrives at 10 Downing Street, his tie changes 11 times between shots (see trivia).
  
  
• Continuity: Natalie's hair during car scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When the prime minister visits Natalie's house her hair changes between the wide shots and the close shots of her on the stairs. In the both shots her hair is in front of her left shoulder but some pieces are in front of her right shoulder in the close shots that are not there in the wide shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Karen and Sarah are talking at the company's Christmas party, a slow song is playing so that guests can slow-dance. As Karen continues to speak the languid music plays while the shot cuts away to see Mark and other folks dancing, but they are bobbing up and down in a spirited dance. Then it quickly cuts back to Karen and Sarah speaking again, all with no break in the slow dance music. Later a fast dance breaks out. The songs chosen for the scene were different for the USA and UK versions. In the UK version, it is a much faster song while as the USA version is a slow song
  
  
• Continuity: When Juliet watches the wedding video at Mark's house the remote on the video switches places between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Daniel is talking to his son, a girl with curly hair passes twice in the same direction.
  
  
• Continuity: Sarah's hair during her phone calls with her brother while Karl is over in her room.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sarah and Karl are in Sarah's room, Sarah's alarm clock over her bedside table says that it is five to twelve. A bit later we can see the same alarm clock and it is ten to twelve. (Karl's watch has another time altogether, but this is not necessarily a goof.)
  
  
• Factual errors: When Karen is in her room crying to the Joni Mitchell song "Both Sides Now", the CD player shows that it is track 7. But on the actual "Both Sides Now" CD she received, the song is actually track 12.
  
  
• Factual errors: The real door to 10 Downing Street does not have a keyhole for a key and has its hinge on the other side (it opens on the right rather than on the left).
  
  
• Continuity: The people walking by in the background when Daniel and Sam are sitting by the shore.
  
  
• Continuity: When Harry is on the phone with Mia, a man with a red scarf walks by twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The blanket on Aurelia's left shoulder keeps changing position from on and off her shoulder when they are in the house after being into the water.
  
  
• Factual errors: The PM watches Billy Mack on an episode of "Parkinson" (1971) - it is shown in "proper" 16:9 widescreen (obvious from the amount of space on either side of the chairs). Parkinson has never been produced (to date in 2004) in widescreen, even after the BBC started aggressively producing more shows in 16:9 after the advent of digital TV in the UK.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mark is talking to Juliet at the door with the cards, the card with pictures of supermodels changes between the first and second shot of it.
  
  
• Continuity: At the recording studio, Bill is shown in one shot singing directly into the mic. In the next shot, he is standing about a foot above the mic. Not only is this a continuity error, but he also shouldn't have been that far from the microphone to be recording properly.
  
  
• Continuity: When Juliet visits Mark to find the wedding tape, she puts down her pie on top of the TV. The pie disappears in the next shot and then reappears in all later shots looking toward the TV.
  
  
• Continuity: The people in the background when the shop assistant is gift wrapping the present for Harry.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sarah and Karl are first kissing in her bedroom, Karl strips to the waist but still has his trousers on. In the next shot, as they fall onto the bed with Sarah sitting astride him, his trousers are missing.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the "Wisconsin" scene where Colin meets the American girls and Carol-Anne walks in, you can see a British style light switch near the door.
  
  
• Continuity: The scene where John is trying to kiss Judy goodnight, but is too shy, they are wearing the same clothes that they wear at the concert. The concert is their first date. They go to the concert after they had their first kiss. It should have been the other way around.
  
  
• Factual errors: Milwaukee International, the airport Colin flies to, does not exist. The major airport in Milwaukee is named General Mitchell International.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the film, when it is five weeks to Christmas, Karen's daughter reports that students had just been assigned their roles to the nativity play. On the night of the concert, Natalie's mother said it took months to make the octopus costume, which means she would have known her son's role in the play before they were cast.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Jamie first meets Aurelia and is attempting to speak Portuguese, he says "Molto bueno," which Eleonore informs him is Spanish. In fact, "molto" is Italian.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the airport scene where Sam is being chased by airport security, at the checkpoint, in some cuts a spring board can be seen for his leap over the guard, but in some cuts it's not there.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The bar in Milwaukee inexplicably contains a pennant for the Midland RockHounds, a minor-league baseball team in Texas; posters for the Chicago White Sox instead of the Milwaukee Brewers; and several promotional displays for Budweiser, which would be an unpopular choice in Milwaukee, the home of archrival Miller beer.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the Prime Minister is going to find Natalie at the 'dodgy end of Wandsworth' his limo is viewed crossing Albert Bridge, but is actually driving away from Wandsworth in the direction of Chelsea. The Albert Bridge has three lanes, with two going in the direction of Chelsea, although now the central lane is blocked to reduce weight on the bridge during peak hour (changed 2007).
  
  
• Continuity: The tinsel on the door behind Colin in the Wisconsin Pub changes position continually between shots from crooked to straight, and back again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Jamie comes home and then abruptly leaves, the two little girls say, "I hate Uncle Jamie!" If you watch the girl on the left, she mouths the line just as the girl on the right says it, and then, she says it out loud.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Colin goes into the bar in Milwaukee he orders are Budweiser at the bar. In the bar itself there are several Budweiser signs but not Miller Brewing Company advertisements. This would likely not happen because businesses within the city limits of Milwaukee rarely carry or sell Anhauser-Busch products due to the fact that the Miller Brewing Company is located in the city of Milwaukee and business owners are loyal to the local company only.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Colin visits the Wisconsin girls' home, the house is shown from the outside. On the street, a parked car is seen on the side of the street, facing the wrong direction. In America, unlike Britain, a parked car must be facing the direction of traffic, and all traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road. (This is not a traffic rule that is commonly ignored, and in Milwaukee, a vehicle parked facing the wrong direction would be ticketed and towed.)
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the "preview" of the nativity play, Karen reads out "it was a starry night in Jerusalem and the baby Jesus was asleep in his manger". Traditionally it is accepted that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. However, in a nativity play where several lobsters, a whale, and an octopus were included at the birth of Jesus, it is possible (even probable) that it would take place in Jerusalem.
  
  

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