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• Continuity: When Brooke is on the phone after her dinner-party, she picks up a martini glass full of fruit off of the counter, empties the fruit into the garbage and then places it in the sink. In subsequent views of the counter, the glass reappears and disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gary goes to the bar to talk with his friend about his relationship problems, his beer changes position numerous times.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: In three separate scenes the boom mic is visible, most noticeably in the scene at the counter of the art gallery between Brooke and Carson while he asks her out with Christopher looking on.
  
  

• Continuity: During the argument when Gary is shown lying on the couch, there are large dust bunnies on the carpet next to him. When the camera shows him the second time, the carpet has been vacuumed.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gary wakes to find the singers in the bedroom, his socks are one color after he wakes up and a different color upon entering the bedroom.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Brooke is complaining that Gary only brought back three lemons instead of twelve, if you look closely at the bag there are actually four lemons in the bag.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the movie, the life preserver on the boat shows the true name of the boat, while the back of the boat says "Three Brothers Tours".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Richard beats up Gary, and Gary is lying on the floor, there is blood to the side of his nose, not coming out of it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Brooke is supposed to appear nude, before she enters the room where Gary is, you can see her bra. Something similar happens when Marilyn Dean is painting a nude of a guy. At one point you can see the guy's underwear.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gary is at the bar near the end of the movie talking with the bartender, his napkin under his beer disappears and later reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the club scene, after Gary's younger brother Lupus has hit on the girl in pink, he is speaking to Gary and gesturing emphatically with both hands. When the shots switch, Lupus has one arm resting behind Gary's back, then it switches back to show him using both hands again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In one of the scenes where Gary plays Grand Theft Auto, his character is throwing Molotov Cocktails, but it is making the Grand Theft Auto rocket launcher sound.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gary walks into the apartment with the grocery bag (before the dinner party) the bag starts out standing up on the butcher block. In the next shot it's folded up and the mixer's missing, then the next shot it's folded up, laying down on the other side of the mixer.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gary's brother asks for the tour logs, he takes out his handkerchief to clean out his ears, a second later when Gary drives away it is gone.
  
  

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