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• Continuity: When Tre drives up to pick up Ricky, the windows on his car are down on both sides. After Ricky gets in, the shot from inside the car shows the window closed.
  
  
• Continuity: Furious loads his gun twice to shot at the robber.
  
  
• Continuity: When Doughboy says to pick Chris up, he jumps from the porch to the wheelchair between shots.
  
  

• Miscellaneous: During the scene on Crenshaw Bl., when Ferris shoots into the air and the crowd scatters, you can see Ricky tripping over and almost getting run over by Doughboy's car.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of blood in Ricky's trousers after he is shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Furious is talking to Little Chris about raking his leaves, Chris is kneeling on his skateboard. In the next shot he is standing up holding it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tre is raking the leaves, his lawn is green. When he leaved the house the next day, the lawn is dead.
  
  
• Continuity: Furious shoots two holes in his door when the intruder breaks into his house. When Tre leaves the house the next day, there are no holes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ricky's recruiter is about to leave, Ricky taps him on the shoulder, then puts his arm down. In the next shot you see Ricky tapping him again on the shoulder.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: There are already bullet holes and blood on Ricky's shirt just before he gets shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The gun that was used to play Duck Hunt didn't have a cord coming from it. Also, it looked nothing like any of the Nintendo "Zappers", which also didn't have the kind of trigger shown in the film.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Furious and Trey are driving back from fishing, film trucks are visible. John Singleton later said that there was not time to move them before shooting the scene.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The California license plate on Furious Styles' VW Beetle in the 1984 scenes was not available until 1987.
  
  
• Anachronisms: During the flashback to 1984 when Trey and his father are driving down the street, there is a 1986-89 model Honda Accord at an intersection as they drive by.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Trey and Ricky are on their way to school in the morning, the camera rig is visible on the driver's side of the car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ricky is a child at the beginning, the gang member asks for the football so he can give it back to Ricky. He had the football a second earlier.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Doughboy is being taken to juvenile, a camera shadow falls across Ricky.
  
  

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