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• Continuity: Dante's beard changes because Kevin Smith asked 'Brian O'Halloran' to shave his goatee before filming started during rehearsals, then, after seeing what it looked like without it, told him to grow it back. The scenes shot earlier in the shoot show a thinner beard while the ones shot last show a thicker goatee as it had longer to grow back.
  
  
• Continuity: Disappearing "No Shoplifting" sign when Randall sells cigarettes to the little girl.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After Randal sells the cigarettes to the little girl, Dante remarks that all the prices end in nine, yet all the price tags in the shot end in five.
  
  

• Continuity: The clothes worn by the mother asking for "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup."
  
  
• Continuity: "Pringles" can disappears from counter.
  
  
• Continuity: The sign next to the door at Quickstop. It goes from saying ODA to SODA and back to ODA.
  
  
• Continuity: Veronica uses a fire extinguisher to disperse the crowd. When the gum rep tries to slink out the door, we can see the same fire extinguisher mounted on the wall next to the door.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the closing credits, a character name includes the misspelling "maturbator".
  
  
• Continuity: Different "People" magazines in the rack in different shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of Dante's Yoohoo decreases rapidly between shots while discussing Return of the Jedi with Randall. The bottle is also turned to a different view of the label upon return shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Jay's costume is different in nearly every scene in the movie because the jacket he wore on the first day of shooting was his girlfriend's and he had a hard time borrowing it for the entire length of the shooting.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the second shot of William The Idiot Boy (after Dante and Veronica stand up from behind the counter and sees William staring into space), the leg of a man can be seen moving quickly to the left-hand side of the screen - it's the clapperboard man, who didn't clear shot fast enough.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the beginning of the movie when we first meet Jay & Silent Bob the crew is briefly reflected in the windows.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In many shots towards the end of the movie, the camera and/or boom is/are reflected in the glass behind the counter.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the start of the movie, towards the end of the song. When Dante puts his head down on the counter, in the glass you can see Silent Bob, the camera and the cameraman.
  
  
• Continuity: Silent Bob's hat changes position between shots during the Olaf scene.
  
  
• Plot holes: The Administer of Fines states that the little girl was sold cigarettes at 4 that afternoon. This is impossible because the sale occurred before the hockey game, which was at 2 p.m., and Dante and Randal were at the wake at 4 p.m. (Director admitted this in DVD commentary).
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In the end credits, the song title "Big Problems" is misspelled as "Big Poblem".
  
  
• Continuity: When Dante and Randal leave the wake, it is still light outside, yet when they get back to the store, it's very dark outside.
  
  
• Factual errors: The official who hands Dante the summons claims that the charge can not be contested in a court of law. The Constitution guarantees that any matter involving at least $20 is eligible to be ruled on by a jury of the defendant's peers. Director Kevin Smith briefly acknowledges this in the commentary.
  
  
• Continuity: When Randal is ordering videos the woman with the little girl's coat keeps disappearing and reappearing.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The gum representative buys some gum so he could claim to be a customer, however when he first went in, he bought a drink, so he was a customer anyway.
  
  
• Continuity: Veronica says she'll see Dante at closing after dropping off the lasagna. After she says this, Dante makes the call to find out that the boss is in Vermont and he will be stuck there until closing. When Veronica had spoken to him, he was still expecting to leave for his hockey game.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Veronica chases the gum salesman and the customers, she says "Don't you have jobs to commute to?" She also is supposed to be in class all day. Later when Randall and Dante go to the wake, Randall says to Dante "It's 4 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon - how many people come to the store at four on a Saturday afternoon?" If it's a Saturday, how can there be classes all day, and why are the customers supposed to commute to their jobs? And we are told that the funeral is tomorrow which would be a Sunday. Funerals are not usually held on a Sunday.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the food fight, when Dante and Randal are sitting in the food and Randal is yelling at Dante while throwing candy bars at him, one of the candy bars does not make a sound when it hits Dante. Smith points this out in the 2004 commentary.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dante and Randall argue on the ground of the convenience store following their big fight, and all the food is on the ground, the "SKOR" bar placard on the shelf behind Dante disappears in one close-up shot.
  
  
• Continuity: While playing hockey and arguing with the irate customer Dante is using an Easton model hockey stick. When he takes a faceoff against that customer Dante is then using a Koho brand stick. After the customer loses the hockey ball Dante is then using the Easton stick again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The Chewlies rep's coffee cup is obviously empty when he picks it up to take a sip from it.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jay and Silent Bob enter the convenience store, and Jay is talking to Dante about how Veronica is a good girlfriend, when he says "I know she does a lot for you.", his mouth doesn't move to the same phrase.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the end of Caitlin's confrontation with Randall, notice that Jeff Anderson momentarily breaks character and admires Lisa Spoonhauer's butt as she walks away. (Kevin Smith points this out in the DVD commentary.)
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the end of the day, Bob tells Dante that there are "a million fine looking women in the world but they don't all bring you lasagna at work". Veronica brought the food all wrapped up in tin foil to the point that even Dante didn't know what it was and Bob never went into the store until closing time. In other words, Bob had no way of knowing Veronica had brought lasagna.
  
  

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