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• Continuity: When the Griswolds leave their seats on the airplane to go meet in the bathroom, one of them walks toward the front of the plane and the other walks toward the back of the plane.
  
  
• Continuity: Eddie's beer at the blackjack table.
  
  
• Continuity: When Clark plays three hands of Blackjack at once, the overhead shot shows him being dealt three hands. however, in the next shot, when Eddie has the waitress light his drink on fire, there are no cards on the table.
  
  

• Continuity: Just before Cousin Eddie's first appearance at Clark's 21 table, the dealer deals himself a blackjack. In the next camera shot, he has two face cards (a 20).
  
  
• Factual errors: When Clark is at the Blackjack table and bets $1,500, he places it in the dealer's hand. No dealer in any casino is allowed to take money out of a player's hand. It must be placed on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: When Eddie takes Clark to the "different kind of casino" there is a $20 bill on the war table. Then as they approach the table it disappears and then Clark lays the same $20 bill on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: At the buffet, Clark replaces his broccoli and carrot with a piece of celery. In the next shot the broccoli and carrot are back on the plate and the celery disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rusty won his first car, he put one coin into the slot machine. Winning the car required three coins.
  
  
• Continuity: Rusty claims he put a dollar in each of the slot machines to get a car - however the amount was never a dollar. In the first car win scene, he uses a quarter. In the second scene he uses two quarters.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Clark is onstage with Siegfried and Roy, his words do not match his lips.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Clark is missing during the Siegfried and Roy show, Rusty and Ellen have a brief exchange where neither one's lips move.
  
  
• Continuity: The spaghetti on Ellen's dress disappears between shots just after entering Rusty's suite during a party.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the mirror when Clark is talking to his wife about baccarat in the hotel room.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The Reflected in the chrome of the Griswold limousine when they are driving down the strip.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in both vehicles when the Griswolds are driving alongside the girl in the Ferrari.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflected in the passenger door of the taxi that takes Ellen to Wayne Newton's house
  
  
• Continuity: The spaghetti noodles on Ellen's shoulders after Clark crashes the tour bus into Wayne Newton's house and is talking with Ellen.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the Griswolds leave for Hoover, Clark tells Cousin Eddie that Rusty is sick and his mouth does not move.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Yellow blocking tape visible on the sidewalk when Rusty returns to the Fake I.D. Salesman.
  
  
• Continuity: The extra (wearing a striped shirt) behind the limo driver at the airport is not using coins while supposedly playing the slot machine (he is, apparently, an unauthorized extra that snuck onto the set).
  
  
• Continuity: When the fake ID salesman takes Rusty's picture, Rusty is smiling. Later, when we see the ID card, Rusty isn't smiling in the picture. Also, when the picture was taken, there was no background other than the Vegas city lights. When we see the card, there is a blue background.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Clark is at the craps table, he throws a "12 craps" on the "Come Out" roll and the dealer collects the Pass Line bets. There were chips on the Come line which not possible on the Come Out roll.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Clark is shooting craps and he gets a 7 on the Come Out Roll, the dealer should have collected all the of the losing bets in the "Come" area of each number but he does not.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Clark is shooting craps and he gets a 7 on the Come Out Roll, the Base Dealer nearest to Clark calls the number. That is the job of the stickperson. The Base Dealer near Clark is not even supposed to be looking at the other end of the table when the dice are thrown.
  
  
• Continuity: The van moves closer to the bike.
  
  
• Continuity: At breakfast, Clark picks up a glass of orange juice and takes a sip, but in the next shot it is a coffee mug that he puts back down on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: When Clark is shooting Craps, he throws the dice the first time and there are no chips on the 5 but when there is a close up (and the dealers are paying the Pass Line) there are chips on the 5.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Clarke is driving the hijacked tour bus through the wall at Wayne Newton's house, you can see damage to the front of the van before it crashes through the wall.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the tour bus crashes into Wayne Newton's house you can see that it's not Clark driving the bus nor Eddie sitting next to him.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Griswolds get ready to leave Eddie's place for Hoover Dam, Eddie gets the babysitter (the box of snakes) and yells, "Hey kids...it's round-up time." When the snakes are on the ground, you see Eddie's hands below his waist, not holding anything. In the next shot, Eddie throws an empty box over his left shoulder and says, "Where we going?"
  
  
• Continuity: When Ellen is sitting at the table in the casino with Wayne Newton, she gets up to give the piano lady a tip, but in the next shot Wayne gives her money while she is sitting down.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening credits when Clark pulls the truck into the driveway, the truck skids leaving skid marks. In the next scene the marks are gone.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Rusty if having his picture taken for the fake I.D., the Zip Code (85737) is not for Yuma Arizona, but for Tucson Arizona.
  
  
• Errors in geography: While Clark is driving home in his Expedition, he passes his house and his neighbors Margo and Todd's house several times before sliding in his driveway.
  
  
• Continuity: When Clark slammed into the Hoover Dam and waved at the family, he was holding onto a power line. In the next shot, as he was trying to climb up the dam, there was no power line.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Griswold family is playing Keno, The #80 comes up on the Keno board. The next time the Keno board is shown the #80 is not on the Keno board, then it comes up again in the following scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the Griswolds get remarried, they find out Rusty has won the cars. Each of them gets into the cars and starts driving home to Chicago, WITHOUT their luggage, they never go back to the Mirage to pick it up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Clark is using bubble gum to seal the leaks in the underground tunnel he sticks a piece of chewed gum on a piece of gum that is being inflated by water. It then cuts to Clark attempting to seal another leak and then back again and when it cuts back, there is no piece of chewed gum on the bubble.
  
  
• Continuity: When Clark, Ellen, Rusty enter the dance club to look for Audrey, when you see a view of Cousin Vicky, a couple walking behind her in front of the bar skip further ahead, although a shot of her is continuous.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Shortly after Clark leaves his airplane seat and Russ is shown alone, a fellow flyer glances directly into the camera.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ellen is talking to Catherine in the kitchen, Catherine ask Ellen for something out of the fridge and a light can clearly be seen through the crack in the door. However, later when they are all at the Hoover Dam Catherine makes the comment "I just love electricity. Eddie says we're going to get some soon."
  
  

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