CASPER
1. In one scene, Eric is on the floor on his hands and knees in a heavy-looking suit of armor. Later, he gets up and is seen running through the hallway. When the scene changes and we finish the running sequence, he’s no longer in the armor! Armor takes a long time (if its real, of course ;) ) to put on and off, so how did he manage that? (Perhaps he is SUPER DIBS!!!!)
2. In the first part of the movie, Casper’s hand goes right through Kat’s, yet later the ghost of Carageen somehow "punches" Eric way up into the air and out of the window. First off, no one, not even a ghost, would be that strong to do that. And second, if ghosts cannot really "feel" us, then how could she have punched him at all? Why didn’t her punch just go right through him?
3. When Dibs and Carrigan enter Whipstaff for the first time, Eric pulls out his lighter and uses it like a sort of torch. However, for one tiny lighter, it doesn't give off very much light. The lighting crew lit him and Carrigan up WAY too much, lit one side of his arm that should have been in shadows, and the actual lights casting on them came a few seconds after he'd already turned on the lighter itself.
4. Why was Dibs carrying a lighter anyways when his character doesn't smoke? (And neither does Eric, for that matter.)
5. In the scene with the construction workers, Carrigan at one point yells, "Dibs, do something!" and Eric leans on the lever and falls over and the destruction ball goes flying through the air and hits the car. If you watch the Behind The Scenes VERY closely on the DVD, you will see that Eric falls onto a blueish mat to break his fall. Now, knowing that, if you watch the scene again, you will notice that after he falls, one of his legs comes springing back up again into the shot, then falls once more. This is caused by the impact of him hitting the sponge-like mat- even though the intended effect in the film is that he simply fell over onto hard ground, in which the leg would not have sprung back.
6. On the night of the Halloween dance, Dibs goes through a series of clothes changes. First, he's in a suit with a red tie. Later on that suit gets a bit mangled up. Later on it gets mangled up even more. Then, even later on, he comes down in the moving chair by himself, holding the red potion bottle, and the suit's blazer has been ditched, and he is adorned in a vest instead. He falls into some water. Then, in the last scene we see him in, the vest and tie are both now gone, and he has his sleeves rolled up, and a watch is exposed, and he's wearing overalls!
SCREAM TEAM
1. In one scene, Coffin Ed (Eric) is trying to grasp the rope to help pull the girl up out of the pit, but he can’t because he is a ghost and his hands go right through it. However, later in the movie he goes inside a house and unlocks the door from the inside by pulling the handle. How could he pull the handle but not grasp the rope?
THE NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION
1. When we first see Eric (after the bicycle crash), Clark’s wife tries to touch Eric’s left knee, and he screams and she says that it may be broken. At the end of that scene as he is dragging his bicycle away and favoring his left leg very badly. However, when we meet with Eric the second time at the Rome hotel, he has a cast on his RIGHT leg! Wouldn’t it be his left leg that had the cast, since it was his left that he was limping on and complaining about? And how did all those cuts and bruises heal so quickly?
2. After Clark runs into Eric on his bicycle, he asks him how to get to the hotel. Now, if you remember, just minutes before it showed the family LEAVING the hotel. Why in the heck would they be asking how to get back when they just came from it??? Was the scene sequenced wrong, or was it a mistake in the script?
3. When Clark is chasing after his wife, he runs his car into a fountain where Eric is sitting and knocks Eric over. Clark then jumps out of his car and grabs Eric by the shirt as if he is going to punch him. When Eric first comes up out of the water, his hair is sopping wet and pasted to his head. However, a minute later, his hair is halfway dry and starting to be fluffy again, as if been combed.
THE RUTLES
1. In one part of the movie, Eric as the Narrator explains that a rumor has been going about that Stig was dead and it showed the cover of their album with Stig wearing no pants, aka, representing to be dead. However, it is common Beatle knowledge that when the Beatles showed the cover of their album, they were faking Paul’s death. Eric’s character Dirk was representing the Beatle Paul, so why wasn’t Dirk the one who was rumored to be dead?
2. Stig is the one rumored to be dead, and yet, Dirk is still barefoot!
3. Eric's character, Dirk, plays left-handed bass guitar to simulate Paul. However, if you watch the Rutles closely, it looks quite fake because even Eric himself admitted in the commentary that he'd never played left-handed before in his life.
4. In more of the beginning of the movie, it shows all the Rutles joking about tea. However, later on in the movie, it talks about how it was just discovered that they were drinking tea and how tea drinking was becoming an obsession. So it is inconsistent with the beginning of the film.
5. Eric plays the bass guitar left-handed like Paul, but when he signs autographs, he's doing it with his right!
6. When the Rutles are getting out of the Bognar Express train, the camera-man Gary Weis has his camera filming when he gets out of the train.
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
1. In the Burn The Witch scene, when the crowd is asked why witches burn, you can see Eric trying his best not to burst out laughing. To stop himself from doing so, he bites his sidle that he is carrying. This isn’t exactly a mistake, just a cute notice! :)
2. In the Killer Rabbit scene, you see Sir Robin with his helmet on, fighting, and then a second later he's on the ground and the helmet is off.
3. When the cow is tossed over the French castle, you see Eric crouching down and covering himself with his shield, but as the camera changes he is in a completely different position and is running away.
4. Why do Eric's characters get killed the most out of all the Pythons?
5. In the scene inside the Cave of Death, Eric reads the 'Last Words of Joseph of Arimathea'. As he reads them, his eyes go from left to right. If it was Aramaic like he said, he would read it from right to left.
102 DALMATIONS
1. In one scene where the Orient Express is leaving for Paris, Oddball fell off of the train. Waddlesworth, the parrot Eric did the voice for, suddenly flew, for the first time ever, and picked up Oddball by her collar and dropped her into the train. Now, I know it was computer animation, but honestly, what bird would be strong enough to lift a puppy and fly with it? Do they really expect us to believe that? LOL
DUDLEY DO-RIGHT
1. If Kim Darling (Eric) really did find gold and became famous and went on network television, then what did he do with the money he got from the gold? Did he spend it all on drinks, or did he buy that chainsaw? And what in bloody hell WAS the family tradition about chainsaws all about anyways???
2. The announcer said that Kim had an extensive Pokemon collection. One, where in the heck would you get Pokemon cards where Kim lived, and two, how did he get the money to buy them? Trading cards are expensive!!!
3. When we first meet Kim, his teeth are yellow. Later in the film during the "Three Trials" scenes, his teeth are black. In the end of the film, his teeth are pure white! Very inconsistent.
ELLA ENCHANTED
1. The film Ella Enchanted is supposed to be fantasy and medieval based. You don't really see anyone in modern day clothes (except maybe Lucinda, but we won't go into that) and everyone is using horses and carriages for transportation. However, at the very beginning of the film, the first time we see Eric, he is riding a bicycle. Now you must ask yourself, why is he riding a bicycle when everyone else is on horses??? Isn't this supposed to be medieval?
2. For the end dancing sequence, just about every character or person in the movie was dancing BUT Eric. I call that unfair!!!
3. The first time we see Eric, he's on a medieval version of a bicycle. At the end of his little narration, he throws a newspaper at the house. The newspaper hits off a rose hanging from the house. Just after Eric throws it, you can kind of see him sliding off his seat. The director said that he fell off his bike!
SPLITTING HEIRS
1. When we first meet Eric's character, Tommy, his Asian family is calling him Randy, and yet he still calls himself Tommy even before he found out he was adopted. Does this make sense to anyone?
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION 2
1. When we first see Eric, we just barely catch a glimpse of him putting his luggage onto the belt for the x-ray machine. However, long after the Griswald family get their tickets and such, Eric is STILL at the machine, putting things on!
2. When they are flying on the airplane, Eddie kicks Eric's seat, breaks it, and Eric gets thrown and hits the seat ahead of him. However, why wasn't he wearing a seatbelt?
THE LIFE OF BRIAN
1. In the last scene during the while Brian and the others are singing you can see a tourist walking in the background.
2. When Stan says he wants to be a woman at the coliseum, he is facing to his left. In the following shot, he is facing down and to the right.
THE MEANING OF LIFE
1. When Gaston the waiter leads the viewer to his childhood home, he wears his napkin over the same arm throughout except for one shot, when it suddenly changes to the other arm and then back again.
2. During the Galaxy Song Eric and Terry are walking away from the kitchen, but in the next front shot the kitchen isn't in the background.
3. Throughout the Galaxy Song, the mouths don't match some words.
4. At the end of the Galaxy Song when they walk out of the stars and back into the house, you can see the thing that they've been standing on.
5. When Eric gets back into the fridge at the end of The Galaxy Song, the noise of the fridge door sounds before the door actually shuts.
6. At one point, like in The Holy Grail, Eric can't control his laughter. It's in the WWI scene where all the Pythons are in the trench, and Idle keeps giving clocks to Jones. When Eric gets shot, Palin like makes his body slump forward then back, and one of the times when he gets slung back, Eric giggles uncontrollably.
THE RUTLES 2
1. In one scene where Eric is in different cities, it displays the names of the cities on the corner of the screen. At one part, it changes from Manhattan to Hollywood, but the title doesn't change until a good few seconds after Eric has already started talking again.
2. One time when Eric is 'fighting' with Jimmy Fallon, Fallon walks into the background of the scene and starts yelling. A moment later, it is supposed to be the same scene, but you can tell it's a different shot/take.
NUNS ON THE RUN
1. When Eric is crawling through the window to get back into the nunnery, the window falls on top of him, and he lets out a little 'urgh' sound. The window falling wasn't actually part of the film- it just happened, and they kept on filming.
2. When Faith keeps slapping Eric repeatedly in the hospital scene, they make it sound like (and he acts like) that she's hitting him pretty hard. However, they keep doing close-ups of him after she hits him, and there's never a mark of a handprint.
ERIC IDLE'S PERSONAL BEST
1. As the camera zooms onto the TV with Sit On My Face, you can see two people walking on the stage.
THE MIKADO
1. If you look closely, you can see tuffs of Eric's blonde hair poking out from underneath his Ko-Ko wig.
2. Numerous times during the play, a cameraman walks into the view of another camera.
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