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At the Wichita airport, when Neal is on the phone trying to book a motel room, daylight can be seen through the glass doors, even though it's supposed to be late at night.

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When traveling by car, Del adjusts his passenger seat via power controls while complaining about the position. Later when he is driving, he catches his parka on the controls but now they are manual controls.

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The police officer who pulls Del over for speeding has a Wisconsin State Patrol patch on his coat, when they are supposed to be traveling from St. Louis to Chicago.

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On the bus the child running up and down the aisle accidentally conks the woman sitting in the front seat hard on top of her head with the handle of the toy he is playing with. Watch her eyes to see both how startled she was and also, to her credit, how determined she was not to let it show.

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When Neal and Del are driving on the wrong side of the highway a couple in a gray car try to yell to them that they are going the wrong way. They

are supposed to be traveling at highway speeds, but close up on the couple clearly shows the car is in park.

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Neal's plane ticket claims that he'll leave from JFK Airport, but with the information board in New York and the arrival board in Chicago, Neal is actually departing from LaGuardia Airport.

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Revealing mistakes

When the L train is coming back to the station at the end of the movie there is an aerial view of the actual train which uses reversed footage. On the ground below you see (very quickly) a person walking backwards.

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When the two men are driving the burned-hull car, they appear to be stopped by a Wisconsin State Trooper. However, if they are driving from St. Louis to Chicago, there should be no need to go through Wisconsin. I-55 should be a direct route from St. Louis to Chicago.

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When Del and Neal arrive in Saint Louis by Bus there is an exterior shot of a Trailways Bus Terminal. This Bus Terminal is actually the one in Chicago in fact it happens to be the same one seen in The Blues Brothers.

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When driving down the highway, the road has raised reflector dots. Reflector dots are not used in the Midwest because the snow plows would rip them right out of the road.

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When the Semi truck they are riding in approaches Chicago and it shows the skyline, it is showing the architecture of Sears Tower as if looking at it from the Southeast. There is no highway that comes from the southeast, that would be in the lake. Other visible buildings are in fact facing another direction than what they are in the movie.

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Errors in geography

Arial shot shows Dell and Neil arriving on the bus into St. Louis by traveling over a Mississippi River bridge. However, they would have been coming from the west, not over the river from Illinois.

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When Neal Page is dropped off at the car rental parking lot, he looks for his parking space, V5. When he is looking, the camera is reflected in the back of one of the cars.

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Crew or equipment visible

When Neal calls home to tell his wife he is delayed, while they are sitting at the table, a woman's head and shoulders are visible holding the toddler on the chair (Pan and Scan version only)

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After the car drives in between the tractor trailers, Del slams on his brakes, then turns his car around 180 degrees and pulls over. Next to the car is a sign that says, Chicago 102 miles, which means they were driving away from Chicago in the first place.

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The rental car that the men travel in would appear to have a fully electrically adjustable passenger seat, yet a drivers seat with manual levers and knobs.

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In the room at the Braidwood Inn, when Neal storms up out of bed because Del snorting his nose. Neal goes to the closet and puts on a striped white shirt. The camera flips to Del, then back to Neal and Neal is wearing a plain white shirt without stripes.

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After Del and Neal drive their rented car between and sideswipe the two semi trucks it is shown that Del has bent the top of the steering wheel down, nearly in half. In subsequent shots, after the car fire, the steering wheel is shown again as being fully round. This is especially noticeable when Del drives the car out of the motel room after backing into the room.

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When boarding the plane in New York, Neal is informed that his seat number is 13C, which is an aisle seat, but in the next scene Neal is seated in the center seat.

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Despite his complaints about not being able to change clothes at the end of the film Neal's attire seems to be freshly cleaned and pressed.

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When the train breaks down Dell is see dragging his trunk away from the train lid side up. Next shot of trunk it is upside-down then right side up and finally when Neal grabs it upside-down again. Dell also has many more people right next to him when Dell grabs the trunk than the immediately preceding shot.

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After Neil yells at Del Griffith in the Wichita motel, it shows Del Griffith sit back down on the bed with the lamp behind him turned on, then it goes to a shot of Neil, but when it goes back to Del Griffith the lamp is turned off

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Outside the Braidwood Inn, Neal tells Del that he has a Visa Card, a gasoline card and a Neiman Marcus Card. However, earlier when they check into the motel, Neal pays with a Diner's Club International card.

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When John Candy arrives to pick Steve Martin up in the semi truck in the end of the movie he has a black eye. There is no scene depicting it or explanation as to why or how he got it. It's never mentioned, but he has it the last 20 minutes of the movie.

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When Neal first arrives at the Mid-Central Airlines waiting area at JFK Airport, the flight information display (on the wall behind the ticket counter) indicates that Flight 909 is bound for Chicago. A few minutes later, at the Mid-Central ticket counter in Mid Continent Airport in Wichita, KS, the flight information display indicates a destination of "Nowhere" for this flight, instead of "Chicago", despite the flight still showing as "delayed".

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When Neil and Del are on the bus to St. Louis and Neil starts singing, they are clearly driving through an area without trees. But when everyone turns back to look at him they are surrounded by trees and when they go back to Neil and Del, there are no trees to be seen.

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When Neal Page and Del Griffith check into their hotel room at the Braidwood Inn, Neal notices that they have to sleep together in a queen sized bed. Yet they wake up in each other's arms sleeping on a twin or full sized bed.

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Del and Neal's departing flight is clearly an American Airlines twin-engine jet taxiing on the runway. An exterior shot of their plane in flight shows a four-engine, earlier generation 707 jet with a red and white paint job more TWA-esque in color scheme.

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While sitting and waiting for a ride to the train station, Neal is wearing black snow boots, when throughout the film he is always wearing dress shoes.

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The length of Dell's cigarette when in the restaurant. (When Neil is about to tell him that he wants to travel alone.)

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When Neal chases after his cab, his brief case and garment bag switch hands a few times.

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When Neal is walking from the parking lot (where his rented car should be) to the main terminal, a brief clipping indicates that the sun is going down. However, when Neal is at the terminal, it appears to be mid-afternoon.