Meet the Parents Goofs, Mistakes and Bloopers

Meet the Parents Goofs, Mistakes and Bloopers

Meet the Parents Movie Details

Meet the Parents taglines:First comes love. Then comes the interrogation.
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Actors:
  • John Elsen
  • Robert De Niro Jack Byrnes
    Ben Stiller Gaylord ‘Greg’ Focker
    Teri Polo Pam Byrnes
    Blythe Danner Dina Byrnes
    Nicole De Huff Deborah Byrnes
    Jon Abrahams Denny Byrnes
    Owen Wilson Kevin Rawley
    James Rebhorn Dr. Larry Banks
    Thomas McCarthy Dr. Bob Banks
    Phyllis George Linda Banks
    Kali Rocha Atlantic American Flight Attendant
    Bernie Sheredy Norm the Interrogator
    Judah Friedlander Pharmacy Clerk
    Peter Bartlett Animal Shelter Worker
    Chicago Airport Security
    Directors: Jay Roach
    IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 out of 80,152 votes

    “Meet the Parents” 2000 by Jay Roach – Movie Goofs

    “Meet the Parents” Plot Summary

    Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend’s parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date’s worst nightmare. add synopsis

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    “Meet the Parents” Goofs List

    • Revealing mistakes: The information on the ticket agent’s computer display is actually on a decal, and misapplied at that; air bubbles are visible in the upper right corner.
    • Continuity: During the scene in front of the TV, the flowers he gave the parents keep moving around the table.
    • Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Greg is trying to get a plane ticket the clicking noises continue even though the ticket agent is clearly not typing (although it’s so obvious, it’s probably a joke).
    • Continuity: While trying to get his bag into the compartment, a man tries to push past Greg, which causes him to yell “where’s the fire?” Annoyed, the passenger sits in the seat in front of him. However, when Greg is being dragged out of the plane you can clearly see the same man sitting in the seats in the terminal, as though he had been there all along.
    • Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the airport, Jack uses his thumbs to take Greg’s pulse. Thumbs cannot be used to take a person’s pulse because your own pulse can be felt in your thumbs. Presumably both Greg and Jack would know this, but it could have been a trick to distract Greg from the signs Jack was really reading (sweat, eye contact, etc.).
    • Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Debbie Byrnes appears to have a broken nose when hit by the spiked volleyball. She ends up with a black eye, but this is a common side effect of a broken nose.
    • Plot holes: When Greg jumps back in the house from the roof after setting the backyard on fire, his heel obviously breaks the window and it comes crashing down. This would have lead to an early discovery of the culprit had it been pursued.
    • Continuity: The bow on the top of Greg’s gift during the trip to the Byrnes house.
    • Continuity: When Greg stumbles into Jack’s office, the lava lamp in the bottom left hand corner of the screen is just warming up (the wax is set in a single column in the liquid). A couple of seconds later, it’s working normally, with globs of wax floating up and down.
    • Continuity: On the way to Pam’s parents’ house, she opens the gift box. This gives the impression that the top and body of the box have been wrapped separately so that you can just open the lid. Later, when Dina opens the package she has to unwrap it like a normal flip-top box.
    • Continuity: Seat belt in the back seat of Greg’s car during the race.
    • Continuity: Headrests are clearly missing in both vehicles during the race between Greg and Jack after leaving the restaurant. When they arrive at the house and everyone exits the vehicle to go inside except Greg, a wide camera shot behind the parked vehicles clearly shows a headrest on the driver’s seat in the Mercedes Benz which Greg is sitting in.
    • Continuity: When Jack is about to read his poem at the dinner table, his reading glasses are on his face instantly. The camera does leave his face for an instant, but paper is heard shuffling the whole time, so he wouldn’t have had time to put on glasses.
    • Continuity: When Greg is speaking with Pam for the first time in the movie, the collar of his coat is alternately up and down between shots.
    • Continuity: When Greg and Pam are dancing, their arms change position between shots.
    • Continuity: During the scene where Jack is showing Greg and Pam about his new business, the ice and contents of Greg’s glass on the table change between shots.
    • Continuity: When Gregg proposes to Pam, her necklace changes positions after each shot.
    • Continuity: When Greg is accusing Jack of being in the CIA etc, we see Jack take his arm off of Pam’s shoulder. When we cut back his arm is back around her shoulder.
    • Continuity: When Greg and Pam are discussing Top Gun (1986) in Greg’s room, Greg is wearing a hooded top and Pam wraps her arms around his neck. Pam’s arms are on top of the hood, or under the hood, depending on the shot.
    • Continuity: In the airport interrogation scene, the lighted area on the table in front of Greg changes shape between shots.
    • Continuity: When presenting the bottle of champagne at dinner, in the first angle, Greg is holding the bottle in his left hand with his right hand around the neck. In the second angle, his hands are reversed.
    • Factual errors: Jack’s Thai is so bad that there is no way any Thai person would be able to follow it.
    • Continuity: When Greg enters the kennel to find Mr. Jinx, there is a quick shot of the “imposter cat” and its entire tail is gray. On the next shot of the cat, only the tip of the tail is gray.
    • Continuity: The position of Pam’s left arm when she and Greg are dancing at the wedding party.
    • Continuity: The positions of the broken pieces of the urn change between shots.
    • Continuity: Near the end of the movie, Jack calls a source and learns that Greg is leaving on flight 27. As Greg attempts to board the plane, a sign above the gate indicates a different, three-digit, flight number.
    • Continuity: When Greg is trying to get on the plane at the end, the flight attendant makes him wait until his row is called when there is clearly no one else waiting to board. But when Greg does board the plane, it is almost full and there are still people coming on behind him.
    • Continuity: When Jack is crying about his poem, Pam pats his arm then moves it away to take a sip of wine and puts both hands down on her lap. When we cut back to Jack immediately afterwards, we see Pam moving away from his arm again, even though her hands had been on her lap.
    • Continuity: While Jack explains his new business, the amount of sunlight behind Greg and Pam varies between shots, going from light to dark and back again.
    • Continuity: As Greg accuses Jack of still being a part of the CIA, Pam’s hair is parted on the right. A few seconds later, as Greg becomes angry and leaves for the airport, Pam’s hair is parted on the left as they go outside.
    • Continuity: Jack watches a tape of Greg in which Greg mentions Denny and hints at Denny’s drug use. However, the tape is of Greg’s first night at the house. Greg didn’t meet Denny until his second day at the house.
    • Continuity: When Greg is on the roof, the camera reveals the cat dangling over Jack’s head and the porch is 10 feet or more to the right. Greg drops the cat onto the sidewalk. In the next shot of Greg, he kicks at the gutter, it falls, and Greg drops onto the middle of the porch roof quite a bit to the right.
    • Continuity: Towards the end, Greg is forced to wait his turn to board the plane even when there are no other passenger around him. When he is shown inside the plane there are a lot of passengers both in front of him and behind him.
    • Miscellaneous: During the dinner scene, as Greg presents the cheap bottle of champagne, the mother calls him Rick. The closed captioning even reads as “That is so sweet of you, Rick.”
    • Factual errors: Jack’s deception revolves around trying to get the passports of Debbie and her fiance Thai visas for their honeymoon on Koh Samui. Americans don’t need a visa to travel to Thailand. They are given 30 days visa-free on entering the country, certainly long enough for a honeymoon.
    • Crew or equipment visible: When Greg is on the roof he jumps down and in the window behind him you can see a face looking outside.
    • Continuity: When Jack introduces Greg to Mr. Jinx, the cat changes many times between shots (from being a fat/hairy cat to a smaller one).
    • Continuity: When Greg is at the Drug store counter he asks if they have any nicotine patches. He is told that they don’t but that they do have the gum. When the guy takes the gum off the shelf, it is next to boxes of Nicorette patches.
    • Factual errors: Contrary to what Jack believes, it is in fact possible for cats to flush toilets with the levers shown in the film.
    • Factual errors: Greg buys a bottle of champagne in the Oyster Bay drug store. In New York State, where the film is set, champagne is not sold in drug stores.
    • Continuity: When Jack is on the phone speaking in Thai, he is shown wearing only a long sleeve collared shirt. Greg at this time has the cat by the collar hanging from the house. When the cat lands on the ground, Jack is shown walking into the house with the tails of a tan jacket visible.
    • Continuity: At the end of the movie when Jack is watching the film to see if Greg really did flush the toilet the nanny cameras around the room comes on depending on where he is. Earlier in the movie Jack said the nanny cameras start taping as soon as they sense any movement. However, when Greg goes into the bathroom the camera switches about a second before he opens th
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