Gaffes

The pancake Vivian eats was, for most of the scene, a croissant. Director Garry Marshall said he liked the performance she gave in the latter part of the scene better, so the croissant magically becomes a pancake, which she began to eat as they did more takes. While this may be the case, there is still a continuity issue. In the first scene with the pancake, she takes a second bite. In the next scene with the pancake in her hand, there is only one bite missing. Not only that, but the pancake with one bite missing has a different bite pattern and is clearly a different pancake.

When Vivian and Edward first enter the penthouse suite, the curtains onto the balcony are pale. The next morning at breakfast they are blue.

When they leave the opera and go to the park, Vivian removes Edward's shoes, but when he starts to lay down, the shoes reappear.

When Edward gives Barney the ruby necklace and earring set to be returned to the jeweller, a large ruby is missing from the front of one of the earrings.

When Vivian offer Edward a choice of condoms, she holds four colored condoms (other than the gold circle condom). In one shot, Vivian holds the condoms in a certain order. In the next shot, they are in a different order, and then in the third shot they are back in the same order as in the first shot.

Vivian says the Lotus Esprit has a standard H pattern gearbox, but the X180 Esprit has a five-speed gearbox, not a four-speed.

When Vivian sings "Kiss" in the tub, the lyrics are out of order.

When Vivian finds Edward sleeping, she wears a long white nightgown when she comes in the room. She kisses him and they begin to make love. When Edward pulls her nightgown over her head, it is now a camisole. Actually the mid-length nightgown has spaghetti straps and she removes it herself, with him on top of her, making it hard to see what she removes but it looked like the same garment.

After getting out of the shower, Vivian, in her bathrobe, jumps on the bed revealing that the bottoms of her feet aren't clean; but since her hair is wet and she wears a bathrobe, it is obvious she has just taken a shower.

Vivian walked from the shower to the bed barefoot. Unlike carpet, which stays clean even with once a week vacuuming, hardwood floors track surface dirt as soon as they've been mopped. Within a couple of hours, especially with ventilation such as the fan or air-condition running, dirt has piled on fast on those unhygienic floors.

When Vivian leaves the penthouse, there is a closeup of the bills on the bed showing there are 15-16 $100 bills. The stack should have 30 $100 bills.

The deal was for $3000 for Vivian to stay the entire week. As she was leaving well before the full week was up, Edward was giving her what he owed her for those few days.

When flying from Los Angeles to go to the opera in San Francisco, the plane takes off in broad daylight. As they ascend, and the pilot comments that it should be a smooth flight, the sun is setting. By the time they land, it is night. You can drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco faster than that.

They clearly left at twilight.

When first seen in bed, Vivian wears bikini panties. When she rolls over, the line of an elastic band is visible across her stomach, revealing that Julia Roberts (or her body double) changed from briefs to the fancy underwear just before the scene.

At the end when Vivian leaves, Edward and she sit on the steps. Edward hands her some cash in $100 bills. It is supposed to be $3000, but the amount appears to be around $1500. This is most likely because the director realized that when Vivian folded the money to put in her purse, $3000 would have been too thick and bulky.

When Edward pays Vivian for the week, there are 11-12 $100 bills. The total amount that was agreed for the week was $3000, which would require 30 $100 bills.

When Edward is in his office, a crew member with a reflector board is reflected in the window.

In the beginning when Edward talks to Jessica on the phone, you can see a reflection in the glass of a crew member to the right of Edward.

Near the end of the movie, as Edward walks back into the penthouse from looking over the balcony, a reflection of a crew member is briefly seen in the right panel of the french doors. Crew are also seen reflected in the same door in the following scene where the bellboy collects Edward's bags.

Tire tracks from the camera vehicle can be seen in the grass in the brief shot of polo players moving toward the camera.

When Barney the hotel manager teaches Vivian table etiquette, the camera pulls back as if it's on the end of a long boom rather than a dolly. You can tell it's a long boom because of all the up and down shaking, which gets worse and worse.

In the party scene at the very beginning, if the Tokyo Stock Exchange had just opened, as Edward says, it should be late at night in Los Angeles, not the afternoon.

Supposedly flying north from Los Angeles to San Francisco, the plane is shown with the sun setting off the starboard wing.

As Edward and Vivian approach the elevators, Edward presses the button, which lights, showing two extras are waiting for a lift they have not pressed for.

As the hotel manager goes over table manners with Vivian, he picks up the salad fork and says that salad forks have three tines. When he puts that fork back on the table you can see it has four tines, not three.

When she's in the bathtub singing "Kiss," Vivian sings the same line twice.