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UHF (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Philo is putting the camera in the ceiling of R.J. Fletcher's office, we see a pencil in his mouth. In the next shot, the pencil's gone.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Joe Earley loses his thumb in the table saw and lifts his arm to examine the wound, briefly his thumb can be seen bent underneath his hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When interviewing the shop teacher, the amount of blood on George's shirt changes from shot to shot after being sprayed by the stump.
  
  

• Continuity: Just after George gets the rest of the money he needs at the end of the movie, Kuni repeatedly moves from setting off the switch on the fireworks to standing with the rest of the crowd between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Indiana Jones cuts off the left arm of the gunman, but when we see the fake arm lying on the ground it has a right hand. This mistake is mentioned on the DVD commentary.
  
  
• Continuity: When Philo gives the two wires to George, he wears a glove on his left hand. In the shot where he corrects the distance between the wires, the glove is gone.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When we see the apartment from outside, a car drives in front of the camera, and the camera, the cameraman, and offstage actors are reflected in the side of the car.
  
  
• Continuity: When Stanley Spadowsky is tied up in the broom closet and realizes his beloved mop is in the room with the thugs, he has an orange bandana around his neck. When he breaks free of his ropes and jumps out of the broom closet, the bandana disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: Before the shot in which Kuni changes the board to read $75,000, you can see the board changing to read $75,000 over the crowd in the preceding shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When the video of R.J.'s rant is played back by Philo ("This community means about as much to me..." etc.), R.J.'s phrasing at the beginning of the rant doesn't match when he's originally heard saying it earlier in the film.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: During Pamela's live report with the mayor, there is no live truck, and Noodles's camera doesn't have cables or a power supply.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening moments, a bad guy draws a gun with his left hand to shoot Weird Al in the back. Weird Al suddenly wheels around, takes his whip, and severs the bad guy's arm. The next scene shows the bad guy's right arm lying on the ground.
  
  
• Continuity: On a TV commerical for "Conan the Librarian" the time that it says the program comes on is 7:30pm. A few scenes later George is setting up the Fall UHF line up on a magnetic board - and you can see on the board that Stanley Spudosky's Club House comes on every day of the week from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
  
  
• Factual errors: The "Save Our Station" clock, which appears to be fully functional otherwise, has more than 60 tick marks around it (closer to 75). (Note: this could be a deliberate error.)
  
  
• Continuity: The staples on the face of the Head Thug change positions inbetween shoots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the Rambo sequence, George's M-60 has no ammunition loaded.
  
  
• Continuity: The way George (as Indiana Jone) holds the sandbag changes before taking the Oscar statue.
  
  
• Continuity: Stanley's hands change position on the mop when he is fired from Channel 8. Also, blue tape indicates where he is to hold it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When George is in his "Rambo" fantasy sequence, he catches a bullet with his teeth. The bullet shown is also in its shell casing, which is filled with the gunpowder that makes the bullet fire. Had the bullet actually been fired at him, it would not still be attached to the casing.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): George is essentially selling off 100% of the station in the form of stock, since $75,000 is what his Uncle valued the station at. All R.J. would need to do is send intermediaries over to the station to quietly buy a controlling interest and he could shut the station down anyway, and save some money besides. Being the cutthroat businessman that he is, he should have realized this immediately.
  
  

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