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Accepted (2006)

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• Crew or equipment visible: When Van Horn is riding in the golf cart, the reflection of the crew can be clearly seen on the hood of the cart.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bartelby locks Ambrose out of South Harmon the camera is reflected in the glass door.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bartleby is giving the orientation speech to all the students, the mike keeps on giving feedback, Rory is on the mixing board trying to fix the problem but there are no mikes plugged into it, or outputs coming out of it.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: When Bartleby and crew are walking into the "college" and the skateboarders come riding out, the angle changes and we see the camera men in the right of the screen.
  
  
• Continuity: The stamp on Bartelby's last rejection letter (Ohio State) changes between shots while he is opening the envelope.
  
  
• Continuity: During Schrader's "induction" into BKE, Gywnn's arm position changes between shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bartleby Gaines prints off his newly fabricated South Harmon Institute of Technology acceptance letter, the second paragraph begins with the sentence: "You are now challenged with making the every important of selecting which college or university you are going to attend."
  
  
• Continuity: When Bartleby receives the letter telling him about the meeting with the state board of accreditors, the letter says that the meeting is at 11am. But, when Bartleby and company arrive for the meeting, they tell the receptionist that their meeting is at 3pm.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sherman is in the room with the pool table, he backs into the rack holding the pool sticks and knocks them down. In the next shot back to him, there are 2 sticks and the 9-ball rack back on the rack.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bartleby takes Monica back to his room he hits himself with the door which is clearly in an open hallway and opens from the right. In the next cut the door opens from the left and is in an alcove.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the first scene at the building that would become South Harmon, when Schrader jumps aside and shrieks, you can hear the scream before his mouth begins moving.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Ambrose sets off the sprinkler system and the whole party decides to continue, nobody is electrocuted from the band instruments and equipment and such which are obviously plugged straight into the outlets.
  
  
• Continuity: When Schrader is mopping, the bucket next to the water is filled with brown paint. When the scene returns to him (and he dips his mop in the bucket) the paint is now blue.
  
  
• Continuity: When B is mowing his lawn his sweat is bumpy on his shirt but when he talk to his dad it is a straight v then when he turns back it is bumpy again
  
  
• Continuity: When Schrader is mopping, a piece of equipment behind the water and the paint bucket disappears and also a lid appears out of nowhere beside the ladder.
  
  
• Continuity: The board that all the student write the courses on throughout the movie is different from the board brought into the meeting with the state board of accreditor. The board is smaller and some of the courses that were written on the other board are not there.
  
  
• Continuity: When Monica takes picture of the whole class you can see a flash, 'though her camera doesn't have flash.
  
  
• Continuity: When Monica is going to ask B to mow her lawn, her hair goes from in front of her shoulder to behind in between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When B. is giving the speech at the end to the Board of Directors, at the end of the speech he throws the chair that is in front of him onto the ground. In the next scene you can see the chair still in front of him, then you see someone picking it up off the ground.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the fire alarm is activated at the party all the sprinkler heads activate and spray water. Automatic sprinklers use a metal alloy with a low melting point to govern activation. Only heat can activate a sprinkler head.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hands throws the cheques on the table in front of Sherman, the movie goes on with the group discussing what they are going to do. Whenever the screen shot is back on Sherman, during the discussion, the pile of cheques are always in a different spot on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bartleby is about to kiss Monica in his room, he leans his head to the right. The camera then changes angles, and both Monica and him are kissing with their heads tilted to the left.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Although set in Ohio, there are several shots from by the pool area that show large mountains in the background, which Ohio does not have.
  
  
• Continuity: When Hands and B are sitting playing computer games, Hands' right shorts leg is above the knee, the camera angle changes and we see them still playing games from behind, when the camera moves back the shorts are now covering his knee.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In Bartleby's rejection letter from Ohio State, it says "Ohio State College." OSU would write THE Ohio State University. Also, in the same letter, it says that there is a limit to incoming freshmen of 1000, when in the 2006-2007 fall quarter, there were over 5000 freshmen. Also, the letter says he was rejected for the fall "semester" when Ohio State is on a quarter schedule. While this is all true, it is possible (and quite common) for real places, such as schools, to refuse mention in movies and TV. The result ends up being a place with a similar sounding name, like "Ohio State College", or completely made-up, like "Harmon College".
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Camera shadow on Bartleby's shirt when talking to his little sister outside the school.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where the Dean of B's University is lecturing to a large group of students in the center of the half-pipe, there is a black "X" near his feet (his mark), but in the very next scene it has been removed.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Though they have an appointment at the Board of Accreditation, they show up at the Board of Education for the hearing.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: The return address on the letter states the Board of Accreditation is in Harmon, OH when in actuality all state offices would be in Columbus, OH.
  
  
• Errors in geography: It’s supposed to be October in Ohio but there are blooming flowers and palm trees visible in several outdoor shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When B goes to see Sherman Schrader after gets beat up by the BKE, his bruises are seen, the next day at the meeting he has no bruises.
  
  

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