Continuity: At the cut to the close shot during the motorcade down Pennsylvania Avenue, the buildings along the street vanish, leaving Pres. Camacho's bike and the bus against an empty sky. They reappear at the cut back to the long shot.
Miscellaneous: On the back of the DVD case Luke Wilson's character's name is spelled Joe Bowers, while in the end credits it is spelled Joe Bauers.
Revealing mistakes: In the crop field, when the Secretary of Education fires the machine gun on the top of the truck, its feeding belt doesn't move.
Continuity: When Joe is put to sleep in the hibernation pod he has IV tubes in his arms. When the pod opens again and he gets out there are no IV tubes.
Revealing mistakes: When Joe first gets out of his coffin after it crashes into Frito's apartment, the garbage piled on the lid stays attached when it is raised, giving away that it is glued there.
Continuity: During the Costco scene when Joe first sees the Starbucks the sign says Latte: $2,000 Extra foam: $500,000,000. In the next scene however, the sign says Latte: $200 "Hot" latte: $2,000 "Full body" latte: $50,000.
Factual errors: During the scene in which the narrator states that the average IQ of mankind dropped drastically over time, they did not take into account that the average IQ of mankind is always 100, with test results adjusted to keep 100 as the center value. The average IQ graph should have been a flat line staying at 100 points.