Goofs for Fight Club

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Tyler *69s the Narrator at the payphone. While all the Paper Street house phones are rotary, you can dial "1169" from a rotary phone with the same effect; it's likely that Tyler would still refer to this as "*69." And while *69 might not work on a pay phone, this scene is not entirely as it seems, for reasons that become clear by the end of the movie.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Tyler splices porno frames into family films, the audio track would have only a barely noticeable 1/24 second interruption (as shown) and would stay in sync. However, the flash and sound are shown simultaneously, when in fact, if they were on the same frame, they would be about 3/4 seconds apart. The sound for a 35mm film is read by a head located about a foot past the projection lamp, so the soundtrack for a given frame is also located about a foot past the frame. (Incidentally, the splice is not necessarily at a changeover point; those are discussed only to explain why a projectionist must be present.)
  
  
• Continuity: When the Narrator is quitting his job, the thermostat changes between silver and black as the shot cuts back and forth between the Narrator and his boss. Also, the distance between the chair and desk with files on it in the background changes between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: When Tyler throws the Narrator down the stairs, the event is supposedly caught on a security camera. When you see the footage at the security desk the camera that was supposed to have filmed the fight is visible in the security footage. The event is shown from an angle where there's no camera on the wall.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the narrator talks to his doctor, the x-ray on the wall behind him is not only back-to-front, but also upside-down, though we have one claim this is a common real-world error.
  
  
• Continuity: Blood on Tyler's face early on during his fight with Lou the bar owner.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When a Fight Club member sprays the priest with a hose, the camera briefly shakes. This happens because the cameraman couldn't keep himself from laughing.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the fight scene in the garage between Tyler and the narrator, the concrete wall moves when the narrator is thrown against it.
  
  
• Continuity: In the talk between Tyler and the narrator after the first lovemaking of Tyler & Marla, Tyler's cigarette switches from burning to not burning to burning again.
  
  
• Continuity: The sweat around the Narrator's collar when he's in the dry cleaner's looking for Tyler.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight in the garage, Tyler puts the narrator's head through the passenger side mirror of a van. The mirror then changes position when Tyler looks in it.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the Narrator is getting off the table in the police station after getting the gun, the wireless mic pack is visible and connected to his underpants.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After the scene in the bathroom where "Tyler" threatens the police chief, you see Meat Loaf's character's trousers fall down, revealing the body suit he was wearing.
  
  
• Continuity: When The Narrator is lying in bed reading a magazine listening to Tyler and Marla have sex upstairs, there is a copy of BusinessWeek on the table next to his bed with the cover "The Technology Paradox." In the next shot, there is a close-up of the magazine with water dripping on it with the cover "The Best and The Worst Boards."
  
  
• Continuity: When the Narrator is breaking into the building (near the end of the movie), Jack slams a bench into the glass door, which rebounds a little bit and hits him. He eventually shoots the door he tried ramming, and when he kicks the glass and goes through, the bench is gone.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Tyler is urinating in the soup, the boom microphone becomes visible as it moves to allow him to talk into it.
  
  
• Continuity: At any given point in the movie after Tyler gives the Narrator a scar on one of his hands it is not present or is on the wrong hand.
  
  
• Continuity: When the narrator is in the police interrogation room at the end of the movie with the detectives, the sweat on the neck of his shirt changes from shot to shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Narrator hangs up after calling Tyler in the phone booth, the phone is put in the wrong position. But when the phone rings, it's in the right position again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lou is punching Tyler, Lou punches once and there is blood, it shows Tyler again and there is no blood, and then blood again when he gets punched the second time.
  
  
• Continuity: When the narrator is in the bathroom whistling, you can see he has a black eye on his right side, when the previous scene it shows him getting punched in the left eye.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: In the scene depicting Tyler cutting out various news clippings about the exploits of Fight Club/Project Mayhem all of the articles feature the same few paragraphs, and none of them have anything to do with the title of the article.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When the narrator is being held down on the table at the police station, a boom mike is visible at the top of the screen for a few seconds.
  
  
• Continuity: When Jack is firing at Tyler through the glass after trying to ram the door with the chair, there are no bullet-holes on the wall behind.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene, when Tyler looks outside the window, the projector that lights his gun is on at first, but seconds later it's off, without anyone touching it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Lou of "Lou's Tavern" is beating Tyler Durden, we hear Lou's bodyguard cock this pistol. A second later we see the hammer of the pistol uncocked.

Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the scene when Project Mayhem is returning from destroying the Starbucks, Bob is shown in a sequence of being shot in the head, and they uncover his body, showing a massive exit wound. There are two problems with this. In the flashback sequence when he is shot, the police officer is clearly behind him when shooting, and Bob shoots forward chest first, as if getting shot in the back. The second problem is, if shot in the head, most standard police pistols carry 8-9mm rounds. Number one, even if he were shot in the back of the head, the bullet would not create an entrance wound anywhere near that size. Secondly, because he was supposedly shot from the front, there is no possible way that the bullet would create that large of an exit wound.