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The Meaning of Life movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers

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When the title first appears, it says Monty Python's Meaning Of Liff. Douglas Adams (friend of Graham Chapman and occasional contributor to Python's last series) wrote a mock dictionary called The Meaning Of Liff about the same time. See more...

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Mistake Continuity: During The Miracle of Birth Part 1, when the guy goes into the operating room, the girl puts the gown on the first doctor. It's barely on, but, in the next, wider shot of him, it's completely on and she's tying the back together.

Mistake Revealing: Just after Mr. Creosote explodes and all of the guests are vomiting, there is one male guest third from the front that is puking, the puke comes from his hand rather from his mouth, showing that he is holding something that produces the fake vomit.

Mistake Continuity: When you see the cleaning woman in the Mr. Creosote scene, you see that she has black hair. But in the next scene when she's cleaning up and talking to the waiter, she has grey hair and a blue hat.

Mistake Audio problem: The people go looking for the guy's leg and see the tiger. When the guy says "Look", the sound comes out later than his mouth moves.

Mistake Audio problem: In the beginning when the man says "That's it Evans, you're fired", you can see Evans talk, but you can't hear him.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: At the end where everybody in Heaven is in the play room, one shot pans past the bare-breasted women in helmets. On the last woman, a camera shadow skims past on the back of her helmet.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: In the Sperm song, when the verse says "Mine, and mine" and the corpse says "Mine", you can see a distorted silhouette of a lighting tripod (It could not be a camera tripod as the camera is in a different angle).

Mistake Continuity: In the scene with Mr Crestoe, additional vomit appears on his shirt between shots.

Mistake Continuity: During the "Crimson Permanent Assurance" short film at the start, watch when the old men are climbing out of the windows on to the scaffolding. One of the men drops his sword as he goes out the window, but when the scene switches to the outside view of the same man climbing out, he is holding it in his hand.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: During the "Find the Fish" scene, during one close up, a camera is very visible in the top right corner of the screen.

Mistake Continuity: At the end when everyone is in the dining room in heaven, Mr and Mrs Brown (The Liver Donaters)are sitting at a table in the foreground. The dinner guests walk down the steps and the camera angle changes. You can see that a different man is sitting opposite Mrs Brown where Mr Brown should be.

Mistake Continuity: In the Organ Donor scene, the girl says "That's what he used to say". Between shots, the girl has moved closer to the guy.

Mistake Continuity: At the Miracle of Birth, when the doctors are explaining to the patient the most expensive machine in the whole hospital, when you see the back shot of her, she's leaning up a little bit. Following shot she's now lying fully down.

Mistake Continuity: In the delivery room, when Graham Chapman tells the nurse he wants more apparatus, John Cleese is putting on gloves. When it cuts, he puts them on again.

Mistake Revealing: Near the beginning of the 'Crimson Permanent Assurance' sketch one of the guys running out in panic quite badly clamps his fingers in the door yet it doesn't appear he really hurt himself much.

Mistake Audio problem: In the "Every Sperm is Sacred" song, when the priest and the newlyweds sing, the woman's mouth stops, but her voice is still heard.

Mistake Continuity: During the scene at the end where the Grim Reaper comes to take away the dinner guests, Eric Idle leads the reaper into the room. Graham Chapman is walking behind Michael Palin sitting down. When the camera cuts to Michael, Graham is nowhere to be seen. Then when the camera cuts back, he is standing there again.

Mistake Continuity: During the Galaxy Song they are walking away from the kitchen, but in the next front shot the kitchen isn't in the background.

Mistake Revealing: In the organ donor scene, when the guy takes out the liver, you see him turn to his left to pick it up, so you can tell he didn't take it out of the guy.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where the insane sergeant lets all his squad off to see a film at the cinema etc, the microphones are visible under their tight tops. Look at the middle of the chest of anyone who is talking, and there's a lump there, yet it is not there on any of the none-talking soldiers (so it can't be part of the uniform).

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