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• Continuity: You can see a poster on a record store with the chipmunks wearing their sweaters before Dave makes them.
  
  
• Continuity: In the lobby, when the chipmunks climb out of the tree, they run past a girl in a pink top twice.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene when Dave is late for work and almost forgets his pants, his old Pro Stereo skateboard is against the wall to the left of the front door. When he returns from his meeting, the board is to the right of the door and leaning in the corner.
  
  

• Continuity: When Dave is discovering the chipmunks, the bowl in the middle (while upside down) changes position between camera shots.
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Dave's music equipment when he is retrieving it out of the rain is different from the position it landed when he threw it outside.
  
  
• Continuity: In the dress room scene before their world tour concert. you can see Uncle Ian in the mirror but when Alvin turns around, Uncle Ian is not in the reflection.
  
  
• Continuity: The "coloring" that the chipmunks did on Dave's presentation posters depicted Simon with glasses. But the drawings were done before it was discovered that he needed glasses.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Dave runs out of his home to get dinner for his date with Claire the time is 6:30 pm but it is still daylight. The movie occurs shortly before Christmas and at that time of year it would be dark at 6:30 pm.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene after Dave loses his job he writes a letter explaining that things aren't working out, and prepares a box for the chipmunks. He closes the box and pokes five random holes in the top. Moments later he changes his mind, and goes to the closet to put the box away on a high shelf. As he lifts it, you can clearly see seven neatly spaced holes.
  
  
• Continuity: In the kitchen cupboard scene, Theodore chews a large hole in a box of Lucky Charms and eats some of the cereal. Seconds later Alvin dumps the bag of cheese balls on Theodore and the Lucky Charms box can be seen again without a hole chewed in it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dave throws the basket of muffins in the metal trash can, one of the trash can handles is clearly visible as the camera zooms out. Moments later the camera zooms back in on the trash can and the handle cannot be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: When Dave is lying on the couch watching television, two large jars can be seen on the counter top behind him. When he gets up moments later to investigate the noises in the kitchen, the jar with the white lid is no longer there.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alvin is playing with the toy rockets, he throws a few of them in one shot and the launcher is empty. In the next shot there is a fresh trio of rockets.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ian takes Simon's glasses away and gives him new ones, Simon has the old glasses in the following montage.
  
  
• Continuity: The morning Dave gets up and finds the chipmunks making toaster waffles, he finds a stack under the rug. He picks them up and they are drenched in syrup. From there he goes to sing his song and never washes his hands but his hands are clean when he starts playing the piano.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the launch party when Ian shows Dave the Spanish Alvin doll, it says "Konbanwa. Watashi wa Alvin desu" which is Japanese, not Spanish. However, this just shows how incompetent Ian is.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When the Chipmunks go on tour and cities are listed, it says, "Phoenix, NV," not, "Phoenix, AZ," when it was clear from the map that they were in Phoenix, Arizona.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the premiere party Simon says if he continues to eat he will go into insulin shock. Insulin shock occurs when a diabetic does not eat for an extended period of time. Given that there is never any other indication that Simon is diabetic, it's possible that he said it simply because it "sounds cool", without really understanding what he was saying.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Claire is taking pictures of the Chipmunks at the party you can see a flash go off directly at them, even though Claire's camera flash is in the off (retracted) position. However, the Chipmunks are being flashed at every few seconds throughout the scene, even before Claire comes to their table, and after she leaves as well. It's obvious that all those flashes come from the other cameras nearby, not from Claire's.
  
  

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