# Pulp Fiction Goof **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804 "2011-07-12T22:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/1 "2011-07-12T22:06:32Z")
I was watching Pulp Fiction last night for about the 14th time and noticed, for the first time, that Vincent Vega’s drug kit is metal and glass when he’s loading it, but plastic when the syringe is being used. And when I searched online to see if anyone else had noticed the switch, the answer was yes. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/2 "2011-07-13T00:09:42Z")
Thread moved from MPSIMS to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/3 "2011-07-13T01:54:14Z")
Not too much to say, if it took 14 viewings to notice its not too much of a goof. And the outrageous comedy & energy of that scene hides things like that completely… ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/4 "2011-07-13T02:15:49Z")
In the Star Trek (TOS) “Mudd’s Women,” when we first see Capt. Kirk being introduced to the three “ladies,” in the first camera shot from left, he has a thin black stripe down the side of his pants. But then when the scene cuts to a view from the left, he is not wearing any pants. ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/5 "2011-07-13T02:31:56Z")
> [@](#): > > curious11 > I was watching Pulp Fiction last night for about the 14th time and noticed, for the first time, that Vincent Vega’s drug kit is metal and glass when he’s loading it, but plastic when the syringe is being used. when i watched it on the big screen, they took out the part when he was using it (plunge, draw out to get blood, mix with heroin, inject the mixture back in.) maybe that’s why they cut it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/6 "2011-07-13T03:16:21Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > when i watched it on the big screen, they took out the part when he was using it (plunge, draw out to get blood, mix with heroin, inject the mixture back in.) Where are you that the scene was cut? I guess that theater never showed Bad Lieutenant. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/7 "2011-07-13T04:52:11Z")
I read somewhere that a lot of the so-called Pulp Fiction goofs were actually put in by Tarantino for fun. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/8 "2011-07-13T05:10:49Z")
> [@brocks](#): > > In the Star Trek (TOS) “Mudd’s Women,” when we first see Capt. Kirk being introduced to the three “ladies,” in the first camera shot from left, he has a thin black stripe down the side of his pants. But then when the scene cuts to a view from the left, he is not wearing any pants. Kirk doesn’t waste any time, does he? ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/9 "2011-07-13T14:13:58Z")
you noticed a piece of plastic but it never occurred to you after 14 viewings that the bullet holes were there before they were shot at by the guy in the back of the apartment? ---
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/10 "2011-07-13T16:45:20Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > you noticed a piece of plastic but it never occurred to you after 14 viewings that the bullet holes were there before they were shot at by the guy in the back of the apartment? I noticed that a long time ago, also the Hunny Bunny’s Dialog Goofs from the begining and at the end. Also, there isn’t a golden glow when vega passes in the shower, or when the kid in the car gets shot. When there was a golden glow from the deaths in the apartment. ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/11 "2011-07-13T23:58:06Z")
why aren’t people wondering what was in marcelus wallace’s suitecase? ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/12 "2011-07-14T00:06:11Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > I read somewhere that a lot of the so-called Pulp Fiction goofs were actually put in by Tarantino for fun. This is known in the industry as the “A wizard did it” defence. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/13 "2011-07-14T03:01:53Z")
> [@curious11](#): > > I noticed that a long time ago, also the Hunny Bunny’s Dialog Goofs from the begining and at the end. I’ll buy the different syringes as a legitimate continuity error. The bullet holes in the wall? Probably an honest mistake, although I could see that one going either way. The differences in dialogue between the beginning of the movie, and the end? No way was that anything but deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![splatterpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@splatterpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/splatterpunk)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/14 "2011-07-14T04:06:36Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’ll buy the different syringes as a legitimate continuity error. The bullet holes in the wall? Probably an honest mistake, although I could see that one going either way. The differences in dialogue between the beginning of the movie, and the end? No way was that anything but deliberate. Yep. In fact, in the published screenplay, not only are the two versions of the same line different, the second one contains a bit that isn’t included in the movie: “Got that?!” ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/15 "2011-07-14T05:09:19Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > why aren’t people wondering what was in marcelus wallace’s suitecase? You find out if you sit through the credits at the end of Thor. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/16 "2011-07-14T14:23:00Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > why aren’t people wondering what was in marcelus wallace’s suitecase? Just in case you were being serious: [MacGuffin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/17 "2011-07-14T14:24:54Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > Just in case you were being serious: [MacGuffin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin) I don’t know if you watched the end credits of _Thor_, but I did and had the same thought. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/18 "2011-07-14T14:38:37Z")
> [@mac\_bolan00](#): > > why aren’t people wondering what was in marcelus wallace’s suitecase? It was a statue of a bird. A bird of prey, actually. In fact, a falcon. I believe from Malta. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/19 "2011-07-14T14:52:58Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I’ll buy the different syringes as a legitimate continuity error. The bullet holes in the wall? Probably an honest mistake, although I could see that one going either way. The differences in dialogue between the beginning of the movie, and the end? No way was that anything but deliberate. Also at the end of the first section Vince and Jules empty their guns (their slides lock back indicating they are out of ammo) but when the scene is replayed in “The Bonnie Situation” they are clearly not. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804/20 "2011-07-14T15:31:15Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > you noticed a piece of plastic but it never occurred to you after 14 viewings that the bullet holes were there before they were shot at by the guy in the back of the apartment? What makes you think that’s a mistake? Could be that it was done deliberately as a partial explanation of the ‘miracle.’ The bullets don’t really pass through the guys, the holes were already in the wall. And somehow the guy had blanks in his gun instead of live rounds. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-goof/588804.md?page=2)