After Prickley gets dematerialized outside the school's main entrance only his shoes remain on the ground, T.J runs home to get Beckey to help him round up his friends and leaves the steaming shoes on the ground. But when T.J arrives at the baseball camp to collect Vince, he appears to have the shoes and shows them to Vince to reveille that he is telling the truth.
When T.J and his friends prepare to break into the school, to save Prickley, they gather up their bikes and other items they needed. At one point T.J zips up his jacket, when he asks them if they have everything his jacket is still zipped up, but seconds later when they all leave T.J's garden his jacket is open again.
When T.J. is looking at Prickly walking with two guards, the first shot shows Prickly wearing his generic green and pink shirt, however in the close-up, he is wearing a white shirt with a blue tie.
At the laboratory where the tractor beam is located, before being stolen; we see 2 men at work trying to get the photon channeler to work so that their colonel can show it to the top brass next month. One of the men brings 2 cups of coffee into the lab, one for himself and one for his coworker. He places the coffee for his coworker down on the control panel off to his right side. When the no recess moment organization start blasting their way into the lab, the coffee cup has now moved over to the coworker's left side, without anything sign or indication that he had picked up the cup, taken a sip and then set it down again.
Spinelli is being hoist out of the back of the ice cream truck with a crate full of ice cream for the kids on the playground. As she is being pulled up she has bitten into an ice cream bar for herself. From the looks of it, she had just bitten into it. By the time she has reached the roof of the school her ice cream bar is eaten and gone that all that's left is the Popsicle stick.
Erik von Detten's name is spelled "Erik Von Dettin" in the credits.
Jerome is accidentally credited as Jordan in the end credits. Jordan didn't have any speaking lines at all.
When Dr. Benedict asks the kids which countries have the highest test scores, Gretchen says Japan, Vince says Germany and Mikey says Tierra del Fuego. However, Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago, not a country.
When T.J contacts all the camps to cover up for his friends, Students are seen covering up for Gus, Vince, Spinelli and Mikey. But strangely no one is seen covering up for Gretchen.
On the TV news, the news anchorman addresses Philliam Benedict as Secretary of State. Later when Principal Prickly finishes telling T.J. his story about Benedict getting fired for trying to get rid of recess, he says he was Secretary of Education, until the president fired him (both mentioned by anchorman and Prickly.)
T.J. rides his bike by the school & see the glowing green light in the windows of the school. The recess gang stand outside the school and see the giant tractor beam device rise out of the roof of the school and shoot a beam & yet we're suppose to believe that no one else in the neighbourhood or throughout the town notice this happening at the school.
When Randall is hiding in TJ's trash can TJ's dad comes to take the trash out and is heard whistling but his lips don't move.