Kamal says, "The egg has been recovered" to Octopussy. And then, "You should be pleased." She replies, "I'm not pleased; it was stolen in the first place." Well, Kamal just brought the original egg back - but it was the fake that was stolen. [She's pissed that her security wasn't good enough to prevent it from being stolen, real or fake.]

How does old Q manage to float into the middle of a gun battle in the castle, knocking out some soldiers, without being at least shot at by a stray bullet? He doesn't even take cover in the basket. And when he lands, his balloon stays inflated and still nobody shoots at it. Fat chance of the bad guys hitting James Bond if they can't hit a hot air balloon. [This happens during the most intense part of the battle. Khan's henchmen have their hands full with Octopussy's gang, who have already taken out all the men on the walls and towers - thus clearing the path for the balloon.]

When Bond and Khan are playing backgammon, Khan says that Bond "must" throw a double 6. But Khan's pieces are on the 3&4 spaces, which would not guarantee him a win. [Bond has four pieces on the board at 2, 3, 6 and 6 (a close-up shows this). So a double-six is the only single roll that would win.]

When Bond is taking off with his Mini-Jet he nearly hits the jeeps and trucks that are chasing him. The landing gear is still down. After the cut you can see the scene from the other side and now the gear is up. [This is normal. He retracted the undercarraige as a matter of course, and it can happen that quickly sometimes.]

When Bond is taken prisoner in the opening sequence, all we see in the background is flat ground and some hills. But when Bond flies the mini jet back to the base, he seems to be flying over what looks like a canyon. Talk about changing geography. [The ArCo Starjet Bond is flying can do 600km an hour - if we was in the air for ten minutes he'd be 100km from the Air Force base from which he escaped. Plenty of space for a major change in the geography.]

When Bond first visits the circus the scene opens with the knife-throwing act. If you slow the dvd/video down you can see the holes made by the knives before they hit the board, proving that the scene was shown in reverse ie the knives were really pulled out of the board. [If this mistake can only be seen using the slow motion playback, it really can't be considered an error. Using slow motion to "prove" that special effects were used instead of the real thing doesn't really constitute a true movie mistake.]

In the beginning of the movie Bond's predecessor is killed in the line of duty while clutching a counterfeit Faberge egg. In an effort to sniff out the counterfeiters Bond attends a Sotheby's event where the real egg is being put up for auction. When bond returns to headquarters, we're told and Bond modestly brags to his superiors that through careful slight of hand he switched his counterfeit egg with the real egg during the bidding process. So the buyer (the bad guy) purchased the fake egg instead. Back at headquarters (after the auction/switch scene) Q inserts a bugging device in what would have to be the real egg. Later in the movie however, the fake egg is destroyed over an argument between the two bad guys which results in the bug being exposed. How did the bug get implanted into the fake egg? Q put the bug into the real egg after Bond came back to headquarters from the auction. [General Orlov destroyed the real egg. That is why Kamal Khan is so "shocked" when he does it since he wanted to keep the real one. General Orlov believes it is the fake egg though and crushes it.]

When Bond flies the mini-jet through the hangar, he banks the wings to get through the closing doors, to the point where the wings are vertical as the plane exits the building. The problem is, aircraft are turned by banking the wings; if the wings are banked, the aircraft is turning, and the greater the bank, the tighter the turn. The hangar would have had to be almost u-shaped for Bond to have made it through. [The Arco Starjet seen in the film is perfectly capable of flying with the wings vertically inclined as shown. The Aerilons on the wings are used to compensate the roll and the rudder to stop the turn.]

When Bond's mini-jet runs out of fuel, he coasts into a back-water gas station and tells the attendant to fill it up. However, jet engines do not run on gasoline. They burn jet fuel, which is essentially kerosene. [Yes, but you never see the attendant fill up the plane either. The statement from Bond is a joke - he knows he will not be able to refuel here, but in his usual style he wisecracks a little. After all, he is relieved that he succesfully completed his mission and escaped across the border.]

Near the start where Bond is trying to evade the missile in his mini jet plane, the sound becomes the distinctive discordant scream of a diving propeller driven plane (think World War II dive bomber), rather than the whistle of a jet engine it should have. [The "distinctive discordant scream" is the airflow over the wings, not the sound of the engine. Some low-speed jets make this sound, and the Arco Starjet Bond is flying is one of them.]

"All Time High" is the only James Bond theme song that does not contain the title of the film within its lyrics. [Not true, it's one of two instances. OHMSS's theme is Louis Armstrong's We Have All The Time In The World - which does not contain the words 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' anywhere in its lyrics.]

After James and the Yo-Yo assassin fall into the water, one of them is eaten by a crocodile/alligator. We see the arms of the victim being pulled under and he has sleeves. This must be James, as the Indian had no shirt on. [Soon after Bond is eaten by the alligator, there's a shot of Q on the bank where he was fishing. The alligator pulls up next to Q and Bond pops out. It was just an invention, not a real alligator.]