Return of the Jedi Bloopers 
1. When the droids first enter Jabba's throne room. You hear many alien voices in the background. One of them is Greedo's 
voice speaking the EXACT same dialogue he said to Han in A New Hope. 
2. Just after Artoo plays Luke's hologram to the palace. In one of these early scenes, the film is actually running backwards. If 
you look closely, you can see the smoke from his pipe moving downwards and back into the pipe. The bubbles in his bong are also moving downwards. 
3. During the scene where Oola (Jabba's dancing girl) is trying to escape from Jabba. Oola accidentally "falls out of her 
costume" during a medium close up of her. Her breast can be seen for a second or two. (The close up scene has been deleted from the VHS Letterboxed version, but a shot from further away is still in this version of the movie.) 
4. When Han and Leia and the rest of the crew are on Endor trying to get in the door, while the imperials attack. Watch where Han grabs Leia after Leia get's shot! He trys to cop a feel! 
5. Just after Chewie is taken away by guards in Jabba's Palace, and we get our first view of Lando in his skiff outfit. As Lando walks into the shot, he bumps his head on the ceiling just before he pulls his mask down the show the audience who he is. He hits his head hard enough that the mask cranks backwards for a second. 
6. When Leia looks out the window on Jabba's sail barge at Chewie, Han and Luke. Chewie's bandolier is hanging from his 
RIGHT shoulder to his LEFT hip. In the next shot when Han says, "3PO, you tell that slimy piece . . . " Notice that Chewie's 
bandolier is hanging from his LEFT shoulder to his RIGHT hip. 
7. Right before Luke is to be pushed into the Sarlacc pit. Luke nods at Lando to his RIGHT. The camera goes to other shots 
and when the shot comes back to the skiff guard prodding Luke to jump, and after Jabba says "Put him in", there is a quick shot where Lando is in the background on Luke's LEFT side. The next shot shows Luke jumping into the pit with Han and Chewie in the same position Lando was in during the previous shot. 
8. During the battle on the skiffs over the Sarlacc pit just after Boba Fett rockets himself into the fight. Luke swings at the 
bounty hunter with his lightsaber and chops Fett's gun in two. But if you watch it in slow motion, Boba Fett's gun begins to 
explode one frame before Luke actually slices it. 
9. Boba Fett is hit by Han Solo and his rocket pack misfires sending Boba Fett flying into the sky. As we follow Fett's flight, we cut to a scene showing the front half of a skiff. Luke then kicks one of Jabba's henchman. He very clearly misses the man by a few inches, yet the man still tumbles to his doom none the less. 
10. When Lando is hanging onto the skiff to keep from falling into the Sarlacc pit. On all of the close up shots, Lando does not have gloves on, but in the far shots, he has black gloves on. 
11. When Luke, Han, etc. were to be thrown into the Sarlaac Pit on Tatooine, Han and Lando are standing on the levitating 
platform and one of Jabba's men fires a shot, hitting the vehicle, causing it to tilt at a precarious angle. As everybody scrambles to balance themselves, you see Han grab the edge of the ship with his hands, and is hanging over the edge. But, a few seconds later, they show him hanging by his feet! If you watch carefully, when he goes out of view, you can see his shadow, and he 
begins to pull himself up, and flip around to hang by his feet! And maybe it's the author's imagination, but right afterwards when Chewie grabs Han's feet, it appears to take him several seconds in which there is nothing at all preventing Han from falling. 
12. When Han is trying to rescue Lando from the grasp of the Sarlacc. You should notice that when Lando finally grabs hold of the spear that Han offers him, he does so with his left hand. As soon as Han shoots the tentacle, Lando is no longer holding on to the spear. We then instantly cut to another angle where he is clutching the spear once again. 
13. During the battle on the sail barge. Luke is on the deck and his hand gets shot. His hand then appears charred and scarred, and if you pause the picture for the frames just before he's hit, you will see that his hand is already burned. The next time we see his hand is when he is running to get the fallen rope so that he and Leia could swing to safety. During this shot, Luke's damaged hand looks perfectly fine. A second later, when he actually grabs the rope, we see a damaged hand again. And when the pair actually swings across, his hand is fine again. Finally we see that his hand looks really bad when he is leaving Tatooine in his X-Wing. 
14. After Artoo rescues Threepio from Salacious Crumb. Threepio says the line "Well, I can't possibly . . ." and then Artoo 
pushes Threepio off of the edge. If you look closely, you can see several wires actually pulling Threepio off of the skiff. 
15. Luke and Leia swing away from the soon to be destroyed Sail Barge. Leia grabs hold of her brother as they swing to safety. In the first set of angles she has her right arm resting on Luke's chest, and her left arm around Luke's back. But as they swing, her arms have magically changed positions. Her right arm is now clutching the rope, and her left arm is now around Luke's neck. 
16. Luke and Leia swing away from the soon to be destroyed Sail Barge. The swing that they take is physically impossible as 
there is no focal point for the rope to be attached to. You can tell by the angles from when they leave, and when they land, that the rope is attached to a point somewhere between the skiff and the sail barge. Only there is nothing there for it to be attached to. 
17. Just before the Emperor's shuttle lands on the Death Star, and the Imperial fleet is flying in formation outside the docking 
bay. A stream of TIE fighters are circling the Death Star in a parade formation. In the first few seconds of this scene, two TIE 
fighter squadrons fly out from behind the camera towards the main group. Watch the first squadron. Just before it joins up with the main group, and just a moment before the scene ends, the squadron disappears from the picture. 
18. Just before the Emperor's shuttle lands on the Death Star, and the Imperial fleet is flying information outside the docking 
bay. A stream of TIE fighters are circling the Death Star in a parade formation. In the first few seconds of this scene, two TIE 
fighter squadrons fly out from behind the camera towards the main group. Watch the first squadron. Just before it joins up with the main group, and just a moment before the scene ends, the squadron disappears from the picture. 
19. The Emperor has landed on the Death Star and he speaks with Vader as they walk past the legions of troops. At the very 
end of their conversation, we are tight on the Emperor. He is walking past a series of grey suited officers. But when we 
instantly cut to a wide angle shot, they are now in front of rows of stormtroopers. 
20. During Mon Mothma's briefing regarding the Death Star in orbit of the moon of Endor. The lights darken and a hologram of the moon and the Death Star erupt in the middle of the room. When the hologram begins, the Death Star orbits the moon of Endor from the left of the screen to the right. During all subsequent shots of the hologram, the Death Star orbits from right to left. 
21. When Han and Lando are talking in the rebel hanger right before the strike team departs in the stolen Imperial shuttle. 
Lando's gun belt across his chest changes sides during his conversation with Han during the different shots making up this 
scene. 
22. The crew of the Millenium Falcon wait nervously in the stolen shuttle to see if their code passes to get past the Death Star's shields. Take note of the position of the shuttle and the Star Destroyer's bridge. The shots are very inconsistent in showing the position of the shuttle in relation to the bridge. 
23. The rebels have just landed on Endor and Han tries to take out the biker scouts. Han attempts to sneak up behind a trooper but steps on a twig alerting him to Solo's presence. The scout quickly turns and swats Han in the face. If you watch closely or watch frame by frame, you'll notice that Han actually begins to recoil from the hit, before the scout even touches him. 
24. During the Speeder Bike chase right before Luke jumps off his speeder that is about to crash. In three shots, Luke's glove (covering his robotic hand) is on his right hand. In the next shot it is on his left, and back to his right again in the third shot. 
25. During the initial encounter with Wicket the Ewok and Leia after she regains consciousness from her fall off of the speeder bike. Leia sits down on a log and takes her helmet off. We cut to another angle that clearly shows it removed from her head We then cut back to a closer shot, and she's taking it off again. (This blooper is best viewed on the letterboxed editions as you see the helmet off of her head only on the extreme left of the screen.) 
26. During the scenes around the capture of Luke and his entourage. There is a shot of Artoo untied, even though at that point in the movie he had not been untied yet. 
27. Our heroes huddle with the Ewoks as Threepio tells them a story. When finished and the rebels are offered the help of the Ewoks, Luke walks outside. Han then asks Threepio to get their weapons back. While outside, Luke and Leia have their chat and then Luke takes off to confront Darth Vader. The only thing, is that the rebels haven't been returned their weapons. 
Including Luke's lightsaber. But moments later when Luke and Vader finally meet, Luke has his weapon with him. 
28. When Vader is leaving the Imperial Shuttle Craft, on the landing pad on Endor. While walking down the ramp, his head 
somehow manages to go through the front of the Shuttle Craft, unscathed. 
29. The rebel fleet leaves their gathering place at Sullust for their offensive on the Death Star. Admiral Ackbar says into the 
comlink "All craft. Prepare to jump into hyperspace on my mark." We then cut to the interior of the Falcon where Lando says 
"Alright. Stand by." Then he pulls the lever and jumps to hyperspace, but Ackbar has still not given the command. 
But, it looks like there is a "disturbance in the force" on that blooper. Someone has pointed out: In blooper #29, you state that Admiral Ackbar has not given thevcommand to enter hyperspace, yet Lando jumps anyway. Actually, if you listen closely, there is a long beep right before Lando initiates the hyperspace jump. That beep is a standard acknowledgement in all Rebel and Imperial starships. 
30. Right after the rebels arrive at the Death Star, and figure out that the shields are still up. Admiral Ackbar says "It's a Trap!" followed by Lando saying, "Enemy fighters coming in." As the Millennium Falcon flies directly at the screen, and leaves the screen (upper right), pause the picture. You will see two little white "H" shapes on the Falcon's underside, where space was reserved for two TIE fighters. The two TIEs are in the picture until the Falcon flies "over top of them." Then you can see the white places reserved for the fighters, and then as the Falcon leaves the shot, all trace of the fighters is gone. (If you don't 
notice it at first, rewind the shot watching the area where the TIE shapes are. The TIEs are in the deep background of the 
scene and are pretty much motionless. The fact that they appear on the FX element of the Falcon is a result of a forgotten black "blocking" matte in the optical printing stage. What had happened was that the Falcon had been exposed into an area of the film where the TIE's had already been exposed (or vice-versa) resulting in an overexposure in the shape of the TIE elements. This is why the area on the Falcon's belly is WHITE. If the area had been left for two fighters to be matted in, the "H" shapes would have appeared BLACK.) 
31. The ground battle on Endor has just begun and Leia runs to the bunker as the doors close. Watch carefully because just 
after Leia enters the screen on the right hand side, she fires a shot. It smokes, but there is no colour nor sound from the weapon. 
32. During Luke and Vader's lightsaber battle in the Emperor's Throne Room on board the Death Star. You can see a shadow of Vader's lightsaber on the floor, just after Luke knocks Vader down the stairs in front of the Emperor, and Vader gets up. 
33. Just after Vader says "You are unwise to lower your defences." Vader strikes at Luke and you can notice the shadow of a lightsaber on the stairs leading to the Emperor's chair. 
34. In the Emperor's Throne Room during the duel between Luke and Vader, there is a scene where Luke does a somersault 
jump to a floor above where he originally was. If you look at the hair of Luke jumping, you will notice that the stunt double's hair is much more blonde than Mark Hamill's. 
35. The Imperials are fooled into leaving the bunker and they joyfully run out into the clearing. Han is leaning against the right 
wall of the bunker. After all the Imperials have exited the building, Han runs behind them into the centre of the screen. At the 
end of this wide shot, Han glances to our left. The camera immediately cuts to a close up of Han who is now facing forward 
again. 
36. On the Death Star when Luke is hiding from Vader, and Vader is walking through the shadows trying to draw Luke out. 
During the scene in which Vader says "If YOU will not turn to the dark side, then perhaps she will," he is holding Luke's 
lightsaber in his left hand. 
37. Luke and Vader are ferociously battling and Luke is forcing Vader backwards. The battle is first seen behind a flight of 
stairs and in front of circular window. We then cut to an angle in which we look down upon the battle. The sabers once again 
cast quite noticeable shadows on the floor. This is scene right before Luke cuts Vader's hand off. 
38. As the bunker on Endor is about to explode from the charges the rebels have set. As everyone is running away from the 
bunker, Han calls out "Move! Move!". As he runs away from the building, the second time he calls out "MOVE!", you can see Han's reflection behind him running in opposite direction. (This is because there is a sheet of plexiglass between Han and the explosion used to protect the actors in case of an accident.) 
39. Luke drags Vader's dying body to the ramp of a shuttle and Vader insists that his helmet be taken off. When Luke removes the top of the helmet and the "face" portion of the helmet, the mouthpiece area is still there. When Luke lowers his head in memory of his father's passing, Anakin's head is visible in the foreground on the extreme left of the screen, but this time, the mouthpiece that was there before is now gone. 
40. When Leia first meets the finicky Ewok, Wicket. Wicket is jumping around and there's a shot of the Ewok on the ground 
with his hood piece over top his stick, then the next shot is farther away and the Ewok's Hood piece is regular without it hanging over the stick. 
41. In Jabba's palace when Boushh (Leia) threatens the court with the thermal detonator. As Boba Fett nods to Boushh his 
costume is reversed due to the negative being flipped. The easiest part of his costume to see this on is his antenna, which is onthe left-hand side of his head, whereas normally it would be on his right. 
42. In Return of th Jedi when luke is yelling for leia to"come here"if you watch closely you'll notice that he doesn't say anything at all.