Mistakes in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

Over the course of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, various mistakes and other inconsistencies have occurred within the books, as well as the spin-off series and film adaptations surrounding it. This article is dedicated to documenting them.

Main Series[]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid[]

Greg says he woke up at 6:00 AM, but in an illustration he actually woke up at 8:00 AM.
Greg is shown too tall on Page 159.
Greg's waist is shown too high on Page 152.
The cover art has a slightly stretched and thicker lined version of Greg. This has been corrected on an "Authentic Product" tag that appears on some T-Shirts and other products.
On page 70, Greg has no pirate hook and it does not come back for the rest of Halloween.
- This happens to other parts of Greg's costume too such as the eye-patch.
On page 202, Greg has pants on, but on page 203 he is wearing shorts.
The picture on the back is from the online version, mirrored.
In some versions, under the title page, it is written as "Gregg Heffley's Journal" instead of "Greg Heffley's Journal".
In a very small amount of versions, on page 2 (and back cover), Greg writes "I'm stuck in high school with a bunch of morons." Instead of "I'm stuck in middle school" (found on Australian and New Zealand copies where middle school does not exist.)
Greg checks to see if the cheese is still there, but it is his first year of middle school.
On page 112, you can clearly see that Patty Farrell has a hair tie but in the next drawing, part of it is missing.
On page 209, the teenager who has his cap backwards has black socks but on the next page it's white.
On page 106, the paragraph is too narrow.
On page 57, the bed that Shane Snella is under is black, although the next page, the bed is white.
On Page 22 the guy with the glasses has a white and black hat with a white point but at the bottom of the page the guy has the hat colors but switched around so the tip of it is black.
On page 79 the poster drawn of Preston Mudd at the top of the page is different than the one on the bulletin board shown below. Only "Athlete of" appears on the bottom of the poster while "Athlete of the" is written on the upper poster.
On the Puffin Books (UK) cover, Greg is slightly too tall.
It's almost impossible to notice but on page 92, the bottom picture is drawn differently.
This also happens on the back cover. Though the pictures on those pages are most likely from the online version.

Rodrick Rules[]

On-Page 150, it mentions that Greg Heffley didn't have anything to turn in to Mr. Huff during the third period. However, on Page 13, Mr. Huff is described as Greg's seventh period teacher.
- However, Greg could have gotten his schedule changed during this time period.
On-Page 37, a group of teenagers is shown outside Greg's house, listening to Löded Diper's music. On-Page 38, the same teenagers are shown leaving, but with different colored shoes and shirts.
Manny is seen too tall on page 181.
Manny says he's only three on page 42, however, one of the pictures from Gramma's fridge on page 161 is Manny having a birthday cake with five candles meaning he is turning five years old.
In some revisions of the eBook version, the title page only shows: Diary of a Rodrick Rules. (Omits 'Wimpy Kid')
On page 192, there is a second line between an eighth note.
There is a line in Greg's hair that is not supposed to be there on page 193.
On page 22, there is a part where it says she'd make him draw a picture instead of she'd make them draw a picture.
In some E book versions, there are 2 amulet logos instead of 1.
Speaking of Ebooks, there was an error on page 1 where the word last has a t mixed at the start of the word.
On page 58, Rowley is wearing a long sleeve shirt but on the next page he's wearing a t-shirt.
On page 115, there is no lines on the drawing. This was fixed in a reprint.
On the 'More Diary of a Wimpy Kid Books' page, Rodrick is spelled as Roderick.
On Page 69 there is a kid with Manny's teeth and Rodrick's hair. Another kid has the head of Greg and a frown and has Rodrick's hair.
Whenever the seventh grade is mentioned in Australian and British copies, it's changed to "Year 7".

The Last Straw[]

On page 16, in the Australian version, Rodrick's Löded Diper tattoo is changed to read "Löded Nape" (Loaded Nappy), despite all other mentions of the band's name keeping the American term, "diaper".
On page 33, a sentence reads, "[...] we're gonna to be in college before this hole is ten feet deep." "Gonna to be" should be "gonna be" or "going to be." This error was fixed in the Australian version, which uses "going to be", and the British version, which uses "gonna be".
On page 176, Susan says, "Right after your polish the silverware!' This error was fixed in later prints of the book, which use the correct word, "you."
On page 143, when Greg has his swimsuit on and kids laugh at him, there are no lines in the picture.
On page 9, in the Penguin UK version, Greg's book Math Is Rad was changed to "Maths Is Rad" on the close-up of the book; however, the illustration of the book in Greg's hands still uses the American term, "math". However, Australia also refers to the subject as "Maths", but in a 2019 reprint, it says "math".
On page 80, a sentence reads "Then I climbed in an empty basket and waited" but the picture shows Greg in a basket that has clothes in it.
On page 105, Frank is seen wearing black shoes underneath the car beside the tire, but on the next page, he is seen wearing white shoes.
On page 106, the top picture shows Rodrick with his shoes on, but his pants are off, also in the bottom picture now Rodrick has black shoes, or they could be black socks since you can see the color of them when he has shoes on.
On page 52, the robot in Greg's fantasy, answers the Ob River in Russia as the world's largest estuary when it is The St. Lawrence River.
On page 108, the word "everyone" is misspelled as "everone" which is something to keep in mind
On page 144, Greg says he received his Wonder Woman Underoos for his birthday, which is in the summer; however, the photo of Greg holding them has a Christmas tree in the background.
On page 62 the word ”THAT” is in the WimpyKidCured font instead of WimpyKidDialogue. The same error occurs on page 70 with the word "WORST".
When Manny says "Wipe my bottom, Ploopy!" The word "bottom" is in the Comic Sans MS font instead of the WimpyKidDialogue font.

Dog Days[]

In one UK shipping soon after the release, there was an error with the book - the cover was flipped, so that if the cover was the right way up, the pages inside would read upside down.
June is 6 weeks long.
On page 5, Greg ends his sentence to make room for a drawing, but he continues the sentence as a new one. ("But for some reason Mr. Jefferson never passed them on to the clubhouse manager. Which is kind of weird.")
On page 74, in the Australian version, a line break error leads to the sentence "And those kids don't buy the gifts, their MUMS do." being placed underneath the preceding illustration, with the exception of the italicized word. This was likely caused by a poor localization effort.
On page 76, Greg says he doesn't stop to read anything, and he can get through 20 cards in a minute. However, the word 'get' and 'through' are cut off by an illustration.

The Ugly Truth[]

On page 112, Dad's right arm is missing, but this was fixed in reprints.
In 134, it says that there was at least 1 chaperone for each kid, and most of the chaperones were parents. This would mean a large volume of parents, (practically most of them) would be chaperoning. Later However, every parent is shown to somehow be outside and to be taking their kids home. This would be impossible due to most of the kids having phones that were called, (everyone but Greg and Rowley) which would mean every parent coming to the school, which would be impossible, since most of those parents were chaperoning.
On page 46, Mrs. Mackelroy is shown to wear a plain white skirt and black shoes, however on page 48, she wears a black and white striped skirt and white shoes.
Löded Diper is a misspelled name and Greg says that Rodrick doesn't know how to spell his band name properly but, in this book, Rodrick spells "diaper" correctly but it is possible that he spelled it wrong on purpose.

Cabin Fever[]

On Page 70, it says Greg is going onto Prentice Lane. However, on page 72, it says he is going to Prentice Street. This was fixed in a reprint.
On Page 68, Greg mentions how he, his father, Rowley, and Manny all met his new neighbor on Halloween. However, Rowley and Greg were having a fight and wouldn't have gone trick or treating together (because Halloween took place during Ugly Truth). It also couldn't have taken place on any previous Halloweens because the Snellas didn't move out until the summer before Ugly Truth.
On-Page 20, Greg and Rowley are shown too tall, and Frank is shown too short.
On-Page 109, while Greg is waiting in line to get his graphic novel signed, Manny is seen in a pram as a baby. However, Greg mentioned that the comics convention took place the year before Cabin Fever, so Manny wouldn't have been a baby by then and instead be a toddler. (That's because the comics convention took place between the first book and Rodrick Rules.) Greg is also seen much shorter.
On page 110, Greg says that when he had kids, they would be mad that he sold his graphic novel. The sentence should say, when I have kids, not when I had.
On a UK copy the Puffin logo is duplicated.

The Third Wheel[]

This is the second book to have an error in the length of a month. February had 5 weeks instead of 4. The first was Dog Days, in the month of June.
Rodrick is shown much skinnier than he is in other books.
On page 198, the girl on the left is wearing a flower scrunchie but on the very next page, it's replaced by a standard bow tie.
On page 32, Greg mentions that the first time his family went to Corny's, Frank's tie got cut off, though on page 33 Frank is wearing a T-shirt with no sign of a tie being cut off.

Hard Luck[]

On page 2, Greg opens his locker. However, the lock on his locker is still locked.
On page 36, the kid in front of Greg is wearing one black shoe and one white shoe.
From pages 82-87, 118-120, and 134-137, every character is shown to be too small.
- This also happens on pages 1, 14, and 74.
On page 98, whenever an outdoor wedding happens, Aunt Audra's skirt does not seem to end, or it's possible she appears to have skinny legs.
Rodrick's eyebrows are missing on page 109. However, it was fixed in a re-print.
On page 91, one of the family pictures had Manny. Manny was supposedly not born yet when Cakey was babysitting Greg.
On page 13, it says "Rowley's good friend" when it should be "Rowley's a good friend". This was fixed in reprints.
Greg is too short on page 211.
On page 129, when Greg thinks about Sweetie farting in Frank's face, Ellie is not shown.
On page 12, the lines are missing on the page. However, this was fixed in later re-prints of the book.
On page 214, Greg's mouth appears to be larger.
From pages 56-73, Greg is shown to be wearing his socks when not wearing his "new" shoes, even when Greg should be wearing shoes.
On page 49's bottom illustration, the girl on the very left appears to have no rear hair.
On page 98, Greg says that Aunt Veronica was playing video games on her computer during the wedding but you can see that she is holding a phone.

The Long Haul[]

Some of the pages show Greg being taller than Rodrick, however, Rodrick is shown taller in the rest of the pages (as well as the series altogether).
Most characters are shown too short in this book, such as Rodrick on page 18.
Greg's waist is too high on some pages.
Rodrick is shown too tall on page 188 and Frank is shown too tall on page 211.
The pig is transparent on page 213.
On page 30, the ‘ó' in ‘cómo' is bigger than the other letters.
When Frank tells the mechanic he'd mail him a check the Mechanic tells him he couldn't take an IOU. But Greg puts the word "IOU" in quotation marks, as if unfamiliar with the term. However, he mentioned an IOU in Cabin Fever. This could probably be a continuity error.
On page 26, it says in 2nd grade, Greg and Rowley sent their Flat Stanleys. However, in Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, it says Rowley moved here in fourth grade. This is a continuity error.
- However, it could've been possible that Greg and Rowley were friends before Rowley moved here in fourth grade. This is the most likely reason.
On page 47, a part of Van Gogh's ear bandage was transparent.
On pages 67 and 173, Mr. Beardo is missing his sideburns.
On page 84, Mr. Beardo has hair on his head, where he is normally bald.
On page 210, the Spanish-speaking man in the baseball cap is wearing a collared shirt with a pocket, but on the next page, he's wearing a turtleneck t-shirt without a pocket or buttons. This is a continuity error.

Old School[]

This book takes place 3 years after Diary of a Wimpy Kid, where in that book, Greg is in 6th grade. That means that Greg should be in 9th grade which means that he would actually be in high school, not middle school anymore.
- It is possible that Greg could've gotten held back a year due to poor grades.
  - However, that must mean Rowley got held back too as he is in the same grade as Greg. As in other books, Greg says that Rowley gets good grades.
- This is also the first book to end the canon timeline, as starting with this book, the characters ages stay the same and stay at their same schools.
On Pages 147 & 148, Greg, Rowley, and the other Camp members are shown too tall. This error also happened on Page 55 where Frank is shown too tall.
On-Page 4, Susan is shown too short.
On-Page 61, a man has transparent arms.
On-Page 108, says "I guess I feel a little bad, but to be fair, stealing the Thin Mints was his idea." However, Billy only stole gummy worms as stated, and the Thin Mints could, well, have been paid for, and Greg also says before that "I'm just gonna assume he PAID for those cookies because if he did, I don't wanna know."
On one page, the garage in The Heffley House is not seen which is always shown on the left of the house.
Greg mentioned for Rowley's last birthday, they went to the ice cream parlor. However, Rowley's Birthday is in October, which would take them to The Ugly Truth, when they weren't friends anymore.
On page 13, in the second paragraph, the font of "I" is different from the other "I"s.
In the audiobook version of the book, Jeffery needs to go to the bathroom, not Timothy Ames.
Greg says after the pig learned to walk; it hasn't been on all fours since. But in Double Down, the pig can be seen on four legs, this is possible that the Pig got tired of walking on two legs.
Hardscrabble Farms reuses leftover food to make stew. Reusing and reserving leftovers is a health code violation. Considering that the camp has followed that method for over 30 years, it doesn't make sense how it hasn't been shut down yet.
On page 55, 2 of the ladies being kicked out of the house by Frank have different colored skirts and tank tops than on page 54.
On page 193 and 214, there aren't lines.
On page 152, it shows cut up corn on Greg's plate, while the menu had corn on the cob. (unless he chopped up his portion for some weird reason)
Greg says that Mrs. Graziano has been his music teacher for a long time and his Dad had her when he was Greg's age when in Hard Luck, Mrs. Norton was his music teacher.
In the trailer, Fregley is seen holding the book, however, Fregley never appeared in the book itself.

Double Down[]

On-Page 64, the word "roast" in "roast beef" is duplicated, making it "roast roast beef." This error was fixed in reprints.
- This error is referenced on page 69 of The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: The Next Chapter, as a card on a table, reads, "Today's special: Roast roast beef."
In the book, Greg says that Nana worked as a waitress. However, in the preview, he says she worked as a nurse. (She might've changed jobs, but this is highly unlikely.)
On the top of page 49, the characters appear too short and Greg's mouth is larger than usual.
On page 94, Mrs. Selsam's leg is in a humanly impossible position, and her skirt is shown as only covering that one leg.

The Getaway[]

Greg's waist seems way too high throughout the entire book. This could just be a new character design.
Greg states that he learned that human waste is ejected from airplanes. In real life, human waste is kept on the airplane until landing, except for cases of leakage.
Manny seems too short on some pages, especially in the upper picture in Page 150.
Greg's pants are longer than his dad's pants on Page 78. His pants are also too big in Page 14 since it almost touches 3 lines when it should only be touching about less than 2.5.
Rodrigo's goatee is missing in the lower picture in page 203 and 204.
Greg's left arm is missing in the lower picture of page 40.
On page 24, the escalator is shown to stop abruptly, with riders tumbling due to inertia, however, in real life, pressing the emergency stop button will slow down then stop an escalator.
Greg's hair is white on page 38.
The airplane's nose (front) wheel is missing on page 47.
On page 50, Greg states that everything in the plane gets sucked out if a window breaks. However, airplane windows are layered, and even if one breaks, only small objects may get sucked out.
Greg says that every time they go to a hotel, he has to sleep on a cot or a sofa bed, but in The Long Haul, he slept in the closet's floor.
On page 202, the man in sunglasses' body is transparent.
When Greg sees the iguana, and runs out of the pool, he says he actually skipped across the water. But in Cabin Fever, he reveals he cannot skip. He could probably have meant ‘sprinted' or 'ran'.
It is revealed in this book that Rodrick can't even clip his own toenails. However, in Hard Luck, on the very first page, we saw Rodrick clipping his toenails. This a continuity error.
On Page 122, it says "Manny ran off to collect seashells". But in the picture on Page 125, he can be seen as a silhouette building a sandcastle.

Greg and Frank helping out to put luggage into the car

Legal error: On page 7, Susan lets Manny sit in the front seat. In the US, an individual must be at least 12 years of age sit in the front seat, while Manny is just about five years old. This error also occurs in The Deep End. Maybe this rule was ignored due to other editions in other countries, or because of Manny being favourited.
Greg's adult depiction of him on page 64 is missing its mustache, which returns in the next page.
Rowley seems too tall on some pages, especially on page 184.
On pages 156 & 161, the kid who blocks the cannons is somehow floating on the water.
In certain copies of the book, the sentence "Everyone wrote down 'astronaut' and 'veterinarian' and stuff like that" on page 106 (with the normal font) has the word "and" after "veterinarian" printed twice.
On page 102, one of the dead fish is transparent.
On page 199, Susan's glasses are thicker than usual.
On page 39, Frank's mouth is not showing teeth. On page 40, it shows teeth for the rest of the book.
Possibly deliberate: On page 146, Greg says he has to deal with one bug in the hotel room, referring to the spider. However, spiders are arachnids, not bugs.

The Meltdown[]

Sweetie is shown to be not overweight, despite him being overweight in past books due to being fed too much by Gramma, as shown in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck. However, it is possible he probably lost weight and got normal again.
On the page where the kids are all in the snowball fight, Latricia Hooks has a different look.
- However, Greg doesn't know this and did mention he was just assuming.
There is a kid all the way in the back on page 122 with a black jacket; however, on the next page, he is wearing a white jacket.
When Greg talks about how last year, he wants to go to school fast by using a sled and dogs to his mom and dad, Greg is much shorter.

On page 85, it says "pefectly normal" instead of "perfectly normal".
On page 185, it says that Greg sent Rowley to get some hot chocolate, but a photo on the same page has Rowley in the wall.
On Page 32 when Greg mentions that he doesn't ride the bus anymore because of Evelyn Trimble but in The Last Straw Greg says his bus got rezoned to the Whirley Golf club

Wrecking Ball[]

On page 34, Greg says if his birthday becomes a national holiday, then everybody would get a day off from school and work, but his birthday is in June, which is during the summer, so it's doubtful whether most schools would actually be affected. It should've said a day off of work. Some schools, however, do continue through June and into early July.
On page 31, the sign for “Hot Dog Heaven” is misspelled as “Hot Dog Haven”, though that might be intentional.
On page 80, Greg mentions that he had no idea about the fact that doors could be removed by the hinges, something he had directly done in Rodrick Rules. Also when they are unclogging the pipe the floor is shown through the drain cover.
Greg said he could be a great athlete in the future. However, in The Meltdown, he said the hill he lives on makes kids unable to play sports. This is a continuity error.
- It's is possible that Greg was talking about being a great athlete in another place, not on the hill he lives on.
Rodrick is claimed to still be attending school, however, he was shown having to look for colleges in Double Down. However, as claimed in The Long Haul, Jeff Kinney mentioned that there would be fewer continuity references.
On page 160, the girl is the only one with a paper on her desk, but Greg has none and the other boy appears to be writing on his desk. However, this could be intentional.
- This error also appears on page 159. No one in the class has a paper, but the bigger-looking boy is writing on his desk with his pencil. Again, this could be intentional.
On page 163, the leftmost girl next to Becky Anton appears to be missing her left arm completely. However, two hands are holding the paper in front of her.
Greg mentions that during the open house, the dads are watching football. However, June is during the NFL and College Football off-seasons.
- It is possible that the game is a rerun.
- It is also possible that they are watching USFL which does occur in June.
On page 52, Rodrick is seen wearing a black tie, but on page 59, he wears a striped one.
In the first book, Greg says he can't run fast, but in Wrecking Ball he can run fast, although he could have become faster as he got older. This might be the most likely reason for Greg's fast running.
On page 25, one of the guy's arms doesn't have a black sleeve, while the other does. However, it may be that one of the full sleeves had been cut off.
On page 161 on the M.A.S.H. page under wife it says Holly Hills as one of the girls. However, in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011 film) when Greg was going into 7th grade, Chirag Gupta said that she just moved in, but Greg says he created the MASH page when he was in fifth grade.

The Deep End[]

Greg does jigsaw puzzles in this book, despite an incident in Cabin Fever in which he finds a nest of crickets in a box of puzzles giving him a fear of them.
- However, It's possible that he got over his phobia or that someone else opened the box.
Greg says he's kept the name "Bubby" from Manny for over 5 years in the first book, however in this book he says Manny is 3.
- Although, this isn't the first time this has happened. In The Ugly Truth, Greg says that sometime after he was eight or nine, Manny was born.
Greg and Rodrick are shown too tall on page 184 and 187.
On the top image of Page 122, Greg is shown in a shower with a shower head. However, in page 147, the chainsaw guy is in the exact same spot, yet no shower head is shown. The window is also moved to a lower spot, as in page 122, its significantly higher.
In page 124, when the chainsaw guy picks up his stuff another machine appears in the second illustration.
In page 39, the word "this" is too close together.
In page 149, Weevil has no leg on the second section of the illustration.
On the character page in the Swedish version, the word Dagbok is in a wrong font.
On page 39, there is a slit on the top of The Vault where you are supposed to put electronics, however on page 40, it shows no slit.
on page 182, on the first drawing, Greg looks bigger than the house.

Big Shot[]

The Snurples is now called "The Murples".
Edward Mealey's name is misspelled, omitting the 2nd E in Mealey. This could be a continuity error.
In the top drawing of page 40, it is shown that Greg's mom bought Chickpea Clusters even though in Wrecking Ball it is revealed that Greg is allergic to chickpeas.
- However, it could've been possible that Susan didn't know that Greg was allergic to chickpeas.
Ruby Bird has 2 front teeth now when earlier in this series, she bit into Mr. Underwood's arm and had only 1 front tooth.
- She most likely got a dental implant for her missing tooth.
On page 134, Edward Mealy's jersey number is a four. However, on the next page it's a nine.

Diper Överlöde[]

Bill is claimed to live in his grandmother's basement, despite being said to live with his parents as far back as Rodrick Rules. Either Bill moved out of his parents' house to instead live at his grandmother's house or Bill's parents kicked Bill out of their house for him to live at his grandmothers' instead.
One of the pages in The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book shows Diper Överlöde's lyrics. The song title was spelled as "Diper Overlöde" without a umlaut over the first o in contrast to the new spelling, "Diper Överlöde."
Despite the book starting in December and ending in April, a HALLOWEEN store is mentioned and visited by the characters several times, even though in real life, a Halloween store would not be open in the Winter nor Spring and compete with the Holiday Season, New Years Eve, Valentine's Day, and Easter.
On page 14, Bill's arm seemed to be holding nothing, but a hand is holding the cup.
- This error also occurs in Wrecking Ball.
On Page 209, Bill singing the lyrics to Diper Överlöde is being blared out of the speaker. The lyrics in the illustration go "This is a Diper Överlöde", but according to the Do-It-Yourself book the lyrics actually go "This is a Diper! A Diper Överlöde".

No Brainer[]

In the standardized test scene on page 187, it is shown that all questions are multiple choice and have 4 choices (A, B, C, and D). However, on the next page, page 188, there is shown to be 5 choices (A, B, C, D, and E).
The cleaning robot can somehow do normal human activities, such as on page 108, when the robot is playing cards with the other janitors, with the cards somehow floating.
- Also, the cleaning robot has googly eyes on it. When in their normal position, the pupils point down, however, the robot can seemingly control the pupils (i.e. they face right in their normal position).
On page 9, the girl with the glasses furthest to the left has no paper on her desk, but she is writing on her desk with a pencil.
- The same mistake also appears on page 31, where the girl second to the left is writing on her desk with a pencil.
- This also happens on page 14, where the girl also second to the left is writing on her desk.
- Alex Aruda is very different compared to his first appearance.
- There are several pages where Mr. Bottoms is missing his dimples.

Spinoffs[]

Awesome Friendly Kid[]

Tevin Larkin is missing a freckle on page 26.
Mr. Hardy's moles are facing the wrong way on pages 113 to 119.
Susan Heffley is missing the curl on the back of her hair on several pages.
On page 184, Susan's right leg isn't colored in.
On page 164, you can see Greg's left hand holding the phone, but his left arm isn't drawn in.
On page 17 Manny has round teeth but on page 185 he is shown to have square teeth.

Awesome Friendly Adventure[]

During Roland's conversation with the Little Mermaid, Amelia Earhart was mentioned however this shouldn't have been possible because Amelia was born in the 20th century while the story takes place before school was invented, meaning it takes place before 1635, which is also evident by the medieval theme throughout the book.

Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories[]

In Ghost Friend, Gabe can't pick up a controller and Gabe says because he's a ghost he can't pick up or touch anything, but he later sits down on Rusty's bed and a bleacher at a sports game.
In The Demon, when Greg gets possessed there is a silhouette (both characters are boldly black with no details) of both Rowley and Greg, but Rowley has an extra hair coming of his head, his normal hairstyle has his hair going down his head, not off his head.

Movies[]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010 film)[]

Rowley mentions the fact that he went to Guatemala, even though Guatemala is in Central America, not South America.
When Rowley hands Greg the Zoo Wee Mama comic he says "I put you in the comic this week." It's just the one with the acid puddle and squirrel with no change from the original drawing he made at Greg's house.
Greg takes Manny off the toilet, who leaves on the right. Susan is carrying Manny, but she comes from the left.
In the scene right before Rowley asks Greg if he "Wants to come over and play", Greg walks out, and a girl is seen walking down the stairs behind him. When they show Rowley, the girl is again seen coming out of the school.
When Greg first enters class on the first day of school, Greg Heffley is written on the blackboard. In the next shot, it is gone. In the shot after that, he writes his name on the board.
After their first meeting with Angie under the bleachers, Greg makes an excuse about hearing the whistle signaling the end of P.E. class before dragging away Rowley by grabbing his right wrist/hand. But in the next shot, as they retreat, Greg is shown leading Rowley by the left wrist, not the right.
In the scene where Greg and Rowley are walking the kindergartners, Pete Hosey and his friend drive by, slowly looking at them all standing in a line. In the next scene when Greg and Rowley are laughing about not getting caught, the kindergartners are in a different order.
Some of the foam from the fire extinguisher is sprayed onto Greg. Two shots later, Greg is clean.
When Greg is confessing to Rowley about scaring the smaller children, the hallway is busy with a woman in red quickly approaching them. A second later, the hall is empty and the woman has vanished. Then she reappears and brushes past Rowley.
A witch decoration by the stairs in the Heffley house is moving around. In another shot, the witch is still. When Greg and Rowley are outside, the witch is moving again.
When Rodrick pulls in with the Loded Diper van, he hits a trash can, and it goes rolling up the road. When it shows Rodrick getting out, and he closes his door, the trash can is then sitting by his front bumper.
When Patty pins Greg, and Angie takes the picture, her hair is down, but in the newspaper, her hair is curved up.
In the scene when Greg runs out of Fregley's house, he leaves the door open. In the next shot, when he is hugging his dad, the door is closed.
As Greg and Rowley are forced to eat on the floor, a milk carton lands on Greg's tray when two guys empty their trash. When Fregley comes to sit with them, the milk carton is gone.
When Greg opens the school door at the start of the movie, a trash can is knocked over and is completely full. Over the summer, the trash cans would have been emptied and it was the beginning of the first day back and so would've been almost empty.
Greg goes down on his popularity chart from 19 to 72. The 19th place would then be vacant. Rowley later fills the 19th spot. Greg later goes down from 72 to 202. The 72nd spot is vacant, but it is not filled because Greg is in spot 202 of 201.

Rodrick Rules (2011 film)[]

Frank goes into the laundry room finding his General Grant figurine on the thermostat and asks Greg and Rodrick about it, but the thermostat is outside the laundry room and Frank was in the laundry room running out of it so fast asking Greg and Rodrick questions about his off-limit figurine.
The video Greg and Rowley make shows that it has 4 views but 24,000 comments.

Dog Days (2012 film)[]

At Heather Hills' Sweet 16 party, during LD's performance, Heather Hills swings at Rodrick with his mic stand, missing him, but in turn, knocks her chocolate fountain over & away from her. In the next shot, she's seen standing next to Madison on the opposite side of the fountain, without the mic stand, & the chocolate fountain has been splattered onto her somehow.
When Frank Heffley tells Greg to keep an eye on Manny, the captions (on DVD only) say "Watch Manny." However, on Disney + if you turn on the Describing English captions it DOES say "Keep an eye on Manny.".
When Greg is walking with Rowley at the beginning, his legs disappear as they are walking.
When Susan is telling Frank about Manny's lost Tingy, Frank replies with "I'm sure it'll turn up" while facing forward and talking to Susan. In the next shot, Susan is behind him finding the Tingy.
When Rodrick hands Greg the remote control for the pyrotechnics at Heather Hills' birthday party, he is wearing a sleeveless shirt. In the next shot, he is wearing an over-shirt which he takes off to reveal the sleeveless shirt.
The hand on the spinner constantly changes places throughout the scene in which Greg and Rowley's family play a board game.
When Rodrick is singing a song for Heather's Sweet 16, and Rodrick hits the ice sculpture, a lighting crew is seen on top of a table in the background.
When the Cranium shaker moves upwards, we see some mountain scenery and movie studio buildings below, and not the usual boardwalk scenery where the movie should take place.
The characters played by Joshua J. Ballard and Matt Mazur are swapped in the end credits; in fact, Ballard was Spag Union Tracking Device Boy, and Mazur was Spag Union Math Boy.
When Frank Heffley checks his watch and says that he's late for work, he looks at his left arm, which doesn't have a watch on it. However, this was deliberate and not a mistake, as Frank needed an excuse to leave and so didn't bother to check the time properly.
Although the movie is set during the summer holidays, fall foliage is visible throughout the film.
Greg's Xbox 360 is working in Dog Days, but in Rodrick Rules (film) his black Xbox 360 is broken by Manny. Either Susan or Frank bought him one after Rodrick Rules (film) and before Dog Days (2012 film).
Greg hacks Mr. Jefferson's computer and tries to send a message to his mom but accidentally sends it to everyone, while he's dragging the icon with the cursor, it says that he's sending 668 emails to everyone, but in the morning, Mr. Jefferson says he receives 949 emails.
- It's likely that more than one person responded twice to the message.
When Greg is writing his message on the computer to his mom, he writes the word "Help" twice. This isn't an error, but it actually happened in the book.
The receptionist of the Country Club says they don't employ minors, but Heather, who is 16, works as a lifeguard.

The Long Haul (2017 film)[]

Greg accidentally enters the wrong hotel room (the Beardos' room) after all the lights turn off and everyone going to bed, he didn't even know that he was in someone else's room until he woke up in the morning. But the room he went to wouldn't be accessible since he doesn't have the key.
When Rodrick is talking to the old lady apologizing for toilet papering her house, it's obvious that he's not really talking to her, because the phone has been on the lock screen the whole time, even when he gives it back to Susan.
Greg accidentally drops the Cheez Curls in the hot tub spreading cheese powder all over, but later in the movie, he suddenly has the bag of them in his hand and feeds some to the birds which they take away; however, Rodrick could've bought 2 bags of Cheez Curls.
When Greg steps on a bug in the bathroom, the squishing sound is heard sounding like it's dead but all of a sudden when he lifts his foot up off the floor, it's suddenly still alive and moves.
In the 1:01:35 of the movie you can see a man inside the boat.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021 film)[]

Before trick-or-treating, Greg hands Manny an invisible Halloween pumpkin bucket, one that clips over Greg's leg making it partially invisible.
When Greg walks through the school hallway feeling sad, his shoes clip through the floor. This also happens during the lunch scene when Greg is sitting down on the floor after getting knocked over by a girl who decided to sit next to Rowley.
When Greg drops his white bag, it kind of clips over his shoe.
At 13:01, Greg's lock number is #1523. However, at 46:51, Greg's lock number is now #1415.
When Greg accidentally hits that square-headed brown boy with the yellow shirt while spitting or something on him, the water disappears, and then it's on Greg.
Part of the front of Greg's nose clips through the floor when he tries to get his head to stand up for a split second after the bully pushes him over after he amazes people when walking down the hallway.
When the girl that is next to George Deveney throws gum at Ronnie McCoy, it would have popped immediately after once it touched Ronnie, not after 2 seconds.
Rowley's console clips through his shirt/body at the end of the film.

Rodrick Rüles (2022 film)[]

Some of Greg's head clips through the door when he and Rowley are sleeping and leaning against the door.
Patty Farrell is shown to have misspelled as "Patty Ferrel" in the pamphlet under act one of the Talent Show. This could be a spelling error.

Cabin Fever (2023 film)[]

Greg stops moving after running down the stairs before Santa's Scout head moved at 37:31.
Plainview is mistakenly called "Plainville" on the snowplow lady's truck.