Best TV corrections of 2004

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There Won't Be Trumpets - S1-E17

Corrected entry: When Bree and Lynette are walking to Juanita's funeral, Bree says "You have to hand it to Gabi and Carlos. They do grief better than anyone." However, her mouth doesn't say Gabi and Carlos. This is because they originally said "You have to hand it to Catholics. They do grief better than anyone." But due to the death of the pope it was dubbed.

Correction: I do believe this only happens in some versions of it - maybe certain places/times that it was aired. The version I have, she still says "the Catholics".

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Correction: The show is not recorded with mikes, no show is. The show is filmed with booms - overhead microphones on sticks.

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Corrected entry: When Boone and Locke first find the hatch there is a river flowing almost right next to it. But whenever the hatch is visited hereafter there is no river to be seen anywhere.

Correction: In fact it was pretty bad weather when they found the hatch. There wasn't a river, but rainwater gushing down the slopes.

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Pilot - S1-E1

Corrected entry: When Drake is talking to Tiffany, the back of her hair is completely straight. When the camera goes to the back of her head, her hair is messed up, then when the camera goes back to the back of her head, her hair is straight again.

Correction: It is only slightly messed up, you see Tiffany shake her head when she says something like 'I don't mind that at all', her could have gotten slightly messed up from that.

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Not Pictured - S2-E22

Corrected entry: In the last episode of season 2, Veronica is walking into a Woody's restaurant. The signs on the inside say Woodys, but the sign on the door is a star. The star is known for Carl's Jr. on the west coast, or the symbol for Hardy's on the east coast.

Correction: This is no mistake. The wording under the star is somewhat hard to read, but definitely says neither of those names.

Knever

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The Return, Part 1 - S3-E10

Corrected entry: When Dr. Weir is distracting the scientist by talking about World of Warcraft, he says that he has a level 75 character. The maximum character level is 60 at the moment, and 70 with the forthcoming expansion pack. Not a character mistake, as he clearly knows enough about The Game.

pross79

Correction: Who's to say the WoW game in the Stargate universe operates exactly as ours? Their base game, or the newest expansion could allow up to level 75 characters.

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Hot Tub - S1-E1

Corrected entry: When Wooldoor is trapped in Spanky's bubble, he wears a blue-and-white striped bathing suit. But when the bubble bursts next morning, Wooldoor wears his usual attire - white T-shirt and blue shorts.

Correction: Wooldoor is seen doing a lot of crazy things (keeping things in his butt, using his eyes as projectors) changing clothes must be another one of these "talents".

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Corrected entry: In the episode "virtu-date," when Pim is jump-roping with that other girl, she does a lot of things (make a deck of cards, file nails etc.), but when she is done, the stuff is gone with nowhere else to put it.

logan crews

Correction: It's a joke. In no way is this scene to be taken literally.

Brad Premium member

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The Day Fuckers - S4-E7

Corrected entry: When Turtle and Drama are looking for potential sex partners on the Internet for Turtle, they spot a link for the "furry." Turtle starts dialing her number on his phone, but neither one of them ever clicks on the link, and thus, there is no way he could have known her number.

Correction: I just watched the episode and Turtle did move his hand with the mouse that means he clicked the link open. Just because the audio isn't attached to his action doesn't mean he didn't do it. The mouse could have also had a scroll button which makes clicking very quick and easy.

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Corrected entry: Guy hijacked a hospital ambulance in a drunken state and went on a rampage in it all night, holding two, (one unwilling, Martin), people who could be construed as hostages and then crashing the ambulance over a cliff which ended with Mac in a coma. After all that he is back working at the hospital within eight weeks as though nothing happened.

Correction: This is simply not true! Guy gets into a lot of trouble. He is under review from the hospital board and not allowed to work fully. He has to do community service, which involves painting over some graffiti outside the hospital, or teaching some children how to play "guyball", and he also loses his driver's license hence the more bizarre ways of getting to work (rickshaw, jetski, etc).

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The Thing About Heroes - S4-E10

Corrected entry: Stella realises the 333 stalker is Drew because the jigsaw puzzle piece she picked up from under his chair when she was looking for the missing piece from the puzzle with blue crosses was in fact from the puzzle with green crosses, which they had not yet received. Yet she goes back to the lab and places this piece in to the puzzle to complete it.

Correction: Stella went and got this puzzle piece after she found the first piece, from her car, and it was assembled (for them to realise it had a piece missing) but before they found the second puzzle. They then found the second puzzle, noting it also had a missing piece. However, Stella didn't figure out the missing piece they found at Drew's place came from the second puzzle until after Adam explained the x's thing, and she had another look at it, so she could then go place it in the right building, as they had assembled both puzzles together.

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Heartless - S1-E8

Corrected entry: Natalie reads a newspaper article about the Gates Falls Mills fire, which states that the mill used child labor in sixteen hour shifts "to meet the incessant demand for uniforms for the Union army." It goes on to lament the sadness of these events of "All Souls Day [November 1], 1869." But the Civil War ended in 1865, after which the terminology "Union army" would not have been used.

DavidK93

Correction: Yes, but in the finale, Mrs. Druse states that the war ended before the Mill burned and the shifts went from 16 to 12 hours. In the newspaper they were just giving a bit of background info.

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The Con Is On - S1-E1

Corrected entry: When Ash takes all of the money out of the rigged cash machine, we see a few £50 notes (pink in colour). Cash machines don't pay out £50 notes due to the rate of counterfeit notes produced.

DoubleCheese14

Correction: At the time the series was shot a number of ATMs in London were stocked with £50 notes. They were mainly in popular tourist spots like Westminster, Kensington and Covent Garden. The original posting is incorrect.

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Corrected entry: In 'Electro' (Season 1 Episode 7), during the black and white scene there are several moments where Noel Fielding's white skin can be seen poking out of his sleeve while he is dressed as the Spirit of Jazz, despite the character's skin being black.

Correction: The Spirit of Jazz isn't black - he is a striking, black and white pattern. His wrists are white, part of the pattern. Not a mistake.

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Corrected entry: How on earth can an unemployed actor with a non-paying tenant afford a huge, luxurious, two bedroom apartment, complete with balcony and communal hot-tub, all within a few miles of the Hollywood sign? That's the expensive side of L.A., and he'd be very lucky to get that apartment for US$4,000 a month.

Correction: Joey was on "Days of Our Lives" right up until he left New York, so he probably had some money put back to start out with. And now, he's on a popular show called "Deep Powder", an OC-type nighttime soap, so he's got plenty of money to pay for his place.

LuMaria 1

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All My Ex's - S1-E7

Corrected entry: At the end of the episode when everyone is in the interrogation room, Davis lists the mistakes made during the remodeling: the one-way glass was installed the wrong way, the intercom doesn't work, and the door locks from the wrong side. Oscar then discovers that they are all locked in the room. This is how interrogation room doors are supposed to lock, but judging by Davis' intelligence, he probably doesn't know that. (00:18:40)

throcko

Correction: So what you're saying is Davis is not smart enough to know the lock is supposed to prevent exit from the interrogation room. Which is in fitting with his character, and thus, not a mistake.

rswarrior

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Mad Cows - S5-E7

Corrected entry: They are voting with a Colorado voting rights sign in the background. The show is based in Boston. (00:38:00)

Correction: Shirley went to her second home in Colorado to vote there as Massachusetts was already in the bag according to Carl Sack.

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