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| Rank | Title | Mistake |
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| 1 | The Simpsons | After the donut delivery guy asks Carl why all the donuts are piling up, Carl responds with Lenny's voice. |
| 2 | Desperate Housewives | Episode 1-20 - Fear No More. As Carlos is giving his speech at the barbecue, Julie sees Zach and says to Susan "Oh God". After cutting to a shot of Zach and his father it shows Julie and Susan again. If you look to the right of the shot you will see Carlos' face is just looking in front of him and not speaking, but you can still hear him giving his speech whilst he is in shot. |
| 3 | Friends | At the start when Joey comes into Monica's appartment and does his little dance number, watch his mouth on his way out; it's totally out of sync with what he is saying. |
| 4 | Drake and Josh | Ep. 2-18 "Drake and Josh Go Hollywood" - Near the end when Drake is playing Hollywood Girl and gets into the bridge (the steady drum beat part) you can obviously tell he's mouthing the words. |
| 5 | Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Rita is dubbed over extremely poorly - her words don't match her mouth. |
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| 6 | Only Fools and Horses | In one of the scenes where you see Del trying to sell some skiiwear at the market, his lips are obviously saying something totally different to what he actually says. They have dubbed over the original soundtrack. |
| 7 | Family Guy | When Peter introduces the pope to his friends at work, and he is saying "Remember when we got that stripper for Charlie and it turned out to be his son? I think this is gonna top it" or something along those lines), Peter's mouth very obviously does not sync up with the words being said. |
| 8 | SpongeBob SquarePants | In the scene where Spongebob is falling into Gary's dream, Spongebob is screaming for at least one second after he hits the ground. |
| 9 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | In one scene, when Warrick is in the prints lab, Nick claps his hands twice, but the sound track has him clapping three times. |
| 10 | Dawson's Creek | In the scene in the pharmacy, when Pacey says "20 milligrams", his mouth doesn't move. |
| 11 | Red Dwarf | During the conversation in which Holly wants to prove he has an IQ of 6000 (while Lister and the Cat are scrubbing the floor), there is a brief moment where you can see the TV Holly is on (at an angle). You can hear sound coming from him, but his lips aren't moving. |
| 12 | South Park | After the news anchor says his first sentence, his voice changes, almost like a different person. |
| 13 | Drawn Together | Season 1 Episode 2: "Clara's Dirty Little Secret". When Princess Clara and her Evil Stepmother make up, the latter thanks Clara before the scene switches to the Confession Room. When she says 'Thank you', her lips do not move. |
| 14 | Buffy The Vampire Slayer | Buffy's scream and Joyce's scream are completely identical. The same scream was obviously used for both of them. |
| 15 | The Vicar of Dibley | During the scene where Jim and Owen are trying to bribe the Vicar with chocolates, just after they take them back, you can hear a mysterious voice say "chocolates". The only person who this sounds like is Jim, but in the next shot, his lips aren't moving. |
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| 16 | Angel | The lips of the Newscaster's who reports on Conner taking over the sports store do not match what she is saying at all. |
| 17 | Dad's Army | Jonesy is playing the organ. A pigeon 'flies' out the top of the organ and lands on the keys, so Jonesy picks it up and moves it, taking both his hands off the keys. Yet the music plays on. |
| 18 | Doctor Who (1963) | In episode two, the Cyberleader misses a button on his console, yet we still hear a beep... |
| 19 | Smallville | Clark listens to his father and Earl talking in the hospital through the visitor window. The sound is the same volume and quality as when Earl was using the microphone, which he is not using now. Even if Clark used super-hearing to eavesdrop, it wouldn't sound the same as the microphone. |
| 20 | Xena: Warrior Princess | When Xena says "It seems so haphazard" the word haphazard is said with her Kiwi accent. |
| 21 | Stargate SG-1 | Near the very end, when SG-1 have been captured, Daniel says "it's a good day to die", but the subtitles say that O'Neill says the line. |
| 22 | The Brady Bunch | When Mike walks into the kitchen and sees the chart with the list of kids on it and what ailments they've had, he comments on one of the ailments, saying "None of the kids have had distemper." However, if you watch his mouth, he appears to have originally said "rabies." |
| 23 | CSI: NY | When Mac and co. enter the basement of the house in Queens (the one where the third woman was found) the record player lifts off its needle and moves to another spot on the record, cutting off the sound for a second. However, the music starts again slightly before the needle hits the record. |
| 24 | Hey Arnold! | When Arnold is playing chess with the Sewer King, Arnold jumps across the table and knocks the King over. This sequence appears to be sped up: the toilet crashes way after it is destroyed, and the King says "Noooooooooooo," yet his mouth never moves. |
| 25 | Reno 911! | When Deputy Williams and Deputy Johnson walk up to the man Williams asks him if he used the brick he is holding to brake the car's window. He answers "Nope, I don't need a brick if I wanted to brake a window." You can see his lips about halfway through the statement and they are not moving. |
| 26 | Dark Shadows | 1840: During a graveyard scene, the village bells are tolling the hour, but someone forgets to kill the sound effects tape. The chimes strike sixteen-o'clock. |
| 27 | The Sopranos | In the first long shots of Visiting Day playing at the club, the lead vocal is heard, but the singer is standing well back from the mic and does not appear to be singing. |
| 28 | Brass Eye | Almost all the newsroom links in this episode were redubbed, and at times the overdub falls entirely out of sync. When Austin Tasseltine begins speaking one of his lines before Morris has finished, the latter's "Belt up, will you?" is an ad-libbed response to this mistiming. |
| 29 | The High Chaparral | After the Apaches rescue Blue, Buck signs to their leader and says, "Vaya con Dios to you too, brother." But his lips never move. |
| 30 | Monk | Sharona and Benjy are forbidden access to their damaged apartment building. The policeman tells them to call a certain emergency number, but when he says this, his lips aren't moving. |