Continuity mistake: When Barney's outside the bank loading his gun with the bullet, there are window blinds on the inside of the doors' windows - nothing else, but when Barney's inside the bank there are white shades between the glass panes and the blinds. As for the bank's large side window the opposite happens - there's a white shade between the pane of glass and blinds in the exterior shot, but in the interior shots we can see through the blinds' slats and there's no shade.
Super Grover
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Other mistake: When Andy and Helen are in the squad car alone after going to the movies with Gloria, both car doors are closed, but in the closeups from outside both sides of the car, note that both triangular vent windows are missing and we can see the doors' rubber seal - both doors are open for these closeups.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Visible crew/equipment: When Gloria and Frank drive off at the end, just as the camera zooms in on Andy and Helen, the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible at the top, left side of the screen.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Case of the Punch in the Nose - S5-E25
Other mistake: In the shots from outside the courthouse, when the front door is opened there's a wall where none should be, presumably to prevent seeing inside the courthouse facade.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Other mistake: After the preacher walks past Andy and Sam, when the two men comment that the preacher's sermons "go on" and are "dry as dust," we can tell that all of the store's glass window panes have been removed, presumably to avoid the crew/camera's reflections as the shot pans across the window to Howie.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Arrest of the Fun Girls - S5-E28
Continuity mistake: When Helen and Thelma Lou walk into the courthouse and find Andy and Barney dancing with Daphne and Skippy, there are lipstick marks on Barney's cheek, but when Andy gives Skippy her sweater and radio then tells them both to go, in the closeups the lipstick marks are gone, though they reappear momentarily.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Arrest of the Fun Girls - S5-E28
Other mistake: When Andy, Helen, and Thelma Lou are parked in front of the courthouse the lights turn on, and in the closeups from outside both sides of the car, note that both triangular vent windows are missing - the two doors are actually open for these closeups. This happens again later, when Andy and Barney are each apologizing individually to Helen and Thelma Lou.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Arrest of the Fun Girls - S5-E28
Continuity mistake: When Daphne and Skippy drop in on Andy and Barney at the courthouse and want to "play jail," Skippy carries the radio and her sweater into the jail cell with her, but when Skippy asks for her ukulele we see the radio and sweater are now on the side desk, under the gun case.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Aunt Bee's Invisible Beau - S5-E27
Other mistake: After Andy talks to the butter and egg man in Mt. Pilot, when Andy gets in the squad car with Barney all the car doors are closed, but in the closeups from outside both sides of the car, note that both triangular vent windows are missing - the two doors are actually open for these closeups.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Aunt Bee's Invisible Beau - S5-E27
Revealing mistake: When Clara and Aunt Bee are talking in the kitchen, in the closeups facing Aunt Bee we see the counter, the cabinet, and the wall, but what we don't see are the curtains, the window, or the windowsill, which all should be on that wall. The fake window wasn't placed on the set wall for Bee's closeup.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Opie Flunks Arithmetic - S5-E30
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Helen shows up at the courthouse and tells Andy that Opie got a B+ on the test, her purse vanishes and then reappears while she's sitting on the banister beside the desk.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Opie Flunks Arithmetic - S5-E30
Continuity mistake: When Barney, Andy, and Aunt Bee are at the table after Opie goes upstairs to study, in shots that face all three of them there are things on the middle shelf to the left and right of the center plate, but then in other shots either the left item is gone, or the right item is gone.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Opie Flunks Arithmetic - S5-E30
Other mistake: When Aunt Bee walks out of the grocery/meat store the door's located between the grocery's one display window and the TV display window, but the grocery store actually has two display windows with its door between the two. This was shot on the soundstage, not backlot.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Opie's Job - S6-E1
Other mistake: In the scenes outside the grocery store with Mr. Doakes, there are a couple dozen cereal boxes in the display windows - Post Grape Nuts, Post Grape Nuts Flakes, Post Alpha Bits, etc., and all the boxes have part of their names covered, such as "Rap Ut." It's pretty funny considering that TAGS cast did commercials for Post Grape Nuts, and other Post foods.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Opie's Job - S6-E1
Visible crew/equipment: When Goober walks up to Andy outside the grocery/meat store, before Goober picks up the apples we can see a chalk mark on the ground between his feet.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Opie's Job - S6-E1
Continuity mistake: We see the exterior of the grocery/meat store a few times during this episode, and there are differences in things such as the actual facade of the building, the view through the doorway, etc.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Opie's Job - S6-E1
Continuity mistake: When Opie and Billy are both heading to the grocery store to apply for the job, the church is behind the boys and they're standing in front of the 'new and used furniture' store - both of which are to the right of the courthouse (when facing the courthouse), and to the left of the courthouse are the barbershop and the grocery/meat store.When the boys run across the street, they're coming from the opposite direction.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Andy's Rival - S6-E2
Other mistake: After Helen calls Andy to cancel their date, it cuts to Goober and Andy walking down the street and there's a brick wall adjacent to the grocery/meat store which should not exist.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Other mistake: When John Canfield's talking to Floyd, Andy, and the other men they're in front of the display window, which doesn't have any panes of glass.
18th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Visible crew/equipment: When Floyd and the other men are with John Canfield joking about Floyd's barber skills, a chalk T-mark is visible on the ground by the man with his foot on the bench. Then when Canfield walks away we can see more chalk marks on the ground.
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