Super Grover

28th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

An Ounce of Prevention - S6-E13

Continuity mistake: After Early has examined the woman who was stuck up on the ferris wheel with her husband, he tells her she could go to the waiting room, and when Early leaves treatment 2 the stethoscope is around his neck, but next shot from the hallway as he exits the stethoscope is gone.

Super Grover

28th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Paper Work - S6-E11

Continuity mistake: When John's in the storm drain with the boy, in the closeups the water rushing from the broken hydrant has a very strong current, and Roy's holding the boy's head up out of the water, but in the wide shots the current is nearly calm, nowhere as intense as the closeups, and Roy's not holding the boy's head.

Super Grover

28th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Computer Terror - S6-E9

Continuity mistake: While Roy and John are with the man whose back went out, when Thadeus runs off with the BP cuff and Roy chases him, Roy has the stethoscope around his neck with the chest piece hanging down, but once Roy falls into the pool the chest piece is suddenly tucked down into the front of Roy's shirt.

Super Grover

28th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Captain Hook - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: During the police chopper rescue, three ropes are tied off onto Engine 51's eyes, and when Mike backs the engine up while the stokes carrying Frank is pulled up, in shots facing the engine the three lines are being pulled backwards simultaneously, but in the shots of Marco, the stokes, and the ground, only the line with the stokes is being pulled up, the other two ropes are lying on the ground completely still.

Super Grover

28th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

The Exam - S6-E7

Continuity mistake: When Roy and John are helping Jeanine get her head unstuck from the table, Jeanine's braid is very loose and coming apart, but when her head is free and she jumps into her mother's arms, Jeanine's braid is braided properly.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Saddled - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: After treating the girl who had a soda pop bottle explode in her face, when John and Roy are carrying the stretcher out the door, they're facing the stretcher and each other in the interior shot, but in the exterior shot John has turned around, with his back facing Roy while carrying the stretcher.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: On scene at the drunk's car accident with the little girl trapped in the car, in the shots facing the girl's mother she's standing with Vince behind the back of the car, near the crowd of bystanders, but in Roy's closeups while he's in the car with Debbie getting her vitals, we see the mother's legs (note her yellow polka-dot dress) right behind Roy, near the open front passenger door.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Peace Pipe - S2-E5

Continuity mistake: After watching the movie on TV, Chet says he has royal Indian blood, and when Johnny walks over to Chet he puts his arm around Chet's shoulder, and tells him it's called, "White man royalty syndrome," then it cuts to a closeup of Roy, and we see Chet still standing by himself.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Show Biz - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: After Early tells Dixie about the patient with an unknown illness, in the shot from the hallway, we see Carol taking him into treatment 4, which has a windowless door, but when Morton is examining him in the shot from inside the room there's a window on the door (looks like treatment 6).

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Show Biz - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When the woman from the car accident is brought to the ER, she's put into treatment 4, as mentioned by Dixie and all three doctors, and it has a windowless door, but when Early and Morton are speaking to the patient about the car accident, they're all in a treatment room with a window on the door (looks like 6, the one opposite the nurses' station).

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Kids - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the injured hiker (John Travolta), after the gear-filled stokes is lowered to them Johnny places it right behind the hiker's head, but in the hiker's closeups the stokes basket vanishes, only to reappear in wide shots.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Saddled - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: While the children from the bus accident are being lowered on 43's snorkel, Roy and Johnny are in the bus with the nun. Then even though quite some time has passed, by the time Roy and John are ready to free her from the wreck, it cuts to the shot of the same children still being lowered on the snorkel.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Saddled - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: After Sister Barbara is brought to the ER, when Dixie tells Roy to get coffee with her, Dixie has long nails with light colored polish as usual, but when it cuts to the closeup of Dixie's hands getting coffee from the urn, the long nails are unpolished.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Trainee - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: Just after the paramedics witness the purse snatching, when Johnny and Ed take off after the two purse snatchers, there are four cars parked at the curb in front of the squad, but just before Johnny leaps over the white picket fence, behind him we see that there are now six parked cars in front of the squad.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Crash - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: When the babysitter runs into Rampart with the child who swallowed phenobarbital pills, Brackett picks the boy up and carries him into treatment 5 (window on door), but in the following shots from inside the room we can see they're actually in treatment 2 (windowless door and set up differently). Then after they place the pacemaker Dixie leaves the room, and in the shot from the hallway she's coming out of treatment 5.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Hang-Up - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: While Brackett is treating the man who was in a fight, it cuts to Early walking down the hallway, and in the shot from the hallway he's entering treatment 4 which is beside the nurses' station, but in the next shot from inside the room we see he's actually in treatment 2, the one beside the receiving entrance.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Crash - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: After Sharon calls out Dr. Early's name in the hallway, because paging him didn't occur to her, when she finds Early they walk into treatment 2 in the shot from the hallway, but in the shot from inside the room they're all in treatment 5, not 2.

Super Grover

24th Jun 2014

Emergency! (1972)

Weird Wednesday - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: When the guys are listening to the baseball game on the radio, dispatch drops tones for Engine 16 and only Squad 51, yet Chet turns the radio off, and all the engine company guys rush out of the day room then head to their rig, even though it's only Roy and John that were dispatched.

Super Grover

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