Continuity mistake: When the crew are looking at the radar, Lister is looking at the crew in one shot then at the radar in the next. (00:06:10)
Continuity mistake: When the crew run down the alley after the chase, the order that they go in changes between Starbug and the hallucination. (00:22:40)
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Continuity mistake: Just before the damage report machine explodes, the room is full of smoke. As it explodes, all the smoke is gone. (00:07:40)
Continuity mistake: When the book "Roots of Coincidence" is first seen it's a paperback but later in the episode it's suddenly a hardback.
Continuity mistake: When Rimmer shows Lister the luck virus and sexual magnetism virus, there is less than half of the liquid shown in the test tube for the sexual magnetism, but when Rimmer is about to go to Hollister's dinner later on, there is more liquid in the test tube. There was also only one test tube of sexual magnetism for Rimmer to use. (00:12:15 - 00:18:10)
Continuity mistake: When Lister tells Cassandra he is not going to kill her, he sticks his chewing gum on the wall and begins walking out. Seconds later, when the fan causes the gum to fly across the room, Lister is now standing inside the room. (00:27:15)
Continuity mistake: After the Cat has performed his dance routine, he begins to smoke a cigar and puts it down. The shot cuts to the ground controller, but when the shot cuts back to the Cat, the cigar is back in his mouth and has already been smoked. (00:10:30)
Continuity mistake: When Kill Crazy and Baxter are about to beat up Rimmer and Lister, as Baxter says "Say goodbye to your teeth", Kill Crazy has his hand pressed against Rimmer's jaw, advancing his face towards Rimmer's, but when Baxter goes to punch Lister, Kill Crazy's hand is by his side and is stood away from Rimmer. (00:19:50)
Continuity mistake: When Baxter tries to punch Lister the first time and fails, Kill Crazy is looking at Lister with his arms by his side, but in the next shot, Kill Crazy is now looking at Rimmer and doing motioning actions with his arms and face. (00:19:55)
Continuity mistake: When Thornton places the bracelet on Lister's arm, Lister's arm is at a straight angle, but in the next shot, his arm is at a rotated angle. (00:12:15)
Continuity mistake: The view of space outside the window in Rimmer and Lister's bunk shows a completely still background, but every other view of space through a window shows the ship moving. (00:14:10)
Continuity mistake: When the crew are in the cockpit when Ace Rimmer is entering their dimension, Rimmer hopes that it is not him. When he says this, there is smoke around him, but this smoke was not there in the previous shot. (00:10:45)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the scene where the crew are giving Rimmer a funeral, Lister is shown clutching his "tie", and turns to Kryten, but in the next shot, he is suddenly looking up at the ceiling. (00:24:25)
Continuity mistake: When the crew meet the alternate dimension crew, both crews are standing side by side, but when the two Listers shake each other's hands, the Cat and Kryten from both crews have disappeared.
Continuity mistake: In the Aigburth Arms, when Frank hands the box with baby Lister to the barmaid, the barmaid takes the box placing her hand on top of the box, but in the next shot, her hand is suddenly on the side of the box.
Continuity mistake: When hologram Lister has finished explaining to the crew why he is dead, the crew are standing side by side, but when Lister asks what happened to Kochanski, Cat and Kryten have vanished.
Continuity mistake: When Lister is watching the video message of a psiren, posing as Kochanski, Lister asks "How? I don't understand" and Kochanski, on the video appears to move her face beginning to reply, but when the shot cuts back to the video, Kochanski's face is suddenly still. (00:16:20)
Continuity mistake: When Lister finishes pouring a glass of Bucks Fizz, he begins to place the jug back on the table with his hand still on it, but in the next shot, the jug is now on the table with Lister's hand nowhere near it. (00:20:20)
Continuity mistake: When Rimmer suggests bringing Legion with him, Lister says he's not going to come with them, and asks if he would ever join in on their late night sessions of pin the pointy stick on the weather girl. At The End of the line, Lister is looking to the right, but in the next shot, he is suddenly looking downwards. (00:12:35)
Answer: The cello is a large four-stringed instrument, which, when it is played, stands vertically on the floor between the player's legs (assuming they are seated). If it is to grow as large as the other instuments mentioned will, it would require a rather unseemly lack of femininity to be able to encompass it with the legs.
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