Frasier (1993) - 721 mistakes in entire show

Continuity: There was an episode in which Martin attempts to end a feud between Frasier and Niles by telling a story about his detective partner. He starts with the line, "I never had a brother...", but in the episode about Frasier's cousin Nikos getting married, Martin's brother Walt was introduced.

Continuity: Frasier is based on the character originally created on Cheers. In Fraiser, he lives with his father who is a retired police man. On Cheers, Frasier once mentioned his father was a scientist. It's also worth noting that in one episode of Cheers, John Mahoney, who was to later play Frasier's dad, turns up as a pianist. Frasier also said on Cheers that his father was dead. When Ted Danson made a guest appearance on Frasier, Frasier admitted that he had lied about his father since the two had been arguing so much.

Deliberate "mistake": The background of the street scene from Frasier's apartment balcony shows cars and other vehicles but they are always standing still.

Continuity: Across the show, Marty is supposed to be about 21 years older than Frasier (he turns 65 in season 5). There are at least two problems with his age - Frasier is supposed to have been born in March 1952 and in Season 5 (Roz and the Schnoz) Marty mentions going on shore leave as a single guy in 1952. Even if he was confused about the year, Frasier didn't call him on it. He must have done just a short stint in Korea as he was already a cop when he met Frasier's mother - they met at a murder scene, and he must have been 20 years old at the most. She was already a full fledged psychiatrist.

Revealing: The view from Frasier's apartment shows the Space Needle prominently in the background, however, the elevator that takes visitors from the ground to the observation deck is frozen in time midway to the top. This was corrected after the first season.

Continuity: Near the end of the show, when Roz is telling Frasier about Lupe Velez, the wall clock in her booth shows the time to be 3:45. About 5 minutes pass, although the story only takes a couple of minutes, and there is no other action in the scene. The clock actually goes backward after that, showing 3:50 and then about 3:48 in the next shot.

Continuity: During the first episode of Frasier there is a painting of some vases in Frasier's apartment which is at the end of the hall leading on to Daphne's room. In this episode the painting has a red and purple background, however in 'Here's looking at you' (S1, 2 mins 52 secs) the exact same painting is now red and blue. It remains this new colour for the entire 11 seasons.

Continuity: At the beginning of the show, when Roz is telling Frasier the mistakes he's made, the clock shows 4:52. However, after she says "you kept referring to Jerry.as Jeff", the clock is reading 4:50.

Continuity: In the scene where Daphne first comes to the apartment, the beer can and remote control on Martin's side table change positions between shots.

Continuity: When Martin lies back in the chair for the first time, it changes how slanted it is in the first two shots.

Continuity: When Daphne first arrives at the apartment and is complimenting Martin's chair, his plate moves around on the side table between shots.

Continuity: Frasier (and later the others) come back to his apartment to avoid the rain - they shake off umbrellas, and we even hear the storm at the very start of the scene. However there's no rain on the balcony - can't be covered, as we see in "call me irresponsible" during the obligatory sex scene that when it's raining the balcony gets soaked.

Continuity: When Frasier and Niles are eating the steaks at the restaurant that Martin brought them to, in some shots you can see Frasier's baked potato, and in others from the same angle it is not visible.

Continuity: In the scene where Niles meets Daphne for the first time she is folding laundry and is holding a tee shirt that switches back and forth from being over her arm to being held in her fingers while they talk.

Continuity: During the opening credits, Frasier is playing the piano and Martin is going through papers on the table. When Marty says "I don't know, Eddie, must you?" there is something pink lying on the table. The shot goes back to Eddie and then back to the table, but the pink item has disappeared.

Continuity: While Martin is saying grace, Eddie is sitting right on his backside staring at Frasier, who yells "will you stop staring!" The next shot, from behind Eddie, shows him noticeably leaning over on one haunch, even though there was no time for the change.

Continuity: Before they begin supper, Marty asks the boys if they still say a prayer before eating. His hands are clasped together in front of him, but in the next shot they are folded over each other.

Continuity: While Daphne is making psychic predictions about Marty's murder case, there is a pencil lying under some photos. In one shot the pencil has disappeared but it reappears again in later shots. The angle stayed the same.

Continuity: At the radio station, Roz waves her pencil at Frasier through the glass to wrap up his show; she has a KACL mug in her other hand. The next shot shows her actually leaning over to pick up the mug, without enough time for her to have put it down in the first place.

Deliberate "mistake": In the pilot episode, "The Good Son," Frasier has a telescope which is seen on his balcony. The telescope disappears for the next 3 episodes but in Ep. 5, Frasier gives his father a telescope as a gift. It remains as a prop for many seasons.

Continuity: When Daphne is setting up the soft ornaments along the top of the fireplace for the Christmas photo, she is just putting the first one on the mantelpiece, then the shot changes and she is positioning the second ornament.

Continuity: As Catherine is about to leave Frasier's apartment near the end of the episode, you can see the white shirt she is wearing constantly changes between shots. At times it is hanging out very loosely and in other shots it is neatly tucked in and positioned to the right.

Continuity: When Katherine confronts Frasier in the hall at KACL, her purse strap is over her forearm. But when the shot goes to Frasier, from behind her, the strap is over her shoulder.

Continuity: Near the start of the show, Roz is in her booth at KACL and takes out her lipstick and compact - we see her uncap the lipstick. Then Niles comes in an Frasier reintroduces them, and we see her uncap the lipstick again.

Continuity: Frasier is at the dining room table with Niles looking at Niles's childhood journal. He has his left hand ready to turn a page but in the next shot his hand is on the table, with no time for a natural shift.

Continuity: Frasier meets Bebe for the first time in the hall at KACL. She has her business card in her hand for part of the scene but after Frasier tells her he has a son, the card disappears - with no time for Bebe to have put it back in her purse.

Continuity: When Frasier and Niles are in the Cafe, Niles says something like "Why do you feel like that?" During this line Niles goes from putting sugar in his coffee to having the mug raised instantly.

Continuity: The pickle being eaten by Bulldog after he enters Frasier's apartment and sits down on his couch gets bigger after Bulldog takes a bite out of it.

Continuity: When Roz and Frasier are exchanging gifts, Roz takes her present out of its box and the box is still at least half covered in wrapping paper. In the next shot, no wrapping paper is visible around the box.

Continuity: When Roz and Frasier are exchanging gifts, when Frasier first puts the lid back on the gift box there is no tissue paper sticking out. In the next shot, a large sheet of red tissue paper is outside the box.

Continuity: Early in the show Frasier is wrapping a Xmas present for Roz. The shot cuts to Chopper Dave and then back to Frasier. A bow and gift tag have appeared on the gift, but there wasn't enough time for that to have happened naturally.

Continuity: When Bulldog is trying to persuade Frasier to cover his shift on Christmas Day, Bulldog's cup of eggnog jumps back and forth from sitting on the desk to in his hand.

Continuity: Marty, Elaine, and Frasier are sitting down to breakfast. Elaine picks up her mug and in the next shot we see her reach and pick it up again.

Continuity: When Frasier and Martin are looking at Frank examining the bowl, the cards on the table change position.

Continuity: When Frasier and Niles are in the cafe talking about the Topaz Room, the waiter goes from bending over the table to collect the money to upright a few feet from the table instantly.

Continuity: When the doorbell rings Martin leans over to put the cards down, you see him do it twice.

Continuity: When Linda opens her beer, her three piles of poker chips are arranged in a triangle. In the next shot, they are laid out in a line, but she has not moved them.

Continuity: When Martin is giving Niles ideas on how to win Maris back, the food on Martin's fork changes between shots.

Plot hole: Niles makes up Frasier's couch to sleep in and when he lies down he lets out a yelp - and pulls a plastic pirate's hook from behind the cushions. Earlier Niles had appeared wearing a pirate's costume but at no point did he have a hook, nor did he go near the couch. His overcoat had been on the floor the whole time so it couldn't have come from there. It would have been difficult for it to get behind the cushions unless deliberately shoved there, which we never saw and makes no sense anyway.

Continuity: In the opening scene when Daphne and Eric are talking, the dish towel over Eric's shoulder is laid flat in some shots, and is twisted up in others.

Plot hole: Niles phones Frasier to tell him Daphne is staying at his place because of the storm. Frasier's phone is in its usual place on the room divider/bookcase behind Marty's chair. After Frasier and Marty leave to rescue Daphne, Niles phones again and Eddie is standing up on a chair staring at the phone. Only problem is, the phone is over on Frasier's desk, where there normally is no phone. If he did have a phone there, it is only a few feet from the other one, which makes no sense.

Continuity: The time on Niles' musical clock changes time suddenly and frequently between shots, once from 9.00 to 10.55 to 11.25 almost instantly.

Continuity: Early in the show Niles shows up at Frasier's in his pirate outfit. He has a plastic knife in his sash which changes position noticeably several times during the scene (without Niles touching it).

Continuity: At the beginning of the show, Niles, Frasier and Daphne are at Cafe Nervosa. Daphne is standing up talking to Eric the server and Niles gets agitated, and spills sugar everywhere. Eric throws down a dish towel so they can clean it up. The dish towel appears and disappears several times during the scene.

Continuity: At the awards ceremony Frasier is being introduced to his rival Fletcher's mother. At one point Fletcher is holding his mother's hand but in the next shot their hands are nowhere near each other.

Continuity: When Roz and Frasier are sitting on the couch discussing how the other award nominees are courting the judges, the amount of champagne in Frasier's glass goes down dramatically without him drinking any.

Continuity: Just after Roz puts Bebe's bag on the table at the Cafe, we see her back at the counter - there was not enough time for this to happen naturally.

Continuity: Early in the show, Frasier is sitting in Cafe Nervosa with Niles and Bebe, drumming on the table with the fingers of his left hand. In the next shot his hand is pulled in, lying on the table in front of him.

Continuity: Early in the show, at Cafe Nervosa, Roz comes in and Bebe asks her to get her some coffee. Roz returns with a paper bag which she puts down on Bebe's right. In the next shot Bebe stands up with it in her left hand, but there was not enough time for it to change from the right to the left naturally.

Continuity: Roz has just received a call about Marty's missing chair and as Frasier comes into her booth, she is writing it down. As she says "I found the chair", she hands him the paper - but she goes from writing to handing it to him with no time in between.

Continuity: Early in the episode Martin puts a piece of tape on the seat of his chair, before Frasier accidentally gets it thrown out. However later on when Frasier gets the chair back (and in later episodes) that piece of tape is missing. It's possible it was ripped off of course, but wouldn't Martin have replaced it again if there was a hole in the chair?

Continuity: In the scene where Frasier and Niles are talking in Cafe Nervosa, the position of Niles hands and arms change a couple of times. At one point, while Frasier talks about the young woman he has met, Niles folds his arms in front of him but in the next shot to Frasier, we can see Niles fingers laced together - and then the shot returns to Niles with folded arms. They stay this way until another shot where he says "You were in a mall?" and his hands are suddenly on the table and one is lying over the other.

Continuity: When Bulldog is talking to Frasier in the booth a KACL, in one shot his left sleeve is pushed up his arm and his right sleeve is down to his wrist. In the next shot it's just the opposite - his right is pushed up and the left is down.

Continuity: When Frasier and Niles are in Cafe Nervosa, just as they are talking about Stanley Barrister, Frasier lays his hand on his knee, but in the next shot it is up on the table.

Continuity: Niles is leaving Frasier's with Daphne and as he says "it was a warm and friendly place", his raincoat strap goes from sticking out from his shoulder to lying flat on his chest.

Plot hole: Once the gang have arrived in Canada, Daphne is scared stiff of getting caught outside the USA. Marty explains they will just "smuggle" her back and Frasier and Niles are outraged at such deception. But to get into Canada, all of them would have had to declare their residence, birthplace, and reason for coming in. To get Daphne in in the first place, they must have lied. She would have had to show her passport as an alien. The Americans would have been allowed in without their passports, per diplomatic agreements. So the outrage of the boys makes no sense. As well, the woman in the giftshop sounds decidedly American to me (I'm a Canadian)- but perhaps she was one of those "guest workers". Also she asks for Canadian dollars - if this was a spontaneous visit, would they normally have Canadian cash on them? They lay something on the counter when they leave, but never receive the photo.

Continuity: While Frasier is driving, Marty has the map on his lap. During this scene the map changes appearance and size from shot to shot even though Marty never opens it up.

Continuity: As Frasier and Niles are starting work on their book, Marty gets four snacks and a beer and sits down in his chair. He gets up and we see the two bags that were behind the beer and can of something are now in front of them. Marty never touched them during that time.

Continuity: Martin and Frasier are having breakfast and Marty is making fun of Frasier's radio audience. In one shot Marty's arms are folding on the table in front of him over his newspaper - in the next shot one arm is stretched out over the newspaper and the other is at 45 degrees angle in front of him.

Continuity: While Frasier and Niles are having coffee outside at Cafe Nervosa, a red napkin is by Frasier's cuff. In the next shot it is suddenly in the center of the table, even though no one touched it.

Continuity: Towards the end of the episode, when Clarice is heading out on her date, her arms go from in front of her clasping her bag, to by her side in an instant between shots.

Continuity: When Frasier is complaining that he is not mentioned in the acknowledgments of the novel, he picks up the book and then slams it down on the desk. It sits face up, near the front of the desk. In the next shot of the desk, we see that the book is face down and has moved back.

Continuity: In the opening scene, Frasier is leaning against the bookcase. There is a shot of Daphne, and after her one line the doorbell rings. The shot then cuts to Frasier who is instantly at the door, although he has not had time to get there.

Continuity: Tom is sitting on Frasier's couch and has one hand on the arm of the couch and one on his knee. In the next shot he has both hands in front of him.

Continuity: Near the beginning of the show, Daphne is having a smoke, and Frasier takes it from her - her hand is on her knee but when the shot changes it is in her lap.

Continuity: Niles goes to Frasier's apartment and meets Tom, the new station manager. Niles is talking to him with his hands clasped in front of him but in the next shot his hand are clasped behind his back.

Continuity: Marty is patting Niles on the shoulder, comforting him over the destroyed flour child. The next shot shows him patting him on the back near his collar, with no time for the change in position.

Continuity: Frasier and Daphne are forging signatures on the get well card. In one shot they both have their pens quite a distance from the card but in the next shot they are both writing, without enough time for the change.

Continuity: Niles is holding baby Nathan in the hospital and Arleen takes him back because he's crying - suddenly the blanket is up around his head even though it was hanging loose before.

Continuity: When Frasier and Daphne are copying the names into the new get well card, we see Daphne using a pen with an orange lid. She puts the lid on the pen and sets it down. In the very next shot she is writing with the same pen.

Continuity: Arleen the cab driver is in labour. She pushes her hair back with her hand in one shot, but in the next it is back on the steering wheel, without enough time for this to happen in real time.

Continuity: Near the beginning of the show, Roz takes a large get well card into Frasier's booth - she has some papers as well, which are on top of the card. She lowers the card and the next shot shows the papers are under the card, with no time for changes in position.

Continuity: In the opening scene when Frasier sits on the desk to try and read the information on Roz's side of the glass, the blue book on the desk changes angle between shots.

Continuity: Near the end of the show, when Niles, Frasier, and Martin are at Duke's, Niles says, "I'm not here just for you, Dad" and he puts his hand on Marty's shoulder. The next shot shows him standing about two feet away, with his hands by his side.

Continuity: About two thirds of the way through the show, Marty and Frasier are talking in the living room. Marty is sitting in his chair with a glass of milk. One shot shows him with both hands on his milk, and then he puts his left hand on the arm of the chair. In the next shot his hands are around his glass of milk again.

Continuity: About halfway through the show, Daphne, Roz, Niles, Frasier and Marty are all in the living room. Roz hands Frasier a piece of paper, which he takes and starts to unfold it - in the next shot, he is taking the paper again.

Continuity: The waitress brings Frasier his coffee just as Niles begins to say "Anyway," and she is back behind the counter as he finishes the word. There just wouldn't be enough time in real life to do this.

Continuity: Bulldog is listening to Frasier talk to Madeline on the phone. Bulldog is holding the magazine under his arm, but in the next shot it is on top of the tape player and his hand is on top of it. There was no time for natural change.

Continuity: Frasier goes into his booth and puts down the magazine featuring Madeline with the page open. Bulldog comes in and looks at the page, and says how attractive she is. But it is definitely not the same page that Frasier had been looking at a couple of shots before.

Continuity: When Frasier comes into the living room, Marty's cigar box is open. The shot then shows Frasier talking to Eddie about his socks, and the cigar box is suddenly closed. At the end of the scene, the cigar box is open again.

Continuity: When Frasier is first looking at the magazine article featuring Madeline, we can see the page opposite the one he's looking at. The next shot shows a different page, even though he is supposedly looking at the same one, all the time exclaiming about how great she is.

Continuity: Marty is sitting at the dining room table and for a couple of shots he's eating potato chips with his right hand; the shot changes to him eating with the other hand, with no time for a natural shift.

Continuity: When Daphne and Martin are sitting at the dining table talking about Arty, Martin has a bowl of chips and a glass of milk which change position between shots.

Continuity: When Frasier and Martin are leaving Artie's hospital room, Frasier has the door about one-third open. Just before they leave, though, as Frasier says "next time he'll stay longer", the door is open much wider. Nobody opened it wider during that time.

Continuity: During the scene where Martin is apologizing to Artie in the hospital room, the photo of Artie's wife on the bedside table changes position about 45 degrees while they talk.

Continuity: Martin is drinking a glass of milk which is between his arm and a bowl of chips. Suddenly the milk is sitting well to the left, even though he didn't touch it.

Continuity: During the closing credits, while Bulldog is in his booth, his horn changes position on the console by rotating 180 degrees.

Continuity: Roz is at Frazier's while Daphne massages her foot. They are talking about Bulldog and we can see one crutch behind her. When she says "I did not", there are two crutches behind her. Later in the scene it goes back to one crutch.

Continuity: As Frasier is leaving Roz's apartment, we can see her crutches behind her, leaning together and upright against the wall. In the next shot one has noticeably changed position but they go back to their original state a couple of shots later.

Continuity: In the scene where Daphne, Niles, and Frasier are at the table trying to solve the old murder case, the string and paper tag on Daphne's teabag changes sides in her mug.

Continuity: Frasier meets Heather in the bar. She is reading a book which she has propped open on the bar, but as they talk, she takes it off the bar and closes it in her lap. A couple of shots later we see book is back on the bar and she is closing it again.

Continuity: In Cafe Nervosa, Frasier has just checked the priest's briefcase, think its his own. In one shot his hands are down by his side but in the next split second his left hand is up at his neck and then patting his tie.

Continuity: When Daphne is telling her story about living in London, the towel on top of the laundry basket changes from being red to being blue, without her rearranging it.

Continuity: Daphne is visiting KACL and has Frasier's headset up to her ear and then down on the console in a split second, with not enough time to do this naturally.

Continuity: Niles is holding his raffle ticket booklet over its envelope as he picks up Honey Snow's tape. As he says "insightful, isn't she?" the raffle booklet is suddenly under the envelope.

Continuity: Niles is looking through Honey's book and closes it with his finger holding his place as Frasier says "I skirt the issue". The next shot shows Niles with the book open at a different page, with no time for the change.

Continuity: While Niles is filling out raffle tickets on the coffee table, sometimes the envelope is on his left and sometimes almost completely out of sight on his right, although he never moves it around.

Continuity: Honey puts both hands on Frasier's shoulders, but the next shot shows one around his shoulder and one around his back, with no time shift positions naturally.

Continuity: At the end of the episode after Sam mentions stewardesses he claps his hands, and his seat belt (which was caught on something) moves across his chest to the regular position. Cut to a wide shot of the car and Sam's seat belt is back to the position it was in before.

Continuity: Near the end of the show, at the end of the scene in Sam's hotel room, Frasier sits down on the couch; his raincoat is over his hands and wrists. The next shot shows his left hand and arm lying on top of his coat.

Continuity: Niles runs to Daphne's room with a full glass of sherry. He jumps into and out of the room and suddenly the glass is empty, even though he never drank from it, and it wasn't spilled.

Continuity: Roz, Niles and Frazier are in Cafe Nervosa having coffee. Niles has his hand open against his cup while Roz is making a suggestive remark but in the next shot his hands are laced together on the table.

Continuity: Frasier gets caught in Daphne's room for the second time and crouches down beside her bed with the quilt over his head. He then sneaks into the bathroom - the quilt is left hanging over the edge of the bed. Shortly afterwards he runs out of the bathroom and the quilt is now folded over, completely on top of the bed, even though no one went near it.

Continuity: When Frasier's date calls and cancels, we can see his overcoat covering the back of the couch, but in the next shot, as he says "fat chance", the coat has changed position and we can see several inches of the top of the couch.

Visible crew/equipment: During the closing credits, Frasier is sitting on his couch with a platter of meat beside him. Eddie is sitting up and begging for it and while he is doing this we can see the distinct shadow of his trainer's hand and arm against the couch. The hand goes higher and Eddie waves his paws higher and as the hand goes down, Eddie lowers his paws. Eddie keeps his eye on the trainer during this whole sequence. Once Frasier gives Eddie the platter of meat, the shadow disappears.

Continuity: Frasier and Roz are in his booth and Roz puts her chocolate bar on the counter. While Frasier is on the radio, we sometimes see it at his left elbow and sometimes it is not, even though the angle doesn't change.

Continuity: Right at the start, the tapes Roz is holding change hands at least twice. Although you can't often see both her hands, you sometimes see one and yet they still switch by the next shot.

Continuity: When Niles brings out the "Hot-Buns," he hands it to Martin who instantly in the next shot, is pulling it out from under him when Daphne comes in. There really wasn't time for him to put it under himself first.

Continuity: Niles has the "hot buns" pads under his right arm and his mittens in his right hand. The next shot shows he already has a mitten on his left hand even though there was not enough time for him to put it on.

Plot hole: Why can Niles hear what Frasier has said when he is inside the sensory deprivation tank? The whole point of these are that you cannot hear anything happening outside, so Frasier's ranting shouldn't have been heard inside. Similarly, why did the writers even have this scene with Frasier trying to talk to "Maris" when she was supposed to be inside it? Clearly they didn't quite know how soundproof they are.

Continuity: When the vase is broken during the swordfight, notice the way it has been damaged. When Niles comes back down the stairs, the damage to the vase is different.

Continuity: When Frasier is watching, and complaining about Xena, his hand alternates between being on the arm of the sofa and on his leg between shots.

Continuity: When he goes out of the window, Frasier takes off his tie, and there is then a closer shot of him. Suddenly his top shirt button is undone, which it wasn't in the wider shot.

Continuity: At the beginning of the show, Niles and Frasier are in Cafe Nervosa. As Niles says "Matthew Pimm tried to stage a coup", we can see Frasier's hand on his napkin next to his mug. As the shot changes, suddenly both of Frasier's hands are on his mug.

Continuity: Roz is at Frazier's talking about a possible replacement for him at KACL. As she says "you should she her nails", her arms are crossed over her chest but in the very next shot, they are down by her sides, with no time for the change.

Continuity: As Bebe says, "Darling, what you have is a fever" to Frasier, her hands are on the table in front of her. He says "what?" and the shot shows her elbows on the table and her hands are in the air, with no time for natural change.

Revealing: I think there might be something wrong with the eels in this episode. They don't move in the tank, despite being alive and don't move when taken out either. Moreover, you cannot actually see any in the tank with one exception. Rubber replacements not up to standard obviously.

Continuity: Frasier is holding a plate of food in the kitchen, but after Roz comes in with the exploded cherries jubilee all over her, the food on his plate has changed completely. It could not have been affected by the cherries jubilee explosion as he had his back to the door when that happened.

Continuity: During the scene where Niles tells the chef to serve the souffle in a large bowl, there is a large bowl of food next to him with no utensil in it. When Niles says "Table Twelve is still waiting for their entree", there is suddenly a utensil sticking up in the center of the bowl.

Continuity: Just before Marty says "Quack" to Daphne, his hands are in his lap. The next shot shows them on the arms of his chair.

Continuity: There is a bag of chips on Marty's little table that goes from being open but almost flat to being open much wider and the bag is very rounded, from one shot to another, but no one touches it.

Continuity: After Frasier is left alone in the apartment, we can see a glass of sherry and a can of beer on the coffee table, but neither item was on the table when he was talking to the others before they left the apartment. Roz's purse also shifted from the couch to the little glass table during the shot change.

Continuity: After Frasier passes the pink box with the birthday cake over to Daphne the box is closed. But when the doorbell rings the lid is about halfway open, with no time for this change.

Continuity: Just before Frasier says "What I want is to be left alone", Roz, Niles, Marty, and Daphne are standing at the door. The shot goes to Frasier, and then back to them, and they have all changed positions, with no time to have done this naturally.

Continuity: Kate is arranging things in her office and has placed a black and white box on her desk. As she is telling Frasier how she wants him to spice up his show, the box changes position by about 45 degrees although no one touches it.

Continuity: Frasier has left his mug on the table to goes to console Father Mike who has just come out of Kate's office. The next couple of shots of the table show the mug in different positions.

Continuity: During the show, Daphne and Martin are having breakfast while talking to Frasier. Daphne removes her blue napkin from her lap at one point,and puts it on the table; a short time later we see her remove it from her lap again.

Continuity: Roz is talking to Frasier, Gil, and Bulldog at KACL and has her hands in front of her, with her mug in her left hand. In the next shot, as she says "everyone at her last station was scared to death of her", her mug is in her hand tucked up under her arm - with no time for her to change positions naturally.

Continuity: Just after Daphne moves the urn from the table to the bookcase, the brown files on the table change position between shots.

Continuity: When Niles dumps Aunt Louise's ashes out of his shoe and onto the floor, there is carpeting under the pew. In the closing credits when the janitor is sweeping up the ashes, the carpeting is in a different place.

Continuity: When Martin is sorting through the box of lyrics, the newspaper on his side table keeps switching position between shots - sometimes it is leaning on top of the remote control, others it is laying flat on the table next to the remote.

Continuity: When Martin first brings the sheet of paper out of the box with the lyrics to his best song on it, the paper has a section torn out of one corner. A couple of shots later and the paper is whole.

Audio problem: Near the start of the show, Frasier is in the booth at KACL, and has told Roz off and is glaring at her through the glass. As the shot shows her face, however, we can see the reflection of Frasier in the glass - he is smiling and his lips are moving as though he is talking. However, there is no audio to match his speech.

Continuity: Martin and Daphne are laughing at Eddie who has taken a pill to calm him down - in one shot he has a paw up in the air, but in the next shot both paws are pointing sideways. The shot changes again, and Eddie is back in the first position. He had to time to change naturally.

Continuity: Eddie is sitting in Martin's chair while Daphne feeds him pate from a plate on Marty's table. At the same time she is scratching his ears. The shot changes, and without enough time for this to have happened naturally, Eddie is lying on the chair and Daphne has the plate in her hand.

Continuity: When Frasier comes out of the bathroom, he has shaved without water, and has at least 4 bits of tissue with blood on them stuck to his face. Within 5 minutes he is greeting his guests at the door and his face is completely smooth with no sign of a cut or scrape.

Continuity: When Niles first takes out a hanky to put to his bleeding nose, it is folded in a square and remains that way for a couple of shots. Soon, though, without Niles changing it, the hanky becomes rectangular.

Continuity: Frasier comes home from work and Joe is explaining what work needs to be done. The shot changes as the phone rings and suddenly Frasier's coat, which had been over his left arm, is over his right arm.

Continuity: Kate is holding file folders in front of her chest and she asks Roz, "Is there a problem?" she then answers the question herself - "no" - and suddenly she is holding her files over her stomach, with no time to have done this naturally.

Continuity: At the beginning of the show, Roz and Frasier are standing in front of the bulletin board at KACL. As they talk, from shot to shot, the papers on the bulletin board shift position.

Continuity: Roz is talking about confronting Kate and says "you're damn right we're going to tell her", her arms go from being folded in front of her to down by her sides with no time for this to happen naturally.

Revealing: Frasier comes in complaining how workmen in the service elevator have dribbled chili dog on his foot. He is holding out his shoe saying "How ever will I get that stain out", and Eddie runs over and starts licking what we think is the shoe. Frasier makes a comment about dog saliva being the universal solvent. In fact, Eddie does not even touch the shoe, but licks the floor in front of Frasier. Obviously the floor was treated with something Eddie would enjoy licking up.

Continuity: When Niles is drunk in Frasier's appartment, he puts a six-pack of beer cans on the table by Martin's chair. The pack has changed position on the table later on when Frasier is talking about empowerment, without anyone touching it.

Continuity: Frasier and Niles are in the living room talking about Maris. Frasier says, "I was on the mark", and Niles' beer stitches from his right hand to his left from one shot to the next.

Continuity: At the beginning of the show, while Noel is getting Frasier to sign his Star Trek petition, Roz puts a blue plastic cassette into the machine to Frasier's left. During the scene it changes to a black cassette, without anyone touching it, and at the end of the scene Roz walks off with a blue cassette in her hand.

Continuity: Just before the closing credits, Marty opens his gift from Frasier - a dressing gown, which he puts back down on top of the box in a disorganized heap. By the end of the scene, a shot shows the dressing gown neatly folded in the box.

Continuity: At the beginning of the show, Frasier and Niles are in Cafe Nervosa and Roz comes in, with lots of Christmas gifts. She manages to unload them, take off her coat and get into a chair between the guys - all in a couple of seconds. It all happens too quickly for "real time".

Continuity: Frasier's in the toy store and another customer comes in with a carrier bag of educational toys he bought elsewhere. As Frasier tries to talk him into selling him the toys, some shots show just the bag with the toys in it and other shots show a roll of green wrapping paper visible about 6 inches above the bag.

Continuity: When Frasier and Kate are in the airport, sitting down and talking, her arms switch back and forth from being folded to unfolded (holding her boarding pass). This happens a couple of times, without time for her to change position.

Continuity: Frasier's new friend Bob pulls away from the table in Cafe Nervosa - his plaid hat is still on the chair next to him. In the next shot the hat is suddenly in Bob's lap, even though he couldn't possibly have put it there in that time.

Continuity: Roz is showing Frasier some faxes in his booth at KACL - as she holds them they are folded over. As she says "are you nuts?", the papers are flat in her hand, no longer folded over, with no time for her to have changed them.

Continuity: In the last scene, at the Cafe, Bob puts a dollar on the table in front of him. A waitress brings a cup and puts it down - the dollar has disappeared. In subsequent shots it reappears.

Continuity: Frasier and Bob are in Cafe Nervosa talking. Bob has a book in his hand. In another shot he is moving his hands around, even though there was no time for him to have put the book down.

Continuity: Near the beginning of the show, Daphne drops Martin's eclair into a glass of orange juice. By the end of the scene, the eclair is sitting in a mug. No one moved it during that time.

Continuity: Early on in the show, Martin is trying to get Eddie to shake a towel off his head while Daphne stands behind the dog, folding laundry. In one shot she is standing with the folded towel over her arm; in the next shot she is folding it again. When she goes to the door, there is something red on top of the laundry basket, but when she returns the towel is back in the laundry basket (it's not the towel Marty put on Eddie's head: that's sitting on the coffee table).

Revealing: When the waitress brings Frasier his coffee, she tilts the cup quite a lot and you can see that it's empty.

Continuity: Frasier, Martin, Niles, Daphne, and Diane are having dinner at Frasier's and he gets up to get dessert. Niles offers to help him and puts his table napkin in his chair. As he walks towards the kitchen, though, the napkin is lying next to his plate.

Continuity: Frasier is in the kitchen and gets the sugar out to sprinkle over the profiteroles. As he starts shaking we get a wider shot and we see there is sugar all over the stove top, pastries, plate, and counter - way more than there should be for the amount of shaking going on.

Continuity: Diane is sitting in Frasier's apartment, at the dining room table, talking with him. Her hands are in her lap in one shot and then up in front of her in the next - in mid-sentence.

Continuity: Niles goes to KACL and walks into Frasier's booth - there is nothing on the console in front of Frasier - but then in a shot something shaped like a cellphone appears but in subsequent shots is gone again.

Continuity: While Niles is talking to Martin about Maris's traffic tickets, the coffee pot goes from one side of the Lazy Susan to the other, with no one touching it.

Audio problem: Around the time when Niles is talking about "wealthy white women," there is a shot when his mouth is moving but there is no sound coming out. It then suddenly changes to a shot when you can hear what he is saying.

Continuity: The guy Niles and Frasier meet at the Cafe puts his coffee cup down twice between shots, after he has made the phone call and before he leaves.

Continuity: At the end of their meeting outside Cafe Nervosa, Jerome throws his red paper napkin on the table and they say their goodbyes. In the shot after he walks away there is no sign of the red napkin.

Continuity: Frasier is on the phone at KACL with Jerome's girlfriend and the reflection in the glass shows him raising his hand to his face, but the next shot returns to him - his hand is on the console. There was no time for him to have shifted positions normally.

Continuity: As Frasier is saying "too often we shrink from doing things we really want to do", the shot goes to Roz, and we can see the reflection in the glass shows that Frasier's mouth and hand movements do not match what he is saying.

Revealing: Near the end, in Cafe Nervosa, the guy that wants to sue Frasier gives Niles a push. Niles stumbles backwards, knocking over some chairs and the coat rack before falling down, taking the table by the window with him. If you look closely just before he hits the table, the woman sitting there (rather than moving out of the way), very subtly pulls on the table, so as to upend it so Niles can go down with it.

Continuity: Frasier is in Mr. Safford's study talking to him. As Frasier says "a little unconventional," his right hand goes up to his chin, gesturing. As Safford answers, Frasier's hands are grasped together in front of him, with no time for natural change.

Continuity: Frasier is arguing with Niles in the kitchen and removes a large bottle of water from the fridge. He takes off the cap, and pours water into a glass. Immediately the shot shows the bottle capped again while Frasier and Niles continue talking.

Continuity: Early in the show, Frasier is at home - the rest of the gang have surprised him with a birthday cake. In one shot the candles are burning on the cake, in the next Frasier is cutting the cake and the candles have disappeared, with no time allowed to remove them.

Continuity: Fairly early in the show Frasier has his dad call the police station to ask about a female officer Frasier is interested in. Marty asks for her name, hangs up, and gives Frasier a lot of information about Maureen that he couldn't have possibly learned in that short a time.

Continuity: When Frasier, Bebe, and the rest of the gang are having dinner at Frasier's he folds up his table napkin and says "he's on his third pacemaker", and we see him fold up his napkin again.

Continuity: Bebe has just inhaled smoke from her purse and Frasier grabs it and puts it on his bookcase. In the shot before, there had been billows of smoke around them, but suddenly the air is clear and there is no smoke.

Continuity: Niles is filming is father in his recliner, trying to record his life story for posterity. Marty fakes a heart attack or death - and lies back in his chair with his left arm by his side. In the next shot his arm is crooked up around his head, but with no time for him to have moved it.

Deliberate "mistake": About halfway through the show, Roz and Daphne are in the kitchen talking. Daphne pours water into the teapot - but there is no steam coming from the kettle, nor any sound of a boiling/just boiled kettle. No self-respecting Brit would make tea with water that wasn't boiling.

Continuity: Near the end of the show, Roz and Frasier are at the radio station, in his booth. There is a clipboard lying on the console to the left. Roz goes to her booth (without the clipboard) and Bulldog bursts through the door on the left. The clipboard has disappeared. Shortly afterwards Roz goes back into Frasier's booth and the clipboard is back where it was.

Continuity: When Roz and Daphne are in the kitchen, the tea cup turns about 45 degrees so we see much more of the flower pattern from the same camera angle. Neither of them touched it.

Continuity: While Daphne and Roz are talking in the kitchen, Daphne takes a carton of milk out of the fridge - and puts it down on her left - in the next shot it is on her right (with no change of camera angle).

Continuity: Frasier knocks the drinks over in Manu's newspaper stand. They had been sitting on a plastic tarp over some newspapers. In the next shot the plastic tarp is draped much differently, covering the papers more. No one touched it in the meantime.

Continuity: Frasier is having a glass of sherry, sitting on his couch, talking to Niles and Martin. As Marty says "let's go have dinner", Frasier throws his hands up - in real life he would have still had the sherry in his hands. There was no time for him to have put it down.

Continuity: When Manu pulls down the metal front over his kiosk, Frasier has his umbrella in his right hand. By the time Manu pulls it all the way down and catches his hand under it, Frasier's umbrella has shifted to his left hand, even though he never transferred it.

Continuity: Niles and Frasier are at Marty's old apartment and Niles sits down on the couch. Eddie is sitting next to him, staring. During this scene, the shots of Eddie show him moving from fairly close to Niles, to about 10 inches away, and then back again. He has no time to change position naturally.

Continuity: Daphne is on the phone with her mother and has a dust rag in her hand. She holds out the phone towards Frasier and when the shot goes back to her, the rag is all bunched up in her hand - it has been loose before. There was no time for her to change it.

Continuity: Roz has a cassette in her hand as Frasier says "call-screening squelches all that," - and the next shot shows no cassette in her hand, without time for her to get rid of it.

Revealing: The guy who plays Clive in this episode has one of the most appalling accents I have heard. He's apparently from Manchester, but sounds like a sort of cockney South African. His accent slips around all the time; it's very poor. I wouldn't normally submit it, but his is so shockingly bad I doubt anyone would be fooled into thinking he was British.

Plot hole: In this show Daphne's former fiance, Clive, shows up. They had been engaged for several years in England. However, in Series 1, episode 11 (Death Becomes Him), Daphne talks about never having had a serious boyfriend, and goes into some detail about how people tried to set her up with eligible men. As Daphne is open about everything else, there seems to be no logical reason for her to not mention she'd been engaged.

Continuity: Frasier is in the kitchen pouring mini chocolate chip cookies from a bag into a bowl while talking to Daphne. The motion of him pouring (and the sound) doesn't stop while he talks but when the shot changes the bag is on the counter next to him.

Continuity: While Niles, Daphne, and Clive are sitting on the couch talking, the large book on the coffee table goes from closed to opened during the scene, even though no one touches it.

Continuity: When Clive arrives at the apartment, he puts his coat over the front of the arm of the couch. As the scene progresses and Marty tells him about being an astronaut, the coat is suddenly on the back of the arm of the couch, even though no one moved it.

Continuity: During the scene when Marty and Daphne are in the car going to the shoe store, she stops at a red light, as does the black car on her left. During the shots that follow, the car on the left, although always black, is a different car in different shots.

Continuity: Frasier and Niles are in Cafe Nervosa - we see Frasier put his coffee down but as Niles says "Spanish leather", we can see Frasier's cup up in the air again on the right - with no time for the change.

Continuity: During the opening credits, Bulldog is on the phonein the hall at KACL and he throws a tennis ball at Frasier, who stumbles around trying to catch it. During the scene we see an extra behind Bulldog go into one of the rooms - but we see her do it again just a split second later - and the second time she has a paper under her arm, where she had nothing the first time.

Continuity: Bulldog goes into the booth towards the end of the show, and puts his gong and cowbell on the console to his left. When he says "attention, sports fans", the cowbell has suddenly shifted to being in front of him, even though he didn't touch it.

Continuity: Sharon and Bulldog are arguing about golf at Cafe Nervosa, and she has her arm outstretched on the table. As Bulldog says, "If we leave right now", her hands are folded together on the table, without enough time for the change.

Continuity: Just before Eddie drops his master's slippers by his chair, Marty moves his cane over to the other side of the chair. The handle is facing outward, but when the shot changes, it is now towards the couch, even though Marty didn't touch it again.

Continuity: When Frasier is in the men's room crying to Frasier about Sharon, he has toilet tissue in his hand which sometimes is bunched up and sometimes is hanging about 10 inches down, even though he never changes it.

Continuity: When Daphne mentions she had a dream about a gymnast, she is looking at Frasier, but a quick shot change and her head is turned 180 degrees looking at Niles. This couldn't have happened in real time.

Continuity: Niles and Frasier are looking at books trying to figure out Frasier's dream. When Daphne and Marty come in the door, the shot shows that the book that was on the end of the table has moved quite a distance and is now in front of Niles.

Audio problem: As Frasier says, "Well, let's shoot it to the news," we can see his reflection in the booth, but his lips aren't moving as he speaks.

Continuity: Frasier is leaving the booth - Roz is standing there holding several tapes in her hand. When the shot goes back to her, she has papers in her hand and there's no sign of the tapes. In the next shot, the tapes are suddenly on top of the tape machine.

Continuity: Martin goes out to a baseball game with a famous writer that Frasier and Niles admire. While he is out, they read one of his books he accidentally left behind. When the author returns, he ends up holding the pages of the book in his hand, whilst standing in front of the fireplace. In one shot he is holding them in his left hand, but when the view cuts to another angle, he has them in his right hand. This occurs just before he goes outside to throw the pages off the balcony.

Continuity: When Bulldog is telling Roz and Niles about Reggie, Roz is partially facing him with papers in her hand - in the middle of his sentence she is suddenly at the keyboard, without the papers, with no time for normal change.

Continuity: When Marty and Niles are discussing Niles' ethics, the newspaper on Martin's little table changes position from shot to shot.

Continuity: A fan next to Niles is holding his nachos container by its side as they talk. In the shot where he gets up to leave, his hand is under the container, with no time for this to have happened naturally.

Continuity: While Marty and Daphne are watching the basketball game on TV, he says "it's completely different", the remote suddenly appears on the table beside him; it wasn't there before and wasn't in his hand. A couple of shots later, when he yells "unbelievable!" it's gone again.

Continuity: When Martin first finds out how Niles cured the basketball player, Niles is getting a drink, and Martin is in his chair. During the shots between them, the remote control on the table next to Martin instantly rotates between angles at least twice.

Continuity: When Lilith and Frasier are at Dr. Campbell's (the first time), he makes them tea. A shot shows him preparing it, pouring it, etc. But in the next shot, Frasier and Lilith are already holding their cups. There was not enough time for him to have passed them the cups.

Continuity: Frederick appears in the kitchen to talk to his parents, who are ignoring him. In one shot he is covered with spots and in the next, he only has about half as many. He is supposed to have hives, which I know can appear and disappear quickly, but these look nothing like hives in the first place.

Continuity: Martin and Frasier are in the restaurant and Marty says "you're eating light" as Frasier has his menu up at chest level. The next shot, without enough time for change, shows the menu lowered several inches and held at a different angle.

Continuity: Frasier tells his father Maureen wants to break up with him, and Marty heads for the kitchen, leaving his blue container of stomach medicine on the credenza. But as Marty passes by the dining room table, he suddenly has the container in his hand again.

Continuity: When Sherry brings in the bottle of wine, it's in a paper bag which is twisted around the bottle when she puts it on the coffee table. The next shot shows the bag has been loosened around the bottle and is quite wrinkled. No one touched it in that short time.

Continuity: When Sherry first meets Frasier and Niles, she puts her coat down towards the center of the couch. A few shots later, although no one has moved it, it shifts to the left and her purse, which wasn't visible before, can be seen.

Continuity: In Frasier's apartment, Sherry has just been introduced. Marty has a glass of wine down on the dining room table, next to another one. In the next shot the glass has shifted considerably, but the camera angle has remained the same.

Continuity: When Sherry tells the boys she's a sleepwalker, she has her bag slung over her right shoulder. In the next shot, without time for change, she is holding the bag in her left hand.