Charmed (1998) - 58 mistakes in series 3

Continuity: When Prue was talking with the shut-in and the security guard comes up and knocks on the door you can see the the chain is on the door. When he knocks again and says he is coming in and tries to open the door the chain is off.

Continuity: When Prue talks to Piper after stopping her phone conversation, she tells her that "the Sin Balls work a lot faster than [they] thought. Once infected, the victim only has a few hours before it drives them to total self-destruction." However, this is almost verbatim what was written in the Book of Shadows. It could be easily read by the viewing audience when the book entry was shown. So all three sisters should already know this.

Revealing: When Cole / Belthazar grabs Phoebe to use her as a hostage, you can see, very obviously, that he doesn't pull her. Phoebe actually steps in front of him willingly, despite the look of fear on her face.

Continuity: In this episode, Phoebe says "Grams, you were married four times." But in "Lost and Bound," Phoebe tells Cole that Grams was married six times.

Plot hole: Unless someone else cleared out Cole's apartment, Cole/Belthazor would have been careful and smart enough not to leave behind the altar for exactly what happens in this episode.

Other: At the start of the episode when Prue and Phoebe are walking down the street (just before they find the box), the person with the green jacket on (in the background) reaches into the homeless man's hat and just "scrapes" the bottom of it. Not putting any money in, or taking any money out - a completely pointless action.

Continuity: The timeline in the episode is inconsistent. Right after the first courtroom scene, we see the three sisters at home, and Phoebe says that "Cole was an angel in that courtroom yesterday." Later, Cole says that he regrets the criminal being let go, "today." But they are talking about the same events.

Continuity: When Kate was drawing the trolls in one shot she had a skin coloured crayon, and in the next shot she had a purple crayon.

Plot hole: In episode 1-3, "Thank you for not morphing", Victor mentions that he wasn't sure that his daughters would be witches - only that there was a possibility. However, this episode indicates that Victor did know about his daughters' powers before he left the family.

Revealing: When Prue talks about her relationship with Jason near the beginning of the episode, she says that she finds him to be very predictable, lacking in mystery or "savoir-faire." That doesn't make sense, though, as "savoir-faire" means "know-how." She probably meant "je ne sais quoi," that is, "I know not what."

Revealing: When Phoebe throws the potion at Cole's coat, the vial doesn't shatter, even though it sounds like it. Watch closely, and you'll see the purple, unbroken vial bounce off the coat and away out of shot without any of the potion touching the coat.

Visible crew/equipment: When Prue and Phoebe are trying to pull the girl out of the ice-cream truck, in one brief shot, you can see the wires holding the girl up.

Visible crew/equipment: In the final courtroom scene when the shot is on Cole (with Leo and Morris in the background), the boom mike is visible in the top left corner.

Revealing: Prue knocked Piper unconscious in the cat fight (after the Coyote Dance), and asked Justin to carry her to the car. But when he is apparently lifting Piper up from the floor, you see Piper standing up by herself.

Continuity: When Prue, Phoebe, and Leo enter the kitchen to find Piper covered in watermelon, the amount of fruit on Piper changes in the next shot. Her hands also change from being supine to prone.

Continuity: When Piper accidentally destroys the clock at the passport agency, she nervously freezes with her hands near her face. In the next shot, her left hand is suddenly back by her ponytail.

Continuity: When Piper accidentally blows up the teapot, she has her hands up by her chest, in Prue's, but in the next shot her arms are down by her sides.

Continuity: When Phoebe and Cole are talking about him going undercover into the Brotherhood, Phoebe's grip on her pestle changes back and forth between shots.

Plot hole: After Piper and Leo lose their sins, Piper mentions that Lukas has Prue. But there's no way she could have known that, since she was unconscious when Prue was taken.

Continuity: After Cole kills the outlaw with an energy ball, he turns around to face Prue. In the following shot, he's facing the other way and turns around again.