Charmed (1998) - 336 mistakes in entire show

Continuity: When the Charmed Ones' father, Victor, came to San Francisco in episode 1-3: "Thank You For Not Morphing," his last name was Halliwell. But when he came back in the third season and later, his last name was Bennett.

Continuity: In Sight Unseen, we can cleary see Cole turn the air conditioning very cold and open all the windows so that the Prue, Piper and Phoebe can see the invisible demon, but in Oh My Goddess (1) Phoebe asks Piper why they have never invested in air conditioning.

Plot hole: In episode 1-3, 'Thank You For Not Morphing', when talking about their father, Phoebe says "He sent us birthday cards." But after that episode they made a number of references to the fact that he never sent them birthday cards, like when Piper tries to convince the others to sign Victor's card in episode 2-19.

Continuity: You'll notice in some episodes (like "Coyote Piper") that when the sisters look out of the attic window, they can see Prescott Street below, indicating that the attic window is on the front of the house. But if you look at the size and shape of this window, you'll see that there is no window like this on the outside front of the house. In addition, in "Sin Francisco," Phoebe looks out the attic window and sees the front porch from a side view. There's no structure on that side of the house to begin with.

Revealing: Throughout the series, Finola Hughes appeared as Patty, the deceased mother of the Charmed Ones. Although Patty died in 1978, she sometimes appeared in flashbacks and time-travel episodes that took place in the mid to late 1970s, and other times she appeared as a ghost. However, over the eight years of the series, Finola Hughes aged noticeably. Patty was born in 1950, so she should always have been either a young woman in her mid 20s, or an unaging ghost having died at 28.

Factual error: Considering how the sisters and Cole every now and then - especially during seasons 3-5 - find themselves in some churchyard or cemetery, it should be noted that there are no such places in San Francisco! Except for the original one at an old nunnery, from before the city was founded, and the Presidio Military Churchyard, all graves were moved in the first half of the 20th Century to the cemeteries at Colma, a few miles south of SF. This was done due to the sanitary risks in case of earthquakes, and the lack of space for churchyards downtown.

Continuity: Episode 8-5, "Rewitched": When Phoebe shows Paige her wedding ring, Phoebe's left hand moves from her right forearm to her shoulder.

Factual error: Numerous times in the aerial shots of San Francisco, the Embarcadero Freeway is visible. While the bridge did run along the San Francisco Bay, it was demolished in 1991 – seven years before the series even started.

Plot hole: In episode 8-22: "Forever Charmed," the past versions of Patty and Penny are amazed to learn that their daughters and granddaughters, respectively, are the Charmed Ones. However, both women knew the centuries-old prophecy that three sisters would eventually be born into the Warren line, and that they would be the Charmed Ones. It's conceivable that Patty, who came from a time before the birth of Phoebe, would not have thought of the prophecy at this time. Penny, however, came from after Phoebe was born, and previous flashback episodes had shown that Penny knew that the three sisters were the Charmed Ones immediately when the third sister was born, and was still convinced of the fact up until Penny's death (despite the birth of a fourth daughter to Patty).

Continuity: Episode 8-5, "Rewitched": When Dex carries Phoebe across the manor threshold after getting married, she has one arm wrapped around his neck. In the next shot, both arms are.

Continuity: Episode 8-6, "Kill Billie Vol. 1": When Paige and the reporters interrupt Piper and Leo's argument, Piper's arms move from out in front of her to her sides.

Character mistake: Episode 8-6, "Kill Billie, Vol. 1": When Phoebe talks to Dex, Dex comments "...since we've already been married and divorced..." But their marriage was annulled, which is different from a divorce.

Character mistake: In "Desperate Housewitches", Billie asks both Leo and the sisters who The Source is. But it doesn't make sense for her not to know, since she obviously knew the sisters were the Charmed Ones, and it would follow logically that she would know of all the evils they've defeated over the years.

Continuity: In "Desperate Housewitches", Paige asks how The Source was previously vanquished, but she was there both times: when the original Source was vanquished, and again when they vanquished Cole.

Continuity: Episode 8x17, "Generation Hex": When Candor interrupts the Noxon demons torturing a student at Magic School, Rondok turns around to look at him. In the following shot, he's facing the other way and turns around again.

Continuity: Episode 8x20, "Gone with the Witches": When the leprechauns are called back to the manor from Magic School, O'Brien cradles his injured arm in his left hand. In the next shot, his arm is down by his side and he moves it to his arm again.

Continuity: Episode 8x17, "Generation Hex": When Phoebe and Cupid visit the memory of Phoebe revealing she is a witch to Dex, past-Phoebe has her hands down by her sides, but then her left hand suddenly jumps to her purse strap. Not only that, but in the original episode ("Rewitched"), Phoebe's hand remained on her purse strap the entire time.

Continuity: Season 8, Episode 14, "12 Angry Zen": When Phoebe finds Paige at the manor after the demon/Zodiac fight, Paige rubs her neck with her left hand. In the next shot, it's suddenly her right hand on her neck.

Factual error: Throughout season 8 the members of the Triad wore a pentagrams on their gowns that would alternate from the point being up and point being down. They should only be wearing a pentagram with the point facing down. Pentagrams with the point facing up is the symbol for practitioners of white (good) magic while those who practice black (evil) magic is symbolized by the point facing down.

Continuity: Episode 8x17, "Generation Hex": When Phoebe hands Paige her wedding gift, the way Paige holds it changes between shots.

Character mistake: Episode 8x17, "Generation Hex": When Phoebe and Coop visit the first memory of Phoebe and Cole, Phoebe mentions that their meeting at school was the first time they met. But they actually met earlier at a crime scene after she, Piper, and Prue vanquished a Guardian demon.

Plot hole: In the first episode of season eight, the sisters cast a spell so that everyone else but family sees them as their assumed identities. But in "Rewitched", Dex and Phoebe get married, and he still sees her as "Julie"; since marriage makes them family, he should have been able to see the real Phoebe.

Factual error: Episode 8x22, "Forever Charmed": When Piper and Leo visit the future, they find their future selves playing Scrabble, and future Piper trying to play "Zankou" with an "X". Not only did she spell it wrong, but proper nouns aren't playable words to begin with.

Other: The newspaper which you can see Prue holding at the end of this episode (right before she 'half-blinks' to shut the door) has something written on it like yadda yadda yadda 'Doubt Fire' yadda yadda yadda. Yep, thats right, the same newspaper from Mrs Doubtfire.

Continuity: In the scene when Piper and Jeremy are in the taxi, Piper gives him a fortune cookie. You can see her closing the box. In the next shot of Jeremy, you can see the box is still open.

Continuity: At the end of the episode the newspaper Prue is holding keeps changing from facing the camera to facing her. And as she turns to the house she drops her hand (and the newspaper) to her side but in the next shot she is holding it to her chest again.

Plot hole: When Prue wonders where the cream is, the little container thereof slides along the table to her. Then the cream drains from the container and burbles up through her coffee. However, that's completely discontinuous with how Prue's power ever worked at any other time in the next three years. The cream should have needed to leap out of the container and into the coffee, simply traveling physically across space.

Continuity: At the beginning of the episode we see a man standing in the rain in front of the sisters house. After he starts walking away, they show a completely bare tree in front of the house. The next morning when Piper is driving away, they show the same tree with leaves and flowers on it. Trees do not grow that fast.

Other: In the first episode Prue uses her powers to tighten the tie around her boss' neck as she walks down the hall, but in future episodes Prue must be looking at the object she moves with her power.

Continuity: At the beginning of the episode they show Piper running up the stairs to her house in the rain. The umbrella she has is black, with a colored ring around the edge. When she enters the house the whole umbrella has changed to colors surrounding the whole umbrella now.

Continuity: When Jeremy pulls a knife in the elevator, Piper calls him 'Joey' rather than 'Jeremy'.

Plot hole: In episode 1-2 ("I've Got You Under My Skin"), Alec buys Phoebe a martini at Quake. but then in episode 5-11 ("The Importance of Being Phoebe"), Cole tells Kaya that Phoebe doesn't drink. Then, in episode 5-17 ("Lucky Charmed"), Jason buys Phoebe a "Martini, Dirty" at the end.

Continuity: In the previous episode, Piper tried out for a job as a chef at a restaurant called "L'Opera Ristorante" and was hired by Chef Moore. Then in this episode, she works at a bar and restaurant called "Quake," but she talks about Chef Moore quitting and leaving her in charge of the establishment, so it's not meant to be a different place.

Continuity: When Phoebe flirts with Alec at Quake, she rests her head in her hand. In the following back and forth shots between Alec and Phoebe, her hand moves from her face to the tabletop and back again.

Plot hole: After the shapeshifter turned from a mailman into Andy, Prue told him about her father returning to town. Later, the real Andy came to the house, and then after a cut, he and Prue were talking about Prue's father, Victor. Andy has known Prue since high school, and therefore knows that Victor has been gone for twenty years. And since Prue only told the shapeshifter about Victor's return, the real Andy didn't know about it. So how could he and Prue have gotten onto the subject of Victor being in San Francisco, a fact that surely would have surprised the real Andy, without Prue figuring out that Andy wasn't the one she talked to earlier that day?

Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Prue comes home and finds Andy inside the manor. There is a shot where if you look behind Andy's shoulder you can see half of the body of the director in the background in the observatory room sitting in a director's chair.

Revealing: When Mark (as a ghost) and Piper leave the hotel after he asks for her and Phoebe's help, he bumps into the handrail as he walks down the steps.

Continuity: When Prue runs into Susan Trudeau at the restaurant, she asks if she's Andy's sister, only to find she's his ex-wife. But Prue knew Andy all through high school - she would have known he didn't have a sister.

Plot hole: When the Charmed Ones run up to the bedroom at the end of the episode, Prue can't find the poignard as she rummages through her black purse. Elliot, who has fallen from the bed, suddenly picks up the poignard from the ground, where it is sitting next to a black purse. The way the shot is set up, it looks as if the purse has fallen there, and the poignard fell out. But since Prue is still holding the purse that the poignard was supposed to be in, and she hadn't been to that room before, the poignard's presence on the floor is completely inexplicable.

Continuity: In the teaser, the demon attacks Dr. Mitchell, killing him and also destroying his irises. His eyes turn white, and later dialogue confirms that the irises were gone from his eyes. However, when the Charmed Ones find his corpse, his eyes are open and his irises are visible.

Continuity: In this episode the truth spell is before the demons page in the Book of Shadows, but in 'Out of Sight' the truth spell is after the demons page.

Revealing: When Phoebe asks Piper what she thinks of her boss, you can see that Holly's tattoo has been covered up, because that part of her wrist is darker than her skin.

Continuity: When Prue describes the way the warlock Matthew traveled instantaneously, Miranda tells the sisters that it's called blinking, and that Matthew "must have copied it from another witch." But later in the series, every warlock encountered by the Charmed Ones had the ability to blink, and it was considered exclusively a warlock ability, meaning that no witch would have had it.

Factual error: In the opening scene in Salem, Melinda Warren is going to be burned at the stake. But in the real Salem trials, no one was burned; all of the people convicted of witchcraft were hanged.

Continuity: At the end of the episode, when Leo and Piper are saying goodbye he reaches out and touches her face, but when the angle changes his hands are instantly back at his side.

Audio problem: Approximately 10 minutes into the episode, the Haliwells are in the kitchen getting breakfast. While sitting at the table, Piper is heard to say "it's not, it's fine", but her lips don't move.

Continuity: In this episode, Leo tells Phoebe that white lighters are sent to their charges by "a group of elder white lighters known as the founders." However, by later seasons in the series, the word "founders" was never used. The leaders of the white lighters were simply known as the "elders."

Continuity: At the beginning of the final scene in the attic, the view from the window prominently features the Transamerica Pyramid. At the end of the scene, the view is completely different, showing the Ferry Building and the Bay Bridge.

Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Prue's guests are about to leave for Quake there is a crew member visible at the door and opening the door and walking out.

Continuity: In this episode, the sisters go back in time to late March 1975. On the family tree it says that Piper was born on August 7, 1973. So she would be 1 and 1/2 in March 1975. But she looks at least 2 years too old.

Continuity: Prue finds Brendan, as a warlock, over the corpse of Father Austin. He runs away and she pursues him. He insists that he "didn't hurt Father Austin. [He] found him like that." Prue counters, "Before or after you turned into a warlock?" His response is, "After. When I saw what [my brothers] did to him, I was crazed. The rage turned me into a warlock." So doesn't that mean that he found Father Austin before he turned into a warlock, not after?

Continuity: When Brendon is about to sacrifice the young woman he has the tip of the dagger touching her chest in one shot and in the next shot, when Prue breaks open the door, it is about six inches above her. Also, when the victim is talking to Andy she says that she felt the tip of the knife, that he was about to drive it into her, but he was stopped by three woman.

Continuity: After the Grimlock kidnaps the child getting the ball, Prue goes after it. But the demon opens a hole in the earth and jumps through it and it closes. Prue then reaches the spot where the Grimlock disappeared and she is surrounded by dead leaves and trees. Then it goes to another shot of Prue turning around. Suddenly the trees and dead leaves are gone and she is standing in an open area with green grass and no trees.

Other: In this episode when Piper says the power switching spell so that she can heal Leo it switches not only her and Leo's powers, but also, Prue's and Phoebe's; however in future seasons it only affects the witches it is meant to effect.

Continuity: In this episode Leo specifically tells Prue, Piper and Phoebe not to touch the Darklighters arrow because it is poisonous however in future episodes/seasons, the Darklighter arrows are only poisonous to Whitelighters.

Plot hole: In the second season, Leo was suspended from his position as a whitelighter for a period of several weeks. But why didn't the Charmed Ones receive a substitute whitelighter during that time?

Continuity: Right after Grams says "I Love You" to the sisters at the end, we see a close-up of Phoebe. In this shot, you can see the tear in Prue's shirt, but immediately afterwards, there is a shot of Prue where it appears to be sewn or something.

Continuity: When the book was taken, Phoebe had her necklace above her shirt, but when she ran downstairs, her necklace was underneath her shirt and then was back on top of her shirt again.

Continuity: At the spiritual place Phoebe had tan marks, but later on she didn't have any tan marks.

Continuity: In 'Morality Bites', Phoebe has her premonition about being executed while watching a news report on a baseball player, right after she and the others punish Pratt. When she returns in time at the end of the episode, they all watch the news report first and only afterwards look out the window and see Pratt.

Plot hole: The return spell for travelling back through time is supposed to have been erased from the Book of Shadows in the future, however it is visible when Prue is turning the pages of the book and talking about the new spells.

Continuity: When Prue, Piper, and Phoebe return from the future, Prue and Piper hug Phoebe in relief. In the following shot, Piper wraps her arm around Phoebe again.

Continuity: Phoebe was the first to get out of the kitchen, then Piper followed, and last was Prue, but when we see them running to the window, Phoebe is first, then Prue then Piper.

Continuity: Phoebe had to touch both Jane and Malcolm for them to be trapped in the painting, so how come she didn't have to touch Piper and Prue for them to all be freed?

Continuity: After the potion is spilt, the green stain it leaves on Phoebe's skirt keeps changing both size and colour.

Continuity: When Prue leaves Buckland's, she's wearing a red tank top, but when she arrives at Camp Skylark, her top is white. She can't have stopped to change, because it's mentioned she left the auction house and headed directly to the camp.

Continuity: When Sam is explaining how he and Patty were involved, Piper's hand jumps from Phoebe's grasp to her lap, then back to Phoebe's hands, and back to her lap again.

Continuity: In this episode, the Cupid needs his ring in able to "fade" from place to place but in Season Eight Coop loses his ring to a demon and he is still able to "fade" from place to place.

Audio problem: Baby Matthew is supposed to be screaming his head off, when Prue levitated the contents of her purse to cheer him up. But she turns him to the camera and he is smiling.

Continuity: When the ninja doll's eyes first open, they're blue. Toward the end, when he sneaks into Nathan's hospital room to stab him, his eyes are brown.

Plot hole: According to the family tree viewed in this episode, Penny "Grams" Halliwell was born on 6/23/1937, and her daughter Patty, the Charmed Ones' mother, was born on 4/5/1950. In addition, Patty's father Jack was born in 1930. So, according to this, Penny gave birth to her daughter at age 12, while married to a 20 year old man. That's quite outlandish, to say the least.

Continuity: On 2/17/1999, Phoebe realizes that her past self, P. Russell, died on that same date in 1924, and was the same age as Phoebe is now. According to the family tree she is looking at, P. Russell was born on 7/2/1894, meaning that she was 29 upon her death. But Phoebe was born on 11/2/1975, according to that same family tree, making her only 23 at the time of this episode.

Continuity: When Phoebe is attacked by Anton's spirit, she puts her right hand over her throat twice.

Continuity: In the scene when Phoebe and Leo return to the rest home, after she has changed places with old Phoebe, when Antoine places the amulet on her, he doesn't clasp it behind her neck, he just lays it on her. When she sits up, it doesn't fall off.

Continuity: The family tree shows that Grams died in 1968 but the sisters were all born in the1970's. Didn't Grams raise the girls after Patty died in 1978?

Continuity: In the teaser, when Phoebe physically experiences a past memory, the left strap of her bra is pulled off her shoulder. She then collapses to the ground. When her sisters find her the bra strap is back up on her shoulder.

Continuity: When Piper confronts Phoebe about casting the spell to help her decide between Dan and Leo, Phoebe's finger jumps to the back of her ear, then disappears. In a following shot, her finger is now resting on her neck.

Continuity: In the shot where Leo gets his wings back, his eyes are brown, usually they are blue.

Revealing: When Maggie Murphy climbs onto the ledge of the roof to jump off you can see the surface of the ledge dipping as if it was foam.

Continuity: In the teaser, Phoebe took off her messenger bag while she was sitting in the chair talking to Prue, and she left it there when she went up to get the door. For the rest of the scene at the house, including when Phoebe and Prue ran out of the door, Phoebe was not wearing the bag. Then, when we saw them outside immediately thereafter, Phoebe was wearing the bag again.

Continuity: After Phoebe kisses Billy, she sees that the makeup over his lips has washed off and that they're in black and white again. While she applies more to him, the phone rings, Billy turns his head, and his lips are normal. In the next shot, they're back to being in black and white.

Continuity: Charlene said that she could remember up to when she picked up the encyclopedia, however when they were retracing her steps, she couldn't remember where it was.

Continuity: After the ghost chases Gibbs out of his pawn shop, and the police arrest him, his shirt goes from being on fully to half-off between shots (particularly noticeable when Tyra's father tells him to burn in hell).

Continuity: When Phoebe is talking to the ghost in the library, the librarian goes from writing to glaring at her and back again between various shots.

Revealing: The sheet-covered body of Charlene that is being moved by the police has obviously got a head, despite the fact that she was meant to have been decapitated.

Revealing: When Phoebe punches Dr. Williamson, it's easy to tell that she doesn't really punch him.

Continuity: When Piper and Leo confront the genie at the restaurant, the genie is eating food as fast as he can. At one point he gets a line of pasta sauce on his cheek. The shot changes, then goes right back to him only now the sauce is gone with no time for him to have wiped it off, especially since his hands are full of food.

Continuity: When Phoebe and Piper are leaving to go get Prue, Piper kisses Leo on the cheek and there is a lipstick mark on his cheek. Then the shot goes to Piper then back to Leo, and the mark has gone with no time for him to remove it.

Continuity: At the end of the episode, when Prue shuts the door magically it shows the inside of the house. There should be a doorway parallel to the front door that leads from the foyer into the dining room, but instead there is a wall.

Continuity: When Piper and Leo find the genie at the restaurant, look at the girl in the background, when Piper freezes the time, first she's talking to someone, then she's looking at a menu.

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.

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.

Continuity: When Cole catches Phoebe's karate kick at her school, her foot is up near Cole's shoulder, but then moves down much lower.

Continuity: In the scene where Cole has caught Phoebe's karate kick at school, Phoebe's hands are both clutching her school books. In the following shot, her left arm is in a completely different position, and there's no reason for her to have moved it.

Continuity: When Cole gives Phoebe his card on the school campus, it dissappears and reapperes between shots.

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.

Revealing: In the attic when the sisters are talking about the "rutabaga," some of the shots of Piper are reversed, her "broken" eyebrow is on the wrong side.

Continuity: When Piper and Prue are talking to Brooke outside, Piper's arms change from being crossed to having her hands on her hips between shots.

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.

Continuity: When the trolls attacked Piper outside P³, her bag got flung into the shadows, but in the next shot, her bag was right next to her, and in the light.

Plot hole: In this episode we see Leo healing Morris after he lost his sight but in out of site when the Grimlocks were vanquished the kids and the blind man got their eye sight back without being healed.

Revealing: When Leo dropped the Grimlock potion, it was obviously fake when it hit the ground.

Continuity: When Piper and Prue are standing in the bedroom with Charlotte, Prue's hand moves from covering her mouth in one shot, to being by her side in the next.

Other: Approximately four minutes into the episode, two demons go to the manor. Pru catches them and "throws" them to the one side. Her arm motion would fling them to the right, but they fly to the left.

Factual error: In the scene where the invisible demon is entering Cole's office, the courthouse shown before the elevator is a New York City courthouse, not San Fransisco. It's confirmed by the presence of a NYC Taxi.

Factual error: When developing a photo it's first put into a developer chemical, which shows the picture up, then a stop, which stops it from developing anymore, then a fix which "sets" the photo. But in the basement, Prue puts the exposed photo into a tray with chemicals in it where it starts to develop, then into a second tray where it develops fully.

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.

Revealing: At the end when Prue is fighting the demon you can tell she is holding on to her safety harness when she is in the air kicking him.

Audio problem: When Prue is at the dentist, she grabs a guy and he says, "What, what did I do?" to his girlfriend, but his lips do not move.

Continuity: When Prue is in the basement with the priest she has curly hair, but when she comes upstairs to vanquish Vinceres it is completely straight, but she definitely didn't have time to straighten it.

Continuity: When Cole drops Phoebe off at the manor after their date, Phoebe lowers her hand from Cole's face when they kiss, but then it's suddenly back up near his chin.

Continuity: During the training drill, Piper fumbles for a knife on a table in front of her. In the shot of the table, she loses hold of the knife as she pulls her hand up, but when we cut to a long shot, it is back in her hand.

Revealing: Alyssa's tattoo is visible when Phoebe leaves Cole's apartment after she fought with her sisters.

Revealing: When Astral Prue kicks Leo/Balthazar in the face during the training drill near the start of the episode, her foot misses his face yet he still reacts as if hit.

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.

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.

Other: When Piper puts the Belthazor flesh into the Belthazor vanquishing potion, she is the only one that gets "blasted" back even though she is the one standing farthest away from the stove and the potion.

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.

Other: At the beginning of this episode, Tara and Kierken are arguing and Kierken says that he could always "suck you into your little mixing bottle and start again." Then Tara says that "she has a better idea," and then she stabs herself. The life essence automatically flows out of her but the knife was still in her body. Later, the possessed business man stabs himself in front of Piper and she kneels down to see if he was okay and the essence flew into her, without the knife being removed from his body. At the end, when Leo comes down after Prue stabs the possessed Piper, he kneels over her, but the essence does not flow into him. It only flows into him after he takes the knife out of her body.

Revealing: After Phoebe has her premonition in the mausoleum, she wipes away the dust from the crypt to reveal Cole's father's name. Just BEFORE they show her wiping the dust away, you can see the letters in the shot of her leaning against the crypt.

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.

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.

Continuity: When Victor is saying goodbye to Prue, Piper, and Phoebe, Prue's arms are folded in front of her. In the next shot, her arms are suddenly down by her sides.

Continuity: When the girls are saying goodbye to their father, Phoebe hugs him around the neck, then lowers her arms while they talk. When her father says "About anything," her left arm jumps back up to being around his neck, and in the next shot, it's down at the side again.

Continuity: When Prue and Phoebe first enter the ice-cream van, we are told that their powers don't work in this dimension, but a few minutes later, Phoebe gets a premonition from the swingset - if their powers really didn't work, she wouldn't have been able to.

Continuity: When Phoebe is looking in the Book of Shadows for information about Eames, she comes across the Belthazor page, and lays the page down flat. In the following shots, the page moves to her hand, then lying down flat, then to her hand again.

Continuity: When Phoebe finds the lost and found spell for Piper, the paper the spell is written on moves relative to the top of Phoebe's keepsake box.

Deliberate "mistake": When Piper froze the demons (near the wrestling) one of the demons moved when she froze him.

Continuity: When Rasputin first lay on the couch, he was at the end of it, but two shots later he was suddenly in the middle of the couch.

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."

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.

Continuity: When Cole and Prue are about to shimmer to the other plain to find BO, Cole's face has not been shaved. But when they reach the other plain, his face is cleanshaven.

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.

Continuity: When Piper is sitting with Leo on the tailgate of the SUV, when shown from the front her hair is in front of her shoulder and ear, but from the back we see it tucked behind her ear. This switches constantly throughout the scene.

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.

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.

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: When Prue and Piper leave to help the hostage, Piper asks Leo, "Do you think she's mad?" Her hair is in front of her shoulders. Immediately afterwards, she sits on the couch with Leo. Her hair is behind her shoulders.

Continuity: When Prue telekinetically moves the sin ball box across the street she moves it ALL the way across but when the man infected with greed goes to get the box, the box is only halfway across the street.

Continuity: During the scene where Piper is ordering merchandise from Bloomingdale's and Prue, she and Phoebe realize the "sin balls" infected them. Piper's hair constantly changes from being in front of her shoulders and behind them.

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.

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: Piper says she wants to go to Paris by plane not by orbing, but in the episode "From Fear To Eternity" flying was Piper's greatest fear.

Continuity: When Phoebe and Prue look in the Book of Shadows for the spell to summon Belthazor, it is written with the same artistic calligraphy as the rest of the Book. But this spell was written by the sisters themselves in episode 3-8: "Sleuthing With The Enemy." As a result, it should have a handwritten appearance similar to the pages Phoebe was working on at the beginning of this episode.

Continuity: When the banshee came to the attic, she smashed all of the windows, except for some in the middle of the big window, but in the next shot that glass was gone.

Deliberate "mistake": When someone dies, the sisters can see their spirit, but when Piper died you couldn't see her spirit.

Plot hole: In episode 3-13: "Bride and Gloom," Prue was married to a warlock in a dark ceremony, causing her to almost immediately become evil, and this caused her sisters and the Book of Shadows to become evil as well because all of the magic is connected. In the fourth season, Phoebe married the Source in a dark ceremony, and did eventually herself become evil (as evidenced by her ability to touch the Grimoire), but the evil did not extend to her sisters or the Book. So the mistake is twofold: Phoebe did not immediately turn evil, and her sisters and the Book never turned evil.

Continuity: After Phoebe has her premonition about Paige at Prue's funeral, demonic bounty hunters show up to "eliminate" Belthazor. We see the funeral hall empty where seconds before Phoebe's premonition, there was a line of people waiting to give their condolences to the girls, Victor, Leo and Cole.

Continuity: Piper does not light the candles before she summons Grams, but in the episode 'PreWitched' (when Grams summons Patty) we see that the candles must be kept alight to maintain the connection with the dead.

Continuity: During Prue's funeral when the demonic bounty hunters attack, one gets thrown into some chairs, which knocks some down. When we see the chairs again in another shot the ones left standing and the ones knocked down have changed.

Plot hole: After Cole tells Leo, Piper and Phoebe the source has surfaced, Piper asks Leo if he can "sense Paige". Leo replies, saying no, "she's too new". But aren't white lighters meant to help witches who are just coming into their powers, which is exactly what Paige is doing?

Plot hole: Phoebe and Piper seem surprised at the fact that a white-lighter can impregnate someone, because they are dead. Piper says "how does a white-lighter get somebody knocked up?", but when she went to the future she saw herself with Leo's baby, and Leo told her that he hadn't clipped his wings.

Other: When Piper and Paige are talking at the Social Services building, Paige talks about one of her coworkers, but in the closed captions, the speaker is mislabled "Piper."

Other: After the "dirtbag" is brought back to the manor and Piper is ragging on him, Piper gets very angry and decides to blow her husband up. Less than a minute later, Cole says "Back away slowly, Leo." Leo says "What?" and Cole says "She's becoming a fury." Then it shows Pipers hands, which now have long black fingernails, but they just suddenly show themselves right when Cole decides to show up and say she's becoming a Fury. When she blew Leo into orbs there were no long black nails.

Continuity: When Anling unmasks Yenlo, Yenlo's left hand is covering his wound. In the next shot, his hand is down by his side.

Plot hole: When Piper and the Zen master switch bodies and Yen Lo uses the dragon blade to steal Piper's soul, the Zen master's image is shown as a visualization of the soul, but it should be Piper's image instead.

Revealing: In the beginning of the episode, Yenlo and Anling are fighting with swords. After Yenlo says, "I'm going to kill him, Anling. And then I'm going to kill you," Anling stabs him with her sword. Yenlos' wound is very bloody, but there is no blood on Anling's sword at all.

Continuity: After Phoebe and Paige have switched bodies and Phoebe is trying to teach Paige how to levitate, Phoebe's hair switches from her shoulder to her back then to her shoulder again.

Continuity: Shortly after Phoebe frees the blonde girl from the clay, she tells her to run "before Gammill sees [them]." But Phoebe hadn't learned the demon's name at any point. Leo and Piper do find out his name, but not until later.

Continuity: Piper suggests that Paige orb in place, because the clay is still wet enough that it will collapse if she's not there to support it. But when Paige actually does orb, the clay cracks and collapses into powder as if it had been bone dry.

Plot hole: Piper is initially skeptical at Phoebe's theory that the Evil Enchantress could be Paige in a past life, because Paige lacks the Enchantress' ability to summon the elements. However, Piper knows that in Phoebe's past life she had a pyrokinetic power, which she does not have in the present.

Plot hole: When Phoebe tried to kick the Shocker Demon, she became electrocuted until Piper interposed with a large wooden stand. But when the prince attacked the Shocker Demon with his metallic sword, the demon was cowed and the prince was unharmed.

Revealing: When the prince is supposed to be frozen on Paige's living room couch, when they do a close-up you can see the actor blink.

Plot hole: According to Paige's "fairy tale" the witch ends up with the prince. If this is really a past life, the sorceress ended up with the prince in the Middle Ages. So why do they have to fix it? Everything was just going the way it did according to her fairy tale, and good magic was obviously still present in the world.

Continuity: When Phoebe picks up the cordless phone to call Paige before the Shocker Demon attacks for the first time, the cordless phone is white but then after the attack, when the cordless is on the floor, it's black.

Other: Right after Piper comes out of her crazytown adventure, she comes down the stairs in completly different clothes and hairdo than she went in with.

Continuity: Paige looks in the Book of Shadows and suggests that the demon they are looking for could be Belthazor, not knowing that Baelthazor is Cole's demonic form. But we saw Phoebe making extensive changes to Belthazor's entry in the Book of Shadows in a previous episode, and the changes are not in evidence here.

Continuity: When Phoebe tries talking to Emma about Belthazor, Emma's hands are folded in front of her, holding her sweater closed. In the following shot when Emma turns around, her arms are now down by her sides, with her sweater open.

Revealing: When Paige cuts the flesh away from Sykes, you can visibly see a white bandage-like thing under his skin as it comes off.

Plot hole: After Cole explains he might not be able to regain control after embracing his demonic half, he tells Phoebe she should have the Belthazor vanquish potion ready just in case. But in "Look Who's Barking", Piper tried using that potion on Cole and it didn't work because he had himself magically protected from it.

Plot hole: In this episode Cole says "upper level demons have a human form and they bleed red, not green", but when Cole told Phoebe he was half human he said "how else could I bleed red, even in my demonic form".

Continuity: If Leo can't hear the girls call him when HE is underground, he shouldn't be able to hear the girl's call him when THEY are underground and he doesn't know they are at P³ until a few minutes later.

Continuity: After Phoebe jump kicks a warlock and falls to the ground, there is a blonde woman standing next to them. In the next shot of the warlock, when Piper blows him up, the woman is gone. But all of the mortals had been frozen, so she couldn't have moved.

Continuity: When Devlin uses the Ring of Inspiration on his subordinate, his hand changes orientation from vertical to horizontal.

Other: The one demon that knew about the 40s party was vanquished, and he went straight from spying on Paige and Phoebe at P³ to "glamouring" into Leo at the Manor. He had no way of telling Devlin about the 40s party, and yet it was still full of demons waiting to kill the Charmed Ones, with Devlin "glamoured" into Melody as a trap. And Devlin didn't even have that power - the demon that was vanquished did.

Plot hole: Why did Phoebe have to write a spell to vanquish the warlock in this episode? When they have vanquished warlocks before they used the power of three spell, "the power of three will set us free".

Continuity: Near the end of the episode, in the scene at P³, Phoebe launched a jump kick at a warlock after Paige has been knocked down by a small energy ball. Everybody else in the club was frozen by Piper, but when Phoebe lands she jostles a blonde extra who moves from her pose.

Factual error: On the wall of Paige's bedroom when she was a teenager is a Metallica poster for "Garage Inc.", a CD not released until 1998 although Piper later says that Paige has gone back to 1994.

Plot hole: When we see Paige's 1994 bedroom, she has what appears to be a Bride of Chucky doll. The movie "Bride of Chucky" wasn't released until 1998.

Other: When Piper and Leo are talking to Phoebe about Phoebe's fear of accepting Cole's marriage proposal, Piper comments "...even though he could rip your throat out with his teeth", but the closed captions mistakenly read "with is teeth."

Other: After Piper freezes the first crime scene that Cole and Phoebe (aka Frankie and Lulu) have hit, Piper unfreezes Darryl by touching him but at the beginning of the the episode when Piper and Cole are touching the car that Piper froze, to stop it from exploding after a car crash, while trying to help the woman inside, the car never unfreezes. This is somewhat inconsistent through the entire show a lot of times they can unfreeze things by touching them and then a lot of times they can only unfreeze things by Piper using her pointer finger to either unfreeze a head or a foot or some other body part.

Other: Paige and Leo are in Paige's 1994 room for at least 1 minute and don't smell the cigarette smoke but when Paige's father enters the room, Paige hugs him and in the middle of the hug he immediately smells the cigarette smoke.

Plot hole: Piper convinced Paige that they should use their powers to make Andrew confess to murder. Paige wonders why it's okay to reveal their powers to a mortal, and Piper and Leo explain to her that it's all right to use their powers on a mortal because they're trying to help an innocent. But in episode 2-19: "Ex Libris," Prue wanted to use a truth spell to force the pawnshop owner to confess to murder, and Phoebe pointed out that it is an abuse of their powers to "punish the innocent."

Continuity: In the teaser, Phoebe has a vision of a murder. When she first sees the shadow of the attack, the assailant is holding his victim down with his right hand while stabbing with his left. Then when the vision focuses on the Medusa head tattoo on his forearm, it is the right arm that is stabbing.

Revealing: In the scene where The Source uses Piper's powers together on the clay object (it blows up and then freezes), after he unfreezes it, the pieces shatter and one lands on the stand thing. As the camera moves in towards The Source, before the camera passes the clay piece it visibly vanishes (as it is CGI) and then the Source holds up a piece which is much larger and a different shape.

Revealing: During the episode, Paige is wearing a sleeveless top, but when she thrown across the attic by 'The Source' the stunt double is wearing sleeves.

Revealing: At the end of the episode after Phoebe and the Seer put the hollow away in its place, she leaves, but when it next cuts to a closeup of Cole, in the corner of the screen you can see her hair.

Other: In this episode, the Source talks about the "Ultimate Power" being the Hollow. But in Season 8, we learn that the "Ultimate Power" is Billy and Christy. (And they end up taking in the Hollow, so now are they the "Ultime Power" times 2?) Which is it? It can't be both.

Continuity: When Paige was invisible and Cole watched the blood, there was a large pool of her blood, but in the next shot, the pool of blood was smaller.

Factual error: The Seer tells Cole about the importance of the upcoming "Harvest Moon." But this episode aired in mid-March, while the Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. The full moon closest to the vernal equinox is known as the Worm Moon.

Plot hole: When Piper freezes an object it always continues with its path when it unfreezes, but when she unfreezes the knife Rick has thrown at her it drops to the floor.

Plot hole: When Rick and Nathan held Leo down so he couldn't get to his charge, why didn't he orb to her side to save her?

Continuity: In this episode, an invitation to Piper is addressed to 1329 Prescott Street. But in episode 1-7: "The Fourth Sister," the Halliwell sisters put up a flyer for their lost cat, and it gives their address as 7571 Prescott Street.

Continuity: The name plate under the photo of Leo at the Veterans Association indicates that he died on November 24, 1942. Paige's research indicates that Nathan and Rick both died on the same day as Leo, but she later finds out that they were buried at the V.A. on November 22, 1942, two days before they are supposed to have died.

Continuity: In the scene where we first see Phoebe and Cole when she's about to leave the apartment you see she is wearing gold and white high heels but as soon as she reaches the elevator shes wearing black boots actually to be more specific they're Uggs, a type of boot.

Continuity: When Leo arrives to tell the sisters about the wizard, Phoebe's hands change position between shots.

Continuity: When Phoebe gets a stomach cramp in Detective Miles' office, she doubles over in pain. In the next shot, she's standing up straighter than she was. Her right hand also moves from the chair in front of her to her stomach.

Continuity: When Phoebe talks to Morris in Detective Miles' office, her hands change position instantly between shots.

Revealing: In the teaser, when Leo levitates to hang a picture, he has a major wedgie and the ankles of his pants hike up to mid-shin due to the harness that is used for the levitation effect.

Continuity: In the scene where Agent Jackman shows them the file he has on them in their dining room, Paige's left dress strap has fallen off her shoulder in some shots, but in others it's perfectly in place.

Plot hole: In this episode, when Piper and Leo are preparing the nursery, Leo tells Piper he has been watching her her whole life, and she says "That's a little bit creepy". she acts as if she doesn't already know this but in episode 2-22 'Be Careful What You Witch For' Piper says, "You have been watching me my entire life".

Plot hole: The Sea Hag says at the start of the episode to Mylie that as an immortal being, only she can place the augur shell over her heart to give up her life. But at the end of the episode Necron magically places the shell onto Phoebe and it nearly sucks the life out of her.

Plot hole: Paige says she cannot wait to tell the local witch doctors that Borneo demons are not impervious to magical powers. But in the episode 'House Call', they act as if they have never heard of witch doctors, let alone dealt with them.

Revealing: When Phoebe goes to sign her papers at the end, she spells her name as Pheobe.