Smallville

Smallville (2001)

539 mistakes - chronological order

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Metamorphosis - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: After Greg hits Clark with the pipe in the foundry, Clark's hands are very dirty. In the closeup on Clark's hand immediately after he lands, the hand is clean to show the effects of the Kryptonite. (00:39:45)

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Metamorphosis - S1-E2

Factual error: When the bug kid crashes his car, he's driving a VW Beetle, which has the motor in the rear, therefore would not have shut off in a head on collision.

Hothead - S1-E3

Deliberate mistake: The episode begins with a football game in pouring rain. After the winning goal is scored, the crowd shots show the cheerleaders' hair wet and their uniforms completely dry. (00:01:50)

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Hothead - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, Clark, Chloe, and Pete walk past Lana and Whitney. In the following exchange between Lana and Whitney, two cheerleaders suddenly appear behind them. They're gone again as Lana walks away. (00:06:20)

Phoenix

Hothead - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: During Clark and Pete's exchange after the coach invites Clark onto the team, Pete's hand zips from at his side to raised to his shoulder in an angle change. (00:09:00)

Phoenix

Hothead - S1-E3

Plot hole: Why does the principal leave so calmly when Coach Walt starts a fire in his office? He doesn't even bother to call 911, he just walks out to his car and tries to drive away. (00:17:10)

Phoenix

Hothead - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: After Clark catches the football the was aimed at Chloe, for taking pictures of the team, she has one hand on her camera, but in the next shot, both hands are on the camera.

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Hothead - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: As Lex is chalking his pool stick while talking to Dominic about cutting 20% of the workforce at the LutherCorp Smallville plant, there is a red snooker ball on the wall rack missing from the second row. When Lex walks over to the other end of the pool table, the camera shot changes back to Dominic, now there is a ball missing from the top row, which was not missing before.

Hothead - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: While Clark and Jonathan are talking about Clark being on the football team, Jonathan puts his hands on Clark's shoulders. Between shots, the position of Jonathan's hands on Clark's shoulders repeatedly changes.

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X-Ray - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When "Lex" threatens the bank manager, he points the gun at his face, but the next shot on the manager shows the gun at his throat. (00:01:35)

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X-Ray - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: While climbing ropes in the gym, Clark and Pete switch sides relative to each other. First Clark is on Pete's left, then he is suddenly on Pete's right. (00:07:00)

Phoenix

X-Ray - S1-E4

Factual error: Lana says the theme of her mother's prom was Saturday Night Fever, but she was in the class of 1977. Prom would take place sometime before graduation (which would be in May, maybe June), likely February or March. Filming for "Saturday Night Fever" didn't even begin until March 1977.

X-Ray - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: While Lana is listening to her Mother's graduation speech she reaches up to her neck for her meteor rock necklace. Her hands do not reach far enough back to unclasp the necklace yet the necklace comes off anyway.

X-Ray - S1-E4

Revealing mistake: As Tina/Clark tries to run over Martha, there is a shot of Tina/Clark up close in the truck, and the gear shift is still in park.

X-Ray - S1-E4

Visible crew/equipment: After Martha finds the money in the antique shop she tells the other woman she needs to be more careful, as they are walking in the room there is a boom mike shadow moving.

Cool - S1-E5

Audio problem: While Sean and Whitney are tossing the football at the lake edge, at one point we hear Whitney catch the ball offscreen while the camera is on Sean. The camera then cuts back to Whitney and he catches the ball on screen. (00:03:20)

Phoenix

Shimmer - S1-E10

Lana Lang: That's the thing about Clark Kent. He's not always there when you want him... But he's always there when you need him.

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Trivia: Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of the Clark Kent/Superman character worked on a school magazine when he was at Glenville High School, Cleveland. The magazine was called The Torch - the same name of Smallville High's school magazine, edited by Chloe Sullivan and with Clark Kent as an on/off contributor.

Jeff Walker

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Answer: In the comics, Krypto is a dog from Krypton who was used as the passenger in a test launch by Jor-El, Superman's father, before he launched the actual rocket taking his infant son to Earth. Krypto's capsule was involved in a mishap, sending it out of Kryptonian orbit and eventually found its way to Earth where he linked up with the young Clark Kent. Like any native of Krypton, Krypto has superpowers on Earth. In Smallville, the dog is a standard Earth dog who has been experimentally injected with kryptonite, giving him super-strength for a limited period of time, who escapes and links up with Clark (who suggests the name Krypto, ostensibly because of the dog's cryptic origins). It doesn't take too long for the dog's strength to fade, and the Kents decide to keep him, although they ultimately name him Shelby, after a dog that Martha Kent had in childhood.

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