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Susan Mayer: And then he got this Zen look on his face and he said, "you know Susan, most men lead quiet lives of desperation."

Lynette Scavo: Please tell me you punched him.

Susan Mayer: No. I said, "really? And what do most women lead? Lives of noisy fufillment?

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When Edie gets the phone call, saying Mrs Huber was found, while she is at Mike's, you can see the cell phone on the table where she is sitting. When the phone rings, she reaches to nowhere with her right hand and you can still see the phone. Then the view changes and you can see her getting the call with her left hand. See more...

Trivia

In series 1, Richard Roundtree appears as Mr Shaw, who works for the Hafts Detective Agency. "Hafts" is an anagram of "Shaft" who was played by Roundtree in the 1971 film of the same name. See more...

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Continuity: Episode 2:20 - While Susan and Edie are at the Hooters style restaurant, the amount of beer, and amount of head, in Edie's glass changes from shot to shot; It's not because she is drinking it.

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Continuity: On the note Mary Alice receives that leads to her suicide, the position of the three sentences changes throughout the series. In episode 1.1 (Pilot), all three lines are written on the top half of the note (above the crease), but in later episodes the first two lines are on the top and the third is on the lower half. The handwriting also varies slightly.

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Pilot (season 1, episode 1)

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Continuity: When Lynette comes out of the pool, after getting her boys, she is wearing high heels, but when the shot changes to a distance, she isn't wearing anything on her feet.

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Continuity: When Lynette is feeding her baby, we see from behind there is a backpack on her chair then when the shot changes it is not there.

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Ah, But Underneath (season 1, episode 2)

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Continuity: When we see Lynette driving her kids, in the first shot we see some red, blue and white decoration in the front of the car to the right, then when the shot changes it's in the centre.

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Pretty Little Picture (season 1, episode 3)

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Continuity: When Julie is leaving we see that she leaves the door open and then it closes with a slight open gap, yet just for one shot the door is completely closed, then it's open again.

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Continuity: When Gabrielle and Carlos are saying hello to Ashley, the position of her hands change on the ball, from the front to the side to the front again.

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Who's that Woman? (season 1, episode 4)

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Continuity: When Lynette and Gabrielle are talking to Paul, the boxes Gabrielle are holding change position between shots under her arms.

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Continuity: At one point in episode 1.2 ("Ah, But Underneath"), Susan looks at the note used to blackmail Mary Alice and we can see that it has been folded twice and become somewhat crumpled. Two episodes later in "Who's That Woman?" (1.4) when the girls show the note to Paul, it is almost perfectly smooth with a single horizontal crease.

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Come in, Stranger (season 1, episode 5)

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Continuity: When Bree goes to see Zak, in one shot her hands are intercrossed, then in the next her arms are crossed.

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Running to Stand Still (season 1, episode 6)

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Continuity: In one shot during the poker scene the baby moniter changes position to the other side of Lynette then back again.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Susan is following Paul in the car she borrowed, we can see the reflection of a crew member on the right hand side of the window.

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Continuity: When Lynette is talking to Jordana the items on the table keep changing position in between shots.

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Love Is in the Air (a.k.a. What I Did for Love) (season 1, episode 14)

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Factual error: Lynette's neighbor tells her that the pot Lynette's sons gave her is really hers, the neighbor's, and she bought it in Costa Rica. She turns the pot over to show Lynette that the price is marked on the bottom, with a number followed by the letter p. One supposes that the p might stand for peso, except that the currency of Costa Rica is the colon, which consists of 100 centavos. No p in sight.

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There's Something About a War (season 2, episode 13)

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Continuity: When Lynette and Tom are talking, Tom says "Really I got the job?" and puts down the newspaper he was just reading. In the next shot we see Lynette and you can see Tom is still holding the paper and puts it down again.

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Continuity: As the nurse is talking to Susan about the operation, the folding of the paper the nurse is holding on the clipboard changes between shots. First it is half folded over, the next shot it has been folded right over and is being held right down. After this shot it changes again and is now folded back without her moving the paper.

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Mother Said (season 4, episode 15)

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Continuity: When Orson is on the phone with his lawyer, he sets down the notepad with a page half filled with writing at the front. However, later in the scene Edie walks into the room and the front page of the notepad is full of writing, plus there's an extra line in the first paragraph. No one was around to move the page as Orson was in the shower.

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