Quotes

Penny: What the hell is that?

Wolowitz: Meatloaf.

Leonard: What was it doing on the ceiling?

Wolowitz: That's classified.

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After Sheldon mentions a molecular sieve, they go over to 4a, their apartment. 4a is a kind of molecular sieve. See more...

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The Big Bang Theory (2007) - 147 mistakes in entire show

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Revealing: If you look at the marble patterns on the walls, they are all exactly the same from floor to floor. Also the bricks oddities on the stairway match from floor to floor. They change lights, elevator tape etc. but it's the same floor used over and over as different floors.

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Revealing: Whenever the gang eats lunch at the cafeteria, they often shake salt and pepper on to their meals. The salt and pepper on all the tables in the cafeteria are actually grinders, and the grinders also have caps on them, so shaking them will do nothing whatsoever.

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Deliberate "mistake": Very often, during Skype or other video chat conversations, the people on the computer screen look left or right when talking to someone who is not directly in front of the screen. Although it certainly helps the viewers understand who's talking to whom (which is why I assume it's a 'deliberate mistake'), it isn't realistic, since it implies that the people on the screen are actually constantly looking away from their computer instead of at their screen or webcam.

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Other: During the intro, as the timeline at the bottom of the frame scrolls, "91,0009C" is written instead of "91,000BC".

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Revealing: Most of the time, though not all the time, Leonard has no lenses in his glasses.

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Continuity: In the apartment block's stairwell, the wall mounted light is situated in a different place in the two camera angles used. In the first angle showing them walking down from behind, the light is positioned above the level section of hand rail, when the camera switches to the front view, the light is over the angled section of hand rail.

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Pilot (season 1, episode 1)

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Continuity: When Leonard shouts "Sheldon, sit!" his hand rests on the arm of his chair, then it is off, and then back on the arm again.

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Continuity: When Leonard and Sheldon are sitting in the sperm bank waiting area, the position of Sheldon's bag strap keeps changing.

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Continuity: When Penny sits in Sheldon's seat, the cushion on the other side of the couch rotates itself; evident by the buttons sewn on it.

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Continuity: When Penny is in the shower, there is a red comb on the cistern of the toilet. In the next shot, it has moved without anyone touching it.

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Continuity: During the scene where Penny, Sheldon and Leonard eat takeaway and converse, the blue throw hanging over the couch behind Penny continually changes from neat and uncreased, to messy and creased up.

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Continuity: After Penny gets in the shower and throws her towel to the floor, the towel changes position in the next shot, as well as her boots and clothes on the counter as well.

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Continuity: When Leonard, Sheldon, Penny, Koothrappali, and Wolowitz are driving at the end to get some dinner, the cars outside are constantly changing drastically.

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The Big Bran Hypothesis (season 1, episode 2)

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Continuity: At the end of the episode, when the gang is reading the furniture assembly instructions, a pencil in the cup in front of them suddenly vanishes.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Penny is having a go at Sheldon and Leonard, there is a shot of some metal pans with stage lights visible in them.

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Visible crew/equipment: When Sheldon is mentioning about the coffee table having a garage sale, there is a shot of Leonard with all the stagelights reflected in the kettle.

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Audio problem: When Penny is talking to Raj on the stairs to the apartments, during some shots we see her from behind. In one shot, we hear her say something like "And I'm freaking out", but you can tell by the way her jaw moves that she was actually saying something different.

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The Fuzzy Boots Corollary (season 1, episode 3)

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Continuity: When Sheldon is telling Leonard that he didn't ask Penny out, there is a yellow food-bag on the counter between them that keeps changing its position with every shot change.

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Continuity: When Sheldon, Howard and Raj play Jenga, there is one block sitting at the top of the tower. When Leonard walks in, there are now two blocks at the top, before we actually see Howard place the second one on the top.

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Revealing: When everybody is on their laptops at the beginning of the episode, you can clearly see in many shots that their screens are black.

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