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Sheldon: We are committing genetic fraud. There's no guarantee that our sperm is going to generate high IQ offspring, think about that. I have a sister with the same basic DNA mix who hostesses at Fuddruckers.

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The Big Bang Theory (2007) - 37 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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The Big Bran Hypothesis (season 1, episode 2)

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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 Pancake Batter Anomaly (season 1, episode 11)

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Updated recently Factual error: Leonard's myopia is greatly exaggerated in this episode. Even with high myopia he should still be able to navigate his apartment without aid especially after living there for seven years.

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The Codpiece Topology (season 2, episode 2)

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Character mistake: When Sheldon arrives at the apartment with his Nintendo 64 in the box, he tells Leonard that they can play Super Mario 64. He then proceeds to say, upon finding a memory card, that they can pick up where he left off. Super Mario 64 does not make use of the memory card, all of the data is saved on the cartridge.

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Factual error: Sheldon states that the "Reinheitsgebot" would have severely limited the availability of mead in 1487. This is wrong for two reasons, the first being that the most commonly known version of this law wasn't introduced until 1516 and secondly this law only defined the price and the ingredients of beer and had therefore nothing to do with other alcoholic beverages like mead.

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The Killer Robot Instability (season 2, episode 12)

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Revealing: Near the end of the show, the big robot is chasing the other robot down the hallway. The camera starts to zoom in as the robots come by it. The big robot stops just before the camera zoom is past it, yet they keep running down the hallway like the robot is still going.

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The Maternal Capacitance (season 2, episode 15)

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Character mistake: Leonard has his phone on his left ear. Sheldon says "Since ears don't cross hemispheres..." This is an error. The vast majority of the input to the left (or right) ear crosses over to the opposite hemisphere.

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The Gothowitz Deviation (season 3, episode 3)

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Continuity: When Penny is making French toast and Sheldon walks into shot, the edges of the toast are not covered in egg whilst the rest of the toast is. About 30 seconds later, Penny asks Sheldon if he wants French toast and the edges are still not covered in egg. The shot cuts to Sheldon. In this shot we can see Penny's hands to the far edge of screen and fully raised showing us that she hasn't dipped the edges of the toast in egg yet. But in the next shot, we can see the whole of the toast is covered in egg, including the edges of the toast that were clear a moment earlier.

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The Einstein Approximation (season 3, episode 14)

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Continuity: When Sheldon is playing in the ball pit and Leonard is trying to coax him out the position of the black netting of the ball pit alternates between being and not being wrapped around the yellow entrance pillars.

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The Plimpton Stimulation (season 3, episode 21)

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Updated this week Continuity: When Sheldon, Penny, and Leonard are discussing Leonard's tryst with Dr. Plimpton, Penny pinches the bridge of her nose with her right hand. The shot changes and Penny brings her left hand down from her face.

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The Staircase Implementation (season 3, episode 22)

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Character mistake: When Howard says they should put the time machine in the lift in 1-14 "The Nerdvana Annihilation", Leonard states the lift had been broken for two years. But in this episode we found out the lift broke seven years earlier.

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The Robotic Manipulation (season 4, episode 1)

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Continuity: In the ER, The glasses around the nurse's neck move instantly without her touching them. They go from angled to straight instantly.

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Continuity: When Penny says "let's just finish our dinners" she raises her fork twice.

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Continuity: When driving to the date, the cars behind Penny's change place instantly. For example a 4x4 becomes 3 cars, which becomes 1 car in the space of 3 seconds.

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Continuity: At the start, as Howard says "And finally my kung pow chicken" the robot arm is level with the top of the bag. Camera cuts and it's reaching to the bottom of the bag.

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The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification (season 4, episode 2)

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Character mistake: In the first scene, on Sheldon's board are the words "D-D Fushion." This should be fusion. Sheldon wouldn't make a mistake like that.

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The Hot Troll Deviation (season 4, episode 4)

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Factual error: During the final scene of this episode, Sheldon steps out of his office wearing a gas mask and engages Leonard in conversation where he then states he is making hydrogen sulphide gas (more commonly known as H2S). Leonard correctly identifies this as highly flammable. However, this gas is far more dangerous and is harmful to the human body at as low a concentration as 20 parts per million (ppm), can cause permanent damage at 100ppm and is fatal after two breaths at 500ppm. So for Raj (and his bird) to be completely unharmed in a high concentration of H2S (noted by the fire) is impossible.

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Continuity: When Howard and Bernadette are talking in the Cheesecake Factory, her apron that she puts on the table is constantly changing position.

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