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Glee (2009) - 71 mistakes in entire show

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Hell-O (season 1, episode 14)

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Continuity: In "Hell-O", as Santana and Brittney are talking about the "hottest guys in the school", Santana's glass is almost empty. Yet two shots later, when she takes a drink, her glass is full. Also, when she says "Would you mind waiting in the car?" her glass is full and you can obviously see a slice of lemon in it. Yet in the next shot, when she says "And leave your credit card", her glass is only about 1/3 full and the lemon slice is gone.

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Wheels (season 1, episode 9)

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Continuity: In "Wheels," when Artie is singing 'Dancing By Myself' and doing tricks in his wheelchair, the wheels on the back of the chair that prevent him from falling backwards disappear and reappear, depending on whether or not he is performing a trick.

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Special Education (season 2, episode 9)

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Continuity: During Season 2, Episode 9 (Special Education), just as Blaine is singing "Hey soul sister, I don't wanna miss." for the last time, he is several feet in front of the other Warblers. But during the next shot, as he is singing ".a single thing you do.", he's right in front of them. So he jumped back several feet between two shots.

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Duets (season 2, episode 4)

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Revealing: Season 2, episode 4 (Duets): When Brittany lifts Artie from his chair and carries him to her bed, right before she puts him down, he is obviously lifting his feet to prevent them from bumping into the bedframe.

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Theatricality (season 1, episode 20)

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Continuity: During "Theatricality", when the boys are singing "Beth", just as Puck sings "Me and the boys are Playin'" for the first time, Finn is visible sitting behind Quinn. Yet Finn went to sit down and sing with Puck and is obviously sitting with the boys in the next wide shot.

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All of season 2 (season 2)

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Factual error: In season two the show makes Dalton look like it's in a suburb of Lima. Dalton Academy is suppose to be located in Westerville, OH, which is two hours southeast of Lima. Kurt & Blaine would not be able to go to the "Lima Bean" coffee shop every day if this was the case.

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New York (season 2, episode 22)

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Continuity: Near the end when Brittany is talking to Santana outside their lockers, Brittany's fringe keeps changing between shots from across her forehead to down the side of her ear every time the camera switches from facing her to facing Santana.

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Revealing: During the fountain scenes of the "I Love New York/New York, New York" mashup, the crowds of fans who came to watch the filming are sometimes visible in the background on the lower left or on the balcony to the upper right.

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Mattress (season 1, episode 12)

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Other: When Finn and Rachel sing Smile in the Choir Room in Mattress (Season 1, Episode 12), Finn doesn't appear to look at any other page but the first one in the music given to him by Rachel. It is unlikely that the entire score for the song was on the first page.

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The Sue Sylvester Shuffle (season 2, episode 11)

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Continuity: When the Warblers are singing "Bills, Bills, Bills", one of them throws the sheets of music up in the air as he spins. For the remainder of the song, the sheets are on the floor during some shots, but have disappeared in others.

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Acafellas (season 1, episode 3)

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Continuity: When Mercedes is singing "Bust Your Windows", the blue rags on Kurt's car behind her change position several times. Also, Kurt is at first looking up at the hole in his windshield, then has his head down on the hood, and then is looking up at the hole again, over a series of 3 or 4 shots.

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Silly Love Songs (season 2, episode 12)

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Audio problem: In "silly love songs" during the final song You can hear Blaine singing "I can explain." but in a couple of the shots he is lip-syncing to the "I love you". Next shot is he is back to singing his solo part.

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The Rocky Horror Glee Show (season 2, episode 5)

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Continuity: When the kids are practising the 'Dammit Janet' song, Finn draws a heart on the whiteboard in the back of the choir room. The shape of the heart changes with almost every shot it is in.

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Never Been Kissed (season 2, episode 6)

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Continuity: During season 2 "Never Been Kissed", just as the Warblers begin to sing "Teenage Dream", a boy with a briefcase walks in front of Kurt, heading towards the left. Two shots later, the same boy with the breifcase walks left in front of him again.

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The Power of Madonna (season 1, episode 15)

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Continuity: In "The Power of Madonna", as the girls are performing Express Yourself, near the end of the song the coats that Tina, Santana and Brittney have dropped disappear and reappear several times.

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Hell-O (season 1, episode 14)

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Continuity: In "Hell-O", as Finn is dribbling the ball down the court, the timer behind him is counting down from 26. Yet two shots later, after he looks at Rachel and the other team steals the ball, the timer is counting down from 34.

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The Power of Madonna (season 1, episode 15)

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Continuity: In "The Power of Madonna", during the Cheerios stilts routine, as the people on stilts lift one leg one after the other, they are in a V shape, and there are both girls and boys on stilts. Yet in the very next shot, as the people on stilts swing the other Cheerios around, there are only 3 Cheerios, all guys, on stilts, and they are in a straight line.

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Pilot (season 1, episode 1)

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Continuity: During "Don't Stop Believing" at the line "He took the midnight train going anywhere," Rachel extends her hand with her palm facing the floor. In the next shot, it instantly changes to her palm facing the seats of the auditorium. (Timecode listed for the director's cut of the episode.)

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Laryngitis (season 1, episode 18)

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Continuity: During the "Lady is a Tramp" number, Puck puts on a hat with the front of the brim flipped down. The brim miraculously flips up and back down throughout the scene.

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Britney 2.0 (season 4, episode 2)

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Continuity: In Britney 2.0, when Brittany and Santana are video calling, look at Britt's laptop. Don't look at Santana, look at Brittany. In the first shot, there's some kind of light probably a window, at the back of Brittany. In the second shot, there's no light or window at all.

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Hell-O (season 1, episode 14)

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Continuity: In "Gives You Hell", while Rachel is sliding down the middle in the chair you can see Puck on the left then on the right. He couldn't move that fast in a second.

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Michael (season 3, episode 11)

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Continuity: When the Warblers fill the cup up with rock ice, you can see the cup is empty, yet in the next shot it's full of Slushie and no rock ice is in there when it's thrown in Blaine's face.

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Continuity: During the "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" duet between Rachel and Finn, just as Rachel sits down, her hair is at the back and at the front on the right. Yet in the next close up, her hair on the left is over her shoulder.

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Prom Queen (season 2, episode 20)

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Continuity: As Kurt and Dave are talking in front of Kurt's French class, a short girl with a brown ponytail enters the class twice.

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Extraordinary Merry Christmas (season 3, episode 9)

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Continuity: When Kurt and Blaine are singing "Let It Snow", during their last long note, Kurt places his hand on Blaine's back. In the next shot, it's back by his side.

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Britney/Brittany (season 2, episode 2)

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Audio problem: During the beginning of Rachel's "Baby One More Time" fantasy, the tapping sounds and her pencil's movements don't match up.

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New York (season 2, episode 22)

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Continuity: In the first shot of New York, no one is sitting on the red bleachers in the background. In the next shot, plenty of people are there, even the Glee club.

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Audition (season 2, episode 1)

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Continuity: While Will is holding Quinn to prevent her from attacking Santana after their fight, as Santana walks away, in one shot Quinn has her body is towards Will's: in the next, she's suddenly turned around and her body is now the other way.

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New York (season 2, episode 22)

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Continuity: At the end of the episode when Kurt and Blaine are sat in the Lima Bean, the position of Blaine's hand where it props up his face changes. Whenever we see Blaine from the front, his fingers are curved slightly, but when we see Kurt (and the back of Blaine's head), his fingers are held straight so they do not interfere with the shot.

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Continuity: During "Blame It On The Alcohol", when Quinn is shouting at Puck, her hair is messy and straight. Yet a little while after, during "Don't You Want Me", her hair is curly and styled perfectly.

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Dream On (season 1, episode 19)

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Continuity: When Artie tries to walk with crutches after the "step dance" practice with Tina, he falls down violently. Immediately after the fall, the crutch is still attached to his left arm, which is angled away from his body. In the very next shot, the crutch is almost a foot away from his arm, which lies now at a different angle.

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The Rhodes Not Taken (season 1, episode 5)

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Continuity: During "Last Name", just as April is singing "We left the club," she backs up into Kurt in the wide shot, yet during the very next shot she is still a couple of feet away from him.

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Never Been Kissed (season 2, episode 6)

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Continuity: During "Never Been Kissed", just after Sue activates the confetti cannons and is talking to Will, the amount of confetti on Will's shoulders changes between shots.

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Sectionals (season 1, episode 13)

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Continuity: In episode 13 of season 1 (Sectionals), during the five way split screen, the extras behind Mercedes and the ones behind Tina are the same but have different movements.

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Continuity: In episode 13 "Sectionals" when Will confronts Sue in the corridor about leaking the set-list to the rival teams, Sue is wearing a bag over her shoulder. However, in the shots from behind the bag is nowhere to be seen.

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I Do (season 4, episode 14)

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Factual error: The wedding is at a Christian church performed by a Christian minister, but at a Christian wedding the groom stands on the Minister's left side and the bride on his right. The way Will waits for Emma is the way that the bridal party stands at a Jewish wedding.

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Heart (season 3, episode 13)

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Continuity: When Kurt sings his line 'Tin roof rusted,' his microphone changes from his right to left hand between shots.

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The First Time (season 3, episode 5)

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Audio problem: Just as Blaine is introducing Kurt to Sebastian, he says "Sebastian, this is my-", is suddenly cut mid-sentence as the shot switches to Kurt, and continues with "-Kurt, my boyfriend". Clearly the sound wasn't synchronised properly between the two edits.

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The Substitute (season 2, episode 7)

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Continuity: In the "Singing In the Rain" dance, the second time the three guys are on their knees, they splash water with their hands. The third time they splash, the water drops are moving toward the stage instead of away. And the rain in the background is falling up.

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Furt (season 2, episode 8)

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Audio problem: During "Marry You", in the wide shots where Carole is coming down the aisle and the Glee kids are in the background, the lyrics and their mouth movements don't match up.

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Ballad (season 1, episode 10)

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Continuity: When Kurt goes to sit down and play the piano for Finn, he is wearing cream coloured pants. Yet in the closeup shot of his hands, he is wearing jeans.

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Funeral (season 2, episode 21)

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Deliberate "mistake": When Howard enters Figgins' password to hack into his AOL account, Figgins' inbox is obviously visible behind the login box, which simply disappears once the password has been entered. In addition, look closely at the inbox and you'll see that not only is there no mail, they are actually in GMail (the logo has simply been edited out of the top corner).

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Continuity: Near the end of the episode, when Mr Schue is talking to Terri in the school hallway, there are several people walking around in the background and there is even one student running towards the camera. In the next shot - one second later - the hallway is completely empty.

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A Night of Neglect (season 2, episode 17)

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Continuity: During Mike's "Bubble Toes" dance number, the chain on his pocket watch switches between being over a foot long, swinging about as he dances, and being only a few inches long.

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Laryngitis (season 1, episode 18)

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Continuity: During "Laryngitis", Puck pulls Mercedes up to come sing "Lady is a Tramp" with him. Yet in the very next shot, just as she starts singing, she stands up again. So she stood up twice.

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The Purple Piano Project (season 3, episode 1)

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Continuity: Blaine has finished singing and the piano is ablaze. Several Club members are seen sitting at the table, then a different view shows only Rachel and Kurt and empty seat spaces where others were sitting.

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The First Time (season 3, episode 5)

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Continuity: Just as Kurt is pulling up a chair next to Blaine in the Lima Bean scene, Blaine's arm is down by his side. Yet when Kurt hooks their arms together in the next shot, his arm is on the table.

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All of season 2 (season 2)

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Continuity: S02E20 - "Prom Queen". When Blaine and Kurt are in Breadstix talking about Prom, the amount of soda in both of their glasses changes between shots.

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Theatricality (season 1, episode 20)

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Continuity: When Rachel and Ms. Corcoron sing "Poker Face", near the end they switch places between shots.

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Big Brother (season 3, episode 15)

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Character mistake: During "Somebody That I Used to Know," Blaine puts down his satchel. However at the end of the song, he leaves the auditorium without picking it back up.

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Funeral (season 2, episode 21)

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Continuity: While Santana is singing "Back to Black", Jessie is seen obviously scribbling something down. Yet at the end, his notepad is shown with a drawing of a cat upon it. If he was drawing the cat, he would have been drawing smooth lines, not scribbles, as the drawing contains no scribbles at all.

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Across whole show

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Deliberate "mistake": Many times throughout the show, a large bandage or makeup blot is visible on Lea Michele's right wrist, which is used to cover up her "I Believe" tattoo. This is most visible during "Don't Rain On My Parade" and her "Poker Face" and "For Good" duets.

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Deliberate "mistake": When the kids are opening their lockers, they enter the code, then pull on the lock to open the locker. The closed lock is still attached to the front of the locker. When they close it, it's magically locked again without them ever opening or closing the lock. In reality, these locks would be useless, or the locker doors wouldn't open.

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Continuity: Throughout the show, the character's lockers continually change position. For example, Rachel's locker is at first near the end of a row, a few down from Quinn's, yet later it's in the middle of the row, nowhere near any of the other Glee kid's lockers, and even later it's the second one down in a completely different row.

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Continuity: In 3x14 (On My Way), Quinn apparently texted Rachel that she'd be there soon at 11:01PM on February 9, 2012. Quinn got Rachel's text back at 4:14PM. When we see Rachel's phone again, her text saying "HURRY!" is gone. (In addition, Feb. 9th 2012 was a Thursday, not a Saturday).

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Continuity: In 3X11 (Michael), when singing in the choir room with Finn, Rachel's necklace changes from inside her dress to outside several times.

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Continuity: In 3x05, when Rachel and Finn are doing their toast, the amount of cider in the glasses changes between shots.

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Continuity: In 3x09, during the opening number, Kurt is wearing the gum wrapper ring he received as a gift from Blaine. Although the scene where he receives it was cut from the aired episode, he wasn't supposed to receive the ring until later in the episode.

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Continuity: In 3x09, while Kurt and Blaine are singing "Let It Snow", the fire is going. When they finish the song and notice the "audience", it's out. When Kurt is opening his present from Rachel, it's going again.

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Plot hole: During "Asian F", when Kurt is filling out his NYADA application, he lists his address as "415 Whitman Avenue". Yet during "The First Time", when Rachel is approaching Finn and Kurt's house, the number on the house is 291.

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Factual error: After he gets fired from his teaching job, Mr. Ryerson makes a living reselling the medical marijuana he receives for depression. Ohio is not one of the 16 states (and District of Columbia) that have medical marijuana laws, and NONE of the states allow it for treatment of depression.

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Other: Many of the Warblers appear in McKinley throughout the show, even after the Warblers were introduced. An example of this is that Trent is often seen walking throughout the halls of McKinley. He even sits in front of Finn in "Substitute" when Holly Holiday is teaching the students Spanish.

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Continuity: In episode 2-18, "Born This Way", during the musical number "Somewhere Only We Know", you can see Brittany step down from the stairs in the background as The Warblers circle around Kurt and pat him on the shoulder. The next shot shows her stepping down again.

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Continuity: During 2x08 "Furt", when Sue and her mother are singing "Ohio", during the closeups, Sue has her arm around her mother's waist, yet in the wide shots, Sue's arm is hanging by her side.

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Continuity: In 2x06 "Never Been Kissed", while the Warblers are singing "Teenage Dream", during the closeups of Kurt, his bag's strap is under his jacket's lapel, but in the long shots, it's on top of the lapel.

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Grilled Cheesus (season 2, episode 3)

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Continuity: During "Grilled Cheesus", the grilled cheese sandwich with the face of Jesus changes occasionally between shots. Sometimes the burn is slightly darker, or the edge is changed.

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Bad Reputation (season 1, episode 17)

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Continuity: During "Bad Reputation", as the kids are singing "Ice Ice Baby", their sheets of music continually change position, especially with the people sitting down. For example, in the first shot Mercedes is holding her music in her right hand. In the next shot it's down on her lap. In the third shot she's holding it with both hands, and in the last shot it's in her right hand again.

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Home (season 1, episode 16)

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Continuity: During "Home", when Mercedes is singing "Beautiful", Quinn stands up to join her. When she passes behind Mercedes, she stops and puts her hands on her stomach. Yet in the next shot, she passes Mercedes a second time and once again stops with her hands on her stomach.

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The Power of Madonna (season 1, episode 15)

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Visible crew/equipment: In "The Power Of Madonna", just before Sue drops the Madonna CD onto Figgin's desk, a camera is briefly visible over her right shoulder.

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Silly Love Songs (season 2, episode 12)

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Continuity: When Lauren drags Puck into the storage closet for Seven Minutes In Heaven, there are hearts on the wall which appear to be decorations for Valentine's Day. As the Seven Minutes In Heaven happened prior to Sectionals, which was well before Valentine's Day, these shouldn't be there.

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Deliberate "mistake": During almost every scene that involves the main actors in the hallway or in a classroom with a window to the hallway, there are people passing by at random intervals. Even if the scene takes place in the middle of class or after school, there are random extras wandering the halls. In real life, unless they had about 15 minutes between each class and every single club met after school every single day, there wouldn't be that many people in the halls.

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