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Episode #1.2 - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Bill and Holden get in the elevator, Bill's Playboy is tilted and in front of the backboard. In the next shot, it's straightened out and behind the backboard. Then when walking down the hall, it's back in front of the backboard.

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Chapter Five - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: When Sister Alice is preaching with the man in the wheelchair is on stage, the way she holds her Bible changes in between shots. For example, after she lists those who were there, her hand is on the Bible but it's closed around her hand. In the next shot, it's closed, and she's holding it on the side. Then it's fully open.

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Camelot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When the first Guadalajara brother is shot, and his body is on the floor, you can see the blood on the glass. Two seconds later, in a close-up shot, it is missing, only to reappear a few seconds later.

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Continuity mistake: The only letter that Alexander B. Cust really wrote himself is briefly shown when Poirot visits the office of the Twinkle Toes stocking company. The lowercase "R" is too high every time (meaning that the typewriter isn't perfect, a detail put in for realism). Yet all the close-ups of a typewriter progressing through the work on that letter, or any of the letters written on the same machine, show a perfectly aligned "r."

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Sharkbait - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: To beat the traffic, Coop skateboards inside a construction pipe. The pipe is on the back of a truck, so it's not exactly very long, and gets picked up by a crane arm mounted on the truckbed itself. However, Coop takes ages to come out of the pipe, and in the shot from inside the pipe it looks as if is dozens of meters above the street level, which isn't. (00:08:00)

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The Dramatist - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: Jack rushes in at night to save Kate who has been drugged by the evil professor. Jack resuscitates her and calls an ambulance. When the ambulance leaves it is bright daylight.

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Fire Chicken - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: Opening her last stand against Uncle Six's henchwoman, Jenny tosses her a bottle of oil. On the wooden chopping board there's a big knife, that disappears once Jenny waves the frying pan around, re-appears a moment after, and so on. (00:32:00)

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Continuity mistake: Throughout the series, the Barbers pull their cars straight up their driveway. But the cars are nearly always shown coming back down the driveway driving forward.

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Dan Tanna Is Dead - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: Dan enters the military facility and when talking to the guard at the check in counter, the clock behind him shows 10:15. Then in the same scene seconds later, the clock behind Dan shows close to 5:15.

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Who Killed the Rest? - S2-E25

Continuity mistake: When Burke's partners arrive to question Mimsy Grove, she's facing away from them, bending over to untangle her boat's mooring line. But in the very next shot, she's immediately standing up straight and has turned around to face them. (00:38:15)

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Season 1 generally

Continuity mistake: Emma falls off the roof and into a water butt when she is being chased by the villains, the police pull her out and she is soaking wet. A few seconds later she screams when the villain catches Nicola, and when they fall through the roof she is dry.

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Beauty and the Obese: Part 1 - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Right after the opening scene where the model suddenly inflates to fat, we are taken to The Tender Loins club where the exterior shot shows a line of people with a bouncer checking each one. In this shot, his arms are down at his side, but then it cuts a close up and suddenly he has his hand lifted to his face looking at someone's I.D. (00:01:40)

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The Outlaw Eddie Wagner - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: Stabler is patted down by a NYPD Officer and the officer is shown slipping something into Stabler's left front pants pocket. After the officer departs Stabler pulls a paper out of his front right pants pocket. (00:15:52 - 00:16:30)

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Blood in the Sand - S2-E9

Continuity mistake: The father of a teen girl murdered in CA receives a letter from a self-proclaimed psychic concerning the murder. He received it at his home in RI, but the letter is addressed to San Diego, CA. The address is shown twice. (00:08:00 - 00:14:00)

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Havoc - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: When the bomb under the bus is being defused, it's counting down and beeping once every second. We see the timer at 0:45, then cut to the face of the woman defusing it - counting the beeps when we cut back it should be on 0:45, but it's jumped up to 1:06. Camera pans down to her face, then back to the bomb, and it's now on 0:43, but going by the beeps it should be on 0:36. We cut away again for 5 more beeps, cut back and the bomb's only just ticking onto 0:41.

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