Best TV mistakes of 2005

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Shock - S1-E5

Factual error: Molly and Ramsey find out that the van they are looking for was ticketed in Baltimore City at "the corner of Pennington and Fifth," and they are looking at a computerized map of the area. However, the map can be easily matched up to the actual Mapquest map of the area around the corner of Fifth St. and Patapsco Ave., except that the latter has been relabeled as Pennington. There is a Pennington Ave. in Baltimore City, but it runs parallel to Fifth, about a mile east of it.

DavidK93

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Continuity mistake: When Vicky vomit at the graduation, we see that she sits on the end of the line of chairs,and no one sits on her left side. In the shot before, from the back, we see Dave sit on the end of the line, and in shot later they switch sides.

Feather

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Factual error: Haloclines are referred to throughout, and depicted occasionally as some sort of underwater tornadoes. Haloclines are in fact just salinity gradients, and look nothing like they do on the show.

Andrew Perry

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It Wasn't Me! - S1-E13

Continuity mistake: Before Charlie says to Lola "You must double-triple promise you'll never play with it", he places the rocket beside a black box. Later in the episode, when Lola attempts to get the rocket down to play with it, the rocket is now on top of the black box.

heartis

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Episode #1.15 - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: When Miles jumps off the ferry to swim ashore, the camera view is from the ferry: he jumps into quiet, fairly level water, yet the camera recedes from him (he jumped off the back of the boat as the camera continues moving with the boat). The angle changes and we see the wake of the boat - but it's not what he jumped into.

David R Turner

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Episode One - S2-E1

Factual error: During this episode, Vincent is remanded to prison for suspected murder. At one scene he is seen working on the wing. Remand prisoners are not expected or allowed to carry out work duties in British Prisons.

Jeff Walker

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Sundays - S3-E10

Visible crew/equipment: When Florence tosses the note off the fridge when she and Putty enter the apartment, the rod holding the paper is very visible on the far left of the screen.

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Catch of the Day - S17-E9

Continuity mistake: Van on the Blue Team is asked to leave Hell's Kitchen by Chef Ramsey and is shown walking out. Soon after, when the Red team is nominating team members for elimination, the camera shows Nick on the Blue team and Van's Head is in the shot. If he was just eliminated how could he still be in kitchen. (00:57:00 - 00:58:00)

Snag.1

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Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: As Dave is leaning over the edge of the air boat with Rose behind him, he pulls a chunk of metal out of the water and places it on the edge of the boat on his left side. When he gets up from his lying position moments later, the metal is gone. Moments later again, with an overhead shot of the boat, we see what appears to be that piece of metal positioned at what would have been his right side, not his left. This is also where we see him step over the seat (twice!) in subsequent camera angles. (00:30:00)

DavidRTurner

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Yuusha wa futatabi - S1-E3

Other mistake: When Franco proposes Yukiko (proposes her to leave that dumpy tavern behind, that is), in the first shot you can see inside through the door all the way to the back wall, meaning that they forgot to put in the bar counter and shelves, which reappear later in the same scene. (00:09:10)

Sammo

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