Corrected entry: Sophia decides to move in with her son Phil and his wife, but later decides not to and she feels bad for Phil's wife. But in the episode "Ebbtide's Revenge" we learn that Sophia hates Phil's widow Angela and hasn't been to see him for 20 years.
Sonja Marie
18th Nov 2004
The Golden Girls (1985)
Correction: Also, there is an episode (the one where Rose dates the short doctor) where she goes to her grandson's graduation from dog grooming school, where she said "the big dope failed." That episode aired before the two mentioned in the original mistake listed, so she saw her son and daughter in law within the last 20 years.
23rd Oct 2004
The Golden Girls (1985)
Corrected entry: In this episode the girls fly to a Caribbean island, but in a later episode "Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself" Season 3, Dorothy says she has a fear of flying.
Correction: In the epidsode "Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself", Dorothy says she USED to have a fear of flying but got over it. Then, the more the girls talk about fear, Dorothy's fear of flying emerges again. When she flew to the island (back in season 2), she still had control over her phobia but it came back to haunt her in season 3.
28th Apr 2004
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: The cast was not told that Mclean Stevenson's character Henry was going to be killed off until the last possible second so that the shocked reaction of the cast was used in the show to reflect the reactions of the characters at the death of Henry.
Correction: Larry Gelbart has stated numerous times that all of the actors knew exactly what was happening and that there were in fact two takes of this scene, with the second take being the one used. To paraphrase what Mr. Gelbart typed in alt.fan.mash "What we see on the screen is called acting, and Gary and the rest of the cast performed superbly"
6th Apr 2005
The Golden Girls (1985)
Corrected entry: Near the end of the episode the girls are playing what seems to be a trivia game, but the board they're using looks like the Sorry game board, which is not a trivia game.
Correction: This is not a production mistake, it is a necessary element. Due to Trademark and Copyright restrictions, they could not use actual games in a show. Therefore, they combined the idea of three different games (a Sorry board, Monopoly cards, and Trivial Pursuit questions) to make it an ambiguous game.
27th Sep 2004
Friends (1994)
The One with the Sonogram at the End - S1-E2
Corrected entry: Ross already told his parents that Carol was a lesbian in Episode 1 "I told mom and dad last night, they seem to have taken it pretty well." But in the 2nd episode Ross tells his parents after dinner at Monica's like it was the first time he told them.
Correction: He told them the first time that they were getting divorced, but not why.
29th Nov 2004
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: In this episode Radar trades a pair of long johns for a whole leg of lamb that we assume he plans to eat. But in the episode "Private Charles Lamb" Radar is horrified when the Greeks give the camp a live lamb for them to eat.
27th Jul 2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Lockhart is saying something about the Bandon Banshee, he calls it a "him." Banshees are female spirits.
Correction: Don't forget Lockhart is an idiot and lies about all his adventures. This shows that not only is he a liar, but he didn't even bother checking his facts.
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Correction: Sophia doesn't decide to move in with Phil AND his wife. She is going to move in with Phil only because his wife, whom she hates, left Phil. She left two kids behind with Phil because they can't cross state lines, and Sophia is going to help him raise the kids.