Revealing mistake: While Lucy is out on the ledge, if you look at the pipe as it runs from above the ledge to below it, the two pieces of pipe don't line up. They are off about the full diameter of the pipe. Also when the pipe pulls out, it's obvious the pipe is on a hinge at the bottom and not really attached to the lower pipe. Later, there is also no stream of water falling from above where the pipe was supposed to be connected as a drain even though it is pouring out.
terry s
12th Jan 2013
I Love Lucy (1951)
29th Aug 2012
Frasier (1993)
17th Jul 2012
Roseanne (1988)
Factual error: 1/4 through the show, Darlene, Becky, David and Becky's husband, Mark, are playing Scrabble. Mark puts down "oxygen" on the board in the lower corner with the "O" covering the triple word square. David is counting up the score and says the "X" is on the triple letter box, and totals the points up to 99. The problem is there is no triple letter box next to the triple word box or even on the outside edges of the board.
17th Jul 2012
Seinfeld (1990)
The Statue - S2-E6
Continuity mistake: Near the end of the episode, Kramer acts like a cop to get back The Statue. The door is almost completely closed. Just before he leaves, the door is suddenly open about one foot, even though it hasn't been touched yet.
17th Jul 2012
Spin City (1996)
16th Jul 2012
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Continuity mistake: During the car chase scene with the kids in the street, they show Roy Schneider's car pass the kids who are scrambling to the sidewalk. From the far end of the street they show the cop killer's car, just as it begins to turn off the street. In the background, the kids are in the street, but Roy's car is not seen on the street. The car should have been on the close side of the kids.
18th Jun 2012
The Nanny (1993)
Continuity mistake: Between 15-20 minutes into the show, Fran and her mom are talking in the kitchen. There's a box of Wheat Toasties on the counter. The top flap goes back and forth between folded up and folded down depending on the shot.
26th May 2012
I Love Lucy (1951)
Audio problem: About 6 minutes in, a friend of Fred comes to the door and Ricky answers it. The man says Mr. Cardo instead of Mr. Ricardo, but Ricky says yes anyway.
14th Apr 2012
The Golden Girls (1985)
The Case of the Libertine Belle - S7-E2
Continuity mistake: When they bring out the cake, all the candles are lit, then one candle is lit, then none, then back to one again with no one touching the cake.
17th Mar 2012
Frasier (1993)
Match Game - S11-E18
Revealing mistake: 4 minutes into the show, Frasier gets off the elevator and goes to an office door with keys to open it, he tries the keys and they don't work. He realizes he missed his floor. A woman opens the door and they start talking about a dating service which he says he doesn't need, and he pushes the elevator down button, which lights up. The doors open and a man gets off. It's going up, which he finds out from an ex-girlfriend on the elevator. The down button light goes out before he gets on to go up with her. The light should only have gone off on the way back down.
22nd Jan 2012
Bonanza (1959)
Revealing mistake: Jack Albertson's character is taking pictures of The Cartwrights and ranch hands. The video camera moves across the front of the prop camera as Albertson pushes and holds the button to take a picture. The shutter on the camera never opens and isn't open until he releases the button. In those days the shutter had to stay open an elongated time to enable the light to infiltrate the negative. People had to stay still during this time.
2nd Jan 2012
Bonanza (1959)
The Saga of Muley Jones - S5-E26
Revealing mistake: The Cartwrights' second cousin shows up and sings a lot. His singing breaks glass all over town. 1/4 of the way through the episode, while at the ranch, Ben is about to serve tea or coffee while Huley is singing upstairs. As Ben goes to pour it into a cup, the pottery kettle shatters but no tea or coffee or water comes out of the pot, showing it was empty.
2nd Jan 2012
Bonanza (1959)
Revealing mistake: Near the end of the episode, Tracy Ledbetter is carrying a double barreled shotgun, trying to get her dogs back. There is the sound effect of a shotgun blast, then video of another blast with Hoss running inside the barn. She gets inside the barn and another shot goes off inside without her reloading. How did the third shot come from the gun? It only holds two shells.
27th Nov 2011
Batman (1966)
The Joker's Flying Saucer - S3-E24
Plot hole: A time bomb is placed under the dashboard of the Batmobile and goes off inside the batcave. Much of the batcave is ruined, including fallen I-Beams, but the Batmobile has no damage to it even though the bomb was planted in it.
27th Nov 2011
Batman (1966)
The Joker's Flying Saucer - S3-E24
Other mistake: Just before the final fight scene, Alfred hits his head on the door of the spacecraft while exiting, kind of like the Storm Trooper in Star Wars, reacts for a second and then keeps going on with the scene as if nothing happened.
27th Nov 2011
Batman (1966)
I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle - S3-E23
Plot hole: After the rock falls on King Tut at the end giving him amnesia, Batman explains how the rock fell. He says Tut raised his voice three decibels above high C. Decibels are a measure of volume, while pitch is a measure of frequency: the two are not directly related. This mistake was done in other episodes of Batman also, such as when Joan Collins played the villain.
26th Nov 2011
Frasier (1993)
Trivia: The opening of the show actually has multiple scenes. The space needle sometimes has a blinking light or sometimes has radio waves. Sometimes lightning hits it. Sometimes a plane with a KACL banner or a helicopter flies across. Christmas shows have Christmas lights. There are also others.
26th Nov 2011
The Nanny (1993)
26th Nov 2011
Spin City (1996)
Not in the Line of Fire - S3-E15
Revealing mistake: 1/3 through the show, Stuart is talking to Nicki's boyfriend in the cafeteria, and the candy machine has "N&Ns" in it instead of "M&Ms" for both plain and peanut. The letters have been partially covered up.
23rd Nov 2011
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
A Plaque for Mayberry - S1-E25
Continuity mistake: About 2/5 through the show, Barney comes into the office with a family tree chart. The edge of the paper is on the bottom of the roll sticking out to the left, there's a cut to a different angle and the edge of the paper is on top, not sticking out and still facing to the left. On top, it should be facing to the right.
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