Continuity mistake: Spike tells Buffy about drugs The Initiative would give him when his chip started firing after he was first captured. This is wrong in two ways: firstly, we saw most of Spike's time in captivity, and he escaped before they could drug him, and secondly, he didn't even know he had a chip until he escaped and tried to kill Willow.
Shay
12th May 2005
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
4th May 2005
24 (2001)
Day 4: 9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M. - S4-E15
Continuity mistake: Chloe tells Michelle that she's confirmed Marwan's identity using voice tags from McLennan Forrester, but all of the computer records at MF were wiped out a few episodes earlier by the EMP, according to both the MF employees and CTU. The fact that they didn't get any information from the company except for the printouts Jack and Paul extracted was a major plot point a few hours ago, so even if a real EMP wouldn't do this, the fact that it's stated repeatedly in the show means it should hold true within the series; Chloe suddenly having information from them an hour or so later is discontinuous, and thus a mistake.
24th Apr 2005
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Cory first confronts Shawn over kissing Topanga in their dorm room, Shawn is looking through his drawer for a shirt. The shot goes to Cory for a second, then when it goes back to Shawn he's had time to find a shirt and put it on - the shot wasn't off him for nearly enough time to do that.
19th Mar 2005
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
1st Mar 2005
24 (2001)
Day 4: 12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M. - S4-E6
Continuity mistake: Day Four: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. When Tariq and Behrooz are shown in split-screen digging Debbie's grave right after the commercial break (12:54:10 by the show's clock), Tariq's white t-shirt is covered in dirt. When the shot goes back to them a minute or so later, Tariq's t-shirt is much cleaner.
22nd Feb 2005
Angel (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Gunn is talking to Wesley near the start of the episode, he mentions that he's tracked Lindsay down, and that he's been living under the name "Doyle", and holds out the lease of his apartment. There's a close-up of the lease a few seconds later, in which the name "Lindsay McDonald" can be seen.
2nd Feb 2005
Smallville (2001)
30th Jan 2005
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Continuity mistake: The episode begins the morning after Buffy and Spike first have sex. That night, Willow and Amy go out again to find Rack's place, and this cuts directly to Willow waking up the next morning. But later in the episode, Spike makes repeated references to what happened between him and Buffy "last night", when in fact it was two nights ago.
26th Jan 2005
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Continuity mistake: The first night that the Gentlemen float through the college, they are on the 2nd floor one minute (all the room numbers start with 2), then they turn a corner and are suddenly outside room 118, a floor below.
11th Jan 2005
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Continuity mistake: When Buffy is told that Angel has become Angelus, she mentions "I should have known. When I saw him at the house he was different", but her earlier conversation with him took place not at the house but at his apartment. This isn't just a strange turn of phrase - the scene was originally shot at the Summers house, but was changed to Angel's apartment for more emotional resonance.
10th Jan 2005
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
9th Jan 2005
Charmed (1998)
Power Outage - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: During the training drill, Piper fumbles for a knife on a table in front of her. In the shot of the table, she loses hold of the knife as she pulls her hand up, but when we cut to a long shot, it is back in her hand.
31st Dec 2004
Charmed (1998)
Continuity mistake: After the ghost chases Gibbs out of his pawn shop, and the police arrest him, his shirt goes from being on fully to half-off between shots (particularly noticeable when Tyra's father tells him to burn in hell).
31st Dec 2004
Charmed (1998)
27th Nov 2004
One Tree Hill (2003)
What Is And What Should Never Be - S1-E20
Continuity mistake: Haley's lipstick gets noticeably thicker and thinner between different shots when she's talking to Nathan (when she drops over some groceries).
20th Nov 2004
South Park (1997)
The Succubus (a.k.a. Chef's Mama) - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: Kenny's head is completely smashed when he is attacked in the church during Chef's and the succubus' wedding, but it is whole again when Cartman brings it to the optometrist to get an eye transplant.
19th Nov 2004
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
18th Sep 2004
Charmed (1998)
Continuity mistake: When Prue runs into Susan Trudeau at the restaurant, she asks if she's Andy's sister, only to find she's his ex-wife. But Prue knew Andy all through high school - she would have known he didn't have a sister. (00:12:25)
18th Aug 2004
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Continuity mistake: When the detective is interviewing the woman in the alley, he mentions that the murder took place "last night". In "Bad Girls", we see Buffy visiting Faith the day after the murder, and that night is presumably when she has the dream about drowning, so by the time the detective is asking this question it is actually two nights after the murder, not one.
13th Aug 2004
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
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