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Lest Ye Be Judged - S5-E3

Factual error: Andrew Campbell is a psychoanalyst (when Emma leaves his office, a close-up of his nameplate is shown). There's no way a psychoanalyst would be sitting on a parole board, which he does subsequently in the episode. Their skills simply aren't required or relevant to a parole board. The show seems to be confusing psychoanalysts with psychologists (who do indeed frequently sit on parole boards) - but the jobs, roles and requirements are completely different for each.

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Old Acquaintance - S2-E5

Plot hole: Stacie's entire con on Jake being successful at the end of the episode when she leaves the bar relies on Eddie both noticing her taking a bundle of fake cash and also his mentioning this to Mickey - and also Mickey's then correctly guessing her plan from this. There are way too many chances for that to go wrong, particularly with Eddie not noticing/not mentioning Stacey's behaviour - as the series shows repeatedly, he is neither particularly observant nor particularly well-versed in cons.

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Fender Bender - S1-E4

Factual error: When Gio is driving Deb and she is about to dial the car phone, they drive past a fleet of rental shared Citi Bikes. Shared bikes wouldn't be a thing until the late 90s, and Citi Bike itself only began in 2013. (00:42:20)

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F is for Fuck-Up - S1-E5

Factual error: When Debbie Harry's "I Want That Man" is playing, just before Deb is shown being dropped off at school by Gio, an overhead shot is shown of basketball courts under a flyover. You can see modern cars parked under the flyover: at least 20 years more modern than in 1991 when the show is set. (00:06:57)

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The Family Business - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: The entire season takes place over a couple of weeks, and Dexter was shot in the leg in the previous episode. Barely any time has passed, yet he's walking - and running - fine in this episode.

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And in the Beginning... - S1-E1

Factual error: The show is set in 1991, and Dexter walks past a Lehman Brothers stall at the jobs fair. The problem is that the stall and the marketing materials on it have the modern-day Lehman Brothers logo and branding. Back in 1991, the bank was called Shearson Lehman Brothers and had a completely different logo and colour scheme. It was only spun off into Lehman Brothers in 1994. (00:10:03)

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Revealing mistake: The mockumentary is centred around a bitterly cold December day, but various people in shots are wearing shorts and T-shirts, showing it was actually filmed in summer.

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Continuity mistake: When the guys are shopping for supplies to poison Pellit and Harken, Dale sweeps a number of jars of peanuts into his basket from a shelf at waist height. He then moves on to grabbing jars from a shelf at shoulder height. In the shot, suddenly the waist-height shelf is full of jars again and doesn't have any gaps where Dale previously took jars off.

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Stupidity: After Harkin says he isn't going to pour the scotch back into the bottle, Nick decides to chug the glass, spilling it down his chest in the process. It's an idiotic thing to do - if he'd taken two large gulps, the scotch would be gone (and he could relatively easily get some chewing gum/mouthwash to remove the smell from his breath). Instead, he decides to chug the scotch, spilling it down his shirt. Having clothes stinking of alcohol is much harder to hide in the office.

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Continuity mistake: When Mr Wint and Mr Kidd watch the helicopter blow up, it blows up and crashes quite a long distance from them. Then, after they have made the "If God meant man to fly" joke, the smoking wreckage of the helicopter is shown again - only it is suddenly much closer to them.

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Bowl-Derdash - S4-E8

Character mistake: Paul tells Barry a story about when he was playing cricket for Yorkshire and played against Ian Botham, who was playing for Middlesex. However, in real life, Botham never played for Middlesex (he only played for Somerset, Worcestershire, and Durham).

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Clueless - S2-E15

Continuity mistake: When the wife is taken away by the police, it's late in the evening: the lights are off in the hallway, and outside the hospital is dark (only illuminated by streetlights, with no natural light). However, when Cameron speaks to House in his office following this, it's bright broad daylight outside his office window. Then, when House drives home, it goes back to being dark. (00:40:32 - 00:41:46)

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Histories - S1-E10

Factual error: The rabies foreman was experiencing is advanced enough that there is complete numbness to the bite area. As such, it would almost certainly have been untreatable in real life - by the time symptoms actually show, cases are almost always fatal.

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Histories - S1-E10

Factual error: The scene where Wilson gives Foreman his rabies jabs was outdated even by the early 2000s when the episode is set. Rabies shots haven't been administered to the abdomen since the 1980s - particularly not in the First World.

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Continuity mistake: At Gonzalez's villa, Bond knocks a balding henchman into the pool by hitting him with a sun umbrella. However, when the following shots of Bond running away from the pool are shown, the henchman is not in the water; only the girl he was previously kissing is there.

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Continuity mistake: At Gonzalez's villa, Bond has just hit the henchman by the pool with the sun umbrella. Given the henchman is right by the edge of the pool and Bond hits him hard, he should fall into the pool almost immediately. The camera then cuts to Locque's henchman getting up - and Locque stopping him from getting up. The camera then cuts back to the henchman Bond hit several seconds previously. He is still in the exact same place and only now starts falling backwards into the pool.

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Euphoria (1) - S2-E20

Factual error: The patient is diagnosed with legionnaire's disease, caught from the AC unit above their desk. The legionella bacteria causing the disease is found in warm water (commonly dehumidifiers, industrial AC cooling towers, hot water tanks) - the key point being that a water source is required. The problem with this is that the AC unit above the patient's desk is a window unit. These sorts of AC units don't use water as a coolant - you can't catch legionnaire's from them.

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Euphoria (2) - S2-E21

Factual error: Naegleriasis is a rare disease, and all the known cases involved people who had submerged their nostrils in contaminated water (commonly while swimming or diving). Foreman's exposure was just that he walked past a mister spraying contaminated water: nowhere near enough exposure to get infected. It's also highly unlikely Foreman would have survived Naegleriasis (which has an extremely high death rate) and without lasting brain damage - particularly given the length of time before diagnosis.

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Euphoria (1) - S2-E20

Continuity mistake: When Baby Shoes fires the gun at Joe, the first camera shot shows he's holding the gun with both hands. However, in the next camera shot he's only holding the gun in one hand. (00:01:55)

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Euphoria (1) - S2-E20

Character mistake: House tells Foreman to search the cop's home, car and workplace. He says that he will focus on the precinct. But the cop's workplace is the precinct.

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