Other mistake: Any time Rob has to go to a doctor or to Jerry to get his teeth worked on, if you look at the window behind him and whoever is working on him. It's the same buildings every time. Even though he goes to different doctors. Also, that window and the curtains are also the same exact windows and curtains in Robs office.
Liz Blue 1970
15th Nov 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
27th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
The Life and Love of Joe Coogan - S3-E17
Other mistake: When Rob, Buddy, Sally, Joe and Mel are all showing up after they played golf at the beginning of the episode if you look at the window all the background there is flat as heck. But trees do not increase in elevation that quickly in flat ground. Unless you're in the mountains.
26th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
The Bottom of Mel Cooley's Heart - S5-E19
Other mistake: All the extra people in the back aren't talking. There is one pair of people at the table near the wall behind Rob and Mel that keep glancing at them and look very uncomfortable. (00:11:00 - 00:13:00)
26th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Richie has Rob's electric razor from Richie's bathroom. Rob and Laura have a bathroom for themselves... Rob doesn't need to put his stuff in Richie's bathroom.
26th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Laura and Rob do not like having guns in the house and Laura is terrified about having them in the house... Yet in this episode... There are 2 guns in the basement displayed right next to a giant deer head on the Cross beam in the middle of the room up high. Neither of them care that the guns are there.
26th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Rob's watch is completely blank. No numbers, no hands or the knob to adjust time. His watch is fake. (It may be that way in all the episodes but this is the first time I noticed it so far).
26th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
My Husband Is Not a Drunk - S2-E6
Other mistake: If Rob is that easily hypnotized then when Rob's friend hypnotized Millie he would have gone out light a light same when he did Laura and Jerry. Rob would have been out right then and there for all 3 of them... Not just when he did Buddy.
23rd Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
The Sound of Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears - S3-E11
Other mistake: Rob is complaining to Sally and Buddy about this couple running through a parking lot not looking where they are going, and they knocked him down on his rear end as well as hands. He fell into some grease yet there weren't any grease stains on his jacket which would have actually been on his butt and hands.
17th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Fifty-Two, Forty-Five or Work - S5-E13
Other mistake: Right at the beginning of this episode Rob says "9 years ago right in this office... I just came on as head writer 2 months was all... Buddy, Sally and I were sitting at this desk, writing a sketch, and you (Mel) came in with some special news." (so on and so forth with that line.) Rob, Sally and Buddy weren't in "this office" building... Didn't even have the same desk or furniture.
16th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Long Night's Journey into Day - S5-E23
Other mistake: Rob tells Jerry to keep calling Rob's house. Jerry says "hello, this is Jerome Helper" yet there was the episode "All About Eavesdropping" where Rob calls Jerry "Gerald."
14th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Sam tells Rob "Laura could be late because of the rain". Yet neither Sam, Laura, Millie or Clark had any wet clothes, jackets, hats etc. Rob was the only one that had gotten soaking wet. Also when looking into the window he taps on the glass with a white glove (which he didn't have on when he got into her house).
14th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Millie tells Laura (in the USO women's house) "I can't keep a boyfriend" yet she's been "married" to Jerry and they get along somewhat OK.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Love Thy Other Neighbor - S5-E29
Other mistake: Laura tells Rob that Jerry is fixing the fence. Then all of a sudden this banging that sounds like an iron hammer and chisel on cement starts up. If Jerry was actually fixing the fence it would have been the whole time, right when Rib got into the kitchen, not right after Laura told Rob that Jerry was working on the fence.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Long Night's Journey into Day - S5-E23
Other mistake: Millie tells Laura "I never sleep in my house alone!" yet Millie has been home about 2 or 3x by herself. In other episodes. Like when Jerry goes out of town usually.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
The Life and Love of Joe Coogan - S3-E17
Other mistake: Rob is discussing the box of love letters with Laura she tells him "they're by the furnace!" Rob tells her "there's no shoe box by that furnace." Laura tells him "they're right behind some loose bricks" well when we see the basement... There's no furnace or bricks anywhere to be seen.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Laura tells Rob "oh you don't smoke!" But in several (double digit) episodes Rob not only has a lighter but also a cigarette in his hand or mouth. One episode while he and Laura are illegally about to eavesdrop he puts out the cigarette on the speaker causing the speaker to turn on and they start eavesdropping again.
10th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: That mirror behind Rob at the hotel in their room has fog (condensation) on it which means that the humidity there in "Mexico" is really really high or it's over 100°F in their room with humidity or unless it was raining inside their room, the window behind the bed is perfectly clear. (Real life that mirror would not be all foggy.) Also Rob, Laura and the hotel guy would have been sweating up a storm if it was really really hot out there. Which it wasn't. (00:13:52)
9th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: After Lyle gives back Rob and Laura's watch's and the $51, Rob doesn't get his ring back.
9th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Rob mentions Buzzy Potter to Sally and Buddy as if they knew him. Rob and Laura did the Army stuff way before working on the Alan Brady show. Also, there was no mention of Buzzy Potter anywhere else in the series. There for Sally and Buddy wouldn't have known Buzzy, but Millie would have known him.
8th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Honeymoons Are for the Lucky - S3-E22
Other mistake: Rob is in Captain Lebost's office. Rob has already said that Laura accepted his proposal weeks ago and they got married 2 weeks ago, and he asked for 1 3-day pass. Yet in "Will You Two Be My Wife?" he says he asks for 2 3-day passes so he could go get married.
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