Continuity mistake: When Aunt Bee, Andy, Ollie, and Nora are in the kitchen for breakfast, the bag of flour vanishes from the counter depending on the angle of the shot.
Super Grover
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Visible crew/equipment: While Ollie's making up excuses to rush home, he and Nora are saying goodbye to Aunt Bee, and the reflection of the moving boom pole and mic are visible on the car's windshield.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Education of Ernest T. Bass - S5-E4
Revealing mistake: After Ernest T. breaks Helen's window Andy shows up, and there's black tape adhered to the chrome trim at the side of the windshield and also the chrome trim beside the vent window.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Education of Ernest T. Bass - S5-E4
Visible crew/equipment: When Ernest T. runs across the street to help Helen with her groceries she rushes away from him and heads up the block to Andy, and as Andy and Helen walk toward the courthouse the shadow of the boom mic passes across the white pillar in front of the door.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Revealing mistake: When Barney blows the dog whistle to call Blue from the back room, the dog comes running and knocks Barney on his back, and we can see a bit of the cushion that's under Barney's back - it's visible within the shadow under him.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Continuity mistake: Barney tries showing Andy what the "part bloodhound" dog can do for The Manhunt so Barney blows a dog whistle, and in the closeups of the growling dog the rope that was tied to his collar is suddenly lying on the floor, but it's back on his collar in the following shot.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Other mistake: When the escaped convict takes Barney hostage, they walk away from the lake and Barney drops the piece of paper with the convict's picture. Later, when Andy walks across the grass he finds Barney's cap and the paper lying on the grass, but the problem is that Andy needs to pull up at the center of the paper because it's pinned to ground, presumably so it wouldn't move or blow away for the shot.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Continuity mistake: After Andy convinces Barney to take off the uniform and wear his suit, when they pull up to the courthouse in the squad car the rear-view mirror is on properly, but in the shot facing the windshield the mirror has vanished, and then it reappears.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Continuity mistake: When Barney, Thelma Lou, and Andy are driving to Andy's blind date they're all in the squad car. When they're parked in front of Helen's house in the closeup shots the light mounted on the roof has vanished, the glass windshield's gone, the car's interior differs, etc., and then it changes back. The roof is black, then white, as well.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Continuity mistake: Scenes shot at Andy's porch have significant differences depending on the filming location, as there are two sets of Andy's porch. One is just the facade of the house in the 'town of Mayberry' in the studio's 40 Acre backlot; and the second is located in the studio's soundstage. Note in some shots the door's sidelights have vertical muntin bars, the screen door has a white handle, whereas in other shots the sidelights' muntin bars are gone and the screen door handle is black (screen door's gone season 5). Also, note the significant difference in the width of the wall between the parlor windows and the door, the height of the parlor windows from the floor, etc.
16th Nov 2015
The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
Andy's Rich Girlfriend - S3-E2
Visible crew/equipment: After Andy explains to Barney why he's taking Peggy to a nice restaurant 55 miles away, when Barney walks away from the cell we can see the leg and shadow of the tall wood ladder (presumably the crew's) at the right side of the screen, but when Barney and Andy are by the front door there's no such ladder behind Barney in his closeups.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Margaret listens in on Frank's phone conversation with his wife, Margaret throws a chair at him and storms out of the office, and after she calls Frank a chinless chipmunk a boom mic dips into view at the top, left corner of the screen.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Dear Mildred - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: When Colonel Potter's in his office finishing up his letter to Mildred, right before Margaret, Frank, and the others walk in, the things on his desk change their positions between shots - such as the paper tray moving from Potter's left to the right side of his desk.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Dear Mildred - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: The injured horse that Radar, BJ, and Hawkeye go after, and who's later gifted to Colonel Potter, is played by different horses.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Hawkeye and Radar leave the 4077 in the jeep, the last three numbers on the hood are "717" but when they get to Kimpo it's a different serial number ending in "388."
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Radar and Hawkeye leave the 4077, the jeep they're in has its windshield in the fold-down position over the hood, but in the two shots from behind Hawkeye and Radar when they see the checkpoint up ahead and Hawkeye speeds up, the windshield has vanished and there's a star on the hood.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Frank climbs into the jeep belonging to Major General Cornell Dickering, the MPs show up at the same time that BJ and Hawkeye walk up to join the fun, and during this scene there's a T-mark (albeit a dusty one) on the ground at the driver's side of the jeep.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Hawkeye removes BJ's Captain rank bars from his uniform and then pins it on Radar's knit cap, in the shot facing Hawkeye and BJ the shadow of the boom mic moves across Radar's back.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: After speeding past the checkpoint Hawkeye's stopped by the MPs, and when the lieutenant takes hold of one of Hawkeye's dog tags he's holding the one on the extender chain, but next shot he's holding the other dog tag, with the extender chain and second dog tag hanging down.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Hawkeye and Radar are in the jeep heading to Kimpo Air Base they drive past the checkpoint, and in their closeups the camera casts a shadow on the hood of the jeep.
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