Aid Station - S3-E19
Continuity mistake: After Hawkeye and Trapper finish their toast to the Ritz Brothers, they toss their glasses over they shoulders. Trapper's flips in a lazy arc, and Hawkeye's in a flatter arc. When Radar is at the door, the glasses hit the door at a much higher speed and shatter.
Continuity mistake: As he addresses Maj. "Chicken Lover", Lt. Smith's head goes from leaning left to leaning right between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Blake is talking to Burns, he sits and plays with his doll, which is facing toward the office door. After the angle change, the doll is facing Henry.
Continuity mistake: When the General comes up, Pierce and Trapper are walking away toward the camera's left. When Pierce calls for the General's attention he is shown gesturing to the open door. Problem is, that they should be looking over their left, not right, shoulders, and we should see the inside, not outside, of the door.
Continuity mistake: While talking to Hildebrandt, Henry smacks his hands together while saying "Gee, whiz!" When the angle changes, his hands are on the desk.
Audio problem: In Blake's office, he's talking to Hildebrandt about Klinger, and the camera does a close up on Blake. You hear him say "Of course", and his mouth is moving a little, but not forming the words.
Continuity mistake: When Frank inspects the local workers, the laundry woman bends down to help the kid put away the sandwich Burns suspected of being a bomb. After the cut, she's upright again. (00:10:45)
Continuity mistake: When filming Hawkeye, BJ and Charles in the swamp before they go to Potter's tent, the camera has a clear, unobstructed view of the inside. When it pulls back you can see the end of the tent, but without the netting normally there.
Continuity mistake: When Radar goes to get the lamb, he pulls out a hypo to put the lamb to sleep for shipping. When the shot cuts to the lamb, you can see both of Radar's hands on the lamb's face; no hypo in sight.
Continuity mistake: Usually when you see Pierce, his hair is parted on the left side. When he is nibbling on the nurse's neck in the Swamp, his hair is parted on the right. Then the next time he's seen, it's parted on the left again.
Continuity mistake: When BJ comes out of the building and meets Paul, you can see a chain-link fence in the background that you never see any other time in the series.
Audio problem: In the Post-Op ward, Jimmy is playing poker with the two jerks in his platoon. After the cards are dealt, he sees that their deck has pictures of nude women. He looks up at them when seeing this, and you hear him say "Very funny!", but his lips don't move.
Continuity mistake: In the Officer's Club, Potter is about to order a drink. When he goes to give the order, he starts to look at Hawkeye. When the camera cuts to a close up of Potter, Hawkeye, and BJ, he's facing forward again.
Tell It to the Marines - S9-E8
Continuity mistake: In the mess tent, after Hawkeye and BJ read about the blood donations, Hawkeye goes to fold and put the paper down. When the camera cuts to a wide shot, he's folding and putting the paper down again.
Continuity mistake: When Potter is on the phone, he turns to hush Hawkeye and BJ. As he does so, he's holding the receiver with his left hand, and covering the mouthpiece with his right. He then puts his left hand down on the arm of the chair. When the camera cuts in for a close up, his left hand is on the phone again.
Continuity mistake: Margaret comes in to the Officer's Club, and tells Klinger that the drinks are on her. He puts down two glasses, and starts to pour. When the camera cuts to a close up, he's just starting to pour into the same glass again.
Patent 4077 - S6-E16
Continuity mistake: When the boys are working on the vascular clamp, Charles brings out three hard boiled eggs. After he heckles BJ and Hawkeye for a minute, BJ takes the hammer, and smashes Charles' eggs. The camera cuts to the boys, and back to Charles. There are now two eggs, and almost intact.
Continuity mistake: In Margaret's tent, when Charles is toasting Margaret, his hand alternates positions between the close ups, and the wide shots. In the close ups, he's holding the wine glass by the bowl. In the wide shots, he's holding it by the stem.
Fallen Idol - S6-E2
Continuity mistake: Look at the stains on Winchester's clothes in the O.R. sessions. Both times the stains match. There would be different stains because of the cleaning process.
Answer: The C-42 was a military variant of the Douglas DC-2. Very few C-42's were built, so it's questionable that Potter would specifically have seen that particular model, but, given his military background, it's not entirely unreasonable that he might use the military designation even when the aircraft in question is actually a civilian DC-2.
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