Continuity mistake: When Henry kisses Margret, she grabs her hat. In the reverse shot, her hand is around Henry's neck. After the next cut, it's on her hat again. (00:20:00)
Continuity mistake: In the shot where Hawkeye presents the Spam lamb to Henry, he sets it down, and Henry asks him what it is. Behind Henry, you can see Hawkeye's shadow - and see his lips mouth the word "A Spam lamb". The camera then changes to a close-up of Hawkeye, saying "A Spam lamb".
Continuity mistake: In the Swamp, Pak pulls out a stack of money, holding it by the end. In the closeup, he is holding it by the middle.
Continuity mistake: On The Bus, as Hawkeye raises Mrs. Kwang's legs for delivery, Radar is turning around, hiding his face. In the close up, Radar turns around again.
White Gold - S3-E23
Continuity mistake: As the men are sneaking by the tents, Hawkeye's voice is heard coming from a tent with opaque windows. A minute later in all the commotion, he's seen coming out of the Swamp.
Adam's Ribs - S3-E11
Continuity mistake: While Hawkeye leads the protest in the mess tent shouting "we want something else," there are two closeup shots of the table where Klinger and Radar are seated, and Klinger's white evening purse is missing, but in the previous and following wideshots the purse is hanging on his arm.
Adam's Ribs - S3-E11
Continuity mistake: When Hawkeye's in the mess tent holding the food tray the succotash is on the left and potatoes on the right with a space in the middle, so when Igor serves him creamed corn offscreen the corn should be between the potatoes and succotash, but when Hawkeye's having the fit and walks away from Igor, the potatoes (a higher mound) are now in the center space between corn and succotash.
Continuity mistake: As Lt. LeClerq stands beside his commander, the Commander starts to look to his left, and drops his hand. When the angle changes, he drops his hand again.
Continuity mistake: As Hawkeye walks past the swamp after leaving Trapper, you can see the still is missing.
Continuity mistake: As Henry watches the chopper fly off, his back is to Radar's jeep. After he orders back to camp, Henry is suddenly standing with his right side to the jeep without having turned.
Continuity mistake: The syringe the "Mad Turk" threatens Henry with alternates between fully ready to almost empty between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Trapper turns around to ask Klinger for the status about the movie's sound, a small patch of his hat becomes wet from the roof's leaking, but in the next shot, his whole hat is instantly soaked. (00:01:55)
Continuity mistake: After Frank switches pearls, he gets out of the tent and the door and it closes. A moment later, he's crawling out the door again.
Continuity mistake: When Father Mulcahy's finishing up his Sunday service with only Klinger, who's wearing a fetching red hat, there are nine stacked books at the corner of the table, but when it cuts to Mulcahy's closeup there are now only six stacked books (which will soon be used for the 11:00 Protestant service when Trapper and Hawkeye will pray for booze).
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 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.
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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