Corrected entry: To avoid conversing with Cindy about Cindy's alleged pregnancy, Janet picks up an ashtray off the table and claims it's filthy and runs with it into the kitchen. None of the roommates were known to have smoked and no ashtray was seen (in The Apartment) in any other episode. What was the point of an ashtray all of a sudden?
Correction: The episode with the old man had no ashtray in it. In fact, he set a small fire in Jack's bedroom and even said to Jack "you could use an ashtray in there." (Obviously indicating no available ashtray was in The Apartment for him to use).
Actually, that episode did have an ashtray - when Leo (the old man) first entered The Apartment, he asked Chrissy if she had an ashtray and she got one for him off the side table.
Correction: The trio entertained a lot, and smoking was pretty ubiquitous in the 70s. They probably had it out for a guest.
Upstairs Downstairs Downstairs - S5-E1
Corrected entry: Jack's nurse date wears a wedding band.
Correction: Doreen is wearing a ring with a raised dark center stone - it glistens as she moves her hand. It looks like a regular fashion statement ring that women wore/wear on either their right or left hand; nothing indicative of a "wedding band" at all.
Explain? Alright. I watched the episode, and Doreen's ring does not look like a wedding band. It appears to be just a normal ring with at least one raised dark gemstone.
Just because it "resembles a wedding band" doesn't mean it is one. And even if it was definitively a wedding band, it's not necessarily a mistake. Three's Company was set in a very sexually liberated time. Doreen could be in an open marriage.
Correction: Generally the idea of seeing a character wearing a wedding ring as a mistake is because in real life the actor or actress forget to take off their wedding ring. In real life, Lee Crawford (who plays Doreen) was divorced in 1978 and wasn't married or engaged at the time of shooting the episode. So it's just a character choice to wear a ring on her left hand and doesn't mean she's married or engaged.
The very point being, that she is wearing on one on her hand, when she's supposed to be single in this episode. So the mistake stands.
No, because it's a character choice. People who are single wear rings on their left ring finger for a variety of reasons, none of which indicates it's a wedding band or that they're married.
There's always a chance she was married but having an affair with Jack, and like most men, Jack didn't pay attention to that fact. Many men don't notice this fact the way that women do - especially single men. Women tend to pay more attention to these types of things.
Correction: I work with a woman who is single but wears a wedding ring and refers to herself as "Mrs - " because it puts men off, and so she gets to choose who she wants to "get closer to" (her words).
Corrected entry: In the scene where Janet is about to leave and Cindy says she misses Jack, it cuts back to Janet - you can see the head of a crew member walking through Jack's bedroom right before it cuts to the next scene. (00:19:00)
Correction: Larry is in Jack's room, and subsequently, it could very well be his head we see behind Janet because in the next shot, it's Larry coming out of the bedroom asking if Janet has a screwdriver. It actually looks as if they streamed the two cuts very well, the head behind Janet could very well be explained as the first steps of Larry coming out of Jack's bedroom.
Corrected entry: Jack tells Mr. Roper (while at the Regal Beagle) that the women in the Beagle are "fantastic." Roper gives Jack a strange look (about his acting straight instead of gay, which he always thought Jack was). Jack then corrects his sentence (using gay personality and gestures). Roper is no longer the landlord of Jack's building so Jack didn't need to correct himself in front of him or care if Roper still thought he was gay.
Correction: Just because Roper isn't the landlord any more, he would still keep up the lie, even if he thought he wouldn't get in trouble. Jack simply felt it was easier to keep pretending to be gay to avoid telling the truth (in fact several of the antics in the show would have been avoid if Jack just told the truth after some mix up or confusion, but it was his nature to keep up the lies). Even so, Jack may still feel he could get in trouble somehow if he told the truth.
A Hundred Dollars a What? - S5-E3
Corrected entry: Chrissy walks out of the kitchen carrying a fresh pot of HOT coffee with her hand flat on the bottom of the glass pot. She may be dumb, but she's not invulnerable to pain.
Correction: Chrissy is actually holding the coffee pot with a pot holder.
Correction: While it might not have been seen previously, it doesn't mean they didn't have one. At that time many non-smokers had ashtrays in their homes (my grandparents did and often used it to hold change or keys). However, they may have had an occasion to have it out for something that we never saw, since we don't see every moment of their lives.
Bishop73
There was an episode with an ashtray and an old man came to stay with them. He was homeless and he did smoke in the episode.
The old man was just a visitor for one episode who smoked in Jack's room and said to Jack that he could use an ashtray in there (as a suggestion).