Continuity mistake: The woman in the wheelchair that Dr. Cox claims is dead is wearing glasses in some shots but not in others.
Continuity mistake: In the apartment there is a cardboard box on a table, with a strip of blue tape on it and a tube of paper sticking out of it. A few shots later another strip of blue tape suddenly appears on the box and the tube of paper has vanished. (00:02:35 - 00:03:15)
My Best Friend's Mistake - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In the apartment, when they decide to watch "Fletch", there is a yellow cushion under J.D.'s right arm, sitting on the sofa. But it disappears between shots. (00:05:50)
My Best Friend's Mistake - S1-E3
Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where JD and Elliot are treating a patient and JD says "It's the closest thing I had to a date recently" the microphone pops into screen from above at least two times.
Continuity mistake: Dr. Cox's stethoscope is hanging down more on his left side, but when he walks around to J.D. it is now hanging evenly around his neck. (00:21:40)
My Best Friend's Mistake - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Dr.Cox is Talking to Elliot before she leaves the room her name tag flips over and back again. (00:17:20)
My Best Friend's Mistake - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Dr. Cox throws his white coat on the table and sits down, when he starts talking to Elliot the coat is now missing from the table. (00:16:40)
Continuity mistake: When Eliott is lying on the couch talking to JD way her stethoscope changes position between shots.
My Bed Banter & Beyond - S1-E15
Continuity mistake: When Todd is listening at the closet door, and Laverne walks past, Laverne's stethoscope goes between shots from lying flat down by her neck to draped over to the right side.
Continuity mistake: When Elliot is unpacking her books at the apartment, she places a brown book on top of the pile next to her. In the next shot, there is a green book on top of the pile.
My Way or the Highway - S1-E20
Continuity mistake: The amount of bites out of Elliot's powdered doughnut changes back and forth between shots.
My Way or the Highway - S1-E20
Continuity mistake: When JD and Cox are talking outside the staff room, just as Laverne walks past, the magazine Cox is holding switches from being held under his right arm to his left in an instant.
Continuity mistake: When JD suggests that Dr Cox turns to Elliot for help, the metal file that Dr Cox is holding turns around between shots. In some shots we see the plain, smooth side - in others, the ridged side with a label.
My Nickname - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: When Turk, JD and Carla are talking in the staff room, Turk's brown lunch bag and grey jacket switch from his left to right hand between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Turk and Elliott are in the line at the cafeteria, you can see that Turk has two plates on his tray and Elliott has a juice box on her tray. When they turn around at the end of the line Turk has just one plate on his tray and the juice box on Elliott's tray is also gone.
Continuity mistake: Turks hands change positions from holding the tissue box at the bottom, to gripping the top of it. (00:15:40)
Answer: Dan was drinking beer and Cox feared that Dan might get so intoxicated he would fall asleep and drown in the tub.
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