The Sopranos
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Continuity mistake: During the show's opening credits for the entire run of the series, when Tony drives up to the NJ Turnpike toll gate, the lane 7 machine spits out a toll ticket, and Tony reaches for it. It then cuts to a close-up as Tony grabs hold of the toll ticket, but this ticket machine is now different; note all the stickers. The close-up was shot at another lane's ticket machine.

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Boca - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: At dinner, when Meadow gets upset, she leaves the table and heads upstairs, so Carmela leaves the table and follows her daughter. Then, when Livia gets insulted, she tells Junior to take her home, and she too leaves the table. The problem occurs when Tony tells Junior, "You mangia, Uncle Jun', she'll come back," and in the next shot facing Junior, the reflection on the door shows Carmela and Livia are still seated at the table.

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Another Toothpick - S3-E5

Visible crew/equipment: After Tony gets written up for speeding, it then cuts to Bryan Spatafore parking his pickup at the curb, and just as the pickup's door opens and closes, we can see the reflection of the boom mic on the vehicle's door and window.

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Isabella - S1-E12

Deliberate mistake: While Tony stands beside his car, the first assassin shoots at him, and when Tony dives into the front seat we see the car's dashboard. After struggling with the second assassin, when Tony crashes into the parked car, in the shot from inside the car, there are two issues: the car has a different style dashboard with no air vents, and the rearview mirror is missing; then it reappears.

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Boca - S1-E9

Visible crew/equipment: During the dinner scene, in some of the shots facing Junior, the reflection of the boom operator (wearing a watch) holding up the boom pole/mic is visible on the glass, toward the top left side of the screen. Additionally, in two shots facing Junior (POV beside Carmela's right shoulder), we can see part of a black reflector screen (collapsible type) between Junior and Carmela.

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Toodle-F***ing-Oo - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Janice goes to Livia's mailbox and retrieves the envelope with her disability check, the words "TOTAL DISABILITY" only appear on the check in the close-up, but not in the previous shot. Additionally, the silver screen door is gone between the first wide shot when Janice pulls the mail out of the mailbox, and the next close-up as Janice looks through the mail in her hands (she did not open the screen door between shots).

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D-Girl - S2-E7

Visible crew/equipment: While Sal and AJ are at the batting cage, Matt starts telling AJ about the German philosopher Nietzsche. As the camera moves backwards in this dolly shot, we can see two metal T-marks on the ground, as well as the dolly track at the left side of the screen.

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Moe n' Joe - S6-E10

Visible crew/equipment: When Jim's beeper goes off in the middle of the night, Vito decides to go along with him to the emergency. In the first shot on scene, there are two chalk T-marks on the sidewalk, and Vito stands at one of them.

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Pine Barrens - S3-E11

Visible crew/equipment: Paulie and Christopher convince Tony to head out and try to locate them, and to bring them food as well as shoes for Paulie. In the wide shot, just as Tony puts on his shoes and tells Gloria, "I gotta go," there's a red T-mark on the wood floor at the lower left side of the screen.

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The Ride - S6-E9

Visible crew/equipment: When Tony and Carmela are in their kitchen, Tony looks in the fridge and cabinet. Then, just as Tony takes a seat at the table, an actor's T-mark becomes visible on the floor in front of the fridge, behind Tony.

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46 Long - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Tony shows up at Livia's house with a bouquet of flowers, in the exterior shot note the transparency of the screen door's glass, the front door silver-color knob with its back plate, as well as the deadbolt cylinder. As Tony enters the doorway in the next interior shot, we cannot see out through the screen door's glass, the door knob is gold-color, and both the knob's back plate and the deadbolt cylinder have vanished.

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Proshai, Livushka - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: Tony's hair length alternates between a short buzz cut and longer in different shots in the scene where Sil, Paulie and Chris visit him after his mother dies.

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Trivia: In "Mr. & Mrs. Sacrimoni Request," Johnny Sack's daughter is played by Caitlin Van Zandt. While she shares the surname, she is not related to Steven and Maureen Van Zandt (Silvio and Gabby Dante).

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Christopher - S4-E3

Question: Was it Jimmy Altieri standing in the back of the crowd during the Columbus rally scene? He was killed in season one for being an FBI informant and here they probably used him as a stand in... If so, then that is some sort of mistake, because I think, it really is him. (00:15:50)

Answer: That's not Jimmy, just a look-a-like. Jimmy's short and stout, the guy in "Christopher" episode is tall and medium built. The hair is also different.

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