Smallville (2001)
117 mistakes in season 1
Continuity mistake: When Jonathan lectures Clark about the danger of accepting gifts from Luthors, the key he twirls is a GM truck key, not a Ford truck key.
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Continuity mistake: After the meteor shower, the bit of hair that Mr. Luthor finds in the cornfield changes in his hands from stretched straight to curled.
00:06:15
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Visible crew/equipment: When Clark finds Lex in the Luthor mansion, they walk down the hall and into a new room. As they enter, as Lex is saying "So, hows the new ride?" if you look in the bottom left of the screen you can see a white tape marker on the floor, where Lex will walk over to subsequently.
00:33:10
Factual error: Lex crashes and his car lands on its roof, but in the span of a few seconds it has sunk straight to the bottom, and turned the right way up. Cars don't sink that quickly.
00:17:25
Audio problem: Clark listens to his father and Earl talking in the hospital through the visitor window. The sound is the same volume and quality as when Earl was using the microphone, which he is not using now. Even if Clark used super-hearing to eavesdrop, it wouldn't sound the same as the microphone.
00:18:35
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Continuity mistake: The hole in the guard rail changes size and shape between the shot of Lex driving off it and another looking up at it from below.
00:18:10
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Visible crew/equipment: When Lex spins up to Luthor Corp in his car, as the camera pans over the car to follow him, the cameraman is reflected in the window as he pans over.
00:14:40
Continuity mistake: After Greg hits Clark with the pipe in the foundry, Clark's hands are very dirty. In the closeup on Clark's hand immediately after he lands, the hand is clean to show the effects of the Kryptonite.
00:39:45
PhoenixDeliberate mistake: Clark's CPR form is terrible. When he performs emergency breaths on Lex, Lex's chest doesn't rise and fall, indicating that he's not actually breathing much air in. He doesn't bother to measure for the proper location for chest compressions, a very important step that is the difference between proper CPR and simply cracking ribs. As he performs compressions, he is not chanting the rhythm (one-and-two-and-three) and his elbows are bent. All of these were altered for dramatic reasons or the purpose of safety, but the sloppy technique probably would have killed Lex.
00:18:40
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Continuity mistake: In the truck right before the parade passes them by, Jonathan Kent kisses his wife. Cut to a different angle but this time his left hand is on her cheek. It wasn't there in the prior angle.
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Continuity mistake: Despite the fact that Clark and Jonathan are looking in the rafters above them for Greg, their flashlights stay relatively level.
00:26:35
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Continuity mistake: When Lex is about to hit Clark with his car, Clark alternates between facing the car and facing the bridge.
00:17:20
Revealing mistake: Once Victoria has drawn her bath, we see her get in, and then lean back into the water. However she is already wet on her chest and her hair is damp already. This is probably due due to previous takes of the same scene.
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Continuity mistake: As Lex is chalking his pool stick while talking to Dominic about cutting 20% of the workforce at the LutherCorp Smallville plant, there is a red snooker ball on the wall rack missing from the second row. When Lex walks over to the other end of the pool table, the camera shot changes back to Dominic, now there is a ball missing from the top row, which was not missing before.
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Audio problem: When Mr. Luthor was buying the corn field from the farmer he says: 'Now, where do I sign?' The farmer replies: 'Right here Mr. Luthor' and points at the contract. Even though we can only see a profile shot of the farmer as he says these words it is pretty obvious that his mouth isn't moving.
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Continuity mistake: As Chloe hurries to put Justin's art book back before Justin comes in there is a piece of white paper sticking out of the top and bottom, based on the way she put it back, of the folder. When Justin sees the folder has been moved there are no papers sticking out.
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Revealing mistake: When Lana throws a glass bottle at Lex (in the Talon) it smashes against the wall. But if you look closely Lana drops the bottle just before she throws it.
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Continuity mistake: While Clark and Jonathan are talking about Clark being on the football team, Jonathan puts his hands on Clark's shoulders. Between shots, the position of Jonathan's hands on Clark's shoulders repeatedly changes.
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Continuity mistake: While Earl is in the hospital bed, his grip on the microphone to the waiting room changes from up to down and back.
00:17:55
PhoenixRevealing mistake: As Tyler slides across the floor, after Clark knocks him out of Whitney's father's room, he hits the camera. When he does the camera has a noticeable shake to it because of it.
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Revealing mistake: While Lana is listening to her Mother's graduation speech she reaches up to her neck for her meteor rock necklace. Her hands do not reach far enough back to unclasp the necklace yet the necklace comes off anyway.
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Plot hole: Chloe writes her phone number on Sean's hand. It disappears when we see him struggling against the ice of the lake, then reappears in the scene where he is calling old girlfriends. And how exactly would pen ink survive several hours submerged in water and then another eight hours of normal activity without becoming blurred?
00:04:15 - 00:19:50
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Continuity mistake: Tina's grip on Lana's necklace changes as she stands over Lana's body.
00:37:30
PhoenixRevealing mistake: In the early scene with the baby, there are a few overhead shots of the parents and child. It is clear that in these shots a fake baby was used - he is completely motionless, even though he was moving arms and legs before and after and is crying.
00:02:00 - 00:03:15
PhoenixAudio problem: Sean drops frozen Jenna and she shatters. He then manages to casually walk out of the room over her without crunching any of the ice.
00:17:30
PhoenixContinuity mistake: The meteors are shown traveling together in space at the beginning, but the smoke trail from the first meteorite runs perpendicular to the flight of the next one. They should be falling along roughly the same flight corridor, as all the other meteorites do.
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PhoenixContinuity mistake: When Clark goes to Kwan's house the set of pathway lights on the left, the side where Justin pulled only one out, is gone. Earlier the lights ran down both sides of the driveway.
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Continuity mistake: The lime slices on the side of Lex's and Amanda's drinks, in Club Zero, change position between shots.
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Continuity mistake: While researching Greg with Chloe, Clark changes from one hand on the computer mouse to arms crossed and back.
00:34:00
PhoenixContinuity mistake: When Chloe is first asking Pete and Clark the questions for her poll you can see that the top page on her clipboard is yellow. Then she shows it to Lana and the camera gives you a nice big shot of the front piece of paper and it is white. When Chloe says "its unleashing the inner Lana." the front of the clipboard is shown again and now the paper is yellow.
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Continuity mistake: At the beginning, when Seth picks up the barbell to beat Troy with, Troy is at the end of the locker room with the showers. As Pete and Clark show up, Troy is at the other end of the locker room.
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Continuity mistake: When Clark is in hospital after being thrown to land on the roof of the car his mum is helping him put a shirt on. He puts it over his right shoulder and the shot changes, his arm is all of a sudden in the sleeve.
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Revealing mistake: The Smallville Torch that Clark looks at online is the exact same one last seen by Lex two episodes ago in "Craving." This wouldn't be a problem, but Clark remarks that this Torch is "another scathing editorial," indicating that it is new, and Principal Kwan complains that parents have been calling all morning, which means that this issue of the Torch was published either this day or the day before. Prop department must have been saving money.
00:08:40
PhoenixContinuity mistake: As Justin turns the spike end of the pathway light towards Principal Kwan, in the close up, the light is at a height that is just lined up with the light in front of it. After the shot change, the shot simply zooms out to include Justin on the right side of the screen, the light is now several feet higher than it was before.
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Continuity mistake: When Lana and Clark are sitting on the Windmill and the camera is facing them close up you can see the shadow of the windmill moving in the wind but when the camera zooms out the windmill is not moving at all.
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Continuity mistake: When Henry falls into the pond, the first time, there are several small pylons connected by a chain when the camera is on the walkway. When the camera is in the water, showing Henry as he hits the water, neither the pylons or the chain is visible. There is just an open space where the chair falls over.
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Continuity mistake: While Lana is climbing the windmill, just before she stops a shot from below shows her right foot right above her left foot. The camera switches to above her and suddenly her left foot is a full rung above her right foot.
00:27:10
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Continuity mistake: When Sean emerges from the lake and goes to the campfire, his clothes are completely dry despite the fact that he was totally underwater for hours.
00:04:50
PhoenixDeliberate mistake: The episode begins with a football game in pouring rain. After the winning goal is scored, the crowd shots show the cheerleaders' hair wet and their uniforms completely dry.
00:01:50
Continuity mistake: When Jodie hits the deer her vehicle spins out. As it is spinning the headlights are not projecting any kind of visible beam. After the car stops, and she is facing the deer she hit, the headlight is now projecting a very bright beam to illuminate the deer on the road.
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Continuity mistake: When Amy is introduced, she is writing about two lines down from the top of the page in her journal. After Troy snatches it, the writing runs about halfway down the page.
00:00:35
PhoenixFactual error: As Tina/Clark tries to run over Martha, there is a shot of Tina/Clark up close in the truck, and the gear shift is still in park.
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Continuity mistake: While Chloe and Clark are on the horses, and Chloe is talking about the surveyors from Rickman Industries, when the shot is on Chloe's side, Clark is holding his reins in his right hand which is resting on top of his left. When the shot switches to Clark's side, as Chloe continues the story, and now Clark's right hand is under his left.
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Revealing mistake: When the gas pipe explodes at the beginning before the credits, the camera goes to an aerial view. You can see that the explosion started from behind the gas pipes.
00:01:50
Continuity mistake: In the intro to the final scene there is no light beneath the loft doors, yet at the end of the scene during the pullout a light has appear beneath them and it switched on.
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Audio problem: After Clark's parents come home, after their anniversary dinner, Jonathan and Clark go to see Earl in the hospital. As the Doctor says "It looks like he's got some sort of mineral poisoning, but its not from any mineral I've seen before." For the first few words of that line her mouth does not match up to what is being said but the dialogue, and her mouth slowly come together at the end of the line.
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Audio problem: The CD playing in Lex's car is heard at exactly the same volume and quality from outside the car when Lex has his windows up and when he rolls one down.
00:10:20
PhoenixAudio problem: When Sean flags down Whitney's truck, we hear his brakes squeal as he slams on the pedal. A few quick cuts later we see him do the same thing, apparently for the first time.
00:33:25
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Continuity mistake: When "Lex" threatens the bank manager, he points the gun at his face, but the next shot on the manager shows the gun at his throat.
00:01:35
PhoenixContinuity mistake: As Chloe leaves Clark calls out her name. In the shot from Chloe's side of the room, Clark is holding the pitchfork horizontally low in front of him. The shot switches, as Chloe finishes her turn, and now Clark is holding the pitchfork with his arm bent so that the pitchfork is no longer low in front of his waist.
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Audio problem: When the thief with one arm tells his other two buddies to "check this out" the shot switches to the right side of him. In that shot you can see this guy say "check this out" again.
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Continuity mistake: As Victoria is being drowned in the bathtub, she appears very deep in underwater shots and only a few inches down in overhead shots.
00:26:00
PhoenixAudio problem: While Sean and Whitney are tossing the football at the lake edge, at one point we hear Whitney catch the ball offscreen while the camera is on Sean. The camera then cuts back to Whitney and he catches the ball on screen.
00:03:20
PhoenixContinuity mistake: Clark's hair goes from long to short and back to long as Clark, Pete and Chloe talk about Greg's tree fort.
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Plot hole: Justin's power is telekinesis, which he uses to attack the doctor at the beginning of the episode. He shows that he is targeting the doctor's hands by blacking them out on the drawing, but he has absolutely no way to see what is happening in the elevator to know the exact moment when to drop it and cut them off.
00:03:30
PhoenixContinuity mistake: Fordman's, the store Whitney is helping his father run, is directly across the street from The Talon. The store has a big blue sign out front with "Fordman's" written in large white letters. After Lana steals Lex's car, she drives down the street and the store is nowhere to be seen on the other side of the street.
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Continuity mistake: When Chloe puts the photo of Dr. Hamilton on his desk she puts it on a book next to his arm. After the shot changes he is shown picking up the photo but now it is half resting on his arm.
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Audio problem: After he breaks the methane valve, Earl runs to the security camera and whispers, "You see what you made me do?" His whisper is heard at the proper volume by the Luthors watching the camera, but the speakerphone is on the desk ten feet behind Earl, making this impossible. Most surveillance cameras don't have microphones.
00:28:55
PhoenixContinuity mistake: As Sean sucks electricity at the power station, his arms are bent in the first shot and fully extended in the next.
00:31:25
PhoenixContinuity mistake: In the closeup when Zoe is introduced, the button just above her apron is buttoned. In the next shot of her walking through the cafe, it is unbuttoned.
00:07:35
PhoenixRevealing mistake: At the command center outside Martha is watching a monitor with the hostages on it and she asks "Where's Clark?". The next shot is one of Clark running down a hallway, inside the plant, using his super-speed. As he is running the red lights along the ceiling are revolving faster than they normally do and return to normal once Clark stops using super-speed.
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Continuity mistake: When Kyle goes to confront Rickman about coming to Smallville, Kyle is talking about how Rickman agreed not to do anything in Smallville and Kyle is pointing with his left hand. When the shot switches he is now pointing with his right.
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Continuity mistake: When Lana and Clark are sitting on top of the windmill, Clark's jacket changes from opened to closed to opened.
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Continuity mistake: As Pete demands Chloe's keys he raises the gun on her. As he does you can hear the sound of the hammer being pulled back on the revolver. In the shot of the gun, as Chloe gives him the keys, the hammer is not pulled back.
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Continuity mistake: As Harry goes into the pond the second time the pylons are connected now with yellow crime scene tape when the camera is out over the water looking at Harry on the walkway. As the camera is in the water, watching Harry fall in, the pylons are gone, even though they should be in the shot, and are connected by a wire instead of crime scene tape.
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Continuity mistake: When Jonathan shoots Clark with the shotgun, in the slow motion shot of Clark as he first starts to take the hit there is nothing coming out of the gun or on his chest. When the shot moves to Clark's left he now has red hot shot fragments on his chest.
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Continuity mistake: For several shots during the early scene with the baby in the crib, the blanket changes back and forth from tucked up to the chin, up to the shoulders, and up to the stomach in different angles.
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PhoenixContinuity mistake: When Chloe is kissing Justin the shot is behind him and her hands are not on his neck. The shot switches to behind Chloe and she does have her hands on his neck.
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Continuity mistake: In the intro to the final scene, the top half of the loft doors are open with the bottom half being closed, yet at the end of the scene during the pullout, both the top half and the bottom half of the doors are open.
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Continuity mistake: After the encounter in the meat locker, Lex and Clark talk outside Fordman's store. As Lex turns to leave there is a truck driving down the street in Clark's direction. When the camera switches to Clark, the truck, which should be in this shot going behind Clark, is nowhere to be seen.
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Continuity mistake: At the beginning, as the mother tucks the blanket up to the child's neck, she changes from both hands on the infant to one hand on the crib.
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Continuity mistake: When Sean is in the nurses office, having his temperature taken, the light on his left side is on. After the nurse wants to retake the temperature the light is now off.
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Continuity mistake: When Kyle first confronts Rickman in his office and challenges him to a handshake, Rickman looks away. In the next shot on Kyle, Rickman is looking at him again.
00:13:20
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Revealing mistake: In "Rogue," just after Jonathan has been arrested, Clark walks into the house and punches a wooden beam. If you look closely, you can see the crack in it where it has already been broken.
00:26:35
Factual error: When the bug kid crashes his car, he's driving a VW Beetle, which has the motor in the rear, therefore would not have shut off in a head on collision.
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Character mistake: Chloe hands Clark a newspaper with the list of jury members from Harry Volk's trial. As he reads the list he says "Rudolph Gage, Rita Garfield". After Clark realizes that his grandfather, Hiram Kent, is on the jury he hands the paper to Lana. A shot of the newspaper has the jury members listed as Randolph Gage, and Eve Garfield. Even young Harry calls her Eve when confronting Zoe at The Beanery.
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Continuity mistake: After Lex tells Martha that he'll do whatever he can to help Jonathan, she goes into Jonathan's hospital room. As she goes through the door, the blinds next to the door are closed. When the shot switches to show Clark standing at the other window, the blinds next to the door are open. Then, as Lex goes over to Clark, the blinds next to the door are closed again.
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Continuity mistake: When Jonathan is sitting down, before he tells Clark that he can't always be honest, in the shot from the other side of the table Jonathan is holding a book in his right hand as he is sitting down. When the shot switches to Clark's right, Jonathan is still starting to sit but now the book is in his left hand.
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Visible crew/equipment: After Martha finds the money in the antique shop she tells the other woman she needs to be more careful, as they are walking in the room there is a boom mike shadow moving.
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Continuity mistake: At the coffee shop when he intercepts Lex, Phelan suddenly acquires a cup of coffee from nowhere.
00:10:00
PhoenixContinuity mistake: When Lex enters Clark's barn loft, the telescope is only tilted at about 10º up. As Clark ponders about his and Lex's friendship, the telescope is pointed at about 45º up. Nobody touched the telescope.
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Continuity mistake: Right after Ryan makes breakfast for the Kents, he leans on a chair and sets the orange juice jug down twice.
00:05:35
PhoenixContinuity mistake: When Chloe and Clark are at the Torch after the pool incident with Shawn, Chloe is sitting down wrapped up in a green sweater and a blue jacket with part of her blouse showing. In the next shot, she is fully wrapped in the green sweater. Seconds later, her sweater is tucked into her jacket and her blouse is showing.
00:28:00
AdorableBelindaRevealing mistake: When Clark gets hits by lightning whilst trying to save Eric, you can see that Eric is a stunt double.
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Continuity mistake: When we first see the meteorite tattoos on Wade Mahaney, they are all green. When Clark sees Whitney's tattoo, it is plain black. It was also faded, which means it's not a fresh tattoo. Whenever Clark runs into the other guys, he feels the effects of the meteor rocks, but never when he is alone with Whitney.
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