Continuity mistake: While talking to Kerry in the medicine cupboard Deb's stethoscope changes position numerous times.
Continuity mistake: When Abby places the red stickers on Mr. Stegman's chest, after Carter is shocked they are in different places.
Visible crew/equipment: While Susan is talking to her patient with the tendency to leave his clothes on, stage lights are visible in his glasses.
Continuity mistake: Chuny tells Abby that Weaver is looking for her because she didn't call Child Services for a patient. Abby then goes to a phone to call. While she's on the call she hands Malik some sporting event tickets. The next scene shows Weaver out on a date when she bumps into Malik and Susan on their way to the sporting event. The very next scene is back in the ER where Abby is telling Carter that Lewis (Susan) just discharged a patient. The scenes don't line up, as they give the impression that Weaver, Malik and Lewis are all on shift at the hospital, when they're out on the town at the same time.
Continuity mistake: Abby's neighbours' are named Joyce and Brian, but in one scene Joyce calls him Brett.
Continuity mistake: When Kerry leaves Romano's office the door is already closing in the close up, but when she is walking out the door is still, then closes.
Visible crew/equipment: While Elizabeth and Mark are waiting in the ambulance wing you can see the cameraman and camera crew reflected in the ambulance window.
It's All in Your Head - S8-E15
Other mistake: In the opening sequence, there is an aerial shot where the camera pans over Central Park in New York City. The trees are full of leaves and some are changing color. The problem is that it is February when this episode is taking place, and the trees would have no leaves left on them.
Factual error: When the man is brought into the ER after an encounter gone wrong with a dominatrix,Susan checks one eye and announces 'Pupils are equal and reactive' then proceeds to check the other eye.After checking one eye there is no way she would know that the patients pupillary reaction was equal.
Revealing mistake: Gallant is watching over some duck eggs that are about to hatch. At the end of the episode, two of the ducklings have hatched and Gallant is showing them to Carter and Susan. An unhatched egg falls out of Gallant's bundle and smashes on the street.The smashed egg has a large yellow yolk and clear fluid, like an egg in a grocery store. But an egg that close to hatching would have almost no yolk remaining and an almost fully developed duckling inside.
The Letter - S8-E20
Continuity mistake: When Carter and Abby are kind of fighting outside, when Carter is carrying Abby back to the car,from the front shot he threw her over his left shoulder, but a second later, from the rear view when he drops her she is on his right shoulder.
The Letter - S8-E20
Continuity mistake: When Dr Greene opens his locker for the last time, the locker is hinged on the left. However when Kerry and Carter clean out Dr Greene's locker after his death, the locker is hinged on the right.
Visible crew/equipment: A camera is visible in the balloon at the very end.
Deliberate mistake: When the two lawyers were wheeled in by ambulance riding on the same gurney entered the ER the male had a bandage on his foot because they had been walking on hot coals. The hospital staff smelled smoke coming from the bandage on the male lawyers foot. It burst into flames and Abby used a Dry Chemical Fire Extinguisher. Something other than powder came out because the dry chemical powder would have made a large cloud of actor choking dust all over the set. The use of a C02 would have been a better choice. You would still get the fire fighting effect with out the mess.
Character mistake: Carter tells the mother of the smallpox infected children that no one has seen smallpox for 50 years. The episode aired in 2002, WHO didn't start its global eradication of smallpox until late 1950's and the last case was reported in 1978, which is only about 20 years.
Chaos Theory (a.k.a. Unknown Origin) - S9-E1
Visible crew/equipment: While Gallant is running on the sixth floor the boom mic is visible in the window.
Tell Me Where It Hurts - S9-E7
Continuity mistake: In this episode Kovac has a patient who needs eye surgery. While at County General, Kovac says that the patient is 16 years old. Later, when Kovac goes to the golf course to get the doctor who does the surgery, he says the patient is 14.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished - S9-E13
Character mistake: Dr. Corday finishes assessing a gun shot victim, then goes to the next trauma room to assess another. The steady cam follows her. She makes sure not to contaminate her gloves on the door, opening it with her elbows, but then goes straight to touching the next victim. Of course, in real life, she'd change gloves first. The shot never changes, so there's no chance of her changing gloves off camera. (00:12:30)
A Boy Falling Out of the Sky (a.k.a. Shifts Happen) - S9-E15
Plot hole: Dr. Lewis is talking to a patient about pets, and how she is "banned from a pet store" because she isn't good with pets. She explains that the only pet she ever had was sea monkeys as a child. But, in the earlier seasons, she had a cat. We actually saw the cat at one point when her sister was staying with her and let the cat out of the apartment by accident.
Continuity mistake: The first scene shows a family climbing into a gold Volvo 240 estate car, woman driving and children in the back. The following crash scene involving the same family where the car flips and is impaled by a truck is a gold Volvo 740 estate car.
Answer: It was in "Chaos Theory", the first episode of season 9 (time code 00:13:55).
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