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ER (1994)

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Correction: Mark does not call Peter "Eriq", he calls him "Peter" - he says it quickly and the audio is a bit unclear with the sounds of street traffic, but if you turn up the volume, it is indeed Peter.

Correction: I agree with the correction, Greene does not say "Eriq" at all. Benton says, "Hey, Mark," to which Greene replies, "Peter" and then continues talking.

Super Grover

Correction: I heard Eriq while watching E.R. Via Hulu. This may have been changed for the DVD version.

Lindsay LeValley Mackey

I've seen the Hulu version and hear him say "Peter." The subtitles even confirm it.

Bishop73

Let It Snow - S15-E9

Corrected entry: Sam is in the bathroom washing her hands. As she goes to leave, 'Ladies Room' is on the glass of the door, however it is oriented facing the inside of the room. It should appear backwards so it would be seen correctly from the outside, not inside. (00:39:52)

MLawfer79

Correction: This shot opens on a closeup of Sam's hands under the faucet, as she stands at the sink washing her face, in front of the mirror on the wall over the sink. Watch as the camera faces the mirror, so it's Sam's reflection drying her face and walking out the bathroom door. "Ladies room" is printed on the exterior side of the door's glass window. From the interior side the words are reversed, but since the camera faces the mirror, viewers see the reflection of the words the right way, not reversed.

Super Grover

Hazed and Confused - S5-E7

Corrected entry: After using her new chest gizmo on an ER patient, Kerry addresses Dr. Anspaugh as "Doug" (Doug is the George Clooney part). This could be considered a character mistake, but he responds and they continue their conversation - in real life he would have corrected her.

Correction: Dr. Anspaugh's name is *Donald*. She called him *Don*, which sounds similar to Doug.

Love Among the Ruins - S1-E24

Corrected entry: When Susan is treating the cab driver for the cut on his forehead, she glances down at his dating service book. When she goes back to the laceration, it has suddenly become much redder and bloodier in just a few seconds.

Correction: Scalp wounds bleed profusely. As fast as that happened, it's not impossible.

The Human Shield - S12-E7

Corrected entry: Zoe's father comes to the ER to question Neela on why she has given Zoe medication. He knows her name only from the tag on the bottle of pills. The tag does not specify where the doctor in question works, there is no way he could have known that she worked in the ER and not in any other department. Zoe sure didn't tell him.

Correction: Her father could have phoned the hospital to find out what department Neela worked in.

Correction: Elizabeth does not say she worked in Bogside - she said she was working in Belfast when she attended a concert in Bogside - that would certainly be possible.

Correction: Eric was developing bipolar disorder, and as we later learned, had gone AWOL. Trimming his hair was likely the last thing on his mind.

Show generally

Corrected entry: When Luca reveals his background, and his children and wife are shown in flashbacks in Croatia, he has two daughters. But, when he gets together with Sam and Alex goes missing, he tells her a story about his son, Marco.

Correction: You are mistaken. Luka had a son and a daughter. The two females that you see in the flashback are his daughter and his *wife*.

Show generally

Corrected entry: Season 13, Episode 19: "Family Business" - Tony counts out three bills and hands them to his father to go buy groceries. When Tony berates him later for blowing it all on booze and Coming Home stumbling drunk, he screams that it was $100. There is no combination of US currency where three bills can add up to $100.

Correction: He gives him 5 bills! Watch closely, Tony takes out a folded "bundle" of bills, he counts and opens three of them, you can clearly see that there is a fourth bill still folded. Then you see Tony reach back to his pocket and adds a fifth bill, 5x20=100.

Ronnie Bischof

Home - S2-E9

Corrected entry: Carter starts the day kissing his co-worker. She gives him a love bite on the right side of his neck.Everyone makes some comment about the hickey.On the last half of the show, we now see Carter wearing a bandage, but it's now on the left side of his neck.

Correction: We never actually see Harper give Carter the hickey. When Benton tells him he has a hemotoma on his neck, it is on his left side. When Carter checks it out in the glass, it appears to be on his right. When he is trying to hide it from the doctor in the washroom, it again appears to be on his right - but it is on the left side of his neck.

Correction: Sometimes the wind changes directions all the time. Just last night I had to fight with my umbrella because the wind kept changing directions; the rain and my hair, was blowing all over the place.

The Letter - S8-E20

Corrected entry: In one of the last scenes, Dr. Lewis is shown leaving the ER, and putting a tack in the bottom of each page of "The Letter." However, at the very end of the episode, "The Letter" is shown blowing in the breeze, without any tacks holding the bottom of the pages down.

Correction: To begin with it was the night before when Dr. Lewis only tacked down two of the three pages, with just ONE pin each. Also, the space below was mostly empty except for a yellow and blue paper. Later the following afternoon, when we see three pages blowing, there is at least one additional posting and a fan is now directly blowing on the bulliten board. People stealing extra tacks for additional postings elsewhere on a bulliten board and loose pins being blown off happen all the time and can easily account for what happened over this long period of time.

OneHappyHusky

Freefall - S10-E8

Corrected entry: Abby diagnosis a 'piece of metal in his spleen' when treating Susan's husband who has just collapsed. She puts the ultrasound machine beside his right hip when the spleen is located behind the last rib on the left. Also metal would not show up on ultrasound.

Correction: Actually, since ultrasound scans are based upon the principle that high frequency soundwaves are reflected, metal shows up very well on an ultrasound. It would appear as bright white since it is dense and would reflect soundwaves very efficiently. Also, they can still use the machine even in that position.

Dr Muppet

Great Expectations - S6-E8

Corrected entry: Carol delivers one of the twins and then receives an epidural. Epidurals are not given when the actual delivery is near, and certainly not between delivering twins.

Correction: Absolutely false; many doctors prefer setting up the epidural before multiple births to avoid complications and lawsuits, though it can be done later; the epidural - which slows contractions, may be given later in delivery. Also, after one twin is born naturally an epidural may be given - under the right set of circumstances, before an emergency C-section of the second twin. This is the case with Carol Hathaway, who was already 10 cm and ready to push with the first, when she arrived at the ER.

Super Grover

Correction: If you look close on this scene you can see that this is a sort of "special" clock that I have seen in hospitals. The hour hand takes twenty four hours to make a complete revolution. This makes just looking at the position of the hands a little confusing you need to look at the numbers and you can see that it was 20:34.

Friendly Fire - S4-E3

Corrected entry: A woman is brought into the ER who they think has had a stroke. When Dr. Carter is showing the x-rays to Dr. Greene, he tells him the woman is 27 years old. Later in the episode, Dr. Greene rushes to talk to the surgeon and he tells him the woman is 25 years old.

Correction: This was a character mistake on Dr. Greene's part rather than a mistake by the writers.

Correction: Actually she WAS married on the show. Some people still wear their wedding ring at times even after the divorce.

On the Beach - S8-E21

Corrected entry: Where are Doug and Carol at the end? Doug was one of Mark's best friends and for him not to be there doesn't make any sense.

Correction: There could be a number of reasons why they aren't there. One of the twins (or both) could be sick, they might not have gotten time off work in such a short notice, there might be bad weather preventing them from being able to fly, they might be on vacation abroad, they might be sick, etc, etc, etc.

Correction: I think you'll find that Dr Weaver's baby has an umbilical chord as Neela asks her if she'd like to cut it.

Love's Labor Lost - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: As Mark futilely pounds on Jodi O'Brien's chest, Carol can be seen in the background, removing her protective glasses with one hand. However, after the Time of Death has been called and they're showing the reactions of everyone present in the room (Susan, Carol, Carter, Lydia, Chen), Carol is seen taking the glasses off again, this time with both hands.

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Trivia: Doug Ross frequently hung his head low, appearing ashamed or thoughtful or privately amused, depending on the scene. This wasn't just an element of the character: George Clooney had taken to writing his lines on papers, sheets, and other props.

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Answer: A man named Paul Sobriki comes into the ER in the season 6 episode 13 " All in the Family." He is complaining of headaches, Carter and Lucy decide to rule out meningitis and do a lumber puncture. Paul struggles during the procedure and believes that both doctors are stabbing him. Lucy, who is interested in Psych thinks something is wrong with their patient mentally, but Carter is dismissive of her. She gets cross with his attitude and she calls the psych department anyway to have a look at him. Later on and near the closing 20 minutes or so of the episode, all the staff start playing loud music and get a cake which appears to be blue lol, together to party as it's Valentines Day, Carter returns from somewhere and asks where Lucy is. He goes to check one of the rooms for her and Paul Sobriki comes up behind him in the dark and stabs him twice in the lower back, he collapses and as he falls unconscious he sees Lucy on the ground also. In the next episode, Be Still My Heart (ep 14), Dr Weaver discovers them and all of the staff work to try and save them, whilst Carter survives. Lucy's wounds are fatal and suffers a pulmonary embolism as Corday and Romano try to save her. Carter is grief stricken and feels guilty about the way he treated her, he becomes addicted to painkillers and Benton, Greene all help him and book him into rehab.

Answer: Lucy and Carter were stabbed by a patient she had suspected of having mental problems. Lucy died and Carter survived only to become addicted to painkillers.

Maria Santos

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