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ER (1994)

32 mistakes in season 5

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Choosing Joi - S5-E13

Continuity mistake: When Alice is siting in her hospital bed, she has Sparky the dog under one arm and scruffy little brown dog under the other. When the shot changes, the latter has moved over, and she is stroking a black and tan dog. The next shot returns to the first scenario.

Hazed and Confused - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: When Carter and Kerry are in her kitchen and she is making something in the blender, the level of liquid drops a few inches even though she doesn't pour anything out of it.

Sticks and Stones - S5-E17

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Leonelli is being loaded into the ambulance, someone throws a large bottle of dark liquid that lands on the right side of the back window - however, when the shot changes, the liquid is running down the left side of the window.

Power - S5-E20

Revealing mistake: As Dr. Benton is leaving the nursery, there are two people who are supposed to be walking down the hall. But, it is very obvious that they are waiting on their mark, waiting for the go ahead before they start walking. (00:38:40)

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Power - S5-E20

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the show, Lucy and Roxanne are in the restaurant, and as Roxanne says "so much for that theory", we can see Lucy is holding up her book/magazine in the corner of the screen, but in the next shot it is lying flat on the table.

Rites of Spring - S5-E19

Continuity mistake: Yoshi and Mark are in the room with ballroom-dancing patient. Yoshi is writing on the chart - when the shot changes the paper on the chart is tented up, with no time for it to change position. When the shot changes again, he has the chart down on the instrument tray, again with no time for the change.

Masquerade - S5-E5

Continuity mistake: Carter suggests Lucy find the drunken patient a detox bed and the pile of books, files and fake arm she is carrying shift position from one shot to the next.

The Storm (2) - S5-E15

Continuity mistake: When Kerry and Doug get to the peds unit he starts listening to the kids heart/lungs with a stethoscope. The camera cuts to Kerry and then back to Doug and he is just taking the stethoscope from around his neck. The camera cuts to Kerry and then back to Doug and its around his neck again. The camera cuts to Kerry.Doug's listening with the stethoscope again.

Good Luck, Ruth Johnson - S5-E9

Continuity mistake: A detective goes into Wilson's room to talk to him, and Carol joins them, sitting near the end of the bed by Wilson's feet. A couple of shots later, as the detective talks to him, Carol is suddenly sitting by his knees, even though she never changes positions.

Doug Ross: Dr. Weaver and the sound of her own voice. A love story.

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Trivia: Every episode has the patient list by the nurse's station. On the patient list, different names are mentioned, like Marguiles or Tierney. They put these names there as a spoof of the show.

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Show generally

Question: Does anybody know what the episode was called where that helicopter severed Romano's arm? I'm pretty sure it was season 8.

Answer: It was in "Chaos Theory", the first episode of season 9 (time code 00:13:55).

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