Character mistake: When Geoffrey serves tea after his sassy cough at Vivian's sentence about High Tea not being a sacred institution, the actor messes up when it's time to actually serve tea, with a napkin getting caught in the teacup saucer. Granted, accidents do happen, but it's quite uncharacteristic for the perfect butler Geoffrey is portrayed to be, and simply a flub by Joseph Marcell. (00:17:45)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
1 character mistake - chronological order
Starring: Will Smith, Karyn Parsons, Alfonso Ribeiro, James Avery
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Will tells Vivian and Phil that Carlton is in Compton, Vivian takes off her earring from her right ear. A few shots of Will pass and when she goes to take off her other earring, the left ear doesn't have one, and the earring is on the right ear again.
Vivian: Philip, when I met you, you were into James Brown.
Will: He liked James Brown?
Vivian: Even wore his hair like him.
Will: He had hair?
Papa's Got a Brand-New Excuse - S4-E24
Trivia: At the end of the episode, as the camera zooms in on the statue on the table, Karyn Parsons can be heard crying backstage.
Answer: He's coming back from his vacation in Philadelphia.