Supply Sergeants Never Die - S2-E6
Continuity mistake: The Supply Sergeant Singer's second shirt button is buttoned as he approaches the counter, but as he continues around the counter it's not, then it's buttoned up again. (00:25:00)
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964)
1 mistake in Supply Sergeants Never Die
Starring: Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Ronnie Schell
Gomer Pyle: Golly.
Trivia: The name of Gomer Pyle comes from writer Gomer Cool and actor Denver Pyle.
Question: Throughout the whole show Gomer Pyle's rank stays as Private First Class. With how long he had been in the Marines, why was he never given a promotion to a higher rank?
Answer: If you saw the whole series run, you know that Gomer was a country bumpkin. He fumbled, stumbled and tumbled his way into one disaster after another. There was an episode that questioned why he was never promoted. However, a few years before Jim Nabors died, the real Marine Corps, gave him a ceremonial promotion to the rank of Lance Corporal, which Jim gladly accepted.
Unfortunately, I never saw all the episodes. Only a few episodes and a clip of the episode where he sings "The Impossible Dream" which made me wonder why he was still a PFC. Thanks so much for the info.