Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When DeSoto and Gage are in the pool with the little girl whose arm is stuck in the drain, their shoes and pants are soaked. However, just after Gage gets off the Biophone, his shoes and pants are completely dry, and then when the pool has been mostly drained both DeSoto and Gage are dry.
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When DeSoto and Gage arrive on scene at the traffic accident, the boy and his bicycle lying on the ground change positions between wideshot and close-up.
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When the man with three bullet wounds is wheeled into the ER, he's taken into treatment 3 which has a windowless door, but in the shots from inside the room he's in treatment 1 with a window on its door, and the room has a different interior.
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: At very end in the locker room, when Chet asks Roy why Johnny is mad, Johnny's setting up his uniform shirt and the green pen is in the pocket, then it vanishes and reappears.
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are standing by the squad outside Rampart, talking about the man in a hepatic coma, both ER doors are wide open, but when the woman drives up and then shouts that she needs help both doors are closed, and this continues a few times depending on the angle of the shot.
Continuity mistake: When the ambulance carrying the 15 year old OD backs up to ER receiving, both attendants get out of the driver and passenger sides, but in the previous and following shot we see that one of the attendants has been sitting with Johnny and the patient, at the back of the ambulance.
Continuity mistake: When the 15 year old OD is wheeled into the treatment room and transferred onto the gurney, Roy leans over and starts removing the squad's resuscitator from the airway's mask, but then it cuts to a closeup of Morton's hands removing it.
Continuity mistake: When DeSoto starts to crack about what's upsetting him, Gage places a mop beside another mop, up against the door and it falls over. Next shot both mops are upright and in different positions as well.
Continuity mistake: After Johnny has gotten Sheba off the roof, he and Roy stand by ladder as Sheba takes off after the cat again, and in the shot of the dog running across the roof Roy and Johnny are gone - the ladder stands alone, but in the next shot the paramedics are by the ladder again. Also note that the door behind the ladder is alternately closed or open, depending on the shot.
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John are in the apparatus bay talking about Joanne, just after Roy walks away, Boot steals the armboard splint package with the writing facing up in his mouth, but when Boot hides under the squad the reverse side is up in his mouth.
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy have to go in search of the two boys lost in the storm drain, the air cylinder that Johnny grabs from the squad has two large red stickers, but when Roy and Johnny climb down below, Johnny's air cylinder has changed - both of their tanks now have the large arrow stickers.
Continuity mistake: When Squad 51 and then Engine 51 are dispatched to the hotel fire, before going in Johnny's SCBA cylinder has a large arrow sticker and Roy's has a large red sticker, but once inside Roy's air cylinder goes back and forth from having an arrow sticker to the red sticker. Then in a few moments, when Marco and Chet go in with the stokes, both of their air cylinders are tall, flat-top and devoid of stickers, but inside their SCBA cylinders are short, round-top and keep switching from having either an arrow or large red stickers.
Continuity mistake: During the hotel fire, when Chet and Marco carry the gear-filled Stokes basket to the room where DeSoto and Gage are performing CPR, the drug box (black) and Biophone (orange case) reverse their positions in the Stokes basket between shots.
Continuity mistake: After Squad 51 is dispatched to the hotel fire, when Roy shouts to John that the woman is about to drop the baby from the third floor, Roy's standing across the street beside the squad, but in the next shot he's suddenly standing in front of the hotel, right behind John.
Continuity mistake: When the tones drop for the structure fire at the hotel, the dispatched companies are: Engine 4, Engine 51, Engine 37, Engine 105, Truck 8, and Battalion 14. However, at the fire we see Engine 16, Engine 27, Engine 10, Truck 98, and Battalion 14 instructs Engine 23 and Engine 19 over the HT.
School Days - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: Before the housekeeper leaves the library to open the door for 51's guys, we see Dr. Temple pinned under the bookcase and two red armchairs in front of the fireplace, but when she returns to the room with everyone following her one of those armchairs has vanished.
School Days - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: On their way back from the rescue at the auto wrecking yard, in the close-up we see that Roy, Billy, and Gage are in the squad talking, but when it cuts to the exterior shot there are only two people in Squad 51.
School Days - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: When Roy walks into the kitchen at Station 51, Billy is on the couch studying, and in the overhead shot the pages of the open book that Billy is holding has illustrations, but in the close-up the pages have only text on them. Plus when Roy is in the doorway, you can see the truck (s) behind him, but when he turns to go back to bed, the garage is empty.
School Days - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: When Dr. Temple's assistant is running to the door to let the ambulance attendants in, as we see her exiting the room where the bookcase has fallen over, her slip is showing, but the very next room we see, her slip is properly under her dress.
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are at the construction site with the guy who wants to jump, before Roy walks over to him we see the pompier belt around Johnny's waist has the carabiner hook to his left and the double tongue buckles to his right. Then when Captain Stanley tells Johnny to try and get to the guy from the other side, Johnny's belt is now around his waist the opposite way. In the following shots his life belt flips around a couple more times. Note that their pompier belts have at one side double leather straps which are the two tongue buckles, and the other side has a single strap of leather for the attached carabiner hook.
Answer: It is standard practice to wet down driveways so that they stand out in a long shot.
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