The Greatest American Hero

Reseda Rose - S1-E6

Visible crew/equipment: While Rose gets ready to leave for work and puts on her jacket she asks Rhonda about her plans for the evening, and the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible at the top, right side of the screen. (00:05:25)

Super Grover

Reseda Rose - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: When Ralph is flying to Simpsons house, he continuously flies over the same area 5 to 6 times...meaning it is just reused footage. (00:20:50 - 00:21:40)

Reseda Rose - S1-E6

Revealing mistake: During the meeting on the beach, while Bill remains on the hill Ralph flies to the surfaced submarine, and in Ralph's closeups on the sub the crinkled black set wall behind him is painfully obvious.

Super Grover

Reseda Rose - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: While Bill and Ralph drive around checking on the FBI's list of addresses, in the closeups the mirror Ralph uses for his visions is attached to the sun visor with metal clips, but each time Ralph pushes the visor back up the metal clips are gone.

Super Grover

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Fire Man - S1-E8

Visible crew/equipment: After Ralph's interference with the unmarked police car while he's inside the manhole, when it cuts to the high school Ralph asks if anybody has seen Tony, and just as the camera passes Rhonda the T-mark is visible on the floor near the other female student's desk. In a few moments Ralph will walk over and stand at that spot. (00:07:45)

Super Grover

The Best Desk Scenario - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: After the successful junkyard arrests, when it cuts to Ralph and Pam walking outside at the high school they stop at Ralph's new office. Its exterior door is white with three nameplates attached, and a brick wall perpendicular to it, but a few minutes later, while Bill and Ralph are arguing it cuts to another exterior shot of Ralph's office, and now the door is blue with one nameplate attached, and the brick wall has vanished. (00:45:25)

Super Grover

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Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Visible crew/equipment: After Ralph and his students talk about Beck's will being missing the class bell rings. When Ralph says, "Tony, you got a minute," just as he walks over to Tony the microphone pops up into view at the bottom of the screen, and it continues to be seen during their conversation. (00:05:30)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Beck uses the remote to open the hangar door, as Dunn drives the car into the hangar Bill is sitting in the front passenger seat and Ralph is alone in the back, with the hoods still in place over Ralph's and Bill's heads, but when it cuts to a closeup both hoods have vanished. (00:08:00)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Bill tells Beck that he's thinking with his "mediocre, uninspired, middle-level mind," it cuts to an exterior shot of Beck's private jet heading to Vegas, but when the jet lands at the airport in the exterior shot it's a different type of jet. Then when Ralph gets the vision he sees Dunn running back toward Beck's jet, and again it's a different type jet. (00:13:40 - 00:16:15)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: While Ralph and Bill are on Beck's private jet, after Dunn tells Ralph how to use the telekinesis powers of the suit, Dunn takes something to read from the clear acrylic magazine holder, but in the following closeups the magazine holder is now black and an entirely different style. (00:15:15)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Revealing mistake: While they're on Beck's jet Ralph uses the suit's telekinetic powers on the ice-filled cup, and Ralph tells Bill he'll do it again with a magazine, then when it cuts to the first closeup of the magazines the stunt wire attached to the book is visible. (00:15:45)

Super Grover

Hog Wild - S2-E4

Other mistake: Preacher has a large bold tattoo at the center of his chest below his neck that changes repeatedly. For example, it's dark and clear when they capture the deputy, but it's smudged and partially gone when Preacher forces Stella, the deputy, and Ralph into the 18-wheeler. (00:29:10 - 00:36:50)

Super Grover

Hog Wild - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: Preacher forces Ralph to stop the sheriff, so when Ralph flies over and pulls the driver's door off the squad car, we see the Sheriff behind the steering wheel wearing his uniform shirt and dark colored pants of some sort, but when the Sheriff stands up his uniform shirt is properly tucked into his normal tan pants, same as earlier. (00:39:05)

Super Grover

Classical Gas - S2-E5

Revealing mistake: When Ralph blocks Hydra's rocket from its target, in the closeup as the rocket hits Ralph's abdomen the thin stunt wire is visible at the rocket tail. Then while Bill is fighting with Hydra, when Ralph is in mid-air heading to Bill the stunt apparatus is visible at Ralph's waist. (00:40:00)

Super Grover

The Lost Diablo - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: When everybody returns to the bus, in the closeups of Bill turning the ignition key to no effect, the sleeve we see has navy blue and white stripes, but Bill is wearing a light color blue striped shirt. (00:33:20)

Super Grover

The Lost Diablo - S2-E7

Visible crew/equipment: When Bill can't start the bus Ralph opens the hood and tells Bill the entire engine is gone, then as Ralph grumbles about what he'll tell the school board, the boom mic dips into view over Ralph, at the top of the screen. (00:33:50)

Super Grover

Ralph Hinkley: Bill, I've got an idea.
Bill Maxwell: Good, put it to me in a letter, I'll try to get back to you by the end of the month.

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