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Left-Hand Path - S3-E7

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the episode when Nico is burning the photo of her father, she burns it at the top left corner in a close-up shot. Then in the following shot the photo is suddenly burning at the top right corner instead.

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'Otoko rashiku' de ikô! - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: During the episode, whenever the crew watches Akito fight, the shots from behind show to the right of the nasty admiral Sadaaki Munetake (the guy with the bad bowl cut) his fellow with blue hair, and to his left the short guy with a moustache. In the front views, it's the opposite. The Prospector (the brightly colored fellow, purple pants, pink vest, yellow shirt) also appears in the front view but is nowhere in sight in the back shots.

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No Bull - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: When Phil 2 is talking to Tandy in the stocks after the calf scene, his hands keep changing position depending on the camera angle. Sometimes his hand and wrist are straight down with fingers extended and other times he has his hand lifted up with his fingers tucked in.

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Project Reborn - S1-E13

Continuity mistake: When Luke and the others arrive at Gateway, there's a Smart car with its doors wide open. When they start walking and the shot changes, the doors are now hardly open. The doors keep changing position depending on the shot thereafter.

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The Inverse Method - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: When Chrissy and Lois are in the car before going into the meeting, the passenger side window is down, but not all the way. But in the next shot when Chrissy steps out, it's all the way down.

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Continuity mistake: The professor knocks a hole in the side of a tunnel and hot water and steam gush out. The group is then distracted by a boulder traveling through the tunnel. After the boulder passes, there is no longer any steam or water gushing from the hole in the wall.

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Planet of the Slave Girls - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Buck goes to run out of the door of the factory, it's a solid door, with a bar-type handle. When the scene shifts to the outside, the door he runs out of leads directly inside, but the door has vent slats on the lower half, and the handle is completely different.

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Hindsight: Part 2 - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Domino is playing pool, in the wide shot, she is shown at the one of the corner pocket sides of the table, with Toad perched on the left corner pocket across from her. When the shot changes to her getting ready to take her shot, she is now standing on one of the side pocket sides of the table, with Toad similarly perched on the corner pocket on the left across from her, only now it would be on the same end of the table where she was originally standing. (00:21:57)

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Oyedeng - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: After Naomi apologizes to Cyn for hitting him on the head, in the shot facing Naomi she reaches for Cyn's brandy with her right arm extended, but next shot it's her left arm extended. Then Naomi holds the brandy bottle with her left hand and removes the brandy's cap with her right, but in the next semi-closeup the bottle and cap have switched hands. (00:23:10)

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