Best TV continuity mistakes of 2006

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Heroes Welcome - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Dr Jeremy Kates rushes into the ER when Frank crashes, he doesn't have surgical gloves, a moment later you see him draining fluid from his heart and he is wearing gray gloves.

Boobra

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Six Feet Blunder - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Suzanne tells her family that she is being sexually harassed by her co-worker at the colonial theme park. Her son Jody then says, "Don't worry. When I get through with this Ben Franklin guy, he's definitely going to remember the Alamo." We, the viewers, know that Suzanne's co-worker plays the role of Benjamin Franklin, but she never mentioned that to her sons.

DavidK93

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Continuity mistake: In episode 3, "How Billy Got His Groove Back", in the scene where Mick is meeting with Eduardo on the overpass Mick's sunglasses keep switching between being up on his nose to down on the tip of his nose to being off his face and back on again.

Boobra

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Primal - S1-E9

Continuity mistake: Series 1, Episode 9: Primal. As Carter and Taggart are crawling through the access tunnel, the torch attached to the side of Taggart's goggles is pointing downwards, below his line of vision as established by the lenses on the front. As the shot changes to a close-up on Taggart, the torch is now pointing forwards, aligned with the lenses. (00:13:50)

Tailkinker

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Matriarchy - S1-E23

Continuity mistake: When Justin gets on the escalator after saying goodbye he is standing next to a woman with a black blazer, then the shot changes to Kitty and Nora and when it changes back he is standing next to a woman in a blue shirt.

Boobra

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Circle the Wagons - S2-E9

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Nikki brings the freezer to Juniper Creek, the freezer is strapped with a wide yellow strap to a hand truck. She leaves the freezer in the middle of the road. The freezer is now free of the hand truck and yellow strap. She gets in her pick up truck and the freezer is shown in the road strapped to the hand truck. She then proceeds to run the freezer over, but it is no longer on the hand truck. The hand truck and yellow strap are no where to be seen.

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Lost For Words - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Dr Hanson is looking at the MRI results from himself the word "ANONYMOUS" is at his nose level on the screen, when the camera pulls back the word is in the lower right hand corner.

Boobra

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Tomorrow's So Far Away - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: At the end when Hannah is sitting talking to Caroline's headstone, when the shots change from filming her from the right to the left, the wind is different blowing her hair in one and not the other.

Boobra

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H2O (2006)

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Season 1 generally

Continuity mistake: In the episode "The Fighting Irish", Jack's brother and father appear. Jack says "I haven't seen my father in 17 years." But throughout the rest of the series, it is mentioned many times that Jack's father ran away when Jack was little.

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Total Eclipse - S3-E1

Continuity mistake: Guy of Gisbourne says to Robin Hood that he should lay down his weapons. Robin Hood throws his bow and sword on to the ground. He then gets thrown down the cliff, into the river. A few minutes later, when we get focused on him again, we see that the bow is lying in the river with him. (00:06:05 - 00:10:55)

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What If They Run? - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When the bad guys create a roadblock with their 2 cars as Hopper drives his girlfriend to her mother's house, the cars stop with one on one side of the yellow line, and the other stops with the steering wheel over the line. The camera angle changes, and now both cars are neatly, evenly positioned, with their engines sitting over the line. (00:02:05)

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Father to the Prof - S1-E28

Continuity mistake: At the start of the episode when Vinnie and Rocket search for Gabby's pet badger, after updating her, Vinnie goes back into his bedroom where Rocket is seen in the room pulling out a pirate's peg leg, Professor Q's "oscilloradioscope", and a baking soda volcano from behind his back. However, for about a frame, the other 2 items were also peg legs before turning into the respective item. His mouth also tilts between frames. (00:00:25)

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