Continuity mistake: When the Hulk throws the tire during his second transformation, the first shot shows a horizontal trajectory but the second shot shows a 45 degree angle trajectory, which makes the tire land much further than expected.
The Incredible Hulk (1978)
Starring: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Michael Santiago
Never Give a Trucker an Even Break - S1-E9
Continuity mistake: There is a scene where the female trucker is driving her truck and she intentionally hits a brown car. The problem is that she had already passed by this brown car a few seconds ago when David was getting into her truck through the window.
Another Path - S2-E7
Continuity mistake: When the old Asian lady is hitting the Hulk using a wooden spoon, he is wearing brown pants. After escaping through the window, the Hulk is seen running on the street wearing blue jeans. But for the rest of his transformation he is wearing brown pants again.
Trivia: Ted Cassidy, best known for his role as Lurch in the hit TV series "The Addams Family", did the opening narration for the show as well as the vocal effects for the Hulk. Sadly, Ted Cassidy died during production of Season 2. The Hulk's vocal effects were then done by actor Charles Napier for the rest of the show. Ted Cassidy's voice was still used for the opening narrations of all seasons.
Trivia: Executive Producer Kenneth Johnson wanted to have the Hulk's skin color be red instead of green. His explanation was that red represented anger and green represented jealousy. When telling Stan Lee, creator of The Incredible Hulk about this, Stan Lee said that the Hulk's skin color was green and had to stay green.
Trivia: Bill Bixby refused to let his son watch the show as he was concerned his son would be scared seeing his father change into a green creature.
David Banner: Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
David Banner: I love you, Elaina. I think you loved me too. Although you never said it.
Question: In this version of the character, why is he named David Banner instead of Bruce Banner?
Homecoming - S3-E8
Question: What did David's mother die from?
Answer: An illness, although it's never stated what kind of illness. David blames his dad for her death because his father never took her to the hospital. So in all likelihood, her illness was never diagnosed anyways and David might not even have known what it was.
Question: Why was the Hulk never called the Hulk, and who was he accused of killing?
Answer: The Hulk is accused of killing Dr. David Banner and Dr. Elenia Marks. After the lab explodes, McGee sees the Hulk emerge carrying the body of Dr. Marks, so he assumed the creature is guilty. It was McGee who caused the explosion. After following the trail of evidence of the Hulk to the lab, he hides when David and Elania arrive. In a darkened storage closet, he knocks over a bottle of flammable liquid. He confronts them, then is forced to leave by Banner, who says, "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry." When Banner reenters the lab, it explodes, caused by the Hulk when it went on a rampage trashing the lab, causing many electrical systems to catch fire, thus igniting the flammable liquid.
Answer: The phrase "Incredible Hulk" is coined by Jack McGee in one of his tabloid articles. He's trying to find proof of the Hulk because no one takes his story seriously, so probably nobody takes his name for the creature seriously either.
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Chosen answer: Bruce has always been the character's middle name. In the comics he is Robert Bruce Banner, here he is David Bruce Banner. Apparently the executives behind the show preferred the name David.