Character mistake: Or continuity: When Ricky enters the Mertz's apartment, waking everyone up, little Ricky starts crying in the crib, and Ricky moves closer and accidentally says, 'Why is she awake?' instead of 'he,' as his own baby daughter Lucie was almost 2 at the time.
pgsgrad16
24th Jan 2025
I Love Lucy (1951)
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Suggested correction: The issue was due to his accent; several times during the course of the show, when Rickey said "he," it sounded like "she."
2nd Jan 2025
I Love Lucy (1951)
Character mistake: After Ethel chooses the ladies who'll play instruments for their own orchestra, Fred enters the Ricardo apartment with muffs over his ears as off-key plucky piano is heard in the background, indicating Ethel is playing very badly, when in all prior episodes she played fluently for any of their show warm-up numbers.
25th Nov 2024
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Character mistake: As Preston is calling Sully on the sheriff situation, Loren enters, brandishing a new rifle to Preston, almost right over the baby's carriage. No way in tomorrow would Dr Mike or Sully have allowed this to happen, but have aimed the firearm in another direction, or at least Sully move in front, away from the baby's carriage.
27th May 2024
The Waltons (1972)
Character mistake: When Rev. Andy visits Elizabeth at the bridge to talk, the buttons of his shirt are too far down, revealing his chest hairs, which would be most inappropriate for a minister.
10th Mar 2024
I Love Lucy (1951)
The Adagio - S1-E12
Character mistake: Lucy turns in for the night in full makeup and lipstick, instead of washing up.
6th Jan 2024
Family Affair (1966)
Family in Paradise: Part 1 - S4-E25
Character mistake: The hunky male tour guide compliments Cissy on her brown hair when she's an obvious redhead.
28th Jun 2023
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
Character mistake: Loren mistakenly calls each pitch at the batter's mound a strike, when that is when a pitch is out of batting mounds, or the batter misses. A ball is when the batter ignores the pitch or doesn't make a swing.
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Suggested correction: A player doesn't have to swing for a pitch to be a strike. He called them correctly.
Well unless I've missed something over the years in baseball... and Loren's obvious confusion on what to call... when a batter remains stationary during a pitch, that is a standard all-out ball. When the batter moves or swings and misses the pitch, it is a strike.
His initial hesitation had nothing to do with it being a bad call. And yes, you've missed a lot over the years. A batter can move or even check swing and still the pitch could be called a ball. When a batter remains stationary, that doesn't change a strike into a ball just because he didn't swing or attempt to swing. The poem "Casey at the Bat" is all about him not swinging on the first two pitches, and they were both called strikes.
26th Jan 2023
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Shock Waves - S11-E1
Character mistake: When Sarah enters the lab with the bagged microchip, she tells Greg and the other CSI that she got it from Doc Robbins, when it was Super Dave who'd found it during autopsy.
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Suggested correction: Sarah is standing beside Dr. Robbins when he finds the SIM card within what's left of Officer Clark's chest cavity, during autopsy (timecode 00:19:35). Dave wasn't even near Clark, he was with the corpses of Officers Morales and Hooper.
28th Jul 2022
Three's Company (1977)
Character mistake: When Jack is tending bar, the one woman states margaritas don't include tequila, when it's the primary liquor.
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Suggested correction: This is from s02e10, "Stanley Casanova." However, she doesn't say margarita, she says daiquiri, which is what Jack made with tequila. Daiquiris don't contain tequila but typically rum.
19th Jul 2022
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Character mistake: Brass tells Dream (pleasure services girl) that whacking 'Happy Morales' with a tire iron - which contributed to his death - is open grounds for assault and murder-1 on her. When it was purely a self-defense act, that any of the girls would have taken against a psychotic, oversexualized maniac, in such sexual assault. Whether it be a tire iron, or other heavy-duty object to dispel a perp.
8th Jun 2022
The Magnificent Seven (1998)
Character mistake: When the gang is watering the horses, Chris walks over to meet Mary's man friend (whom she introduces as an old friend of the family) and the mystery man tells Chris that he'd proposed to Mary long before 'Frank' when Mary's late husband was Steve.
28th Apr 2022
Striptease (1996)
Character mistake: At the boat when the two bodyguards frisk Shag, he fakes a gay yelp and then walks away with Erin. You can see the one guard on the right, try not to break (crack up) as they walk away.
1st Aug 2021
Earthquake (1974)
Character mistake: Remy is Sam's daughter despite that they look the same age.
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Suggested correction: This would be trivia at best. Characters are often older or younger than the actors portraying them. Greene being less than 8 years older than Gardner in real life isn't a mistake.
1st Aug 2021
Earthquake (1974)
Character mistake: Near the beginning, Denise tells Stuart she has two small scenes in a movie, but then moments later tells him it is one whole scene.
26th May 2021
The Accused (1988)
Character mistake: As the prosecuting DA finishes his statement about Kenneth Joyce to the Jury, he tampers with the Jury by assuring them they won't believe Joyce's witness testimony. And somehow the judge does not catch this or ignores it completely.
25th Nov 2020
The Music Man (1962)
Character mistake: When Marian is correcting Amaryllis for the girls' poor grammar in saying "can I" instead of "may I" over the cross-hand piece, the girl then asks if she can go play that cross-hand piece and Marian replies, "now you can play your cross-hand piece."
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