Factual error: In the Army or Military it is mandatory that the name tag is worn the same as the Dress Tan/Green/Blue and must be worn in either configuration. Ribbons are worn the same as the Dress Tan/Green/Blue. Special Skill Badges, Distinctive Unit Insignia (Unit Crest) are also worn the same. Rob and everyone else in the army was not wearing a name tag in any of the episodes.
Liz Blue 1970
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Character mistake: Rob tells the people that are about to get on the elevator "my wife is expecting a baby!" In all the other episodes where "she's expecting a baby" as well... No change in stomach size at all! Not a single sign of pregnancy... (After 12-16 weeks it starts to show that the baby is there.) Even before Richie was born, still flat as a pancake.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards - S3-E18
Character mistake: While Rob, Laura, Buddy, Jerry and Millie are telling Sally what happened before and during the poker game Laura says "We should have played charades!" Yet she didn't actually say that... Rob said it. Jerry insisted they play poker anyways.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
The Life and Love of Joe Coogan - S3-E17
Other mistake: Rob is discussing the box of love letters with Laura she tells him "they're by the furnace!" Rob tells her "there's no shoe box by that furnace." Laura tells him "they're right behind some loose bricks" well when we see the basement... There's no furnace or bricks anywhere to be seen.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Stupidity: Laura is shrieking, shouting and yelling. Rob is breathing things during the "night." But Richie never wakes up ever during the time it's dark "outside." However in other episodes Richie comes running in complaining about how loud everyone is. Real life if someone is shrieking or screaming us humans would be scrambling to find out what all is going on.
13th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Laura tells Rob "oh you don't smoke!" But in several (double digit) episodes Rob not only has a lighter but also a cigarette in his hand or mouth. One episode while he and Laura are illegally about to eavesdrop he puts out the cigarette on the speaker causing the speaker to turn on and they start eavesdropping again.
10th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: That mirror behind Rob at the hotel in their room has fog (condensation) on it which means that the humidity there in "Mexico" is really really high or it's over 100°F in their room with humidity or unless it was raining inside their room, the window behind the bed is perfectly clear. (Real life that mirror would not be all foggy.) Also Rob, Laura and the hotel guy would have been sweating up a storm if it was really really hot out there. Which it wasn't. (00:13:52)
10th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Deliberate mistake: While Rob is on his honeymoon, as well as 3 day pass, things like that, Rob still wears his army outfit. Yet in real life us real humans wouldn't be wearing the same clothes every time we were out. We would go home and change.
10th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Factual error: Rob and Laura went on only 1 honeymoon back in episode "Honeymoons Are for the Lucky" (while Rob and Laura are in Missouri, at a hotel less than 1 hour away from Camp Crowder) yet in this Alimony episode Rob and Laura say they were in Texas but went to Mexico for their only honeymoon.
9th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Revealing mistake: If Rob and Laura actually did dye their hands not only would their hands be black but so would their wedding rings. Also, while Laura is "using water" on her hands you can tell she wasn't using water or soap because her hands aren't wet and there isn't any soap to be seen at all... You only see the dish rag. (Same for when Rob does the same thing later on). (00:06:07)
9th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Continuity mistake: The guy yelling about asking to see people that work in the office building in this episode gets told several times "no they aren't in". He sprints away from the desk with briefcase in hand, he's past Rob on the other side of the room. When they cut back to the lady you still see the guy's music transcripts and his brief case on the lady's desk still in his hand. (00:21:17)
9th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: After Lyle gives back Rob and Laura's watch's and the $51, Rob doesn't get his ring back.
9th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Other mistake: Rob mentions Buzzy Potter to Sally and Buddy as if they knew him. Rob and Laura did the Army stuff way before working on the Alan Brady show. Also, there was no mention of Buzzy Potter anywhere else in the series. There for Sally and Buddy wouldn't have known Buzzy, but Millie would have known him.
9th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Continuity mistake: Laura's parents aren't the same parents she had in "What's In a Middle Name" - different names & completely different actors.
8th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Honeymoons Are for the Lucky - S3-E22
Continuity mistake: In this episode and "Will You Two Be My Wife?" the captain's offices are completely different and the captains are also not the same.
8th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Honeymoons Are for the Lucky - S3-E22
Other mistake: Rob is in Captain Lebost's office. Rob has already said that Laura accepted his proposal weeks ago and they got married 2 weeks ago, and he asked for 1 3-day pass. Yet in "Will You Two Be My Wife?" he says he asks for 2 3-day passes so he could go get married.
6th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
A Nice, Friendly Game of Cards - S3-E18
Other mistake: With the way everyone was holding their cards, there is no way Rob could have been reading the back of everyone's cards.
6th Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
A Surprise Surprise Is a Surprise - S2-E30
Factual error: Buddy asked Sally "why haven't you had a birthday...?" Yet a few episodes ago (Season 1 Episode "Where you been, Fassbinder?") Sally had a birthday she cried and cried. Buddy and Pickles, Rob and Laura were all there.
2nd Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Factual error: Alan Brady and Mell's offices are a few floors up. Yet Rob, Buddy and Sally's office window shows that they are way higher up than Alan and Mell's office - you do not see the roof tops of buildings anywhere from Alans and Mell's offices.
1st Oct 2020
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961)
Factual error: Talking to the lawyers, parties, or witnesses about anything. This will give the impression that something unfair is going on. And is also illegal. Which Rob was doing during this whole episode.
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