Visible crew/equipment: While BJ's holding Peg's letter and telling Hawkeye about being homesick and depressed, the edge of the Swamp set can be seen at the top, left corner of the screen.
Super Grover
20th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
20th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Hawkeye and BJ are in the showers and Margaret steals their towels and clothes, the duo head back to the Swamp naked, but we can see the top of whatever Hawkeye's wearing.
20th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Klinger's in Colonel Potter's office wearing the fur coat and rubber reducing suit, just as Potter says, "This one is definitely in the running," we can see the shadow of the boom mic shaking up and down on the wall, at the left side of the screen.
20th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Peace on Us - S7-E2
Visible crew/equipment: When Radar gets off the phone with the guard at Panmunjom and tells Colonel Potter and BJ that Hawkeye's gone on ahead, at the start of the next shot we can see the back of the soundstage set at the top, right side of the screen. And notice that Hawkeye's and the guards' voices are echoey on the soundstage in this shot.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Peace on Us - S7-E2
Continuity mistake: When Hawkeye, Charles, and BJ are in the Swamp, Hawkeye starts his roll about being sick of green, and by the time he heads outside and talks to Margaret the blood splatter on his surgical gown changes.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Peace on Us - S7-E2
Revealing mistake: When Colonel Potter's in the Swamp telling Hawkeye, BJ, and Charles that surgeons' rotation points have increased from 36 to 45 Hawkeye becomes incensed, and in these two shots from this angle we can see the edge of the Swamp set at the top, left corner of the screen.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: After Margaret tells Hawkeye that he ran the siege pretty well then salutes him, when it cuts to BJ returning to camp with the wounded GI, the boom mic dips into view at the top of the screen.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Revealing mistake: When Margaret whistles for the "third wave" she places Winchester's French horn on the ground, and there are three shots facing the jeep as it closes in on the horn - in the first two shots the horn's normal, but in the last shot the horn's already semi-squashed before the jeep even runs over it.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While in the mess tent, after Margaret's grossed out by the smell and walks away we hear Charles start playing again, and when Colonel Potter says, "Just make sure the three of you work this out fast," in this shot we can see the actor's T-mark on the floor between Potter and Hawkeye, where Margaret stood a moment ago.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Comrades in Arms: Part 2 - S6-E13
Visible crew/equipment: While Margaret and Hawkeye are hiding under the mat, just as the armed North Korean collapses to the floor the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible on the wall.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Colonel Potter surprises everybody with his "little Olympics" idea in the mess tent, after Margaret comments, "I just know I'm not going to have anything left for Donald," at the start of the next shot the boom mic casts a very quick moving shadow on BJ.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: While Colonel Potter has everyone gathered in the mess tent to surprise them with his "little Olympics" idea, the studio soundstage is visible at the top, left side of the screen.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Trivia: While Hawkeye, Radar, and BJ are in General Dickering's jeep, when they meet up with some GIs on the road Hawkeye asks them, "Anybody here from Maine?" and one answers that he's from Vermont, to which Hawkeye responds, "Close, but no cigar." What's funny is that earlier in the series Hawkeye has said that he's from Vermont not Maine.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Radar leaves the message with Stevens for Hawkeye's friend on the Essex, it cuts to Klinger removing a nut from the jeep and he's holding the wrench with his thumb at the top, but next shot he's holding the wrench the opposite way.
18th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Other mistake: When Hawkeye finds the New York Times Crossword he says, "1 down, four letters..." and "1 across...four letters..." and BJ's answers are "chap" and "cast" but in the shot of the newspaper puzzle we see that both "1 down" and "1 across" are actually five letters each, not four.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Visible crew/equipment: When Margaret listens in on Frank's phone conversation with his wife, Margaret throws a chair at him and storms out of the office, and after she calls Frank a chinless chipmunk a boom mic dips into view at the top, left corner of the screen.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Dear Mildred - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: When Colonel Potter's in his office finishing up his letter to Mildred, right before Margaret, Frank, and the others walk in, the things on his desk change their positions between shots - such as the paper tray moving from Potter's left to the right side of his desk.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Dear Mildred - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: The injured horse that Radar, BJ, and Hawkeye go after, and who's later gifted to Colonel Potter, is played by different horses.
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Hawkeye and Radar leave the 4077 in the jeep, the last three numbers on the hood are "717" but when they get to Kimpo it's a different serial number ending in "388."
15th Nov 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Continuity mistake: When Radar and Hawkeye leave the 4077, the jeep they're in has its windshield in the fold-down position over the hood, but in the two shots from behind Hawkeye and Radar when they see the checkpoint up ahead and Hawkeye speeds up, the windshield has vanished and there's a star on the hood.
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