Other mistake: The score board says Huskies 16, Visitors 14, with 16 seconds left on the football game. But the story is that Eve, who is the kicker for the Huskies, kicks the winning field goal. The Huskies are already winning. (00:10:00)
Continuity mistake: The scarf in Mandy's hands instantly disappears as she shows Vanessa her latest clothing design.
Continuity mistake: About halfway through the show, Vanessa repeatedly closes the cap on the thermos, 7-8 times.
Other mistake: As Ed and Kyle are leaving Ed's office, Ed reaches over and puts his hand on the light switch to turn off the lights. The lights go off, Ed moves his hand away, but the position of the switch never changes. (00:11:10)
Other mistake: Mike Baxter's green pickup truck is shown parked at Outdoor Man, yet in this episode he and his truck were home, waiting with Chuck and Ryan for Boyd to come home from school.
Continuity mistake: The paper pumpkin decoration instantly moves from Ed's right to his left while tells the employee to go back to the loading dock.
The Dad Hat - S5-E7
Other mistake: When Ed picks up the pen, the clothes off picture is supposedly shown when the button on the pen is facing towards the ceiling, but when Kyle picks it up, the clothes off picture is when the button is facing towards the carpet.
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Mike is talking about the rubber bands around lobster claw, he takes his hands off the counter to mime the claw and Vanessa is touching him. In the next shot his hands are immediately on the counter.
Continuity mistake: Ryan puts the salmon on the loading dock near the cat food, inside the warehouse, and leaves. When the bear walks out though, it's gone, platter and all.
Where There's Smoke, There's Ire - S6-E3
Continuity mistake: After Vanessa is finished smoking and tries to cover up the smell, she stuffs a dryer sheet down her blouse when Mike walks in. The amount of the dryer sheet sticking out changes throughout the scene.
Continuity mistake: The fork on Mandy's breakfast plate keeps changing positions as the shots change.
Continuity mistake: When Mike and Mandy go into the run down sub shop, Mike is starting to close the door. In the next shot of Mandy, we see the door is closed. But after that, the door is wide open.
Factual error: During the switching of scenes, when visiting where Mike 1st began, it shows a marathon gas station in the background. There are no marathon gas stations West of the Mississippi river.
Continuity mistake: The sandwich Mike makes changes after he cuts it, you can tell the lettuce is different. And in the last shot, the sandwich flips in his hand; he was holding it so the lettuce was on the bottom and in the last shot it's on top.
Continuity mistake: While Kyle and Mike speak in Kyle's late mother's trailer, Mike's hands instantly switch from being on his hips to clasped behind his back.
Continuity mistake: When the guys are around the table talking about the car, Mike is holding the pictures. It cuts to his hands being empty and then back to him holding the picture and back to being empty.
Other mistake: Whenever Mike is shown facetiming with Mandy, Chuck and other characters, the image on the screen in which he appears remains perfectly still, showing that his interactions were filmed with a steadicam and not his smart phone.
Continuity mistake: When Vanessa and Mike are talking about Vanessa dropping out of the race, there is some pasta and rice on the counter. The rice keeps switching from being in front of the pasta to behind the pasta.
Deliberate mistake: When Tim Taylor is telling Mike about his show "Tool Time," he mentions that it lasted for 8 years. Later in the episode when Mike is asking Tim why he stopped doing the show, Tim says it's because he found it challenging to keep the show great and not run out of ideas. Firstly, while Home Improvement ran for 8 years, the show within the show of "Tool Time" was already a couple years old when Home Improvement started, as evidenced by the fact that its season 3 episode "Fifth Anniversary" was about "Tool Time" celebrating its 5th anniversary, as the title suggests. Additionally, Tim didn't quit "Tool Time" for the reasons he stated here. He spontaneously quit over creative differences with Binford's new president, who was turning the show into a sensationalist Jerry Springer type of format, and because his wife Jill had just been given a job in Indiana, and he decided the family would move there to support her.
Character mistake: When Ryan is recreating the chess game he and Mandy played, he has the chessboard setup incorrectly. He has the dark square on the lower right corner when it should be the white square. He was a junior grand master and would know better, especially since he had the board set up correctly when they were playing.
