Friends

The One With The Soap Opera Party - S9-E20

Corrected entry: Rachel was able to materialise a pair of chopsticks at the soap opera party, pending Ross' comment on how he imitated a woolly mammoth to Charlie, even though they were at a wine table with no food or cutlery near by, neither did she leave the conversation to find some.

Correction: Ross used chop sticks at the restaurant, but Rachel uses pink straws at the party. Considering that they are standing by the drinks it's quite believable that she found straws.

Correction: Character error. And quite in keeping with Joey's character.

CocoCami

The One with the Butt - S1-E6

Corrected entry: In the scene with Joey in the shower the camera cuts several times from Joey to the director. During this scene look to the background (behind the director) and you will see boxes which are marked with the name 'Monica'.

Correction: Monica Geller is not the only Monica in Friends world. They could have been filled with things belonging to a character in the movie by that name.

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Corrected entry: In the first season, the number of years Ross was married to Carol changes from four to seven, and then over the course of the rest of the show, the number finally lands on six.

Correction: Ross never claims to have been married to Carol for seven years, he says they were together for seven years. Three years they dated, four they were married.

Correction: The empty glass seen in the sideways shot is the one in front of Chandler; it remains empty in both front & side shots. Monica's glass is behind & partly obscured by it in the side shot.

Correction: The empty cup is from the place setting beside Chandler, at the end of the table. Both Monica and Chandler's glasses remain half full in each shot.

Correction: Perhaps that is the reason, but it is not a mistake within the context of the scene that he would put coats in her lap. Therefore it's trivia at best, but not a mistake.

The One With the List - S2-E8

Corrected entry: When Ross shows Rachel Julie's 'Con' list, he appears to turn over the paper and show Rachel the other side - but his deskjet-type printer would not print on both sides without him having reinserted the paper, which he doesn't.

Correction: Ross didn't turn the paper over. He just points at the side of the page with Julie's con list. The paper never leaves Rachel's hand.

Correction: I don't see it as a mistake that someone who has just gone through a break up might have other things on their mind, and therefore forget to pick up their shopping bags.

pinkwafer

The One Without The Ski Trip - S3-E17

Corrected entry: When the five of them are at the rest stop, Joey manages to get the cab door open. When Phoebe starts to reverse the car, you can tell the cab hasn't broke down as you can see the brake lights come on. No lights were on when the cab started moving. (00:11:10)

Correction: The car has run out of petrol but still has electrical power so the brake lights will operate. Phoebe starts the car and when it stops she put her foot on the brake. I don't see any mistake.

tw_stuart

The One With The Ultimate Fighting Champion - S3-E24

Corrected entry: Near the end when Chandler is in a meeting, Stevens comes back later because he forgot his suitcase. If you look carefully, he picks up his suitcase and then puts it back down on the table on purpose. Also, when he leaves the room, you can see him turn around and hide out of shot waiting for his cue to come back in. (00:20:15)

Correction: Stevens is making an excuse to come back in because he wants the boss to spank him. All his actions are deliberate.

tw_stuart

Correction: No magic. If you watch Chandler after he changed and loses the chair to Joey, you'll notice he's not fully dressed. In the rest of the scene (when Monica is playing the message) you can see him buttoning his vest and holding his bowtie.

The One With The Yeti - S5-E6

Corrected entry: When Emily calls Ross at the end of the show and asks to be put on speaker phone, Ross agrees but he hangs up the phone, then presses the speaker phone button. You must turn on the speaker phone option before setting down the phone. Emily and the gang should not have been able to speak to each other because Ross hung up on her.

Mark English

Correction: As she called him, the line would stay connected until she hung up (I work in telecommunications), had he called her, he would have indeed hung up on her.

Correction: Monica puts the glass into her right hand, this can be clealy seen in the next shot of Monica.

panda

The One With The Cake - S10-E4

Corrected entry: When Joey tries to get Ross' parents to share their birthday gift for Emma with him, Ross' father says: "Which one are you?" As well as having met him many times before, the only other options of who he could be is Ross, his own son or Chandler, his daughter's husband.

Correction: Certainly not a movie mistake to have a character forget who someone is. Some people are not good with names and faces.

tw_stuart

Correction: It's hypothetical, Chandler is mocking his own inability to show emotion by saying that *if* they get married then he'll be standing long faced at the alter. Lots of couples talk about being married well before a proposal is made.

tw_stuart

The One With Phoebe's Wedding - S10-E12

Corrected entry: Isn't is strange how normally there is a busy street/road outside the coffee house, but during Phoebe's wedding ceremony, which we can see takes place directly outside it, it appears to be more like an open area of land? The wedding could never have taken place in the middle of a road (even if the roads were quiet because of the blizzard) but also the setting of her wedding is very dissimilar to the normal setting outside the coffee house.

Correction: It's already made clear that this is the worst blizzard for many years and the road outside Central Perk has never been the busiest so using the road is far from impossible. Secondly the view outside is unrecognisable both because we've never seen it from that angle and because it's covered in snow.

tw_stuart

Correction: She could have got it before Joey bought them all. Or even bought it from another store.

dgemba dgemba

Correction: This scene does not pick up right where it left off, they are now all in the kitchen when they were in the living room before. Also if you watch carefully right when the scene begins you can see Chandler finish tying his bowtie, thus explaining why he has his tie on now and not before.

Show generally

Corrected entry: Every time, when a shot from outside is shown, showing Monica's building, then turning to show Ross' one, we can see that there's a street in the middle. However, when we see Monica's apartment, inside, and we see the balcony (and being Ross' one in front of this one) we see that there's no street in the middle of these ones, there are more buildings around them.

Correction: Monica's windows overlook an alley that shows Ross' building across an alleyway, as evidenced by the fire escape (that also is not visible from the street.) You cannot see Monica's apartment while looking at the building from the street.

MovieFan612

Correction: Well this is incorrect because when Rachel breaks up with Paulo, she throws his clothes off the "balcony" which we see from the front of the building. I think the set guys slightly messed up here.

The One With Ross's Grant - S10-E6

Corrected entry: Monica seems shocked when she sees Gladys, as if she's never seen her before. However, if you carefully examine the flashback scene in Monica's apartment in TOW All The Resolutions, you can see Gladys hanging up in the apartment to the left of the door (from the camera). Therefore, Monica has already had Gladys in her apartment, and therefore would probably not be surprised that Phoebe has it.

Correction: She's shocked because she has seen her before and hoped to never see her again. That's clear from the rest of the story.

tw_stuart

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Kathy: So, what did you do today?
Chandler: Well, I had an appointment to get my hair cut...
Kathy: Oh, it looks great!
Chandler: ...and then it got cancelled.

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The One With the Sharks - S9-E4

Question: What's the name of the "scary painting" that Joey saw in the apartment of the girl he thought he'd slept with before? The strange and creepy painting (black and white, with an amorphous body and a chair). I really, really want to know who is the artist. Not Gladys - that's Phoebe's painting that comes out of the frame.

David Cañedo Mesinas

Answer: The painting doesn't have a name, and if it does it is never mentioned in this episode.

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