Friends

Correction: Actually, he calls her Cheryl both times, which is the correct name of the character played by Rebecca Romijn.

Correction: The actual scene where Chandler gets the news of his parents divorce was not seen in that flashback. In the scene, Mrs. Bing says "Just because your father and I are getting a divorce...", indicating they already told him.

Brad

The Last One (2) - S10-E20

Corrected entry: In the airport Ross says "I really thought she'd stay". After he says this when the camera zooms out the cut between the carpet and the set floor is very visible. (00:19:50)

Correction: This is not a mistake; terminals are set up this way, carpeted at the gate and tiled in the walkways.

The One With Monica's Thunder - S7-E1

Corrected entry: From the start of Series 7 (and for the next 2 series' at least) does anyone else notice the change in Matthew Perry's voice? I've searched to see if anyone else has mentioned it and as far as I can tell, no one has, but to me it's very obvious. I'm not sure I can explain it too well, but there's just something in his voice that changed (the tone of it and overall sound); it sounds like a different person talking.

Correction: Matthew Perry stopped smoking during the run of the series. He apparently was a very heavy smoker. This most likely accounts for the change in his voice. In any case, this isn't a 'mistake' in the first place.

Brenda Elzin

Correction: This simply does not occur. Joey is never in the background during this scene. He is always located in front of Chandler and only laughs when Chandler makes the "magic" comment once.

Correction: There is a fairly long shot of Monica between the actions. So she could pick it up in that time.

Ssiscool

Correction: This is a bit vauge. Most of the episode is set in Monica's apartent so what part of the episode.

Ssiscool

Correction: That's what she is referring to - the tiny bit of hair on his top lip really doesn't make a mustache.

Ssiscool

Correction: You see him stand up. No mistake.

Ssiscool

Correction: Too vague, where do they appear?

Ssiscool

Correction: At no point does this happen. I have just watched this episode.

Ssiscool

Correction: I just watched this episode and they don't double in size.

Ssiscool

The One With All The Thanksgivings - S5-E8

Corrected entry: In the scene where Phoebe is describing her worst Thanksgiving experience (in 1862 as a nurse) and her left hand is blown away, you can see that the hand is fake as it doesn't move, is shorter and is a different color to the right one. Additionally, in the time between the bomb exploding and her hand being torn away, a rope is visible moving it.

Correction: Yes, that's the point, the arm does look obviously fake, and just look at the way blood spurts out, it looks deliberately cheesy. Arms don't just fall off like that either. It is just a funny scene. The writers had no intention of it being taken seriously.

Correction: Many base unit models have number key pads and also a redial key.

Super Grover

Correction: She is not looking for the position of the plate, she is looking to see what she can get better leverage on.

Ssiscool

The One After Joey And Rachel Kiss - S10-E1

Corrected entry: In Rachel's hotel room, there is a door on the left of the wall that joins onto Monica and Chandler's room. Due to the layout of the rooms, the only place it could lead to is Monica and Chandler's room. However, when Ross is talking to Rachel and she's looking for Joey, she walks through this door and has a quick look around. Surely she would see Joey in there, or at least Monica, Chandler and Phoebe and ask if they knew where Joey was?

Correction: The door that leads to Monica and Chandler's room is on the right of Rachel's bed - we see Joey get dragged through it, and the camera pans "through" it shortly afterwards, when all the friends are listening to Ross and Rachel. Rachel looks through a door which is on the far left of the bed; this is presumably the bathroom. Rather bizarre it doesn't occur to Rachel that Joey might have just gone through the other door, but she's never been the brightest woman.

Show generally

Corrected entry: Matthew Perry was so famous for missing his mark while taping that he developed the backward slide that you see him do in almost every show. He would come bounding into his scene slide backwards looking down for his mark and then hit it. (Per the tour guide at Warner Brothers Studio).

Boobra

Correction: Matthew Perry has never done a backwards slide on Friends.

Brad

Correction: That's an item hanging on the wall behind her.

Brad

The One With The Red Sweater - S8-E2

Corrected entry: Chandler and Ross go back to the reception site to take pictures with disposable cameras to "replace" the cameras they had misplaced. Chandler is posing, smiling, etc. In the previous season, Chandler and Monica are getting their engagement picture taken and Chandler can't smile for the camera. In fact, Monica ends up taking her picture with Joey and puts that in the paper.

Correction: That is previously. Chandler could have learnt to smile in that time. Not a mistake.

Ssiscool

Correction: When Rachel and Mark are talking, Monica picks up a pitcher of water and you can see her reach for Rachel's glass. So, she is refilling it, that's why it's not there for a while.

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The One With Ross's Teeth - S6-E8

Monica: What happened to your teeth?
Ross: I whitened them.
Chandler: Really?
Ross: Yeah, what... What do you think?
Monica: Well, uh, I think I shouldn't look directly at them.
Ross: Come on, seriously.
Monica: Ross, they're really, really, really white!
Chandler: Yeah, what was wrong with your old... Human teeth?
Ross: Well, I did leave the gel on a little longer than it said to.
Monica: How much longer?
Ross: Uh, uh... A day.
Monica: Ross, you know that tonight is your date with Hillary?
Ross: I know! That's why I did it! Come on, are they really that bad?
Chandler: No. No, no, no, you'll be fine. Hilary's blind, right?
Monica: She will be after tonight.

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Trivia: The Magna-doodle on the door in the boys apartment has a different picture on it every episode. There is usually some tenuous connection between the picture and the plot of the episode.

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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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