Charmed

Charmed (1998)

27 corrected entries in season 3

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Correction: Piper was trying to freeze only innocents.

Correction: It is never stated that Cole cleared out the apartment he wouldn't have had time to do such a thing or even cared enough. I doubt the landlord would've discovered the alter it was hidden.

The Honeymoon's Over - S3-E1

Corrected entry: Piper reminds her sisters that when they visited the future, she and Leo were married. The episode in question is 2-2: "Reality Bites," and in that episode, Piper and Leo were not married, but divorced. So it doesn't make much sense for Piper to cite that as evidence that marriage might be the right path for her and Leo.

DavidK93

Correction: In "Reality Bites," the point in the future that the girls visit is a while after Piper and Leo had gotten divorced, but in order to get divorced, you must get married first, and as Leo even states in that episode, they were happily married for at least a little while, until the whole mess with Phoebe occurred. Therefore it is logical for Piper to believe that were it not for the damage done by the girls' use of magic for personal gain (which was remedied when they were sent back and chose not to go down that path), her and Leo could have a happy marriage.

Pre-Witched - S3-E17

Corrected entry: Kit the cat shows up in Something Wicca This Way Comes (Episode 1,1), as the girls' familiar once they have received their powers. It is obvious that the cat just showed up by comments made by the girls, along the lines of "where did this cat come from" (not literally). However, in Pre-Witched (Episode 3,17), they make the same kinds of comments about Kit just showing up in this episode, which is supposed to have happened 6 months before Episode 1,1.

Charlemagne

Correction: It's 6 months apart. A cat showing up once and then again 6 months later isn't cause for mistake. Simply explained through forgetting.

Once Upon a Time - S3-E3

Corrected entry: The only way any of the charmed ones can see the fairies is with the fairy dust, but in several other later seasons and episodes when the charmed ones need the magical community's help they can see the fairies without any help from fairy dust or a spell.

Correction: Originally they didn't know or believe that fairies and trolls existed so they needed the fairy dust or a spell to regain their innocence so they could see them, in later seasons they know they exist so no longer need anything to help them see them.

Correction: Wasn't it proven that Victor was lying to the sisters in the "Thank You for Not Morphing" episode when he said the didn't know about their powers? He is constantly lying to them in the "Thank You for Not Morphing" episode. When the sisters went back in time in the Nicolas episode, the girls still had their powers and that was after Victor had already left, so he had to know about them.

Correction: This was explained by Grams that Prue was busy, in other words she is letting the living sisters move on with their life and Prue is getting use to being dead.

Wrestling with Demons - S3-E12

Corrected entry: When Piper answers the cordless phone in the kitchen, there is a closeup of the phone ringing on its base. The phone and base unit are both white, but when the camera angle changes to show Piper answering the phone, the handset she holds to her ear has now changed to black.

jbdelatta

Correction: The phone and base are both black - the answering machine next to it is white.

We All Scream for Ice Cream - S3-E10

Corrected entry: When Prue and Phoebe first enter the ice-cream van, we are told that their powers don't work in this dimension, but a few minutes later, Phoebe gets a premonition from the swingset - if their powers really didn't work, she wouldn't have been able to.

Shay

Correction: Prue's telekinesis does not work against the ice-cream man because hers is an active power; one that works outside the mind of the Witch who is using the power. Phoebe was able to get a premonition because her power was passive; it only works in her mind as she's the only one who actually sees her premonitions. Had Phoebe tried, she would not have been able to levitate whilst inside the ice-cream truck.

The Honeymoon's Over - S3-E1

Corrected entry: In the beginning, Prue and Phoebe are in the alleyway and they kill The Guardian with a sharp object to The Guardian's rune. The bad guy, Emilio, is lying unconscious on the top of the dumpster. A few scenes later, Phoebe and Prue are discussing why they should or should not help Cole prosecute, and Prue says something along the lines of, "And Emilio saw us use our powers". Since Emilio was unconscious, he could not have seen them use their powers.

Charlemagne

Correction: Prue actually used her power to throw him on top of the dumpster in the first place, so he did see her use it before he was knocked unconscious.

Correction: They don't actually go to the past. They go to an alternate realm/plane where the inhabitants are forced to relive the same time and events over and over because they keep making the same 'wrong' choices.

Correction: At one time there was no way to vanquish Belthazar, but later at some point in time, a vanquishing potion was found and then added to the book. Since the book is written by many generations of the Halliwell family, it seems rather likely that a witch of the family found a way to do it.

Bride and Gloom - S3-E13

Corrected entry: The evil priestess steals the "Book of Shadows". After the sisters find her and vanquish her, they return home. The next scene shows them walking up to the attic (having just arrived home), but none of the sisters have the "Book of Shadows" with them.

Correction: Prue carries the book back into the attic. The first shot has them all entering, then it cuts to Prue up close. Before the shot switches to just Prue, we see Prue put the book on the table to her right. It's very quick, but it's there.

All Halliwell's Eve - S3-E4

Corrected entry: When the sisters first time travelled, and they hid in the bushes, the girls were standing next to each other, but in the next shot, they were standing behind each other, then they went back to standing beside each other.

Correction: The camera angle that was on them made it look like they were behind each other but they were still standing next too each other.

Stephen Edmonds 1

Magic Hour - S3-E2

Corrected entry: When the demon with the crossbow fires at the girls, you can hear the sound of arrows coming out of the crossbow. But when he fires at the owl, you can see him aiming and see the owl with the arrow in him, but you never hear the sound of it firing.

Correction: When he fires the arrow at the owl, you can hear both the arrow being fired and it hitting the owl.

Power Outage - S3-E7

Corrected entry: Prue says that they should practice their demon counter attacks so that they can get a piece of Balthazar's flesh, as it "might be helpful for the potion". But in every future episode they say that the flesh is necessary for the potion.

Correction: It was their first time making that kind of potion. They knew in the future that is was the only one that would work.

All Hell Breaks Loose - S3-E22

Corrected entry: In the emergency room after Piper has been shot, it is clear to see that Piper's bullet wound is a through and through, meaning the bullet went in and out, BUT if it did, that means that it should have hit Prue after exiting Piper because Prue was right in front of Prue when the shot was fired.

Correction: Prue was holding the Book of Shadows between herself and Piper, so if anything, the bullet should have lodged in the Book. Perhaps the Book magically protected itself?

Correction: When it's that cold in my house and I see that a lot of windows are open, it's like a figure of speech "all of the windows in the house are open." Phoebe might not have actually KNOWN at that time that EVERY window in the house was actually open.

All Hell Breaks Loose - S3-E22

Corrected entry: In the last scene when Prue and Piper are lying down to die, Leo should have come. Being their whitelighter, wasn't he supposed to be able to remember what happened even after time resets itself? If that was the case, he would have known they were going to be thrown against a wall and almost die.

Correction: Cole said that he wanted to be able to tell Prue and Piper that Shax was going to come back. He was never given the opportunity and as far as we know, Leo was still in the underworld with Phoebe, protecting her. And as far as Leo knew, Piper and Prue were going to be warned about Shax, so really, as far as everyone knew, no one had anything to worry about until Prue died.

Death Takes a Halliwell - S3-E16

Corrected entry: When the police inspector comes to the manor to ask Phoebe what she knows about Cole's disappearance, he says that the landlady was found with two puncture wounds in her head, but the demon bit her neck, not her head.

Correction: He thinks Phoebe is hiding Cole and is using a common interrogation tactic: deliberately altering a fact, hoping the suspect will slip up and correct you.

My Three Witches - S6-E6

Plot hole: When Gith takes the potion from Chris, he ends up stomping on it and shattering the potion bottle - making contact with the potion. We've seen that potions don't have to be thrown by someone who's even a witch for them to work (like when Cole's powers were stripped etc) so why on earth would he do this? And how did it not vanquish him? There are other ways he could have gotten rid of the potion that didn't involve a way that really should have vanquished him.

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Cole: Phoebe, I love you. I don't know what's going on but maybe I can help. Would you like me to kill someone for you?

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Trivia: Lori Rom was originally cast as Phoebe but left the show after filming the pilot episode for personal reasons.

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Answer: That was a mistake in the series.

Also, the episode is called 'Babies First Demon' and this alone tells us that it's Wyatt's first time in the field (so to speak) and as the sisters say, they've done a good job of clearing up their own magical messes so far. Nobody really knows how advanced Wyatt's powers are, or will become. That's why the cleaners appear, to nip things in the bud. The Cleaners didn't want to chance that the sisters could clean Wyatt's magic up, just incase they couldn't. Therefore intervening themselves, just in case.

Chosen answer: When the cleaners first surface in season 6 it is mentioned that usually the girls have been able to clean up their own messes (as seen in season 3 episode 22 when Phoebe turns back time thus concluding in the death of Prue).

Answer: Because they wanted them to fix their own mistakes.

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