Charmed (1998)

6 revealing mistakes in season 5

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Starring: Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano, Shannen Doherty, Julian McMahon, Brian Krause, Holly Marie Combs

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

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A Witch's Tail (2) - S5-E2

Revealing mistake: When Phoebe goes to sign her papers at the end, she spells her name as Pheobe. (01:22:45)

Siren Song - S5-E4

Revealing mistake: When the Siren is being healed, you can see that she's just holding the pole next to her, when it's supposed to be going straight through her. (00:19:50)

The Importance of Being Phoebe - S5-E11

Revealing mistake: When Kaya throws the knife at Phoebe watch in freeze-frame and you can see that for the shot from behind her there's no knife in her hands. (00:36:10)

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Witches in Tights - S5-E5

Revealing mistake: The character Ramus (the elder) changes actor when Leo jumps and orbs to get him away from the attack of the Aggressor. The actor's stand-in is visible instead. (00:18:52)

A Witch's Tail (2) - S5-E2

Revealing mistake: When Piper blows up the painting you can see the hole used to put the charge into to blow it up. (00:57:40)

Michael Piscitelli

House Call - S5-E13

Revealing mistake: When Piper made the house vanish, and she, Paige and Leo ran up to where it was, the background was obviously fake. (00:35:35)

Plot hole: When teenage Prue has run away with the demon, and Phoebe and Piper find her in the park, teenage Prue is 'killed'. Her sisters drive her home to get Leo to heal her, but shouldn't they have just been able to call to Leo to orb to them when Prue was first hurt, and heal her in the park, and save driving back to the Manor, risking Prue dying?

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Suggested correction: I see orbing to the park but he didn't heal her, she was already dead and he can't heal the dead, that's why the genie brought her back - that's what Phoebe wished for.

But if they would have called for him right away - he would have been able to heal her before she died. However at this point in time I don't think they knew how to call for him.

Yes, they did know how to call him. At least Phoebe did, because when Piper got sick in the hospital from the disease she inherited from the illegal fruit, Prue and Phoebe screamed out Leo's name until he appeared in the attic.

They did, they first tried it in the episode when Piper was sick with an exotic disease and dying in the hospital.

It bothers me that they never used it again until Season 4. When Prue was held by Abby, Leo could have helped if she called, and so many other times... so annoying.

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Quotes

Something Wicca This Way Comes - S1-E1

Piper: [Seeing Jeremy on the news.] Hey, that's my boyfriend Jeremy. What happened?
Phoebe: Oh, some woman got whacked.
Piper: "Whacked"? Phoebe, you've been in New York way too long.

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Trivia

Season 6 generally

Trivia: Holly Marie Combs's real life pregnancy with her son Finley Arthur Donoho was mirrored by Piper's pregnancy with Chris in this season.

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Questions

All Hell Breaks Loose - S3-E22

Question: Later in Charmed they bring the so called "cleaners" in episode 6-2 when Wyatt conjures a dragon and magic is exposed. Why didn't the cleaners appear earlier in this episode when Piper and Prue exposed magic?

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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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