Lost

Homecoming - S1-E15

Corrected entry: Lucy says that the stolen cigarette case was pulled out of Charlie's pocket by the "EMTs". But Lucy is British, and paramedics are not known as EMTs in Britain.

Correction: Yes they are. I come from Scotland, and a friend of mine worked as an EMT doing ambulance runs, which was his job title and what he was referred to.

Purple_Girl

Season 1 generally

Corrected entry: In Charlie's flashbacks aboard the aeroplane, we see he goes into first class to snort the heroin. As the turbulence hits, he leaves and nearly gets hit by the trolley, before buckling himself in - still in first class. Therefore when the plane goes down, Charlie should've been in the first class section of the plane and consequently shouldn't be alive and on the beach with the rest of the survivors.

Hovis63

Correction: This scene is not shown in real time (i.e. continuous). If you look carefully, just before he finds a seat to buckle himself into, behind him is the divider he passed on the way to first class. Although it does not make sense, he must have crawled all the way back to the middle section of the plane. If he sat immediately in first class you would have seen the glass wall behind him, but you do not.

XIII

Pilot (1) - S1-E1

Corrected entry: In Pilot 1, when Jack has Kate sew up his back, it shows the sewing kit with colored string. Later in the scene Kate asks Jack what color he wants, and he says, "Standard black," even though there was no black string in the sewing kit.

Leachy

Correction: Yes there is. There are six colors in total in the kit. In true lost style, the black is right next to the white thread (to keep up with the on-going black/white, good/evil themes).

XIII

Born to Run - S1-E22

Corrected entry: The cops shoot at Kate when she tries to speed away with her childhood friend in the car. A real cop would not shoot at a person who has no weapons, especially if an innocent victim is in close range.

Correction: A police officer breaking protocol? This happens all the time (in every country).

XIII

Pilot (1) - S1-E1

Corrected entry: Fairly near the beginning of this episode, just after the guy gets sucked into the engine, in the next shot, where the camera cuts to Jack caring for Claire, look carefully above the engine in the background just before it explodes. You can see what looks like a black cloud of smoke fly down to the engine and then fly up really fast - within split seconds it explodes. It is best seen in slow motion. Without wanting to give too much away about the rest of the series, this cloud of smoke appears at least once more during the series (in the finale) and is apparently linked with the 'monster' in the jungle - although all will be explained in series 2.

Sam Johnson

Correction: This trivia entry is actually a mistake, as it was confirmed to be a CGI error, and is not actually the monster. The black shape should have radiated away from the explosion, but never toward it. (for confirmation, view this link:) http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=32133.

White Rabbit - S1-E5

Corrected entry: Boone's job appears to change halfway through this episode. In the pilot he tells Jack that he's a licensed lifeguard. This still seems to be true at the start of White Rabbit, because he is the one who swims out to save Joanna. But later in the same episode, he mentions that he runs a business, which is elaborated on later: he tells Locke about his mother's wedding supply chain stores. The lifeguard job is never mentioned again.

Correction: Boone is at least 20 (Ian Somehalder, who plays Boone, is 28). It's entirely possible he had a summer job as a lifeguard, before joining his family's business.

SexyIrishLeprechaun

Pilot (2) - S1-E2

Corrected entry: When Sayid and Sawyer are fighting, Jack grabs Sawyer around the arms and begins to pull him away. The camera cuts to a shot of Sayid and Michael, then back to Sawyer and Jack, and Jack grabs Sawyer's left arm a second time.

Correction: Sawyer could have broken free in the time between the cut, so Jack grabs him again.

Outlaws - S1-E16

Corrected entry: The first time Sawyer goes to the Sweet Shrimp shack, you can see that the license plate on Sawyer's car is not from Sydney (New South Wales' license plates are yellow; Sawyer's is white).

Correction: Whats wrong with having non New South Wales license plates? In Queensland I frequently see cars driven and even sold with license plates from other states in Australia such as New South Wales, Victoria.

Lummie

Correction: While Kate is in the office, we see her being struck on the left side, which leaves a bruise on the left side of her lip. Then it cuts away to the main bank area, just before the door to the office opens, when Kate comes out with more bruising on the right side. Time has passed between the two shots, and it was during that time that Kate received more bruises to be more convincing as a supposed victim. We do not need to see it onscreen to know that this occurred.

Super Grover

Exodus (2) - S1-E24

Corrected entry: At the very end of the episode, when the passengers are boarding the doomed flight in a flashback, there is a shot of Sawyer walking down one of the aisles. If you look closely, you can see his bag bumps someone on the shoulder, and they turn around to glare at him. It's Sayid, sitting on the aisle seat of the left section of seats. However, not too long later, we see a shot of Sayid sitting down in 'his' seat, but he is now sitting on the aisle seat in the MIDDLE section of seats.

Correction: It is not impossible to switch seats in an airplane. Maybe Sayid was unhappy with his seat and asked a stewardess if it was possible to switch, or maybe he gave up his seat to someone who asked him (if they were travelling with a companion and were seated apart form each other, for instance).

Twotall

Correction: Why does the van have to be from Australia. It is possible it had been brought over from Hawaii.

Chaz1003

Season 1 generally

Corrected entry: During the second half of the Season 1 Finale "Exodus", Hurley is rushing to the airport to make his flight. When Hurley's car suddenly breaks down on the way to the airport, there is a close-up of the dashboard, and in clear green numbers we see "42KM 23C 15KPH speed". The dashboard display then quickly switches to flash the green numbers "42 KM 8/4KPH (8 changes into 4). When Hurley makes it to his gate it is number 23.

Correction: Again, the reoccurrence of these numbers are fairly obvious plot points. Listing every time these numbers appear in the show is unnecessary. The fact that at least one these numbers will appear in almost every episode indicates the relevance of these numbers to the island. No need to point out every occurrence.

XIII

Correction: The hair does not look any shorter.

Bowling255

Correction: To acquire realism, actors snort and inject themselves with non-toxic stuff. It should not be considered trivia if actors do something to better their perfomance. Specially if it's done often.

Jane Doe

...In Translation - S1-E17

Corrected entry: When Jin goes to the guy's house to deliver the "message", the man's daughter is watching TV. The man on TV is Hurley. (Explained why in the next episode, "Numbers".)

Correction: This isn't trivia. it's a plot point.

Ingabritzen

Outlaws - S1-E16

Corrected entry: In Sawyer's flashback sequence he goes to kill a man in Australia who works in a caravan called "Sweet Shrimp". When in fact the shrimp the man used are called Prawns in Australia. Shrimp is an American term for the food. (00:25:55)

Correction: The man that Sawyer killed was an American. He most likely named his business Sweet Shrimp instead of Prawns in keeping with his American roots.

Jane Doe

Correction: Actually that is not entirely true. I know of many supermarkets that use paper bags or environment friendly bags. Sure the majority of supermarkets have plastic bags, but saying ALL supermarkets is an inaccurate exaggeration.

XIII

Do No Harm - S1-E20

Corrected entry: Kate catches Claire's baby as he is being born and hands him straight to Claire, all gooey and 'newborn', but the baby has no umbilical cord. There was no time for Kate to tie off and cut the cord, nor a time-lapse or scene-change that would have allowed this to happen.

Correction: I have watched this twice and both times and there is a umbilical cord.

Bowling255

Correction: There are plenty of possible explanations to this. She could have called again on another occation, she could have left her adress with a friend or family member, he could have tracked her through a detective agency, he could have found out that the call came from Australia and then tracked her through official registries etc. After all, some time passes between the two scenes of Shannon calling and Boone showing up in Australia.

Twotall

Pilot (2) - S1-E2

Corrected entry: Polar bears have muscles so dense, that if you were to unload an entire handgun clip into him, you'd only piss it off even further. If he was shot in the head he'd go down but the head has no sign of any blood or injuries of any sort.

Correction: It's not known for a fact that it was a polar bear. Also, the island is full of mysteries. It being gunned down by one bullet could be One of Them.

Jane Doe

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House of the Rising Sun - S1-E6

[While fleeing from an angry swarm, Kate takes her shirt off as insects are trapped in it. Charlie later finds her and hands her the shirt she dropped with a questioning look.]
Kate: It was full of bees.
Charlie: [Looking at her chest.] I'd say more like C's.

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The End (1) - S6-E17

Trivia: The Oceanic employee delivering Jack's father's body has a name visible on his navy blue overall - it is Bocklin - Arnold Bocklin is an artist famous for painting "Isle of the Dead" in 1880. (00:04:00)

ComicBoy

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Question: In the pilot episode, the pregnant girl looks over at the bald man and he opens his mouth to reveal something bright orange. What was that?

Answer: He was eating a peice of an orange with the skin still on.

XIII

Answer: No, it is maracuya. You will see Locke eating maracuya in the following episodes as well.

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