Continuity mistake: When Lynette sends Kayla upstairs, her bag is seen both on her shoulder and in her hand between shots.
Continuity mistake: When the boy paints "witch" on Mrs. McCluskey's front door, he holds the container in his left hand and the brush in his right. But when Karen gets out and he runs away with the other kids, the two items switch positions.
Getting Married Today - S3-E23
Continuity mistake: Gabby's hair in the beginning has her bun high on her head and her tiara is visible from the front. When Bree walks in, and when she overhears Victor and his father talking, her tiara is farther back on her head and no longer visible from the front.
Now You Know - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: When Bree grabs the old lady's wrist to keep her from touching her belly, her thumb is on the palm side of the lady's wrist. Then when the shot changes, Bree's thumb is now on the back side of the lady's wrist.
If There's Anything I Can't Stand - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: The amount of cream on Victor's chest during his rubdown changes between shots.
Continuity mistake: After Gabby throws John out of the hotel room, she locks the door. But when Carlos leaves the room, he opens the door without having to unlock it.
Now I Know, Don't Be Scared - S4-E6
Continuity mistake: When Carlos walks in to talk to Gabby about staying with Victor, she is drinking a glass of wine. She drains the glass except for a small sip, when she puts the glass down it's half full.
You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: When Lynette opens the trunk of her sister's car, the trunk can actually be seen opening twice.
Continuity mistake: Adam hands Katherine the note he found on the floor written by her aunt in a previous episode. Katherine is holding the paper up. When Adam walks around her in the next shot, the paper is gone and Katherine is only holding her keys/purse. The close up of Katherine (the very next shot) shows her holding the paper again.
Continuity mistake: At the end of the previous episode, an unknown someone can be seen circling Dylan's face on a picture of her and Katherine in the newspaper reporting on the Founder's Ball. In this episode, we see the cop who pulled Dylan over get back in his truck where a copy of the newspaper sits on the passenger seat. This time, both Dylan and Katherine are circled.
Mother Said - S4-E15
Continuity mistake: When Orson is on the phone with his lawyer, he sets down the notepad with a page half filled with writing at the front. However, later in the scene Edie walks into the room and the front page of the notepad is full of writing, plus there's an extra line in the first paragraph. No one was around to move the page as Orson was in the shower.
Mother Said - S4-E15
Continuity mistake: When Tom tells Lynette that Kayla is frightened of her because she hit her, the bedroom door behind him closes slightly between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Mrs McCluskey is talking to her sister on the coach, she has a plate of food in her left hand and some papers in her right. When Roberta rips the papers out of her hands, the plate of food is gone and is replaced by a sandwich.
Continuity mistake: When Lynette gets up from the PTA meeting to go to the washroom, she has a purse on her shoulder. After her confrontation with Anne Schilling, Lynette storms out of the washroom but she is no longer carrying her purse.
Mama Spent Money When She Had None - S5-E14
Continuity mistake: In an early scene Bree pulls up in a Lexus four door and the camera lingers on the car. But later in this episode she brings the same car home as a gift for herself.
Bargaining - S5-E21
Continuity mistake: When Juanita rushes down the stairs and goes outside the door, you can see that Gaby is holding a plate of leftover food in her left hand, but in the next shot the plate has suddenly changed into a bowl.
Bargaining - S5-E21
Continuity mistake: During the breakfast scene with Mike, Katherine and MJ at the start of the episode, the spoon in MJ's bowl of oatmeal changes position between shots.
Nice Is Different Than Good - S6-E1
Continuity mistake: At the end of season 5, Lynette finds out she's about 6 weeks pregnant. At the end of the same episode, they do a "Two Months Later." In Season 6, Episode 1, Tom says after an argument with Lynette "Only 8 and a half more months." Lynette should be in her second trimester by then, with at most 6 months to go.
Continuity mistake: When Susan and Mike are lying on the floor in the kitchen, Susan says to Mike "You can pay the loan off by yourself" and Mike has his left hand on Susan's wrist, but in the next shot, he no longer does.
Continuity mistake: When Gabrielle asks Angie if she would like to meet Heidi Klum at the modelling agency, the magazine Gabrielle is reading is open, but when she says "Sure, she's an old friend", the magazine is closed.
Answer: He was investigating the lead not the case.