Continuity mistake: As they struggle with the sail, Skipper's hat is backwards. After a shot of the shark, his hat's on right as he tosses the sail.
Continuity mistake: After the shark bites off the rest of the paddle, leaving the handle, Gilligan hesitates a second, sees no paddle, and begins swatting at the shark. A moment later, in the closeup, he's paddling, hears the bite again, and pulls the handle up, showing the paddle is gone.
Continuity mistake: As the rock that triggers the trap is pulled, the vine used slides completely off it. In the wide shot, the vine is securely around the trigger rock.
Continuity mistake: After the shark bites Gilligan's paddle and he holds it up, the amount of wood between the handle's connection and the bite differs from shot to shot.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode when everyone is listening to the radio the professor is shown standing up and in the next shot is sitting down. (00:02:50)
Chosen answer: It looks like a mistake to me I see it when the Professor is put into a trance, but it is not there later.
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