Continuity mistake: During Sam and Freddie's first interaction, Sam can be seen holding a coffee cup when she enters the room. For the first half of the conversation the cup is plain white, but as the camera returns to Sam, and she says, "You mean I can't play with the white balance on your super-dee duper-ee camcorder?" A green logo on the cup is plainly visible.
iCarly (2007)
1 mistake in IPilot
Starring: Jennette McCurdy, Miranda Cosgrove, Nathan Kress, Jerry Trainor
Trivia: When Carly and the team are facing the professional Chef, Carly says, "Add the Peruvian Puff Peppers." This pepper is also mentioned in "Drake and Josh", but in "Drake and Josh" it was illegal in the United States.
Question: I need someone from across the pond to help settle an argument between me and my wife. In the episode "i Rock the Vote", Wade Collins repeatedly uses the term "hob knocker." My kids asked, "What's a 'hob knocker'?" I said that it was something they made up that sounds somewhat British, probably insulting, and possibly vulgar. My wife insists that she has heard it somewhere else. So, for the record, what, if anything, does "hob knocker" mean?
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Answer: In direction translation it means 'Mischievous Spirit'. 'Hob' as in HobGoblin means clown or prankster, and 'Knocker' was an old age term for Poltergeists in mines. Miners would often complain of hearing knocking sounds down mines when there was no-one else down there, hence 'Knocker'. It's not a regular English expression though.
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