The Greatest American Hero

The Lost Diablo - S2-E7

Visible crew/equipment: When Bill can't start the bus Ralph opens the hood and tells Bill the entire engine is gone, then as Ralph grumbles about what he'll tell the school board, the boom mic dips into view over Ralph, at the top of the screen. (00:33:50)

Super Grover

Classical Gas - S2-E5

Revealing mistake: When Ralph blocks Hydra's rocket from its target, in the closeup as the rocket hits Ralph's abdomen the thin stunt wire is visible at the rocket tail. Then while Bill is fighting with Hydra, when Ralph is in mid-air heading to Bill the stunt apparatus is visible at Ralph's waist. (00:40:00)

Super Grover

Hog Wild - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: Preacher forces Ralph to stop the sheriff, so when Ralph flies over and pulls the driver's door off the squad car, we see the Sheriff behind the steering wheel wearing his uniform shirt and dark colored pants of some sort, but when the Sheriff stands up his uniform shirt is properly tucked into his normal tan pants, same as earlier. (00:39:05)

Super Grover

Hog Wild - S2-E4

Other mistake: Preacher has a large bold tattoo at the center of his chest below his neck that changes repeatedly. For example, it's dark and clear when they capture the deputy, but it's smudged and partially gone when Preacher forces Stella, the deputy, and Ralph into the 18-wheeler. (00:29:10 - 00:36:50)

Super Grover

The Lost Diablo - S2-E7

Continuity mistake: When everybody returns to the bus, in the closeups of Bill turning the ignition key to no effect, the sleeve we see has navy blue and white stripes, but Bill is wearing a light color blue striped shirt. (00:33:20)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Revealing mistake: While they're on Beck's jet Ralph uses the suit's telekinetic powers on the ice-filled cup, and Ralph tells Bill he'll do it again with a magazine, then when it cuts to the first closeup of the magazines the stunt wire attached to the book is visible. (00:15:45)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Bill tells Beck that he's thinking with his "mediocre, uninspired, middle-level mind," it cuts to an exterior shot of Beck's private jet heading to Vegas, but when the jet lands at the airport in the exterior shot it's a different type of jet. Then when Ralph gets the vision he sees Dunn running back toward Beck's jet, and again it's a different type jet. (00:13:40 - 00:16:15)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: While Ralph and Bill are on Beck's private jet, after Dunn tells Ralph how to use the telekinesis powers of the suit, Dunn takes something to read from the clear acrylic magazine holder, but in the following closeups the magazine holder is now black and an entirely different style. (00:15:15)

Super Grover

Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Beck uses the remote to open the hangar door, as Dunn drives the car into the hangar Bill is sitting in the front passenger seat and Ralph is alone in the back, with the hoods still in place over Ralph's and Bill's heads, but when it cuts to a closeup both hoods have vanished. (00:08:00)

Super Grover

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Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3

Visible crew/equipment: After Ralph and his students talk about Beck's will being missing the class bell rings. When Ralph says, "Tony, you got a minute," just as he walks over to Tony the microphone pops up into view at the bottom of the screen, and it continues to be seen during their conversation. (00:05:30)

Super Grover

Plague - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: At the paramilitary base, Bunker is wearing a military fatigue cap with a camouflage pattern while he and Bill are talking in the exterior shots, then when they walk into the office with the radar operator, in the interior shots the camouflage pattern on Bunker's cap is entirely different. When Bunker orders the evacuation, the cap reverts back to the original pattern in the exterior shots. (00:22:40)

Super Grover

Plague - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: At the laboratory in Needles, when Bunker removes the smallpox virus vial from the case he's wearing a digital watch and a ring on his left hand, but in the vial's closeup Bunker's ring has vanished and his watch is a different style. (00:43:15)

Super Grover

Plague - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: When Bill and Ralph pull up in front of the motel in Faultline, they see Pam walking out of her own room. The problem is Bill's room number is 127, the same as Pam's room number, also 127. (00:16:55)

Super Grover

Plague - S2-E8

Revealing mistake: At the paramilitary base, after Bill tells Bunker he has "a real cute bivouac goin'," it cuts to a shot of Ralph searching for Bill's location, and the stunt apparatus is visible at Ralph's waist area. (00:21:30)

Super Grover

Just Another Three Ring Circus - S2-E12

Deliberate mistake: While they're in Yuri's tent, when Bill is standing in front of the tent wall Ralph describes all the good vibes he's getting about Yuri, and then Bill exits the tent. A few shots later, after the shot of the elephant sliding off the red pedestal, there's a shot of Bill standing in front of the tent wall, despite the fact that he left the tent, and note this shot is flipped. (00:10:50)

Super Grover

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