Part 1 Roots: The Saga of An American Family - S1-E1
Other mistake: Where is the light in Kunte/Toby's slave cabin coming from? There are no candles or lantern, and electricity hadn't been invented yet. Obviously studio lighting.
12th Oct 2022
Part 1 Roots: The Saga of An American Family - S1-E1
Other mistake: Where is the light in Kunte/Toby's slave cabin coming from? There are no candles or lantern, and electricity hadn't been invented yet. Obviously studio lighting.
10th Oct 2022
Part 1 Roots: The Saga of An American Family - S1-E1
Revealing mistake: The young men are all in a lineup, preparing to be circumcised, when the camera pulls back to an obtuse shot of the lineup, whence they're all wearing African drawers. Either for modesty purposes, or purely a filming error.
9th Oct 2022
Factual error: The Woman talking with Mamie and Emily about the jams is wearing 1970s large framed glasses. (00:33:15)
6th Oct 2022
Factual error: The Literary Digest Sheriff Epp is reading in Godsey's store is dated Aug 1936, when only a year has passed since the show's inception at 1932.
30th Sep 2022
Continuity mistake: The amount of blood / bruising on the baby mama's face changes between the far shots and the close up. (00:36:00 - 00:37:00)
25th Sep 2022
Other mistake: Maryellen wears visible eyeliner throughout the show, despite being during the depression. She wouldn't be wearing any makeup.
Suggested correction: Why wouldn't she be wearing makeup during the depression? Especially if it was just a small amount. This isn't a mistake, just your opinion. Women continued to wear makeup during the depression, and not just starlets or the rich and famous. In fact, makeup sales overall hardly took a dip during the depression because women through the US were still buying it.
Despite that women did wear it during the Depression, part of the factor being that the Waltons wouldn't afford such a luxury, considering their very tight pockets. Otherwise, we'd see Olivia preening herself also, before she goes anywhere. But doesn't even wear lipstick. And Maryellen is never 'caught' actually putting on the eye makeup. So it's likely not any opinion.
25th Sep 2022
Other mistake: The camera jolts a moment after John enters Ike's general store. (00:34:17)
16th Sep 2022
Continuity mistake: Jon parks his motorcycle near the parking garage of his apt. Complex then throws his police jacket over the dog before going inside. However, a following scene shows him unlocking a small storage shed to retrieve the bike before taking off.
12th Sep 2022
Other mistake: The actor playing John F. Kennedy in no way resembles the late former President.
9th Sep 2022
Days of Beer and Weeds - S2-E22
Visible crew/equipment: Reflections of the monitors and other equipment are visible in Janet's glasses at the end.
8th Sep 2022
Jack in the Flower Shop - S2-E19
Other mistake: John is wearing a dental retainer during the closeups of Jack talking on the couch with Chrissy.
2nd Sep 2022
Other mistake: When Uncle Cody hears the bad news on the radio about the banks remaining close, Olivia suddenly orders the children to clear the table when their plates are half full. Which wouldn't happen in a Depression with food being a precious commodity.
2nd Sep 2022
Revealing mistake: When Maryellen runs into John-Boy's arms (after running away) Richard Thomas (John-Boy) breaks character as he looks into Judy's (Maryellen) eyes, by swallowing hard. Like a guy would do, when he's close to an attractive girl. Then later covers his groin with the cast, when John and the kids check up on him. The two young actors playing Jon-boy and Maryellen crushed on each other behind the scenes.
5th Aug 2022
The Reunion - S1-E14
Audio problem: When John grabs Olivia from the kitchen sink to rejoin the family (over the washing machine snip) the children's laughter sounds more like a canned echo, or studio audience response.
3rd Aug 2022
Helen's Job - S2-E13
Factual error: After Mr. Roper stirs Jack's batter, Jack pours it into the cake pan and then opens the oven, leaving plenty of batter residue inside the mixing bowl, which a professional chef student would never do.
28th Jul 2022
Character mistake: When Jack is tending bar, the one woman states margaritas don't include tequila, when it's the primary liquor.
Suggested correction: This is from s02e10, "Stanley Casanova." However, she doesn't say margarita, she says daiquiri, which is what Jack made with tequila. Daiquiris don't contain tequila but typically rum.
27th Jul 2022
The Legend - S1-E11
Other mistake: During close-ups of the kids, Maryellen is the only one of the girls wearing very visible eyeliner and mascara, that weren't apparent in earlier episodes.
Revealing mistake: When Lestat bites Louis for the 3rd time at the gazebo, Lestat raises his arm to allow his blood to drip into Louis' mouth. A metal looking thing is visible inside Lestat's wrist, indicating that's probably a prop arm.
19th Jul 2022
Character mistake: Brass tells Dream (pleasure services girl) that whacking 'Happy Morales' with a tire iron - which contributed to his death - is open grounds for assault and murder-1 on her. When it was purely a self-defense act, that any of the girls would have taken against a psychotic, oversexualized maniac, in such sexual assault. Whether it be a tire iron, or other heavy-duty object to dispel a perp.
19th Jul 2022
Continuity mistake: When Doug goes to rescue his baby daughter from the kidnapper's bed, he creeps past the living room to see a bald matron watching TV and combing a wig. Then after he grabs his baby, and creeps past the living room, the bald matron is still sitting and combing the wig. But 5-seconds later, when he gets a few feet down the same hallway, that matron suddenly appears out of nowhere and attacks him.
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