CHiPs, the "bad guys" ran a car (in this case, a Pontiac) off the road, then a mile or so later, they ran the same car off the road again! Hmmm, how did that car get run off the road, then get back on the road, and somehow pass the "bad guys" without us seeing it, only to be run off the road again? ;D
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CLASSIC SHOWS WITH CLASSIC ERRORS/GOOFS
- Thread starter gregg75
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In the one the early Wonder Year's Episodes, Kevin was watching a Color TV in the living room while another episode was about the father not being able to afford a Color TV for Christmas
firepoint525 said:
Maybe it was another Pontiac? They were very popular in those days. ;D
What always made me laugh were the action scenes on the freeways. You were supposed to think that the cops and cars they were chasing were moving at freeway speeds - but if you watched the pavement and roadside landmarks move by out of the frame, it was quite obvious that they were really going 15 or 20 MPH, if that.
Braves2005 said:
Not quite right. Oliver's mother is featured in the first season and is shown to be a society lady. She has lots of money. Lisa's mother also is shown to have lots of money. Lisa's mother talks of skiing in the Alps, gambling in Monte Carlo and is well to do, when she does visit Hooterville.
I can think of at least three episodes where Oliver talks about all his stocks and investments, the mail episode, the income tax episode and the trip to Europe episode all show him to have a lot of outside income.
Plus living in Hooterville is dirt cheap. In the mail episode Oliver complains to Sam how much money he lost, as Sam Drucker forgot to deliver his mail. He then writes a letter and Mr Drucker has to then deliver the mail. This means Sam closes the store. Then the citizens of Hooterville get mad because they can't shop at Mr Druckers. Oliver tells them "Just go to Pixley," and they say they can't, 'cause they buy on credit and there hasn't been cash in the (Hooterville) Valley for years.
Off topic but the Hooterville of "Green Acres," doesn't jive with the Hooterville of "Petticoat Junction." On "Green Acres," Hooterville is much smaller, only 40 some people and has little going for it. On "Petticoat Junction," it has at least 3,000 people a high school, and many other services, which are all located right off the Cannonball. The Shady Rest Hotel is also said, to be exactly in the middle between Pixley and Hooterville, 25 miles from each. This would put the two towns 50 miles from each other, which seem a bit far on "Green Acres."
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flashback
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logic, accuracy and contunity have nothing with green acres.its just a silly sitcom.
for the most part tv shows in that time were not concerned with events that took place before or in shows like green acres the geogrophy accuracy.just what the writers could come up for that weeks show.
my question is if the writers are not trying to make events and the geogrophy accurate and in continuity with past episodes is it an error or goof?
for the most part tv shows in that time were not concerned with events that took place before or in shows like green acres the geogrophy accuracy.just what the writers could come up for that weeks show.
my question is if the writers are not trying to make events and the geogrophy accurate and in continuity with past episodes is it an error or goof?
I really hate to keep beating up on American Dreams (no, I don't! ;D), but at least this one doesn't involve the appearance of something that didn't exist yet, in its day.
The school was going to have Meg's younger brother (the boy with polio) repeat a grade because he had supposedly missed so much school that year, but yet they let Roxanne graduate on time, despite the fact that she had quit school earlier that year to go on the road with her boyfriend and his band. There was never any indication that she had made up any missed coursework.
The school was going to have Meg's younger brother (the boy with polio) repeat a grade because he had supposedly missed so much school that year, but yet they let Roxanne graduate on time, despite the fact that she had quit school earlier that year to go on the road with her boyfriend and his band. There was never any indication that she had made up any missed coursework.
flashback said:
With The Lucy Show it was case of the fear of the writers in standing up to Lucille Ball. In other words it was LUCY who demanded the errors be done on purpose. Maybe it was her way of blocking out the Desi days or that she didn't like Candy Moore and Ralph Hart who had played the kids ( Jimmy Garrett Lucy however did like ). Anyway there is No shortage of continuity mistakes there once Lucy had moved to California. Everything from going to college graduate to being a high school dropout and calling her son "Jimmy" rather than "Jerry and the one episode where Viv had made a mention of never having kids...what was Sherman?
It was always amusing to see George Reeves change into Superman. Several times he would either leave Perry White's office, or his own, sans hat, then you see him about to enter a closet taking off his hat. ( Also note Reeve's hair was also a lot darker when he went into that closet.)
The best "goof" is when Clark Kent is outdoors about to change into Superman. Next frame shows him jumping out a window. So where did the building suddenly come from?
Granted the "Adventures of Superman" was filmed on a shoestring budget; but didn't they have editors in those days to catch these obvious mistakes or didn't anyone really care figuring that kids watching the show wouldn't notice?
The best "goof" is when Clark Kent is outdoors about to change into Superman. Next frame shows him jumping out a window. So where did the building suddenly come from?
Granted the "Adventures of Superman" was filmed on a shoestring budget; but didn't they have editors in those days to catch these obvious mistakes or didn't anyone really care figuring that kids watching the show wouldn't notice?
The question of where Hooterville and Pixley are in relation
to each other brings up another question: where, exactly
in North Carolina, is Mayberry? It's assumed it's actually
Andy Griffith's hometown, Mt. Airy, and there are references
to towns nearby: Mt. Pilot (actually Pilot Mountain), Bannertown
(an actual town near Mt. Airy), and Fancy Gap (just over the
state line in Virginia, also a real place). And Mt. Airy isn't too
far from the mountains.
But why do Andy and company go to Raleigh (not even identified
as the state capital) and not the much-closer Greensboro or
Winston-Salem? Then there's Siler City, a good 80 or 90 miles
from Mt. Airy, yet Andy and friends seem to go there quite often.
Occasionally some people pass through--plausibly--on the way to
somewhere else: Otis' brother and sister-in-law on the way to Memphis
(possible if they left, say, from eastern North Carolina); Malcolm Tucker,
whose car broke down on a Sunday as he was headed for Charlotte (OK,
maybe he came from Roanoke); and maybe--and this is a stretch--Barney's
cousin who got on the bus in Currituck (but that's down on the Outer Banks
near Norfolk--how did he manage to miss the bus after a stop and wind up in Mayberry anyway?).
But a bus passing through on the way to Macon? Why not
Atlanta?
And one other thing: Gomer Pyle would not have spent boot camp in Wilmington or
anywhere else in North Carolina; Marine recruits from east of the Mississippi go to
Parris Island, South Carolina.
I think we may have discussed these questions before, but they bother me
(perhaps because I live in Griffith country) and there have never been satisfactory
answers to these questions.
to each other brings up another question: where, exactly
in North Carolina, is Mayberry? It's assumed it's actually
Andy Griffith's hometown, Mt. Airy, and there are references
to towns nearby: Mt. Pilot (actually Pilot Mountain), Bannertown
(an actual town near Mt. Airy), and Fancy Gap (just over the
state line in Virginia, also a real place). And Mt. Airy isn't too
far from the mountains.
But why do Andy and company go to Raleigh (not even identified
as the state capital) and not the much-closer Greensboro or
Winston-Salem? Then there's Siler City, a good 80 or 90 miles
from Mt. Airy, yet Andy and friends seem to go there quite often.
Occasionally some people pass through--plausibly--on the way to
somewhere else: Otis' brother and sister-in-law on the way to Memphis
(possible if they left, say, from eastern North Carolina); Malcolm Tucker,
whose car broke down on a Sunday as he was headed for Charlotte (OK,
maybe he came from Roanoke); and maybe--and this is a stretch--Barney's
cousin who got on the bus in Currituck (but that's down on the Outer Banks
near Norfolk--how did he manage to miss the bus after a stop and wind up in Mayberry anyway?).
But a bus passing through on the way to Macon? Why not
Atlanta?
And one other thing: Gomer Pyle would not have spent boot camp in Wilmington or
anywhere else in North Carolina; Marine recruits from east of the Mississippi go to
Parris Island, South Carolina.
I think we may have discussed these questions before, but they bother me
(perhaps because I live in Griffith country) and there have never been satisfactory
answers to these questions.
bpatrick said:
So his D.I. would have been Jack Webb instead of Vince Carter? ;D
BTW, is a D.I. always a Gunny?
Since there's so many "fans of Ange" around, we love finding continuity
and other errors in the plotlines.
Part of the reason is because the distance from Mayberry to Raleigh changes from episode to episode. In one episode, they will say it's a two or three hours away yet when Don Rickles is selling the cheap merchandise in Mayberry, Goober buys a transistor radio and is listening to a station in Raleigh and he states that Raleigh is 60 miles away. And when the Governor comes to Mayberry to shake Barney's hand, even the Governor states that it would take him about an hour to get to Mayberry from Raleigh.bpatrick said:
Here's another: Fred Flintstone starts his car by shuffling his feet,
then putting them on what I assume is the floorboard, and we hear
the sound effect of a motor. On top of that, at least once he's been
seen stopping for gas. So if Stone Age cars are supposed to be powered
by the feet, why all the rest of this?
then putting them on what I assume is the floorboard, and we hear
the sound effect of a motor. On top of that, at least once he's been
seen stopping for gas. So if Stone Age cars are supposed to be powered
by the feet, why all the rest of this?
bpatrick said:
Uh....so now we're doing cartoons? Funny. You might as well say: "Wile E. Coyote falls off a 1,000 ft cliff with a bomb in his hands, and it explodes on the way down. Yet in the next scene, he's back to normal. In real life, he'd be dead and in pieces on the desert floor. What's with that?"
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Hal Erickson
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Don't get upset over inaccuracies in THE FLINTSTONES. Chances are that they didn't have color TV in the Stone Age.
Nor did they have Christmas.
Nor did they have Christmas.
Hal Erickson said:
Why wouldn't they have had color TV in the stone-age? They had telephones (talking into a bird's mouth, if I remember correctly), and cars...I've always wondered if Fred's feet were equivalent to disc brakes or drum brakes. Probably drum brakes given that the show was produced in the 60s.
And dinosaurs lived in the same era as people...so what the heck.
The Flintstones did have Christmas episodes - so I guess Jesus visited from the future...
Hal Erickson said:
On the flip side of this..wasn't there an episode of The Jetsons were Judy tells Jane that she is sending an "email" to a friend and yes that is the word that was used. I do know there were a few epiosdes where both Jane and George had read the morning paper ONLINE and Judy was watching Jett Screamer on a huge flat screen hi-def TV.
.....and this had aired in the early 60's.Talking about being a tad too accurate
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