and crew to tell their own stories the best way possible. That means writers, actors,

camera operators and crew members working in perfect unison. Unsurprisingly, things

don’t always go as planned – but the viewers get to enjoy the results all the same. Here

are Screen Rant’s Biggest Mistakes in Popular TV Shows.

Lost

One look at modern television shows just how much ABC's Lost changed the game, delivering

clues, hints, twists and massive conspiracies from week to week. As a result, fans regularly

re-watched the early episodes to see just how much they'd missed. Online discussion

exploded when viewers took a closer look at the pilot episode, as the survivors of Oceanic

Flight 815 took cover from an exploding jet engine. Specifically, the swooping black object

that seemed to trigger the explosion. Was it the island's smoke monster? Another creature

yet to be revealed, or the mystery that would explain all others. The showrunner were finally

forced to explain that it was only a mistake: an error in the CG effect. Fans had to look

elsewhere for answers.

Firefly

It may have lived for less than a single season, but that didn't stop Joss Whedon's Firefly

from becoming a cult hit. In the years since it originally aired, fans have had no choice

but to watch their favorite adventures on repeat, learning every detail and building

a series' worth of fiction out of a handful of episodes. But we're willing to bet one

mistake might have slipped by. The pilot episode is capped off by a deadly escape from a ship

full of murderous Reavers, due mainly to the skills of the crew's pilot, Wash. When the

ship is home free, Wash relaxes - but it's clear that he's only *pretending* to be gripping

the steering wheel. He may steer the ship with his mind, but the episode also shows

he relies on crew members, not gas, to run the ship's mule.

Supernatural

When dealing with demons, exorcisms and magic hexes, some mistakes are bound to happen.

Most of Supernatural’s errors are easy to miss, but a few are easy to spot for those

paying close attention. When Sam and Dean Winchester are tracking down a haunted painting

in the first season, Dean gets his brother's attention with a different name - not the

character's, but actor Jared Padelecki's. A slip-up that small is one thing, but the

brothers cast serious doubt on their exorcism skills when chasing a demon onto a commercial

airliner. Deciding holy water is too extreme to detect a demon in flight, Sam has a better

idea. Actually, it’s “Deus.” Not only is “Christo” the word for Christ, not

God, it's Greek, not Latin. Thankfully, the demon apparently didn't know the difference.

The Big Bang Theory

When the cast of your show is described as a group of know-it-all geniuses, writing the

script becomes a minefield of inaccuracies that could truly sell the characters short.

It’s possible that Sheldon could misquote the rules of feeding Mogwai after midnight

in the movie “Gremlins”. But hearing Amy explain that the Viennese Danish was invented

in Denmark makes it clear that another fact-checker was needed on set. But even within the show’s

history, the writers have forgotten, or simply ignored prior storylines. As just one example,

the hypochondriac Leonard can’t drink wine, except for the times he does. And even more

dramatically, Sheldon tells Penny early on in the series that none of his roommates know

how to dance, later breaking out his best moves that he apparently mastered in his youth.

The cast may claim to have flawless memories, but it seems the writers can’t keep up.

Breaking Bad

When series creator Vince Gilligan decided to set his tale of a chemistry teacher turned

drug kingpin in the year 2007, he did it knowing that some pop culture references would be

off the table. For most of the series, the timeline was simple enough to follow, with

time in the show passing much slower. But that led to one particular mistake in the

show’s fifth season, when a character made a direct reference to the death of Osama bin

Laden. Unfortunately, the show was still set in 2010 at the latest – several months before

bin Laden’s death took place. The creator had to admit it was a mistake, but in a show

with so few, it can be forgiven.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

For every actor in a given shot, there are dozens of crew members and camera men working

just off screen. It’s no surprise then that that some will wander into frame from time

to time. Viewers may be shocked to see just how many crew members slip by unnoticed, but

one cameraman on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer stuck out worse than almost any other.

When the show’s fourth season saw Buffy’s longtime nemesis Faith wake from a coma and

seek revenge at the Summers house, a fight broke out, with the two Slayers quickly coming

to blows. The camera tracks them both as they go tumbling down a staircase, before the opposite

angle shows the cameraman responsible for the previous shot, impossible to miss on screen.

Different editions of the show have been tweaked to keep him out of frame, but with a cameo

this glamorous, we say he deserves a supporting actor credit.

Friends

You can’t stay on the air for ten seasons without re-using a few plot lines or jokes.

But usually, it isn’t the same characters caught up in them. When Chandler and Monica

wind up waiting for a table at an upscale restaurant, she suggests Chandler slip the

host a bill slyly concealed inside his palm. Chandler can’t pull it off, but suspects

it was no problem for Monica’s suave ex-boyfriend Richard (played by Tom Selleck). That’s

exactly where she learned the trick – but Chandler should know that. After all, it was

Richard who taught both Chandler and Joey to do the same five seasons before. Chandler

forgetting the steps is fine, but the writers feeling such a tiny joke was worth telling

twice is the real mystery.

Battlestar Galactica

Few sci-fi revivals can claim to be as successful as Battlestar Galactica, with the second season

of the series ramping up the tension, stakes, and drama substantially. Character deaths

and betrayals were everywhere – apparently, the crew thought viewers wouldn’t notice

some hilarious mistakes amid all the chaos. When Helo and the Chief first let off steam

by throwing some punches, they did so with an audience. Why the camera crew visible in

the frame was necessary for the shot is a mystery, but it wasn’t even the most obvious

mistake in the season. When President Roslin was re-elected, her campaign staff didn’t

even notice the cameraman capturing the moment for viewers to witness all the way back on

Earth.

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