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Digest: Mistakes

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Nobody's perfect... Here are some messages about mistakes people have seen in CEIA episodes. (See also my DYN page, Mistakes.)

• Philip Chang said on Sun, 16 Aug 92:

  New Title Sequence.

  There seems to be what I think are techical errors in the new sequence. When Clarissa finally spells Clarissa, it doesn't match the ``Clarissa'' after they flip the title around. Also the line weight is too thin. Moreover, the actors names don't show up when they run the sequence backwards at the end. Last, Jason Zimbler's name, the actor who plays Fergus has his name rendered differently than the other actors names. For lines after the first, the names seem upshifted, but they didn't do this for Zimbler. Enough nitpicking.

• Jim Davis said on Mon, 7 Sep 92: [referring to ``The Great Debate'' (#119)]

  (No need to dwell on the plot hole where by FIVE ACRES of trees were supposed to be put under glass in a MINI-MALL.)

• Jim Davis said on Sun, 27 Sep 92:

  There's something definitely wrong with the parent's time line -- they keep making references to the '60s, and have set Marshall and Janet in college then, but the '17 years after high school' since Janet saw Joey Russo would put her at about 34 or 35, and a mid-seventies high school graduate. (As a mid-seventies high school graduate myself, I can assure the younger viewers that the '60s were Dead and Buried by then.)

• Jim Davis said on Wed, 14 Oct 92:

  In the 'No TV' episode, Clarissa gets a Big Remote that, she says, can change channels at the Kennedy Space Center, ``30 miles away''... So they must be in Florida, right?

  >and I know they're not in Florida (Elvis had to be taken back there).

  Exactly. Guess the writers aren't into consistency...

• MASMUMMY said on 16 Oct 92:

  Does anyone happen to have a favorite episode?

  I think mine was the one in which Marshall was to speak at Career Night. I loved the ``Dad From Hell'' excerpt and I was laughing hysterically at Sam's and Marshall's rap performance! ``Da house, da house...'' Was it me, or did the music actually stop before Clarissa hit the ``stop'' button on the tape player?

• Adam Lieberman said on Sat, 17 Oct 92:

  I don't know right now, but I think I remember that in the episode where Clarissa gets sick, when her mother opens her windowshades in the morning there is a delay before it gets light in her room

• Jim Davis said on Thu, 12 Nov 92:

  More evidence that the writers aren't into consistency: In 'N.P.P', the Darling's street address is '44 Shadow Lane'. But in the 'Career Night' episode, in the scene where Marshall is being dragged off by the cops (for forgetting the twisty ties on the trash bags), if you look closely over the door you'll see '464'.

• Philip Chang said on Mon, 25 Jan 93:

  In Clarissa's opening monologue, after each shot from her ``camera'', there's the whir from an autowinder. However, if you look at her camera, it's a manual advance SLR.

• Jim Davis said on Sun, 28 Mar 93: [about the debut of ``ESP R US'' (#141)]

  Either my tape machine was haunted Saturday night, or NICK's was -- there was one bit that ran twice (deja vu?), during the scene where Marshall tries the Phillipine Face Goo (look closely, and see Ms. Hart walk through the boom mike shadow), a video skip during the 'Whirling Dervishes', and an audio burp when she gets Janet to buy the lottery ticket.

• Adam Lieberman said on Sun, 18 Apr 93: [about ``Boy Thoughts'' (#145)]

  They still have the 1992 calendar hanging in the kitchen. This means that either the events portrayed are still supposed to have taken place in 1992, or no one in the Darling household has bothered to replace it.

• Jim Davis said on Sun, 18 Apr 93:

  Good eyes, I didn't spot that. Since the credits have a '93 copyright, I think you've spotted a Props Oversight.

• Jim Davis said on Sun, 11 Jul 93:

  • Character nuitContity note: Two years ago Clarissa was in Thomas Tupper JR. High, right? Apparently not -- she was checking out band instruments, marked T.T.H.S, from her high school band teacher. Guess that goes along with Clifford Spleenhurfer's recent promotion to the senior class between Commitment and Boy Thoughts...
  • Episode nuitContity note: watch the picture of Clarissa on the refrigerator door while Ferg and Janet discuss EMF.

See Alternate episode titles for help with an unofficial title or other episode reference you don't recognize.

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