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DYN: Mistakes

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• In ``Revenge'' (#101), right after Sam hands Clarissa the blue balloon in her room, I think the balloon hits the boom microphone.
• In ``Revenge'' (#101), when Sam is carried away by the balloons, Ferguson totally screws up (IMO) his line, ``Wow, the wind really can take those balloons!'' by putting the stress on the word ``can'' instead of ``balloons'' (or even ``really'').
• In ``Revenge'' (#101), Clarissa says Ferguson took her bra to school on ``Tuesday, May 15th''. This would make the year 1990, if we can trust the writers to match days and dates correctly (but see next entry). Later, on what Clarissa describes as a ``beautiful Saturday'', Ferguson says that his birthday isn't for another ``(one-two-three-four-) five weeks''. That makes Ferguson's birthday within a few days of Jun 23rd. But in ``School Picture'' (#102), when we ``look at the calendar'' to see which days of the year really burn Clarissa up, Ferguson's birthday is shown as Feb 13th!
• In ``School Picture'' (#102), the day on which Clarissa's school picture was to be taken -- ``Friday'', April 7, 1991 -- was actually a Sunday. [Thanks to Adam Lieberman.]
• In ``School Picture'' (#102), when Jody first mentions her brother Wade, the Elvis impersonator, she stumbles over his name. To my ears, it sounds like she says, ``Mowade''.
• In ``Urge to Drive'' (#104), Clarissa's calculation about how much money she has saved is wrong: 53.32 + 13.50 + 5.87 + 20.00 + 150.00 = 242.69, not 242.64! Later, when she computes how far she and Sam are in the hole, she does it again: 237.64 - 168.24 - 123.50 - 3.99 = -58.09, not -50.09! [Thanks to ...?]
• When Clarissa reports on the ancient tuna melt sandwich in ``CNN'' (#105), her school is called Theodore Tupper Junior High!
• When the oatmeal cookies start burning in ``CNN'' (#105), Ferguson, Clarissa, and Marshall rush from the living room into the kitchen, in that order; in the next shot they enter the kitchen in the order: Marshall, Ferguson, Clarissa. [Thanks to Inside-Out Boy.]
• In ``Haunted House'' (#106), just before the seance, when Heather Mac Rae [Aunt Mafalda] is pulling out her chair to sit down, she accidentally looks into the camera. At the end of the episode, of course, she intentionally looks into the camera as she says, ``I'll be back.''
• In ``Bake a Cake'' (#110), in Clarissa's final line, when she says ``comes to an end,'' you can hear a faint ``na'' (as in ``Na na na-na na'', from the theme song).
• In the ``surprise party'' scene in ``Bake a Cake'' (#110), after Elizabeth Hess plops down in the chair, it appears that she is repeatedly glancing at cue cards.
• As we zoom in on the fish tank for the ``As the Tank Turns'' sequence in ``Sick Days'' (#113), Melissa looks down at into the tank, then up to the camera, as if seeing whether the camera is still on. This looks really creepy when you first notice it! :-)
• In the opening scene of ``The Great Debate'' (#119), when Clarissa's alter ego (on the right) turns to leave, a small portion of her left hand disappears briefly. [See also Special effects.]
• In ``Sam In Love'' (#124), the solution to Clarissa's word problem about the cute farmer and his convertibles is wrong: 3 x 6 x 365 = 6570, not 6750! [Thanks to ...?]
• In ``Marshall's Mid-Life Crisis'' (#135), when Clarissa plops down the gourd as she and Ferguson say, ``Uh, oh!'' (which is dubbed), it doesn't make any sound.
• In the credits of ``Marshall's Parents Visit'' (#138), Marshall's father is listed as ``Quetin'' Darling -- surely this should be ``Quentin''?! Note that his name is never actually spoken in the episode itself.
• Uh... that ain't no spaghetti in ``A Little Romance'' (#147) (despite what the subtitles say).
• In the ``no comment'' scene in ``UFO'' (#163), the word ``sergeant'' is misspelled on the screen [``Sargent Buttonlip'']. [Thanks to Aaron J. Dinkin.]
• The ``torpedo'' in the submarine scene in ``Dear Clarissa'' (#162) is actually a missile of some kind. (Torpedoes don't fly through the air!)

  Rick Fernandes, on the submarine and torpedo:

  The submarine was built by a great Art Department out of plywood. Not rented as someone thought. As far as the torpedo not being a torpedo, the US military has no torpedo footage. Trust me, we had a nation-wide stock footage search, and the footage we ended up with came from Canada. All those torpedo shots you see in movies were made specifically for that picture by special fx departments. We at CEIA have budgets for plywood subs, not for recreating torpedoes.

  (Note: I don't know who originally posted about this, but thanks to Mario Milan for catching a mistake of mine in this entry: the episode in question was #162, not #161.)

• In ``Clarissa Gets Arrested'' (#164), Ferguson tells Clarissa that the Darlings' front yard is ``the third tee''; then he says that the Soapersteins' front deck is also ``the third tee''! I think the latter phrase should have been ``the third hole''.

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