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Mistakes

No one's perfect... Including The CSI's

It's always fun to look for little mistakes in series or movies.
Some of these were posted on moviemistakes.com, some were found by viewers with a magnifying glass.

Examples are:
  • Visible crew/equipment
  • Continuity
  • Revealing
  • Audio problems
  • Factual errors

Please post your own findings here. Try to keep it categorized by season, using the 'Easy Edit' button!

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Continuity: Series 1 - Pilot: When Holly is first in Grissom's office and says that she feels light headed, Grissom offers her a chocolate-covered grasshopper and takes one for himself. Holly asks, "Is there a grasshopper in there?" and Grissom's right hand is near his waist. When the shot changes, Grissom merely smiles and eats the grasshopper, but his hand started off much closer to his chin without there being an opportunity for him to move it.

Continuity: Series 1 - Pilot/Cool Change - In the pilot, Grissom tells Holly he is the supervisor of the graveyard shift, but it is not until the next episode, Cool Change, that Brass was moved back to homicide and Grissom was put in charge of the unit.

Revealing: Series 1 - Pledging Mr. Johnson: While the morgue's examiner opens Johnson's right eye with his fingers, the "corpse's" eyelid twitches repeatedly.

Audio problem: Series 1 - Friends & Lovers: In the scene where Gil is talking to the drug dealer in the desert, he refers to him as a 'dumb punk'. But this has been dubbed over as what he actually called the dealer was a 'dumb prick' which you can tell by Gil's lip movements.

Continuity: Series 1 - Friends and Lovers: In the scene where Nick and Catherine are interrogating the two female suspects of the murder of the catholic school Dean, Nick throws a finger support onto the table, there's no tape. Yet, moments later when Catherine slips it ono her finger to demonstrate the pattern of the blood spatter, it's wrapped by tape around the middle.

Continuity: Series 1 - Friends and Lovers: In the first interrogation of the girlfriend suspect in the murder of the school dean, she brings her right hand up to her face and her pinkie is bent. Later when Catherine and Nick are interrogating her and her girlfriend again, Catherine asks her to count down with her fingers and she can't bend her pinkie and is thereby busted.

Factual error: Series 1 - Blood Drops: The show falls into the Hollywood myth on polygraphs. Jesse is given a polygraph test after pleading guilty to the 4 murders. He answers all questions, except the last one, honestly. The 4 traces on the polygraph show no real movement on these questions. On the final question, Jesse lies and all 4 traces spike. If polygraphs actually did that, they would be admissible in court. But the reality is, it is the opinion of a highly trained operator that decides if there is a lie. The average person could not look at a polygraph results and point out a lie. There is no huge, visible spike. The producers could have replaced the 4 traces with a red\green light: Green is an honest answer and red a lie.

Continuity: Series 1 - Blood Drops: Sara takes pictures of Brenda with an UV light camera. The camera used to film the episode for broadcast is barely able to show the walls in the background as tiled. When the UV pictures of Brenda are used in the interrogation, the photos show Brenda's back up against the tile wall.

Continuity:
Series 1 - Blood Drops: At the end, when Tina is shown the photos of Brenda they are in a pile of three. The camera cuts to a long shot and there are two in a row. Cut back to Tina and they are a pile of three again. This happens on and off throughout the scene.

Wrong use of words: Series 1 - Blood Drops: When Tina's in the interrogation room with Grissom and Brass she says "I was 13 and no one realized my clothes were getting bigger" Her clothes weren't the things getting bigger in fact they were most likely getting smaller....her stomach was the thing getting bigger. *Note: When Tina says "I was 13 and no one realized my clothes were getting bigger" she was correct. If one's stomach gets bigger, wouldn't one wear bigger clothes? And why would a pregnant woman's clothes get smaller? Yes. This is correct. She's implying that her stomach was getting bigger and no one out side of her family noticed. Her big clothes hid the truth.

Factual error: Series 1 - I-15 murders: Grissom and Catherine are looking through a microscope and discussing a microscopic specimen (heart of frozen body). In reality they would not see anything as all microscope objectives are missing on this instrument (the microscope nose-piece is totally empty.).

Continuity: Series 1: Anonymous: When Brown and Stokes give Greg the blue substance to analyze he puts it in the thing that picks up the little tube, when Greg presses the button to make it spin, it picks up the wrong tube so there is no way he would have known that the blue substance was cue stick chalk.

Continuity: Series 1- I-15 murders: When Catherine and Grissom are looking at a frozen body on the side of the road, Catherine's hair is in her face in some point of view and in another plan, her hair is besides her ear.

Deliberate "mistake": Series 1 - Fahrenheit 932: When the runner is shot in the back of the head in the SUV, the bullet has come out the front of his head. However, blood is seen on the windshield instead of a bullet hole where the bullet would have continued to go through the glass.

Continuity- Series 1- BOOM- In the very last scene, when Grissom is posting the newspaper clipping about the security guard, it looks like a fairly long, 3 paragraph story, but in truth, it is the first paragraph, copied 3 times to make it look longer.

Name Error: Series 1 - BOOM - Catherine walks into the Autopsy room and speaks to Al Robbins, she calls him "David" by mistake. Which is his real name. Robert David Hall.

Continuity: Series 1 - To Halve And To Hold: When Sara and Warrick are interviewing Meg at the end of the episode, the scene cuts between a medium shot of the dynamic duo, a close up of Meg's face and a close up of her hands which remain clasped on the table. The first time we cut to Meg there are tears in her eyes, but her face is dry. The second time we cut to Meg, there is a drying tear track on her right cheek. The third time we cut back to her, the tear track is gone, but there is a tear halfway down her left cheek. This continues throughout the scene.

Continuity & Factual Error: Series 1 - Cool Change: In the flashback of Holly Gribbs being attacked, she scratches the criminal with her gloves on. But when she falls on the ground, she is not wearing gloves. Later on, Catherine collects DNA from under her nails, which shouldn't be there if she was gloved when she scratched him.
*The glove was pulled off of her hand during the struggle.

Continuity: Series 1 - Table Stakes: When Gil and Catherine catch the couple in the bedroom, they are all sitting in the living room. Amanda is drinking a soda and it is about half full. Gil then asks for the straw. When we look at the soda again, it's full.

Plot hole: Series 1 - Table Stakes: When Sara is talking to Nick she tells him that she doesn't want any more coffee, that all she wants is a steak and a shot. This happens six episodes after Sex, Lies and Larvae where Sara becomes a vegetarian due to the pig experiment.

Continuity: Series 1 - Too Tough To Die: When Catherine and Warrick are testing to find the distance the shots were fired from, when Catherine shoots at the shirt that's 2 feet away there is no gunpowder around the hole. When Warrick puts the victim's shirt next to it, for comparison, there is now an inch of gunpowder around the hole.

Continuity: Series 1 - Too Tough To Die: While Sara is looking through missing person's files, Grissom comes in and starts talking to her. One shot her hair is in front of her face, the next it's behind her ear. This continues throughout the scene.

Continuity: Series 1 - $35K O.B.O.: In one shot Grissom puts a shoe on its side with a pencil. In the next shot the shoe is upright again.

Factual Error: CSI officers should never use personal items to pick up evidence (ie Pencil), which the cast does regularly.

Continuity: Series 1 - Evaluation Day: In the scene where Warrick pulls the piece of clothing from the toilet, the amount of water and dirt in the bowl changes between each shot.

Revealing: Series 1 - The Strip Strangler: Robbins is talking to Grissom and Nick in the autopsy room, and the latest post autopsy female lies on the table. Grissom says, "He choked her unconscious, and brought her..." and when the shot faces her head and shoulders, watch her neck - you can see the veins in her neck pumping.

Factual Error: All through season 1 the CSIs touch things without gloves when they shouldn't. This stops after the first season.

Audio problem: Series 2 - Burked: In one scene, when Warrick is in the prints lab, Nick claps his hands twice, but the sound track has him clapping three times.

Continuity:
Series 2 - Overload: Nick is eating a hot dog when he's handed a warrant. Depending on the camera angle, he goes from taking a bite out of the hot dog to holding the hot dog in one hand and the warrant in the other simply with camera angle changes.

Factual error:
Series 2 - Overload: When they are explaining why a nail was hammered into the electrocuted workman's boot, it is said that cars are protected from lightning strikes because they are insulated from the ground by their tires. Actually, tires conduct electricity, because they contain carbon (see: http://cartalk.cars.com/Columns/Archive/1994/November/11.html). Cars are actually protected from lightning by the Faraday Cage effect, which is explained on http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~kskeldon/PubSci/exhibits/E3/. Not a mistake CSI scientists would make.

Factual error: Series 2 - Overload: In the episode where the worker got electrocuted in a construction site the main character, before replaying the victim's fall, says that "terminal velocity is 9.8 seconds squared". What he should have said was that acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared.

Continuity: Series 2 - Overload: When Nick is staring intently at the doctors lapel area, the camera zooms in and we see some lint on the doctors left lapel. When Nick asks Catherine to get the tape on it, Catherine approaches the suspect and she starts to put the tape on the left lapel, but when the camera zooms in for a close-up of her getting the lint, the tape is being applied to the RIGHT lapel.

Continuity: Series 2 - Scuba Doobie-Doo: In the scene where Nick and Catherine are interviewing Walden, Catherine's fringe moves from right to left and back to right. This continues throughout the interview.

Other: Series 2 - Alter Boys: In the scene where Grissom is talking to the coroner about the man who was shot and strangled with his tie, you can see the actor that played the body breathing.

Continuity: Series 2 - Caged: When Grissom enters the cage in which the woman is found, he goes to the wastebasket to examine the pen that rolled on the floor. As he first picks it up, he grasps it right at the point where the black grip section meets the gray barrel section. As the shot changes and he continues bringing it up to examine it, he is now grasping it near the end of the gray barrel. As it is supposed to be a continuous shot (conversation is uninterrupted the entire time), there is no time for him to change his hand position.

Continuity: Series 2 - Ellie: When Warrick is talking to Dr. Robbins, his collar changes place. During the close-ups, only the right side of his collar is tucked in. During shots farther away, both sides are tucked in.

Visible Crew/Equipment: Series 2 - Ellie: When Warrick is talking to Greg in the DNA lab comparing Brass' DNA, the boom mic is reflected on the back wall.

Revealing: Series 2 - Identity Crisis: When Grissom finds Isabelle Millander dead in her chair, you can see her blink as the shot changes, even though she's supposed to be dead.

Revealing: Series 2 - Identity Crisis: After Grissom finds Isabelle Millander dead in her chair, he walks towards to the bathroom. When the shot changes, you can see her shift her legs even though she's supposed to be dead.

Continuity: Series 2 - Identity Crisis: Supposedly, Paul Millander was 10-years-old when his father was killed according to a newspaper report Sara reads. It always that this father died August 17, 1959. In the last scene, Grissom looks at Paul's birth certificate. It says that Paul was born August 17, 1956, which would mean that he was actually 3-years-old when his father died.

Continuity: Series 2 - The Finger: When Catherine goes into the diner with a man, and Sara is sitting talking to her date, in one shot they are talking and in the next immediate shot has a cup to his lips.

Revealing: Series 2 - Cross-Jurisdictions:As they recover the car from the canal and open the door to reveal the girls dead mother, you can see her still breathing as they lie her on her back to examine her.

Continuity: Series 2 - Cross-Jurisdictions:In this episode, Catherine is sent to Miami on a lead of a missing child. There they find a car in a swamp, and when the pull the car out and open the door, a female body falls halfway out. When this happens you can see the woman playing the victim breathing. You see her stomach moving up and down.

Revealing: Series 2 - Cross-Jurisdictions:When the CSI from Miami and Catherine are in the autopsy, the guy goes to take a sample from the eyes of the dead woman. When he moves the swab towards her eye, you can see the actress' top eyelid move instinctively. She's supposed to have been dead for hours.

Factual error: Series 3 - Revenge Is Best Served Cold:Stokes tells "Michaelangelo" he is looking for a blue Honda, blue rims, blue tint. The picture Michaelangelo shows Stokes and Willows is an Acura RSX, not a blue Honda. (Note: The red Honda that the victim was driving is not the one that Stokes is looking for.)

Continuity: Series 3 - Let The Seller Beware:When Sara is trying to match up bite plates. In the first two close-up shots of Sara's face, you can see an out-of-focus shot of Greg's sleeve on the right side of the screen, seconds before he actually appears in the scene.

Continuity: Series 3 - The Execution Of Catherine Willows:At one point Catherine is at the coffee shop and the parents of a murdered girl come to talk to her. She is holding her coffee in the right hand and her cell phone rings and she grabs it with her left. The shot switches angles while Catherine is talking and her cell phone has magically shifted to her right hand.

Plot hole: Series 3 - Flight Night:A large part of Nick's plot line revolves around the discovery that the couple's stolen ring has a fake diamond switched out for the real one. But the ring was left as collateral for a very expensive necklace for the woman to wear that night. There is no way that a jewelery store would accept a ring for collateral without appraising the ring's/stone's value first. And in that inspection, they would have discovered the switch and not accepted it.

Audio problem: Series 3 - High And Low:When Nick and Warrick find the dead man's flying equipment, Nick says "Bingo" but his lips don't move.

Continuity: Series 3 - Got Murder?:In the scene where Catherine is going through the nest she pulls out a baby rattle and sets it on the desk. Grissom enters the room, and the camera pans back to the nest, only the baby rattle is back inside the nest.

Continuity: Series 3 - Got Murder?:When Catherine is looking through the contents of the birds nest, she takes out the teething ring and places it on a pile on the left. When Gil comes in and asks her what she has, the shot shows the nest and the teething ring is back in it.

Other: Series 3 - Random Acts Of Violence: Just after they arrest the Janitor, they are walking out of the building past the employee's. The girl sitting at her chair is not actually typing on her keyboard, her fingers never even press on the keys and her screen-saver is displayed on the screen.

Plot hole: Series 3 - Random Acts Of Violence: While searching through the dead computer guy's CDs Nick finds a CD supposedly burned that night, containing data gathered at the time of death, but by the time the CD was burned the guy would have already been dead, so who took it out of the computer and filed it away?

Plot hole:
Series 3 - Lady Heather's Box:In the scene where Lindsay is being questioned she says that the car driver got out of the car, then Eddie (Lindsay's father and Catherine's Ex) fell out of the car and into the water. This is not possible. The passenger side door was closed and as the car was on an angle and wedged against the ground and unable to open. It is not possible that he fell upwards and out of the driver side door.

Continuity-series 3 - Lady Heather's Box: In the scene where they find the strangled woman on her stairs, Grissom and Cathrine are examining the body. It does a shot of the ladies face, and her mouth is closed, then a 2 second shot back to Grissom and Cathrine, and then back to the DB's face, and her mouth is open. There was no possible way that Grissom or Cathrine would have had time to open the mouth in the amount of time between shots and neither of them had moved.

Continuity: Series 3 - Crash And Burn:When Sara is showing Greg the route the old woman took in her car, she draws a blue line on the screen with her finger. When she says something about turning left she draws a continuous line to the "Meadows Lane," but when the shot changes and goes back the line is broken into two.

Continuity: Series 3 - Forever:The DB in the desert is in funeral pose. Sarah notices something on his hands, which are laying one on the other in a close shot. Cut to a wide shot and the top hand is off the other. Cut again to a close shot and it is once again atop the other.

Continuity:
Series 3 - Forever: When Sara and are looking at the dead girl in the prom dress, she is turned over by the coroners and her hands are almost touching straight above her head. But when the shot changes, her arms have moved quite far apart.

Continuity: Series 3 - Forever: When Grissom is in the horse stall, one shot shows the door closed to Grissom's back. Cut to the next shot (a closer shot through the door) and it's open.

Factual error: Series 3 - Forever: When Catherine measures the weight of the lentils on the scale, she doesn't subtract the weight of the plastic container the lentils are in, which would affect the over all weight and thus the number of cases of diamonds they are looking for.

Visible crew/equipment: Series 3 - Inside The Box: During the robbery, when the lady grabs her son. There is a visible reflection of the boom-mic and the operator in the teller glass.

Plot hole:
Series 4 - Homebodies: Catherine is picking up the gun in the backyard. It is an unfamiliar weapon. She picks it up by using the loop around the trigger and pointing it towards herself. She then checks the clip, but never checks the chamber.

Revealing: Series 4 - Feeling The Heat: The dead baby is obviously a doll.

Continuity:
Series 4 - Jackpot: When Grissom's car window is broken in the first shot where you first see the break there is hardly any glass left in the frame and yet when he is at the gas station there is an almost perfect circle of broken glass and a lot more in the frame.

Other: Series 4 - Coming Of Rage: This episode has four teenagers beat a contemporary to death with hammers, following a practice session with a pile of water melons. The boy is beaten to death sometime during the weekend, - probably on the Saturday. Prior to that is the practice session with the melons, which must be the Friday evening at the latest. The room with the melons is searched on a school day, Monday at the earliest. Yet the melons, in all that Nevada heat after lying around for three days, are still fresh looking, and there are no flies or other insects swarming over the juicy remains.

Factual error: Series 4 - Suckers: Grissom sees an information card for a 17th century suit of Japanese armour (just the card, not the suit itself), and immediately deduces that the suit must actually be from the 19th century, because the Japanese military was formed in the 1860s. That military was westernised, and did not wear armour. There was nothing on the card that falsely referred to that military as being established earlier, or indicated that the suit belonged to it. There was a reference to the "military class", but that was historically correct, and meant the Samurai.

Factual error: Series 4 - Suckers: They talk about the type of tubes used in HIV tests. There are no special tubes specific for HIV testing alone. It is one generic tube that can be used for a multitude of tests including HIV. It did not seem as though Greg knew that she had gone for HIV testing before he ran the tests, so he should not have concluded that it was the type of tube used for HIV testing, only Catherine or Warrick should have made that connection.

Whoops: Series 4 - Suckers: Sara finds a sticky substance in one of the display cases, Grissom said, make sure that gets to Greg, Greg is DNA not Trace, He should have said, make sure that gets to trace.

Revealing: Series 4 -Suckers: When Catherine swabs the house paint to make sure it isn't blood, in the first frame the phenolphthalein is capped, after she swabs the paint the phenolphthalein is automatically uncapped, she wouldn't have time to uncap it, especially since she only had one hand free.

Revealing:
Series 4 - Paper or Plastic: In the scene where the CSI team first arrive at the crime scene and Grissom is taking photos, the first photo he takes, you can see that the victim's eyelids flutter a bit.

Revealing: Series 4 - Paper or Plastic: In the scene where David is processing the dead cocktail waitress at the crime scene, you can hear the victim sigh audibly when they turn her over.

Continuity: Series 4 - Getting off: When the 1st victim is in the tire, the screen goes to a close up of his face and you can see his nostril flare.

Continuity: Series 4 - XX: When they discover all of the body parts under the bus, it is clear that the body is in pieces but if you look in the background you can see the coroners wheeling away a body on a gurney.

Plot hole: Series 4 - Bad Words:In the flashback that shows Adam Brenner playing his opponent using the word "Exvin", we can see that the X is also used in "Juxtapose". When the opponent adds an S to "Exvin", he is challenged and made to take back his tiles. However, the X would remain where it is because it is a part of another word. Since the opponent plays a word using an X later in the game ("Loxodrome"), we know that he must have taken back the X as well. However, that cannot be the case as then "Juxtapose" would not be able to stand without the X.

Continuity: Series 4 - Bad Words:Sam's matchbox, in the interview room, changes from face-forward to back-forward several times.

Continuity: Series 5 - Viva Las Vegas:When Brass and Grissom first enter the house of Ken Willard (the guy in the Polaroid), and Greg makes a noise at the door, the two of them turn around to see him. Then the angle changes, and they turn around again, repeating motion.

Continuity: Series 5 - Viva Las Vegas:When Grissom, Brass, and Greg go to the house of the guy in the Polaroid, Brass picks up a credit card from a table. First, he is holding it by his middle finger and thumb from the back, then the shot changes to a close-up and he is holding it with his index finger and thumb along the sides. Then, we return to the previous angle and he is once again holding it with his middle finger and thumb from the back.

Continuity: Series 5 - Down the Drain: While Catherine is in the drain preparing for the flush, Warrick is on the other end and his phone rings and he seems to answer it and speaks to Catherine. On her end, however, she has to pick up her phone and radio beep him back so obviously they were not in an actual phone call as it seems on Warrick's end.

Plot hole: Series 5 - Crow's Feet:Two women die after a medical error occurs after undergoing an "anti-aging" medical procedure. A 30% solution of hydrogen peroxide is given intravenously instead of a 3% solution. According the the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) a 30% solution is extremely corrosive and will blister skin on contact. 1) How did the women not bolt upright screaming as this extremely corrosive solution was pumped throughout their veins. 2) How did they not die in the clinic instead of the hours after as depicted in the show? Even in the CSI crew little experiment, the red blood cells immediately burst when exposed to the 30% solution.

Continuity:
Series 5 - Ch-Ch-Changes:As Nick and Warrick are assessing Wendy Garner's travel path and find that there are 14 minutes unaccounted for, the screen says "Wendy Jones' House". Her last name is Garner, her old last name was Clancy, and her fiancé's last name is Lanner, therefore it makes absolutely no sense to have "Jones" on the screen.

Continuity:
Series 5 - Who Shot Sherlock?: In the scene where Sara Sidle sits down at the victims desk and computer, in the first shot you see the top corner of the notebook lid, saying IBM, then when you see the screen it says DELL on the bottom of it, and then in the next shot you once again see the lid with the IBM mark.

Revealing: Series 5 - Snakes:When Warrick takes out the contents of the wallet, he removes a few 100 dollar bills. If you look carefully, you can see on the top bill it says "For Motion Picture Use Only."

Continuity: Series 5 - King Baby:In the scene where the CSIs are first crawling into the nursery, you can see Grissom's ungloved hand, which was gloved before entering and after exiting the crawlspace.

Continuity: Series 5 - Big Middle: Sara Sidle marks a triangle on a bed sheet around evidence and then proceeds to cut along the inside of the triangle lines in order to remove the evidence from the sheet. In the next shot, Sara is shown removing the cut out from the sheet, which now has been cut along the outside of the triangle lines.

Continuity: Series 5 - Big Middle:The board behind the odds maker keeps changing. At the beginning, he has crossed out the odds on the game between Miami and Memphis from 5 to 7 1/2 to 10 1/2. When Brass comes in, the board is only showing 5. It then changes every time it switches from Brass to the odds maker- it will show the 5 crossed out and then not crossed out the next time. Finally in the final shot, it shows the board without the 1/2 after the 10.

Revealing: Series 5 - Spark Of Life:When they show a closeup of the badly-burned woman during her debridement, it can be seen that even though her eyebrows and hair and, in fact, 90% of her skin has been burned away, she still has long, full eyelashes.

Factual error: Series 5 - Spark Of Life:Sanders is seen in the burn victim's OR, during debridement, wearing his street clothes (under a paper apron), and no mask or hat. Considering that the woman's skin is practically one continuous open wound, and her immune system is in an exceedingly fragile state, there's no way a breach of sterility like that would be allowed.

Other: Series 5 - Spark Of Life: Late in this episode, the CSI crew is sitting around discussing the case. Sarah Sidle summarizes the facts in the case, including making the comment that Tara Matthews was attacked by the truck driver "just before her death"; in actuality, while Tara was severely burned, she remained alive in the hospital throughout the entire episode.

Continuity: Series 5 - 4X4: When Warrick and the young coroner are examining the dead woman in the RV, look closely as you can see her blink.

Plot hole: Series 5 - Iced:How did the occupant of the room where the dry ice was placed only burn his index finger when he picked it up? His thumb, other fingers, and palm were all undamaged. Was he wearing special gloves that had only the index finger missing when he picked up the dry ice?

Continuity: Series 5 - Iced:In the opening scene, the female student is wearing green panties. When the two bodies are found, she is wearing red panties. It was a murder behind a locked door, so no one changed them for her.

Plot hole:
Series 5 - Iced:The bodies were pink because of exposure to the lower temperatures created by the dry ice venting into the room. None of the CSI team noticed a chill when they entered the room? None of them noticed the bodies were cold to the touch? No one noticed that the body or liver temperatures didn't match with the estimated time of death?

Factual error: Series 5 - Iced:The murder kills the two students by drilling a hole through the adjoining wall of the victim's room at floor level, placing 40lbs of dry ice next to the hole, and allowing the sublimating carbon dioxide to pass through the hole into the victim's room and creating a toxic atmosphere. Since the two rooms are at the same air pressure, the only possible way for the CO2 to move from one room to the next is to be pumped through. The melting dry ice would fill up the vacant dorm room where the murderer was before it would flow to the victim's room.

Continuity: Series 5 - Grave Danger (1):During the scene where Catherine goes to her father for the money to save Nick, the character played by Frank Gorshin is talking. At one point he is seen from the front and puts his hand up to fiddle with his collar/neck. The shot changes to a side view and both of his hands are suddenly in his lap with no time for him to have put his hands down.

Continuity: Series 5 - Grave Danger (1&2): there are a number of shots of Nick in the grave which don't match what the CSI team see via webcam. For example when he is speaking into the tape recorder he is holding it above his head from the view inside the grave, but from webcam he is holding it further down.

Continuity: Series 5 - Grave Danger (1&2): there are a number of shots of Nick in the grave which don't match what the CSI team see via webcam. For example, when he is speaking into the tape recorder he is holding it above his head from the view inside the grave, but from webcam he is holding it further down.

Other: Series 5 - Grave Danger (2): There is no way a body can be pulled out of a grave the way they showed. It would be a pretty tough trick to pull off with a 6', 200lb piece of lumber and virtually impossible with a body. If it was a solid, non-flexible piece of material, pulling on the rope would drag the item until it hit a ledge and then flip it out of the grave. The body is very flexible, especially at the waist. You'd have to pull a body from above, which they end up doing in real life.

Continuity: Series 5 - Grave Danger (2): There are some major continuity errors in the rescue scene at the end: First, the loader is missing from the side of the grave during several of the shots. Second, the rope changes position. The CSI crew is shown manning the rope, which is running parallel to the ground, ready to pull Stokes out of the grave. (There is a physics problem with this anyway.) The next shot is a close up of Grissom and Brown and the rope is now going up at a severe angle. Brown can barely reach it. (The stuntman can only be pulled out from above, the aforementioned physics problem, and the rope is leading up to the rigging.) Third, immediately after the stuntman is pulled from the grave and right before the explosion, there is no one and nothing near the grave. The loader ends the scene right where it started: on the edge of the grave, bucket up, lights on.

Continuity: Series 5 - Grave Danger (2): When Grissom is on top of the box, talking to Nick, and he tells Nick to put their hands together, you can see that from shot to shot, the alignment of their hands changes. In one shot (from Nick's angle), Grissom's hand is higher than Nick's, as well as Grissom's index finger lines up with Nick's middle finger. In the next shot, their hands line up perfectly. The alignment changes throughout those few shots.

Factual error: Series 6 - Kiss-Kiss,Bye-Bye: Stokes and Brown are watching surveillance footage when a Trans-Am pulls up on screen. They are able to get the license plate number and when they pull it up, the computer says it is a 1978 Trans Am. When looking at the rear end of the car on screen, it is from a 1979-1982 model where the licence plate was placed on the rear bumper. The 1978 model had the license plate mounted between the taillights.

Revealing:
Series 6 - Bodies In Motion:At the end of the episode when Grissom and Archie are listening to the tape from Nick's kidnapping, the screen shows the audio being played. While the audio obviously changes, the lines that sketch what the sound would "look" like don't. In order for the sounds to be different, the lines would have to change too.

Continuity:
Series 6 - Room Service:When Warrick is in the hotel room at the start, the corpse's eyes alternate between open and closed.

Factual error: Series 6 - Shooting Stars:The CSI staff repeatedly refer to the murder weapon as a tire iron. It is a crow bar or demolition bar. It had a nail pulling head, not a socket for the lug nuts.

Continuity: Series 6 - Gum Drops:When Nick "attacks" the kidnapper in the interrogation room, a single tear falls down from the boy's left eye. When the shot changes to a different angle, the tear is coming down from his right eye.

Other: Series 6 - A Bullet Runs Through It (1):While Catherine is in the lab reviewing the audio tape of the police call to dispatch, the dispatcher claims that the first call she received was at 6:34. First, her lips do not match what she is saying and then when they show the screen with the audio playing, the screen reads "first call 5:43."

Revealing: Series 6 - Still Life:The corpse's eyelids move/blink when the coroner slams the door in the morgue on the season finale of CSI.

Revealing: Series 6 - Still Life: The little boy, Jesse's height was indicated on the wall as 36 1/2 inches. This is the average height of a 2 year old boy. He was 6, it would have made him very small for his age.

Word Usage: Series 6 - I like to watch: When Hodges and Sara are in the trace lab Hodges tells her that he analyzed the yellow flakes off of the red substance she collected, Catherine collected the nail polish, not Sara, he should have said I analyzed the yellow flakes of the red substance Catherine collected.

Continuity: Season 6 - Rashoma - When David is collecting evidence from the woman's fingernails, you can see her fingers move.

Visible crew/equipment: Season 6 - Bang-Bang: When Captain Brass is shot you can see the squib light appear on his right side just before the "bullet hole" in his shirt.

Continuity: Series 7 - Part 1: When Sara and Warrick are at the table discussing the case, Sara's box containing her veggie sandwich changes position depending on whether the camera is looking at her or Warrick. (It moves from directly in front of Sara, and then several inches to her right toward the edge of the table).

Continuity: Series 7 - Fannysmackin' When the whole team are in the locker room at the end Sara takes her sunglasses off of her t shirt before she starts to talk and puts them on top of her head, but in the close ups they are back on the t shirt

Continuity: Season 7 - Fannysmackin' - When Greg goes to look through the window into Demetrius James' hospital room, Aaron James is standing straight up, with one hand on his hand and the other on his waist, and looks over at the window where he sees Greg. When the camera does a close up on him, he is leaning over the bed, and stands up straight while looking at Geg.

Word Usage: Series 7 - Lab Rats: Wendy asks Sara if it's true that the miniature crime scenes are what keep Grissom up at night. Actually, what keeps Grissom up at nights is a job he has as CSI's night shift supervisor.

Continuity: Series 7 - The Good, The Bad & The Dominatrix: Sara is in the lab and describing how the only fingerprints were Lady Heather's: on the shot glass, on the piano, etc. However, in the first scene we see Lady Heather down a shot from the shot glass with gloved hands. Lacy gloves to be exact. I'd like to know how she left those fingerprints....

Factual Error
: Series 7 - Sweet Jane: When Nick looks into the box, you can see the papers are shredded in rectangles, rats don't shred papers in rectangles. when they shred paper, its completely ripped up. another thing is unless a box is up against a wall, there is no way, a rat could climb up to the 3rd box (thats just my experience, maybe they can climb up to the 3rd box without it being against a wall, but I have never seen them get that high)
Factual Error: Series 7 - Sweet Jane: The box that has Jane Doe's old case file in is the third one from the top with other boxes on top of it. The rats would not have been able to climb into a box like that because it had the other boxes on top of it and it wasn't damaged from the side. Also real life CSI'S would know better than to keep old case files in a storage place so unsanitary.

Continuity: Series 7 - Burn Out: When Grissom is talking to the sex offender, he is at the table. The camera then moves to the man, and when it comes back to Grissom, he's leaning back against the wall.

Continuity: Series 7/8 - Living Doll/Dead Doll- In living doll, Grissom walks into his office and sees the miniature as Sara is getting taken. In Dead doll, he is on the phone with her, right until she opens her trunk.

Visibility: Series 7/8 Living Doll/Dead Doll- In the mini the dolls right arm is stuck under the car as well as when its originally lowered onto her but through out the rest of the show its her left arm under the car and in a la cart her left is the one in the bandage.

Continuity: Series 8 - The Chick-Chop Flick Shop: When Ronnie is talking to "Zach Putrid" at the end of the episode, her arms are down, but when the camera returns to her, her arms are at her sides.

In Season 7- One Second Grissom has on a black polo, and two seconds later he has a charcoal gray one on.

Other: In Let The Sellers Beware The Dead Cheerleader opened her eyes When Sara Started Talking!!


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invegas1 little errors 1 Mar 13 2008, 7:45 AM EDT by TheFoxFan
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The SouthPoint is a bit south of Mandalay Bay on Las Vegas Blvd South (The Strip) and is NOT in or near Boulder City. Anyone coming into town from LA can see that. And we don't have passenger trains come through anymore. At least, not that I'm aware of.
I don't think it's big enough deal to be in the "Factual Error" catagory, but the map Catherine used in "Who and What" had some of the identifcations wrong. Of course they added a town that doesn't exist. No big deal. But one of the highways noted was identified as "16". It's really the 160 (also known as Blue Diamond Road) which goes to Pahrump. They got the mountain ranges correct, but Spring Mountain Ranch State Park was placed too far south. In reality it's closer to town, between Bonnie Springs and Red Rock Canyon...but don't tell anyone.
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csi_fan_4_ever Mistakes, Mistakes, Mistakes.... 2 Mar 13 2008, 7:42 AM EDT by TheFoxFan
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Wow! These are really funny! I can imagine that a bunch of things probably happen because you have to pretend that there are "dead bodies" and stuff. I can admit that I would breathe too if I had to be a dead body....I mean....I want to stay alive!
I was watching CSI the other day, and while I was watching, I looked on the site. It had the same mistake! I started cracking up!
Thank you to whoever puts up these mistakes! If you find more, remember to put them up!

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csigirlx3 Reflection 0 Jan 13 2008, 7:55 AM EST by csigirlx3
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Theres an episode, but i don't know what series were in Gregs sunglasses you can see a reflection and its the camera crew and all the cameras, its quite funny i found a picture for it on Google :P
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littlesarah Turn of the screws 1 Jan 12 2008, 9:46 AM EST by Ashy11
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When Greg finds semen on the rollercoaster cart, grissom says that adrenaline AND epinephrine enhance ejaculation; except anyone with a basic knowledge of chemical nomenclature knows these are two different names for the exact same molecule!
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littlesarah Living/Dead doll - continuity 1 Dec 1 2007, 9:58 PM EST by AnaRita69
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When Sara gets out of the elevator she's carying her usual suitcase kit she takes to crime scenes. This would make sense if she was coming out of the lab but wer're told she was in a mall eating in veggie restaurant
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