Continuity mistake: After treating the girl who had a soda pop bottle explode in her face, when John and Roy are carrying the stretcher out the door, they're facing the stretcher and each other in the interior shot, but in the exterior shot John has turned around, with his back facing Roy while carrying the stretcher.
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John climb up to the scaffold John removes his gloves, but the stuntman keeps his gloves on for quite a few of the following shots, until he also removes his gloves.
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: On scene at the drunk's car accident with the little girl trapped in the car, in the shots facing the girl's mother she's standing with Vince behind the back of the car, near the crowd of bystanders, but in Roy's closeups while he's in the car with Debbie getting her vitals, we see the mother's legs (note her yellow polka-dot dress) right behind Roy, near the open front passenger door.
Peace Pipe - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: After watching the movie on TV, Chet says he has royal Indian blood, and when Johnny walks over to Chet he puts his arm around Chet's shoulder, and tells him it's called, "White man royalty syndrome," then it cuts to a closeup of Roy, and we see Chet still standing by himself.
Continuity mistake: After Early tells Dixie about the patient with an unknown illness, in the shot from the hallway, we see Carol taking him into treatment 4, which has a windowless door, but when Morton is examining him in the shot from inside the room there's a window on the door (looks like treatment 6).
Continuity mistake: When the woman from the car accident is brought to the ER, she's put into treatment 4, as mentioned by Dixie and all three doctors, and it has a windowless door, but when Early and Morton are speaking to the patient about the car accident, they're all in a treatment room with a window on the door (looks like 6, the one opposite the nurses' station).
Continuity mistake: When Roy and Johnny are with the injured hiker (John Travolta), after the gear-filled stokes is lowered to them Johnny places it right behind the hiker's head, but in the hiker's closeups the stokes basket vanishes, only to reappear in wide shots.
Continuity mistake: While the children from the bus accident are being lowered on 43's snorkel, Roy and Johnny are in the bus with the nun. Then even though quite some time has passed, by the time Roy and John are ready to free her from the wreck, it cuts to the shot of the same children still being lowered on the snorkel.
Continuity mistake: After Sister Barbara is brought to the ER, when Dixie tells Roy to get coffee with her, Dixie has long nails with light colored polish as usual, but when it cuts to the closeup of Dixie's hands getting coffee from the urn, the long nails are unpolished.
Continuity mistake: Just after the paramedics witness the purse snatching, when Johnny and Ed take off after the two purse snatchers, there are four cars parked at the curb in front of the squad, but just before Johnny leaps over the white picket fence, behind him we see that there are now six parked cars in front of the squad.
Continuity mistake: While Ed is in the field with John and Roy, it's the three of them sitting in Squad 51 when they're en route to their destinations, but in some shots of the moving squad Ed is not seated between them, such as when they respond to the cliff rescue. Additionally, after the purse snatching incident, when they head to Rampart for John's hand injury, only one person's in the squad as it backs up to receiving, even though it should be three.
Continuity mistake: When Johnny and Roy are in the water trying to rescue the the man trapped in the submerged car, they are wearing water-type shoes, not their regular uniform shoes.
Continuity mistake: When the ambulance carrying the 15 year old OD backs up to ER receiving, both attendants get out of the driver and passenger sides, but in the previous and following shot we see that one of the attendants has been sitting with Johnny and the patient, at the back of the ambulance.
Continuity mistake: When the 15 year old OD is wheeled into the treatment room and transferred onto the gurney, Roy leans over and starts removing the squad's resuscitator from the airway's mask, but then it cuts to a closeup of Morton's hands removing it.
Dinner Date - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: At very end in the locker room, when Chet asks Roy why Johnny is mad, Johnny's setting up his uniform shirt and the green pen is in the pocket, then it vanishes and reappears.
Continuity mistake: When Dr. Early is with the farmer with the unknown illness and talking to Dixie, there's a tall dark item sticking up on the left side of the farmer's buttoned shirt pocket, and then when Dr. Knott stops to ask him questions the item is sticking up on the right side of the buttoned pocket. It could not have simply shifted sides in the pocket, because the pocket flap is buttoned at the center.
Continuity mistake: When the tones drop for the structure fire at the hotel, the dispatched companies are: Engine 4, Engine 51, Engine 37, Engine 105, Truck 8, and Battalion 14. However, at the fire we see Engine 16, Engine 27, Engine 10, Truck 98, and Battalion 14 instructs Engine 23 and Engine 19 over the HT.
Continuity mistake: When Roy and John are with Boat 110, after the Harbor Patrol cancels their incident response, we hear that Engine 110 and Engine 58 are dispatched to 'aircraft down' and Boat 110 heads there as well, but when Boat 110 reaches the shore, we see an engine and a squad behind the airplane, just before more of 110's guys appear.
Continuity mistake: After Johnny and Roy rappel down into the canyon to rescue the unconscious hiker, when Johnny reaches the hiker, suddenly there's a grey 12" reflective strip attached to the back of his life belt, where there was none before. Then it vanishes when he gets the stokes basket, but it reappears when they attach the stokes to Truck 43's snorkel.
Continuity mistake: After Johnny moves the squad forward in the apparatus bay, he heads to the kitchen to get Roy, and in the next shot there's a rolling mop bucket with two mops that suddenly appear in front of the kitchen doorway.
Answer: It is standard practice to wet down driveways so that they stand out in a long shot.
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