Continuity Errors: Starts With the House Layout and Just Gets Worse

[Bastet]

8 minutes ago, MoistestCake said:

Rose tells the girls she gets hot at weddings because on her wedding night she and Charlie had the most passionate night. But I'm sure that in another episode she tells them how the first night with Charlie was weird and uncomfortable.

At first, yes.  She says, "I was kind of, well, appalled, I guess.  But Charlie was very patient.  It was really very nice, once I understood that that's what you were supposed to do, that it wasn't some colossal joke, you know?"

During the orgasm discussion that follows she reiterates it was nice - "being near Charlie was nice" - but says, no, she didn't have an orgasm; "it was five years before I knew what made your eyes go back in your head."

Which, of course, if we also believe the ridiculous later claim that they had sex every night and every morning, would mean she had unfulfilling sex for five years despite Charlie giving it the ol' college try over 3500 times.

[Snow Apple]

1 hour ago, MoistestCake said:

Rose tells the girls she gets hot at weddings because on her wedding night she and Charlie had the most passionate night. But I'm sure that in another episode she tells them how the first night with Charlie was weird and uncomfortable.

I may be remembering wrong but I thought Rose and Charlie was at somebody else's wedding which led to the passionate night?

[Bastet]

16 minutes ago, Snow Apple said:

I may be remembering wrong but I thought Rose and Charlie was at somebody else's wedding which led to the passionate night?

No, she says, "At my wedding in St. Olaf's Great Shepherd Church," and then babbles about the choir boys using balloons to make disgusting noises, so Rose and Charlie didn't put air in them.  After Blanche tells her to get on with the story, she continues, "Well, after the wedding, Charlie and I had the most exciting, passionate night of our lives.  After that, whenever we'd go to a wedding, we'd end up going home and putting on the cast album of Song of Norway, and going crazy on each other!"

It's about how weddings make her hot, so she can't go to this one (Mangiacavallo, the guy Sophia put a curse on decades ago when he left her at the altar), because Miles is out of town and can't go with her.  (She does go, and winds up saying things like, "Did anybody else notice the buns on the priest?")
 

Edited June 17, 2021 by Bastet

[Cobalt Stargazer]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

At first, yes.  She says, "I was kind of, well, appalled, I guess.  But Charlie was very patient.  It was really very nice, once I understood that that's what you were supposed to do, that it wasn't some colossal joke, you know?"

Rose: "It was a surprise."

Blanche: "How is that possible, did another man show up?"

[SweetSin]

It seems that Dorothy has the worst continuity errors.

Another one of Dorothy errors or never elaborated on is when Dorothy is trying to buy Frank Sinatra tickets. While on the phone she says that before the concert Stan asked for a divorce and how he got the tickets and she got the house. So why did Dorothy need to move in with Blanche? She has a house in her name, so what did she do with it? Did she give it to Michael or Kate to live in? Sell it? Foreclosed on? Sell it back to Stan which I doubt she did since she was still angry with him about the divorce. Sell it to keep Sophia in Shady Pines?

Her prom story is back and forth. One moment Phil was her date to the prom, John Neretti stood her up for the prom, or she was in the attic slow dancing with a rake. Now maybe one of these was the junior prom so maybe one happened in the 11th grade and the other happened during her senior year in HS.

How did they get back to Miami from Hollywood after being on Grab That Dough? Their purses was stolen and they said they won nothing on the show if we're to believe Sophia & Rose turned down the $100 each they won. The show didn't provide airline tickets.

 

[MoistestCake]

The whole how Dorothy and especially Stan end up in Miami is not clear, so maybe the house was in NYC. At first Stan is in a hotel visiting from Hawaii and then stays in Miami?

[BigBingerBro]

There is the one episode where they sell some land they bought while married and had planned to retire on.  So I guess they at least both planned to wind up in Miami eventually.

[Ria]

On 11/2/2021 at 5:07 PM, BigBingerBro said:

There is the one episode where they sell some land they bought while married and had planned to retire on.  So I guess they at least both planned to wind up in Miami eventually.

Supposedly they bought the land while in Miami on their honeymoon (after the honeymoon in the Poconos presumably). How two broke teens with a baby on the way could afford to buy land anywhere is up for grabs. 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

On 11/3/2021 at 9:35 PM, Ria said:

Supposedly they bought the land while in Miami on their honeymoon (after the honeymoon in the Poconos presumably). How two broke teens with a baby on the way could afford to buy land anywhere is up for grabs. 

I had the strong impression that Stan mooched off of Sal and Sophia for quite a few years, that one of the reasons Sophia disliked him so much was because he more or less picked their pockets in addition to cheating on their daughter eight ways from Sunday. In  the flashback episode where Dorothy and Stan go to see his mother for a loan, it turns out that even she thought he was a yutz who only pretended to talk him up, so maybe he got the money for the land from his new in-laws?

[scarynikki12]

When did they change it so that Stan and Dorothy were both in high school when she got pregnant? If it was after this episode then I would say that would explain why they were able to buy some land on their honeymoon. Initially Stan was much older than Dorothy when she got pregnant so he could have had some money saved. 

[schnauzergirl]

In the flashback where Dorothy tells Sophia she's pregnant and has accepted Stan's proposal, he doesn't look much older than a high school senior.  This whole Dorothy/Stan thing strikes me as one of the major examples of how the writers didn't think about a real-life timeline and did whatever they had to do to move the plot line along.

[BlancheDevoreaux]

The frustrating thing is, they easily could have written it so that Dorothy and Stan bought the land on a specific anniversary. They fell in love with the area on their honeymoon and promised each other that they would one day own property there. They scrimped and saved and finally, on their twentieth or whatever anniversary, they finally were able to buy some land. That would even make the property possibly more emotional because of the years put into it.

[MoistestCake]

I'm sure this has been mentioned 100s of times, but in the episode where uncle Angelo first turns up, Dorothy says Michael is a successful musician playing with the Boston Philharmonic. A few episodes later when we meet Lorraine, Michael is playing in a band where he met Lorraine.... I guess he could have changed jobs...

[schnauzergirl]

1 hour ago, MoistestCake said:

I'm sure this has been mentioned 100s of times, but in the episode where uncle Angelo first turns up, Dorothy says Michael is a successful musician playing with the Boston Philharmonic. A few episodes later when we meet Lorraine, Michael is playing in a band where he met Lorraine.... I guess he could have changed jobs...

And he had been fired in the episode where neither Dorothy nor Stan want him to live with them.  I

[BigBingerBro]

12 hours ago, MoistestCake said:

I'm sure this has been mentioned 100s of times, but in the episode where uncle Angelo first turns up, Dorothy says Michael is a successful musician playing with the Boston Philharmonic. A few episodes later when we meet Lorraine, Michael is playing in a band where he met Lorraine.... I guess he could have changed jobs...

I mentioned this once on Reddit and someone had a plausible theory:  The Uncle Angelo episode was full of lies and deception, so perhaps that was another exaggeration.   

[MoistestCake]

Truby says she likes her exes old and rich, and has had 3 exes, so why does she need to rent a room....  

[Hiyo]

I'm going with companionship, I guess?

[BlancheDevoreaux]

On 2/28/2022 at 3:24 PM, MoistestCake said:

Truby says she likes her exes old and rich, and has had 3 exes, so why does she need to rent a room....  

Live large until the money runs out and then find your next meal ticket?

[Keywestclubkid]

They just played the episode where Phil dies … again it bugs me that the writers didn’t catch it ….WHY were their family plots down in Miami? 

[Snow Apple]

1 hour ago, Keywestclubkid said:

They just played the episode where Phil dies … again it bugs me that the writers didn’t catch it ….WHY were their family plots down in Miami? 

Because "Miami, Miami, you've got style." Just like Phil.

[Not4Me]

On 8/7/2022 at 12:46 PM, Keywestclubkid said:

They just played the episode where Phil dies … again it bugs me that the writers didn’t catch it ….WHY were their family plots down in Miami? 

I was too distracted by Dorothy’s ostentatiously large Chanel earrings at the funeral to notice that continuity gaffe.

Oh well at least Big Daddy died in Georgia.

[Keywestclubkid]

10 minutes ago, Not4Me said:

I was too distracted by Dorothy’s ostentatiously large Chanel earrings at the funeral to notice that continuity gaffe.

Oh well at least Big Daddy died in Georgia.

Lol Phil was a special man 

[andromeda331]

4 hours ago, Keywestclubkid said:

Lol Phil was a special man 

I always liked stories about him. I wish we had got to meet him. 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

On 8/7/2022 at 11:00 AM, Snow Apple said:

Because "Miami, Miami, you've got style." Just like Phil.

"God, he looks like he died in a Benny Hill sketch!"

[Keywestclubkid]

9 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

"God, he looks like he died in a Benny Hill sketch!"

I’m on one of those hidden camera shows arnt I? 

[Snow Apple]

9 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

"God, he looks like he died in a Benny Hill sketch!"

We can't all pull off a teddy style nightgown like Phil can.

[DXD526]

This isn't a continuity error, so much as something that doesn't make much sense. In 'The Monkey Show', Dr. Halperin is called to the house to deal with the Gloria-sleeping-with-Stan situation, and brings neighbor Carol Weston, with whom he was on a date. Why were they on a date when there was a hurricane hitting the city? Homes were being evacuated, the TV studio was being used as a shelter, and Carol and the doc thought that would be a good time to go out and paint the town?

Despite that, it's a great episode. The doc's, "Hey, you're off the monkey, mazel tov!", will never not crack me up! 

[SweetSin]

I don't like that episode cause of Sophia's behavior. She was downright horrible to Dorothy which I don't understand why Dorothy didn't let Sophia go run off to live w/Gloria. Sophia keeps saying Gloria is her favorite one. She doesn't mind Stan (who she strongly dislikes apparently) sleeping w/Gloria and hooked them up in that episode. Also snickered with Gloria with teasing Dorothy about Dorothy's ears when she gets mad and being a substitute teacher.

When Dorothy was rubbing it in how Gloria has no money Sophia doesn't like Dorothy teasing Gloria but doesn't mind Gloria doing it to Dorothy. Ugh.

[andromeda331]

On 2/15/2023 at 5:04 PM, SweetSin said:

I don't like that episode cause of Sophia's behavior. She was downright horrible to Dorothy which I don't understand why Dorothy didn't let Sophia go run off to live w/Gloria. Sophia keeps saying Gloria is her favorite one. She doesn't mind Stan (who she strongly dislikes apparently) sleeping w/Gloria and hooked them up in that episode. Also snickered with Gloria with teasing Dorothy about Dorothy's ears when she gets mad and being a substitute teacher.

When Dorothy was rubbing it in how Gloria has no money Sophia doesn't like Dorothy teasing Gloria but doesn't mind Gloria doing it to Dorothy. Ugh.

Yeah, Sophia was horrible in that episode. I don't get why she's okay with Stan and Gloria given how much she hated Stan. What she really wanted that for Gloria?

[mmecorday]

In the episode "End of the Curse," Dorothy and Rose have an extended back-and-forth about Spanish Fly. Rose says that she's been to Spain and Valencia alone has hundreds of flies. And here I was thinking that the most exotic place Rose ever visited was Tyler's Landing. 

[schnauzergirl]

Back to The Monkey Show.  Not a continuity error and I understand it was done for laughs, but after the first time Gloria and Stan slept together, he comes into the living room wearing one of Dorothy's robes (nightgown?).  Why didn't he just put on his clothes?  

[Bort]

Maybe he got… “something” on them and needed to wash them.

[babyhouseman]

20 hours ago, schnauzergirl said:

Back to The Monkey Show.  Not a continuity error and I understand it was done for laughs, but after the first time Gloria and Stan slept together, he comes into the living room wearing one of Dorothy's robes (nightgown?).  Why didn't he just put on his clothes?  

He had on her robe after he and Dorothy slept together again after the divorce. Maybe he has something in common with Phil?

[Keywestclubkid]

Why did we never get a Rose's mom passing away episode? shes alive in season one then the next time shes mentioned in present tense she is buried already ... it just seems weird to NOT give her a episode where she loses her mother 

[mmecorday]

One whole episode in season five was devoted to Dorothy's gambling problem. Flash forward a couple seasons and Dorothy goes on a cruise with a gentleman friend. She mentions losing $4 in the onboard casino.