Enhance this
January 13th, 2005 | Tags: entertainment
I was watching CSI with Andrea tonight (episode title: “Snakes”) and spotted an amusing error. Thanks to the magic of TiVO, I was able to pause the show and photograph this apparent prop mistake:
One doesn’t even need an enhance function to see that those Benjamins are not only obvious fakes, but are inscribed with the phrase “for motion picture use only.”
IMDB contains lists of errors and goofs in movies, but people purchase, rewind and rewatch movie. Television, on the other hand, is ephemeral. I wonder two things: First, how many errors like this are in any given episode of a popular TV show? (I noticed this because I happened to be paying attention at the right moment, but how many more mistakes are visible to the nitpickers?) Second, will the burgeoning practice of reselling DVD boxed sets of TV series (where closer scrutiny is likely) result in shows with fewer mistakes?