I recently spotted several more entries for the ever-growing list of plot goofs from this otherwise great series.

In the episode where the girls plan to buy a painting because the artist is dying, I noticed the following:

1.) The very first words of the episode are Dorothy saying, "Morning, Ma. How'd you sleep?" This to me indicates that it's first thing in the morning. However, later in that same scene, Blanche is showing the girls a painting and describing it in detail. When she gets to the part where she describes the "orange streak" as representing the planets, Rose says, "No it's not. That's from when I put down my creamsicle to answer the phone this afternoon!" If it's first thing in the morning, how could she have done anything this afteroon?

2.) After the girls buy the painting, Dorothy calls Sophia to tell her. Sophia is then seen donating blood at the hospital while talking to Dorothy. How did Dorothy know where to call?

Now, a couple of minor things I caught in the Bob Hope episode:

1.) When Blanche is complaining that the talent show emcee cancelled, she mentions that he's a TV weatherman. I don't recall the exact name of the station but it began with a "K". All East Coast TV and radio stations begin with "W".

2.) In the opening scene, the following discussion takes place...

(Dorothy complains about the lack of talent)
Rose: I wish we were back in St. Olaf.
Blanche: Why? Do they have a lot of talented people there?
Rose: No. Because it'd be lunchtime. I could go for (some kind of sandwich) right about now.

Does this make any sense? St. Olaf would be 1-2 hours behind Miami in terms of time zone, meaning it was already Rose's lunchtime 1-2 hours ago!

Good calls on the bloopers; however, there is a radio station in Pittsburgh PA or Philadelphia (?) that starts with a "K", although I'm sure all the other ones on the east coast start with "W".

Edit: It's KDKA in Pittsburgh...here's a link to Pittsburgh stations:

http://www.post-gazette.com/tv/radioconnections.asp

The St Olaf one kind of makes sense. Because they're twisted people and probably would have lunch at a weird time.

the radio station one was probuly done on purpose, like the "East of miami" (or what ever derection) highschool, it would have been in the ocean if it were that name, they do it so they dont advertise for a reall place, so they propbuly did the radio station name as not to put a reall one on the air,
hope this makes sense

Originally posted by Michael1973
I recently spotted several more entries for the ever-growing list of plot goofs from this otherwise great series.

2.) After the girls buy the painting, Dorothy calls Sophia to tell her. Sophia is then seen donating blood at the hospital while talking to Dorothy. How did Dorothy know where to call?

All of them are good catches except with this one, Dorothy just may have known Sophia's hours to volunteer and knew she'd be at the hospital.

There is a mojor goof in the episode from season one when theyre babysitting during the marathon and get stuck with a baby overnight. When the father finally returns, he says the reason he didnt retrieve his baby was because his wife just gave birth to twins. This is impossible if she already has an infant, since she would have to be pregnant with the twins for 9 mos and her existing baby was a mere infant, far less than 9 mos old...
another goof is when Rose tells the others she is adopted...she says that "The Nylunds were only my adoptive parents" -- but Nylund was her married name. She should have said "The Lyndstroms"... also,remember when The Grief Center closed down and Rose got a job as a waitress? Well,she never seemed to work one single day at the diner,and before we knew it she was back working as a grief counselor (an odd job for a woman who supposedly never graduated from high school)
...then again,in one episode,she says she went to college...

I don't know if I would necessarily call this a "goof" but I am sure many of you noticed glitches in the GG set. Never mind that the exterior shots of the house dont match properly,but Rose's bedroom seems to be the front yard! if you look at her room from the living room window,all you see is the sky and shrubbery and their neighbors' houses. Plus,their garage seems to be running right into Sophia's bedroom.
In the flashback episode,Rose says "2nd door on the left, right?" but her bedroom was the first door on the left...

I was watching this mornings rerun on Lifetime, it was the one where Sophia was to do a commercial for a new restaurant and decided to do it in the kitchen of the home, the producer came to check the kitchen out to see if it would work for the commercial. In the meanwile Rose was looking for pills that she became addicted too and Sophia confessed to loosing them down the sink, and later, Rose woke up in the middle of the night to look for the pills and in walks Dorothy, Dorothy asks Rose why she needs the pills, and after making up other excuses Rose said, "it is the anniversary of my beloved cat, Fluffy, and Dorothy said "You've never had a cat, your allergic. And, if I recall correctly, on another episode, Rose was talking about a cat she had when she was married to Charley Lindstrom Lindstrom...

I just cought that today after seeing both of those episodes more than once!!:eek:

..on the episode where blanche, rose and dorothy are talking about the most romantic thing that a man had ever done for them, dorothy says it was when stan put her engagement ring in a glass of champagne and when she downed the champangne, she swallowed the ring--i always thought she was 4mos pregnant at her wedding and that the pregnancy was the reason the wed--if she was pregnant, why would she be drinking champagne?

I noticed two more nitpicky plot points in the episode where Dorothy is scared to have surgery. First, Blanche confesses to Dorothy that she's scared to death of flying in airplanes. Yet, wasn't there an episode some years later where Dorothy has a fear of flying and Blanche doesn't?

Also, Dorothy explains why she's afraid to have surgery -- when she was 5 her father left her alone in the hospital and she never got over how terrifying the experience was. She's been afraid of hospitals ever since. Well then, where exactly were her two children born?

Originally posted by Michael1973
Also, Dorothy explains why she's afraid to have surgery -- when she was 5 her father left her alone in the hospital and she never got over how terrifying the experience was. She's been afraid of hospitals ever since. Well then, where exactly were her two children born?

On Rose's farm. Rose's cat Fluffy (to whom Rose was allergic to) helped deliver the children...

Ed

As someone mentioned, the time where Rose says "The Nylands weren't my real parents" seems to me the biggest goof- and no seemed to have caught it- not even Betty White- which is strange- I've been to many sitcom tapings and they usually redo alot of stuff when taping, so it seems weird that this was not redone-

Originally posted by MeLoveBea
..on the episode where blanche, rose and dorothy are talking about the most romantic thing that a man had ever done for them, dorothy says it was when stan put her engagement ring in a glass of champagne and when she downed the champangne, she swallowed the ring--i always thought she was 4mos pregnant at her wedding and that the pregnancy was the reason the wed--if she was pregnant, why would she be drinking champagne?

In all fairness, in those days (when Dorothy would've been pregnant), the dangers of drinking (and even smoking) weren't emphasized by doctors. My aunt recalls visiting her OB when pregnant in the early 1960s, and he lit a cigarette for her.

how about that one where they go on that game show and they talk to the prize model before the show in real life game show contestants are not alowed to tilk to the host models or anyone else connected with the show or they bacome inelligable to be on the show the strange thing about this ep is that betty white of all people knows this firsthand.

I noticed two more nitpicky plot points in the episode where Dorothy is scared to have surgery. First, Blanche confesses to Dorothy that she's scared to death of flying in airplanes. Yet, wasn't there an episode some years later where Dorothy has a fear of flying and Blanche doesn't?

Also, Dorothy explains why she's afraid to have surgery -- when she was 5 her father left her alone in the hospital and she never got over how terrifying the experience was. She's been afraid of hospitals ever since. Well then, where exactly were her two children born?

Yeah, and few episodes later, we see Blanche on a private jet with Richard, the rich man she almost married. No mention was made about her fear of flying.

Yeah, and few episodes later, we see Blanche on a private jet with Richard, the rich man she almost married. No mention was made about her fear of flying.

That's because she was with Richard and knew she was going to be getting some action. I guess love making quelled the fear for her...

Ed

Maybe not one of the worst ones...but, even though Miles appears regularly beginning early in Season 5, there are episodes in the last two seasons where it seems like Rose isn't in a relationship:

"Old Boyfriends," - it never seems to occur to anyone that Rose could fend off Thor by saying she was seeing someone

"Love for Sale," - Rose goes up for auction as a bachelorette (and Miles never even shows up to bid)

"Stand by Your Man" (the one with Blanche's love interest in a wheelchair) - Blanche tells Rose to get a man instead of a dog, and Rose says she doesn't want a man

"Home Again, Rose" - we've said this before, he never visits while she's going through heart surgery

"One Flew Out..." - in all of the girls' ponderings about what's going to happen when Dorothy moves out, Rose never mentions her future with Miles. Nor does he attend Dorothy and Lucas' wedding.

Which brings me to another goof. In "Mangiavallo Curse," (Season 5) Rose says that weddings get her "hot." But we've seen her at plenty of other weddings: Kate Zbornak's; Dorothy and Stan's; Dorothy and Lucas' - without a date - and she never seemed to have that problem.

Plus, the stories about getting hot at weddings kind of contradict things she's said elsewhere about her sex life early in her marriage and since Charlie's death.

As much as I love this show the goofs are endless. :lol:

One off the top of my head is Blanche's daughter Rebecca. We first meet her with a nasty boyfriend and a weight problem. We next see her with no mention of that past boyfriend and thin as a rail.

But there are so much more. I guess they just wrote plot lines per show and left out history for the sake of having a funny episode. :confused:

Is it a "goof" that in "Twice in a Lifetime," Rose says she "never got over Buzz," whereas in so many other episodes she seems to have been so crazy about Charlie? Not to mention that in "Dancing in the Dark," she's panting for Miles? I also find it a little "off" that there's an episode about her finding him boring so soon after that. (Bloom is Off the Rose.) Maybe it's a realistic take on how the bloom does come off the rose in relationships in real life...but it seemed to me a little soon after they became an item, for that.

Another one that is (unusual for me, I know) not re Rose and Miles: in "If At Last," Sophia begins sucking up to Stan for the money, but by "Zborn Again," and "There Goes the Bride" she is back to hating him and not wanting Dorothy to be with him.

I suppose realisitically you can pine for someone but move on with life and get involved with someone else. So perhaps that was Rose's case.

As for Sophia she usually attached to Stan only when it was convenient. Usually when it meant money. So it may not have been much of a goof there. That's not say they may not have been paying attention to the history of the show but just that it is possible she just made nice when she wanted.

The one that always stands out for me is in season one when Rose applies for a job as a 'hospital administrator'
Seriously? She was 55, had been a housewife most of her life, and she thinks she can just waltz into a hospital claiming to have been with the same employer for 32 years, which was really just her marriage? She added that part as an embelishment of her resume - on Dorothy's advice no less!
Shame on both of them!
Also in season one, doesn't Blanche get engaged twice?
First in the pilot episode to the bigamist who was arrested, then later to Richard, who she dumped because of his 2 young children.
That woman obviously does not value her reputation!
GG is full of errors etc, but it's still my favourite old show by far!

Is it inconsistent that Blanche is so concerned when her niece, Lucy, sleeps around, given Blanche's own legendary "friendliness" and the way she always seems to be encouraging other women to be like her, in order to impress their guys? Or is that a common inconsistency in human nature? I know many parents don't want their kids to make the mistakes they themselves made when younger. But Blanche doesn't see her own escapades as mistakes.

I don't think character flaws should be mistaken for inconsistencies in the stories which is what the thread is going for here. For example Dorothy tells a story of her grandmother being old when she was a little girl but in a flashback her grandmother is in the scene played by Bea Arthur and the Dorothy is an adult. That's a goof.

The girls weren't perfect lovable but certainly not perfect. The goofs and inconsitencies pretty much came from the writers of the show who clearly forgot to check back at the history of some of the episodes.

Is it inconsistent that Blanche is so concerned when her niece, Lucy, sleeps around, given Blanche's own legendary "friendliness" and the way she always seems to be encouraging other women to be like her, in order to impress their guys? Or is that a common inconsistency in human nature? I know many parents don't want their kids to make the mistakes they themselves made when younger. But Blanche doesn't see her own escapades as mistakes.

I wasn't so much pointing out Blanche or Lucy's character flaws here, as pointing out that Blanche seems to admire every woman who has multiple lovers EXCEPT Lucy.

New goofs: we've had whole threads about how "Miles Webber" is really Nicholas Carbone, but even after they find that out they keep calling him Miles. But another one from the Cheeseman plot: how exactly does the Cheeseman know that he can learn where Miles/Nick is by coming to Miami and getting close to Rose?