More Goofs

[Michael1973]

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!

[shocolah]

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

[Superbatboy]

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

[bettywfan85]

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

[ConservativeBalla]

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.

[maryfan5]

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...

[maryfan5]

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...

[Sparkygirl]

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!!

[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?

[Michael1973]

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?

[Edster2973]

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

[arouet]

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-

[Oriole Adams]

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.

[snl75]

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.

[jisenhour]

Originally Posted by Michael1973

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.