Annoying little mistakes in the show.
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MarblesLove — 9 years ago(July 03, 2016 08:29 AM)
Mine have already been mentioned. For me it's mostly the inconsistency with their birthdays/ages and with Rachel and Chandler's first meeting.
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PaulWard27 — 9 years ago(July 03, 2016 01:52 PM)
Ages don't really make a difference to the stories or the humour, so I don't really get too bogged down by the mistakes.
As I said already though, it seems to me like something that could easily be avoided, surely someone would have created profiles with dates of birth so that ages and birthdays would always remain consistent. -
MarblesLove — 9 years ago(July 03, 2016 06:06 PM)
I think that's mostly why it bugs me though. It would have been so easy to just decide on birthdays for all of them and then just stick with it. It's not that hard. I do agree that generally it doesn't affect the humor though.
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myszowatek — 9 years ago(July 21, 2016 08:35 AM)
To me it was always two things.
First one
in TOW Ross's Inappropriate Song
Chandler: Yeah, oh, but I just keep picturing you rolling around with him
with your cowboy boots in the air
Monica: Cowboy boots? I've never worn cowboy boots in my whole life!
When clearly in Flashback when girls visiting boys in college Monika is wearing proper cowboy boots.
Second
it's about one date. It's just bugging me so much like no other inconsistencies in this showRachel became pregnant in May (right before M&Ch's wedding15.05) Pregnancy lasts 9 months so she should give a birth around February. Yet right before labour she is in summer cloths and stating that is 100 degrees outside. As far as I know winter in NYC could be quite cold and frosty. There you go, I got this of my chest now:) Cheers
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PaulWard27 — 9 years ago(July 21, 2016 04:35 PM)
You can't assume the wedding was in May though, because the wedding episodes spanned over the finale of one season and the start of the next. By the same token, Rachel gave birth at the end of one season and was still in the hospital at the start of the next.
So just because the episodes aired months apart, it is obvious from the timeframes in the stories that time doesn't match reality so it seems fruitless trying to make sense of it. -
ppllkk — 9 years ago(September 23, 2016 08:01 PM)
myszowatek
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Pregnancy lasts 9 months so she should give a birth around February.
Ah, but you see that whereas the normal human gestation period is around nine months, in this sitcom it is one season, and I believe they are consistent about that.
That makes a certain amount of sense to me.
You cannot tell a priori how much time there is between episodes, including the last episode of one season and the first episode of the next season.
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Petals121 — 9 years ago(September 24, 2016 07:44 PM)
No Rachel's pregnancy is still messed up. She gets pregnant right before Monica marries (she got married in may) and yet there was this episode where Rachel is past her due date and it's apparently very warm outside. That doesn't make any sense. If she got pregnant is e.g. March her due date should have been in December. Not exactly heatwave month.
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Moonlighty — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 07:59 AM)
Yeah the pregnancy timeline is messed up. Yes, they wanted to do a wedding and pregnancy as the season finales. They also wanted to be airing episodes around real times (like holidays). But does this REALLY bother anyone? Yeah the end of one season is Monder's wedding and the beginning of another it's still the wedding and it's not a 3 month wedding but shows don't typically air through summer, so hopefully we as an audience can cut some slack for practicality.
Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that I'll be over here looking through your stuff.
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Wildstyle26 — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 05:36 PM)
Couldn't it have been Indian Summer? Or would that not happen in their area?
I don't know much about it. Only heard it mentioned a couple of times.
If you're gonna pretend to cut her hair, at least put some scissors in your hand!
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clarinets — 9 years ago(September 26, 2016 03:20 PM)
In "TOW Rosita Dies" Phoebe is complaining that it's February and she's given two massages and they were the worst tippers. Monica replies, "That would be me and Ross". (implying that Phoebe has given Monica at least one Massage since they've known each other).
Then, the following season, (TOW Monica's Secret Closet) when Monica is "outed" getting a massage from Alexandra, Phoebe suggests giving her a "try" and if it doesn't work out, just don't do it anymore.
Then, after Monica makes the "sex noises" and she's so surprised. So the writers seemingly forgot that this was not Phoebe's first encounter with Monica, massage-wise, came to my attention when I was going through seasons 7 and 8 today.