Bloopers and continuity errors
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Bloopers are production errors by cast or crew that are heard or visible onscreen. Continuity errors are bloopers that don't match storyline or timeline from other parts of the same episode or other episodes. Confirmed bloopers and errors so far are listed below, by episode.
Given the enormous detail and complexity of the mysteries of Lost (and the fact that fans are actually encouraged to do such microanalysis through the placement of real Easter eggs), the show is perhaps the most closely-scrutinized in history, and therefore subject to greater criticism for minor errors not caught in the editing room. Many production errors have in the past been mistaken for clues the writers intended to leave. Some still remain persistent rumors which spawn misdirected theories about time travel and odd conspiracies.
Officially confirmed errors are noted in blue; debunked errors, which were thought to be accidents but turned out to be deliberate anomalies or otherwise explainable, are noted in red.
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Season 1
| Episode | Blooper | Type |
|---|---|---|
| ("Pilot, Part 1") | The black object that appears to swoop down in front of the turbine engine just prior to it exploding was believed by many fans to be the cause of the explosion, and related to the Monster. This was later refuted by the producers as being an artifact of poor CGI effects, which should have been shown radiating out after the explosion was rendered, instead of approaching the turbine before. The producers also said that The Monster never appears in the Pilot episode.[1] | Visual effects |
| ("Pilot, Part 2") | During the plane flashbacks, the audio of the voice of Cindy through the speakers say different words. In Jack's flashback, Cindy says, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Pilot has switched on the fasten seatbelt signs." In Charlie's flashback, Cindy says, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has turned on the fasten seatbelt signs." In Kate's flashback, Cindy says, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain has switched on the fasten seatbelt signs." | Dialogue |
| ("Pilot, Part 2") | Between Jack's and Charlie's flashbacks, the order of Rose's "Guess he really had to go" line and Cindy's "Excuse me" doesn't match up. | Dialogue |
| ("Pilot, Part 2") | Jack lied to Boone about having found the plane's cockpit. However, after Sawyer shot the bear, Boone said "Do you think that's what killed the pilot?", contradicting that he didn't know what happened. In one of the Season 1 deleted scenes, Sayid tells Kate, "The others, they’ve heard about the thing you saw. The pilot. I can understand why you wouldn’t talk; you didn’t want to frighten us. But your English friend has been telling anyone who will listen." This indicates that Charlie may have blabbed about the incident to other survivors. | |
| ("Pilot, Part 2") | Both Sawyer's hair and Sayid's facial hair is notably longer in the final scene of the episode than it had been in previous scenes. | Hair and makeup |
| ("Tabula Rasa") | After Sayid returns from the trip to try and get a signal with the transceiver, he gathers a group of people and begins organizing them into teams. He says that he needs three teams— one to gather electronics, one to set up tarps in case it rains, and one to begin rationing food. After the scene cuts away, Sayid can be heard in the background saying "... and I will need a third group to begin construction of..." He already made three groups, and he made no mention of this task in his initial list of what needed to be done. | Dialogue |
| ("Tabula Rasa") | Just before Kate and Jack depart for a walk on the beach, the camera briefly cuts back to Sayid. Neither his lip movements nor his actions match his lines of dialogue that can be heard ("These are bad on acne. Stay out of the sun..."), which indicates that those have been dubbed over in post-production. | Dialogue |
| ("Walkabout") | When Randy Nations enters the lunchroom, he puts a coin in the vending machine and immediately reaches for the candy bar, without entering the choice on the keypad. | Props |
| ("White Rabbit") | Charlie and Hurley are complaining to Jack about the water supply. As the three talk, there is a couple walking past behind Jack. They go by, the camera cuts to Charlie and Hurley, then back to Jack; the same couple passes by again. | Actor placement |
| ("House of the Rising Sun") | Jin starts a fight with Michael. Jin runs towards Michael, who is wearing the Rolex watch. When Michael has fallen into the water with Jin in top of him, the watch is no longer there; yet when the fight is stopped by Sayid, the watch is visible again. | Props |
| ("House of the Rising Sun") | Sun's flashback at the Oceanic ticket counter at Sydney Airport doesn't match up correctly with Jack's flashback from the previous episode. The counter (which is actually a stage set) is not in the same spot, and although some background extras are reused, they (as well as Jin) are suddenly in line behind Jack instead of standing at the counter next to him. | Setting, actor placement |
| ("Confidence Man") | Sawyer tells Jessica that he has $140,000 in the briefcase and he needs someone to go in with him and provide the other $160,000. Later on in the same episode after Sawyer had left the money with Jessica and her husband David to count, he is talking with Kilo who asks him why he left $160,000 of his money in the care of a civillian. | Dialogue |
| ("Confidence Man") | Kate visits Sawyer in the jungle after his torture. In this sequence, Sawyer's hair alternates several times between hanging in front of his face and pulled off to the side, even though his hands are tied behind his back. | Hair and makeup |
| ("Solitary") | Sayid tells Rousseau that Nadia is dead because of him. Yet in "The Greater Good" it is revealed that Sayid knew very well that Nadia was still alive, and living in Los Angeles—in fact, the very reason he was on the flight to begin with was because he was going to meet her. | Plot |
| ("All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") | The original discovery place of the Hatch in this episode seems to be a low valley with rocks and dirt at the bottom. However, in every episode after this, the Hatch is shown in a flat jungle clearing. | Setting |
| ("Whatever the Case May Be") | Kate and Sawyer pull the Marshal's briefcase out from under a dead passenger's seat at the bottom of the lake. Later on, Kate explains to Jack that the case was not in the Marshal's possession because the airline made him check it. If it was checked, how did it get from the cargo area to under a passenger's seat? | Plot |
| ("Hearts and Minds") | When Locke gives Sayid his compass to use Sayid lays it down next to the magnet he was using to create his own compass. Someone with Sayid's background would know that he would not be able to orient the map with the compass sitting next to a magnet. | Props, Acting |
| ("Special") | In a flashback, Michael is using a pay phone to talk to Susan, who is overseas. From dialog, we learn that Walt (who is 10 in the Island sequences of 2004) is 21 months old; so by subtraction we can infer that this is taking place in 1996. Over Michael's shoulder, we see a New York City subway station that is served by the N, R and W trains. But the W train did not start running in New York until July 2001. (Wikipedia link:W (New York City Subway service) | Setting |
| ("Outlaws") | After the boar runs Sawyer down and he falls into the mud, a bit of the metal fence is seen in the corner. On the DVD extra "Lost: On Location (Season 1)", it is shown that this fence was part of an effort to corral the reluctant boar to run in Josh Holloway's direction, since the animals are not as aggressive in real life as shown on the show. | Setting |
| ("Outlaws") | When Charlie and Hurley are digging Ethan's grave, the body of Ethan is seen slowly breathing. | Acting |
| ("Outlaws") | Also, before Charlie and Hurley start to dig Ethan's grave, it is clearly daytime. When the shot changes to show Charlie and Hurley digging with Ethan in the foreground, the sky looks like sunset. After that shot, it goes back to daytime, and in the scene that follows, the sky looks nothing like a sunset. | Setting |
| ("Outlaws") | When Sawyer and Kate play "I never", his little bottle seems to be refilled. However, since Sawyer stole the alcohol from the fuselage, it is possible that he had more than one bottle and switched them between shots. | Props |
| ("Outlaws") | The terrain around Duckett's shrimp stand, outside of Sydney, is depicted as a flat plain. In reality it is (by Australian standards) quite mountainous. | Setting |
| ("...In Translation") | When Locke and Shannon are talking in the jungle, the blood on Locke's face changes between shots. | Hair and makeup |
| ("Numbers") | When an exterior shot of Martha Toomey's outback house is shown no cars can be seen anywhere, but when Hurley is in the house, a car can be seen outside. | Props |
| ("Deus Ex Machina") | Jack's backpack changes between shots when he speaks to Sawyer. See position one and two. | Props |
| ("Deus Ex Machina") | When searching for the beechcraft, Locke can be seen using the compass he gave to Sayid in ("Hearts and Minds") | Props |
| ("Do No Harm") | While playing "Heart and Soul" on the piano with Sarah, the keys we see Jack play on the keyboard don't correspond to the chords heard in the song. | Audio, acting |
| ("Born to Run") | There is a typo on a door in the hospital ("Imagining" instead of "Imaging"). This could, of course, be an intentional Easter egg, as part of the dreams and visions theme. | Props |
| ("Born to Run") | Before visiting Tom Brennan and subsequently contributing to his death, Kate reads a letter sent to "Joan Hart", while holding a new (colored) $20 bill. These new bills entered circulation on October 9, 2003. However, in "Exodus, Part 1" Edward Mars mentions before boarding flight 815 (on September 22, 2004) that Tom's death was "a couple of years ago". | Props |
| ("Exodus, Part 1") | As Rousseau approaches the beach camp, Kate is supposed to be asleep, but she has her eyes open for a few seconds. | Acting |
| ("Exodus, Part 1") | When Walt notices the black smoke on the horizon, there is a wide shot of the survivors staring at the smoke. In that shot, the raft is several feet behind the group. Then the camera cuts to Jack and slowly pans around him to show the other survivors. When the raft comes into view, it's suddenly right next to the survivors. Also, several of the survivors are standing in different positions with relation to each other as compared to the previous shot. (screencaps) | Setting, actor placement |
| ("Exodus, Part 1") | A cameraman in the water is visible in the scene as the raft leaves and Vincent tries to follow. (Image at Humpys.net) | Crew placement |
| ("Exodus, Part 1") | On the day of Flight 815's takeoff, which was September 22nd, 2004, Walt is watching Power Rangers S.P.D. on TV. That particular show did not first air until February 2005, and didn't run in Australia until around November 2005. | Media reference |
| ("Exodus, Part 1") | In the scene of the raft leaving, after Sawyer puts the sail up, a black object in front of the raft is visible, presumably a mechanical connection to tow the raft. | Crew placement |
| ("Exodus, Part 2") | In the Michael and Walt flashback, Walt asks for new batteries for his Gameboy Advance SP. SPs do not use replaceable batteries; they use a special plug to recharge them. | Props |
| ("Exodus, Part 2") | In addition, the sound effects used for the video game Walt was playing was for the Atari 2600 Pac-Man game. This appears to be a very common stock sound effect for video games used on all kinds of television shows, not just Lost, as discussed here. | Sound effects |
| ("Exodus, Part 2") | A boat is visible in the background as Sawyer jumps off the raft to check the rudder. (Image at Humpys.net) | Setting |
| ("Exodus, Part 2") | While the set building department did an overall good job of recreating the interior of Oceanic Flight 815, down to the patterns on the seat covers, a small number of details don't match up completely with the plane interior seen in "Pilot, Part 1" and "Pilot, Part 2". Namely, the additional covers on the seats' headrests and the magazine pockets on the partition walls are missing. (Comparison images: [2], [3], [4]) | Setting |
Season 2
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| Episode | Blooper | Type |
|---|---|---|
| ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") | When Jack and Locke look down into the Hatch, it is at least twice as large as it was at the end of "Exodus, Part 2". | Setting |
| ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") | Two different versions of the Hatch door are shown, where the metal finish and stenciling of the word "QUARANTINE" varies. (Image at Lost.cubit.net) | Props |
| ("Man of Science, Man of Faith") | The control panel is reversed (right-left) in two of the shots. This is one of the more common mistakes in filmmaking (when the scenes get reversed during editing). | Props, editing |
| ("Adrift") | Earlier, in "Man of Science, Man of Faith", when Jack goes to press a button on the computer, Locke says, "I wouldn't do that." In "Adrift", when we see the same scene from Kate's point of view, Locke says, "I wouldn't do that, Jack." | Dialogue |
| ("Adrift") | The record player inside varies between steel and wood finish, depending on the episode. (Images at Lost-TV "Who swapped out..." thread) | Props |
| ("Adrift") | The desk lamps also change models slightly through Season 2. (Images at Lost-TV "Who swapped out..." thread) | Props |
| ("Adrift") | The shark which is seen to have a DHARMA logo printed on its tail was originally intended to be a near-invisible hidden Easter egg for attentive fans. However, an editing error made the shark's logo much more visible than it was supposed to be. As a result, the writers were forced to hint at an explanation for this in "A Tale of Two Cities", with the Hydra's shark tanks. | Editing, lighting |
| ("Adrift") | When Michael and Sawyer are on one of the parts of the raft, a yacht can be seen in the background. This is before Desmond leaves the Island on his yacht. | Setting |
| ("Adrift") | The Solicitors' room where Michael goes is the same in which Claire was going to sign an adoption contract for Aaron. However, one room is set in Australia, the other in New York. | Setting |
| ("Adrift") | The SIG-Sauer P228 given to Sawyer by Jack in "Exodus, Part 1" changes to a Beretta M9 when Sawyer attempts to shoot the shark. | Props |
| ("Adrift") | Sawyer recounts, "French chick said the Others were coming for a kid," to Michael, even though they were already in the ocean when Danielle Rousseau said that in "Exodus, Part 2". | Plot |
| ("Adrift") | When Locke enters the Numbers into the Swan computer, he does not press the spacebar (the computer seems to add it automatically)— yet when Desmond does it earlier, he presses the spacebar key after every number. This might not be an error if either way of entering the numbers works, but it is puzzling that Desmond would put in the extra work; perhaps he uses the spacebar as a buffer to help avoid accidentally entering a wrong number without noticing. (This would logically follow from the universal importance that Desmond places on the act of entering the Numbers.) | Props |
| ("...And Found") | The dates on Jin's resume have the wrong years. (Image at Lost.cubit.net) | Props |
| ("Abandoned") | In "Man of Science, Man of Faith", the EMT's discussion with Jack indicates that Sarah was driving a regular car that ran head-on into a SUV ("Her tire blew, car jumped the divider, went head-on with an SUV."); however, when this same car accident is described in this episode, the ER doctor informs Sabrina Carlyle that "Your husband was in a head-on collision with an SUV," indicating that Adam Rutherford was the driver of the car that ran into the SUV, not Sarah. [5] It is possible that they both drove SUVs, but then Adam Rutherford and Sarah probably wouldn't have been so badly hurt. Another possibility is that the EMT was simply mistaken, confusing the two victims' cars. | Plot |
| ("Abandoned") | In "Orientation", Desmond tells Jack he was stranded on the Island three years ago. Obviously, that happened after Jack's encounter with Desmond in the stadium in "Man of Science, Man of Faith", which occurred not too long after the accident that resulted in the death of Adam Rutherford. However, according to this episode, Shannon was 18 years old when her father died. In "Raised by Another", she tells Hurley that she's 20 years old, which would place the death of her father two years before the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. However, this discrepancy can be easily reconciled if Shannon lied about her age, or was just short of her 21st birthday. | Plot |
| ("The Other 48 Days") | During a conversation between Goodwin and Ana-Lucia, a white car is visible in the background. This error was digitally fixed for the DVD version, confirming that it was a mistake. | Setting |
| ("The Other 48 Days") | After Ana Lucia impaled Goodwin and leaves him for dead, the immediate surrounding consists almost entirely of grass. However, when Jin found his body in "...And Found", Goodwin was surrounded by different vegetation, such as ferns and other leaf plants. | Setting |
| ("The Other 48 Days") | When Boone used the radio in the small plane, he heard a voice on the other end. This should have been Bernard's voice. The script is different from Boone's transmission to Bernard's. Although they are very similar, there are a few words different between them. | Audio, dialogue |
| ("Collision") | In "The Greater Good", Sayid takes a Glock 26 from Locke (the pistol from smugglers' plane). When Ana Lucia shoots Shannon, Sayid pulls out a SIG P228. | Props |
| ("What Kate Did") | When the black horse appears to Kate and Sawyer, a gloved hand can be seen on the right of the screen; it's probably the horse trainer. The hand was removed from the Season 2 DVD version of the episode, confirming that it was a mistake. | Crew placement |
| ("What Kate Did") | During Kate's flashbacks, some fruit can clearly be seen marked as being from 2005. Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof acknowledge this is a continuity error. The flashbacks were occurring in either 2000 or 2001. (Official Lost Podcast/January 23, 2006) | Props |
| ("What Kate Did") | When Eko tells Locke the story about Josiah, he says, "the Book of Law. You may know it as the Old Testament." The "Book of Law" actually refers only to the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament), and especially to Deuteronomy. The story is found in the second book of Kings. | Dialogue |
| ("The 23rd Psalm") | Before the Beechcraft takes off in Nigeria, the callsign 5Z-GWN6 can be seen written in large black letters on the side. However, when Eko investigates the plane's wreckage on the Island, it has been replaced by the callsign N3785A, written in much smaller white letters across the dark stripe. The 5Z- designation is used for Kenyan military aircraft (as compared to 5Y- for civilian) [6] [7] [8], whereas N3785A is the real callsign of the plane, which was a Beechcraft formerly registered in Maui, Hawaii.[9] | Props |
| ("The 23rd Psalm") | While Eko talks to the woman who was selling Virgin Mary statues, there is a big earring in his right ear. When he enters the church to talk with his brother, there is no earring in his right ear. | Props |
| ("The Hunting Party") | The X-rays are incorrectly dated November 16, 2005. (Image at TVSquad.com) | Props |
| ("The Hunting Party") | When Tom holds Kate hostage, you can hear him cock his pistol (off-screen) with one hand. The pistol, as we see in the next shot, is a Luger P08, which has to be cocked with two hands. | Props |
| ("Fire + Water") | In Charlie's dream, as he's swimming out to try and save Aaron, you can hear him breathing and even speaking when he puts his head underwater. This error was made due to looping the sound. | Audio |
| ("The Long Con") | Jack clearly calls out "Jack!" instead of "John" when calling Locke to get the combination to gun vault from him. This was fixed on the Season 2 DVD, confirming that it was a mistake. | Dialogue |
| ("The Long Con") | Cassidy's shirt buttons are changed during the conversion between Sawyer when he drops the money. | Props |
| ("The Long Con") | This episode is set in Iowa (as evidenced by the decorative Iowa plate in diner, the presence of Kate's mother, talk of Sioux City, etc.), yet the large trees outside Cassidy's window are clearly Norfolk Island Pines (Araucaria heterophylla). These trees only grow in tropical or subtropical environments, and would never survive the Iowa winter. | Setting |
| ("The Long Con") | When Sawyer enters the Numbers into the computer, the timer can briefly be seen missing the CGI-numbers on it. | Editing |
| ("One of Them") | The armory is made bigger to accommodate holding Ben. It changes from a tight room to a wider room. Space is made for the bed that was not there in the beginning of the season. | Setting |
| ("Maternity Leave") | A camera/mic can be seen in the top-right of the screen as Rousseau, Kate, and Claire walk through the jungle at around 22:17. | Crew placement |
| ("The Whole Truth") | There's a grammatical error in the subtitled English ("you're" instead of "your"). This has been fixed in repeats of the episode. | Subtitles |
| ("The Whole Truth") | In the subtitled English during a flashback, Sun and Jin's surname is subtitled as "Kwan" instead of "Kwon". | Subtitles |
| ("Dave") | Hurley takes a photo with "Dave" when it is clearly daytime outside the window. In the later Polaroid that Dr. Brooks shows him (of Dave not being present, but which otherwise should be the same scene), it is dark outside the window. Also, some of the Connect Four chips and the plate of celery stick on the table have been moved. (Image at Lost.cubit.net; confirmed as an unintentional error here in Jorge Garcia's Fuselage post) | Setting, props |
| ("?") | In the previous episode, Locke, Jack, Sawyer, and Kate leave the beach for the Swan while it is still daylight. However, near the beginning of this episode, they are still walking to the Swan, and it is pitch black night. The Swan is only meant to be half a mile away. | Setting |
| ("?") | When Michael comes stumbling out of the the Swan station's main door, it has suddenly changed to a double metal door with a tampographed Dharma logo like on the Staff entrance. In "Everybody Hates Hugo", "What Kate Did" and "Fire + Water", the entrance has always been comprised of vertical wooden planks like the Arrow entrance. | Setting |
| ("?") | When Kate and Sawyer return to the beach to retrieve the heroin from Sawyer's stash, it is broad daylight again, even though it doesn't appear that Jack has been trying to save Libby's life for several hours. Furthermore, when Hurley approaches them and asks them whether they have seen Libby, he hardly gives the impression that a full day has passed since she went to the Swan looking for blankets. | Setting |
| ("?") | Ian McVay reads from notes that are supposedly about Charlotte's post-mortem, but in actuality are the progress notes about a living female patient at Queens Hospital (in Honolulu). (Image at Lost.cubit.net) | Dialogue |
| ("?") | Ian McVay is clearly called Ian by Valerie McTavish, and the captions confirm that his name is Ian. However, during the end credits, he is listed as Dr. Ivan McVay. | Credits |
| ("?") | In Eko's flashback at Sydney Airport, an arrival/departure display can be seen right next to the moving stairs in the background, which has never been there in any of the previous flashbacks from Sydney Airport. | Setting |
| ("Three Minutes") | The list that Michael burns near the beginning of the episode is pink, but in a flashback later on in the episode ,it looks more yellow. This may, however, be due to the different lighting in each scene. Also, the handwriting on the list is different between those two scenes, despite the names on it being the same. | Props |
| ("Three Minutes") | The firearm that Michael has at the beginning of the episode changes. Locke hands him a shotgun (note that it does not have sights). He knocks Locke out with the butt, then it becomes a rifle (note at this point it has sights). | Props |
| ("Three Minutes") | After Tom shouted, "Bring her out, Alex!", we first see Alex and Pickett arguing before Pickett eventually brings Kate out. However, in "The Hunting Party", Kate is pushed out of the bushes immediately after Tom's command. Additionally, Tom may have originally said "Alice!" rather than "Alex!" | Dialogue |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | The Ana-Lucia/Libby funeral supposedly takes place at sunset at the end of "Three Minutes", but moments later, in the opening scene of "Live Together, Die Alone", Jack, Sayid and Sawyer swim out to Desmond's boat under a bright midday sun. After the "LOST" title screen, it is suddenly night, even though it seems that not much time has passed since the previous scene. | Setting |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | Just after the opening "LOST" title, when Kate is asking Jack what to tell people about the boat, the voices in the background are reversed. The first voice asks, "How many people?", and the second asks, "How many people can fit on the boat?" The same audio can be heard just before the voices are reversed. | Audio |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | When Jack climbs aboard the Elizabeth, he is seen switching the safety lever on his Beretta downwards. That would turn the safety on, not off. | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | The introduction of Our Mutual Friend and the fail-safe key in this episode appears to contradict earlier episodes. In "Orientation", Desmond makes no mention of the key, even though he fears that the Swan computer cannot be repaired. In that same episode, Desmond flees what he thinks is imminent destruction without taking his precious book with him. | Plot, props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | On the lava coastline, as Desmond is wrestling with Kelvin, a crew member crouched behind some rocks is revealed by his or her hat peeking out. (Image at Lostvirtualtour.com) | Crew placement |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | In a flashback, Desmond is shown witnessing a dramatic System Failure. Yet, in the earlier episode "Orientation", he makes no mention of this, even when Jack proposes that the Swan station is simply a psychological experiment. He also fails to mention this to Locke until it is too late. | Plot |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | Two different versions of the prop used for Penelope's letter are used. | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | In Desmond's flashback with Kelvin, Kelvin turns on the record player from the start quickly, so that the needle falls on track one of whatever album was playing. However, the song is "Chains and Things", which is actually track 7 on the B.B. King album Indianola Missisippi Seeds. | Props, audio |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | When Eko inspects the power box, we initially see that it is wide open. However, when he moves closer, it is nearly closed. | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | When Eko runs out of the Swan when Locke and Desmond are faking a lockdown, you see Eko put his club in his belt right in the front of his pants. As he passes out of the door in the next scene, the club is gone, and when he runs back to the door as it is closing, he is holding it in his hand as he drops it and it is snatched from under the door. | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | When Eko climbs out of the Hatch, it is a lot more buried in the ground again as compared to Season 1 (starting with "Deus Ex Machina"). Also, the Hatch door is a lot larger than it was in Season 1, the same problem as when Jack and Locke were staring down the shaft at the beginning of "Man of Science, Man of Faith", as compared to the end of "Exodus, Part 2". | Setting |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | In "Live Together, Die Alone", the number formats of the log printout have changed from the original, introduced during "?", when Locke and Eko discover the Pearl station. When Desmond looks at the print out during "Live Together, Die Alone", he sees 922044:16, which would translate to 09-22-2004 4:16. The original log contained number sequences like 41602054:05, 41602055:53, and 41602088:17, which don't match the later format. | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | When the five survivors discover the capsule dump on the way to attempt Walt's rescue, Sawyer's gun alternates between cuts; he is holding it on his shoulder in one, and dangling it below his waist in the next. | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | On the Pala Ferry, Alex tries to pick up Kate, who has her hands tied behind her back and is gagged. Alex accidentally grabs Kate's breasts, then quickly removes her hands, and can be seen smiling as she readjusts her hands. It is possible that Kate made some sort of noise in surprise at this, since Jack can be seen jerking his head towards Kate at that exact moment and then immediately correcting himself. The sound would not appear in the audio overdub used in the actual episode. (Animated GIF image at YTMND) | Acting |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | In the background of the Others' boat that Michael and Walt are sent out with, there is a glimpse of a small second island (real life Hawaii filming location, "Chinaman's Hat"). It is possible that this could be intentional to depict what we now know to be the second Hydra Island; however, this is not likely, as this island is not supposed to be visible when Sayid, Jin and Sun visit the Pala Ferry. | Setting |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | Two different actresses appear in Desmond's photograph in "Man of Science, Man of Faith"/"Orientation" and in "Live Together, Die Alone". The initial photo was obviously taken prior to the casting of Sonya Walger as Penelope Widmore. This was confirmed to be an error when the production team corrected it in the re-airing of "Orientation". | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | As everything metallic flies towards the magnet in the Swan, Eko's cross remains dangling from his neck before suddenly flying off his neck. | Props |
| ("Live Together, Die Alone") | During Desmond's flashback to trashing the Swan in anger, he steps on the table tennis table and breaks it; the wooden top surface is also broken. Yet in other (more recent) shots, the table tennis table is intact and the top wooden surface is undamaged&mdash. It seems unlikely that a new one would have been air-dropped for him, and the wooden top is not possible to mend after that damage. | Props |
Season 3
| Episode | Blooper | Type |
|---|---|---|
| ("A Tale of Two Cities") | Juliet puts a CD in the player that plays Petula Clark's song "Downtown", however, the jewel case shown is that of a Talking Heads CD. The producers acknowledge that they made a last minute change of music. (Official Lost Podcast transcript/October 09, 2006) | Props, audio |
| ("A Tale of Two Cities") | The CD is actually put in the player upside down. The shiny surface of the disc can be seen, but you can see red in the inner part, indicating that this is the underside of the label. However, some CD players (though not necessarily this one) can take CDs inserted with the track side up. Since the producers have admitted that they changed music at the last minute, it's possible that they anticipated a possible switch and used a CD without writing to avoid the wrong CD being more obvious. | Props |
| ("A Tale of Two Cities") | In the opening scene, the Others watch Oceanic Flight 815 break apart above the Island, with the tail section barely rotating while tumbling down. However, at the beginning of "The Other 48 Days", the tail section comes crashing in from the seaside, rotating a lot faster than in this episode. | Visual effects, setting |
| ("A Tale of Two Cities") | When Juliet and Ben are watching Flight 815's mid-air break-up, there is a white van shown in the very lower right corner, just within range of the camera. This was not fixed for the DVD release, thereby at least suggesting that this is not actually considered an error. | Setting |
| ("A Tale of Two Cities") | When Kate first steps onto the beach she has a black band around her right wrist. By the time she sits down to put the cuffs on it is gone. | Props |
| ("A Tale of Two Cities") | In the breakfast scene with Kate and Ben (Henry), at first the Ketchup has no label. After Ben asks Kate to put on the handcuffs, the bottle has a DHARMA logo on it. Later when Ben is putting ketchup on his eggs, the bottle again has no logo. | Props |
| ("A Tale of Two Cities") | The crossword puzzle that Jack has in his car is dated to 2006. | Props |
| ("The Glass Ballerina") | Crew visible, reflected from the cabinet mirror, in a promotional still featuring Jin and Sun. | Crew placement |
| ("The Glass Ballerina") | When Jin goes to visit Jae Lee, he exits the elevator on the second floor (as evident by a number plate saying "2"). When he confronts Jae, however, they suddenly appear to be on the 15th floor (as evident by a door plate saying "1516"). | Setting |
| ("The Glass Ballerina") | After Jin is finished with Jae Lee and is back in his car, he is visibly hiding his face from debris right before Jae Lee hits. Obviously Jin doesn't actually know Jae Lee is falling, this is probably just the actor protecting himself. | Acting, Editing |
| ("Further Instructions") | When Locke wakes up after the implosion, and picks up and examines Eko's Jesus stick, Locke is suddenly wearing his backpack and it is gone the next second. | Props |
| ("Further Instructions") | In the flashback, the birth dates do not match on Locke's gun license and driver's license, one of which has him at 48 (1956), and one which has him at 58 (1946). (Image at Lost.cubit.net) If Locke were 58, this would mean that his mother gave birth to him when she was 6, according to the information from her Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute papers (her birthday is 1940 there) from "Deus Ex Machina". (Image at Lost.cubit.net) | Props |
| ("Further Instructions") | Locke is bald in his driver's license, although in the episode he has hair. | Hair and makeup |
| ("Further Instructions") | Eko doesn't have the same haircut that was shown in "Live Together, Die Alone". His beard is also shorter. | Hair and makeup |
| ("Further Instructions") | The length of Boone's hair is longer in this episode's dream sequence than it was when he actually died. ("The Greater Good") | Hair and makeup |
| ("The Cost of Living") | Jack asks Ben if he is having symptoms of numbness and tingling to his fingers and toes, yet the tumor on his X-ray is assessed to be over the L4 vertebra and is clearly lumbar (would only have paraesthesis in upper extremities if it was a cervical tumor). | Dialogue, props |
| ("I Do") | Kate asserts that she and Sawyer are a team, saying "You break the rocks, I haul them", when in fact this was vice-versa in "The Glass Ballerina". | Dialogue |
| ("I Do") | Pickett's gun changes between SIG-Sauer P226 and Beretta M9 (when he approaches the cage, he has a SIG, then, when he drags Sawyer out, he has a Beretta, and then when Tom calls him on the walkie-talkie, Pickett has a SIG again). This same blooper is seen in "Not in Portland". | Props |
| ("Not in Portland") | At the end of "I Do", Jack said, "Kate, you have about an hour headstart before they come after you". After that follows a long pause, after which Kate asks, "Wait, where are you? Where are you?" Jack's voice can't be heard on the walkie-talkie Kate is holding, yet at the beginning of this episode, Jack also says "Take a walkie, take Sawyer, go." right after the "headstart" line. | Dialogue, props |
| ("Not in Portland") | When Alex leads Kate and Sawyer to the Hydra building to rescue Karl, as Aldo stands up to guard the door to the facility, he drops the book he was reading before. When he gets tackled to the ground, the book (that was seen before dropped on the ground next to him) is not seen there anymore. | Props |
| ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") | When Desmond is carrying Claire out of the water, one of the straps on Claire's clothes clearly shifts position. | Props |
| ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") | The dialogue of Charlie and Desmond both before and after the lucid flashback changes. | Dialogue |
| ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") | When we are shown scenes from "Live Together, Die Alone", the countdown timer beeps even after it has reached zero, when we know from "One of Them" that it stops once it reaches this. | Audio |
| ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") | During Desmond's interview with Charles Widmore, his tie shifts between being behind his jacket to being in front of his jacket several times, and some of the shots are mirror reversed. | Props, editing |
| ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") | A large number of inaccuracies are present in the "London" scenes: the US style taxi beacon; a small dome and other unidentified buildings on the South bank (the dome is the planetarium of the filming location[10]); a totally US-style pub, with "Olde Worlde" style food carts, etc.; and a Royal Scots poster with the word "honor" on it (the proper British spelling is "honour") below a soldier in US Army uniform. | Setting, props |
| ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") | According to the producers, Desmond traveled back to 1996 in his "lucid flashback" (Official Lost Podcast/February 20, 2007), however, the taxi behind Charlie had a 2001 registration number, and some of the vehicle models (such as red "new" Mini Cooper and "bendy" bus) were not manufactured until June 2002. | Setting |
| ("Flashes Before Your Eyes") | One of the soccer ads advertizes the TV show Exposé, which shouldn't even exist at this point considering that the flashback is set in 1996, and Nikki was only shooting the season 4 finale of Exposé a few days before the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 on September 22, 2004. | Media reference |
| ("Stranger in a Strange Land") | When Chet and his gang are beating up Jack, the blood on Jack's face switches in between shots. | Hair and makeup |
| ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead") | When Hurley's father drives off on his motorcycle in the flashback set in 1987, a ca. 1999 Toyota Corolla turns around the corner. | Setting |
| ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead") | In the scene where Vincent brings Roger's decaying arm in his mouth to Hurley and Charlie, the hand seems to move up further in the dogs mouth in the separate shots, and the hand changes to the other side of Vincent's mouth. | Props |
| ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead") | Besides the road map, none of the scraps of paper in the back of the van were meant to be seen, but one, the so-called Ho`oulu Lāhui document, managed to make it on screen. Script coordinator Gregg Nations has confirmed that the document was simply an arbitrary prop with no relevance to the Lost universe. Further, due to the fact that there are real places and real people associated with this paper, it would be an abuse of personal privacy to pursue this any further. | Props |
| ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead") | When the van is coming down the ramp, in the back you can see a mountain which has grown diagonally. | Setting |
| ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead") | Charlie has a small cut while shaving and in subsequent shots he doesn't and then the cut re-appears again. | Hair and makeup |
| ("Enter 77") | After Sayid got kicked by Mikhail, his shirts lifts and you can see a white cable running from his pants over his body to his chest. | Actor placement |
| ("Par Avion") | Claire's mother being in a coma does not seem to fit with the exchange Claire had with Thomas regarding her mom disowning her in "Raised by Another". | Plot |
| ("Par Avion") | Nor does Claire's mother being in a coma fit with the comment made by Claire's friend at Malkin's regarding Claire's pregnancy: "She hasn't told her mom yet, we're afraid she might..." in "Raised by Another". | Plot |