Blooper Reel

[shmeep]

rducasey said:

Not sure if this has been mentioned or not. When Jim is in the park just before playing chess with Lester, he is questioning two youths, with blue hair and mohawks. He asks them if they know something or have seen someone, I forget the question. They just shake their heads and he says, "Ok thanks".

That's hilarious! I'll have to watch for that.

[mlm828]

Another possible blooper of the same type occurs in the Pilot, in the scene where Terry is first talking to Jim in the hallway. Terry leans over to pet Hank, and Jim leans back a little, as if Terry is invading his space. But Jim wouldn't have been able to see Terry doing this. Did Ron slip up in this scene and react like a sighted person?

[inuvik]

rducasey said:

Not sure if this has been mentioned or not. When Jim is in the park just before playing chess with Lester, he is questioning two youths, with blue hair and mohawks. He asks them if they know something or have seen someone, I forget the question. They just shake their heads and he says, "Ok thanks".

I always thought that Jim was reacting to their silence. When they didn't answer, he assumed the answer was no and thanked them anyway.

[greenbeing]

mlm828 said:

Another possible blooper of the same type occurs in the Pilot, in the scene where Terry is first talking to Jim in the hallway. Terry leans over to pet Hank, and Jim leans back a little, as if Terry is invading his space. But Jim wouldn't have been able to see Terry doing this. Did Ron slip up in this scene and react like a sighted person?

I always figured he could feel Terry getting closer. A rustle of clothes, a smell getting stronger, a feeling of heat... One of my co-workers tends to stand behind me where I can't see him and get closer and closer, in my little bubble, but I always know when to start ducking when he's too close. When I did theatre, we'd always have to leave the stage in pitch black, and we couldn't afford the glowy tape. We might run into inanimate objects, but we always managed to avoid each other without speaking.

I like to think of this scene as the precursor to the dandruff shampoo comment--he could smell Terry's shampoo getting closer to his face, just maybe he didn't know why. That's why he flinched away, even more than a sighted person who would know that Terry was just going for the dog.

And as for the interview in the park, the sound is really low at first when they're all talking, and I thought the one on the left (my left, not Jim's), said something, but the sound was too low to hear it. But I'll have to watch again to make sure the lips did move, and it wasn't just a shake of the head.

--GB

[greenbeing]

Okay, just read through this whole thread, and I can't believe no one mentioned my pet peeve--that darn tar bucket! In UotR, Karen had to kick the lid off twice. I always thought that was the biggest "sloppy editing" blooper.

But anyway, my original reason for posting was: in the Pilot, right after Randy Lyman tried to take Jim's gun, during Jim's "cooling off" moment, leaning against the mirror while Karen interviews Lyman so quietly we can't hear what they're saying, you can see the cameraman moving in on Jim, getting closer and closer, just to Karen's left (on the far right of the screen). As many times as I'd watched the Pilot, that's the first time I'd noticed! I had to rewind to see what that big black thing was that was converging on Karen's head.

--GB

[dogma]

another thing about the tar bucket scene is that jim knew right where to place his finger on the bullet hole,,

[Dreamfire]

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This may not qualify as a blooper, but it's a pet peeve of mine. The characters use "jail" and "prison" interchangeably, but they're different. The characters, being mostly cops and criminals, would know the difference. In most instances, when they say "jail," they mean "prison." In "Marlon's Brando," Mattis is in prison but says he is in "jail," and I'm sure he knows the difference. I wonder why the executive producer who is a retired cop didn't catch this.[/quote]

Ah, what is the difference?

[Dreamfire]

kathy said:

In Rub a Tub Tub: After Jim finishes talking to Sonny about becoming his informant again, Sonny walks off. Jim and Karen start to walk towards each other. Karen raises her arms palms up and says "Is he in?" Jim immediately lifts his arms in the same gesture and replies. To me it seems like he is responding to a visual clue from Karen. Either that, or the writers/director threw it in as the most unlikely coincidence ever!

I have not seen this as I only caught the series from Past imperfect on, however there is theory on rapport thatwould suggest thateven without the visual clues two people in rapport will unconsciously start to reflect thesame body language. Perhaps someone on the board who has a blind friend might know if this actuallyhappens. In my classes I willoften sit two people back to back and get then chatting etc. After a short while theywill change their body language to match , gesturesa will start to be mimiced roughly after a while too.
Now I am not considering that the writers thoughtof this and so put it in but that the actors are in rapport as would be the characters, Natascha

[mlm828]

ashatan said:

This may not qualify as a blooper, but it's a pet peeve of mine. The characters use "jail" and "prison" interchangeably, but they're different. The characters, being mostly cops and criminals, would know the difference. In most instances, when they say "jail," they mean "prison." In "Marlon's Brando," Mattis is in prison but says he is in "jail," and I'm sure he knows the difference. I wonder why the executive producer who is a retired cop didn't catch this.

Ah, what is the difference?

Since the original post was mine, I'll explain. "Jail" is the local lock-up, where people who can't make bail are kept in custody awaiting trial, and people who have committed minor crimes (misdemeanors) serve relatively short sentences (usually a year or less). "Prison" is state prison, where the inmates have been convicted of more serious crimes and are serving lengthy sentences. Neither is anywhere you'd want to be, but prison is worse. Jail is "local time"; prison is "hard time."

[Dreamfire]

Thanks for that, I feel more intelligent now!

And yeah, very surprised they were not idiomatic .

[hoosier]

I can't remember if I stated this before, but in the scene in Rub a Tub, Jim says"Carl's body was dead and wrapped up" when I am sure he meant "Carl was dead and the body wrapped up". It still sticks out like a sore thumb. Why didn't they catch such obvious faux pas

[Dreamfire]

Yes, I was thinking last night that the thing that most throws me out of the show and into my popcorn bucket is the stitled dialogue that pops up.
Dr Galloway saying thinking you are NOT the same man which you are absolutely not.
When Jim talks to Ben's little brother in 4 feet under. ...That's my philospophy.. Aw come on! Oh and earlier in that ep when he first talks to the kid. Sometimes I can see like a color or something??? where did that come from?? what does it mean??
In fact those scenes with the kid must have been shot several times and glued together by a deaf blind editor.
OK OK I'm going too far with that but they do chuck me a wobbly.


Mind you I am absolutely glued back in, popcorn falling unnoticed to the floor, coke spilling unfelt across my lap, when we have lines like Marty's stuttering in frustration during the locker room confrontation, and Jim stumbling and sputtering in Galloways office in Up on the roof.

[Dreamfire]

awlrite4now said:

Ok...gotcha. I just wouldn't use that phrase in the UK after all the stuff Tiger Woods went through.

I'm in the dark about how that applies to Tiger woods.

[Dreamfire]

I have a Hank Blooper.

In Seoul Man when the killed runs up to and past Jim, Hank is distracted and almost seems to go for the killer.
Now was he just slipping and acting like a police dog and forgot he was a guide dogin this show?

[maggiethecat]

Doing a little housekeeping on a rainy Thursday night . . .

. . . I have moved all the funny stuff about spak attacks and chucking a wobbly (or whatever it was) into a new Oddities and Analysis thread called, what else, "How Do Youse Talk?"

And the initial posts about Jim seeing colors are now in the "FOur Feet Under" thread. See you there!

Mags