Blooper?

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One blooper I noticed is in Circus Man. Toward the end, when the circus man comes back and is standing in the doorway, Laura's pigtails keep switching -- one is hanging in front of her and the other is hanging on her back when the camera is facing Laura, but when the camera is facing the circus man Laura's pigtails are reversed, and then later both pigtails are hanging in front.

bethandmanly wrote:

There are other bloopers listed in this thread https://lhotp.editboard.com/t415-blooper

Here are others that were noticed by members of another board I belong to:

In the "Creeper of Walnut Grove" Laura and Andy try to get Bandit to track down a scent of a sandwich in order to find the Creeper. Well Laura is trying to get Bandit to smell the sandwitch and she puts it in his mouth, Bandit runs away with the sandwich and Laura complains that he took her sandwich.

In "Be my Friend" Laura is with Charles and she has the baby that she found named Grace. They are in the mercentile and Harriet keeps wondering about the baby. Charles says it is Laura's and Harriet belives him. Wouldn't you think that Harriet could see that Laura was never pregnent, I mean they see each other ever week. Another thing Harriet also sees Willie looking at the baby and Harriet freaks out, now wouldn't it be physically impossible for a boy Willie's age to father a child?

The only blooper I have ever noticed on my own is the tree banging against Laura's attic bedroom window while she was dreaming in "The Music Box". I knew there wasn't a tree right there.

I just remembered another one, in the episode "The Fighter" I think, well the one where Jhon Garvey fights Joe Kagan, you notice that after Jhon tells the crowd that he is injured Harriet Olsen starts to cry and burry her face in her hands. Another person in the mean time fights for Jhon Garvey while Harriet is still crying then you see a far away shot and you see Harriet is up cheering. Then the scene goes close up to Harriet and she is still crying.

In Season 1's "The Love of Johnny Johnson," when Laura told Mary to shut up (I love that scene, by the way, lol), Laura was sitting on one side of the table, but when Ma came in and told her to apologize, Laura was sitting on the complete opposite side. You can tell because in one shot, the window was right behind her, and in the next shot, it wasn't.

In the beginning (Christmas at Plum Creek) , everyone kept calling bunny a boy. then later when nellie came to pick her up , they switched to calling her a she.

The Pilot - I did notice at least 3 different jet streams in the sky and car tracks in the prairie grass.

i caught a blooper on "little lou" ep. when john is in the kitchen to confront mrs oleson - if you look closely she throws the salt shaker in the pot on the stove. when the camera cuts back to her the shaker is back on the stove.

Hey! You've catched a good one! Since I was so impressed by this episode - I'm talking about "The Music Box" - I didn't realize there WASN'T any tree close to the girls' window...

Vanesa.

bethandmanly wrote:

In "Be my Friend" Laura is with Charles and she has the baby that she found named Grace. They are in the mercantile and Harriet keeps wondering about the baby. Charles says it is Laura's and Harriet believes him. Wouldn't you think that Harriet could see that Laura was never pregnant, I mean they see each other ever week. Another thing Harriet also sees Willie looking at the baby and Harriet freaks out, now wouldn't it be physically impossible for a boy Willie's age to father a child?

But then mrs Oleson can be so easily duped sometimes, especially if it'd make a juicy bit of gossip.

I have never noticed that tower in Dearest Albert. Good catch.

I don't know if this is considered a blooper, but in part 2 of Times Are Changing, you can see Charles Frederick's grave during Royal's funeral and you can see other graves which weren't seen when Caroline went to Charles Frederick's grave in A Most precious Gift.

Spanky wrote:

I don't know if this is considered a blooper, but in part 2 of Times Are Changing, you can see Charles Frederick's grave during Royal's funeral and you can see other graves which weren't seen when Caroline went to Charles Frederick's grave in A Most precious Gift.

I guess they moved that grave for some reason. In A Most Precious Gift, Caroline is on a lush green hill that looks like it might not be far from town because you can see buildings in the background. You can see a view of the mountains. It's not in some shady area under trees like in Times Are Changing.

I always miss things unless I watch it a lot, I miss the bows coming and going in hair like many catch, sitting different places, etc.
I think I saw one the other day when Laura is sent home from school because she punched Nellie (about Albert) Charles was with Grace, in his buggy, fixing a wheel and when they showed him again, Grace had on a hat...I'm pretty sure she didn't before. They showed it so quickly, the only reason I think I noticed it.

I was watching the 2nd part of Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow on Youtube, and I saw where they have a shot of Laura pulling Rose out of her cradle in the parlor. Only problem: she is supposed to be in a basket on the kitchen counter. This happens around 4:22 on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iH-h1kZ4J4

Laura has just arrived home from visiting with Ma. She brings Rose into the kitchen and places her in a basket. Then she feeds the cat. Suddenly, a strange noise leads her to open the back door, where she sees the tornado funnel. She goes to grab Rose, but you can see the spindles of Rose's cradle to the left. The cradle rocks as Laura picks her up and you can see the rug from the parlor on the floor. Then you see the shot of the kitchen and Laura going out the door to get Rose to the root cellar. I'm guessing they just reused a shot of her picking up Rose.

Yes, it seems like the edit the film sometimes and take the best shots they could. I can imagine with babies and children, it's even harder since they can't be on long.

Sometimes in a scene the baby is crying and you see the baby smiling or fine or it's a doll when crying, real when smiling. ; )

I saw a hat on Grace disappear and come back when doing a scene with Charles outside in the wagon. I can understand with kids how that could have happened filming many takes.

Hey! I've never noticed those bloopers (maybe only editing mistakes, like Cheryl said)....Thanks for pointing them out.

Vanesa.

littlehouselover wrote:

Yes, it seems like the edit the film sometimes and take the best shots they could. I can imagine with babies and children, it's even harder since they can't be on long.

I was thinking of child labor laws too.

Well and who knows how those babies acted during those scenes. I know on Dr. Quinn using triplets for Katie, Jane said they had a baby for every mood. One to cry, one to be happy and one that was really passive.
It would be so interesting to hear from a production crew how exactly they put these scenes together.

Ok. There are a few continuity issues here. The Pike house from the episode "Haunted House" is the same house that was Hanson's house that was donated for the blind school. Next in the episode of "Welcome to Olesonville", they mention the Hanson house again, unless Hanson had multiple houses, the Handon house burnt down because the blind school burnt down.

At least they did not try to use the same house as the Hanson house again that had already "burnt down"


I understand that over 9 years it is hard to keep a lot of this straight in your head, but it can be quite confusing for continuity.

If you watch this as part of a regular weekly airing schedule, it might not be as obvious, since things are not "as fresh" in your mind, but when you watch the entire series in a month or 2 the errors are quite noticeable.

Michael was a little cheap sometimes when it came to exterior versus interior shots. Bushes or trees would suddenly appear outside windows with interiors on a soundstage and they disappeared in exterior shots in Simi Valley. The school and the little house were good examples.

In A Child With No Name, Laura did say in the late Summer of 1889 on the birth of their son.

In the Return of Mr Edwards, the opening scene has a palm tree sticking out over the town buildings as a guy rows up the river. Had to look twice but then I saw it in the "extra" part of the Amazon Prime video.

What about the Legend of Black Jake? How did Charles and Almonzo get into the bank, when Mr. Anderson said no one else had a key? Did I miss something?