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Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): The x-ray with the show's title shown in the beginning is turned the wrong way: the heart should be seen on the right hand side. This was an intentional mistake put in by creator Bill Lawrence to represent the core idea of the show: young doctors in over their heads. Bill Lawrence reminds viewers that this goof was completely intentional in interviews, DVD commentaries, and virtually any other available opportunity.
Goof (continuity error): Cox wheels a "dead lady" around and her glasses continually disappear and reappear between shots.
Goof (miscellaneous): In some scenes there are pieces of hair/thread visible on the camera, mainly on the bottom of the screen.
Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dr. Kelso tells JD to keep a female patient on dialysis, and not put her on the transplant list, because she doesn't have insurance. In the U.S., all patients who have kidney failure and are on dialysis are eligible for Medicare, which also pays for a kidney transplant.
Goof (revealing mistake): When Dr. Cox asks the young boy to do a urine sample for him, the cup he passes him is already filled when the boy takes it into the cubicle.
Goof (revealing mistake): When J.D. goes to visit Dr. Cox at his house, the shot outside his door reveals that the shooting location is actually the hallway of the converted hospital.
Goof (revealing mistake): In the shot where Elliot asks the nurse for a chart after which she turns to Dr.Kelso for some advice, you can see that the papers on her chart are of storyboards.
Goof (continuity error): After JD finds out that he was the one to have given Mr Bidwell Insulin, Turk walks in to the room wearing green slippers, but later in the same scene when JD runs out and Turk yells "Did Nurse Roberts give you these? They focus on his shoes which are now black/brown bowling shoes.
Goof (boom mic visible): Within the first wide shot of after the opening credits, with J.D. and Elliot standing by a patient's bed at night, the boom is in shot at the very top of the frame, dipping in and out; the white gaff tape marking the microphone's windscreen comes into view.
Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): When Elliot and Dr. Cox are talking in the break room for the second time, and Dr. Cox is talking about whiny interns coming to him for cookies and hugs, he mouths, "I swear to Allah" but the audio says, "I swear to Aisha." As this episode was probably filmed before the September 11th Attacks, the line was no doubt over-dubbed out of sensitivity to the political tensions of the time.
Goof (factual errors): When Turk describes "The Catch" to his patient, he claims it was made with "zero time left" when "The Catch" was actually made with 58 seconds remaining in the game.
Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Turk tells his patient he's going to take his fruit cup, he actually takes his patients Jello-O cup, you can see there is a fruit cup in the patient's tray as well.
Goof (crew or equipment visible): In the first scene, after JD has rewound time, as the girls start arguing again the shadow of a crew member can been seen moving across behind them.
Goof (continuity error): When Elliot and Carla are arguing the first time, Carla says "el barrio." When J.D. rewinds time and the scene replays, she says "*the* barrio," even though every other line (inlcuding J.D.'s sentence that he intended not to say) is identical to what it was the first time.
Goof (continuity error): When Turk and Carla are buying food in the cafeteria, Turk shakes a piece of meat at then puts some mashed potatoes on his plate. When he then walks next to Elliot, only a piece of cake and milk are visible on his tray.
Goof (factual errors): When J.D is undergoing surgery in "My Day Off" Turk is operating on his lower left abdomen, the wrong side for removing an appendix. Later when J.D wakes up Turk is checking his stitches which are now correctly on the lower right abdomen.
Goof (crew or equipment visible): When Turk opens the door and enters the room after he has been paged my Kelso, you can see a hand in the bottom left corner, holding the door, preventing it from closing.
Goof (factual errors): When J.D. is in the MRI room, the MRI is supposedly on, but it's not making any noise at all, and he's still wearing his pager, stethoscope, watch, etc. In actual fact, a doctor would not take any metal objects into a room with an MRI scanner.
Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Alex (MRI Girl) gets scared, she grabs J.D.'s hand and says that she is checking for a wedding ring. However, she checks his right hand, whereas wedding rings are always on the left hand. Also, regardless of that, anybody who comes near an MRI has to take off all jewelry and any other metallic objects.
Goof (factual errors): SPOILER: Dr. Cox and Elliot are the only two people in the room performing CPR and defibrillation on the patient at the end. During a code, there are always many more people in the room -- a proper code requires at least 6 people (a team leader, one person managing the airway, one person performing chest compressions, one person performing defibrillation, one person pushing medications, and one person recording all events).
Goof (continuity error): Elliot says she "might need a vagina transplant". Later in the series we find out that Elliot cannot say "vagina" but says "bajingo" instead.
Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): While watching "Red Dawn" with Turk, Elliot asks which part of the movie is more believable: C. Thomas Howell being a tough guy or Russians invading Michigan, and Turk replies "both". "Red Dawn" took place in Colorado, not Michigan.
Goof (continuity error): When J.D., Turk, Carla and Elliot are talking with each other in the cafeteria, J.D. is drinking a cup of juice & Elliot has a carton of milk. When JD is paged, the juice and the milk have switched places.
Goof (factual errors): The hematopathologist writes his report with a pencil. Not only would he likely have dictated this sort of report and then have it transcribed and printed, but pencils are *never* used to document in medical records, since information could be erased and changed later.
Goof (continuity error): In the last scene when Jordan confronts J.D., Elliot etc, the table setting (including the position of the coffee cups) changes dramatically.
Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso are talking on the roof of the hospital, at the point where the camera is directed over Dr. Cox's shoulder, his jaw movements do not match the audio, which also has a dramatic change in tone.
Goof (continuity error): Just before the Janitor squirts J.D. with water for the second time, J.D. is holding a patient's chart. In the close-up shot of J.D.'s crotch, both his hands are visible and he isn't holding anything.
Goof (crew or equipment visible): When the main characters are "drifting" through the hallways you can see the trolley that Carla stands on as well as the cable pulling it.
Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When JD borrows a pair of scrubs bottoms from Chet, Chet says "Don't stain em'" but the actors lips don't move.
Goof (continuity error): When Dr. Kelso is waiting on the elevator him and Dr. Cox have a conversation and Kelso gets on and JD is in the background. The next scene shows Dr. Kelso tapping JD on the shoulder even though he just left that floor.