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1.) In the opening scene after the credits, when Lacey is talking to Wanda, there's a piece of lettuce sticking out of the top corner of Wanda's sandwich until she says "dump him, he's not worth the trouble." Then it's gone, although there is a piece visible on the other side at this point.
2.) When Davis comes into the station and Karen informs him that they have a call, watch the pen in Davis's pocket from the time he takes off his jacket until he sits at his desk. It rises and sinks, a lot like Marvin Drey's business card did in "Tax Man."
3.) When Oscar runs into the gas station hiding from Emma, she's got a red box in her left hand and two items in her right hand. The top one is light blue, the bottom one is a smaller box with a white surface on it, a blue strip the size of a postage stamp on the side with no visible lettering on the visible side. In the next scene at the gas station, which isn't much closer up than the first one, Emma is holding the same items - but the bottom item has magically reversed itself and can now be easily identified as a box of Rice-a-Roni.
4.) When Karen is shown reading the regulation about filing reports every time an officer's weapon is fired, the scene is shot through what looks like the back side of a bookshelf. When you see the arrangement of the books when the bookcase is visible from the other side, there is no similarity to the way they were lined up in the first scene, and you also see that it would have been impossible to see Karen through the bookshelf like that. In fairness to the producers, there is very little that can be done to avoid a blooper like this is you want to shoot the first shot from that angle, but the downside is that bloopers along these lines are the most blatant ones there are.
5.) When Karen is grilling Davis and asks what he was doing for twenty minutes from the time he fired until he got back to the station, he says "nothing" and she responds with "twenty minutes is a lot of nothing." At that point Davis has his hands together in front of his face with his elbows on the desk, and a fraction of a second later, when the scene switches, his hands are flat on the desk.
6.) When Emma is explaining to Lacey that Brent may be unattainable, she grabs Lacey's shoulders in a consoling action. In the first second of that scene you can see the envelopes in Emma's hand in front of Lacey's right shoulder, but from that point on the envelopes are behind Lacey.
7.) Also in the same scene, Emma tells Lacey that she's not the first to fall for "that chiseled face." Watch her right hand go from about Lacey's triceps area to the shoulder joint and back as the shot switches angles - her hand, much like Davis's hands in the "twenty minutes is a lot of nothing" scene, could not have moved that fast.
8.) In the beginning of the scene where Davis receives the report from Karen and rips it up, look at the bookshelf - it has actually changed again.
9.) When Karen tells Lacey to "lower the bar a little," there's a blooper with her right hand and Lacey's arm that's almost identical to the seventh one listed here - Karen's hand goes from Lacey's triceps area to her shoulder joint too fast for the continuity of the scene.
10.) When Wanda and Karen are at the Ruby about to hear Lacey's theory on Brent's looks, Lacey brings food to both of them, first serving Wanda then Karen. The shot is from Lacey's back as she starts to move her arm forward to set Karen's lunch down in front of her, and in the next scene Lacey's arm is up as if she had never started the motion - even though the conversation is still going forward.
11.) When Wanda comes home, watch Oscar's left (viewer's right) hand as he's lounging in the couch. It goes from resting against his chest to pointed downwards with fingers spread and back as the camera angle switches.
SIDE NOTE: I received two copies of this episode on tape, one recorded from CTV and another one recorded from a Canadian comedy channel. On both of these tapes, the commercial breaks featured an obnoxious ad from Subway, starring none other than that intolerable maggot "Jared the Subway Dieter." In this ad, Jared is happy being alone with his Subway sub until he starts to wonder if any of the other people in the restaurant wants to join him and "talk subs." America has produced countless obnoxious ads, movies and TV shows, and I often feel apologetic to other countries for certain aspects of our pop culture, but Jared is above and beyond the call. To my Canadian friends: you've done nothing to deserve Jared commercials. Although I assure you that I personally had nothing to do with this senseless tragedy and all the needless suffering that followed since this moronic piece of flotsam became famous, I apologize on behalf of the millions of Americans who rightfully question the meaning behind and (fairness of) Jared's very existence.
For the first page of the review of "The Brent Effect," click here.