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<\/p>\nNothing gets past eagle-eyed fans.<\/p>\n
\tPublished on February 26, 2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tGame of Thrones, Downton Abbey and Bridgerton<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMacall B. Polay\/Courtesy of HBO; Nick Briggs\/ITV for MASTERPIECE; Liam Daniel\/Netflix<\/p>\n
\n\tStarbucks coffee in Westeros? A man in blue jeans in the middle of a light saber fight in The Madalorian? If these sound odd and out of place, it\u2019s because they are. However, due to production mistakes they actually ended up making the cut onscreen in a myriad of period shows on television.<\/p>\n
\n\tBut it\u2019s tough for something not to be noticed given that nothing gets past eagle-eyed fans. Just recently, a scene in the fourth season of Netflix\u2019s Bridgerton stirred a reaction after fans noticed Katie Leung\u2019s character sporting a band-aid on her ear, seemingly to cover an ear piercing that she was unlikely to have in the Regency era. Guess the subtle workaround didn\u2019t fool the audience.<\/p>\n
\n\tDespite the errors, shows have made light of the mishaps by joking about it on social media, the cast speaking out and\/or even donating to charity because of it. Below, The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at some of the mishaps caught on shows including Bridgerton, Downton Abbey, Mad Men and more.<\/p>\n
\t\u2018Bridgerton\u2019: A Band-Aid and Parking Lines<\/p>\n
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\n\tNetflix\u2019s Bridgerton may take place during the Regency era in England, but fans have noticed a couple of mishaps that seemed too modern for Lady Whistledown and sure to cause a scandal. In season one opening scenes, the audience can see horse-drawn carriages on a cobblestone road. However, it was noticed that the street happened to have yellow parking lines, which reportedly didn\u2019t debut<\/a> in the U.K. until the 1950s. Jumping to season four, Katie Leung \u2014 who plays Araminta, the stepmother of Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) \u2014 is shown in the first episode with a small, flesh colored Band-Aid on her left ear. <\/a>Though assumed to be used to cover a piercing, the issue is those Band-Aids didn\u2019t exist during that time.<\/p>\n \t\u2018Game of Thrones\u2019: The Starbucks Cup That Should\u2019ve Been Tea<\/p>\n \t\t\t \n\tStarbucks seemingly made its way to Westeros. In the fourth episode of HBO\u2019s final Game of Thrones season, fans were in for a surprise when they noticed a Starbucks coffee cup placed near Emilia Clarke\u2019s Daenerys Targaryen. When addressing the mishap at the time, HBO\u00a0said in a statement<\/a>: \u201cThe latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea.\u201d Starbucks also poked fun with a\u00a0tweet<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cTBH we\u2019re surprised she didn\u2019t order a Dragon Drink,\u201d read the post from the coffee chain\u2019s official handle. HBO later\u00a0edited the coffee cup mistake from all platform re-airs.<\/p>\n \t\u2018Downton Abbey\u2019: Water-Bottle-Gate<\/p>\n \t\t\t \n\tDowntown Abbey caused quite the scandal in 2014. At the time, the HBO series, which takes place in the 1920s, released a promo photo<\/a>\u00a0that included a plastic water bottle in the background, something clearly not everyone in the early 20th century drank from. The cast poked fun at the snafu in a social media post <\/a>in which they all posed with a water bottle with a caption, \u201cThe cast of #Downton embraced \u2018water bottle-gate\u2019 today.\u201d The post also included a link to the nonprofit Water Aid U.K., which aims to provide access to safe drinking water and sanitation globally. Another mistake caught in an early season was during an opening scene in which a rooftop has a visible TV antenna.<\/a><\/p>\n \t\u2018Mad Men\u2019: That Super Bowl Title<\/p>\n \t\t\t \n\tYou probably think we\u2019re here writing about the puke machine, but we\u2019re not \u2014 though we did here<\/a>. You would think that Mad Men, a series that, let\u2019s say, dabbled in toxic masculinity, would get the football right. An episode set in 1968 really spoiled the NFL\u2019s plans, referring to the championship game as the Super Bowl. There was just one problem: the big game would not be dubbed the \u201cSuper Bowl\u201d until 1969.<\/p>\n \t\u2018M*A*S*H\u2019: The Avengers in the \u201870s?<\/p>\n \t\t\t \n\tM*A*S*H followed a group a combat medics amid the Korean War, which spanned 1950-53. The show itself aired throughout the \u201870s \u2014 yes, it was another recipe for easy continuity errors. This time, it was Radar (Gary Burghoff) in his cot with an Avengers comic book. Not only were Radar\u2019s comics from the 1960s and 1970s, the Avengers didn\u2019t even first assemble until a decade after the Korean War ended.<\/p>\n \t\u2018The Mandalorian\u2019: \u201cBlue Jeans Guy\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t \n\tThere are no jeans in outer space. That is the takeaway from a famous mishap in Chapter 13 of The Mandalorian. A screw-up saw a dude in jeans just chilling in the background of a shootout scene featuring Greef Karga (Carl Weathers), Cara Dune (Gina Carano) and the Mandalorian himself (Pedro Pascal). Though Jeans Guy immediately became a favorite of Star Wars fans, he has since been digitally erased from Disney+. Jeans Guy was not the only thing that should not have been visible in the series: The Mandalorian\u2019s fourth episode had a boom mic encroach into a crucial scene.<\/p>\n \t\tTHR Newsletters<\/p>\n Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day<\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n \t\tSubscribe\t<\/p>\n \t\t\tSign Up<\/p>\n \t<\/a><\/p>\n \t
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