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"Man From the South" - he missed twice before the Bet


In the Steve McQueen episode "Man from the South", you can clearly see that, on two instances before the famous bet was made, his lighter does not catch. Oh it's subtle, because he immediately lights it right afterward on both instances. So two times in the episode, before the bet, he fails to light his lighter, and in both times, the failures are immediately followed by more noticeable successes.
If this was intentional on the writers part (which I doubt) then obviously when he says "it never misses" it's a mistake. Clearly it misses twice before the bet is made.

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Steve McQueen was cool, but he didn't know the tricks back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jUhgfHjG7I

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