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Annoying little mistakes in the show.

posted 8 years ago by RussianBeauty
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Anyone else sometimes get annoyed by little mistakes in the show. Sometimes ones that make it clear that the writers didn't research facts very well.

One that comes to my mind is when David and his scientist friend are planning to go to Minsk. The friend snobbily tells her that Minsk is in Russia, which Phoebe replies that she knows where Minsk is.

Minsk is in Belarus not Russia. They could be forgiven for mistaking it for Russia when it was still the USSR. However Belarus declared independence in 1991. A good 3 years before friends started.

Anyone else notice little things like this that annoyed them?

[–] clarinets 8 years ago

In "TOW Rosita Dies" Phoebe is complaining that it's February and she's given two massages and they were the worst tippers. Monica replies, "That would be me and Ross". (implying that Phoebe has given Monica at least one Massage since they've known each other).

Then, the following season, (TOW Monica's Secret Closet) when Monica is "outed" getting a massage from Alexandra, Phoebe suggests giving her a "try" and if it doesn't work out, just don't do it anymore.

Then, after Monica makes the "sex noises" and she's so surprised. So the writers seemingly forgot that this was not Phoebe's first encounter with Monica, massage-wise, came to my attention when I was going through seasons 7 and 8 today.