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• Continuity: As Officer Paski walks back to her cruiser, her ballpoint pen shifts from being clipped on the outside of her shirt pocket to being fully inside.
  
  
• Continuity: Uncle Merrill disappears from the end of the table when Morgan is talking to the sheriff.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Graham asks Bo to turn up the volume on the TV, she reaches forward and the volume increases before she makes contact with the button. Also, she then holds her finger on the button but the volume does not continue to increase, instead, it remains constant.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: They nail boards on the outside of inward-opening doors. Obviously this isn't going to prevent the doors from being opened, but anything is better than nothing and they're panicking anyway.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Crew members, one possibly holding a boom mike, are reflected in the lights of Caroline's police car when she is talking to Graham after they have seen the crop circles on TV for the first time.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The family television has no problems picking up a clear TV signal, even though the antenna cable isn't plugged in.
  
  
• Factual errors: The man on the Army poster in the recruiting office is wearing a US Marine Corps uniform.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Graham is at Reddy's house, Reddy speeds away in his truck the camera is reflected in the window.
  
  
• Continuity: The basement door is green in every shot except the very last one when Merrill is opening the door to go up and check for the "all clear" - it is a close-up of the handle and the door is painted brown.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: As Graham takes Bo inside, after Houdini has died, they meet Merrill on the way into the house. As Bo mutters "Houdini's sick", the shadow of a boom mike can be seen traveling across Merrill's shirt and face.
  
  
• Continuity: When Graham comes to the children after Morgan had to kill their dog, Bo is sitting with her knees up to her face. In this shot her shoes are perfectly tied. Once it changes to Graham and Morgan looking down at the dead dog and Morgan leaves, Graham goes over to Bo. Her right shoe lace is untied.
  
  
• Continuity: When Graham looks out the window at the large flock of birds, the corn stalks are brown. This is in contrast to all of the other shots, were the corn is green.
  
  

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