Bloopers again!!!

[AMCsince70]

Hi, Betty fans,

Back again here with some bloopers. Actually, there have been a number bloopers in recent shows, but our threads fall off this UB board so quickly that it feels sometimes like all the effort is gone in a matter of a few days. (Sure wish that the threads of a weekly show like UB could have at least a one-week shelf life here. Ugly Betty's not really in the same category as the daily soaps.)

Anyway, we caught a glimpse of Betty's front door address address a couple of weeks ago: 31-57 :o

Well, there's no way a Jackson Heights house can have that address and be within earshot of the elevated (#7) train. The "31" means that the cross street (in this case, "cross avenue") would be way up north from the place (Roosevelt Avenue) where the elevated train is above...in fact, the "31" places it more on the way to LaGuardia Airport.

Betty's address would likely have a "37" for the first two numbers...which would place her about a block away from the #7 train. From there could definitely hear the brakes coming to a squealing stop as the train entered the Junction Boulevard stop.

[jlucille]

why would it have to be the 7 train? IDK, no offense but this is a bit nit-picky.....

[fragrant]

Thanks for the info.

I enjoy reading about the bloopers.

I wouldn't know if they lived near the #7 or LaGuardia. LOL:]

[AMCsince70]

Why the #7 Train? 'Cause that's the train you can hear squealing from inside Betty's house. It's the only elevated train that runs over Roosevelt Avenue, which forms the southern border of Jackson Heights.

You can see shots of that train in the distance, running along the elevated tracks when they film looking down her street.

Sure another train runs through Jackson Hts: the underground IND subway line also runs through part (it has a stop at Broadway and 74th Street), but my guess is that Betty lives in the eastern part of Jackson Heights, in the lower-to-mid 90s...not the mid-70's.

BTW: I love being nitpicky, jlucille. :D Not to criticize the show, though...'cause I love it :)...but to let the writers out in LA (where it's filmed) that they should do a little more homework about our gal from Queens...or at least hire a consultant...or better yet, consider moving the show back to NYC (where they filmed the awesome pilot!).

[AMCsince70]

Giving this a little bump so it doesn't disappear before the next UB episode on Thursday.

[AMCsince70]

Two more bloopers. :)

Last Thursday's episode's two bloopers came as Justin was entering the convenience store/supermarket. The sign out front said "LIQUOR"...but liquor is never sold in convenience stores or supermarkets in NYC. Liquor is only sold in licensed liquor stores. (You can, however, buy beer in a convenience store or supermarket.)

Also, the address of the convenience store would have been impossible for the part of Jackson Heights where Betty's family lives. The address on the front of the store was shown as 31-50...which would never be an address close to the elevated trains, which we hear constantly screeching in the background.

Next time, all the writers in LA have to do it find/google any store on Roosevelt Avenue (where the elevated #7 Train runs along) and copy that address...or at least look on a map. :D

[AMCsince70]

Giving this a bitty bump so I can hopefully add more bloopers after this coming Thursday's show. :)

[AMCsince70]

Hm...no new Betty this week.

There were a couple of bloopers in recent new shows that I never posted...let me go back and review...

[AMCsince70]

Just a merry little bump...until the next Betty epi airs on Thursday. :)

[ravenhairfemme]

Next time, all the writers in LA have to do it find/google any store on Roosevelt Avenue (where the elevated #7 Train runs along) and copy that address...or at least look on a map. :D

Okay now I am being nit picky, sorry everyone :*). I have a good feeling why they can't just pluck a real address out of Queens: Addresses have to be fictionalized for a fictional show or people can sue them for using their "real address" and not being paid for it. Second, if they borrowed your address in Queens and listed it on the show you might get people knocking on your door expecting to tour the Suarez household on Ugly Betty and that would be another reason to sue the show, it is the same situation with convenience stores, I am sure if their address was listed they'd be calling Execs in LA asking for their cut since their address is featured. Now if they wanted to do research in the area and make up an address (that wasn't real/listed and one that would fit in with the schematics and logistics of the neighborhood in Queens where Betty lives) they could certainly do that :).

[AMCsince70]

You make a good point. I hadn't thought about the legalities of using the address of another already-existing business. But 31-70 is an address that was used on the show and it is indeed's someone's address in Jackson Heights...just not under the "el" train on Roosevelt Avenue.

I guess what I was trying to say is that I would like the writers to go that extra mile and make the addresses seems more plausible...especially for the "locals" who live in Queens and know what is possible and what is not.

I know I don't get to write for the show, but oftentimes writers will use fictional (but semi-plausible) numbers for other NYC addresses...such as Manhattan addresses. For example, a script will say that someone lives on 825 E. 50 Street...which indeed places the address in Manhattan on 50th Street, but all the way in the East River :] since the "825" number is impossibly far to the east...so that no one could actually trace it.

So for Queens, let's say, a Roosevelt Avenue address could be listed 84-99 (which shows a location supposedly between 84th and 85th street, but closer to 85th). However, it would be highly unlikely to be a real address of any business since no location could go all the way up the "99s" because the distances between cross streets are relatively short on Roosevelt Avenue.

Just googling "Roosevelt Avenue, Queens" brings up a host of images, examples of Roosevelt Avenue addresses, etc.
Hey, I love this show...Just wish the writers would go the extra mile and put on a few finishing touches. :) Especially for the real Queens folks. :D

[AMCsince70]

When Betty was talking to Gio in his van on their way to New Jersey, Betty mentioned that she had written for "the Queens College newspaper."

Well, this post is not exactly a blooper but just an added detail that the writers could have included: The name of the QC newspaper is the Phoenix.



Anyway, thanks for the mention, Betty. :) I worked on the Phoenix, the Queens College newspaper, too. ;)

[mamalovesdrama]

^^^That's a very good point. They could have used the actual name of the newspaper to add realism, and give a little shout out to The Phoenix staff at the same time! :)

[AMCSince'04]

Wow, good observation :clap:. I would never have paid attention to that detail.

[AMCsince70]

Thanks! I love the show and I enjoy seeing how closely all the details actually relate to someone who's really from Queens.

[heybaileykay]

Eep, I love Ugly Betty. New episode tonight! I'm pumped

[AMCsince70]

Well, it wasn't a new episode...I think we get that next week :D...but there was blooper.

The train they showed leaving Manhattan and heading for Queens (supposedly with Betty onbroad heading home) was not the #7 Train that Betty would take home to Jackson Heights. (It was the train that goes to more north to Astoria...the N Train.)

[AMCsince70]

Just giving this thread a bump so it doesn't drop off before we get to the new Betty epi on Thursday!

[AMCsince70]

Hope to catch some bloopers on tonight's new show :) so here's a bump... ;)

[fragrant]

AMCsince 70 I'm waiting for your bloopers to appear.

[AMCsince70]

Thanks, fragrant, for the encouragement! :)

This episode was a hard one to find bloopers for, per se.

However, an inconsistency would be the ethnic make up of Justin's middle school class. Jackson Heights is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Queens, but the "mean girls" in Justin's class looked and sounded like they were straight from the suburbs...or maybe privileged Manhattan girls. (The teacher, though, made a good attempt at portraying a Queens/New York accent.)

[AMCsince70]

Just a friendly bump until we see next Thursday's show. :)

[daisydoodle]

Thanks, fragrant, for the encouragement! :)

This episode was a hard one to find bloopers for, per se.

However, an inconsistency would be the ethnic make up of Justin's middle school class. Jackson Heights is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Queens, but the "mean girls" in Justin's class looked and sounded like they were straight from the suburbs...or maybe privileged Manhattan girls. (The teacher, though, made a good attempt at portraying a Queens/New York accent.)

You are right AMCsince70. I thought those girls could have been straight from Great Neck or even Lindsay Lohan's hometown of Merrick, Long Island. I lived in Bellmore for 9 years so I know those mean girls and they certainly could have been students at Kennedy High School over there.

Now I am in Smithtown, and we have a little less mean girls like that over here, but you see them all over LI.#-o

[AMCsince70]

You got it right, daisydoodle! They were more like girls from the Island (as New Yorkers would say).

[daisydoodle]

:] With all the talk on the news every week lately about the #7 train repairs and the shutdown, I always have a little chuckle since you make comments all the time about the 7. i think this weekend there are no repairs so no service disruptions to the real everyday NYC #7 train riders.

[AMCsince70]

Even Rachael Ray was talking about the #7 Train today on her show!

So...if Betty starts talking about riding the 7 Train on weekends, we may another blooper to report. (Of course, those shows were written and filmed way in advance of the recent shutdown of the 7 on weekends...so of course the writers had no way of knowing about this one.)

[AMCsince70]

One more blooper from last week's show:

Toward the end of the episode, they supposedly showed three on-location scenes from Jackson Heights, Queens. Well, the last two scenes (the ones showing the #7 elevated train going by) were indeed shot in Queens. The first scene, however...the one showing the all the shops along a commercial street with a store called "Metro Market" in the middle...was not shot in Jackson Heights, nor I doubt anywhere in Queens or NYC.

How come? Well, commercial cross streets (avenues, actually) in Queens ALL have parking meters...and there were no parking meters in front of those stores. Plus, the address on all the establishments on that street all said "13_ _"...and the addresses with "1300-something" are not located in Jackson Heights.

[AMCsince70]

This one isn't a "Queens blooper" but rather a continuity blooper:

When Betty was in the office area (where all the Mode posters are hung on the wall) talking for the second time with Phil Roth, his hand its changed position on the poster...and then it went back again to the original position...his hand did not stay in the very same spot. They obviously filmed that scene twice, but the powers that be didn't take care to have his hand in the exact same spot

On the first take, his hand was over the model's breast, with his thumb directly below the "M" of Mode. In the second take, his hand was completely off the breast with his thumb about 2 inches to the left of the "M". Then, the final time he is shown talking to Betty, his hand is exactly where it was the first time, first take.

Sure, he could have naturally been moving his hand around, but I think the point of the scene was that he deliberately wanted to "shock" Betty by placing his hand exactly where he did the first time.;)

[AMCsince70]

Again, it was more of continuity problem...

Near the end of the show, as Betty and Daniel were talking in the outer office area, in the background you could see a worker wearing a reddish/orange vest and wheeling a cart down a hallway...

But each time the camera switched back and forth between Betty's and Daniel's closeups, that other guy's movements did not move logically...sometimes he was walking further down the hall, and then at other times he was still in the same place he was at the beginning as if he had been walking backwards in time.

[AMCsince70]

Tonight's the night! Another episode for our girl!

Bloopers seem to be getting fewer and fewer each week...a good sign, right? :)

[AMCsince70]

Oops...looks like no new "Betty" tonight because of the "Lost" two-hour event.

See "Betty" next week...our girl's worthy waiting for! :)

[AMCsince70]

Giving this thread a bump until we get to see this Thursday's episode! :)

[AMCsince70]

Giving this thread a bit of a bump...and hoping for a new Betty this week!

[AMCsince70]

We are "Lost" without our dear Betty. ;)
Come back to us soon so we can watch and catch some new bloopers! :D

[AMCsince70]

Looks like Betty will be back soon, now that the strike is over. :clap:

[AMCsince70]

A week without Betty make one weak...%(

Come back soon, Sweetie! :D

[AMCsince70]

Glad to know the writers are putting ink to paper...and our Betty will be back come spring! ;)

[AMCsince70]

Bumpity bump...

Come soon, Betty! :)

[AMCsince70]

A little bump to you! :D

[JennyJenkins]

I watch Ugly Betty from time to time. Since I don't live in NYC, all the place name references are good to know.

Speaking of tourists visiting a place, recently I read that the original house that was used for the Brady Bunch will be razed, because the new owners are fed up with tourists knocking on their door. So many people don't know that the inside is a set, they think that the series was filmed in that house, only because it's facade was used as a stock shot.:)#-o

[AMCsince70]

I heard something similar about the house where the 70's musical duo The Carpenters lived in Downey, California. A photo of that house appeared on one of their albums and fans have been showing up to see it for years. (Sort of like a Graceland West.)

The current owners want to raze the house...hence, the big controversy for the fans.



As to the exact number of the street where Betty lives, that remains a mystery. My best guess for now is that it is in the lower 90's, north of Roosevelt Avenue.

[AMCsince70]

Friendly bump here! :D

[fragrant]

I'm ready for the new Betty and the bloopers. :)

[AMCsince70]

Time for a bump!

Can't wait for Betty to bounce back! :D

[fragrant]

AMCsince, I'm waiting for the new Betty to start. :)

[AMCsince70]

Less than a month to go!! :clap: :D

[AMCsince70]

Bumpity, bump.:D...keeping the thread alive...until Betty bounces back to us!

[AMCsince70]

Two weeks to go.
Too weak to wait. ;)

Come back, Betty, come back. :D

[fragrant]

A few more weeks and Betty will be back on. AMCsince70 then you can let us know where the bloopers are.

[AMCsince70]

Thanks, fragrant. I'm chomping at the bit!

Speaking of chomping at bit:]...I am so hungry for bloopers that I freeze-framed the UB promos just to go looking for bloopers...especially in that scene with Betty jumping out of the horse-drawn carriage in front of so-called "Bergman's"...just looking for some sort of sign that the carriage was not a regulation NYC hansom cab. No luck. :-S Not yet... :D

[SAMIZGH]

Did you guys know that this show is a big rave in the latino countries. They call it "La fea Beatriz" only in their versions they have a really good looking woman and make her look "ugly" then at the end of the soap she comes out looking stunning. Their soaps go on for a few years then it's time for a new one.

[AMCsince70]

I think we have a really good-looking woman in our English version, too. :)
What can we say...America Ferrara is a gorgeous young woman...with spectacular eyes, a winning smile, and real-woman curves.

[AMCsince70]

The week is finally here!

[AMCsince70]

On "Live with Regis and Kelly" today, Eric Mabius was a guest and they showed a short clip of the first show back after the strike. It was great to have a peek at the show!

Other than they way some of Betty's hair (wig) fell down her shoulders from one scene to the other, there were really no inconsistencies or bloopers...not yet.:D

[AMCsince70]

It was great having our Betty back...and on her "birthday" no less! :D

It was tough to catch any bloopers in this episode. The producers are doing a good job and watching the details. :)

Of course, I'm sure NYC wouldn't allow an unlicensed/uncertified conductor like Gio take the reins of a Hansom cab, but for the sake of romance and fantasy, we can cut a break here, especially for Betty who needed some special loving. ;)

Not so much a blooper but a continuity blip this time: When Betty arrived at Henry's apartment to meet him for their weekend, as she talked to him in the doorway, the double straps on her shoulder bag keeping moving position...from on top of her shoulder to under her collar and back, although it was obvious that Betty wasn't adjusting the straps with her other arm.

Also, when Betty went into Daniel office to let him know his three different options for celebrating the evening with Willi's sister, Betty arms were consistently crossed, gripping her folder across her chest....except for one time when her arms were dropped completely down. Of course, that could have simply been part of Betty's "expression" during the scene, but it stood out to me.

So...there weren't any major bloopers that I could detect. Maybe someone else will be able to find some?

[daisydoodle]

^I agree about the horse and carriage. Gio would not have been able to operate it at all. and then to bring it to the restaurant which was most likely somewhere downtown would have been a big no no sincwe that is beyond the normal operating area. I am assuming the restaurant was supposed to be the show's version of The Waverly Inn which is the hot celeb restaurant now.

The one blooper I spotted was that Betty was carting her rolling suitcase around all day. she even was seen bringing it into the restaurant as she went in, but I never saw it afterwards when she had her Ziploc full of fondue and Gio came up to get her in the carriage.

[AMCsince70]

Excellent on all points!!! :clap: Good call on the restaurant and how a downtown location would not allow Hansom cabs to cruise the area.

Yeah, where did that suitcase go?

Terrific bloopers!

[daisydoodle]

Thanks. That suitcase was with Betty everywhere. When she left her house, at Henry's, in the ladies room with Claire and going into the restaurant, and then that was it. I guess she left it in the coat check room at the restaurant (they would have never let her bring it to the table with her..........but hey she had her coat on when she came out.)

[AMCsince70]

You're right. Some things just don't add up....

More Betty tonight! :D

[AMCsince70]

Wow, these guys are getting good. It's been hard to track many bloopers.

One thing I did notice, both in the Manhattan scenes (where Willi and Marc were walking outdoors) and the Queens scene (where a Jackson Heights street is shown with the "El" running in the background):

The NYC trees were shown with no leaves whatsover, completely bare. But if we are try to the current season of the year...and that would be one week past Betty's "birthday"...then the trees in New York are in full bud (if not almost full bloom) now.

[AMCsince70]

Giving this thread a bit of a bump...until Thursday comes. :)

[AMCsince70]

Well, well!
Ugly Betty will be filming in New York next season!:clap:
What an awesome decision!

The bloopers may be harder to spot if actual NYC/Queens locales are chosen, so it looks like a challenge may be ahead!

[AMCsince70]

The producers are doing a great job...the bloopers are getting harder to spot.

This is not so much a blooper as an incongruity: When Daniel was visiting the therapist for his first two sessions, the wisps of hair to the left of her face kept "adjusting" to different angles and positions. Obviously, the scene was shot over various takes.

Anybody catch anything else?

[fragrant]

I'm glad Betty will be filming in NY.

[AMCsince70]

Hurrah! Caught some bloopers tonight!

The first is the so-called "junior high" where Justin's dance was held. The school building that was shown clearly had the name "John Marshall High School" on the front. Not only was it not a middle school or junior high, it was also not the name of any public school in Jackson Heights, Queens.

More bloopers to come...:)

[sanka]

Ugly Betty will be reducing its it's bloopers as it moves from its fake New York set in Los Angeles to the actual New York City, according to The Hollywood Reporter

[AMCsince70]

Ah, but it says that the writers will remain in LA. If the writers are not part of the New York scene, they may still "not get" the differences between Queens and LA.

[AMCsince70]

Many, many bloopers in this final episode. Thanks writers!!!:) I get to have fun spotting them. Here's the first one:

The final scene had perhaps the most obvious blooper: Betty lives in Queens. Jackson Heights, Queens.

So in the final cutaway scene, how do they decide to depict where her neighborhood is in relationship to the rest of the City of New York? By showing that it's located at the foot of the recognizable and iconic Brooklyn Bridge!

Huh?...Betty's in Brooklyn? :]:]

Now, any map will tell you there is a Queensborough Bridge...and the writers at least could have used that bridge, even though Jackson Heights in not exactly in the shadow of the Queensborough Bridge (aka the 59th Street Bridge from the Simon & Garfunkel song, "Feeling Groovy: The 59th Street Bridge Song").

[AMCsince70]

Great! Some past bloopers have been corrected! :D :clap:

Hurray...that the address on the Betty's front door [37-27] is an actual, plausible address for that block of Jackson Heights just north of the elevated train, aka the #7 train.

Hurray...that the house is on the correct (east) side of the street and that the sun (which would coming from the south) was indeed shining on the correct side of Betty's face as she walked out of her front door at the end of the show.

[AMCsince70]

Another blooper:

It was stated that Justin is a student at PS 350.

It's clear that Justin is middle-school age. In New York City, kids Justin's age go to a either a JHS (Junior High School) or an IS (Intermediate School), but never a PS (Public School) since those are considered elementary schools.

[mamalovesdrama]

AMCsince70, do the middle schools have names, or just numbers, like the elementary schools? :-\

[AMCsince70]

Hi, mamalovesdrama!

The middle schools have numbers and names. So do the junior highs. (I went to JHS 125, Woodside Junior High School.)
The high schools only have names, and the elementary schools (for the most part) only had numbers until recently.

Some elementary schools use the borough's initial (as in Q for Queens), to distinguish it from the same number used by a school in another NYC borough (example: B=Brooklyn, X=Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island).

Currently, many if not most elementary are being named after famous people. For example, my elementary school was P.S. 149 on 94th Street and 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights...just a couple blocks north of where Betty and her family live. Apparrently the school was given a new name a couple of years ago: "Christa McAuliffe Public School 149." (Named after teacher who died in the Challenger explosion in 1986.)

I no longer live in the neighborhood, but from time to time I check a "classmates" website...so when I went there to check about P.S. 149 Q one day, it said I was a considered a graduate of Christa McAuliffe P.S. 149.

[mamalovesdrama]

^^^Hi, AMC! Thank you so much for the info! I have always wondered about that. :)

[AMCsince70]

In the season's finale when Betty was playing dodge ball with the "mean girls" (headed up by Lindsay Lohan), there were several yellow school buses shown parked in the background.

Yellow school buses do not transport high school students to their classes in NYC.
They ride the city buses and the subway lines, just like anybody else.

[jlucille]

^^That is a big one...you would think they would get something that big correct, I have watched Everybody Hates Chris a few times which is based in NYC and they have shown those kids riding public trans. to go to school.

[AMCsince70]

Maybe because Chris Rock has creative control over the show, and as a native New Yorker he can make sure the show looks as authentic as possible.

[AMCsince70]

Giving this thread a little bump so it can stay on the board until I watch Thursday's episode...looking for more bloopers. ;)

[AMCsince70]

Just watched last Thursday's episode:

When Justin left the house with his friends, it was good (again, yay!) to see the Suarez's address shown as 37-27...a plausible address for a house that it just north of the elevated train.
Good job...thanks to the writers for changing that address from the one used last season. :clap:

But when Betty and Henry kissed at the very end of the show...as the cameras scanned to the north in the background...an outline of the NYC skyline appeared.

Well, "the city" is to the west, not north, of that block in Jackson Heights. Betty and Henry could have perhaps seen planes taking off from LaGuardia Airport to the north of Jackson Heights...but not the Empire State Building several miles to the west.:o

[AMCsince70]

Here's another blooper:

All streets in Jackson Heights (except for a wide commercial street such as Junction Boulevard) that lead to and from the elevated train line along Roosevelt Avenue are ONE-WAY streets.

Betty's house would definitely be on one of those one-way streets...but parked cars are clearly shown facing/going in both directions, north and south.

[AMCsince70]

Just a friendly bump to keep this thread going...:)

[AMCsince70]

Haven't had the chance to watch this week's "Wicked" rebroadcast yet to look for more bloopers...so here's a bump to keep things going! :)

[AMCsince70]

Bumpity, bump.

More bloopers to come!

[AMCsince70]

Looking for bloopers in the "Wicked" episode....

Just two continuity things, that's all!

1. When Justin was talking to Hilda in the kitchen after he found out that she wasn't working at a beauty salon, the small cross near the top of her neck shifted in position from center to left, and back to center again.

2. When Willi was calling Victoria Beckham to ask her to be the maid of honor, Willi's orange and silver cuff/bracklet/watch kept shifting position in some scenes.



Another episode coming up on this Thursday!

[AMCsince70]

The great non-blooper about his episode is how "they" fixed the way the view looks from Betty's bedroom window. Instead of showing "impossible-to-see-from-Jackson-Heights" views of a bridge, as they did last year, they showed all the neighborhood's rooftops instead.

Good going!

[AMCsince70]

This also goes into the category of "Now they got it right!": They showed a car parked in front of Betty's house...parked in the right direction for a one-way street in Jackson Heights! The car was pointed south.

Ah-ha! This brings up another reveal:
Only "even-numbered" streets run south in Jackson Heights, and since Betty lives so close to the elevated train station that everyone in the neighborhood can hear the brakes squealing as the trains pull into the station, I am guessing that Betty lives on...94th Street!...the closest even-numbered street to the Junction Boulevard stop.

[AMCsince70]

Giving this thread a friendly bump until I can see the next episode. :)

[AMCsince70]

This may be a blooper, depending on Betty's decision: Gio in Rome, or Henry in Phoenix...or "Somewhere Else" all by herself:

The plane that was shown at the end of the season finale was definitely headed southwest out of NYC...and not eastward toward Europe. (Of course, that's with the assumption that Betty was in that particular plane.)

[AMCsince70]

Had the chance to see Ugly Betty on Canadian TV tonight! They run the full closing credits across the entire screen and play music that we don't ordinarily hear in the US at the end of the program. The credits ran fast, but one of the people listed had the last name "Grubstick"...just like Henry. Hm...

Anyway: Caught one blooper. When Alexis was trying to sweet-talk the printer into delaying the print deadline for the magazine, her long blonde hair kept changing "position" as it was cascading down the side of her red dress. There must a have been a number of takes and Alexis must have been moving her hair from its original placement.

[AMCsince70]

A possible blooper:

It looks like Bradford was laid to rest at Calvary Cemetery located on Queens Boulevard in Woodside, Queens...based on the views you can see of the NYC skyline from the graveside. I believe, however, that Calvary is a Roman Catholic cemetery...and somehow Bradford struck me as being Protestant.

[AMCsince70]

Caught one blooper:

When Betty and Henry were talking after the "ice-cream on the stomach" scene, that smudge of whipped cream on Betty's check kept appearing, disappearing, and then appearing again while she was trying to convince Henry to take her out dancing.

[AMCsince70]

A bump until our next episode tomorrow. :)

[Ice_Scarred]

lol. Bloopers.....Bloopers.....

[AMCsince70]

A couple of bloopers this time:

Near the beginning of the show when Betty was in Daniel's office, as she was putting away her granola bar in her shoulder bag, it was clear that the letter "B" in her necklace was facing backward. (Looks like she flipped it over when she dug into her bag to reach for that bar.) Anyway, in the very next scene while she is continuing to talk with Daniel suddenly the "B" is reversed...without missing a beat...and with her arms still fully down and occupied with the items she's holding.

Also, the teacher who was on the field trip had a believable NYC/Queens accent, but the high school girls sound like they were valley girls...not teens from Queens :)

[AMCsince70]

Giving this a Sunday bump

[AMCsince70]

Just a bump until I can watch l can watch last week's Ugly Betty. I just came back from spending a week+ in America Ferreira's birth country, Honduras.

[AMCsince70]

Catching up with watching Betty, after spending a week doing eyeglass clinics in Honduras.

Blooper from last week's Betty:

During Betty's interview with Phil Roth, the actor "accidently" leaned his hand on poster of the Mode cover photo on the wall behind him (placing his hand directly on the model's left "chest"), but while he was still speaking the same sentence, his had moved to the center (obviously, it was retake), and then right after that, his hand was back on the "left chest" position.

[AMCsince70]

Another blooper from the same show, same scene:

Also during Betty's interview with Phil Roth, the pen that was placed across the top of the book that has been laid on the table was moved from a slanted to a vertical position...all during the very same conversation and without Betty ever touching the pen.

[AMCsince70]

When Gio and Henry were arguing in the bar about their successful pick-up lines, Betty's "B" necklace did a reversal of the letter B midway through their discussion...then it flipped back to normal position during mid-sentence.

This type of blooper has happened in other episodes...her "B" necklace seems to have trouble lying perfectly flat. I guess it's part of her Betty charm...

[AMCsince70]

Here's the last set of bloopers from the last weeks' shows:

The address shown on the Latino meat market on that so-called commercial shopping street in Jackson Heights, could not have been anywhere near where Betty lives since the address began with a "19" (as in 1922), and the area where Betty lives would show avenue addresses in the range of the 30's...not the teens.

Plus, commercial streets like that in Queens all have parking meters, and I could not see any at all in that particular shot.

However, the rest of the shots of Jackson Heights from that outdoor sequence...the houses, the elevator trains...were indeed actual Jackson Hts. scenes.

[AMCsince70]

This was a tough one, since we already have a number of bloopers from this late-in-the-season show posted here on this thread, but I did pick up one more:

Betty's hair...that is, the way it looked as it cascaded down in front of her shoulders...kept changing its position mid-sentence while she was talking with Mrs. Meade in the ladies' room.

[AMCsince70]

I couldn't find a single blooper in this week's show. The outdoor scenes looked believable, and I couldn't find any major continuity blunders. Anybody else see something?

Maybe I need to watch again!

[AMCsince70]

Just a bump until more bloopers come along...:D

[AMCsince70]

Here's one blooper...

When Daniel and Betty's dad were chatting as they walked down the street, the so-called NYC yellow cab that passed by in the background looked as if it had some sort of white cardboard or heavy paper pasted over part of the door...to hide whatever had been originally painted on the taxi's door.

But now that the show will be filmed in NYC, that type of blooper will be rare. :)

[AMCsince70]

A couple more bloopers from last week's show:

When Daniel was talking to his psychiatrist, the pen she was holding in her folded hands shifted positions from scene to scene, and the blonde curl behind her ear (on the left) kept changing size and shape.

The next blooper is about Betty's hair, when Betty and Claire bumped into each other in the "crossroads" of the Mode hallway. At first, just a small, single strand of Betty's hair was hanging down on her left side, but then suddenly a large full clump of hair was in the same place.

[AMCsince70]

Just an observation:
In tonight's show, when Betty and her family were in the kitchen and Justin tried pushing cucumber slices between Betty's eyeglasses and her eyes, it looked as though one of those cucumber slices was going to come right through the "so-called lense" in Betty's glasses. It looked to me that Betty was wearing fake-glasses...that is only frames, but no lenses. That's a change from the usual, since Betty's glasses not only have lenses but the glare often reflects in the lighting on the set.

A blooper, of sorts:
When Betty and the Mode/Meade crew had theif initial "showdown" in the Mode hallway with Wilhemina and her crew, the face on Betty's wrist watch first was pointed downward, then it was centered perfectly on her wrist, then it was pointing down again...all in mid-sentence.

[AMCsince70]

Here's a blooper:

Justin's Junior High School dance wasn't held at his JHS at all.
The name on the outside of the building was "John Kennedy High School"...and there is no JFK High School in Jackson Heights, Queens.

[AMCsince70]

One more observation:

Near the end of the episode, when Coach Tony came over to see Hilda and bring her some hot soup, I noticed that Hilda was only wearing her cross around her neck, and not her "name plate" necklace. She almost always wears both.

Just wondering: Does anyone remember if Santos gave her the "Hilda" necklace? If so, does Hilda's not wearing it signal that she is ready to move on?

[AMCsince70]

Hilda talked about joining the PTA...but there are "technically" no PTAs in NYC. Sure, the city's public schools have Parents Associations or use other similar names for those organizations, but PTAs...per se...do not operate in NYC. (I've been told it's because of the terms of the teachers' contracts.)

[AMCsince70]

This may have been mentioned earlier:
There could be extraordinary exceptions, but generally speaking, there are no high school buses for NYC high school students. Everyone takes public transportation.

Those buses parked in Betty's school yard would not be there.

[AMCsince70]

I loved the season opener!

Having the show shot on location is fabulous! And yes, there are still plenty of bloopers to find! :)

For now:

The writers must never have lived in anything but "an elevator building" since Betty lives in a "5th floor walk up"...but Hilda talked about climbing up 5 flights of stairs. New Yorkers know that a "5th floor walk up" has only 4 flights of stairs to climb get to the top (5th) floor.

The West Side Falafel Shop (next to Betty's apartment entrance) obviously has a paste-over sign. I haven't figured out the exact location yet, but Betty's apartment may not actually be on what is considered the West Side.

The "Flushing Burger" is not actually located in Flushing (which the last stop on the #7 Elevated Train that runs close to Ignacio's house), but in Long Island City near the 23rd Street (Ely Avenue) subway stop. That is a Queens location, however. More about that later...

[AMCsince70]

Not so much a blooper as it is a NYC no-brainer:

No true "Queens" gal ever...e-v-e-r...is caught wearing a "Brooklyn" t-shirt!
Hilda, girl, what were you thinking???

I can only hope that's where her new boyfriend must live. Please!

[AMCsince70]

A couple more bloopers or inconsistencies:

During one of the "stock" opening shots we see of the Brooklyn Bridge, the "waterfalls" were not visible. Even though the waterfalls are only a temporary installation, they still would have been up in time for shooting of the season's fall premiere. An old shot of the Brooklyn Bridge was used...but you could clearly see the mist from the waterfalls in the background of the on-location shot at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park along the East River.

Why was Hilda's boyfriend trying so hard to cover up his bottom half when they were smooching on the couch? Clearly, you could see he was fully dressed below...his jeans were peeking out from under the blanket!

[AMCsince70]

It was tough to find bloopers this time...but because the number of different takes needed for each scene, it's usually easy to spot inconsistencies with the way Betty's hair hangs down in front of her shoulders/chest. For example, in Betty and Daniel's conversation at the very end of the episode, it was easy to track the varied ways Betty's hair was arranged around her neck and chest.

[AMCsince70]

When he was talking with Hilda in Betty's apartment, Coach Diaz talked about working for the New York State School District. Actually, there is not one single NYS School District, since each of the counties, cities, communities have their own separate school districts.

However, there is a New York City School system. Coach Diaz works for them.

[Toy Mistress]

I loved the season opener!

For now:

The writers must never have lived in anything but "an elevator building" since Betty lives in a "5th floor walk up"...but Hilda talked about climbing up 5 flights of stairs. New Yorkers know that a "5th floor walk up" has only 4 flights of stairs to climb get to the top (5th) floor.

I know this is late, but I have to disagree on this one. I lived in a 5th floor walk-up in the Bronx. And, the first floor was actually the second. The ground floor had apartments numbered, LL, MM, PP. Second floor was 1LL, 1MM, 1PP. So the top floor which was actually the 6th, was 5LL, etc.

I actually know of a few buildings like that.

[AMCsince70]

That happens a lot in the Bronx because of all the hills there. The entrance level for an apartment building could actually be on the 3rd floor, and then some floors go up and others go down. It all hanks to the topography of the Bronx that the buildings looking as though they are built on a slant (of course they're not!)

But from the so-called outside shot of Betty's apartment, she apparently lives above storefronts in a typically flat section of Manhattan.

But, anything is always possible. ;) I still thinks she's climbing only 4 set of stairs to get to her fifth floor walk up...as my daughter did when she lived in the East Village.

[AMCsince70]

Just the usual "Betty's hair" bloopers in last week's episode...which are really inconsistencies from one scene to another because of the different "takes" that are edited to form one scene.
In the very same scene/sequence, Betty's hair falls differently down in front of her shoulders. Sometimes just a strand hangs down, and other times a huge hunk of hair suddenly drapes down.

[AMCsince70]

Bloopers were hard to spot this time.
A continuity error, yes!

One continuity error is how Hilda's name plate necklace hangs first on a slant and then perfectly straight and then on a slant in again in the very same scene...as in the indoor picnic scenes with Tony, and then in the scene with his wife in the Hilda's beauty parlor...all while Hilda is being perfectly still.

[AMCsince70]

Giving the blooper thread a bump until I can watch the next episode! :)

[AMCsince70]

Was away last week. Hope to catch the "Granny Pants" episode...and some bloopers...soon! :)

[AMCsince70]

It's getting more difficult to spot any bloopers. A good thing, really.

Anyway, there was just one inconsistency that I could find: Near the beginning of the show when Betty and Kimmie were talking by Betty's work area, Betty's starting to tuck away a yellow folder into to a set files on top of her desk. She only inserted the yellow folder half way into the rest the files, but in the next scene when Betty turned around, the folder was now tucked all the way down...with no part still sticking up.

[AMCsince70]

Again, it was hard to spot bloopers. This new team is really sharp.

One inconsistency, however, was during the scene where Betty was standing in her apartment's doorway talking with Jesse. At some points that one scene, the doorway is opened just slightly wider than during the rest of the scene. As the scene (and conversation) switched back and forth, the differing angle of the doorway's opening was evident.

[AMCsince70]

There were a couple of time-related bloopers plus a location blooper in the previous episode.

First of all, Betty's clock seems to be stuck on 7 o-clock. At the start of the episode, when Hilda and Justin were visiting Betty in her new apartment, more than a minute's conversation went by, but that clock never budged a bit.

Now let's be consistent: How "dark" or "light" is it in Manhattan in the early morning? At the opening of the show, Betty is carrying two cups of coffee and is deliberately trying to run into Jesse coming home from a gig at 6 a.m. The sun is fully out...a bright, bright morning.

But later, at the end of the episode, after the all-night party has come to a close, Betty's clock has actually moved a bit and it shows that it's a few minutes past 7 (must be a.m.!) while she and Wilhemina are chatting up on the roof...but it is still dark...and the sun is just beginning to rise. So when does it get light in the morning in NYC? 6 a.m. or 7?

Plus, at the very end of the episode, Betty and Wilhemina have their backs to the Flatiron Building, which means they are facing north, looking toward uptown Manhattan. So how it that they are watching the sunrise coming from the north? The sun should be rising from over their right shoulders...from the East...from dear Queens. :D

[mamalovesdrama]

Plus, at the very end of the episode, Betty and Wilhemina have their backs to the Flatiron Building, which means they are facing north, looking toward uptown Manhattan. So how it that they are watching the sunrise coming from the north? The sun should be rising from over their right shoulders...from the East...from dear Queens. :D

LOL! I was wondering about that, too! I figured you would post it here, AMC! :)

[AMCsince70]

The blooper came right in the opening scene:

As the New York skyline appeared, we panned below to the scene of people walking along the NYC streets..and it was obvious that it was the summertime since people were wearing casual summer attire: short sleeve shirts, sunglasses, etc.

Then, we cut immediately to the scene of Betty and Amanda walking along (supposedly) the very same streets...only all of a sudden, all the pedestrians (including Betty and Amanda) are now wearing coats and jackets—much heavier clothing. Clearly it was the season of fall.

[Schnuggy]

well I find the nitpicking interesting. New York is one of my favourite cities...but as a tourist I rarely get past manhattan............ I can cope with that as AI love the place................. so all these little bits about t rains a nd so on.............bring it on............