Hippie Hippie Hooray Doesn't Work Because...

I have a Bewitched companion book. Just the other day I was reading it (again) and the book points out that same mistake in "Hippie, Hippie, Hurray."

If you pay attention, you'll find a number of continuity errors in the dialogue. For instance, when Louise confides in Sam that she is finally going to be a mother, she asks Samantha if she knows that she and Larry have been married for sixteen years.

Yet a few seasons later in "Bewitched, Bothered and Infuriated", Darrin insists on intruding on the Tate's second honeymoon. He mistakenly thinks Larry is going to break his leg on the trip. Larry gets fed up with Darrin's intrusion and tells him that "ten years ago" when they set out for their honeymoon, he broke his leg.

By that point, the Tates were married almost twenty years.

I also can't figure out just WHERE Darrin's parents lived! In the first b&w episode when they meet Sam, Darrin goes to the airport to pick them up. A few episodes later they come to dinner and Endora is also there. She is mildly flirtatious with Frank Stephens and Phyllis goes crazy with jealousy. Darrin goes over to their house to speak to his mom. There was never any mention of them moving close by in "Samantha Meets the Folks".

Sometimes they live nearby. Sometimes they live far away or so it seems. When they meet Tabitha, their first grandchild, she's already several months old. You'd think if they lived close they'd drop in right away for a visit.

Also, in the very first episode after Samantha tells Darrin she is a witch, he lists the things she will have to do. He says she'll have to learn to cook and keep house and have dinner with his folks every Sunday. That would be kinda hard to do since they flew in to see Darrin. Were they expecting the newlyweds to fly out to visit them every Sunday? lol

But as Farmer Ted points out, episodes were expected to be seen a few times and certainly not binge watched. I tend to do that with some shows like Bewitched and the discrepancies are easier to spot when you watch a bunch of episodes in a row.