10 Biggest TV Show Blunders Ever

1. The One Where Monica's Apartment Switches Floors - Friends

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We began this list with a Friends entry, so it's fitting that we end with one too. It's just like the iconic Friends theme song says: "Thank you for being a Friend // Traveled down the road and back again." Now that we've "traveled down the road" of the 10 biggest TV show blunders ever, it only makes sense that we go "back again" to the show that started it all.

As a new series that was just finding its feet, the first season of Friends was rife with continuity errors. This one, however, is almost world-shattering, as it completely alters the geography of one of the show's most iconic locations.

In the first few episodes, we see that Monica lives in Apartment No. 5 of her building. This would imply that it must be located on one of the lower floors, if not the ground floor itself. The set designers must have realised that the apartment needed to be much higher up for future storylines to make sense, so they quietly changed the 5 for a 20 when nobody was looking.

They thought no-one would notice, but we noticed. Oh, we noticed.

And what about you? Did you notice the ten blunders we hid throughout this list? Yes? Good for you! Why not write your own list about them? Let's keep this blunder train going forever, people. It's our civic duty to point out insignificant mistakes in pieces of art that other people worked really hard on. It's all we've got.

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Jimmy Kavanagh is an Irish writer and co-founder of Club Valentine Comedy, a Dublin-based comedy collective. You can hear him talk to his favourite comedians about their favourite comics on his podcast, Comics Swapping Comics.