This episode contradicts several established AIO plot points. For starters, Whit claims he started Whit's End with his wife Jenny because of her apple pies. We know from "Recollections" that Whit's wife was dead before he had the idea for Whit's End. He also makes reference to the fact he has no business sense and he's good at very few things. Both of which we know are entirely incorrect considering he owns an encyclopedia company and is a talented inventor/storyteller/problem solver, and well, the list goes on.
- Shadowpaw

Davey mentions that Whit has a doggy door leading into his garage, though Whit has never mentioned owning a dog at any point in time.
- Shadowpaw

Shawn says that she could see all the way to the bottom of Crater Lake. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and its bottom cannot be seen.
- Lady Simbelmyne

Whit says that his family moved out of Chicago because they wanted to live in a smaller town with a slow pace. While that's true, most of the reason why they moved is because of Jerry's death.
- AIOdude

Whit says that the newspaper is called "The Odyssey Chronicle", not "The Odyssey Times".
- AIOdude

When Davey tells Whit about the backstop falling over, Whit says, "That was just a coincidence." However, it is established in all subsequent episodes that Whit doesn't "believe anything is a coincidence."
- Shadowpaw

I really don't think this is a goof. The original script for "Waylaid in the Windy City II" called for Whit saying the line, "I don't believe in coincidences, but, for a lack of a better word, yes." I'm pretty sure that Whit meant something along that line in this episode.
- Waluigi Freak 99

Putting rap into a radio drama that kids and the Amish listen to!
- Christian A.

The name of the wig store changes from "Pop's Top-notch Tops" to "Pop's Top-notch Top Shop".
- Waluigi Freak 99

Mrs. Rossini called her location "Forest Creek" instead of "Foster Creek."
- Chandler

Connie says that Whit used to own an encyclopedia company, even though he still owns it to this day.
- Waluigi Freak 99

This episode contained a promo for the next show ("Nothing to Fear"), which supposedly featured a girl named Sharon who was afraid of everything. The girl's name is actually Shirley.
- noname

Connie supposedly did not hear Shirley scream because the train was running so loudly. However, since the train (and Connie) were upstairs, shouldn't someone downstairs have heard the screaming? It was already established in "Promises, Promises" that the train was upstairs.
- Waluigi Freak 99

Connie says, "...when he was walking home. There he was heading toward Gentry's Market..."
- Chandler

The story says that if Jeremy were to tell his mom the truth, he'd "be restricted again". However, nothing in the episode prior to this has Jeremy being restricted.

This is just a theory: Perhaps the original story had Jeremy being grounded, and he lied to his mother about what took him so long to get home. Then, the writers decided to change the lie and added in lines. This would explain this goof, as well as the "walking home" one.
- Waluigi Freak 99

In this episode Whit has A TV.
- Daniel

Whit in "Whit's Visitor" says he started Whit's end because of"Jenny's apple pie's".But in this episode Jenny had died.
- Jared DeWhite

There is no requirment that a licence is needed from the state for home schooling given the fact that I was one myself.
- David

Mr. Freemont uses the word 'Gosh' contradictory to what some at Focus on the Family and AIO think is moral.
- Christian A.

When battries go dead in a portible cassette player the cassette dosen't just stop playing all of a sudden. The casette slowly comes to a stop.
- David

During this episode, Ben Franklin gives his famous speech that begins: "I have lived, Sir, a long time..." In reality, Franklin would not give this speech for 11 years, at the Constitutional Convention.
- Ben

When June Kendall enters Whit's End near the end of the show, the doorbell isn't heard.
- noname

However, it's possible that the bell fell down or broke during the storm.
- Eugene

Whit mentions at the little theatre that there are refreshments set up downstairs. However seeing the floorplan of Whit's End the little theater is downstairs.
- David

When Sherman says to Whit that five of the tubes work, three break, equaling two. But Sherman says that only one works now.
- AIOdude

Tom and Whit "lifted" a cabinet that went from floor to ceiling.
- Chandler

While digging, Whit says, "I haven't done this much digging since I was in the Army!" However, "Rescue from Manatugo Point" and "Operation: Digout!" clearly establish that Whit was in the Navy.
- noname

In this episode, Whit says that when he was young, his family "moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where my father...taught at Duke University," Duke University is in Durham, not Raleigh.
- noname

It's true the Duke is in Durham not Raliegh but the 2 cities have very close proximity to one another. It can be possible to live in Raliegh and teach at Duke. Although that would not be very common.
- David

It's probably a goof that Eugene and Whit say the EE doesn't contribute to the visual senses. Scenes in ep 46 make it clear that the user can see what's happening.

On the other hand, maybe they meant that the visual effects weren't that good (like bad virtual reality), and if so, that would make sense.
- Jonathan

Connie says to Whit, "Your pastor called." Other episodes have referenced Connie and Whit attending the same church, so for her to phrase it that way doesn't make sense. She would have said something like, "Pastor Jones called."
- Odyssey fan

Since Connie just got saved, she is probably still looking for a church and has yet to join Whit's church.
- Jfred

Connie asks Eugene to go bowling in this show, yet when she and Mitch go bowling years later, she knows hardly anything about it.
- Chandler

Mary Barclay says that George works with Hal Cunningham. In "The Truth about Zachary," Lucy says that her dad worked for The Odyssey Times but in "Our Daily Bread," George tries to get a job at The Odyssey Times and is turned down.
- Chandler

The red button in the Imagination Station is white in these episodes.
- noname

In this episode, King Ahab and Obadiah eat rabbit, which was not permissable under Old Testament Law.
- "Bubba"

Whit told Jenny that she would be staying in Jerry's old room. But Jerry died in Veitnam before Whit moved to Odyssey so he never lived in Whit's Odyssey home.
- David

When George Barclay is questioning Jimmy, He said, "You still haven't told me why Oscar was here...". There was no mention of Oscar to George. All Donna said was that Jimmy had a 'friend in'. She didn't say his name.
- Branson Bowler

Whit asked George Barkley were did he get the idea that whit was getting married. George said he heard it from Bernard but you can hear earlier in the episode that it was Eugene that called the Barkley's.
- David

Morty Moscowitz is aslo in Scattered Seeds he was the person on the phone from the computer club. Where in this episode he talks about his son that is in college.
- Andrea

Due to zoning laws you can't operate a radio station from commercial property which is what Whit's End is. This wouldn't be allowed.
- David

Officer O'Ryan calls Bart Rathbone "Bill."
- noname

The entire show is a goof, really, because Dungeons and Dragons and other such role-playing games that this episode is targeting do not operate even remotely like how the show portrays it. None of actions depicted in "Castles and Cauldrons" have any authentic similarity to table-top role-playing games of any kind.
- Jason

The entire show is a goof, really, because Dungeons and Dragons and other such role-playing games that this episode is targeting do not operate even remotely like how the show portrays it. None of actions depicted in "Castles and Cauldrons" have any authentic similarity to table-top role-playing games of any kind.
- Jason

There is still an album order goof that was not fixed during the remaking of the gold series. Here we hear a Kids radio broadcast of the game. Kids radio is introduced in the Big Broadcast which is in album 9. There should have been an album swap with these 2 episodes.
- David

At the end of the episode, Robyn and Jesse are scolding themselves for leaving the door open, but this does not make sense. As they are leaving earlier in the episode, there is a distinct sound effect of them closing the back door.
- noname

When the general asks Connie to come to Rome, he mentions the Coliseum. It was not built until seventy AD and this adventure takes place around 3 or 4 BC.
- Science/linguisticsgeek

In this episode Eugene states he doesn't keep a diary but simply memorizes everything. However, in "...It Ended with a Handshake," it's made clear Eugene keeps a diary on his computer, and in "The Time has Come" he inputs into the Imagination Station his diary of his complete life in Odyssey and sees parts of his life before and around this episode, when he searches his life using the Imagination Station.
- noname

Toward the end of this episode, Whit tells Inspector McGreavy, "You showed me your manuscript about the History of Reading Jael..." This references a line earlier in the episode in which the Inspector says, "What say...you look over the roughs of my book." However, before the two of them could look at the book manuscripts, they saw the "murder" on the back of the train. Whit never looked at the manuscript, and it's highly unlikely he would stop investigating a murder to read a book.
- Aslan

Although Connie has a difficult time lugging a bag of bricks around, it seems to be no trouble for Traci, a girl who is much younger.
- Waluigi Freak 99

The name "Cockburn" is pronouned the way it's written - with a hard "ck" sound in the middle of the word. However, the British pronounce the name as "Coburn" - with no hard "ck" sound.
- noname

In this episode, Curt says that his mom left them when he was little, even though she "packed his lunch" in "The Trouble with Girls".
- Waluigi Freak 99

In this episode Whit says that he doesn't know Curt's dad's name, but in "One Bad Apple" Curt says that his dad's name is Frank while Tom And Whit are around.
- Audrey

its very clear that in this episode that Curt is only daydreaming. But then how did he learn definitions of words and phrases?
- Audrey

In this episode Arty says that Jimmy's voice "is even better than the one he did in math class the other day" But in Jimmy's journal Jimmy says his voice had been like that for about two weeks now. Then why did Arty only notice it now?
- anonymous

This episode is included in the album "It's Another Fine Day . . ."

The art on the back of the next album, "It All Started When . . .", shows Eugene working on a fuse box. This art was most certainly supposed to portray Eugene's role in this episode. However, it was used on the wrong album!
- Waluigi Freak 99

Chris says that this episode is the 200th episode. But, as you know, it's the 167th episode.
- AIOdude

Whit himself tells Connie and Eugene "you both know that I don't own the land around Whit's End, [I only own] the building itself." But in the episode "Recollections", Whit says he will buy the "Fillmore Recreation Center and its adjoining land..."
- Aslan

Eugene mentions a tradagy that hit Fillmore in 1910 but Fillmore wasn't built untill 1935
- David

Connie has no idea that Whit has a safe, even though Whit explicitly told her that he does back in "Suspicious Minds".
- Waluigi Freak 99

When Hank Murray is emptying his gun, it holds six bullets, but he's out at five.
- iloveaio

The flashback story takes place on Dec. 5-7, 1941. At one point, the character Joe Finneman is listening to the radio and hears the song "Laura." This would have been impossible. "Laura" is the title song from a film made not made until three years later in 1944.
- Aslan

Chris quotes President Rooselvelt at the beginning of the episode as saing "Today, Dec 7th, 1941, is a day which will live in infamy."

In actuality he gave that speech the day after the attack, on Dec 8th, so he started with "Yesterday, Dec. 7th..."
- Jonathan

Proclus says that the temple is nothing compared to the Colosseum in Rome. The story is taking place sometime between 4BC and 2BC or there about, during the reign of Caesar Augustus (whose reign was from 27BC to 14AD). But the Colosseum was not even ordered to be built until the reign of Vespasian, whose reign was from 69 to 79 AD.
- Aslan

Addendum to above goof: Ironically, the Colosseum was completed during the reign of the Roman general who ordered the Temple's destruction.
- Ben

Bernard implies that he is single in this episode. However, the preceeding episode "Bad Luck" features his wife, and she pops up again in a later episode: "A Most Surprising Answer".
- Waluigi Freak 99

Bernard tells Whit and Eugene that his wife is out of town visiting her family.
- GodsDaughter 16

In the Complete guide to AIO it says that the Bones of Wrath have a song called Beast of Hades. This song is never mentioned it should probably say Rock Untill Your Brain Explodes.
- David

Rodney says he is 15 but in Issac the couragous that was aried before Lucy says he is 16.
- David

In this episode, Shannon's last name is Ellis. However, in later episodes, her last name is Everett.
- Eugene

In this episode, Whit refuses to stop the adventure in the Imagination Station, despite the fact that it's what George wants. in "A Touch of Healing", Jack says that it's always been a rule at Whit's End that the wishes of the parents be respected, even if the employee feels they're in the wrong. It seems unlikely that Whit would break his own rule.
- WordSarien

Ramses is not the pharoh of the Exodus because we have his mummy. Pharoh drowned in the Red Sea. The pharoh of the Exodus has likely been proven to be Koncharis because he ruled around that time frame and his mummy was never found.
- David

Eugene calls Jimmy "jenny"
- Jared DeWhite

Eugene was based a girl's dad WHO ALWAYS LOST HIS CAR KEYS so that means he already knew how to drive. This episode states that Eugene didn't know how to drive.
- Digory

Actually he is always losing his keys - it doesn't specify what kind of keys they are. It could just mean his keys for Whit's End and dorm keys. :)
- JesusFreak777

After the "shot heard 'round the world," Major Pitcairn is heard ordering his men to fire. However, we know historically that Major Pitcairn rode among his men ordering them not to fire and they disobeyed his orders.
- noname

In Last of a Long Line Eugene says the Mushnick is his mother' maiden name. Now he says Mushnick is his Grandmothers madian name.
- David

In this episode, Isaac's mother is Doc Morton, and Isaac even says that she works in a hospital. However, her voice sounds nothing like Isaac's mother in "Isaac the Insecure."
- noname

At the end of this episode, Whit said he got a newspaper in the mail last night that contained information about yesterday's events. Nothing coming by mail could contain information about an event the same day.
- noname

The radio gave a sports score update and said the Bucks beat the Reds 7-3 However the Bucks are a basketball team and the Reds are baseball and 7-3 is definatly a baseball score.
- David

The "Bucks" reference likely applies to "The Bucs" ie "The Buccaneers" which is a nickname used at times by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Barry

The Robert's arrive at the Jacobs' house. They apologized that it was such a short trip to their house. But after Mrs. Jacobs offers them lemonade, you hear Mrs. Roberts remarking in the background about the"long drive."
- science/linguisticsgeek

This episode implies that Columbus was out to discover a new world, which was not his intention for going on the voyage.
- Waluigi Freak 99

In this episode, it says Lot's wife is Milcah according to my brother, but according to the Bible it says that his wife didn't have a name. Nahor, Abram's other brother, his wife was Milcah.
- Jennie

While reading the end credits, Chris misidentifies this episode as "Here We Come a-Caroling."
- Ben

Whit says to go out the window. But when you look at the floor plans they have no window in the womens bathroom.
- Meghan

Lucy says, "We sing mostly praise songs in my church," making it clear that she and Mr. Whittaker do not attend the same church. However, in "An Adventure in Bethany", Whit notices that Lucy was not at church and approaches her about it.
- Waluigi Freak 99

In A Tounge of Fire, Tom For Mayor and When Bad isn't so goond it's clear that Bryan Derns show is in the afternoon. But in Real Time it's on in the morning.
- David

That isn't necessarily a goof. It has been stated in several different episodes that Dern's time and format has changed for various reasons. This could simply be one of those times (i.e. Tornado he's on Saturday morning instead of the weekday)
- JesusFreak777

In "It Is Well", Lucy says, "We sing mostly praise songs in my church," making it clear that she and Mr. Whittaker do not attend the same church. However, here, Whit notices that Lucy was not at church and approaches her about it.
- Waluigi Freak 99

in this episode, lawrence's father calls him to tell him he cannot attend his baseball game because he has to work but in Aloha Oy! we learn that lawrence's dad is in the navy....wouldn't lawrence know if/when his father was off on duty?
- lisa

Rusty Gordon is called Rusty Malone.
- David

Lawrence says in this episode that he doesn't go to church, and he doesn't know anything about God. But, in "Subject Yourself" (ep 308) his mom is a strong Christian, and in "A Call For Reverend Jimmy" (ep 289) Lawrence goes to church (though this could be due to the Barclay's influence). This seems like very large event (the whole family converting) to be done off air.
- SonjaS

George Barclay says his company was moving to Hope Arkansas. But in #262 "A Prayer For George Barclay" Jimmy says they wore going down the tube's
- Jared DeWhite

Re Jared: That is probably why there were moving to begin with - they got bought out or it was cheaper in Hope, or something like that. :)
- JesusFreak777

In "Eugene's Dilemma," Nicholas Adamsworth was in college, but he is in middle school in this episode. He is also, apparently, no longer an orphan.
- noname

In Eugene's Dilemma, Nicholas is an orphan. But in the Power, Rusty says that Nicholas' mom said he could go upstairs so one of them is wrong.
- science/linguisticsgeek

Or he just got adopted...
- JesusFreak777

The scene at Wittenberg contains some goofs (or at least some out of order events)--most of them because they had to cram about 20 years of history into five minutes. The two big ones were first, Tetzel wasn't Pastor at Wittenberg, rather Luther was--second, the two men never met face to face.
- Jonathan

Bernard Walton first calls his client Mr. Johns but later in the episode he somehow becomes Mr. Jones.
- David

Ms. Busywork never appeared in Bunyun's book.
- David

How could Katrina know Eugene's eyes were perrywinkle blue if: 1. He ALWAYS has glasses on. and 2. His hair is always in front of his eyes.
- Christian A.

there is no such a thing as a "new caledonian caegon" and as far as i can find the senegal finfood does not bark like a dog. However some species in south america have.
- dg3

When Jimmy, Lawrence, and Iowa are at Pearl Harbour, Jimmy and Lawrence look around and comment on "all the battleships." This is incorrect, since the United States Navy no longer fields battleships, rather frigates, destroyers, cruisers, and aircraft carriers. Although there is a campaign to bring the USS Missouri back to active service, this has not happened yet. While it is possible for a civilian to mistake other military boats for battleships, it seems unlikely for Lawrence, whose father is in the navy, and for Mr. Iowa, who is a tour guide.
- noname

The boys and Mr. Iowa walk onto the U.S.S. Farragut, which Jimmy refers to as "a real live battleship!" In fact, the U.S.S. Farragut was the first Coontz Class Guided Missile Destroyer, commisioned on 10 Dec 1960, and finally decommisioned on 31 Oct 1989. Of further note, all battleships are named after U. S. states, with the exception of the Kearsarge.
- noname

Whit is the one who has told others not to assume!
- Christian A.

Bryan Dern Mentions the station ID as Odyssey 106. But in other episodes before and after this one like Treasure Hunt and Top This he is at Odyssey 105.
- David

In this episode, Eugene comments on calibrating the amount of Nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. He says he changed it to 3% instead of 4%. In reality, Nitrogen composes 78% of the earth's atmosphere. ;) Poor Eugene isn't as smart as we all thought.
- JesusFreak777

Ok a somewhat minor goof but, Connie seems to know stuff about computers in this episode( what the "A" drive is, a floppy disk, and apparnetly how to use it as well as decode error messages.) However, in later episodes, it is said MANY times she knows NOTHING about computers ("The One about Trust" for example).
- JesusFreak777

There is no Woodtown Iowa that town does not exist.
- David

but is odyssey actually a town??
- alayna

Here in Iowa there are quite a few computer repair shops and I've never met anyone with the accent that the family talked with. My family and I Sound kind of like the odyssey actors!
- Audrey

in this episode, Jack Allen says that Whit wrote him a few weeks ago and yet in a later episode, Jack tries to sneak out of town because he says that the last words Whit said to him were that he didn't ever want to see him again. If that is true, why would Jack Allen come to visit only to sneak away before seeing him?
- lisa

He probably lost his nerve.
- JesusFreak777

On the news report it said early returns had Tom Riley with 77 percent and Bat Rathbone with 14 percent. The numbers don't add up 77+14=91 not 100. If Tom had 77 percent that Bart would have 23 percent unless there was some big write in caimpain which of course was never mentioned.
- David

Often times the votes don't actually equal 100% for various reasons - such as not voting, write in campaigns and other legitimate reasons. So it is possible it was a math goof, it can also validly be explained in other ways.
- JesusFreak777

When lawerence changes the letters in George Barkley to Large Ragboy what did he do with the other "E" in George?
- Jon

Actually, that is not a goof because lawrence says he had a few letters left over.
- K

In "A Prayer for George Barclay", Whit says that George Barclay painted Emma Douglas's garage. However, in this show, Emma Douglas said that Billy McPherson was the last person to paint her garage. Since Billy was a kid at that time, he would have needed to paint it years before George did.
- Aslan

Holly's diary says that she poisoned an actress on July 25, however, the police detective says that the poisoned actress became sick on April 1. It must be a VERY slow acting poison to get someone sick MONTHS afterward.
- Waluigi Freak 99

Considering the absurdity of her time in the RoC, this may or may not be a goof. When Trevor knocks on the door Victoria says "It's your brother, do you want to talk to her?"
Her?
- Jonathan

Corrections to the above posted goofs:

Actually, the actress felt the effects of the poisoning in January, not April. However, the validity of the goof still stands.

For the second one: I've listened to the episode, and I'm pretty sure she said, "Do you want to talk to him?" However, she didn't say it very clearly, so I suppose it could be misheard as "her".
- Waluigi Freak 99

Jason suggests recording Imagination Station adventures in this episode. However, in "Exit", when the station melts down, it flashes back to several adventures that took place before this episode. They were obviously already recorded.
- Waluigi Freak 99

Lucy says her dad worked for the Oddssey times but on our best vaction ever it was made known that George Barclay worked with her dad. But later George lost his job and wnet to the Times but got turned down. He would not be looking for a job there since he lost his job there.
- David

Could it be dad and step-dad?
- JesusFreak777

Sam says that he doesn't know any dirty jokes, which completely contradicts the plot of "Isaac the Pure."
- Ben

In this AIO retelling, Saul began climbing in the water, asking to be baptized. In the Paul's own account of the incident in Acts 22, it is Ananias who tells Saul that he must "arise and be baptized and wash away his sins...".
- Michelle

Chunky calls Rusty with the last name of Gordon. In "Our Father," his last name is Malone.
- Jojo3333

Is Bryan Dern a DJ or a Talk Show Host? Usually he is a talk show host but here he is a DJ.
- David

Many radio personalities that I know are both and often have training in both areas. Plus he may have started out as one and moved to another depending on the needs of the station and his popularity at the time.
- JesusFreak777

Carl said that he is related to Willam Ross who was a slave so of course he was black. But the actor dosen't sound black at all.
- David

It is not necessary to be black or look black to be related to an african american. Some slaves in the civil war even appeared white because they were only one fourth african american.
- science/linguisticsgeek

This episode takes place shortly after the Fugitive Slave Act is passed. However, there is snow in this episode and the river is iced over. I hardly doubt that these weather conditions would be present in mid-September, which was when this episode took place.
- Waluigi Freak 99

to the goof above' remember Carl say's they stayed for a months then Sidney came up to tell them.
- Jared DeWhite

In the tunnel Jack says “but this would go from the rectory to the woods” Whit’s end was a church not a home.
- Jared DeWhite

True but most rectories were attached or close to the church, so in theory this does work.
- JesusFreak777

Exatly what is the size of the Oddyssey City Council. In the Nemisis we have 5 members. But in gathering thunder the report said a vote was 7-2 implying 9 members. And in hard losses Hank Bonsil said the council voted 4-3 in favor of a recall implying 7 members. Here the vote was 3-2 to close Whit's End so we once again have 5 members.
- David

Answer to the above goof. There possibly might have been members who were not present at the council meeting for one reason or another. There will be times when not all of the city council members show up. (i.e. they get sick, are on vacation etc.)
- Tim

True but if there really were 9 members it's highly unlikely we would have so many votes with 2 or 4 absent members. City council members don't take that much vacation.
- David

Tom Riley does not know who Jellyfish is in this episode, even though Richard Maxwell told him all about him in "Hard Losses".
- Waluigi Freak 99

It's a bit unrealistic that a town with a population of only 50,000 would have such a large airport.
- David

Yes and no. It is probably the place chosen for the airport and all the surrounding ares travel to this one. Plus Odyssey has a college with dorm rooms implying people live there which means they are not from the area but have to travel to get there. And it could only be one or two small concourses with a few gates each - it doesn't have to be a large airport...
- JesusFreak777

Kim says Sam does not have an "L" in his name but in "161: Isaac the True Friend"
both Whit and Isaac call him Samuel.
- Jared DeWhite

Pokenberry Falls was actully going to be Bedford Falls. The town that Wonderful Life takes place in.
- David

No! They were originally naming it Polkenberry Falls to make it a play off of Bedford Falls. They never had any intention to exactly copy the name of the town in It's a Wonderful Life!
- Christian A.

If you read the complete guide it did say that it was going to be Pokenberry Falls but the writers couldn't remeber the name of the town that a wonderful life took place in. So they came up with the Pokenberry Falls name and it stuck.
- David

Zachary plays a video of his father's birthday party. In this video, Zachary's voice is changed. but when we first meet Zachary in 299: The Truth About Zachary and again in A Touch of Healing, his father is no longer living but his voice has not yet changed.
- Jared DeWhite

True that is a goof but what can you do about it? His voice had changed they can't unchange it for that flashback.
- David

We hear a horse when Nero is talking about making his friend a senator. It wasn't he that made his horse a senator, but rather Caligula.
- Jonathan

This episode first aried March 9,1996 not January 1st
- David

It was also a consul-not a senator-that Caligula wanted to make his horse.
- science/liquisticsgeek

When Connie runs into Thor in the kitchen, she calls him Douglass when in fact, Douglass was in the restaurant talking to Douglass; before they reveal the truth to Brenda.
- lisa W

When young Jason and Jerry are talking about the cabin on Lake Michigan, Jason asks Jerry if they can go across the lake into Canada. Lake Michigan doesn't border Canada. Later, Plato actually goes across the lake into Canada.
- Eugene

This was probably the most avoidable goof there was on the show and I can't believe it. I would think everyone would know that Lake Michigan is the one great lake that dosen't border Canada. If they had said any of the other 4 it would have not been a goof but they had to use the one that didn't.
- David

Jason calls Alfred Brownlee, "Albert," twice.
- AIO FAN

The coyotes win a playoff berth and face the crosstown tigers in the 1st round. Then the game somehow later becomes the championship game. This makes no sense the first playoff game is never the super bowl, world series ect.
- David

On the cover it shows Jason when Whit was handed the key to the city. But Jason wasn't there at that event. It probably should be Bernard on the cover instead.
- David

In this episode Jack says that he originally came to apologize to Whit. However, in Gone..., Jack says that Whit wrote him a letter asking him to come to visit Odyssey.
- Jonathan

Actually, Jack never explicitly says that he took the initiative to come. He viewed Whit's request to visit him as wanting to make up and decided to accept it.
- Waluigi Freak 99

Connie was demonstrating how she cut her finger to the audience. It was radio. How could anybody see it?
- anonymus

In this part, Connie implies (and Whit confirms) that Margaret proposed to Whit while they were eating dinner together. However, in part 1, Connie said they were having a hot drink at a little cafe in Connellsville.
- Ben

Again a big boo-boo! Like in Lights out at Whit's End, what in the world were they thinking? Putting rap in a show that some very Conservative people, little kids and Amish listen to!
- Christian A.

Since when does Mr. Riley have cows?
- SonjaS

In one of these episodes, the Mayor calls Connie "Katie" because of Katie Leigh
- Jojo3333

In the beginning after making mention that Whit was visiting his family, you can hear 'him' laughing in the audience.
- mommalisa

In "Not One of Us", Bart makes it clear he grew up in NYC. Here he said he saw bigfoot when he was a kid in that area.
- Jonathan

"That area" being the woods in Odyssey.
- Waluigi Freak 99

Since he mentions that he was about a teenager at the time that he saw 'Bigfoot', it is possible that he grew up in NYC and, later, as a teenager, moved to Odyssey, therefore not being familiar with the fact that a movie was being filmed there.
- Christian A.

Mandy's mother says "I'm sure Mr. Allen would give you your money back." Mr. Allen didn't take money from Mandy. He gave her money in exchange for her doll.
- Aslan

Everybody seems to be stocking up for the storm (and tornado) that will hit town soon. Actually the place these folks really needed to be was indoors and in their basements.
- Michael

Bart mentions that he 'lost his business' when in fact, the Electric Palace is owned by Edwin Blackgaard. Bart only manages the store for him .
- mommaLisa

Rodney Rathbone is much older than Jared, Dwayne and Mandy. They would not be in the same school together. Rodney would at least be in High School by now.
- David

Rodney probably has had to repeat a lot of grades.
- Jojo3333

In this episode, Eugene says he has been in college since he was fourteen, but in the "The Graduate" he says he began his college studies at age thirteen.
- "Bubba"

Jason says he's going to call the "Federal Security Agency" to try to find out more about Malachi. The trouble is, the FSA was abolished in 1953.
- Ben

In this episode it is said that Robert Lee lead the raid on Harper's Ferry--in actuality it was led by John Brown.
- Jonathan

Martha Washington is not Robert E. Lee's great-grandmother, as Brian says, but is Lee's wife's grandmother (or great- grandmother). (Sorry Brian, you WERE wrong) :)
- Hulaliokalani

Yes, Jonathan, actually Robert E. Lee was present to help stop the raid on Harper's Ferry.
- Hulaliokalani

At the Colosseum, the crowd supposedly gives the gladiators "thumbs up" as the "let him live" sign and the "thumbs down" as the "kill him" sign. However, this is historically inaccurate. According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "In the ancient Roman combats, when a gladiator was vanquished it rested with the spectators to decide whether he should be slain or not. If they wished him to live, they shut up their thumbs in their fists; if to be slain they turned out their thumbs."
- Waluigi Freak 99

Actually, there is still dispute on whether or not thumbs up meant death or not.
- alayna

Timmy Riley does not sound like he did in "Greater Love".
- Jared DeWhite

Timmy Riley does not sound like he did in "Greater Love".
- Jared DeWhite

Goof w/ the old album: Why when Aubrey sounds like she is 10/11 y.o. does the album cover portray her as taller than Eugene?
- Christian A.

In either this or part 2, Dr. Blackgaard says that the USA and Europe are countries. Europe is a continent!
- Smile Awhile

Although Aubrey and Dr. Blackgaard claim to see Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle together, Socrates actually died before Aristotle was born.
- Chandler

It is arguable that the premise for the show is in itself a good. It doesn't make much sense that Blackgaard would take time out of his busy excavation during eps 332 and 333 to put a virus in the IS when he was going to just blow up Whit's End.
- Jonathan

Blackgaard and Aubrey see Julius Caesar at the Colosseum. Ceasar died in 44 B.C., over 100 years before the Colosseum was built.
- Waluigi Freak 99

When Blackgaard and Aubrey are at the Colosseum, the crowd supposedly gives the gladiators "thumbs up" as the "let him live" sign and the "thumbs down" as the "kill him" sign. However, this is historically inaccurate. According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "In the ancient Roman combats, when a gladiator was vanquished it rested with the spectators to decide whether he should be slain or not. If they wished him to live, they shut up their thumbs in their fists; if to be slain they turned out their thumbs."
- Waluigi Freak 99

Blackgaard supposedly planted a virus in the Imagination Station, despite the fact that he was clearly "illiterate" of computers back in "The Battle", even needing reassurance of what a modem was.
- Waluigi Freak 99

However, Blackgaard only SAID he was "illiterate," and that was to Whit (and possibly Eugene). Most likely this would be so they wouldn't recognize him for the menace he was.
- Ben

In this episode, Liz says she has red hair, but visit the whitsend.org library and the picture will show her with black hair!
- Anonymous

Actually I believe it was the whitsend.org library that made a goof because this show and "Room Enough for Two" both say clearly that Liz has red hair (not black).
- alayna

Lauren Schaffel really enjoied doing this episode along with 'The Case of the Disappearing Hortons'
- Julie

Someone tells Nathaniel, "you don't even like video games." Though in "Where There's Smoke," that's what he most wanted to do with Nick Mullligan.
- Chandler

When Lisa mentions Jared, Aubrey asks who he is; but in "The Treasure Room," Aubrey has a lock-picking kit that she says was given to her by Jared before he moved.
- Chandler

Whit says that Nathaniel has always had a hard time finding friends and fitting in. Although this bit of his persona is also played out a bit in "Life Trials of the Rich and Famous", it contradicts his social nature in other episodes, most notably in "The YAK Problem".
- Waluigi Freak 99

Aubrey tells Lisa that she got her lock-picking kit from Jared before he moved away. In "Blind Girl's Bluff," Aubrey didn't know who Jared was.
- Chandler

Bernard gets a message on his answering with a complaint of an electrical emergency that needs taking care of but Bernard is a janitor not an electrician.
- lisa

It was Cody that lived next door to Bernard Walton not the Strausburgs. The live next to the Rathbones.
- David

This episode says that Connie was Whit's first employee at Whit's End. However, it was established in "A Code of Honor" and Book 1: Strange Journey Back that Emma Douglas worked at Whit's End long before Connie did.
- Aslan

In this episode, Crackers says Mandy is a blonde, but in the episode "Seeing Red," Liz says that Mandy has brown hair.
- Anonymous

Either Mandy has had two pets, or the name Fluffyface is a goof, as in A Case of Revenge (398) Mandy's cat is called Simpson.
- Jonathan

This is not a goof. In "Sunset Bowlawater", Crackers says that Mandy had just gotten the cat and named him Fluffyface.
- Waluigi Freak 99

But it doesn't make sence that David would be so annoyed if they already had a cat.
- Matt

In response to Jared's comment, you can hear Dr. Blackgaard in exit when the Imagination Station melts down. So technically Exit is the last time we hear him (in a flashback of course).
- Tim

I love this episode! How could you give it a half-a-star rating! I thought the Odyssey Scoop was being weird about Snow Day but this! UUGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!
- Christian A.

In The Seven Deadly Dwarves, Aubrey's dad mentions that Aubrey's bugging equipment is still in his workshop, and he says she should take it back to the hardware store. But in Blind Girl's Bluff, Lisa takes the equipment that she and Aubrey used to trick people back to the Electric Palace to get their money back. This is almost certainly the same equipment as mentioned in The Seven Deadly Dwarves, so how would Aubrey still have it?
- Eugene

In Blackgaard's Revenge Aubrey says she likes history. Here she hates it. While this sounds a whole lot more like Aubrey, it contradicts the earlier episode.
- Jonathan

That is because this is the Danielle Judivots Aubrey. The Aubrey in Blakgaards revenage was the Camille Belle Aubery. Different actores equels different personalities.
- David

In Telltale Cat David "Deposes" of Fluffyface so logically the cat wouldn't have been around at the end when Mandy asks where he is. Maybe she had two cats named Fluffyface.
- Evan

Actually, though David tries to get rid of Fluffyface, he doesn't actually harm the cat. Fluffyface is returned to Mandy at the end of "The Telltale Cat."
- LizzieG

Whit goes to Novacom and speaks to Aurther Dent the general manager there about Novacom cutting into thier station. Dent then says they are looking for a tower site for their new station. If their signal was cutting into Kids radio's that means their tower was already up. They wouldn't be looking for a towe site if their station was already broadcasting.
- David

The tower Novacom builds on Tom Riley's farm ends up being a decoy. It doesn't actually transmit anything.
- SonjaS

While it may not be a goof I find it very strange that the police would suspect that 2 boys could be a computer hacker. You have to have a lot of computer knowlege to do that. What the police should have asked Alex and Cal. Did you run across AREM.
- David

The whitsend.org library shows Liz as being a skinny girl, despite the fact that here she is described as being big-boned.
- Waluigi Freak 99

in the intro bernard tries to get connie to obey and she suggests bernard get eugene to do it. bernard says he couldn't eugene to do it either.............at this point in the series, eugene is still in hiding after marrying katrina and escaping the novacom mess.
- lisa

In the scene where Mitch is first introduced, his voice changes twice.
- AIOdude

When Alex and Cal are sledding down Gumper's Hill, Alex said he put the Golden Cookie Tin inside his jacket. It wasn't his jacket, it was Mandy's.
- Tim

That's not really a goof. He's wearing the jacket so why not call it his?
- Christian A.

Listen carefully to Whit when Tony walks up to him in the first part. Whit calls Tony Johnny.
- Harlow

In this episode, Mitch doesn't seem to know anything about Mr. Charles, but in The Unraveling, Justine says (in the phone message) that she talked to Mr. Charles, implying that Mitch knew who Mr. Charles was.
- H Tide

It isn't really a goof b/c in this episode Mitch meets Mr. Charles when he goes to Mr. Dent's office.
- mommalisa

Connie said Mitch and I were going to go to the zoo. But the zoo closed back in Best Face Foward.
- David

Packages are never mailed to the post office they are dilevered to a adress. The package should be sent to Whit's End.
- David

Small towns frequently use General Delivery with just a name only.
- mommalisa

When Whit went to Mr. Colburn to complain about Novacom's progaming he accused him of forcing their shows down the minds of the people of Odyssey. Novacom was not forcing anybody they chose to watch it. I have the option of not watching or listning to something nobody forces me to do anything. I complelty disagre with Whit I think this is one of the few times where he was wrong.
- David

Mr. Charles tells Agent Bourland that the Colburns are away on vacation. Later Agent Bourland refers to the fact that Mr. Colburn is going on a two week vacation. However, Mr. Charles never mentioned how long the vacation was.
- H Tide

Whit said the Mr. Colburn took Auther Dent's place at Novacom. But we heard in the Grand Opening that Bennet Charles took over Dent's old job.
- David

I would say the whole Novacom Saga is a goof. Here is another example Mary's Story Shop couldn't be both owned by andramada and be a business partner with Whit. Since Whit's End is compition to the Novacom Kids Center which is also owned by andrmada they wouldn't sign a businesss partnership with their competeter.
- David

David, Adromeda WOULD sign with a competing company b/c getting Whit's End in partnership with Mary's Bookshop was a ruse in order to get the Imagination Station technology for their Novabox.
- changedfields

In this episode, Agnes Riley is saddend by the memory that Timmy won't be coming home that night. But in "The Other Woman" Tom says that Agnes is his second wife and that he married her [i]after[i] Timmy died. Therefore, she shouldn't have had any memories of him (imagined or otherwise).
- alayna

Actually, that's not necessarily a goof. In "The Other Woman", Tom mentions that Agnes heard about Timmy, and she later asks Tom to "give Timmy all her love". It is possible that she fabricated memories of Timmy based upon information Tom gave her while at Hillingdale.
- Waluigi Freak 99

Since when did Tom know that the tower was going to blow? This was never explained.
- David

A girl says "500 episodes and we have everyone" But there are some unreleased episodes.
- Jared DeWhite

It is possible to have those episodes however.
- Erwin Springer

Chris says that Hal Smith did the voice of Barney on "The Flintstones." But Mel Blanc did the voice of Barney.
- AIOdude

I'd like to deny that because Hal Smith did play Barney But the Original Barney
- noname

Mandy Strausburg's future daughter would not have the last name of Strausburg
- David

Unless Mandy decided to keep her last name when she married. Unconventional, to be sure, but still possible.
- BroadwayPrincess

Wooton drives to Mrs Randolph's house but she is neighbors with the Washingtons who are neighbors with the Rathbons who are nieghbors with Wooton. So Wooton would not have needed to driven just a couple of houses away.
- David

In the flashback to the tree meeting when they were 33, "Jo" calls her friend "Agnes" although she had always known her as "Rose" (an important plot point to the story).
- Eagles

in this episode it says that liz's hair is red but in every picture ever made of her, her hair is black.
- Mr.M

Liz says that Mandy has brown hair in this show. However, in "Sunset Bowlawater", Crackers said she was a blonde.
- Aslan

the episode description above says that J&J antiques received a mysterious watch when, in the episode, Joanne calls it a compass.
- changedfields1290

When Jimmy and Connie are talking after Jimmy doesn't go to the Men's Conference with his dad, Jimmy says "What are you doing here anyway Connie? Why aren't you back in Odyssey? To which Connie replies, "I wanted to see the sights. Then Jimmy says, "Oh sure, you don't want to go back because you don't want to answer the questions about Mitch. Your not ready to answer those questions. You said so yourself." But in the Living in the Gray I, Connie only tells that to George and not Jimmy, who hadn't arrived yet. Now how could Jimmy know what Connie said if he wasn't there to here her say it?
- Tim

Wellington asked Wooton if he had a suit. And Wooton said he did but in the posicle Kid Wooton said to Mr. Rathbone he did not have a suit. Of course it can be aurgued Wooton got a suit between then and this episode.
- David

So, I was just listening to No Way Out, and Marvin asks when Xavier will be in Chicago. Elaine says that it takes a couple of days to get there by bus. HOWEVER, in New Years Eve Live, Harlow Doyle accidently gets on the bus to Chicago, and it was only supposed to take him from 11:30 or so at night till sometime early the next morning - NOT a couple of days!
- JesusFreak777

Whit says the pizza oven used to be a copy machine when in fact it never worked as a copy machine.
- noname

This has nothing to do with odyssey but ween the bee sting's Trent it dosend die. in reel life it would die
- Jared DeWhite

depends what kind of bee it is!
- alayna

Max seems to be totally unaware of the fact that someone has been stealing his comic books from his mailbox for weeks.
- Waluigi Freak 99

in this episode, eugene give katrina candy and flowers however, in the episode, "naturally,I assume" when eugene gives katrina candy she turns it down citing that she doesn't eat it because of the "high sugar content". As her husband, he would know that.
- lisa

In this episode Eugene visits the McKay's apartment and Grady proudly tells him that he sleeps on the couch but in later episodes there is many mentions of Grady having a bedroom and a closet. Although it is possible that the McKay's moved to a 2-bedroom apartment it is unlikely for it probably would have been mentioned in the one of the shows.
- alayna

When we first see the Washingtons in this episode,Kendre Barry,the voice of Marvin says and I can't concentrate with your 'planging'instead of playing.
- Julie

There are several things here that may be considered goofs.

First, over 10 years ago, Bill retired to spend time with his grandchildren. Now, he's got a daughter approaching college.

Second, is the way Bill acted. In past episodes he's level-headed--here he's not. He's sympathetic to Tom and Whit and the gang in the past--even going to bat for Tom against Blackgaard on the phone--here he's suing Tom for a lot of money.

Lastly is the road. Tom's land is protected by the state, and has been for a while. There wouldn't have been a vote to put a road through his land.
- Jonathan

Tom says that a softball field is not supposed to be oval shaped then eugene says that it's not a softball field, it's the earth but the earth is supposed to be circular
- MR.M

Tom says that a softball field is not supposed to be oval shaped then eugene says that it's not a softball field, it's the earth but the earth is supposed to be circular.
- MR.M

Two things:

1) It is entirely likely to have grandchildren and a 10-year old daughter simultaneously. I am the oldest of 5 children, and there's a 11 year gap between myself and my youngest sister. And there's a 13 year gap between my husband and his next youngest brother. (The last 3 of his siblings are from his mom's second marriage. That's why there's such a big age difference.)

2) The earth is not a perfect sphere. It is, in fact, an oblate spheroid (i.e. slightly distorted at either end due to gravity and the earth's rotation, making it oval-shaped). And a scientific mind like Eugene's would in fact know this. This is why it is mentioned as being oval shaped.
- BroadwayPrincess

In response to Johnathan the road Bill is refering to is the one Glossman wanted to build right when the landmark was discovered by Mr Chatman.
- David

In this episode, Connie gets a call while she is at camp, saying that her parents had gotten divorced. But, in "Stormy Weather," Connie says to her mom: "[...] See, i could stay with Aunt Joyce just like I did when you and dad got your divorce [...]" Therefore, Connie was at her Aunt's, not camp.
Shadowpaw's Note: It's possible that once returning home from camp, Connie stayed with her aunt for a period of time.
- alayna

At the beginning of the episode, Whit said that the cancer ward was called Cans for Cancer. On the Bryan Dern show at the end, Dern calls it Cans against Cancer.
- iloveaio

Another Writing inconsistancy with the Bryan Dern show. Now it's a tape delyed show in the evening. In other shows it had been a live show in the morning or afternoon.
- David

In the sene where Bart is boycotting the Bryan Dern show you hear a clock stricking 5:00. But in the preview Bryan Dern said his show started at 7:00.
- David

How would Whit be able to disconnect the power to the Washington home? He didn't really work for the power company it was all pretend.
- David

Eugene says that Connie picked the font "New Times Roman". But actually, it's pronounced "Times New Roman".
- AIOdude

Connie says that she first met Eugene outside Whit's office. But on "Connie: Part 2", she met Eugene at the front door.
- AIOdude

Eugene claims his mother's maiden name is "Mushnik", even though it was established in "Last in a Long Line" that her last name was "Kronholm" and his grandmother's maiden name was "Mushnik".
- Shadowpaw

In this episode, Eugene speaks with Gobir in Zaire over telephone. This is unlikely, since Eugene only recently (within the last few years) established any form of communication between Gobir's tribe and the outside world.
- Kris Doyle

Just a few minites ealier(the previous episode) grady was with eugene and his dad and somehow suddely disapeared
- noname

But Eugene installed the communication transmitter, remember? So it's likely he was talking to him over that.
- Whitsy

Max:'I was gonna tell everyone you liked her but now you messed it up.'It sounds like Max knows that they are on the radio.
- Julie

In "The Mailman Cometh", it sounds like the Washingtons have an in-ground pool. But, in this episode, Marvin asks this: "Are we installing a pool in the backyard?" This goof is probably because the Washingtons moved in "Something's Got to Change."
- anonymus

Notice that there aren't any other customers in the store. Surely a store the size of the Electric Palace would have more than a couple of customers.
- Michael

In reponse to the above goof:
There was tornado, remember? All the customers were probably taking cover in their home basements.
- anonymus

It's very rare for a Tornado to hit the Midwest around the time of Valitines day. In Wisconsin we have had just 2 in recent years March 2000 and January 2008.
- David

When Eugen, Leonard, and Jason go to clean Dalton's penthouse, while searching for the Ashanti box, Leonard surmises that it is in the artifact room, which is locked. Later, just after going in the elavator, Eugene says, "Now, we just have to figure out how to get through that door." There is no way he could know this as he was talking to the guard the whole time.
- science/linquistics

The C-Rite window company is in Greensburg which is in Indiana. Odyssey is likely in southeastern Ohio. Yet it sounds like they are much closer. And Whit knew the state department of general labor. But the cities are in seperate states. and like posted before the security gaurd knew Whit's name despite that these cites are quite aways from one another.
- David

Clear ultrasounds were not available 25 years ago.
- Christian A.

At the end of the episode, Bernard references to I Corinthians 13:1, when in fact, he should be referencing to I Corinthians 10:13, the famous verse about temptation in the Bible.
- Jacob Isom

In the episode "Bassett Hounds", Grandfather Bassett calls his son Winslow Bassett, but here, it sound like Wooton calls his dad Winston Bassett.
- K

In this episode, Amy Carmichael mentions that she wasn't saved until '...I was a teenager...'. The word teenager was not invented until the late '60s.
- Christian A.

Miss McCalister sold Whit the land around Whit's End not the entire McCalister Park.
- David

They say in the episode that she gave him McAllister Park: Whit's End and the land surrounding it.
- Christian A

Connie says that the city is planting flowers in Mcallster Park, however it was discovered in the previous episode (The Forgotten Deed) that the park is owned by Whit now.
- Jeff

Whit could have allowed them to plant flowers on his property.
- Christian A.

The writing of PowerBoy goes from 7 to 5 years.
- Jared DeWhite