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* ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995'': The Gardiners come to visit Longbourn for Christmas, and Jane subsequently returns with them to stay at their house in London for a little while. She writes a letter to Lizzie dated January 12, in which she references having gone with her aunt to visit Caroline in London "three weeks ago". Three weeks prior to January 12 would put this visit before Christmas (December 22). Even if they returned to London Dec. 26th and she visited Caroline the following day, that would be only 2 weeks and 2 days elapsed. Jane isn't given to hyperbole and is unlikely to round this up to three weeks. This letter is undated in the original book.
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*** The size of the Federation is a sticking point. In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' Picard states it spans 8000 light years. Deep Space 9 is supposed to be at the opposite end of Federation space to Earth, yet characters routinely make the journey in a matter of days.
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** Rose held together pretty well. In an early episode Dorothy says Rose is 55 and Rose said she was married for 32 years. Since she married at 18, things worked well (born in 1930, married in 1948) until another episode said that her husband had been dead for 15 years, which would have made her 65 when the show began. They were only one digit off (had they said 5 years, it would have worked). So close, yet so far.
** Blanche was the most consistent, purely by accident. Blanche was obsessively protective of her actual age, so there were very few contradictory ages and birthdates given to the most concrete one. In a flashback, her mother mentioned that she ran off to marry an older man at 17 on Christmas Day 1949. This would mean she started the series at 53, lining up pretty well with an early episode where she begins to experience menopause.
** Blanche was the most consistent, purely by accident. Blanche was obsessively protective of her actual age, so there were very few contradictory ages and birthdates given to the most concrete one. In a flashback, her mother mentioned that she ran off to marry an older man at 17 on Christmas Day 1949. This would mean she started the series at 53, lining up pretty well with an early episode where she begins to experience menopause.
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** Rose held together pretty well. In an early episode Dorothy says Rose is 55 and Rose said she was married for 32 years. Since she married at 18, things worked well (born in 1930, married in 1948) 1948, married 32 years until she was widowed in 1980,) until another episode said that her husband had been dead for 15 years, which would have either had to happen in 1970 or made her 65 when the show began. They were only one digit off (had they said 5 years, it would have worked). So close, yet so far.
** Blanche was the most consistent, purely by accident. Blanche was obsessively protective of her actualage, age (to the point one episode featured the other ladies obtaining her birth certificate and discovering her date of birth had been deleted by the governor,) so there were very few contradictory ages and birthdates given to the most concrete one. one: In a flashback, her mother mentioned that she ran off to marry an older man at 17 on Christmas Day 1949. This would mean she was born in 1932 and started the series at 53, lining up pretty well with an early episode where she begins to experience the onset of menopause.
** Blanche was the most consistent, purely by accident. Blanche was obsessively protective of her actual
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--->'''Sophia:''' I'm 80. I'm supposed to be colorful.
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--->'''Sophia:''' So what? I'm 80. old, I'm supposed to be colorful.
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* ''Series/SexAndTheCity'':
** Carrie and Aidan break up shortly before Miranda gives birth to Brady, and Carrie bumps into Aidan and his new baby in Season 6, a few months shy of Brady's first birthday - which means that in less than a year, Aidan managed to spend a month depressed in bed, date at least two women (Nina Katz and his wife-to-be), marry one, and have a roughly six-month-old child.
** Miranda goes through a full-term pregnancy in about two months, as she gets pregnant in the summer and gives birth in early fall.
** Charlotte is still married to Trey when Brady is born. In the year following, she divorces Trey, gets together with Harry, converts to Judaism, marries Harry, and they have already started the process of trying to conceive together by Brady's first birthday. It's not impossible that could happen, but that's a lot of relationship changes to stuff into a one-year timeframe.
** Carrie and Aidan break up shortly before Miranda gives birth to Brady, and Carrie bumps into Aidan and his new baby in Season 6, a few months shy of Brady's first birthday - which means that in less than a year, Aidan managed to spend a month depressed in bed, date at least two women (Nina Katz and his wife-to-be), marry one, and have a roughly six-month-old child.
** Miranda goes through a full-term pregnancy in about two months, as she gets pregnant in the summer and gives birth in early fall.
** Charlotte is still married to Trey when Brady is born. In the year following, she divorces Trey, gets together with Harry, converts to Judaism, marries Harry, and they have already started the process of trying to conceive together by Brady's first birthday. It's not impossible that could happen, but that's a lot of relationship changes to stuff into a one-year timeframe.
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* It happens with the ages of the ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
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** In season 2, Monica runs into someone she used to babysit for as a kid, who's a lawyer now. A fresh law school graduate would logically be about 25 or older, since law school takes 3 years after finishing an undergrad degree, and it is also doubtful that a new graduate would be representing a popular rock band as he is depicted as doing. It doesn't make sense to think of someone in this character's position as being younger than 27 or 28 at the youngest, but Monica was established to be 27 this season, so how could she have been his babysitter if they were the same age?
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I moved the Round the Twist example to Artistic License Geography. This is not an example of writers not being able to do mathematics, simply an example of them getting the details of where things are wrong, which relates to the latter trope better than this one.
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* ''Series/RoundTheTwist'': In "Wunderpants", after Mr. Gribble fails to impress some Japanese developers, they can be seen taking a plane (and not a private one) not even half an hour later. However, the show takes place in a town that is known to be located somewhere on Victoria's Great Ocean Road; at its closest, Melbourne airport is two hours away.
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* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': [[ChristmasEpisode Shortly before Christmas 1953]], Hawkins Fuller informs Fred Traband that he has worked at the State Department since 1948 and specifies "That's four years and ten months." However, the latter statement means that his employment began in February 1949, and not in 1948 like he claims.
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** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E4TheRuthlessPursuitOfBloodWithAllA ...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding]]": In January 1923 [[note]][[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart episode 5]] lists Florence's date of death as January 19, 1923[[/note]], Claudia is mistaken about her own age because she claims in her journal entry that she's 18 years old when she's in fact 19 (her birth year is 1903) and will become 20 later.
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Not really about math. Also Repair Dont Respond.
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** Early seasons accurately portray distances in Westeros (King's Landing to Winterfell taking a month, or people spending days or weeks at sea), while in later seasons these trips are shortened to days as the plot speeds up.
*** The royal procession, including servants marching on foot as well as the royal carriage, took a month to roll from KL to Winterfell. A lone horseman could make the journey much more quickly, if he changed for fresh horses a few times along the way.
*** The royal procession, including servants marching on foot as well as the royal carriage, took a month to roll from KL to Winterfell. A lone horseman could make the journey much more quickly, if he changed for fresh horses a few times along the way.
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that assumes that one year passes in each season of the show
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** Possibly the funniest is that Monica and Rachel were stated to be twenty-six in the pilot, but they didn't turn thirty until season seven.
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* Averted on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' where the writers realized that making Christine's brother Mac's Marine buddy would not have worked with her being in her 40s. Mac is about 56 and would have been through basic training in the mid 70s, so she'd have been a small child then. They made him a police partner of Mac's instead.
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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 "42"]]: Averted in the "What's the next number in the sequence?" puzzle — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_number#Happy_primes happy primes]] [[ShownTheirWork are a thing]]. However, it's also invoked: there are simpler solutions to this puzzle (421 if the differences between the numbers go up by 18 each time, 439 if the differences double each time), and with this kind of puzzle, the right answer should always be the simplest one or else the puzzle is no longer fair.
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** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]": While remembering events from the autumn of 1939, Louis tells Daniel that Lestat was "148 years the blood-drinker." This number is incorrect because Lestat received the Dark Gift in 1794, so he had been a vampire for 145 years in 1939.
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** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]": While remembering events from the autumn of 1939, Louis tells Daniel that Lestat was "148 years the blood-drinker." This number is incorrect because Lestat received the Dark Gift in 1794, so he had been a vampire for 145 years in 1939.years.
