Ben 10: Episode Trivia
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- Look Hard: Near the end of the episode, half dome hill is is seen in the background, this means that the first stop on their trip is a Yosemite.
- Pay Attention/Outside Knowledge: Ben (as Heat Blast) mentions playing Little League in the fall; however, Little League plays its games in the spring and summer.
- When Ben turned into four of the aliens, he should have noticed the Omnitrix's symbol. Wasn't he at least eager to know what would happen if he touched it?
- Look Closely: When the Omnitrix first shows the silhouette of Heat Blast, the two lights on the top right corner of the Omnitrix faceplate aren't green like they're supposed to be.
- Look Closely: Ben's eyebrows keep changing from black to brown, which actually turned into a running gag in the whole series.
- Listen Carefully: Wildmutt's roar during the opening sequence sounds WAY different from other episodes; it had more of a squeal to it.
- Look Closely: After Grandpa Max says Ben is not a monster; he's an alien, the silver part on Heat Blast's Omnitrix symbol is red.
- Ben started the forest fire not very far from the impact site. If his grandfather could see the smoke from the fire, he certainly should have seen the crash of the "meteor" (or at the very least heard it).
- Look Hard: If you look closely at the opening sequence (and the next episode), you see that XLR8's hands are badly drawn. This changes in the episode "The Krakken" (where the clip takes place), and changes once again in the next few episodes.
- Listen Carefully: A Stargate sound effect is used. When Heat Blast points his finger to shoot fire, it makes the same sound as a chevron dialing on the Stargate.
- Look Hard: There is a small blue Saturn ornament hanging from the rear view mirror in the RV.
- Look Closely: Throughout this entire episode, Gwen's hair clip and earrings change color. These are the colors that they change to:
1) Mauve
2) Light Blue
3) Dark Blue
4) Pink
5) Light Purple
6) Dark Purple - Pay Attention: Gwen is wearing a long-sleeved shirt despite it being summer.
- The show contains several references to Ben himself and the show, such as:
Name: Ben. If the letter "B" is changed for a "T," we have "Ten." Also, his last name is "TENnyson."
Age: Ben is TEN years old.
Omnitrix: And what gives the name to the show, the power of the Omnitrix that gives Ben the ability to transform into TEN different aliens. - Look Closely: Throughout the episode, the large green button on the right side of the Omnitrix will disappear on occasion. It will then reappear in later scenes.
- Look Hard: There is a picture of a cash register on the first bully's shirt.
- Look Hard: In the opening scene at the school, a quick eye will notice that the stripes on the flag are in the wrong order. There should be seven red stripes and six white stripes. Instead, those numbers are reversed. The only flag to feature more white stripes than red is the Bennington Flag. This was repeated in "The Unnaturals" and "Goodbye And Good Riddance."
- Running Gag: All of Ben's alien forms have four (or fewer) fingers. Many cartoon characters, notably the funny-animal kind like Felix the Cat and Bugs Bunny were designed with four fingers because it was simpler to animate.
- Look Hard: Grandpa Max's RV's license plate reads "S81Z1M."
- Look Closely: While Grandpa, Ben, and Gwen are riding in the RV on the road, they go under a bridge. However, since the RV's satellite antennas seem to be tall, they appear to go through the road on the bridge above instead of under it.
- Goof: When the mega-frog chomps on the landlord, it appears to have teeth. Real frogs have no teeth.
- Look Closely: At the beginning of the episode, Dr. Animo has yellow teeth. Later on, in one scene, his teeth are white.
- Look Closely: The reanimated mammoth that appears in the episode is green. It is a well known fact that not a single mammoth in history was green.
- Look Hard: After Gwen sprays the fire extinguisher on Heat Blast, several sheets of paper taped to the refrigerator can be seen.
- Listen Carefully: The opening theme song in this episode is clearly rushed.
- Pay Attention: Grey Matter manages to slip through and search at least a hundred boxes of cereal, despite having transformed and started searching only a few seconds ago.
- Dr. Animo said that he could reactivate dormant cells, but that doesn't mean he could bring the entire T-Rex back to life. He could only revitalize the cells on the T-Rex's bones, because the majority of cells that made up its skin have rotted away.
- Look Closely: When the T-Rex is reanimated, holes in its flesh are seen and pieces of bone are visible. The T-Rex should have pooled blood from these open wounds.
- Pay Attention: Despite having broken through two different walls and destroying at least three different displays, there isn't so much as one alarm at the natural history museum. Also, there are no guards to be seen anywhere in the museum, despite the awful racket they were making.
- Look Hard: In the opening scene of the episode, there is a billboard labeled "Good Times" in front of the burning building. On the left side, there's a picture of a bearded man smoking a pipe and giving a thumbs-up. On the right side, partially obscured by a tree, is another man giving a thumbs-up.
- Look Closely: When Heat Blast is about to cut a hole in the wall of the burning building, the window he points at clearly has bars on it. When the scene switches to an outside view, there are no longer bars on the window. In addition to that, after he cuts out the piece of the building and transports the woman and her son to safety, there is no debris on the ground where the piece fell.
- After Dr. Animo leaves the M-Mart, the mega-frog is no longer seen. Why didn't it continue to follow Dr. Animo?
- Look Hard: The display that Gwen takes the spear from is marked Sotopithicus. The first part is a nod to producer Alex Soto. The second part is a nod to Australopithecus, an extinct genus of the hominid family that are closely related to humans.
- Look Closely: When Dr. Animo first brings back the T-Rex, the parts of skin on his torso are missing. Later when he's attacking Gwen and Grandpa Max, parts of skin are no longer missing from the torso but the mouth.
- Look Hard: As Grandpa Max is driving, the freeway signs read Noraville and Malarzo Heights, from left to right. There is also a campground called Camp Pam shown under the Malarzo Heights sign.
- Pay Attention: The T-Rex and mega-frog ran through glass and buildings several times. However, throughout the rest of the episode, there is no glass in them.
- Look Hard: While most stores today claim to have one-hour photo service, the M-Mart sign has their photo service clocked at two hours. It also has a Pharmacy, a Vision Center, and a Tire & Lube Express.
- Pay Attention/Outside Knowledge: In this episode, Grandpa Max complains that there wasn't an elevator to use in the Washington Monument. But in the real Washington Monument, there actually is an elevator.
- Look Hard: The store manager's nametag says "Regis."
- Listen Carefully: When Gwen uses her cell phone to call for help, Ben and Grandpa Max head to her location without ever picking up the phone. It can still be heard ringing as they reach the Washington Monument.
- Pay Attention: After Ben transformed back to normal after being Grey Matter, it took what seemed a really long time for the Omnitrix to become usable again. However, towards the end of the episode, after he became Four Arms, it seemed to take less time for the Omnitrix to allow him to become Stinkfly after being normal again.
- Why would Max leave Ben outside alone, in the water, and go to sleep without bringing him inside?
- Look Closely: When Ben comes into the RV in the beginning of the episode after he first gets grabbed by the Krakken, there is no bunk bed above Gwen for Ben to sleep on.
- Even if Captain Shaw had such high-tech diver suits, he would've never had one that was a small enough size for Ben, and yet, Ben sees one that fits him perfectly.
- Outside Knowledge: When Captain Shaw suits up to dive, he goes alone. The number one rule of divers is to never go alone, always have a buddy to bail you out if something happens.
- Look Closely: At some points in the episode, the Krakken's tentacles seem to be attached to the side of it's mouth, but at other times, they seem to join up in its mouth.
- Look Hard: When Gwen is showing Ben the website with information about Jonah, there are pictures of a large crate, Jonah holding a fish, Jonah holding a gun with his foot on a rhino, and a picture of Jonah by himself.
- Look Closely: Just before Ben transforms into Stinkfly, he is wearing a diving suit. But when the Omnitrix powers down, it leaves him with his normal clothes.
- Why would it be unbelievable to Gwen and Grandpa Max to have a monster in the lake when so much other strange stuff has happened (the Omnitrix, Transmodulator, etc.)?
- Look Closely: When describing his first sighting of the Krakken to his grandfather, Ben says that it had red glowing eyes. Not only does it have blue eyes, but Ben looked directly into one of its eyes when he was pulled underwater.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: Before Ben dives down to the Krakken's nest, the Omnitrix is shown to be fully-charged. After he comes back up, however, it is out of power.
- Look Hard: When Bad Guy #1 is first seen, his nametag reads Duane. Later on, after Ben stops the Krakken from taking the crate from Jonah's boat, Bad Guy #2's nametag can be seen. It reads Jack.
- Pay Attention/Look Closely: When Grandpa Max and Ben ready to fish, Gwen tells them that she will just stay back on the docks to catch some sun. It's cloudy outside though and there isn't much sunlight.
- Pay Attention: After Stinkfly takes Captain Shaw back to Grandpa Max's trailer, Shaw somehow gets his hat back, even though it was on his boat when Jonah blew it up.
- Pay Attention: When Stinkfly is being chased by Jonah in the speedboat, the distance between the two increases with every scene instead of getting smaller.
- Look Closely: In the beginning of the episode, pay attention to Gwen's eyebrows after she tells Ben to get some sleep. They disappear completely after going far enough in the perspective. Then when she heads back to check on Ben after she noticed that Ben was "drowning," they re-appear again.
- Look Hard: There is a shuffleboard court where Aunt Vera lives. The black disks the Limax used to attack Ben and Gwen with are the shuffleboard pieces.
- Look Closely: When Wildmutt grabs the Max Limax, his lips are momentarily orange.
- Near the end when Heat Blast fires at the water pipe, the Limax dodges the blast, allowing it to hit the pipe. This makes no sense, the Limax gains strength from the fire, so why would it dodge it? It's also the only time it responded this way, all other times it allowed the blast to hit it.
- Look Closely: The crater left behind after the ship took off is much too shallow, considering how much of the ship was underground.
- Look Closely: During the fight in the cavern, when Ben selects Heat Blast and is about to slam his palm onto the Omnitrix, you can clearly see that the Omnitrix does not display the selection screen, even though Ben had already selected Heat Blast.
- Look Closely: When Marty opens the trapdoor for the first time, a staircase can be seen inside it. When Gwen opens it, the staircase has been replaced by a ladder.
- Look Closely: When the Limax throw a car at Ben and Gwen, there's a part where Ben doesn't have the Omnitrix on. It's the first scene after the commercial break.
- Look Closely: The speedometer on the golf cart goes from 0 to 7 to 15 to 30 instead of increasing at a constant rate.
- Look Closely: The first time Aunt Vera is seen in the alien ship, her pod is attached to the pillar in the center of the ship. When she is seen again, however, her pod is attached to one of the indents on the floor.
- Pay Attention: Just before the Limax disguised as Marty, Vera, and the other old man change into their true forms, Marty is shown to be on the far right. When he transforms, however, he's now standing in the middle. The three transformed Limax also constantly switch places before reforming into the single, giant Limax.
- Pay Attention: When Ben and Gwen go to the dump to get to the trapdoor, the distance between the dumpster and the gate has been shortened considerably.
- When Ben and Gwen were being chased by the Limax, they get a car thrown at them. A car as damaged as that would not go unnoticed by the residents, but nothing happened afterwards.
- Look Hard: When Ben enters the old factory, you can see that the overhead view of his entry was used as a screenshot in the Ben 10: Battle Ready online game.
- Listen Closely: When the alien bounty hunters open fire on Ben, sound effects from Star Wars can be heard, most notably the sound of X-wing laserfire.
- Look Hard: This episode shows that the Omnitrix emblem is located on Grey Matter's back. In Grey Matter's only other appearance, in the episode "Washington B.C.," the location of the emblem was not made clear, due to Gwen's hand clasping his body.
- Look Hard: As Grandpa Max ran over Sixsix, he had a smile on his face and looked as if he was enjoying himself.
- Look Closely: In the beginning sequence, Diamond Head's eyes are round.
- Hoverboard's real name is Tetrax, revealed in Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix.
- Look Closely: When Ben wanders off to explore the town, the RV is missing its tail lights. But after Grandpa Max runs Sixsix over, the lights return.
- For someone from another planet and of a different understanding of the ways of Earth, Tetrax seems adept in the use of common phrases of Earthlings.
- In the middle of the desert, Grandpa Max builds an obstacle course for Ben. It is made of wood and other random items. It's almost impossible for Grandpa Max to find and collect all that wood in the desert. He also built it in an incredibly rapid pace.
- Pay Attention: When the RV breaks down, it is in the middle of the desert. When it comes back, though, they are in Slaterville.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: At the start of the episode, Ben, in his Diamond Head alien form, was practicing with Grandpa Max. He ends up shooting the RV, but nothing goes through. When they stop later on, Grandpa Max says the problem was because the fuel line got shot with a shard, but nothing went into the RV to hit it.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: When Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max start being chased by Kraab in the abandoned mine, the Omnitrix has suddenly switched from Ben's left arm to his right, then back to his left in the scenes that follow.
- The hydraulic car lift used by Ghostfreak to pin Kraab moves much faster and raises much higher than any normal car lift should. A normal lift would only go about a third as high and would take much longer to do so.
- In most of the scenes, Tetrax's eyes are shown to be a light green color. In the scene after the water tower falls, however, they switch to a bright yellow color. They switch back to normal in the next scene.
- Think Back: When Ben turned into Upgrade, Gwen makes a line about "not getting the alien you wanted." However, Ben's only prior mistransformation, in "The Krakken," came when Gwen was not on the scene.
- Look Hard: When Heat Blast sticks his tongue out to the Megawhatts, it is made of fire.
- Look Hard: The Megawhatts have a plus and minus sign on their backs, just like a battery.
- It stands to reason that if the Megawatts couldn't exit the fishbowl through the glass, then they couldn't enter through the glass, and since they came at it from the side and not the top, it's safe to say they didn't enter through the open top, making how they came to be trapped in it questionable.
- Outside Knowledge: How did Heat Blast make the kissing noise he used to lure the Megawatts into the fish bowl? You need two things to make a kissing noise (or to kiss), suction and moisture. Heat Blast is made out of rock and on fire, meaning he is the only one of the ten heroes that can produce neither.
- Pay Attention: In this episode, Stinkfly uses his slime to put out a fire. However, in a later episode with Kevin, it is shown that Stinkfly's slime is highly flammable.
- In the wide shot of Ben, his family, and the mayor as the Megawhatts invade the soda machine, focus on Gwen: She looks fairly different from the others and from her other appearances on the show, as if she's not part of the scene as the others are. It's possible the animators forgot to put her in the shot initially, and imposed a design sketch in her place at the last minute.
- Look Closely: When Ben is making funny faces at the kid in the car next to him, the kid eats a burger that has a brown bun and red patty, but when he sticks out his tongue, it is all green.
- Look Closely: When Ben and Gwen walk into the Barn holding the giant rubber-band ball, they are in a pitch black area with several signs telling them things to do and not to do around it, but when the area lightens up, there are no signs and they are only a few feet from the entrance.
- Pay Attention: The Megawhatts take control of the planetarium exhibit, and the Mayor says they are off to the dam to power up. But when we get to the dam, they are trying to destroy it and let all of the water out, even though they hate the water.
- Look Closely: When Four Arms reverts back to being Ben, the Omnitrix lets off a spark. Never before had it done that.
- After Ben reverts from being Upgrade, Grandpa Max and Gwen pull up in a truck carrying a thermometer, and he gets in via the left side door. The shot cuts to the interior, and he's sitting in the far right seat.
- There is a lot of debris flying through the air in this episode, including toothpicks the size of spears and soda cans shot out of a machine - through it all, the Mayor of Sparksville never flinches. He appears unperturbed by the dangerous goings-on in his town and sits back with popcorn to watch the Tennysons try and save the day, as if he knew what would happen already.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: The paint on Grandpa Max's RV doesn't appear until after the Megawhatts start walking away with the planetarium. Since the RV was in their field of view when the planetarium left its building, how could the Megawhatts have painted it without being noticed?
- If the townspeople didn't want any electrical devices near the giant rubber-band ball, then why did they have a sign with flashing lights right in front of it? It could just as easily release the Megawhatts as Ben did.
- Look Closely: Ben's eyes are a near-yellow color for most of this episode instead of the normal bright green seen in other episodes. This was probably a color rendering error.
- Look Hard: There are various Sumo Slammer posters/signs throughout the different scenes in New York City in this episode.
- Look Hard: Instead of having the normal number of arms that Four Arms has, Kevin 11 has six. Also, only two of them are enlarged. The other four are normal sized. He also has three eyes: one normal and two like Four Arms.
- Look Hard: The bearded man seen on the billboard in the episode "Washington B.C." is seen again here. This time, he appears alone on a sign under some Sumo Slammer images. He can be seen right after the police shoot out the giant television.
- Look/Listen Hard: The opening credits for this episode have been changed. The music is slightly different and the border surrounding the video has been made smaller. Also, the logo at the end of the theme is no longer flat vertically.
- Pay Attention: When Ben attempts to turn into Four Arms but turns into Heat Blast instead, the dial on the Omnitrix did not pop up.
- Look Closely: When Kevin mutates into Four Arms, his armbands break off. But when he returns to human form, they're back on his wrists.
- Why exactly does an entire swat team show up for a couple guys breaking into a warehouse? Three helicopters chasing these guys around? That seems a bit much. And why is it that no one seems to be the least bit freaked out that they're trying to chase an enormous bug? This doesn't seem like the kind of thing NYC policemen are trained for.
- How could Grandpa Max possibly have known where Ben was when he was hanging from the train? The reporter only mentions the subway lines near 51st Street. He does not mention a specific train or its direction. Similarly, Ben never told him where he was. The likelihood of Grandpa Max arriving at that specific spot at the exact time that the train was passing it is slim to none.
- Look/Listen Hard: Unlike the previous episode, "Kevin 11," the opening theme has reverted back to its original version.
- Listen Closely: In the preview for the next episode, the announcer uses the word Ripjaw in singular form rather than the plural form Ripjaws used by the show itself.
- Look Closely: Before the display of cookies fall on Gwen, you can see that she was reading a magazine.
- Think Back: Gwen was given a cell phone by her mom at the beginning of the series, but it was destroyed in "Washington B.C.," so how could she have it in this episode?
- Look Closely: Before the theme song, Ben is holding a box of cookies, but after the theme song, they are nowhere to be found.
- Look Closely: When Rojo breaks into the hospital through the window, pieces of glass can be seen on the floor, but when Ben and Gwen start running away, the glass is nowhere to be seen.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: When Joey is first turned into Rojo, she is shown to just be converted by the robot drone and doesn't actually merge with any of the robotic parts. When she is reverted back into human form by Upgrade, her laser rifle has somehow found its way into the robotic parts that fell off of her. She wasn't holding it when she was converted, so how did it get there?
- Look Closely: Before Heat Blast destroys the bridge, the slanted road that leads to it ends a short distance before the actual bridge. In the next scene, the road is now connected to the bridge. Also, after Heat Blast destroys the bridge, one of the boulders breaks the metal barrier to the left of it. In the scene after it, the barrier is intact.
- Look Closely: When the police show up after Joey is converted by the robot drone, look at the car on the right. The word "Police" on its passenger-side doors is written backwards like a mirror image.
- Look Closely: When XLR8 first arrives to fight Rojo, pay close attention to the police car to her right. After the first hit by XLR8, the police car literally disappears. When going frame by frame, you can clearly see that XLR8 is not responsible for this disappearance. The car returns in the following scenes. It should also be noted that unlike every other police car, this one is blue instead of black.
- Look Closely: When Ben is talking with Gwen about how he can use the Omnitrix to help cure Grandpa Max, the hallway is shown to be empty aside from a bench by the room. In the scene after Rojo finds out Ben's location, there is suddenly a trash can near the window for Ben to kick.
- When Ben is explaining the accident to the doctor, he says that Grandpa Max was hit by a flying bumper when a robot drone blew up a car. Grandpa Max was crushed by the debris from a falling roof, which is a much more believable story, so why did Ben bother lying about it?
- Look Closely: There is a picture of a clown on the back of Zombozo's jacket. The pipe that comes out of Zombozo's machine attaches into the nose of the clown.
- Look Hard: The transformation sequence for Ghostfreak has been changed slightly for this episode. When the transformation process begins, Ben is shown as a skeleton more visibly. Then Ghostfreak is shown in his invisible form until the end of the sequence, at which point he goes back to the normal grey.
- Look Closely: When Gwen tries to scare Ben by wearing the clown mask and jumping out in front of him, you can see Ben looking surprised and Grandpa Max raising his eyebrow at her.
- Look Closely: After Zombozo crashes into the Psyclown during his fight with Ghostfreak (the second time), the tube connected to his back is gone.
- Pay Attention: When Ghostfreak had punched Zombozo into the Psyclown, it was broken and yet Zombozo was still floating by the tube in his back. The Psyclown helped him float in the air.
- Look Closely: The Ringmaster said that Thumbskull was fingerless, which, on close inspection of his hands, is not true.
- As we can see, Thumbskull is as strong and dumb as any villain's footmen.
- Think Back: After his short appearance in the beginning of the episode, the original ringmaster that introduced Zombozo disappears. No one bothers to explain it, nor is he seen at the second circus. A similar situation occurred in the episode, "Washington B.C." with Dr. Animo's giant frog.
- Look Closely: As the RV is driving away from the circus, a quick eye will notice that the awning has been put back, even though Ben broke it off earlier.
- Look Closely: When Wildmutt is fighting with the freaks, their clown car is shown to be on the side of the street with the ATM. In the next scene, the car has moved to the other side of the street.
- Pay Attention: When Grandpa Max falls asleep at the wheel of the RV, his foot is off of the pedal. Despite this, the RV continues moving without being given gas. Given where they were driving, he couldn't have been going very fast. It should have come to a stop fairly quickly.
- When the criminal tips over the hot dog cart to stop Ripjaws, oil pours out and is ignited by an electric wire. On close inspection, it's clear that the tank is a propane tank, which is a gas, not a liquid. Also, after he has tipped it over, it is shown to have only one wheel. Not only should it have two wheels, but the wheel is in the wrong spot.
- How did Zombozo know who Ben's cousin was? By the time he focused on Gwen, Ben had already left the big top.
- Look Hard: Gwen sleeps with a teddy bear, as shown when Ben finds her missing after being woken up by Grandpa Max's snoring.
- Look Hard: When Hex is saying the spell to bring the gargoyles to life, his middle and left middle charms are both the lucky charm.
- Outside Knowledge: At the end when Gwen records Ben saying, "Gwen, you did a good job" it's on an audio cassette recorder, which is analog, not digital, making the way she replayed it over and over again without rewinding impossible.
- Look Closely: When Gwen is looking up the Charms of Bazell, one of the charms on the computer screen doesn't match those used by Hex.
- Look Hard: When Ben turns into Wildmutt, the Omnitrix's display shows Four Arms, although it shows Ben transforming into Wildmutt.
- Look Closely: When Lucky Girl enters the hidden staircase, her shadow appears sideways on the wall. No matter where a light source is directed, it cannot make shadows sideways to the person or object casting them.
- Think Back: Although Grandpa Max quickly corrects himself when calling Lucky Girl by her real name, he never does so with Ben. In fact, aside from the first episode, Grandpa Max always calls Ben by his real name regardless of the situation.
- Running Gag: Gwen is being called a hero, instead of being called a heroine.
- Look Closely: When XLR8 first picks up the luck charm, it is shown to be a solid disk. After Ben gives it to Gwen, there is now a ring on the top to make it a necklace.
- Look Closely: Despite his name never being mentioned in the episode, the teen attendant's name at the Riptide Rapid Zone is Brad, according to his name tag.
- Look Hard: The lightning-type special effects used towards the end of the episode when The Organization's fortress was being destroyed are the same lightning effects used for the Megawhatts in "Tourist Trap."
- Look Hard: The three visible phone numbers on Howell's cell phone are:
1) (555) 555-1034
2) (555) 555-8762
3) (555) 555-2549 - Look Closely: When Grey Matter focuses on something of interest, his slit pupils enlarge to squares.
- Show Tidbit: This episode (#11) ironically refers to its original airdate (March 11) and production number (111).
- Look Closely: At the beginning of the episode, before Ben changes into Grey Matter, he is shirtless and wearing swim trunks. When he reverts later in the episode, he is in his normal shirt, pants, and shoes.
- Look Closely/Listen Carefully: At the beginning of the episode, when Grey Matter was almost run over by a group of kids, he said, "Watch those flip-flops!" However, all the kids were barefoot.
- Outside Knowledge: Contrary to what Gwen states, cockroaches can't resist the actual blast of a radiation bomb, but it rather can resist actual radiation left after the explosion. In either case, having a "bug suit" would not render Clancy immune, as radiation poisoning is based upon infecting cells when they divide. Cockroaches divides cells very rarely, while humans divide constantly.
- If the nuclear meltdown was based upon the gamma rays overreacting, Heat Blast's ice would make no difference towards it. If it was the particles vibrating at an incredible fast rate, the ice would've melted as soon as it hit.
- Outside Knowledge: Gwen's fact about ants was wrong. In reality, they can lift 50 times their own weight, not 10.
- Outside Knowledge: We see several people in a dragon costume in Chinatown, which is around the Chinese New Year. The trip is during the summer, but the Chinese New Year is usually around February.
- Outside Knowledge: Ben goes into the ice cream truck healthy and comes out with a bad cold, but the timing of the scene suggests that he wasn't in the truck for a long period of time. On top of that, cold alone cannot make you sick. A rhinovirus is the cause of the common cold. Cold conditions can precipitate the actual virus, though.
- Neither Gwen nor Grandpa Max bother to wear radiation suits when attempting to shut down the nuclear reactor. Without the suits, they would have gotten a significant dose of radiation from being so close to it.
- Councilwoman Liang wonders where Four Arms went after the apartment building collapsed, but makes no mention of when or where Ben came from when he's suddenly there with them. Also, despite her proximity to Four Arms, she doesn't seem to notice the very loud noise made by the Omnitrix when it reverts Ben to human form.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: Councilwoman Liang is covered in Four Arms' mucus after he sneezes on her, but is completely clean in the following scenes.
- Look Closely: The hostage being held by the criminals in the beginning of the episode looks quite similar to Dr. Kelly from the episode "Washington B.C." In this case, his features have been darkened to make him appear younger.
- Look Hard: In the sequence where the Omnitrix aliens attack the ice fortress, Ripjaws is the only alien not seen.
- Look Closely: After Ben tells Gwen and Grandpa Max about Vilgax's message, you can see a teddy bear in Gwen's bed looking upright toward the ceiling.
- Look Closely: After Grandpa Max tells Ben not to go alien in the RV, you can see a Saturn-shaped magnet on the refrigerator.
- Look Hard: When Grandpa Max and Gwen first see Vilgax, you can see Gwen in the passenger seat next to Grandpa Max looking shocked and surprised.
- Look Closely: At the same time Ben is trying to activate the Omnitrix, the robot drones are shooting at the RV and causing various items to fall off shelves behind him. The items include: a clipboard, a mug, and a pen.
- Look Closely: The two police cars at the beginning of the episode have the number "2577" written on the top of the car.
- When Vilgax touches Stinkfly's Omnitrix symbol, Ben says, "Hey, how'd you do that?" even though he saw what Vilgax did.
- Listen Carefully: When Ghostfreak phases through a drone and says, "Oh, man!" his voice is Four Arms' voice.
- How was Upgrade able to push Vilgax out of the ship if Heat Blast, XLR8, and Diamond Head couldn't even move him an inch?
- Look Closely: When Stinkfly flew out of the RV, the door was open, but when he flew up toward the robot drones, the door was shut.
- Running Gag: Ben's eyebrows are black when he tells Grandpa Max and Gwen his dream about Vilgax, but when he asks Gwen if he can play a game on her laptop, his eyebrows are brown.
- When Grandpa Max begins the drive to Mt. Rushmore, the flowers in his shirt are red instead of the usual orange.
- Grandpa Max was standing next to Gwen as Vilgax's ship exploded, but when they look up to watch the remains of the ship fall, he is nowhere to be seen.
- Pay Attention: When Vilgax explains to Ben his plans for the Omnitrix, his ship is taking off, but when Grandpa Max and Gwen are about to get aboard, it is just getting ready to take off.
- Look Closely: In the sequence where the Omnitrix aliens attack the ice fortress, we see some of the aliens in their usual clothes, but in "Gwen 10," Gwen transformed into some of the aliens with her clothes, not Ben's clothes.
- Look Closely: After being tossed halfway across the city by Vilgax, Heat Blast tries to slow Vilgax down by melting a significant portion of the street. In the following scenes, however, not only is the street still intact, but the damage caused by Heat Blast's previous impact is gone.
- Look Closely: When the criminal uses his weapon to destroy a police car, the number on the top of the car has disappeared.
- Look Closely: After Gwen tells Ben to entertain himself, his eyes switch from their normal color to simple black pupils like Grandpa Max has.
- Look Hard: The sign that the RV knocks over states the speed limit of 65.
- Look Closely: Before Ben activates the Omnitrix to turn into Ripjaws, there is a small green cloud floating above the face of it.
- Pay Attention/Look Closely: In the Plumber's HQ, XLR8's Omnitrix insignia is rather large.
- Look Closely: When Wildmutt transformed back into Ben, look closely at the Omnitrix. The dots on it are green and not red, indicating that it needs to recharge, and at the next scene, the dots on the dial are red.
- After Grandpa Max defeats the alien in the Plumbers' HQ, both he and Ben ask, "Where's Gwen?" at the same time. But Max could not have known Ben brought Gwen with him. And plus, Ben knew he left her outside, because she didn't come in with him.
- Why did Phil start asking Ripjaws who he was? He is an alien, it's illogical that he starts a conversation with an alien instead of shooting him.
- Why didn't the man and the fireman freak out when they saw Ripjaws?
- Once Ben and Gwen discover that Max and Phil are missing, Ben becomes XLR8, heads directly to Mt. Rushmore, and manages to get inside the base to surprise Phil. This is odd, considering that every other time a person entered the facility, they did it using a button in their vehicle.
- Gwen knows what the Null Void Projector does, despite not being around for it to be explained. This is displayed as she assumes possessing it puts Phil out of business.
- Think Ahead: The Omnitrix recharges directly after the first transformation after an alien is absorbed by DNA. It is possible this is why Ben was able to transform 11 times in the episode.
- Listen Carefully: When Grandpa Max says "Digest this", his voice sounds sort of like Wildvine's.
- Man Of Action, the creators of Ben 10, say that Cannon Bolt is an Arburian Pelarota, although Bandai says he is a Vulpinic Tortugan. Man Of Action is correct, because Cannon Bolt's planet was destroyed, and Wildmutt's wasn't. In "Big Fat Alien Wedding", further proof is given that Cannon Bolt is an Arburian Pelarota.
- Look Closely: When Cannon Bolt falls and struggles to get up, the shell on his back is gone.
- Look Closely: Before Ben transforms into Cannon Bolt for the first time, he is wearing a portable radio, but when he changes back the radio is gone.
- How could the "Great One" destroy Cannon Bolt's "home planet," when it was the only alien form that was able to kill it?
- When Ben was attacking the Big Tick and used 9 of the 11 aliens, Grey Matter was not used, most likely because Ben figured he was too weak. That might have worked, however, because Grey Matter's knowledge could find the Big Tick's weaknesses and then when the Omnitrix powered down, he could use a strong alien to attack a weak spot.
- Look Closely: Kevin's versions of the Omnitrix's aliens do not have the Omnitrix logo on their body.
- Look Closely: If you look closely, Kevin's version of Four Arms has slightly lighter skin. (This carries over to Kevin's amalgam form.)
- Look Closely: When Lt. Steel picks up his two-way radio to tell them only to fire on his mark only, look at his watch. It appears to have a very similar marking to the Omnitrix.
- Look Hard: Kevin's Heat Blast appearance in this episode is much different than in the episode "Kevin 11."
- Look Closely: Although it's not mentioned, the trolley conductor's name is Bart.
- Look Hard: Most of Kevin's alien forms are darker colored than Ben's.
- The C in SACT apparently stands for both Containment and Capture, as both were mentioned in the episode.
- Look Closely: Throughout the entire episode, Grandpa Max's undershirt changes from white to grey, and from grey back to white.
- Think Back: When asked if Ben wanted anything from the bookstore, Ben said that it was summer and asked why he would read, but in "Secrets," Ben is seen reading a green book right before he sees Rapid City in flames.
- When Grandpa Max and Gwen meet up with Ben after the trolley incident, the Omnitrix is shown to be out of power. It was day when Wildmutt transformed back to Ben when he saved the people from the trolley and night after he is met up with. It shouldn't have taken so long for the Omnitrix to recharge.
- It's unlikely that Ben's reputation got around so fast. How could anyone have known who he was, what his forms were, and everything else about him so quickly?
- Look Closely: When Kevin is in Four Arms' and Stinkfly's form, they are wearing Ben's shirt style, but when Kevin mutates into the combination of the Omnitrix's forms, he is in his own clothes.
- If Gwen or Grandpa Max were paying attention, none of the aliens that were attacking the police had the Omnitrix symbol anywhere on their body.
- The only difference in the new Sumo Slammer video game that Ben wants is that you can change your characters' color at any time in the fight.
- Shouldn't Gwen and Grandpa Max be able to tell it's not Ben in those forms by the fact that Kevin's alien forms do not have the Omnitrix on them?
- Ben buys the new Sumo Slammer video game, yet in "Kevin 11," Kevin states that it won't be out till Christmas. Either Kevin was wrong or the release got changed.
- Just as he is about to be finished off by Kevin (in Diamond Head form), Lt. Steel is shown to have a swollen right eye. His reflection in Kevin's arm, however, shows him with a swollen left eye.
- Pay Attention/Look Closely: As Grandpa Max and Gwen pick up Ben after the cable car rescue, Gwen compliments Ben on doing a good job, considering "no thumbs." During the actual rescue sequence, though, Wildmutt appears to have thumbs on his forepaws. This is especially apparent in the shot where he connects the tow line and in most shots where he's hanging on the side of the cable car.
- Look Closely: When Grandpa Max turned into Upgrade and merged with the RV, you could see the Omnitrix symbol on the front left tire.
- Look Closely: At the end of the episode, we see a magazine cover of Ben 10. If you look in the upper right-hand corner, it says that the magazine is only 25 cents.
- Look Hard: Gwen caught 9 fish when she turned into Ripjaws to get lunch.
- Think Back: How come Vilgax was able to touch the Omnitrix when Gwen had it, but in "Secrets" he wasn't able to touch it? As a sidenote, the faceplate was red, so shouldn't Gwen have turned into a Chimera Sui Generis? (Vilgax's species)
- If this is a "what if" episode, how come Ben remembers what happened?
- Look Hard: When Ben is looking for the watch near the beginning of the episode, you can see that he has close to a dozen shirts of the same kind- a white shirt with black stripes (the shirt he wears all the time).
- At the bowling alley, Gwen had no idea the Omnitrix needed to recharge. Wouldn't she have noticed that while she was going alien all night?
- Pay Attention: Grandpa Max tells Ben to let Gwen fight "those things," but there was only one robot battling at the time.
- The Gwen version of Four Arms has white pants, like Gwen's. Shouldn't they be in the colors of Gwen's shirt, like the Ben version?
- Look Closely: When Gwen is talking to Ben about how she turned into different aliens for her benefit, 9 fish can be seen by her feet, but when she stands up, 3 of the fish disappear.
- When Gwen, as Diamond Head, destroys the droid, she claims to use refraction to send the laser back. But that is obviously the power of reflection because, if it was refraction, then the beam would just pass right through her at a different angle and not right back at the droid.
- Near the beginning of the episode, Ben slaps his wrist with intent to become Four Arms before he realizes that the Omnitrix is missing. This is unlikely, considering that Ben usually has to press a button to make the dial pop up before he can slam it down. Also, he didn't bother to check that he had the correct form ready.
- At the bowling alley, the first shot of Four Arms Gwen shows her with sleeves on her upper arms and no sleeves on her lower arms. In the next shot, she has sleeves on all four arms. In the third shot, after Vilgax has a line, she is back to sleeves on the upper arms and no sleeves on the lower.
- Look Closely: You can see some of Ghostfreak's chest design on Kevin's torso.
- Look Closely: Not only does Kevin have Ripjaws' antenna, he also has Ripjaws' teeth.
- Look Closely: Some of the aliens on the Omnitrix appear in this episode. They are as follows: Two Galvanic Mechomorphs (Upgrade) (one on Slix Vigma's screen, one cheering in the crowd), two Tetramands (Four Arms), both in the crowd (one had a yellow shirt and an eyepatch, the other one a brown shirt), and a bulkier-looking Pyronite (Heat Blast) sitting near one of the Mechomorphs, as well as a member of Articguana's race in the final battle against Slix.
- Look Closely: The electro cuffs attaching Ben and Kevin get longer and shorter as the episode progresses.
- Look Closely: After Slix Vigma transports Ben and Kevin together, Ben (as Four Arms) is on the right side, but when the electro cuffs are attached, Ben is suddenly on the other side of Kevin.
- Look Closely: Technorg's robot arm was broken off by Kevin during their fight, but when they were transported back to the slave quarters, only seconds later, his arm was back on!
- Look Closely: The number of fingers on Kevin's Diamond Head hand keeps fluctuating between three and four.
- Pay Attention: Kevin fired Stinkfly goo at Ben's back, but when Ben was pinned to the wall, he was facing Kevin.
- If Stinkfly's slime is so combustible, then how was Ben able to use it to put out a fire engulfing a propane truck at the start of the episode "Tourist Trap?"
- Listen Carefully: When Kevin takes Ben's advice and ignites his (apparently) volatile spit on Technorg, pay attention to the sound effects. When it explodes, you can hear the same pitched, whistling sound effect that was used for years on the X-Men animated series, when Gambit threw his charged cards.
- Kevin notes that he has his own powers, as well as Ben's, but actually hasn't used them since his debut episode. If he does still have his energy absorbing powers, why didn't he just make the control collars go wacky?
- Look Closely: When Kevin reaches down to pick up Ben after he changes back from Four Arms, the Omnitrix is glowing green, indicating he should still be able to transform. However, when Kevin lifts him over his head, it goes back to glowing red, as it does when it needs to recharge.
- Ironically, the day this episode first aired, the previous episode featuring Kevin 11, "Framed," also aired earlier.
- Listen Carefully: Ultimos mispronounces Incarcecon several times in this episode.
- When Cannon Bolt gets a hold of the Element X, why didn't he just curl into a ball and roll away, he wouldn't have been nearly as vulnerable and would have been able to move much faster, and it's established in many other episodes that he can hold something as large as a human while in his ball form.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: The radar dish-like device Sixsix used to incapacitate Synaptek came out of the same compartment as his missile launcher.
- Look Closely: When she is first seen, Tini has pale, red skin. Later, in the space ship, her skin is Four Arms' regular color.
- Pay Attention: When Ben offers Ultimos some chocolate, Tini is at Ultimos' right side, but when they are about to teleport, she appears at his left side.
- Pay Attention: Before leaving the space ship, Synaptak puts an energy field, but when Grandpa Max and Gwen are going to teleport, the energy field is gone.
- Ultimos says that he is the deciding vote as to whether or not Ben would go with them, but he was the one who suggested Ben go with them, so he had already voiced his opinion.
- Look Closely: When Ben wears the costume, the Omnitrix is covered by a glove, but when he uses it to turn into XLR8, the watch is magically over the glove.
- Pay Attention: Immediately after Ben transforms into XLR8, he instructs the Enforcers to attack Vulkanus while he serves as a distraction. Shortly afterward, as they attack Vulkanus and save Ben, he tells them that they were supposed to be fighting Sixsix.
- Look Closely: The birthday book that Gwen was looking through shows pictures of birthday cakes and balloons.
- Look Hard: When Ben pulled off his shoe to scratch his foot, you could see that he had a hole in one of his socks.
- Look Hard: When Gwen gives a birthday invitation to Ben, you can see an invitation that says "Becca."
- Pay Attention/Listen Carefully: When Andy and Mandy are arguing over whose fault it was that they wound up hiding in the kitchen, Andy says "He started it" while pointing at Mandy, who is a girl.
- Look Closely: Ben is wearing his shoe even after throwing it into the Fungal Brain.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: When Gwen is claiming why she should get to celebrate her birthday on the real date, she argues that she already sent out the invitations, but there are about half-dozen invitations still in the book.
- Think Back: At the beginning of this episode, Ben is going Stinkfly to save Gilbert. However, doesn't he notice that it is raining? We learn that in "The Krakken," Stinkfly can't fly if his wings get wet.
- When traveling through the camp, we see archery targets facing each other, and positioned right next to the climbing wall, which would never happen in real life because it would be too dangerous.
- Despite dialogue in this episode, fungi are not a type of plant, but their own separate kingdom.
- Ben thought the fungus on Gilbert’s arm was gross. If he thought it was gross, why did he continue to poke it?
- Look Closely: When Gilbert is first seen in the RV, he has a fungus on his arm; however, through the rest of the episode, the fungus is absent without any explanation as to what happened to it.
- Think Back: This is the third time in the series that Gwen uses a fire extinguisher.
- Think Back: In "A Small Problem," Enoch's group were referred to as "The Organization," but when they show up here, Grey Matter instantly refers to them as "those Forever Knight guys." Not only that, Enoch's name was not mentioned in his debut, yet Grandpa Max referred to him by name.
- Think Back: Enoch shows signs of knowing Grandpa Max, but in "A Small Problem", he showed no such recognition, even ordering his henchmen to "Find out everything there is to know" about Max and the kids.
- Look Closely: When Ben falls off the ledge in the temple, when his shirt falls down to reveal his belly, and when Grandpa Max grabs his leg, his belly button appears and disappears every second or so.
- Pay Attention: When Grandpa Max tossed the wrench, he complained he had asked for a 1/2 inch, not a metric wrench. That was an adjustable wrench.
- Stinkfly says that he isn't used to flying with passengers, yet in "The Big Tick," he was seen carrying Grandpa Max and Gwen happily.
- Somehow, the knights still got to the bottom of the temple, despite Ben, Grandpa Max, and Gwen just destroying the only way through.
- Listen Carefully: The theme song was played faster in this episode.
- Subtitle/DVD Tidbit: In the subtitles for this episode on the DVD, it mistakes "Ben Tennyson is at your service!" for "Ben 10 is at your service!" And when Ben says, "Wildvine!?" it mistakes it for "I'm fine."
- Think Back: Many believe Charmcaster lost her powers in this episode, yet she still had magic when she appeared in "A Change Of Face." But if she didn't lose her powers, what was the purple energy that left her body?
- Look Closely: When the bird's eye view of the senior citizen's bus is shown falling off the road, the RV is not seen. Then, when Four Arms turns around to help the senior citizens off the bus, the RV is seen behind him.
- Listen Carefully: Whenever Hex uses his powers, it uses yet another sound effect from the Stargate shows, this time the sound effect used is when some one dials in the D.H.D.
- At the beginning of this episode, Gwen complains that she only got to be Lucky Girl for a few hours. The events of "Lucky Girl" don't reflect this, though. She first received the charm at a time when it was light out. When she stopped a group of pursesnatchers, it was nighttime. She first wore her outfit when rescuing construction workers early in the morning. And during the haunted house sequence, it was nighttime again. She must have had her powers for more than a day.
- Listen Carefully: Gwen's voice seems to sound a little nasal in this episode.
- Think Back: In this episode, Stinkfly couldn't swim, but in "The Krakken," he could swim just fine.
- Look Closely: During the speedboat chase, while Ben and Gwen are riding on the same speedboat, Ben's hands keep switching back and forth from being on Gwen's shoulders to being around her waist.
- Listen Closely: Once again, another Stargate sound effect is used, this time the noise the androids emit is the same sound effect as when the Gou'ld rings are preparing to come down to beam someone on or off a ship.
- Listen Closely: Grandpa Max's voice sounded a bit masked behind something.
- Look Closely: You can see a picture of Albert Einstein taped to the wall in the science lab.
- Look Closely: When Ghostfreak in Ben's dream grabs him as Wildmutt, Wildmutt's small armor that holds the Omnitrix symbol turns orange.
- Ghostfreak said he can't be merged with Ben in alien form. Even if he did merge with him, if Ghosfreak/Ben went alien, Ghostfreak would be forced out.
- After the Omnitrix times out with Grey Matter, why was Ghostfreak still trying to possess Ben, knowing that another feedback would start?
- How come at first Ghostfreak said that he needed Omnitrix power to be whole again, but later he says he wants to take over Ben's body to take over the world?
- Look Closely: When Ghostfreak phases his claws into Ben's shoulders, how were 3/4 of his claws able to fit inside Ben's smaller shoulders?
- While Ben was Four Arms, why would Ghostfreak try to kill Ben when he was trying to possess him?
- For some reason, while Ghostfreak is in Gwen's body, on some parts when Ben says something and Ghostfreak/Gwen hears it, Gwen seems to get some of her control.
- Listen Carefully: When Ghostfreak is trying to possess Ben during the feedback, you can hear something that sounds like bones cracking.
- Look Closely: When Ben falls out of bed, look at the blanket that is disturbed as he's falling out. When he hits the ground, that blanket is not the one on the lower bunk (the one he should have been sleeping on), instead the blanket that matched the earlier scene is the one over Gwen.
- Grandpa Max claims to pick up trace spectral activity (referring to Ghostfreak) in the school with his scanning device, but as Ghostfreak is an alien and not an actual ghost, he couldn't have picked up such activity.
- Ben continually calls Ghostfreak by his name after the alien escapes the Omnitrix, yet Ghostfreak never corrects him on this. Wouldn't Ghostfreak have a real name, considering that he is a being separate from Ben?
- Look Closely: While wearing his second layer of skin, Ghostfreak has an eye with a pink cornea and small black pupil, yet it's the other way around when he shows Ben his real form.
- Look Closely: When Ben transforms into Ghostfreak, Ghostfreak is slightly thinner than usual.
- When Ben tells Gwen and Grandpa Max about the nightmare, he called it the Wildmutt nightmare. As the antagonist of the dream was Ghostfreak, it should have been referred to as the Ghostfreak nightmare.
- In the scene where Ghostfreak begins to die and turns black, the back of its neck begins to break apart in a close-up. The scene then switches to Ghostfreak catching fire and the part of its neck that broke off is still on its body.
- When Ghostfreak seperates from the Omnitrix, he gets right into Ben's face before the commercials start. When the show returns, Ghostfreak is suddenly several feet away from Ben.
- Look Closely: Before Ben transforms into Four Arms, you can see the clock on Bancroft says 7 o'clock, but when the kids come running out of the school, the clock says 9 o'clock.
- Running Gag: How could Ghostfreak's true form possess claws on his hands if his covered form's hands show no evidence of having claws and his real hands are too small to conceal them at all?
- Since the Omnitrix protects Ben from negative forces, like Kevin's energy attacks in "Kevin 11," why was Ben worried that Ghostfreak could possess him if the Omnitrix would keep him away?
- Running Gag: Couldn't Ghostfreak have made an effort to fly away from the sunlight instead of hovering there waiting to die?
- Time seemed to pass incredibly fast in this episode when it becomes dark. It would take at least eight hours for the sun to come up again, yet the sun came up quickly, and it had only been at least one hour during the events surrounding Ghostfreak.
- Pay Attention: When Ghostfreak possesses most people, it takes him a few seconds before he assumes full control, but when he possesses Frightwig outside of the academy, he doesn't take any more than a second to gain control of her.
- Ectonurites are supposedly capable of deploying telekinetic and telepathic abilities, but if this is true, why wouldn't Ghostfreak have used his telekinesis to take the light device Grandpa Max was using to harm him? For that matter, why didn't he use his telepathy to find Ben?
- Grandpa Max says he's never seen Ben fight so viciously, despite the fact that Ben has done much worse things as Four Arms.
- Listen Carefully: People alternate between calling the school Bencroft and Bancroft.
- Why would Ghostfreak remove his outer covering if he knew that direct sunlight could kill him?
- Look Closely: When Ghostfreak is separated from Ben, his covered form still has the Omnitrix symbol on it.
- It's ironic that Heat Blast is mentioned in this episode, yet he does not transform into him. Perhaps the writers are playing a cruel joke.
- Pay Attention: When Heat Jaws turns Grandpa Max back to normal, the faceplate of the Omnitrix is inside Animo's mutant ray. But after the transformation, it mysteriously changes to Gwen holding it.
- Look Closely: When the faceplate falls off the Omnitrix, one of the "gems" is clear, but later on it turns back to being green.
- Think Back: As it stands for Season 2. The only true appearance of Heat Blast was in "Big Tick". Even then he had no dialogue. Every other time it was either Gwen, Kevin, or a hybrid of Heat Blast and Ripjaws. Therefore we can say that Heat Blast only appeared once in season 2.
- Goof: At the end of the episode, Ben said he wanted to change into ''XLRFreak,'' meaning that Ghostfreak is still on the Omnitrix, but Ghostfreak was already destroyed in "Ghostfreaked Out."
- Look Closely: When the Tennysons enter the observatory, Animo's frog leaps directly onto their boat, smashing it and sending them flying in all directions. When they get up, they are somehow closely grouped on the same upper ledge.
- Look Closely: When it looks like Grey Matter is about to be eaten, his eyes are big and hexagonal-shaped.
- If Kevin absorbed Ghostfreak's DNA, he should be able to turn intangible, invisible, use telepathy, and use telekinesis.
- When Ben escapes the null-void, couldn't Kevin use XLR8's speed to catch up and capture Ben?
- Think Back: In "Grudge Match," Kevin was able to shoot diamond shards, use Heat Blast's fire, Stinkfly's goo, and XLR8 speed, so how come he never used any of those powers to try to kill Ben easier?
- Pay Attention: When Ben uses the dial on the Omnitrix at the end of the episode, he didn't push the button to pop the dial up.
- During the scene where Kevin removes the Omnitrix, at one point the watch turns completely black.
- At the end, the Omnitrix symbol on Grey Matter's back is smaller than usual.
- If Ben knew that Vilgax was a master of the Omnitrix, Ben wouldn't zero out the master control (knowing if he even did do it, Vilgax would figure it out again).
- We were never told what happened to Technorg.
- Pay Attention: Ben discovered the master command code entirely by accident, but later on, without even looking at the Omnitrix, he manages to figure out the code to zero it out.
- Pay Attention: When Vilgax is found in the ice, Kevin melts the ice covering his face, but later the ice plate is back.
- Look Closely: Just before Vilgax scans Kevin, the Upgrade markings on his left shoulder are gone, but they show up on the scanner.
- Why did Ben's coat stay on him when he transformed? Shouldn't it have disappeared along with his other clothes?
- Think Back: Vilgax's arms are about as long as he is in this episode, however, in "Secrets" his arms were about a foot shorter.
- Look Closely: At one point late in the episode, Gwen appears to throw away the ball containing the Omnitrix. It is later revealed that she threw an explosive device and kept the Omnitrix. However, we see that she is empty-handed after the throw and a shot of her from behind doesn't show the ball, so where did she put it?
- Pay Attention: At the end of the episode, Ben, forgetting that the Omnitrix's master code has been zeroed out, starts twisting the dial to activate it, despite the fact that he'd been activating it mentally all episode, and thus wouldn't have bothered with the dial.
- Gwen asks Ben 10,000 about Vilgax, even though this episode takes place (present day) right after Vilgax and Kevin were sealed in the Null-Void. So at this point, as far as she should be concerned he is gone for good.
- If the Omnitrix contains 10,000 aliens and all Ben needs to do is activate them, does that mean the universe only contains 10,000 different species of aliens? And most of the aliens might have similar or identical powers.
- Look Closely: According to Gwen's list, she was supposed to get the candles, soda, plates, confetti, balloons, and create the birthday wish for the party and Ben was supposed to get the cake.
- Look Closely: The future version of the Omnitrix is bigger and has metal plates on both ends. This suggests that the Omnitrix becomes more advanced as the user becomes older. It will also reveal new aliens as time passes.
- Look Closely: When Gwendolyn opens the time portal, the symbol on the door appears to be similar to the design on one of the Charms of Bazell.
- Look Closely: The sign on the bottom of the statue of Ben 10,000 says: Hero of Heroes Ben Ten Thousand.
- Look Hard: At the end of the intro, the part where the aliens go into the Omnitrix, you can see Ghostfreak even though he escaped at the time.
- Think Back: Ben says to future XLR8 "When will you catch me up on my other 9,990 aliens?" Shouldn't he say 9,989 aliens because he has 11 heroes at this point?
- If Ben saw Ben 10,000 turn him into another alien by pressing the Omnitrix's symbol, why doesn't he do the same when he has accidental transformations?
- Even though they can talk, Stinkfly (Ben 10,000 version) and Heat Blast have no dialogue.
- When Gwendolyn kidnaps Gwen, wouldn't either of them notice the charms of Bazell on her arm?
- Listen Carefully: When the alarm goes off for Sector 1-A Centric, Gwendolyn refers to it as just the Null Void Projector, but later it's called the Null Void Chamber.
- Think Back: When Ben 10,000 becomes Four Arms, his shirt should be black with white stripes, like his own shirt (as Four Arms' shirt is based on the person's original shirt- as seen when Ben transforms into Four Arms, and when Gwen did, too, in "Gwen 10"), but his shirt is white with black stripes.
- Look Hard: The future Gwen has the 5 Charms of Bazell on her arm, even though they were destroyed in "Tough Luck."
- Look Hard: The door in Ben's headquarters has the Omnitrix symbol on it.
- Look Hard: The canister Vilgax's remains are in is labeled "VX-0001."
- Listen Hard: This is the second time Grandpa Max says "claws off my grandson" to Vilgax. The first was in "Secrets." He also makes a similar quote regarding Gwen in "Gwen 10."
- Look Closely: Future Ben's XLR8 form has a gray tail and arms, yet his face is still blue.
- Why do Future Gwen and Max speak so vehemently to Ben about his future self? It's not his fault he's like that in the future.
- This episode proves that there may be an almost limitless amount of aliens Ben can acquire.
- Several of the action shots in this episode were drawn in classic comic book style.
- Pay Attention: As the Galactic Enforcers ready to take Animo, he releases a gas that knocks all of them out. Oddly, this works on Synaptak, despite how his liquid-filled jar doesn't appear to allow gases in.
- Pay Attention/Outside Knowledge: When Gwen and Ben are planning to make s'mores, they only have marshmallows and graham crackers, but they don't have chocolate, like s'mores should.
- Pay Attention: When Upgrade is on top of the mall building trying to get the clock from the clock tower and the cops in the helicopters are battling him, for some reason he is running like Wildmutt.
- Pay Attention: When Ben is in hypnosis, trying to get the clock from the clock tower, Grandpa Max says, "I'd better get up there," but when they show Grandpa Max again, he was still standing by Gwen and took no action at all.
- Look Closely: In the scene where Gwen pretends to be hypnotized, the ice cream container has no lid.
- Pay Attention: After everyone is freed from Sublimino's hypnosis, Grandpa Max and Gwen are standing outside of the car they were driving. But when Sublimino tries to make a run for it, Grandpa Max is back inside the car.
- Outside Knowledge: The mall security helicopters had laser guns. No mall helicopters contain laser guns or armed devices.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: Gwen and Max watch Gwen's videotape from earlier when determining that Sublimino is responsible for Ben's actions. The video shows Sublimino facing the camera during his hypnosis routine. From where Gwen was standing, his back should have been to the camera.
- If the Omnitrix zapping out took him out of the trance, why didn't he go out of the trance when the louder sound of him turning on the Omnitrix went off?
- Pay Attention: When Ben is Heat Blast, Gwen mentions him being hypnotized, but at that point they thought he was sleepwalking.
- If Charmcaster had switched bodies with Ben, there would be no possible way to switch back and thus Charmcaster would be the victim of her own plan, as Ben cannot perform magic. It was revealed in this episode the body and the soul share the magical aura and both are needed to use magic. However, it is stated in the enhanced version that Ben does have an aura to speak of, which may be due to him being part-Anodite, as revealed in the Alien Force episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"
- Look Closely: When Gwen (in Ben's body) turns into Cannon Bolt, the Omnitrix had a yellow flash instead of green.
- Look Closely: When Charmcaster's bag falls into the ocean, the strap is seen to be whole, but when it's shown sinking into the water, the strap is broken.
- Pay Attention: When Gwen-as-Charmcaster sics the charm bugs on Pinky, Pinky's lackey and three other girls gang up on Gwen. When the bugs attack the other girls and they run away, Pinky's lackey is still in the group, but the other three have all morphed into different girls.
- So, the police know enough about mages to gag Charmcaster, but they don't take away her little charm bombs or spellbook? It's entirely inconsistent.
- Since Charmcaster retained her magical powers, it was presumed that Hex still has his powers as well. This is confirmed in "Don't Drink the Water".
- Pay Attention: When Charmcaster, with Gwen in her body, gets arrested, the police officer said she's heading to a maximum security facility. When she arrives at the maximum security facility, there is almost no security, and all prisoners are allowed to keep their normal clothes on, instead of prison clothes.
- Look Closely: Gwen reaches inside Charmcaster's right sleeve and holds and hides the eggs with her left arm. Later, she reaches inside the left sleeve and holds the book with the right arm.
- Look Closely/Think Back: Charmcaster's doll dogs appear smaller in this episode, while in "Tough Luck" they appeared larger.
- Think Back: In "Gwen 10," Gwen was able to control the Omnitrix better than Ben, but in this episode, she was worse than Ben. Ben himself managed to make something useful out of Gwen's physical fitness.
- When Gwen and Charmcaster switch bodies, their voices don't switch bodies, but later when Ben and Gwen switch bodies, their voices changed bodies as well. If the voices didn't switch the first time, why did they switch with Ben and Gwen?
- Pay Attention: When Charmcaster-in-Gwen gets off the truck to buy more ingredients, she leaves the rest on the truck.
- Look Closely: The thermostat in the RV reads 108ºF.
- When the Rust Bucket got damaged, Ben could've gone Upgrade to repair and fix it.
- Pay Attention/Listen Carefully: When Ben goes XLR8, you can hear his visor going down, but he still has it up.
- Look Closely: When Elsgood shows Ben and Gwen his picture, the Omnitrix goes from being red to green between shots without warning.
- Pay Attention: When Stinkfly reverts to Ben, his harness falls to the ground behind him. Considering that it was closed in the back, it should have remained around his shoulders.
- Look Closely: It is implied that the Christmas present delivery at the end of the episode needs to be finished by midnight. But when Stinkfly takes off with the sleigh, the clock tower displays a time well after 1:30.
- Look Closely: The candy canes the nutcrackers were using as weapons were peppermint-flavored.
- Pay Attention: The Tennysons should have had better clothing, as they would have frozen to death if they were out in the cold for as long as they were, even if they cooled down after being in Death Valley. They didn't have the proper clothing on.
- Ben had to go through this entire changing phase in order to finally transform into Benwolf's original form. This is what a werewolf does. What does an alien life-form have to do with mythical werewolfs?
- Since Wes was a Plumber, he should've known about Ben and the Omnitrix; at the least, heard rumors of. For some reason, he was shocked when he saw Ben transform into Wildvine.
- Pay Attention: This is the first and only episode where the transformation from making contact with an alien hasn't been instantaneous.
- Look Closely: At the end of the of the episode, when Ben looked at the alien werewolf's silhouette on the Omnitrix, it looked different than it did when Ben looked at it after he reverted back to his human form.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: When Ben begins to help Wes and Max across the lava chasm, right when he starts to say, "I'll need to take both of you..." the Omnitrix starts flashing red, but doesn't make any sound.
- Pay Attention: While looking for the Yenaldooshi, you can see Wes, Grandpa Max and Benwolf are in a cave. But when Wes shoots the flare, they are outside, because you can see stars in the sky.
- Look Closely: When Ben is fighting the Yenaldooshi (after it uses its sonic roar on them), and Ben and the alien tackle each other, if you look closely, you can see Ben still has the Omnitrix on his wrist, even though he said it wasn't.
- Look Closely: At the beginning, the receiver tower has no satellite dish on top, but the Yenaldooshi steals a dish from the same tower.
- Look Closely: While the Alien Wolf's eyes and sonic blasts are purple, Benwolf's are both green.
- Outside Knowledge: Wes says that the creature is a Yenaldooshi, or skin-walker in Navajo, but the term Navajos use for skin-walker is yee naaldlooshii.
- Pay Attention: When Ben found the Four Arms/Upgrade icons, he had to activate the Omnitrix to use them. But when he found the Cannon Bolt icon, he changed instantly.
- Look Closely: When the group was looking at the statue of the Kappa, Cannon Bolt's back was white. This turned into a running gag throughout the entire fourth season.
- Think Back: This is the second episode in which Max isn't a main character, focusing more on Ben and Gwen.
- Pay Attention: It looked like Ben was Wildvine for longer than 10 minutes in this episode.
- Look Closely: After Ben turns into Wildvine, the flash of the Omnitrix is blue, not green like it should be.
- Ben 10 Tidbit: Since it can't have been two months since Ben got his alien powers (it's still summer, after all), it's impossible for a cartoon show about his heroes to have been made in such a short time. Even allowing the possibility that the animators are incredibly fast, forming a voice cast, getting approval from the studio, and just pitching the idea in a way that wouldn't get them sued would take several weeks alone, if not months. But not only is the show ready, but they have merchandise in stores, giant balloons, etc. It's literally impossible in the span of time in which the series has taken place thus far.
- Pay Attention: While Abel is shown dangling over a vat of acid, Tim is grabbed by another man dressed like Kangaroo Commando. Later dialogue reveals this to be Kane. However, slow motion reveals that the kidnapper does not have a moustache like Kane does, revealing that Kane's moustache is fake.
- Look Closely/Think Back: The scanner Max uses is the same one in "Ghostfreaked Out."
- Think Back: In "Ken 10," Benmummy's clothes were similar to the original mummy's, this could give us a hint that the original mummy was an adult.
- Look Closely: When the mummy alien grabs Diamond Head after he questions his immunity to the corrodium, the two bandages extending from the mummy's back are solid black.
- Look Closely: At the part where Gwen saves Ben from the falling silo, if you slow it down, you can see that if Ben were allowed to stand there, he would have narrowly missed being crushed.
- Look Closely: When the mummy alien grabs XLR8, the white on the Omnitrix symbol turns grey for a brief second.
- Pay Attention: Grandpa Max and Gwen were hesitant about approaching the mummy without the Hazmat suits, but when Diamond Head revealed the corrodium in the ice cream factory, they just walked right up to it without hesitation.
- Look Closely/Pay Attention: When the mummy grabs the Omnitrix, and it shows the silhouettes of all the aliens, it goes from Four Arms to Grey Matter to Upgrade, then to Grey Matter again, then to Upgrade again.
- Look Closely: Just before Ben turns Upgrade, he's wearing a special suit Grandpa Max gave him to stop him from mutating. But when he reverts back to Ben, he's wearing his normal clothes.
- Look Hard: When the Omnitrix is shuffling through symbols after absorbing the alien mummy's DNA, you can see Ghostfreak's symbol for a brief moment.
- Outside Knowledge: Had the game not been interrupted by the robots, JT would not have played, as he was in the Rustbucket. Little League rules require every member of the team to play in every game.
- Pay Attention/Listen Carefully: As Ben (posing as Cash) gets his first hit, Gwen screams rather loudly, "Go Ben!" despite Ben posing as Cash.
- Outside Knowledge: At one point, the Squires coach says, "Nine innings and our plan shall be complete." However, Little League plays six innings.
- Pay Attention: The President didn't notice that the face of Cash (the bully) was completely different than the face of his real savior (Ben), despite them having a totally different facial appearance.
- Look Hard: When Ben landed in the pond after defeating the storm, you can see Captain Shaw from "The Krakken" on the left side of the boat, and the lifeguard from "A Small Problem" on the right.
- Pay Attention: When Four Arms is using the guitars to defeat the monster, he needs to go really close to it, in order for it to hear more noise. There wouldn't be any difference though because the speakers project the noise and sound, not the electric guitar. The speakers will still be in the same place.
- Outside Knowledge: When S.A.M. attacks as a cloud monster, he said he was attacking The Arena (Allstate Arena) and Wrigley Field, but those two locations are about 14 miles apart.
- Listen Closely: The chant Gwen used to summon the dragon was the same chant Gwendolyn uses in "Ben 10,000."
- Think Back: In the picture of a younger Max at NASA, he has black hair. However, in flashbacks in "Truth" and "The Visitor", as well as in "Don't Drink the Water", he had red hair.
- Look Closely: When Ben first changes into XLR8, the triangles on the Omnitrix symbol are touching until Dr. Vicktor knocks him away.
- Think Back: In "Ghostfreaked Out", Ghostfreak was destroyed in Bancroft Academy, but here, he was revived in the NASA Space Station. Also, Ben/XLR8 claims that he knows the place where Vicktor revives Ghostfreak as the place where he killed Ghostfreak.
- Think Back: It doesn't seem likely that Ghostfreak could have coerced Dr. Vicktor, and alien mummy, and an alien wolf into working for him; his personality had been trapped in the Omnitrix. Besides that, whatever time he spent getting out of the Omnitrix in "Ghostfreaked Out," he couldn't have gathered these three together, especially since he was reduced to ashes at the end of the episode.
- Look Closely: When the Omnitrix turns Ben into Cannon Bolt instead of Four Arms, he complains, "Oh, man! What does it have against Four Arms!" When he said this, Cannon Bolt's teeth are flat and square. Usually, they are sharp like Grey Matter's teeth.
- Right before Ben turns into the Benmummy, he sets it to Heat Blast, and right before he starts pressing the face down, it's going down on its own.
- The bridge at the beginning of the episode is the Seven Mile Bridge going to Key West. Why was Grandpa Max going to Key West?
- Grandpa Max's full first name is revealed to be Maxwell.
- Among the escaped prisoners on the bus is the pony-tailed crook who tried to rob the fish stall in "A Change of Face."
- Ben closed the door to the G-Force resistance tester using the palm scanner, but he should not have been able to do so.
- When the mummy grabs Benvicktor, why was Ghostfreak about to kill Benvicktor? If Ghostfreak wanted to possess Ben, why doesn't he just phase Ben through the station and wait for the Omnitrix to time out?
- Although Ghostfreak said he knew about the Omnitrix, he still didn't know that if you touch his Omnitrix it will keep Ben from transforming into an alien. Also he should know that if an alien touches it while the Omnitrix isn't in use, some of their DNA is added.
- Look Closely: When Gwen shuts the door to the restroom on the mummy alien, the small openings on the mummy aren't glowing purple like they should be.
- Think Back: If the sun causes the mutated people to transform back to normal, how come the mutated cows in "Under Wraps" were sti