# Fringe -- A new low in TV forensics...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 20, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-a-new-low-in-tv-forensics/518244 "2009-11-20T02:30:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-a-new-low-in-tv-forensics/518244/21 "2009-11-22T22:40:12Z")

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So three of these guys are named April, May, and June?

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**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-a-new-low-in-tv-forensics/518244/22 "2009-11-23T00:17:07Z")

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> [@ghardester](#):
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> I believe that August is the name of the Observer who was shot. There are 12 Observers named after months of the year.

Thanks! I completely missed that. Did we learn that in this episode, or a previous one?

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-a-new-low-in-tv-forensics/518244/23 "2009-11-23T00:37:29Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> That is not a new low for the trope. The all-time low for “enhanced surveillance video” is and remains _Enemy of the State_, where the spooks use surveillance footage to see the bag on the other side of Will Smith’s body, and what’s inside it.
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> You know what makes this sort of thing completely inexcusable? I can understand when moviemakers get details about space wrong, say: After all, they’re not rocket scientists. But cameras are their entire livelihood! They work with them day in and day out; they darned well _ought_ to understand how they work!

Yeah, that one was so out there, I think we still have a good decade before it is topped for stupidity.

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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-a-new-low-in-tv-forensics/518244/24 "2009-11-23T01:03:57Z")

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> [@Meltdown](#):
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> Thanks! I completely missed that. Did we learn that in this episode, or a previous one?

The names aren’t mentioned in the show at all but the character names and the actors playing them are in the closing credits. The old guy who seems to be in charge is December, the other one mentioned was July. September was refered to in a press release before The Arrival episode. That release was later retracted.

That is just the word on the street, from Fringepedia. (No I’m not kidding, there is a Wiki devoted to Fringe now.)

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