Do you see it? Desperate Housewives had a major editing blunder, and they did it twice!

It’s called a “cross fade” and anyone who has used iMovie or other video software will know what I mean, but to explain quickly, it’s when you take two pieces of video and fade them into each other to transition. Housewives did it in the middle of the freaking scene using two different takes while a character was moving and talking.

While Mike was talking to Susan about why Zach didn’t kill him. Mike turns by the door and lifts his arms and begins to talk and while the audio is solid the figure of Mike clearly fade to a slightly different take where he’s standing about 3″ lower. Take a look at the shot above the house is steady in the frame, the only thing that moved is Mike and Susan’s hair. I couldn’t believe they did it and let it make the airwaves - so to see they did it twice was just flabbergasting. I played it back and forth 5 times, it’s clear as day.

The second time was in the office while Lynnette is being interviewed, the man tosses a wad of paper into the trashketball hoop and in the middle of the shot of it going in it cross fades again. I didn’t get a shot of that one, as the one above was more shocking since it was during a line delivery.

This is the worst editing I’ve ever seen on network television. Kids using iMovie could do better than that!