Goofs

When engaged to Luke McAllister, Tina Dingle tells him and his sister Jessica about her oldest brother Nathan's wedding. Nathan is never mentioned again, and Tina's father specifically references having three sons (and then four when he discovers his supposed nephew, Cain, is actually his son) - Ben, Francis (Butch) and Sam.

Due to being a long running soap opera characters history's and backstories are retconned and certain plot points are forgotten i.e. characters celebrating their birthdays on the wrong days or forgetting about key details in their lives.

When Marlon tries to trace the recipient of his late wife's Tricia's heart on 5th April 2004. The telephone number gives for Leeds is 01572 which is actually for Oakham in Rutland. The telephone number also had 8 digits, that with the 5 in the area code total 13 which is too many for a UK telephone number as these are 11 digits long (occasionally 10 digits).

Christmas eve 2003 the Dingle steal and open a safe from Tate Haulage and it's full of money. The notes shown are £20 notes with Michael Faraday on them. The notes ceased to be legal tender in February 2001.

Although Hotten, the nearest town to Emmerdale, is generally portrayed as a medium-sized market town, it somehow gained an international airport at some point, with several references to Hotten Airport in the 2020s. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show featured several scenes at an airport not named in the script, but signage for Doncaster Sheffield Airport (which closed in 2022) was clearly visible in the background.

In scripts, Mackenzie Boyd is portrayed as a contemporary of Ryan Stocks, Aaron Dingle and Nate Robinson age-wise. However, in terms of the age gap between him and his older sister Moira (around 12 years), Mackenzie should be around 41 in 2024; approximately ten years older than those characters (and eight years older than actor Andrew Robb). Similarly, Meena Jutla - introduced around the same time as the much younger sibling of an existing character, Manpreet Sharma - is established as over 15 years younger than her sister, yet in other scripts the two are portrayed as much closer in age (for example, fighting over a Walkman).