What Is This Coat of Arms Doing on an American Television Show?

I sometimes catch an episode or two of an American court TV show called "Court Cam" on A&E, the "Arts and Entertainment Network."

I watch it because, just like one of the police shows I watch, "On Patrol Live" (which I like to subtitle: "Or, a Series of Unfortunate Decisions"), it makes me feel ever so much better about my own somewhat humdrum, rather boring life. I mean, I clearly do not face the issues that a lot of these folks are having to deal with, which are often of their own making. Did you ever watch someone who was maybe, at most, going to get a traffic ticket, somehow talk and/or act themselves into a felony arrest? That has never, ever, happened to me, nor is it likely to occur at any time in my future.

Anyway, as I was saying, I occasionally catch an episode of "Court Cam", and have noticed that they use a few stock photos of courtroom interiors during the show. And it was one of these courtroom photos, which they seem to use about once each episode, that caught my eye. Because it is most definitely not an American courtroom.

See if you can tell what I mean:

Some of you may see it right away. For others, click on the image above to go to the full-size screenshot in more detail.

Right away, as a heraldry enthusiast, I noticed that the coat of arms over the judge's seat is not the arms of the United States, nor that of any of its constituent states. No, those are the arms of the Republic of South Africa! And to help confirm that, the flag is the corner on the right is, yes indeed, the flag of the Republic of South Africa.

I'm guessing that some poor assistant or intern was asked by the producers of "Court Cam" to find some pictures of courtroom interiors that A&E could obtain rights for that they could use as filler material in the show. And, presumably that individual didn't understand that this particular courtroom interior was not that of any courtroom anywhere in the United States of America, which is what the rest of the program is all about.

Still, I'm probably only one out of, what: thousands? millions? of viewers who would notice something like that. And yet -- it still jars me just a little bit every time I see it.

How do you feel about it?