Audio problem: When Cody is playing the blues on his guitar, he is shown to be fretting the higher pitched strings while playing the lower strings open. However only low notes are heard and at least three different chords are heard, which would not be possible if he was playing the strings open.
Phaneron
21st Nov 2013
Step by Step (1991)
13th Nov 2013
The Expendables (2010)
Character mistake: Tool neglects to dress Barney's tattoo after he completes it. Not something a professional tattoo artist would neglect to do, especially when he is tattooing a friend.
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Suggested correction: Tool states that it's taken him several months to do the logo tattoo. It's also implied that he has done the rest of Barney's tattoo's. Barney, being the tough man he is, could have simply said in the past not to bother with dressing it and Tool has done as told against his better judgement.
20th Oct 2013
127 Hours (2010)
Factual error: The slot canyon with the underground pool that Aron and the girls dive in is nowhere near Blue John Canyon. It is actually the Homestead Resort Crater located in Midway, Utah approximately 200 miles northwest.
6th Oct 2013
Futurama (1999)
Trivia: Professor Farnsworth bears a resemblance to Sebastian Cobb, a character who appeared on The Simpsons in the episode "Marge vs. The Monorail."
24th Sep 2013
Dexter (2006)
Remember the Monsters? - S8-E12
Revealing mistake: In the flashback scenes when Dexter and Deb are shown holding baby Harrison in the newborn room, you can tell they are just holding a dummy in the wide shots because the baby never moves a muscle.
18th Sep 2013
The X-Files (1993)
Factual error: When Scully is performing the autopsy on Leonard Betts' severed head, she states "As remains are incomplete, all observations refer to a decapitated head." This phrasing is redundant. The proper terminology would be "disembodied head." As a medical doctor, Scully should know this.
11th Aug 2013
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: After Topanga draws a lipstick heart around her face and Shawn says "Use a mirror, babe," a closeup is shown of Topanga smiling at Shawn and you can see Cory has lipstick on his forehead before Topanga has drawn it on him. (00:20:30)
4th Aug 2013
Boy Meets World (1993)
Revealing mistake: In the epilogue when Eric and Jack's skeletons collapse, the wire holding them up is visible.
4th Aug 2013
The Simpsons (1989)
Krusty Gets Kancelled - S4-E22
Trivia: The scene where Bette Midler sings to Krusty is an allusion to Johnny Carson's penultimate episode as host of The Tonight Show where Midler was his final guest and sang to him.
31st Jul 2013
Breaking Bad (2008)
Trivia: There is a scene in this episode where Walter angrily tosses a box of pizza in the air in such a way that the pizza exits the box and lands on his roof. Before filming this scene, the crew had wondered how many takes would be required to achieve the desired result. Bryan Cranston nailed it on the first try.
25th Jul 2013
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Deliberate mistake: Otis was portrayed as an albino in "House of 1000 Corpses" but in this film he has normal skin pigment.
17th Jul 2013
X-Men (1992)
The Phoenix Saga (1): Sacrifice - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: After the X-Men rescue Dr. Corbeau and retreat back to the shuttle, they come upon a room with crew members passed out on the floor. Keep an eye on Wolverine in the background on the right side of the screen and you will see him literally walk through a door panel. (00:17:28)
28th Jun 2013
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Question: After Talia orders Foley and the other cops to be gunned down, Foley's body is shown and he doesn't appear to have any bullet holes in him. Even with his black uniform you can see that his clothes don't have tears. Although it's possible that he was shot in the back, wouldn't the type of guns that are on the Tumblers be powerful enough to cause exit wounds?
Answer: He was hit by the tumbler. It wasn't included in the final cut due to how graphic it was when filmed.
Chosen answer: Almost certainly, yes, in fact, if the weapons demonstrated by the original Tumbler give any guide, his body would likely be severely damaged if not torn apart completely. However, as we don't actually see the precise circumstances of his shooting, we can't say that he was hit by one of the Tumbler's guns; given the intact state of his body, it seems far more likely that he was gunned down using a smaller weapon carried by one of Talia's remaining henchmen.
23rd Jun 2013
X-Men (1992)
Plot hole: In the season one episode The Cure, when Pyro and Avalanche are in the bar on Muir Island waiting for Mystique to arrive, Avalanche says "This friend of yours better show up soon or I'm going back to jail, just for something to do!" Rogue then comes in and Pyro suggests to Avalanche that Rogue could be Mystique, to which Avalanche responds "What do you mean it could be? Don't you know what she looks like?", leading Pyro to tell Avalanche that Mystique is a shape-shifter. This dialogue implies that Avalanche has no idea who Mystique is, which is further substantiated when Pyro and Avalanche kidnap Mystique later in the episode while she is in the guise of Dr. Adler, and Avalanche didn't recognize Mystique when she revealed her true form. However in this episode it is shown that Pyro and Avalanche were both previously members of Mystique's Brotherhood of Mutants, so Avalanche should already know who Mystique is without Pyro having to tell him. Rogue was also a member of that group yet neither Pyro nor Avalanche recognize her.
17th Jun 2013
X-Men (1992)
Days of Future Past: Part 2 - S1-E12
Factual error: When Gambit is inside his mini-jet after escaping from Bishop and Wolverine, his radar screen says "Washington D.C." but the graphic above it is Washington state.
17th Jun 2013
Wayne's World (1992)
Deliberate mistake: When Wayne begins playing the "Excalibur" guitar, the clerk stops him and directs him to a "No Stairway to Heaven" sign. The problem is that the guitar riff Wayne started playing sounded nothing like "Stairway to Heaven" so the clerk had no reason to interrupt him. Evidently the intro to "Stairway" was actually played in the theatrical version of the film, but its exclusion in the home video release makes the scene rather dubious.
14th Jun 2013
X-Men (1992)
Deliberate mistake: There's at least two episodes (Season 1's "Captive Hearts" and Season 4's "Sanctuary, Part 1") in which a character shows video footage of the X-Men and various supporting characters in action, but the footage is merely clips from previous episodes.
13th Jun 2013
X-Men (1992)
Other mistake: During a flashback, Rogue is shown absorbing Pyro's mutant power and then creating fire out of thin air. However, Pyro does not have the ability to create fire, he can only control it. That's why he wears a flamethrower on the back of each hand.
23rd Apr 2013
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Factual error: During Globo Gym's commercial at the start of the movie, White shows a picture of himself as an obese man in 1987 and indicates that was him 6 years prior. However in the same commercial, you can see a woman grab a bottle of Vitamin Water from a likewise branded fridge. Vitamin Water did not exist in 1993. In fact, its parent company Glaceau was not founded until 1996.
12th Apr 2013
Seinfeld (1990)
Deliberate mistake: Jerry's apartment is on the fifth floor of his building, yet any time he buzzes somebody in from outside the building, they enter his apartment in a matter of seconds.
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