Factual error: When Tewkesbury sees Enola's rented room, she asks if he was expecting a room at the Ritz. The Hotel Ritz in London opened in 1906, and the Paris branch opened in 1898. This film is set in 1884.
Brian Katcher
11th Apr 2024
Enola Holmes (2020)
16th Jan 2024
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Factual error: The melting point of gold is nearly 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, and yet Thorin rides a wheelbarrow through a river of molten gold with his fingers inches away from the stream. Even if we believe the dwarfs are hardier than men, I doubt he could survive that, let alone the wheelbarrow.
25th Oct 2023
Quantum Leap (2022)
Factual error: The psychiatrist asks Ben who the current president is, and Ben, not knowing it's 1954, guesses JFK. The doctor responds "The senator? He'd love that." But the nickname JFK wasn't used until the 1960 election.
3rd May 2023
Quantum Leap (2022)
Factual error: Eugene says he was a bit of a geek in high school. 'Geek' as a term for a socially awkward person wasn't used until the 1970s. In 1962 'geek' still meant a carnival performer who bit the heads off live animals.
8th Dec 2022
Quantum Leap (2022)
Factual error: The bad guy tells the townsfolk to 'Get out of Dodge.' Not a saying used in 1879, despite Dodge City being a real place. In fact by this time Dodge City was no more violent than many other places, so it wouldn't have been used as a direct comparison either. There's no record of this specific phrase being used until Gunsmoke, in 1955.
20th Oct 2021
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion - S5-E6
Factual error: Stottlemeyer says that if Diane killed herself, her suicide note would go on the public record (and her old nurse would recognize it as a copy of her decades-old note). Since when are suicide notes made public?
18th Jan 2021
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Factual error: Ray comments on how Diego 'beams' into his living room. That use of the term comes from the 'Star Trek' TV series, which wouldn't debut for three more years.
3rd Aug 2020
Noises Off... (1992)
Factual error: Lloyd mentions the show played in Cairo, Missouri. There have never been more than 300 people living in Cairo, and there are no venues large enough for a production of that scale.
16th Sep 2019
Eureka (2006)
Factual error: At the dance in 1947, a US flag with 50 stars is visible.
9th Sep 2016
Supernatural (2005)
Factual error: In the opening, H.P. Lovecraft is calming his nerves with alcohol. In real life, Lovecraft was a complete teetotaler, who even wrote stories about the evils of liquor.
10th Sep 2015
Pixels (2015)
Factual error: The character of Max Headroom was introduced in 1984, and would not have been on a probe from 1982.
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