The Locomotive Manipulation - S7-E15
Corrected entry: Sheldon asks whether the train carriage has "link-and-pin" type couplers, when he would know that such couplers were outlawed by the Safety Appliance Act of 1893.
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9th Apr 2014
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
29th Jun 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
Factual error: In the scene where Bruce Wayne gives a homeless man a wad of cash and trades coats, the wad of cash he had is of the new 20 dollar bill with the big numbers. The new 20 didn't begin circulation until October 9, 2003.
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Suggested correction: I don't think this is relevant at all, because the movie or batman movies before it have never been set on any historical time-line as in Batman defeated the Joker in 1963. With X-Men, we know that Magneto's childhood was spent in a Nazi concentration camp, so to set the X-Men in the 1930s would be an error, but even if the atmosphere is designed to invoke a time period, there is nothing onscreen in this Batman movie that makes the film accountable to be set in any specific time period. The only thing we know is that Lucious Fox's equipment was originally slated to be used by the military for some unnamed war.
This correction is wrong. The scene is set 7 years prior to the current day, and the film isn't meant to be set in the future either. The film is meant to be set in "present" day (2005), which is why you see Bruce drive a 2005 Lamborghini. It has nothing to do with being in a "historical time-line."
29th Jun 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
Factual error: After the funeral, when the young Rachel looks up at young Bruce from outside the mansion, you can see a modern-day Illinois license plate. These plates were not available at the time.
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Suggested correction: I don't see how this is relevant. Batman is not set along a historic time-line. Batman first defeated the Joker in 1963. There might be a certain time period that the atmosphere of the movie is trying to capture but since there's no specific date, than there's no obligation to keep every facet of the movie in that time period.
This correction is wrong, while no date is specified, it's meant to take place in the "present" which is why you see cars from early 2000's and a 2005 Lamborghini. And the film isn't meant to be set in future either. Although the mistake should specify what is meant by "modern", it's unlikely they were in use about 15 years ago (from the setting of the film).
6th Dec 2005
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: When Batman throws his first explosive on the speeding train, it hits the window and the glass breaks inward. It should break outward.
Correction: They're not explosives. They are small metal pieces, in the shape of a bat, that he also used earlier on in the film (to destroy the lights). The windows break "inwards" because of the speeding train causes wind to blow "inwards". Just like wind blows "inwards" when you pull down the windows while driving your car.
Correction: That's the physics of how glass windows break. Broken glass will move towards the direction it was hit from (that is to say if an object is moving towards the right when it hit the window, the glass will move to the left). If the window is broken from the inside, the pieces will fall inside. The only reason glass falls to the other side is because as it breaks and falls on top of itself, sometimes it's unbalanced and topples backwards.
16th Oct 2008
Batman Begins (2005)
Corrected entry: During the board meeting at Wayne Enterprises, before Bruce shows up, as Earle says, "I think after twenty years we can allow ourselves to ", he's walking towards his chair. As the shot ends, he's about two meters away from the chair, but in the next shot where he continues " stop thinking about what Thomas Wayne would have done", he's already reached the chair and sits down. (00:46:10)
Correction: He never sits down. This entry is just flat out wrong.
You must have watched an edited version or missed the obvious. Earle IS seen sitting down and the mistake is valid.
7th May 2021
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Factual error: When Jax's SUV is hit by ice it punctures the body but the windows remain intact. (00:21:26)
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Suggested correction: I didn't see any ice puncture the body, certainly not any that would break any window. Later you see dents in the hood, but that doesn't mean the windows should be broken. I've had severe hail damage in real life where the body of the car was dented without any windows being cracked.
At 22:54 you will see multiple dents into the hood up to about an 1-2" deep. At 27:35 you will see multiple dents so deep that the paint is gone and the bare body is showing. Sorry, at that force the windows would at least cracked if not more.
The glass used in car windshields is about a quarter inch thick, seven times thicker than the sheet metal used in body panels. It is also about five times stronger. It wouldn't necessarily break or crack.
Well you have your view and I have mine. Cheers mate.
7th May 2021
Black Panther (2018)
Factual error: The ambulance in the museum robbery scene has the registration number LD59 QQI. In the UK Q is never used within a registration number, only as a prefix for particular vehicles, for example kit cars. The letter I is also never used in any part of a registration number as it can be confused with a 1. (00:19:07)
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Suggested correction: Sounds like this is merely similar to phone numbers starting with 555 or impossible IP addresses in films.
No, this would by like having a phone number start with 5Q5 and impossible IPs are valid mistakes.
7th May 2021
Friends (1994)
The One With The Embryos - S4-E12
Character mistake: When they are about to start the game, Ross declares that "the first team to answer the most questions wins." This is a nonsensical statement. By that logic, the first team to answer a question correctly would be the winner. It should be either the team that has correctly answered the most questions at the end of the game wins, or the first team to correctly answer an X number of questions.
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Suggested correction: While it's a weird way for him to say it, he starts by saying "each team will answer ten questions", so no, the first team to answer a question wouldn't win.
Yes, he qualified that it was a 10-question game, and we as the audience understand going in how the winner is decided. It's just the way he declared how the winner would be decided didn't make sense. It would be like watching an NBA game, and before tipoff, the crew chief tells both teams that the first team to score the most baskets wins. We know what the rules of an NBA game are, but the referee makes a nonsensical statement all the same.
Except there's so many variations of how a team can win a game; best 3 out of 5, win by 2, or a game can even end in a tie. Since this isn't a professional sport where all the players know how a game ends, Ross is basically saying after 10 rounds, if there is a tie, it will go to sudden death with the team with the first correct answer winning, just not in so many words.
8th Oct 2003
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Corrected entry: Throughout the series, Daniel Jackson has worn glasses yet has used the sarcophagus on numerous occasions. If the sarcophagus can heal any wound and even bring back the dead, surely it can correct a small fault in his eyes.
Correction: The sarcophagus heals damage to the body. Daniel's eyesite is a genetic imperfection. The sarcophagus won't work on any defect the user is born with.
Correction: The effects of the sarcophagus have been shown to wear off, which is why the Goa'uld (and others) have to keep using it. In "Need", when Daniel becomes addicted to using the sarcophagus, he eventually doesn't need glasses. But, while a wound won't come back after being healed, a failing organ will continue to fail after time.
1st Sep 2004
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Avenger 2.0 - S7-E9
Corrected entry: Right after Jack reports that the gate is down and Carter and Felger are talking about...something...you can still see Jack in the screen in the background. He actually moves closer to the MALP camera twice. As the camera angle changes, you see him do it again.
Correction: Not a mistake. Scheduled transmissions were possible FROM Earth's Stargate - no reason why Jack would've cut off. His moving closer to the camera was a comic moment.
You're missing the point of the mistake. Continuity mistakes occur when the camera angle change and no time elapses. The mistake is saying Jack moves closer to the MALP's camera and then does it again in the next shot (with no time for him to move back to repeat the action).
19th Mar 2005
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Other mistake: When the Asgard arrive to save the day they start by beaming out the Goa'ould but Teal'c gets left behind. He should have been beamed out with the rest of them.
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Suggested correction: The Asgard know about Teal'c from the season 2 episode "Thor's Chariot". In that episode they upload his DNA profile into the Asgard computers so that he is not beamed away with the other Jaffa in that episode. His profile would have been kept so that he would known in any future contact situations with the Asgard.
This correction seems to have been made without watching the episode (or remembering the episode). The Asgard spoken of are from an alternate reality when they never met Teal'c (and don't have his DNA). One could suggest that alternate reality Carter told them about Teal'c, but there were two of them, and she wouldn't have known alternate reality Teal'c was later killed.
2nd Jun 2005
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Corrected entry: Watch the scene where Urgo is sitting by Dr Frasier and she is skimming her notes. Urgo skims as well using his middle finger.
Correction: This mistake, as it presently reads, makes no sense at all. If it could be reworded so others could actually understand its point, that would be excellent.
Correction: Urgo is just imitating Dr. Frasier's movement, except since he doesn't have a pen in his hand like she does, it looks like he's using his middle finger.
4th May 2021
The Vampire Diaries (2009)
I Know What You Did Last Summer - S5-E1
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth Forbes drops off Caroline and Elena at college and hugs them, she says to Elena "This is where your dad fell in love with Maddison" assumingly referring to her adopted mother who was actually called Miranda. (00:07:14)
Correction: She said "this is where your dad fell in love with medicine."
30th Apr 2021
The 100 (2014)
Corrected entry: When Clarke gets to Becca's lab, her mom asks where the others are. She says that they are unloading the rover, but they got there by boat.
Correction: She's asks "where's Roan" (not about the others) and Clarke says "he's unloading fuel with the others."
30th Apr 2021
Clue (1985)
Corrected entry: When Professor Plumb picks up Ms Scarlett on the roadside, they drive away in his black car. Moments later they arrive at the mansion in her scarlet colored car.
Correction: First, Professor Plum doesn't have a black car. But you can tell that's it's Plum's car when they arrive because of the paneling and the rooftop. And it's not red, it's purplish (a plum color).
20th Mar 2002
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Factual error: When Betty is talking to Evelyn about her engagement to Red, she says they are going to wait two years to get married, until she is 19, which means she is currently 17. She must be a very brilliant young woman, because to become a Navy nurse, you must first have a four-year college degree in nursing. (All officers must have a bachelor's degree or higher in an appropriate field.)
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Suggested correction: When Betty is talking to Evelyn she says "...If I didn't fake my age and sneak into nurse school I whouldn't be here now with Red..."
Yes, but 13?
First, she didn't say she faked her age to get into nursing school. She said she lied about her age to enlisted in the Navy. I would consider this a mistake because otherwise she would have had lie about her age and fake a BSN that the Navy didn't bother to verify, or some other improbable situations.
19th Apr 2021
Family Guy (1999)
Yug Ylimaf - S11-E4
Corrected entry: Bonnie had Susie in season 7. In this episode they go back in time before Susie was born, Stewie is a year older than Susie so it makes no sense why he would be re born again. He's always a year old throughout the entire series.
Correction: They didn't go back in time. When the time machine broke, time started moving backwards. When Stewie saw Bonnie was pregnant, he realised events were being undone, which means he would soon be unborn. Time kept moving backwards until Stewie was unborn. When Brian fixed the machine, time went forward and Stewie was born (which would be a year before Susie was born).
19th Apr 2021
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Corrected entry: A pool game with a dead great player and a live great player has the bet of the game being life or death if he accepts the bet. He already has life if he doesn't take the bet, so has nothing to win.
Correction: That's not a plot hole, you just explained what the plot was. Of course Jesse could have said no, but if he wins he gets to be able to claim he beat Fats and is the best, that's what he has to win. To Jesse, that's an incredible prize.
24th Jan 2018
Monk (2002)
Continuity mistake: In "Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees" Natalie mentions she doesn't have a sister when Julie's "boyfriend" says the aunt hired him to break her and her real boyfriend up. Here she has a sister and a niece.
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Suggested correction: Natalie doesn't have a sister in this episode. The woman seen is credited as "Aunt Teresa." They're most likely cousins. Children of cousins are often referred to as nieces/nephews. This would make Natalie "Aunt Natalie" to Anne Marie (and Teresa would be "Aunt Teresa" to Julie).
17th Apr 2021
TURN: Washington's Spies (2014)
Hard Boiled - S2-E2
Other mistake: Simcoe is in a shop with several other redcoats. They are making jokes at him. He receives a package with a knife inside. While he is inspecting the knife one of the off camera soldiers that is joking makes the screeching sound from Psycho. I though I was hearing things at first and replayed it to make sure. (03:41:00)
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Correction: It would easy for Sheldon to ignore this fact when he is aboard a train that has been restored to its original design; internally and externally. He has been building toy models since he was a kid. He just wanted to know to what level this train has been restored.
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Except the cars are 1915 Pullmans coaches and the locomotive is an Alcoa FA-4 (built from 1946-1959), so Sheldon should know they never would have had a "link-and-pin" coupler.
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