Continuity mistake: After Spock tells Boma and Gaetano that he's in command and they should fire only to frighten, not to kill, one of the creatures throws a spear and then his shield at the trio, and when the shield hits the ground it's much smaller than the huge shield lying on the ground in the next close-up. (00:23:15)
Super Grover
8th Apr 2015
Star Trek (1966)
8th Apr 2015
Star Trek (1966)
The Conscience of the King - S1-E14
Continuity mistake: After Kirk introduces himself to Lenore at Leighton's cocktail party, when she tells him, "Karidian is a most unusual man... That was my father," Lenore holds the goblet in her left hand as she takes a sip, but next shot the goblet is suddenly in her right hand as she sips.
8th Apr 2015
Star Trek (1966)
The Conscience of the King - S1-E14
Continuity mistake: After the phaser explodes in the pressure vent disposal unit, just before Kirk walks into Karidian's quarters there's a crown and board on the table beside Karidian, but when Kirk gives the paper to Karidian for him to read, the board is suddenly on the opposite side of the table, though it has not been touched.
8th Apr 2015
The Brady Bunch (1969)
Continuity mistake: While they're in the courtroom, when Carol is standing beside Harry Duggan in front of the board, the small red car on the board keeps changing from being straight to slanted, depending on the camera angle.
8th Apr 2015
The Brady Bunch (1969)
Continuity mistake: At the start of the episode there's a wide shot of the house exterior as the Brady's station wagon is pulling into their driveway, and the wagon has wooden side paneling, but in the next closeup the paneling is gone. Plus the fact that the rear-end damage doesn't exist in the first wide shot, which is the point of this episode.
29th Mar 2015
Farscape (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Aeryn fires D'Argo's Qualta blade at Plonek, it hits the Scarran multiple times on his left side creating a large bloody wound on his chest, and then John shoves the icicle into the right side of Plonek's chest. However, after Plonek pushes John to the ground, in the close-up the icicle is on Plonek's left side with no wound on his right, but when Plonek collapses the icicle is back on his right, and still the bloody wound is gone.
29th Mar 2015
Farscape (1999)
Continuity mistake: After Aeryn uses up D'Argo's Qualta blade on the Scarran who's after John and D'Argo, John grabs a huge icicle and plunges it into Plonek's chest with his right hand, but in the close-up John's using his left hand, then in the next shot the icicle's back in his right hand.
14th Mar 2015
Wonder Woman (1976)
Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Diana chases after Horst she changes into Wonder Woman and her boots have heels, but when she lassos Horst the heels vanish and the boots are now flats.
13th Mar 2015
Wonder Woman (1976)
Wonder Woman vs Gargantua - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Wonder Woman arrives at the warehouse where Steigler is being held, as she's using her lasso to scale the building the high heels on her boots have vanished, and they're now flats. This switch also occurs in previous shots, as well as at the start when Erica Belgard is disguised as Wonder Woman.
11th Mar 2015
Two and a Half Men (2003)
Continuity mistake: While Alan's sitting on the couch, Evelyn's talking to Alan "helping...through a very difficult time," and in the shots facing Alan all of the books on the table behind him, and also the books on the couch's side table keep changing - not just their position, all the books actually become different books. Additionally, in the shots facing Charlie, the books beside the chair and the books/CDs/DVDs on the bookcase change as well.
11th Mar 2015
Two and a Half Men (2003)
Continuity mistake: While Evelyn is at Charlie's asking Alan if he's considered that there may be another man at Judith's "shacking up with her," Evelyn is wearing a blue 2-piece skirt suit, but in Charlie's close-up Evelyn's wearing a white suit with a red floral pattern when she's standing in front of Charlie, at the left side of the screen. (In the original pilot Evelyn is played by Blythe Danner wearing the floral suit, but she had to back out and was replaced by Holland Taylor, who's wearing the blue suit).
9th Mar 2015
Ghost Whisperer (2005)
The Walk-in - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: When Jim brings a new body to the morgue there's a "John Doe" already lying there, and in the close up we see that the corpse's right foot is missing the middle toe. We see this again later when Jim's ring is stolen from his locker, with the bloody right footprint on the floor. However, when Melinda shows up the close-up shots of the bloody footprints have been flipped so it's the left foot with the missing toe, but what's funny is that in the audio we hear Jim say, "The middle toe is missing on the right foot."
9th Mar 2015
Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Continuity mistake: While Melinda's trapped underground with the rising water flooding the utility vault, when Eli and Jim go down below Eli takes off his shoes and jacket, the camera pans up from the churning water and we briefly see Eli's bare feet. The next shot we see him taking the socks off.
9th Mar 2015
Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Jim joins Melinda on the bench to discuss the treatment records from Gabriel's institution, the heart locket on Melinda's neck keeps vanishing and reappearing repeatedly, depending on the angle of the shot. (00:07:50)
9th Mar 2015
Criminal Minds (2005)
Continuity mistake: At the start of this episode Rossi tells Garcia about the case he's obsessed with, "It's the 20th anniversary of this crime. Twenty years tomorrow, three children woke up and found their parents murdered." However, during S3xE11 "Birthright," while working on their current Wilkinson case, Rossi shows Caulfield (the sheriff of the original Wilkinson case from 1980) the victim's charm bracelet he carries, then tells him about the Indianapolis case he's never forgotten, and how every year since then he's called the victims' children. And later, after Caulfield tells Rossi it's been 27 years since his own unsolved case, he asks Rossi how long it's been for him and Rossi says, "21," then Caulfield cautions, "Don't let it get to 22."
9th Mar 2015
Ghost Whisperer (2005)
On the Wings of a Dove - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: When Joseph wants proof that Melinda sees Julian, the boy asks Melinda to describe the tattoo behind his father's right ear, and we see a close-up of the white dove tattoo that Julian got after his son's birth. Then, while Julian whispers to his son, there is no tattoo behind his left ear, but as Julian walks backwards toward Jim the white dove tattoo is now visible. (00:37:40)
26th Feb 2015
Family Guy (1999)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: After Lois says, "When Meg and Chris turned one I missed everything," it flashes back to Lois writing 'happy birthday Meg' on the cake, and there's wallpaper border at the top of the walls, but when Peter asks her what she's doing in the kitchen the wallpaper border is gone. The paper cups that Lois filled with punch also vanish, and the rolling pin, board, etc. suddenly appear. (00:11:30)
12th Feb 2015
McCloud (1970)
This Must Be the Alamo - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: When McCloud and Broadhurst are driving around in the squad car, the vehicle changes in their closeups. Note the light atop the hood, the stickers with the police and unit number on the hood, the rearview mirror's vanishing act, etc.
11th Feb 2015
The Switch (2010)
Continuity mistake: Just after Kassie tucks Sebastian into bed, Kassie sits on the couch with Wally while he's looking at old photos. She then holds up one of the photos in her left hand while she holds a glass of wine in her right hand, but in the side shot the items have suddenly switched hands.
4th Dec 2014
The Avengers (2012)
Continuity mistake: When Thor lands beside the overturned car on the Park Ave viaduct in front of Grand Central, the car has a dent between its fender and tire, but in the next closeup that dent has vanished. (02:04:10)
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