The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice - S2-E4
Corrected entry: In the flashback to 1946 when Bruce Willis is being strapped to the electric chair, he mentions "Stairway to Heaven," a song that wouldn't be recorded and released for another 25 years.
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30th Aug 2010
Moonlighting (1985)
2nd Aug 2011
W. (2008)
Corrected entry: When W. is giving George Sr. a tour of Arlington Stadium in 1990, they comment in passing that it was a mistake to trade Sammy Sosa. By the end of the 1990 season, Sosa's career was relatively unremarkable: he was hitting a career .242, with just 23 home runs and 96 RBIs. It wasn't until 1998 with the Chicago Cubs that Sosa's stardom really took off.
Correction: They still saw it as a mistake. In '89 the Rangers used two young outfielders (Sosa and Juan Gonzalez), but Juan stayed in the minors for most of the '90 season and didn't perform as Sosa did. In '89 the White Sox finished 7th in the division and then in the '90 season finished 2nd, above the Rangers who finished 3rd.
23rd Jul 2014
The West Wing (1999)
7A WF 83429 - S5-E1
Corrected entry: The Secret Service's code names for the First Family all begin with the same letter. Since President Bartlet's code name is "Eagle", Zoey's code name would not be "Bookbag", but instead would also start with an 'E'.
Correction: While it may traditionally be done, it's not a rule and not a mistake. In the past, some members of the First Family have had names starting with different letters (Rose Kennedy for example), and some presidents and First Wives have been given two code names with different letters (Barbara Bush was Snowbank and Tranquility).
24th Jun 2014
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Corrected entry: If the vehicles are turning on humans, why didn't Curtis and Connie's car try to kill them? The only answer is that them making it to the truck stop serves the story line.
Correction: SPOILER ALERT: At the end of the movie it states the Russians blew up a UFO, implying perhaps it was aliens who controlled everything and everything that happened was just the Aliens playing or experimenting with us. So letting humans have control over some mechanical things was part of their plan, not a plot hole.
12th Jan 2014
Chicago Fire (2012)
Corrected entry: Shay and her new partner return to the firehouse near the end of the episode and spot a well dressed man who Shay believes is a lawyer there to question her. She says "This guy is looking for me and I can't deal with HER now".
Correction: She says "I can't deal with it right now, OK."
24th Nov 2014
Forever (2014)
Corrected entry: In the first flashback scene, Henry enters the room when young Abe is playing the piano. He calls him "Evan" but correctly calls him Abe when he leaves the room.
Correction: He calls him Abraham, which is real name instead of the nickname Abe. There is a character in this episode, Pepper Evans, but Henry never calls his son by the wrong name.
17th Jul 2012
The King of Queens (1998)
Strike One - S3-E5
Corrected entry: In the scene where Doug is ordering his fudge blast (and extras), his hands never leave the steering wheel. In fact, his right hand is on top of the steering wheel the entire time. However, after his order is placed, he automatically goes to start the car. It should still be running.
Correction: The whole point of the scene was his car died on him while in the drive-thru, so he had to start it back up. In fact, you can hear the car die/shut off while Doug is ordering.
22nd Nov 2012
The King of Queens (1998)
Corrected entry: At the end, when the scout comes to the door selling cookies, Doug decides to buy a box of the shortbread ones. If you look at the cookies he actually takes, it's a box of the chocolate covered peanut butter cookies. (I believe Girl Scouts call them Tag a longs).
Correction: While he may have wanted a box of Shortbreads, he's in such a hurry he just grabs the closest box without looking. Since each box costs the same, she wouldn't care what he took. I've bought the wrong cookies before because I grabbed the wrong box without caring.
19th Feb 2013
Frasier (1993)
It's Hard to Say Goodbye If You Won't Leave - S3-E10
Corrected entry: Niles is hovering over Daphne while she is grating carrots. He takes over for her so she can put the chicken in the oven. You can see that the carrot he is holding goes from having an angle (like it was already being grated) to a whole carrot, and back again.
Correction: The carrot never changes. After Niles takes the carrot with the 45° angle, he drops it after his first try with the grater. You see where it lands, and when he picks it up he simply picks it up from the other end, so the straight cut part is showing and then you see him turn the carrot in his hand so the 45° angle cut is showing.
12th Mar 2013
Reba (2001)
Corrected entry: When Van doesn't want Cheyenne to know he was just out driving Rhonda, he throws his keys to Reba. After, Van and Cheyenne need to borrow Reba's car to go pick up Elizabeth. Reba tosses Van the keys in her hand, which aren't her keys, they are Van's keys.
Correction: Reba has Van's keys in her left hand the whole time. Then she moves her mug from her right to left hand and with her right hand gives Van her keys. You can tell they're different because of the black strap and you can see Van's keys still in Reba's left hand under the mug.
20th Mar 2013
Star Trek (1966)
Is There in Truth No Beauty? - S3-E5
Corrected entry: In the sickbay near the end, Diana Muldaur got her line wrong, resulting in this contradictory dialogue: Kirk: "He'll die. But that's what you want, isn't it?" Miranda: "That's a lie!" Kirk: "Oh yes it is - you want him to die." Miranda's line was supposed to be, "That's not true," with Kirk's "Yes it is" contradicting her. As it stands, she claims it's a lie, and Kirk replies "Yes it is."
19th Nov 2014
The Cosby Show (1984)
Theo and the Older Woman - S2-E5
Corrected entry: This episode takes place before Halloween, and Theo is 15. This puts his birthday before October. In season 1, on Thanksgiving (episode 10 "Bonjour Sondra") Theo is 14. Later on in the show in the following year, the family celebrates Cliff's Birthday which is in October (Cliff mentions this in the episode "Fathers day") and Theo is still 14. How could he have been the same age when a full year went by?
Correction: Theo's birthday was noted to be October 21st (before Halloween). Cliff's Birthday is in October and would be before the 21st, so Theo would still be 14, although about to turn 15.
1st Aug 2009
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: The dipstick Leela pulls out of the Planet express ship stairs is significantly bigger than the stairs. (00:01:00)
Correction: There is no error, it's done for comedic effect. It's a play on Doctor Who's TARDIS, which is bigger on the inside.
6th Jan 2014
Criminal Minds (2005)
Compulsion - S1-E2
Corrected entry: At the end of the show, Gideon and Reid are playing chess, and Reid says "check in three." Gideon then puts him in checkmate with one move. We have seen the board from all angles, and it is not possible for check in three or checkmate in one.
Correction: Watch the scene again. After Reid said "check in three", they literally show you the next four moves. The third move, Reid puts Gideon in check and the 4th move Gideon checkmates Reid. (When the camera cuts back to Gideon, the 4th move is already done and he's picking up Reid's captured Bishop).
23rd Oct 2013
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Corrected entry: Mavis knows her parents met in Hawaii because she found her father's souvenir postcard. Mavis is 118, which means her parents met in the 1890's at the latest. There were no postcards like that for Hawaii in the 1890's.
Correction: There's no reason to think this. The US was first introduced to postcards in 1873 (although they were invented in 1840) and the first "souvenir" postcards were sold in 1893 (before Mavis was born). By 1898, over 200 companies were selling Hawaii postcards, so obviously there was a market for them and no reason to think local businesses couldn't create said postcard.
21st Jan 2004
Scrooged (1988)
Corrected entry: When Eliot first confronts Frank with a shotgun inside Frank's office, Eliot fires three shots from his shotgun without reloading. The double barrel shotgun he's using can only shoot twice before he has to reload. Interestingly enough, this is the only scene where that happens. The rest of the scenes of Eliot shooting adhere to the two shot and reload rule.
Correction: This is incorrect. After the 2nd shot you can hear the distinct sound of the shotgun being opened, loaded, and closed before the 3rd shot.
24th Jul 2012
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Corrected entry: When Mary's husband Bobby is getting out of the police car at the end of the movie, he exits by opening the door from the inside himself instead of having to be let out.
Correction: Police cars just use the child lock on the side of the door, controlled by the driver - nothing special. Since Bobby's neither a suspect nor a prisoner, the officer could've easily taken the child lock off for him, thus no need to be let out.
9th Aug 2013
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008)
Triumvirate of Terror! - S3-E8
Corrected entry: Wonder Woman hits a ball high into the air, and it is traveling out of the park. But one of the villains shoots super cooled air at the ball and freezes it, causing it to come to a stop, and fall straight down. Just freezing it would not have stopped it. Momentum would have continued frozen or not. Doesn't make sense that freezing the ball would cause it to stop in mid air and fall straight down, especially after a power hit from Wonder Woman. (00:01:45)
Correction: The ball she hits starts to go nearly straight up and not close to going out of the park when it's hit with the ice. Momentum was stopped by the added weight of the ice. Because the ball was going nearly straight up, it fell nearly straight down. There were no mistakes in the scene.
22nd Mar 2014
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Corrected entry: In the Swedish hardback version. The trio is visiting Hagrid just after the revelation about the triwizard tournaments revelation. They are discussing it and Hagrid says "I never thought I'd see the tournament again, in my life" implying he'd seen it earlier. Although, this tournament is the first one in over 100 years. Hagrid is supposedly 65 years old, since he was expelled in his 3rd year 50 years ago (in CoS) making him 63 in CoS and 65 in GoF.
Correction: Hagrid never implies anything, you inferred it. Given it was the first one in 100 years, he was surprised he lived to see a tournament. This would be akin to someone born after 1972 saying "I never thought I'd see man land on the moon again."
19th Nov 2003
Robocop 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: It seems very strange that RoboCop 2's remote won't turn him off, but it will deactivate his weapons. Why is it able to do one and not the other?
Correction: This is not a mistake, but a question. There's various possibilities. The remote seems set up to control many functions of RoboCop 2, so it could be a malfunction or glitch while the weapons control portion is working. Or Cain could have disabled having his mind being controlled, but not able to control the weapons; etc.
Correction: If you look closely the remote control has multiple buttons on it so most likely it has a shut down button as well.
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Correction: SPOILER ALERT: This wasn't a flashback, it was a dream. Since it is Bruce Willis' dream, he can mention "Stairway to Heaven" in the dream, because the song exists in his real life.
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