Best animated movie factual errors of all time

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Factual error: When Merlin and Arthur are squirrels Merlin says squirrels mate for life, which is not true. Squirrels are promiscuous.

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Factual error: At the beginning of the cartoon, Junior is reading a Bugs Bunny strip on his father's newspaper. Later on in the cartoon, Henry discovers that the newspaper he was reading was dated in the year 1928. This is ten years before the Bugs Bunny character was created.

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Factual error: The film gets basic physics wrong while trying to depict relativity. Buzz Lightyear leaves T'Kani Prime for a trip around its sun, travels with near-light speed, and returns four years later. This could only have happened if T'Kani Prime's sun were at least two lightyears away! It gets more ridiculous. Buzz's last trip takes 26 years, even though he has traveled at faster-than-light speed. Overall, T'Kani Prime is experiencing either a mysterious time slow-down or a rapid orbit expansion.

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Factual error: The female Frankenstein tries to set Dracula up with during the wedding reception is referred to as his "right arm's cousin" but the big arm that looks like Frankenstein is her right arm. (00:08:10)

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Suggested correction: Frankenstein wasn't saying she had the other half of his right arm (i.e. his left arm), just that the 2 arms came from 2 people who were cousins.

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Factual error: Towards the end of the movie when Superman and Henshaw are fighting on the Watch Tower in space, Lois hits the sun shades to lower them so that direct sunlight can hit Superman and power him up. This is out in space with no atmosphere to filter the sunlight. The reason the blockers were there was for this reason, to keep the harmful unfiltered sun light from hitting people on the ship through the windows. However, she is able to stand there in the direct light after it's done and kiss and hold Superman without being hurt or burned by the intense direct unfiltered sunlight or its radiation.

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Factual error: During the escape from the farmers market a red London bus is in the background. Those busses aren't used in Gloucester.

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Factual error: Apparently, Ratigan had to cross the River Thames to reach Big Ben from Buckingham Palace as evidenced by him tossing Fidget into the river before taking reign of the blimp. However, the two landmarks are on the same side of the river.

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Suggested correction: Ratigan changed direction multiple times during the chase because he was trying to get away from Basil. He may have flown away from that side of the river, but then after changing direction he flew across to the side he came from again.

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Factual error: Leo says he smells potato, but he is in a space suit and in space, making it impossible for him to smell it. (00:33:00)

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Factual error: When the magician has brought the crocodile home at the beginning of the movie and is trying to get him to sing, the crocodile is shivering because he's cold. The magician wraps him with a scarf and the crocodile warms up and is willing to sing. However, this would not work, as crocodiles are cold-blooded and unable to generate body heat. The crocodile would need a heat lamp or some other source to become warm again.

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Factual error: When the camera pans to the theatre right after the opening credits, the sign uses the British spelling of "theatre" instead of the American "theater."

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Factual error: When the Fat Controller arrives at Tidmouth Sheds, Tidmouth Sheds appears to be missing from the reflection.

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Factual error: When Tom is singing "If You're Ever Down In Texas" to the cowgirl, Jerry winds the crank on the Victrola counter clockwise.

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