Corrected entry: When Ryan signs the documents making him a ward of the government and eligible for a group home, he signs the papers as Benjamin McKenzie, not Ryan Atwood.
Corrected entry: In the episode "Hubris", Lily finds a quote in a letter a suspect wrote to the victim, "for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them", which she says sounds a little like Shakespeare. She and a few other cops are later seen reading through several Shakespeare plays in an attempt to find it, but this is madness when you consider a) the sheer mass of his work and b) that she isn't even sure it's a quote from him. Much faster would have been to Google the phrase, which brings up several hundred pages identifying it as a line from Hamlet. Any experienced detective would think of this first.
Correction: True, it would have been easier, but she may not have thought of it. Besides, her stupidity is not a mistake.
Corrected entry: A lot of the sketches in the pilot episode were repeated or re-filmed throughout Series 1.
Correction: Things that can be seen simply by watching the show are not valid trivia.
Corrected entry: When Lilo is watching a tape of Stitch and Angel, she zooms in to see the tag that Angel is wearing. The tag has the phone number "5550198293434533655882" but when Lilo is saying the number, she skips one of the fives.
Correction: Character mistake, not episode mistake.
Corrected entry: The episode deals with the murder of a Navy admiral and the cab driver transporting him through Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. Late in the episode, the investigators try to get a lead on another cab driver by tapping into the records from taxi meters. The problem is, DC cabs don't yet have meters. Congress banned them in 1933, but legislation passed this year now gives the DC government authority to install meters. And in fact, just days before this episode aired in Nov 2007, DC's mayor announced plans to switch from the zone system to meters by April 2008.
Correction: Could have been a Maryland or Virginia cab if the ride originated out of DC.
Every Night Is Another Story - S1-E6
Corrected entry: When Peyton, Haley, and Brooke are in the car after leaving the school (where the away game was), Brooke throws her pom-poms out the window. She is shown in the car throwing one. Then you see her throw her other one out (this view is from outside of the car). Then the camera shows Brooke back in the car. She then throws another pom-pom out the window.
Correction: Brooke does throw both of her pom-poms out of the window, but the third one she throws is actually one of Peyton's.
Corrected entry: After Kitten has slammed a pie into Starfire's face, the latter fries it off her face with starbolts shooting from her eyes. Problem is that Starfire gets the ability to fire eye-bolts in the episode "Transformation", which comes right after this one.
Correction: She has always been able to shoot star bolts from her eyes - however she just gets better at in in Transformation.
Corrected entry: Around the middle of the episode, Paige's father tells Tru that all Paige really remembers about her molestation is "the moon and stars," which doesn't make sense to anybody. Towards the end of the episode, Tru looks across the street and sees that Paige's neighbor has a large stained-glass window of the moon and stars, and immediately realizes that the neighbor is the one who molested Paige. Paige is already there, because her near-death experience opened up the memory for her. But why didn't anybody figure this out before? The moon and stars window has been in plain sight to Paige and her father for twenty years, and evidently Paige has been ranting about "the moon and stars" for some time now.
Correction: She also believes her father is the one who molested her. And since her father is convinced it is all in her mind, he is not going to look for clues. Even so, he can just assume she saw the neighbors door and implanted it into her "fantasy."
The One Where Michael Leaves (2) - S2-E1
Corrected entry: When Tobias is talking to Michael about joining the Blue Man Group, he walks over to a bowl of fruit and rummages through it. The shot changes and he's rummaging through a bowl of nuts instead. (No time has passed. He's still speaking the same line). (00:16:40)
Correction: There is no continuity error. The bowl of fruit only ever appears on the kitchen island. The bowl of nuts is on the breakfast bar.
Corrected entry: The picture that George takes of Betty comes out looking like the Betty that George and the viewers always see, but it should have come out looking like Un-Betty, who would be completely different.
Correction: Betty appearing as herself was deliberate. George took the photo just as Betty was preparing to jump into the vortex. Instead of appearing as Un-Betty, she appeared as herself to signify that she had undergone a metaphysical change.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Wayne Brady kills the policeman and gets back in the car you can see the police car through the back window to the right. When it shows a wide shot of the car pulling away the police car is now to the left of Brady's car.
Correction: The cop car never moves in the scene, it is the camera angles that change. In the first shot, the camera is focused straight on Wayne Brady, whereas the second shot, the camera angle is now to the far left making it look like the cop car changed position, but it is in the same spot.
Corrected entry: When Charlie and Jake walk into the kitchen for the first time after going shopping, there is a dent in the fridge, when Alan comes in a few seconds later, the dent is gone.
Correction: The small dent doesn't vanish. It really is just the camera's angle, and how the lighting hits the fridge's stainless steel surface which affects the visibility of the small dent. We can still see the dent when Alan tries to open the glued cabinets.
Corrected entry: Sonic reverts back to normal form before falling through the atmosphere. So why didn't he burn up in re-entry?
Corrected entry: Throughout the show the humans refer to the Cylons as a "race". They should be referring to them as a species. Among the humans there are different races present and it would be more correct to refer the Cylons as different species in that they are as different from humans generally as humans are from rats, for example.
Correction: This is really expecting far too much from characters who have no scientific training. I know if I, an average Joe, met other intelligent lifeforms, I'd use both "race" and "species" to describe them.
Corrected entry: (Episode 4.13 - Reefer) Throughout this episode, due to certain threats by Escobar and his drug lords, McNamara/Troy has been ordered to have around the clock FBI security detail, including "dozens of hidden surveillance cameras" inside the premesis. However, later in the episode, Ms. James and Michelle (who both would later turn out to be working for Escobar) poison, kill, then dismember the homeless guy named 'Reefer' to use his organs for Escobar's organ harvesting ring. Various FBI agents stop James and Michelle outside as they try to leave the premesis carrying big duffel bags of the dismembered patient and don't suspect anything. But wouldn't have all those "internal surveillance cameras" (that James and Michelle didn't know about) inside the office have easily exposed the murder and dismemberment of Reefer?
Correction: They didn't have surveillance cameras, that's why they have the security guards. They're only there until the surveillance cameras are installed.
Corrected entry: It's understandable, but when security accesses a camera they always seem to tune in right before a crime or right at the time when plot-moving information is obtained.
Correction: Actually, most of the time they use the monitors from the cameras, they are going over taped footage.
Corrected entry: During the attack on the Banking Clan HQ, one of the Clone Army SPHA-Ts fires a shot in a ballistic arc. Beam Cannons do not - and cannot - fire in a ballistic arc; this happens only when a solid projectile or shell is dragged down by gravity as it flies
Correction: The projectile arcs because it has been modified. The weaponry we see in the movie is an SPHA-M. It modifies the projectile before it leaves the barrel. This is somthing you would need to look into.
Corrected entry: In the episode "CSI;Reno," when they are doing the fake PSA, one of the officers says, "Idowa is only 14." But you can see the card and it says that Idowa is 18.
Correction: Given how ridiculous these PSA's are supposed to be, it is very possible that the mismatch is intentional and done to make them look even more incompetent.
Corrected entry: Jake works for the NSA, and has operated within the U.S. (in mostly non signals-intelligence operations) in all but two episodes of the series shown in the UK thus far. The NSA is a signals intelligence agency that does not operate within the borders of the United States. They *could*, with a federal warrant, but why would they? It's not their job, so it's highly unlikely they would apply for such a warrant, and highly unlikely that one would be granted. There have been no indications that his operations are supposed to be illegal 'Black Ops'. Just about every mission Jake undertakes should be carried out by another agency; most of his domestic operations fall under the remit of the FBI, and most of the foreign ones would be the responsibility of the CIA. The NSA was probably chosen for the series due to its reputation as a mysterious organisation that uses esoteric technology, but it would have made more sense to create a fictitious organisation.
Correction: SIGINT is only a part of the NSA/CSS organization, the other parts of the organization have other functions internal to the US - not that what Jake does is not way beyond the usual parameters of the NSA, but it does fit that they "own" him because he is basically information technology. If a baker owns a hammer, you're not going to use it to make bread.
Corrected entry: There are numerous contradictions in this mini-series with that of the "actual" story of the Trojan War.
Correction: The mini-series are only loosely based on the 'actual' story of the Trojan War, just like the movie Troy is.
Correction: If you pause it just after Ryan signs, you can tell it says Ryan Atwood by the strokes at the start of each word.