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Switcheroo - S1-E5

Ruggiero: Leonardo never would have married you. What idiot gall of you to claim his hand. Though I do see why all you crave is love. But you've never gotten it, and you'll never get it. Not because you're not pretty. Well, not just because you're not pretty. But because you're a pathetic, self-centered prude. Look at how everyone in the villa despises you. And I'm sure much was the same in Firenze. Every man that met you saw instantly what a slim-hipped, clenching little shrew you are and ran. So in answer to your... proposal, I would rather fuck a thornbush than fuck your dry, desperate body. I'd rather rot in this room until the plague takes us all than get one inch closer to you. My answer is no. You've got your answer. Now leave. I'm too sick of your drooping face to argue the point further.

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Continuity mistake: As the silver car comes to a stop after smashing into the black SUV, there are a few bullet holes in its left hand side. The driver's door has a few - there's a diagonal line of three. Everyone stops shooting as it stops, with no new holes in the door. But as the guy approaches to pull the door open, in a closer shot the whole side of the car is riddled - the driver's door is just a mass of holes. (00:32:35)

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Other mistake: The Pit Viper John gets given has a 21 round magazine. When he's drifting around the bad guys at the Arc de Triomphe shooting at them, he fires more than that, without reloading.

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Stupidity: A load of cars is in the tunnel with the overhead lights off, and none of them has thought to put their own lights on (as covered already). Then John gets out of the car, only for one car to suddenly flick its lights on and nearly run him over, having been driving at full speed in the total darkness, apparently.

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The Dark Compass - S1-E3

Stupidity: This highly prepared organisation knows Dracula is coming, but comes armed with guns they're not prepared to use, and allow him to grab a weapon and shoot one of them. Then they give him a tablet but assign the most basic of passwords to the Wi-Fi, rather than disabling it entirely, or even just giving him a Kindle, given the only point of it was access to books. Plot-serving idiocy.

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Death's Hand in Mine - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: When Billy says, "I'll try another one," in the side shot he selects a card and turns it to face Agatha, pinching it at the bottom. We cut to a front shot, and he's holding it by the sides with his fingers and thumb. (00:06:05)

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Plot hole: At the end of the tunnel, the helicopter has been attached to the train; Phelps knows it, the pilot knows it, and yet Phelps still climbs across to the helicopter like he's trying to escape, but there's nowhere to go. He's deliberately climbing into a potentially lethal situation he can't get out of for no reason except it makes it convenient to kill two bad guys with one explosion.

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Trivia: The Deadpool variant with a dragon on his chest is "Welshpool" - the dragon and colours are the Welsh flag, a nod to Wrexham AFC, the Welsh football team owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenheny.

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Trivia: Matthew McConaughey voices cowboy Deadpool.

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Trivia: Elektra's dismissive "it's fine" response to Daredevil's death is a nod to her and Ben Affleck's failed relationship.

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Continuity mistake: When the Gunslinger rescues Jake in the forest, he fires far more shots than we see his gun is capable of holding when he reloads it.

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Trivia: The timer on the bomb is a rotary kitchen oven timer. Amazon sells various types identical to it. I've got one myself. Not necessarily a mistake, because the bomb seems to be somewhat improvised, but still amused me.

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[On board a small boat.]
Knox: Lookie here, our own little octagon.
Dalton: What? Who taught you shapes?

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The Void - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: As Jizzlord says, "so really, this is a good thing", he's holding the posters upright, facing Jen. Cut to a shot from the side and he's holding them horizontally, facing upwards.

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You're Mine - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: After Eve kills Raymond, Villanelle tells her to take her shirt off. In a shot from behind, Villanelle puts her hand around Eve's back. Then it cuts to a shot beside them both, and both hands are in front of Eve.

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Stupidity: Robocop is just about to be unveiled to the press for the first time, and they decide right beforehand is the perfect time to upload a massive amount of data, including his own attempted murder. Then, they seem shocked when that causes problems. No reason to do that right before a very public, time-sensitive moment except for the sake of the plot.

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Audio problem: At the start, when at Ground Zero, a robot wakes up, and Joshua shuts it down. The woman he's with says, "What the hell," but her mouth says, "What the fuck," dubbed presumably for a lower rating.

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Trivia: The famous line "pop quiz, hotshot" doesn't actually have a definite writer. The original script was by Graham Yost, but Joss Whedon was brought in to rewrite it (unhappily uncredited per WGA rules) and wrote most of the dialogue. He said the line was already in the script, while Yost denies writing it and said it was Whedon's. Most likely it was written by another script doctor, Paul Attanasio, but he doesn't recall writing the line either.

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Trivia: The first bus explosion nearly ended in disaster - the real bus that Jack waves goodbye to turned off while out of shot, then the camera moved around to see the prop bus in its place (towed by a car) that was packed with explosives ready to blow up. But a woman ran onto the set, thinking she'd missed her bus, and hopped aboard, almost missed by the crew as they were at a safe distance. John Frazier, the effect supervisor, spotted her and fortunately stopped the foreman from triggering the blast.

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Trivia: Joss Whedon was brought in to work on the original script, and despite being responsible for about 90% of the film's dialogue, didn't get a writing credit due to WGA rules at the time. He changed Alan Ruck to be more sympathetic, and created the scene after the elevator rescue when the team is celebrating, but all the characters, story beats and action were from the original writer Graham Yost.

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