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Trivia: After filming wrapped on X-Men, Professor X's wheelchair was auctioned off. When this film started production, the crew realised it would be cheaper to rent the original back from the new owner rather than build a new one.

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Trivia: Hugh Jackman agreed to a cameo with two conditions - that money would be donated to his child's school, and that he be allowed to swear.

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Trivia: Joss Whedon did a rewrite for the script, but only two lines were kept, uncredited. One is "do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else", which he maintains was meant to be much more throwaway, but was instead botched by Halle Berry's dramatic delivery. The second, much better line is Wolverine's "you're a dick" directed at Cyclops to prove it's the real him.

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In The Beginning - S1-E1

Trivia: Aziraphale's bookshop has Terry Pratchett's signature fedora and scarf hanging on the hatstand, a tribute to the sadly deceased co-author of the novel. It's visible behind Crowley when he's bemoaning losing the antichrist.

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Continuity mistake: When Ethan is thrown from the helicopter, he lands with a straight black strap attached to his left wrist. When he comes to a few seconds later, the strap is now doubled up and he's gripping it, it's not attached to him. (02:03:30 - 02:04:30)

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Trivia: The man Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill fight in the bathroom is Liang Yang, a wushu champion. He was the stunt double for Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow, also starring Tom Cruise and written by Christopher McQuarrie. He also played FN-2199 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, who shouts "traitor!" at Finn.

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Trivia: Including practice and filming, Tom Cruise jumped out of a plane 106 times for the halo jump he performs in the film.

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Such Sweet Sorrow: Part 2 - S2-E14

Question: Jumping to the future to preserve the sphere data was meant to be so that Control couldn't get hold of it. But Control is neutralised before the jump, drones all dead in the water, it's utterly destroyed. So what's the threat? Why jump at all?

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Such Sweet Sorrow: Part 2 - S2-E14

Stupidity: The Admiral stays behind to manually pully the blast door lever, sealing off the torpedo from the rest of the ship but dooming herself in the process. Thing is, the lever is right next to the door, takes minimal effort to pull down, and the door moves pretty slowly - they could easily have wrapped a shirt or something around it and pulled it down from outside. Or even taken a gamble, yanked it and dived under the door. Instead she just locks herself in and waits.

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Such Sweet Sorrow: Part 2 - S2-E14

Character mistake: When Tyler arrives in the Klingon ship, Captain Pike says "calvary arrived just in time." The word is "cavalry." The subtitles show "cavalry."

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Character mistake: In many space-based action sequences, all the craft involved act like space isn't 3D. Ships fly at each other head on, surround other vessels in a circle, not a sphere, attack with a pincer movement from the left and right, rather than above/below, etc. Most of the time the action is all broadly on one plane. Makes things easier to understand from an audience perspective, makes zero sense tactically speaking.

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Hana Mao 'ole ka ua o Waianae - S9-E25

Character mistake: The bad guy escapes on a private jet, narrowly avoiding being run off the runway, and he breathes a sigh of relief, thinking he's got away with it. But anyone with half a brain would know full well that given the cops know the plane he's in and where he started from, it's no challenge at all to track him, and at an extreme scramble a fighter to escort him back / shoot him down.

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Hey, World! - S4-E16

Continuity mistake: After Gary says "it's part of the show" and turns to face the dragon, he lowers the microphone offscreen. Cut to the front, and it's up by his mouth again.

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Window of Opportunity - S6-E2

Other mistake: The module on the alien spacecraft Fitz repairs, most visible when he says "OK we're done, we're done" is just a standard PC motherboard, which also has no connections to anything else - it's just glued to the metal panel he's holding.

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The Iron Throne - S8-E6

Tyrion: No-one is very happy, which means it's a good compromise, I suppose.

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The Iron Throne - S8-E6

Continuity mistake: When Daenerys dies, in the close up her head is parallel to the ground, looking up at Jon. Cut to a wide shot and her head's hanging much further backwards, plus her eyes are suddenly closed.

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Red Dawn - S4-E21

Continuity mistake: During the fight between Supergirl and her clone, the clone blasts Supergirl with her purple lightning power, which causes a small explosion and also somehow turns the sky from bright dusk to nighttime.

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Factual error: New Asgard is in Tonsberg, Norway, but was filmed in Scotland. The truck Hulk and Rocket use to get there has a UK licence plate (SW61 5PN), whereas Norwegian plates use two letters followed by 4 or 5 numbers. Plus the pizza boxes in Thor's house have a phone number in UK format (01632 960776) not Norwegian. In fact, the 01632 area code is specifically designated for fictional use in the UK. Norwegian telephone numbers use fewer digits. (00:48:50)

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Veep - S7-E7

Trivia: In the very first episode, Mike wonders about a major story pushing their latest gaffe out of the news cycle: "What if Tom Hanks dies? I'm not wishing that. I'm saying anything could happen: Tom Hanks could die." In this episode, as part of the flash forward to Selina's funeral, Mike, now a news presenter, cuts away from coverage of the event to announce Tom Hanks' death, pushing Selina's story off the air.

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Episode #1.4 - S1-E4

Factual error: William plays a bit of music on the piano - the tune is called "After You've Gone", and it was written in 1918. This episode is set in 1913.

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