Trivia: The antagonist was potentially going to be Jubal Early, the bounty hunter who sneaked onto the ship in the Firefly episode "Objects in Space" and was eventually left floating in the void. Actor Richard Brooks wasn't available to reprise the role, so The Operative was created instead, who shares some similarities with Early.
Jon Sandys
29th Sep 2023
Serenity (2005)
28th Sep 2023
Firefly (2002)
28th Sep 2023
Firefly (2002)
28th Sep 2023
Firefly (2002)
War Stories - S1-E9
Mal: I know it's a difficult mission, but you and I...have to get it on.
Zoe: I understand. We have no choice. Take me sir, take me hard.
Jayne: Now something about that is just downright unsettling.
[Mal and Zoe awkwardly lean in towards a kiss].
Wash: [dragging Zoe away] We'll be in our bunk.
27th Sep 2023
Firefly (2002)
Continuity mistake: As Mal approaches the desk, saying "we got a couple of DOAs" he puts his left hand directly on the corner. Cut to a shot from behind and his hand's moved about a foot.
21st Sep 2023
Ally McBeal (1997)
Question: There's a quote from Richard Fish I've never been able to find exactly online, but I'm sure I'm remembering the gist, I think talking to someone about getting divorced or cheated on: "10 years from now, are you still going to be as mad as you are now? Of course not. So jump to that point, now, and you're over it. Fishism." Can anyone identify the episode/quote?
21st Sep 2023
Upload (2020)
Robin Hood - S2-E3
Stupidity: Nora fled to the Ludds at the end of season one because someone was trying to kill her because she was getting close to what went on. Here they suggest she goes back to Horizen to work undercover, and she just...goes. Nobody seems worried that she'll be exposed and vulnerable.
21st Sep 2023
Upload (2020)
Dinner Party - S2-E2
Stupidity: Nathan sees who he thinks is Nora at the Dinner Party - despite her boss using her avatar once before, so he knows not to assume it's her, especially given she's been missing for weeks. He's completely thrown by her unusual behaviour, and it doesn't even occur to him it might be someone else.
20th Sep 2023
Upload (2020)
Stupidity: Nora's dad believes in heaven and doesn't want to upload himself, because he wants to be reunited with his wife. When visiting Lakeview, he tells Nathan that Nathan's soul went to "real heaven," so he's just talking to a simulation. Which means there's no reason he can't upload himself. His soul will go to real heaven like he wants to, and he can leave a simulation behind for his daughter to be with. Everyone would be happy, but nobody makes that argument.
17th Sep 2023
Justified: City Primeval (2023)
Trivia: Paul Calderon appears briefly as Raymond Cruz, a character he also played in another Elmore Leonard adaptation in 1998, Out of Sight, arguably placing Justified in the same universe as that film and Jackie Brown, given Michael Keaton played the same part in both films.
13th Sep 2023
Coronation Street (1960)
Other mistake: September 12, 1973 - as Pat Phoenix walks through a door, the camera smacks into the back of her head with an audible thump. Once she enters the room, she glances angrily back at the crew, and a boom mic drops into shot to boot.
8th Sep 2023
The Nice Guys (2016)
Trivia: The corpse of Sid Shattuck, which Ryan Gosling discovers after his drunken roll down the hill, is played by an uncredited Robert Downey Jr., who'd previously starred in Shane Black's "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", a film which played a large part in revitalising his career after drug and legal issues.
22nd Aug 2023
What We Do in the Shadows (2019)
Pride Parade - S5-E3
Factual error: Nandor manages to fly up to space, then loses control and falls back to earth in a fireball as he reenters the atmosphere. But objects reentering the atmosphere only get hot because they're generally travelling at immense speeds, 7-12 kilometers per second. Nandor just floated straight up, then falls straight back down. When Felix Baumgartner parachuted from the edge of space his maximum speed was about 1,300 km/h, and he didn't catch fire.
21st Aug 2023
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Stupidity: The "keep everyone in the stadium" plan is foiled when gold is scattered around the outside and everyone leaves. The bad guys didn't consider locking the doors? Not least because once the terrifying sky tendrils descend and boiling red clouds start filling the arena, surely people would have started bolting for the wide open exits.
16th Aug 2023
Psych: The Movie (2017)
Trivia: Shawn says at one point "Jules would never do a Hallmark movie." Maggie Lawson starred in a Hallmark movie called "My Favourite Wedding" the same year this was released.
16th Aug 2023
Psych (2006)
7th Aug 2023
Psych (2006)
6th Aug 2023
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
The Gang Missess the Boat - S10-E6
Trivia: Charlie Day was initially uncomfortable kissing Kaitlin Olsen, having been friends for a long time and her being married to Rob McElhenney, but was told not to "wimp out." Glenn Howerton wanted to go even further: "a really extended, 5 minute long, interminably long lovemaking scene between the two of them, that wouldn't be funny at all...until it just kept going and going and then it becomes funny again...hopefully." He was talked out of the idea. Day eventually came around: "we don't get to kiss other people very often, let's just enjoy it".
26th Jul 2023
Psych (2006)
Ferry Tale - S5-E7
Plot hole: The cops storm the ferry and recapture the 4 prisoners, only to quickly discover that two convicts swapped places with passengers and escaped on a medical boat. This boat powers off and we're later told "by the time we caught up with the boat they'd made their escape", but there's just no way that's possible. They had barely a minute's head start, in wide open water, with multiple high speed police boats in range/sight of them the whole time.
12th Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning (2023)
Other mistake: Ethan (in disguise) throws some gas grenades in the office where the security heads are meeting - there's a massive explosion. Bright green gas fills the room... And everyone working on the typewriters in the room below completely ignores this, despite having a clear view into the glass window/wall of the office above. Even after a couple of minutes of Ethan and Kittridge talking, the phone rings with someone checking on them, rather than security busting in the door immediately.
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Suggested correction: The three explosions aren't especially loud. The sound would likely easily be deadened by the walls and windows. The resulting powder (not gas) that's released is only present for a few seconds before dissipating. Since everyone in the typing pool is so focused on their work, it's quite possible it went unnoticed.
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