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9th May 2005

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Corrected entry: When Fogg is debating that he can make it around the world in 80 days, He chooses 12:00 on the 80th day to return. When he decided this, the clock tower struck 12 o'clock, yet the bell in the clock tower only rings once, and then is not heard again.

Correction: Well no, he hears the bell then decides that he will return at 12:00. The clock was not striking 12 O'clock.

14th Apr 2005

Friends (1994)

The One With Rachel's Crush - S4-E13

Corrected entry: When Monica is talking to Rachel in the hall, when carrying in the vacuum cleaner, she is right in front of apartment 19. When Rachel opens the door to apartment 20 Monica doesn't appear to be there.

Correction: From the angle we have, it's not possible to tell if Monica is there or not.

9th Jul 2004

Friends (1994)

The One With The Dirty Girl - S4-E6

Corrected entry: When Joey slides the gift for Kathy across the bar, you can see in the bathroom that a towel is hung over the shower curtain rod, however in the shot when Chandler is saying goodnight to Kathy, the towel is gone. No-one went into the bathroom.

Correction: The camera angle is different when Chandler is saying goodnight so we have a different view. If you watch carefully, you can see the towel is still there, we can just see the edge of it.

21st Jun 2004

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Corrected entry: Lord Kelvin mentions evolution as if it is some abstract concept, but evolution was already quite a widespread theory at the time.

Correction: Indeed and since its introduction, people on both sides of the debate have held passionate opinions on it and been dimissive of the opposing view. His attitude to evolution is quite in keeping with the arrogance he displays throughout the film.

30th Dec 2004

Friends (1994)

The One With Chandler In A Box - S4-E8

Corrected entry: During the scene when Phoebe tells Ross and Chandler she has to call her mom to ask her a left handed cooking question, the television behind Phoebe goes on and off between shots.

Correction: I've checked and it most definitely doesn't. It's on all the time.

15th Jan 2004

Friends (1994)

The One With The Dirty Girl - S4-E6

Corrected entry: In the very first episode, Chandler says that between him and Joey they haven't had a relationship that lasted longer than a Mento. In this episode however, we find out that Joey went out with Angela Delveccio for three years.

Correction: That was in the first episode. Joey has a playboy image so Chandler probably didn't even know or ask. It's highly unlikely that Joey was with only one girl for those three years, so Chandler's point would still be valid.

15th Dec 2002

Friends (1994)

The One Where Rachel Finds Out - S1-E24

Corrected entry: In the final episode of the first season, Rachel recalls how Ross considered asking her on a date on her first night in the city. However, the incident actually occurs (in the pilot episode) on her SECOND night in New York.

Correction: Yes, Rachel made a mistake but the human memory is quite fallible and to remember the wrong day several months later isn't really a mistake in the show, it's a normal human failing.

26th Oct 2004

Friends (1994)

The One Where Chandler Crosses The Line - S4-E7

Corrected entry: After Cathy gets off the phone with Joey, she puts the phone on the counter. A few shots later, when she starts to leave, the phone is on the receiver. After Cathy and Chandler kiss, the phone is back on the counter.

ACertainShadeofGreen

Correction: Sorry, I've watched this scene very carefully and the phone handset is standing upright on the counter during the whole time.

23rd Mar 2005

Friends (1994)

The One Where Chandler Crosses The Line - S4-E7

Corrected entry: When Ross is playing his keyboard for the gang, he presses a note twice and gets a single note. The next time he presses the keyboard the accompaniment starts automatically. Ross would have had to press a settings button to get the accompaniment to start automatically on a keyboard note press. However, we don't see Ross press any settings buttons.

Correction: The shot switches to the gang at least twice after the single notes and before the accompaniment kicks in. Ross would have had enough time to press a button during these moments.

But if he was always going to play them the same song, why wouldn't the arrangement start straight away instead of just the time when Chandler says 'oh my god play'. He then completely switches keys which also makes no sense.

17th Sep 2004

Friends (1994)

The One With The Apothecary Table - S6-E11

Corrected entry: The screen that Rachel bought at Pottery Barn moves when Ross, Rachel and Phoebe are talking. Sometimes the clock is covered and at others it is not.

Correction: The screen doesn't move, the camera angle changes from shot to shot which is why the clock is sometimes fully visible and sometimes only partially visible.

27th Apr 2005

Friends (1994)

The One With Chandler In A Box - S4-E8

Corrected entry: At the end, when everyone is on the balcony watching Chandler and Kathy, Monica sees a guy robbing a purse, and Joey goes to call the police. When he comes back, he has the phone, but he says nothing, even though he came back way too quickly to have made the call.

Correction: Calls to most emergency services will start with a recorded message or if you are very unlucky, the busy signal. We see Joey for a very short time and it's very plausible that he's waiting to be connected.

23rd Jun 2003

Mad Max (1979)

Corrected entry: All the while when Max is lying on the road reaching for his side-by-side, he had a perfectly good revolver holstered under his arm. When loosing the 12 gauge he should have just drawn his side arm, which he never once used in the entire movie.

Correction: Given how streetwise Max is, he must know he has a revolver and he must have a good reason for not using it. Perhaps he has no ammunition or it simply may not work and be there for show. After all, many things are in short supply.

1st Apr 2005

Blackadder (1986)

Plan E: General Hospital - S4-E5

Corrected entry: During George's first day in the hospital, he mentions in his letter that Blackadder 'lay down and stuck his foot over the side of the trench'. The trench walls are at least 8 feet tall, so there's no way Blackadder could have done this.

Correction: The exact wording is that he lay on his back and stuck his foot over the edge. That doesn't exclude the possibility that he was lying on top of something.

10th Oct 2004

Blackadder (1986)

Season 4 generally

Corrected entry: In the opening sequence, watch the members of the band who aren't in the main cast - there are at least two shots where one or more of the band are obviously smiling/laughing at what the main cast members are doing at the time (most noticeably is when Blackadder yells the "Eyes Right" command - there's a guy a short distance behind Blackadder who grins during the salute.

Correction: I've watched the opening a few times now and can see nobody who is obviously smiling or laughing and especially not during the moment mentioned.

Its when George yells eyes right. One bloke has a huge grin on his face and is slow to react.

3rd Jun 2004

Blackadder (1986)

Plan E: General Hospital - S4-E5

Corrected entry: Blackadder makes the joke, "I imagine he went to one of the great Universities, Oxford, Cambridge, Hull." This is probably around 1916, but Hull University didn't exist until 1927. We cannot put it down to the joke either, as he explains later the nurse failed to point out its quality, not its existence.

Correction: The original question by Blackadder was not a joke, it was a deliberate mistake to trick Nurse Mary. As for the explanation later when he reveals her to be the spy, his exact words are that only two of them are great universities. The mistake is only valid if he had emphasised the word universities which he does not. His words can easily be interpreted as saying that only two of them are universities which was, at the time, true.

8th Jan 2005

Blackadder (1986)

Plan E: General Hospital - S4-E5

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the scene, Nurse Mary is reading a newspaper. She puts it on the sofa, but few shots later, the newspaper is gone. (00:21:50)

Correction: The end and back of the sofa are open and if you watch carefully when she puts it down, the newspaper slides off the sofa and falls on the floor. We don't see the area where it must have fallen so there's no mistake.

7th Jan 2005

Zulu (1964)

Corrected entry: Hook calls a character "you long range sniper you." This specific term was coined in WWII as a derogatory term for artillery well behind the lines.

Correction: The word sniper dates from 1824 and the verb from 1782 both derived from the bird of the same name which was first recorded in about 1325. Snipe was even used as an abusive term in Shakespeare's Othello. Further, the verb took on a figurative sense by the late 19th century: to verbally rebuke or criticize (to "shoot" at with words).

27th Aug 2001

Copland (1997)

Corrected entry: Midway through the film a character speaks to Stallone from the back of his squad car and then gets up and leaves. I thought you couldn't open the back door of a police car from the inside.

Correction: The guy in the back is also a cop and would know that so just didn't close the door when he got in.

25th Mar 2003

Copland (1997)

Corrected entry: In the flashback scene where the young Freddy is in the submerged car, he uses the side of his head to smash the window from inside, but the glass breaks just before he hits it for the last time.

Correction: In the DVD version we don't see the glass break and I see nothing else unusual about this scene.

20th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Tree House of Horror II: A Simpsons Halloween - S3-E7

Corrected entry: At Moe's tavern, the beer in everyone's glasses is very odd. In Barney's glass the liquid is shaped like a hand, and the other guy's glass is shaped like a half-oval, with foam coming out of it. (00:11:35)

Correction: Odd is permissible in the Tree House episodes. Some of the normal rules don't apply.

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