Trivia: Robin Williams improvised so much of his dialogue that the show's writers finally stopped writing his lines and just left blank space in the scripts with cues and prompts for him.
Cubs Fan
15th Sep 2014
Mork & Mindy (1978)
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Suggested correction: I'm researching Mork and Mindy for a feature. Contemporary interviews say Robin Williams was given leeway to improvise but this was only about 5% of an episode. These were probably done in rehearsals and incorporated into the final scripts. It would be impossible to film each episode if Williams wholly improvised as the cameras wouldn't know if he was going to hit his marks (i.e. where any actor needs to be so is in frame) and for other cast to react to. So partly true but not the whole story.
15th Sep 2014
Family Guy (1999)
Factual error: When Lois, Meg, and Chris go to the stage show on the West End, "theater" is spelled with the Americanism "-er" instead of the UK spelling "-re."
15th Sep 2014
Aladdin (1992)
Trivia: Because Robin Williams ad-libbed or improvised so many of his lines, the film was ruled ineligible for the Adapted Screenplay category at the Academy Awards.
15th Sep 2014
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Trivia: In addition to playing Lt. Worf, Michael Dorn appears very briefly, without makeup, as a tourist on Risa.
15th Sep 2014
Cheers (1982)
9th Sep 2014
The Simpsons (1989)
Day of the Jackanapes - S12-E13
Trivia: The episode title is a reference to The Day of the Jackal, but the plot more closely resembles The Manchurian Candidate.
7th Sep 2014
The Simpsons (1989)
I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - S19-E4
Factual error: During Dwight's attempted bank robbery, he gets hit with a couple of dye packs, then appears a few shots later totally clean. The dye packs banks use are notoriously difficult to wash off once they're triggered; even if Dwight did manage to clean himself up, there would still be remnants of dye on him.
23rd Aug 2014
Cheers (1982)
23rd Jul 2014
Castle (2009)
Trivia: As a tie-in to the series, shortly after it premiered, ABC began publishing Castle's Nikki Heat books, ghostwritten by a real author and credited to Castle. In 'Heat Rises', a murder victim is mentioned as having owned a copy of the movie 'Air Force One', which was written by "Castle" creator Andrew Marlowe.
19th Jul 2014
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969)
19th Jul 2014
Batman Begins (2005)
Bruce Wayne: What's that?
Lucius Fox: The Tumbler? Oh, you wouldn't be interested in that.
18th Jul 2014
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
18th Jul 2014
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Vegas Renormalization - S2-E21
Sheldon: While my compatriots are in Las Vegas, I will be enjoying a blissful evening in my personal Fortress of Solitude.
Penny: That's Superman's big ice thingy, right?
Sheldon: You know, I'm in such a good mood, I'm actually finding your tenuous grasp of the English language folksy and charming today.
18th Jul 2014
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Agent Afloat - S6-E2
Ziva David: This is where you have been for the last month?
Tony DiNozzo: Yeah. It's just like the squad room, only I'm the squad and there's no room.
18th Jul 2014
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
[Robin interrupts Prince John's feast and slams a dead pig onto the table.]
Sheriff of Rottingham: That's a wild boar!
Robin Hood: No, no. That's a wild pig.
[Robin points at Prince John.]
Robin Hood: *That's* a wild bore.
18th Jul 2014
The Simpsons (1989)
Homer vs. the 18th Amendment - S8-E18
Rex Banner: You're out there, Beer Baron, and I'll find you.
Homer Simpson: [faintly from the horizon.] No, you won't!
Rex Banner: Yes, I will.
Homer Simpson: Won't!
18th Jul 2014
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
16th Jul 2014
Frasier (1993)
14th Jul 2014
24 (2001)
Day 8: 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. - S8-E21
Character mistake: When Chloe is talking to Arlo about the call Jack made to Meredith Reed, Chloe says that the call was made to Meredith's cell phone. But at Meredith's office, a coworker tells her the call is waiting (implying Jack called the office instead of Meredith directly), and once in her private office, she picks up the receiver of her land line. With all the phone tracing technology CTU has at its disposal, Chloe should be able to distinguish between the two.
26th Jun 2014
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
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