Elliot Stabler: It's called the bystander effect. No one does anything because they think someone else will.
Cubs Fan
1st Jan 2018
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
27th Dec 2017
Star Wars (1977)
27th Dec 2017
Shadows of the Empire
27th Dec 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
20th Dec 2017
Supergirl (2015)
Other mistake: During the boardroom meeting with Lena, James, and Morgan Edge, Katie McGrath's natural Irish accent briefly, but noticeably, slips out.
20th Dec 2017
Supergirl (2015)
The Faithful - S3-E4
Trivia: James and Winn find a meeting of Coville and his followers to be "a little cult-y." Melissa Benoist plays Rachel Koresh, the wife of cult leader David Koresh, in the miniseries Waco, a dramatization of the Waco siege - the 1993 standoff between the ATF and FBI and Koresh's Branch Davidians that lasted 51 days and resulted in 86 deaths.
18th Dec 2017
Castle (2009)
16th Dec 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Trivia: First Star Wars film in which none of the main characters say "I've got a bad feeling about this." Although Rian Johnson has confirmed that the line is beeped by BB-8 early in the movie, after which Poe Dameron tells him not to be so worried about their current mission.
12th Dec 2017
Supergirl (2015)
12th Dec 2017
Legends of Tomorrow (2016)
Raiders of the Lost Art - S2-E9
Trivia: The Spear of Destiny is a plot point in the film Constantine; in a crossover with the 2014 Matt Ryan Constantine TV series, the John Constantine character appeared on Arrow - Legends' parent series - in the season four episode "Haunted."
9th Dec 2017
Criminal Minds (2005)
Trivia: Daniel Henney is the first actor from one of the Criminal Minds spin-offs to join the main cast of the parent series.
9th Dec 2017
Criminal Minds (2005)
Trivia: Alana De La Garza guest stars as Clara Seger in a crossover with Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. She and Adam Rodriguez previously played siblings on CSI: Miami.
8th Dec 2017
Designated Survivor (2016)
Stupidity: While discussing his arrest with Emily, Seth mentions that he didn't tell the arresting officer that he works for Kirkman. As the White House's liaison to the media, Seth has a high degree of visibility; it would extremely difficult, if not downright impossible, to keep his place of employment concealed from the police for very long in the time between his booking and arraignment and when Kendra bails him out the following day.
30th Nov 2017
The Flash (2014)
Tricksters - S1-E17
Trivia: When Jesse learns a new Trickster is copycatting him, he tells Barry and Joe that when he terrorized Central City, days without casualties were as rare as the Chicago Cubs winning the pennant. A few months after the episode aired, the Cubs made the playoffs, but lost the pennant in a four-game sweep; they won the pennant the following year and went on to win the World Series for the first time since 1908.
20th Nov 2017
Supergirl (2015)
20th Nov 2017
Supergirl (2015)
19th Nov 2017
Young Sheldon (2017)
Trivia: Zoe Perry, who plays Sheldon's mother Mary, is the daughter of Laurie Metcalf, who plays Mary on The Big Bang Theory.
18th Nov 2017
Supergirl (2015)
Plot hole: After Kara and Alex are run off the road, Kara is convinced by "Noel Neill", revealed later to be J'onn, to stop using her powers. From context, J'onn had to have been summoned by Eliza, but in 2007, she would still think he's just Hank Henshaw; she doesn't learn he's not, or even that he's a shapeshifter, until 2016, as seen in season 1's "Myriad", well after Kara and Alex have grown up.
18th Nov 2017
Supergirl (2015)
2nd Nov 2017
The Great Escape (1963)
Character mistake: When Werner asks Hendley why, as an American, he fights alongside Britain, he mentions that the British burned down the U.S. capital in 1812. While it happened during the War of 1812, the burning of Washington actually occurred in 1814. (00:11:10)
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Suggested correction: The question was intended to demonstrate how far out-of-touch Werner was with United States history.
Charles Austin Miller
You misunderstand. Werner's question in and of itself is not the mistake; it's merely a point of contextual reference. The mistake is him giving the incorrect date of a historical event he claims to have read about; it's hard to believe that every book that he might have read on the topic are all wrong, so he must be remembering, and thus repeating it, incorrectly.
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