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)
Cubs Fan
2nd Nov 2017
The Great Escape (1963)
27th Oct 2017
Matlock (1986)
The Singer - S7-E5
Character mistake: Near the end, Matlock says that he can prove who killed KC. The burden of proof lies with the prosecution; as a defense attorney, Matlock doesn't have to prove anything.
15th Oct 2017
Iron Man (2008)
Tony Stark: You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction. Now that I'm trying to protect the people I've put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?
Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: You're going to kill yourself, Tony. I'm not going to be a part of it.
Tony Stark: I shouldn't be alive, unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right.
15th Oct 2017
Iron Man (2008)
Tony Stark: Pepper, I've been called many things. Nostalgic is not one of them.
11th Oct 2017
The Fighter (2010)
11th Oct 2017
Glee (2009)
Stupidity: For their set list at regionals, Schue chooses a medley of Journey hits. Since his kids are considered the competition's underdogs, and it was pointed out to him in the previous episode that Vocal Adrenaline's weakness is funk music, he should have used that info to New Directions' advantage.
11th Oct 2017
Batman (1989)
Trivia: Before the character was excised from the film, Kiefer Sutherland was offered the role of Dick Grayson/Robin.
9th Oct 2017
CBGB (2013)
Audio problem: When the Police play "Roxanne" for Hilly, the actors are just lip-syncing to the studio version; though his laugh has been edited out, the atonal piano chord at the beginning of the song, a now-famous gaffe from when Sting accidentally sat on a keyboard during recording, still remains.
30th Sep 2017
La La Land (2016)
Trivia: At the Oscar ceremony in 2017, the film was accidentally named Best Picture, instead of true winner Moonlight, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were accidentally handed the wrong envelope. Such a gaffe had never occurred in the Oscars' history before.
22nd Sep 2017
Tommy Boy (1995)
22nd Sep 2017
Tommy Boy (1995)
22nd Sep 2017
Tommy Boy (1995)
Tommy: But the Callahan factory has been in my family for seventy years. You can't just shut it down.
Ray Zalinsky: Son, you got to look at it from my point of view. Callahan's a premium name. That's what I'm buying. I can make the parts in one of my factories, put them in a Callahan box, and sell them in my stores at a premium price. Why keep your factory going when all I want's the god damn box?
22nd Sep 2017
The Orville (2017)
Old Wounds - S1-E1
Admiral Halsey: We would have offered you a command earlier, but you haven't really inspired anyone with all that much confidence this past year.
Ed Mercer: I know. I ha... I've had some personal stuff that's been going on. It's not really worth getting into. Can I have one of these mints?
Admiral Halsey: Those are marbles.
7th Aug 2017
Glee (2009)
1st Aug 2017
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
19th Jul 2017
Jurassic World (2015)
13th Jul 2017
The Terminator (1984)
Trivia: Though she's a registered Democrat, Linda Hamilton voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican candidate, in California's 2003 recall election that saw Schwarzenegger become the state's governor.
21st Jun 2017
Beauty & the Beast (1987)
Dark Spirit - S1-E9
Visible crew/equipment: When Catherine enters Professor Ross' office, a boom mic dips into the shot. (00:05:45)
22nd May 2017
Firefly (2002)
Bushwhacked - S1-E2
Commander Harken: I notice your ship's called Serenity. You were stationed on Hera at the end of the war. Battle of Serenity Valley took place there, if I recall.
Mal: You know, I believe you might be right.
Commander Harken: Independents suffered a pretty crushing defeat there. Some say that after Serenity, the browncoats were through. That the war ended in that valley.
Mal: Hmm.
Commander Harken: Seems odd you'd name your ship after a battle you were on the wrong side of.
Mal: May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
12th May 2017
The Mentalist (2008)
Green Thumb - S6-E10
Character mistake: When Kim is trying to convince Lisbon to help the FBI on their case, she says Jane stopped the ten-year reign of a mass murderer. Red John was a serial killer, which, by the FBI's definition, is a criminal behavior distinctly different from mass murder; he may have had a large number of victims, but he killed them either one or a couple at a time, with a cooling-off period in between, not all at once.
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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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