Revealing mistake: When Giles slashes the Bringer's neck in the basement, you can tell that there is no entry wound and that the fake blood was merely applied to the actor's neck to give the impression of it being slashed.
THGhost
10th Mar 2011
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
2nd Jan 2011
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: One of the arrows that Spike gets hit with passes through just below his left shoulder, but there are times when you can tell that it is a fake arrow because the part of the arrow sticking out at the front moves and the part at the back does not. Look at the arrow just after Buffy turns Hus into a bear.
4th Dec 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: When Buffy saves the man from being hit by a car, there is a very quick shot of the man standing in front of the car. In this shot, Buffy can seen on the left hand side of the screen running into the street to save him. But the shot then immediately cuts to Buffy who is suddenly still standing on the other side of the street with Lily and runs into the street to save him again.
17th Oct 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
17th Oct 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: When we see Spike and Andrew on Spike's motorcycle talking about Onion Blossoms, a filming light is reflected in Andrew's helmet.
14th Oct 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Lies My Parents Told Me - S7-E17
Revealing mistake: When Spike tells his mother that he's become a vampire, she asks him if he's drunk. He responds with "Little bit." Just after he says this, someone can be heard coughing off-camera. It could be his mother because she isn't supposed to be well, but it seems odd that the camera wouldn't be on her during this. And a cough wouldn't really be necessary for the scene.
11th Oct 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Storyteller - S7-E16
Revealing mistake: When Buffy, Spike, Andrew and Robin go to the high school and find it decimated, Buffy is thrown to the ground and attacked with a hockey stick. On the second swing, a sound effect is heard and Buffy falls over. But the hockey stick never makes contact with her.
27th Sep 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: As Buffy throws Spike into a wall after he bites Andrew, Spike's stuntman is visible in-shot. His hair is slightly different to James Marsters'.
20th Sep 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
2nd Sep 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: Right at the beginning of the episode just before we see Warren squirt Jonathan with water, we see Buffy on one of their security cameras. The footage of her is pre-recorded as the progress bar for QuickTime Media Player is visible at the bottom of the screen. The window was moved down to hide this fact, but not far down enough to hide it completely.
2nd Sep 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: At the start of the episode where Warren, Jonathan and Andrew are on quad bikes chasing two vampires, a shot of the two vampires running towards the camera is used twice.
25th Aug 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Life Serial - S6-E5
Revealing mistake: In Jonathan, Warren and Andrew's van, whenever they're watching something on the monitors fed from their security cameras, you can see that the footage is actually pre-recorded due to the fact that the footage is being played through QuickTime media player.
24th Aug 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: When Spike, Xander, Anya and the Buffybot are attacked by vampires in the cemetery, the grass for the cemetery moves underneath the vampires' feet as if it were a carpet. The cemetery was a sound stage and not an actual cemetery.
24th Aug 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: When Spike is playing with the Buffybot in his crypt and has her throw him onto his bed to stake him, the shot of him landing on the bed and the Buffybot climbing on top him is portrayed by stunt doubles. The shot is then interwoven with another shot of the actual actors. But it's very obvious due to the poor editing.
21st Aug 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: Watch the shot of Glory as she is hit by the truck at the beginning of the episode (easier to see in slow-mo/frame-by-frame). She isn't hit by the truck at all. It goes right past her. A simple optical illusion used in filmmaking for decades.
16th Aug 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
I Was Made To Love You - S5-E15
Revealing mistake: When Giles pushes Spike into the cabinet at the magic shop, you can see Spike's reflection in the glass of the cabinet's doors. But Spike is a vampire and therefore should have no reflection.
13th Aug 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
7th Aug 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
15th Jul 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: After Buffy leaves the cave where Adam kills Forrest, she trips and falls down a horizontal slope. She then rolls over some rocks and one of the rocks wobbles.
10th Jul 2010
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Revealing mistake: Towards the end when Oz says to Veruca, "You don't wanna find out what I am", and partially turns into a Werewolf. You can tell that both of the actors were filmed separately for the CGI's sake as Oz stands out from the picture more than Veruca does. The same effect is obvious during "Doppelgangland" in season 3 where there are 2 Willows onscreen at once.
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