Phaneron

17th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Six Forgotten Warriors Chapter 2: Unclaimed Legacy - S5-E3

Other mistake: When Silver Sable infiltrates Kingpin's Russian lair with sleeping gas, before falling unconscious, Kingpin correctly deduces that he has been betrayed. In the next scene, Kingpin asks Silver Sable how she was able to infiltrate his lair, and she tells him one of his men is a traitor, which elicits an incredulous reaction from Kingpin, completely contradicting the previous scene where Kingpin already surmised there was a traitor.

17th Jan 2020

Night Court (1984)

Question: I seem to recall seeing an episode of this show when I was a little kid that featured Bull being involved in an elevator crash, and when he emerges from the elevator afterwards, he is drastically shorter. Did this actually happen, and if so, what episode was it?

Chosen answer: I just saw the episode again; it's "Blues of the Birth" (original airdate May 2, 1990), which was the same episode in which Christine gave birth to her baby boy. Bull rushed into the broken elevator in which Christine was forced to give birth to retrieve her shoes; the elevator then plunged from the 18th floor to the ground floor, which then resulted in Bull apparently losing at least two feet of height.

Answer: The scene did in fact happen, as I distinctly remember it; I don't, however, recall the specific episode.

17th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Spider-Man mistake picture

The Wedding - S5-E1

Other mistake: When J. Jonah Jameson is on the phone with Wilson Fisk, one shot shows that the area of Jameson's desk between the receiver and the cord is colored the same gray color as the cord, instead of the golden-brown color the rest of the desk is.

17th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Partners in Danger Chapter 10: Lizard King - S4-E10

Plot hole: When Debra and Margaret arrive at the underground arena with the device that can revert the humanoid lizards to their original forms, they lose control of the device and it ends up in the hands of Ghila, who monologues that the humanoid lizards' existence was an accident and that she will use the device to return them to being regular lizards. Ghila had never seen this device before, nor did anyone tell her what its purpose was, so there's no way she could have known it was designed to reverse the mutations.

14th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Partners in Danger Chapter 9: The Haunting of Mary Jane - S4-E9

Plot hole: Miranda Wilson states that after the accident on the movie set left her face disfigured, she hid in the catacombs by the bridge and almost died from her condition until Quentin Beck found her after he was released from prison. Beck is the one that caused the accident in the first place, so even if he only spent a month in prison, Miranda Wilson would have died from starvation or malnutrition - if not infection from her untreated facial disfigurement - long before Beck could have been released from prison and found her.

14th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Partners in Danger Chapter 8: The Return of the Green Goblin - S4-E8

Continuity mistake: When the Green Goblin is first confronted by Spider-Man, he is riding his regular glider. Then after he pushes Spider-Man down onto the roof, one shot show him riding the larger glider.

14th Jan 2020

The X-Files (1993)

Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man - S4-E7

Trivia: Towards The End of this episode, the Smoking Man states that the Buffalo Bills will never win a Super Bowl as long as he's alive. If we are to believe that the Smoking Man was killed by Mulder in what is as of now the final episode of the series, this statement ended up being true.

14th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

The Wedding - S5-E1

Audio problem: When J. Jonah Jameson is telling Peter he can work off his wedding gift over the next decade or two, his mouth movement is slightly out of sync with the dialogue.

13th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Six Forgotten Warriors Chapter 4: The Six Fight Again - S5-E5

Other mistake: The news footage of the elderly Six American Heroes being attacked by the Insidious Six is merely clips from the previous episode.

13th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Six Forgotten Warriors Chapter 3: Secrets of the Six - S5-E4

Audio problem: When Kingpin is asking Scorpion if he is the traitor, his mouth movement is not in sync with the dialogue.

13th Jan 2020

Common mistakes

Factual error: Shooting a gas tank with a handgun and causing an explosion. The only way to ignite a gas tank by shooting it is with tracer ammunition, as demonstrated by the Mythbusters.

10th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

The Wedding - S5-E1

Revealing mistake: After Scorpion causes the chandelier to fall onto Spider-Man, the camera pans to the right and Scorpion appears out of thin air onto the screen.

10th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Partners in Danger Chapter 8: The Return of the Green Goblin - S4-E8

Audio problem: When Spider-Man is web-slinging at the end with Harry in tow, the sound of his web shooters is not in sync with the webs firing.

10th Jan 2020

King of the Hill (1997)

Ho Yeah! - S5-E13

Other mistake: After Alabaster says that he has a stable full of hoes, the screen shakes, as if someone bumped the camera.

10th Jan 2020

Common mistakes

Stupidity: Characters shooting at each other with a moving vehicle involved, and no-one thinks to even try and shoot out the tires.

10th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Partners in Danger Chapter 8: The Return of the Green Goblin - S4-E8

Revealing mistake: When the Punisher is walking over to the couch to put Mary Jane down, he briefly glides across the floor.

8th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

The Wedding - S5-E1

Audio problem: When the orderly is telling Harry that he has visitors, his mouth isn't moving.

8th Jan 2020

Spider-Man (1994)

Partners in Danger Chapter 8: The Return of the Green Goblin - S4-E8

The Punisher: Your friend Osborn here is a few pumpkins short of a full pie.

8th Jan 2020

Star Wars (1977)

Question: Why is Han so skeptical of the Force? I get that he himself has never witnessed anyone use it, but he would have been alive during the Jedi purge, and surely he knows that Chewbacca fought alongside the Jedi on Kashyyyk. Additionally, is there any reason Obi-Wan wouldn't have demonstrated Force powers to Han on the way to Alderaan other than he didn't feel the need to prove it?

Answer: Han describes force powers as "simple tricks and nonsense." He has never seen any Jedi doing anything particularly super-powered. Even if Chewy did and told Han it is still reasonable for him to be skeptical and to think his friend is exaggerating. Han simply thinks the stories about Jedi are overblown. A good way to think about it would be to examine how ninja are presented in popular culture versus how they were in reality. The stories surrounding ninja are greatly exaggerated to the point of absurdity, applying immense fighting ability and oftentimes magical powers to normal men. The difference is jedi actually had magical abilities while ninja did not.

Answer: To answer the second part of your question, Obi-Wan has Luke demonstrate the Force in front of Han by putting a blinder on and fighting the remote. Believing he has made his point, Obi-Wan comments "You see!", to which Han replies that Luke's success was against a remote, and that fighting a living person was completely different. So even after being shown something that is completely impossible without the use of the force, Han still chooses not to believe.

Well Han also dismissed Luke's success with the remote as luck. If Obi-Wan used the Force to steal Han's blaster right from its holster, would Han just dismiss it as magic? Is there such thing as magical powers in the Star Wars universe independent from the Force?

Oh, I absolutely agree with your point. But I always took this scene to mean that Obi-Wan isn't trying to win an argument with Han or prove anything to him. He's trying to teach Luke about the force. He doesn't really care what Han believes and is dismissive of his comments. Luke believes he felt the force using the remote and that's what is important.

Jedi are implied to be humble. It would be out of character for a Jedi such as Obi-Wan to attempt convincing Han in such a drastic way.

There actually is, or so I believe. The nightsisters, also called the witches of Dathomir, that appear in The Clone Wars-series. They used dark magic.

8th Jan 2020

King of the Hill (1997)

Question: Hank bears no resemblance to his father, but strongly resembles his mother. Bobby bears no resemblance to Hank (or seemingly Peggy), but bears a strong resemblance to Hank's father. Is it actually possible for a person to bear such a strong resemblance to one of their Grandparents if they are only getting half their genes from that Grandparent's child and that child bears no resemblance to that particular parent?

Answer: It's also said genetics plays a part here. You can look like an ancestor more than a parent. I myself look nothing like either of mine nor do any of my 3 siblings: older brother, older sister, younger sister.

Chosen answer: The short answer is "yes", it is possible to resemble your Grandparent even if your parent doesn't resemble your Grandparent. The old adage is "it's not like mixing paint", meaning combining genes doesn't always get the same result. It's why full siblings don't always look exactly alike even though they have the same genetic makeup. I look next to nothing like my paternal grandmother but I have a child that greatly resembles her.

Is it a mistake then that Hank's Japanese half-brother strongly resembles him, and by extension Hank's mother, or is that still a small possibility?

Sort of. These are animated characters, and the style of animation isn't particularly detailed. The resemblance between the two is played up for laughs. But there are plenty of real life examples of people that aren't related at all but greatly resemble one another. Famous examples are Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Javier Bardem, or Will Ferrell and Chad Smith.

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