Corrected entry: The Indoctrination alien that meets Alex is Heather Locklear in an uncredited role.
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11th Apr 2015
The Last Starfighter (1984)
14th Oct 2021
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: When talking to Samuel Clemens, Jack London tells him of a dream to visit Alaska. This episode is set in 1889, and Alaska wasn't a state until 1959.
Correction: But it still existed as a place. It had been known and inhabited and explored for hundreds of years. Somewhere doesn't have to be a US state for someone to want to visit it.
4th May 2019
Star Trek (1966)
The City on the Edge of Forever - S1-E29
Corrected entry: On the ship, McCoy gets injected, runs down to the Transporter, and beams to the planet. On the surface, he has a phaser, when he didn't have one when he beamed down.
Correction: He took the phaser from transporter chief Kyle before beaming down.
So he did... I stand corrected.
21st Jul 2014
Addams Family Values (1993)
Corrected entry: After Thing rescues Fester, at one point, Thing disappears while driving. Otherwise, he's on the wheel.
Correction: We see Thing jump from the steering wheel down to the gas and brake pedals. You'll have to be more specific about when he "disappears."
11th Mar 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: Unless the regulations for the time period were different, the belt buckles seen with the regular fatigues is incorrect. They should be the same color as the belt and/or uniform. The brass buckles seen were used with the dress uniforms only. Also, any rank insignia worn by officers would have been dull in color so that they would be less of a target to snipers.
Correction: There were no dull insignias in the Korean war.
If so, then I stand corrected.
18th Nov 2013
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Corrected entry: When Major Hagel is going down the list of his knowledge of Hogan's Heroes, he mentions that their code name is Goldilocks. Throughout the series, the code was also Mama Bear, but the most used code name was Papa Bear.
Correction: The Heroes used all of these codenames. Papa Bear is the codename of Hogan himself, Goldilocks is the codename of the whole team around Hogan, and Mama Bear is the codename of the U-Boat they're in contact with.
21st Sep 2020
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: Klinger has a rash from his uniform. However, in earlier and later episodes, he wears uniforms without a problem.
Correction: As mentioned, Klinger's rash is psychosomatic. It wasn't necessarily the uniform that caused it. It was being forced into it by Colonel Potter. Hawkeye says women's clothes are Klinger's personal defense against the Army and lack of that defense is causing him to break out.
I stand corrected, I had forgotten that angle.
9th Jun 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: As Hawkeye calls the names over the P.A., the people were already on the way and entering the tent.
Correction: They were simply overlaying the PA announcement with the video of the people arriving to create dramatic effect and/or save time. It isn't a mistake.
5th Dec 2013
Men in Black (1997)
Corrected entry: At the diner, after the Edgar/Bug leaves the restaurant, you can see him push one guy down outside, and pass another guy wearing a tan overcoat. When the camera cuts to outside, the guy with the tan overcoat has disappeared.
Correction: He actually went to go aid the man that was pushed down with the rest of the crowd.
23rd Nov 2019
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
All Good Things... (1) - S7-E25
Corrected entry: On the Pasteur, when Data reports another ship de-cloaking, he says "It's the Enterprise." He uses a contraction rather than saying "it is." Even though it's in the supposed future, many times Data has pointed out he can not use contractions.
Correction: Data's use of contractions in the future demonstrates that he has evolved further towards his goal of being more human.
Correction: As you point out, this is in the future. A future where he has mastered emotions. It's assumed he's overcome the contraction limitation as well.
While I can agree that is possible, I find it a bit unlikely. My reasoning is that this occurred in the possible future presented by Q, because he was taking Picard through time. In Generations, he had taken Soong's original design for the emotion chip and improved it. However, he still was not using contractions.
In the episode DataLore, Wesley realises that Lore has taken Data's place because Lore was using contractions and, as Wesley stated, Data never uses them.
7th Jun 2016
Star Trek (1966)
The Gamesters of Triskelion - S2-E16
Corrected entry: As Shana watches Kirk, Uhura, and Chekhov disappear, when the camera is in a close up on her face, the vertical seam where two wall sections meet is visible.
Correction: It is more likely to be one of the numerous torch poles surrounding the arena.
7th Aug 2017
Under Siege (1992)
Corrected entry: Early in the movie, Ryback throws a knife into a bullseye, and it sticks in the lower center of the circle. Later, he pulls it out from the right side of the circle.
Correction: Time passes between when Ensign Taylor talks to Ryback (after which we see him throw the knife), and when Commander Krill enters the galley and has Ryback locked up. Plenty of time for Ryback to have retrieved his knife and thrown it again.
8th Feb 2018
Logan's Run (1976)
Corrected entry: Logan and Jessica remove their clothes and put on the furs to stay warm. As they escape the ice cavern, they're suddenly fully clothed.
Correction: Just before Box takes them down the hall with the frozen people, they show both of them putting their clothes back on and then put the furs on top of them.
18th Dec 2018
M*A*S*H (1972)
Good-Bye Radar: Part 2 - S8-E5
Corrected entry: Radar tells Klinger that "nobody helped me when I took the job." However, when Potter complains about Klinger's performance, Mulcahy tells him about Blake taking Radar under his wing and helping him grow into the job.
Correction: It is made clear that Colonel Blake was inept and had very little understanding of Radar's job. While Blake may have been supportive of Radar, Radar still had to learn the job on his own.
If he had little understanding of the clerk's job, then Mulcahy's statement that "Henry took Radar under his wing and helped him grow into the job" is moot.
Not necessarily as such. Both "taking under one's wing" and "growing into the job" are rather generic statements after all. Blake may very well have just kept his back while he learned the job, even though he may not have been such a great source of topical information on company-clerking in particular. For the question at hand however one should keep in mind that neither Radar nor Mulcahy are laying down historic facts when they make their respective statements, but try to make their points, which are, to wit: Radar thinks Klinger should stop bitching and try to find his feet, and Mulcahy thinks Potter needs to be supportive of Klinger.
24th Aug 2013
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
German Bridge Is Falling Down - S1-E7
Corrected entry: In the very beginning, the prisoners are all in formation for a count. Shultz completes the count at 15, reports it, and Klink calls Hogan over to talk. This leaves 14 in formation. Hogan says "Smoke if you have them". Unbeknownst to Klink, the men are in an arrow formation to point the way to the bridge for the bombers. The aerial shot from the planes shows at least 25 lighters lit. Where did the other 11 guys come from? With Hogan, his barracks only had 15 men who would've been in on it.
Correction: First, it's not true that only the men from Hogan's barracks are in on their operations. It's mentioned in several episodes that they've used other men during their missions. During S1E22 Hogan sends his people out to find a pizza recipe which is hardly the most inconspicuous thing to ask in a POW camp. During S1E27 Hogan asks Kinch if there's a Safe cracker among the prisoners in the camp, so he obviously has no problem recruiting people from outside his barracks. Second, the moment Hogan steps towards Klink, the prisoners break ranks and start to mingle. We simply have to assume that not only Hogan's barracks were ordered to fall out, but other barracks as well, (which would only be logical) even though it happens out of frame. The reason is obvious as well - it's hardly news that the producers of Hogan's Heroes were kept on a pretty tight leash budget-wise. Last but not least, it's true that Schultz counts to 15, but if you count yourself, you will find that not 15 but 19 people are in formation in front of the barracks in the first place. In conclusion, there is a valid mistake right there, but it's not the fact that the arrow consists of more than 15 people.
I stand corrected.
19th Jan 2014
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Two Nazis for the Price of One - S3-E17
Corrected entry: When Hogan is bending the antennae into a swastika, there are no extra pieces; all the bends are smooth. When it's on the flagpole/antennae, there is a short, extra piece under it to attach it to the mast.
Correction: That is not a continuity mistake. The extra piece would have been affixed (glued) to the large swastika antenna before mounting, not when Hogan bent the poles into shape. Just because it wasn't shown as added does not make it a continuity mistake. It was added off camera and in another time frame.
24th Jun 2014
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Corrected entry: When the truck is straddling the gap of the halves of the drawbridge in the beginning, the rear axle falls off and rolls down the slope. While funny, this is mechanically impossible.
Correction: This is an absolutely possible mechanical failure. When the momentum of the rotating mass of the wheels is suddenly stopped by coming into contact with the bridge it sheers the bolts off the springs and the continued rotating energy backed by the momentum of the weight of the axle could easily break the universal joint in turn separating the axle from the truck body. Failures like this can also be seen in drag racing where sudden changes in directional motion are extremely prevalent.
I stand corrected. I should have remembered from High School Auto Mech class. Thank you.
23rd May 2017
Gremlins (1984)
Corrected entry: Unless it's a different style, the Gremlin in the mailbox could not have thrown letters back out or pulled a human arm into the box. The front flap pulls up another piece of metal that prevents theft of mail from the box.
25th May 2015
Doctor Who (2005)
Utopia (1) - S3-E11
Corrected entry: As Jack gets done in the red room, and runs past the Doctor to help with controls, he's wearing a white T-shirt. After Martha comes down, he suddenly has a black T-shirt on.
Correction: Jack, in this episode, has a black button-down shirt, which he initially wears over the white T-shirt. The alleged "black T-shirt" is merely this shirt, which Jack took off before he went in the red room, and has just put back on.
7th Apr 2018
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Corrected entry: The "welcome sheriff" banner rolls up after the realization of the new sheriff's race. Though meant as a sight gag, you can tell the man in the tan suit closest right behind the woman in the blue shawl pulled the banner to make it roll up, though he tried to do it in a sneaky way.
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Correction: The actress who plays the Rylan who greeted Alex is Charlene Nelson and is credited as such.