Trivia: When Lucy goes to the armory, she finds it completely gutted except for the syringer she picks up and uses throughout the season. It was the only thing left in the armory because the syringer is the worst weapon in the game and nobody EVER takes it.
Captain Defenestrator
2nd May 2024
Fallout (2024)
18th Apr 2024
Fallout (2024)
Continuity mistake: This show has been widely declared as canonical with the games, by the makers of both this show and the games. The game Fallout 4 establishes the date and time that the bombs drop: Saturday, October 23, 2077, 9:47 AM Eastern Time. Which means it was 6:47 AM West Coast Time. That's a pretty weird time of day to schedule a kids' party with lots of guests and a hired celebrity cowboy.
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Suggested correction: They changed a lot of subtle things from canon for the show. Also, all games have got some inconsistencies between them as well. In the show, on the TV, there is a clock that says it's around 9:30 AM the first time we see it and 10:45 when they cut the cake, so it's close to the afternoon and not very early in the morning. The position of the sun confirms this.
21st Mar 2022
The Mandalorian (2019)
Other mistake: Din tracks Grogu down through his chain code and other bounty hunters do the same throughout the series. As stated elsewhere, chain codes were implemented in the year 19 BBY AFTER the end of the Clone Wars and Order 66. We know that Grogu was spirited away from the Jedi Temple during the Slaughtering of the Younglings, so he was already a fugitive by the time they came about. No way they could stop and register him with the Empire while he was on the run from them.
7th Mar 2022
Doctor Who (1963)
Trivia: In the animated version of this story, when we're at the police station, there are some wanted posters on the wall in the background. One of the wanted posters is for the original Master, Roger Delgado.
9th Feb 2022
The Mandalorian (2019)
Chapter 14: The Tragedy - S2-E6
Factual error: Boba Fett proves to Din that the armor belongs to him by showing him his chain code encoded into the armor. He then shows his father's chain code also encoded into it. Chain Codes are implemented by the new Empire in 19BBY. The second episode of "The Bad Batch" is about obtaining some of these new chain codes. Why does Jango Fett have a chain code when he died three years before they were a thing?
2nd Mar 2021
Stargate: Atlantis (2004)
Other mistake: In Shepard's apartment, there is a fresh pineapple and other fruit in his kitchen. This despite him having been in Atlantis for several months. This later turns out to be an artificial reality, but that should've been a big hint.
6th Jul 2020
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Trivia: The planet that the Riker family settles on is called Nepenthe. A magical potion mentioned in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," originally from "The Odyssey," with the power to cure grief and sorrow. A fitting name for a place to try to forget the loss of a child.
24th Jun 2020
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Plot hole: Thomas Riker is able to steal the Defiant partially because he's a genetic double for and not a clone of Will Riker. Thomas Riker's existence is not a secret. Star Fleet is aware that the first officer of their flagship has a genetic duplicate who resigned and is out there somewhere. There should be something in place to verify Will's location before giving Thomas access. But then, of course, we wouldn't have an episode.
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Suggested correction: At this point Thomas Riker is still a Starfleet officer. There is no need to lock him out of accessing the Defiant's systems as he is considered just as trustworthy as Will.
It's said that he resigned over suspected Maquis sympathies. They were right.
They say that he had expressed political opinions that supported the Maquis, not that he had resigned from Starfleet. A large number of Starfleet officers supported the Maquis' intentions, but still stayed loyal to Starfleet.
No, Thomas Riker accessed the Defiant under the guise of being Will Riker, and Major Kira released the lockouts being under that impression.
Exactly. NOBODY in Star Fleet has thought "Well, what if one of them claims to be the other? How do we tell them apart?"
24th Jun 2020
The Real Ghostbusters (1986)
Ghosts R Us - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: In the first scene, when the Ghostbusters are rushing to the factory, Ecto-1's license plate reads ECT-1.
12th Jun 2020
Doctor Who (1963)
Remembrance of the Daleks - S25-E1
Trivia: This episode establishes that I.M. Foreman's scrapyard at 76 Totter's Lane is where the Doctor collects his post.
4th Jun 2020
The Real Ghostbusters (1986)
Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream - S1-E7
Character mistake: The cover of Weird Fiction magazine is spelled "Wierd Fiction." (00:05:15)
9th May 2018
Biggles (1986)
Other mistake: One of the taglines for this film was "Meet Jim Ferguson. He lived a daring double-life with one foot in the 20th century and the other in World War I." World War One was fought in the 20th century.
25th Apr 2017
Black Dynamite (2009)
Question: I'm pretty sure I've heard Black Dynamite's line about "When your so-called Revolution starts, you call me and I'll be right down in front showing you how it's done." in another Blaxploitation movie but can't quite place it. Don't think it's Super Fly or Dolemite. Anyone know?
Answer: Shaft.
31st Jan 2017
Galavant (2015)
Continuity mistake: When Galavant is talking to Isabella in the tavern, the turkey leg that he's eating is almost a full leg of meat. When it cuts to the shot over Galavant's shoulder as Sid says "When he tells me to fetch, those are my favorite moments," all the meat is gone down to the bone. In the next shot, the leg is mostly uneaten again. (00:16:00)
30th Jan 2017
Galavant (2015)
Other mistake: When King Richard asks the chef if there's lemon in his tea, he replies "Yes, my king. Some 'and-squeezed lemons." The closed-captioning says "Some unsqueezed lemons." (00:15:40)
24th Jan 2017
Sherlock (2010)
Question: Which episode contains the line "I'm not insulting you, I'm describing you?" Google searches turn up nothing but the quote itself, and no further information on the episode or the rest of the scene. If anyone knows the line that led up to it, that would be even better.
Chosen answer: That line of dialogue has never actually been spoken in any of the Sherlock episodes, during seasons 1-4. However, that line is written in someone's fan-fiction story online, where it's said by Sherlock and directed at Anderson.
6th Nov 2016
General questions
Recalling an episode of a courtroom drama, but not sure which one. (It could have been Law and Order, LA Law, or any of a few others.) A couple are on trial because their baby died a crib-death, but there was enough evidence of foul play to charge them with murder. Their defense attorney gets them found innocent, and then the last scene is him getting into the elevator with the couple to leave the courthouse and in the last moment, he sees them holding hands and realises they did it. Anyone know it?
Chosen answer: It was from L.A. Law, season 4, episode: "Justice Swerved." The couple killed their severely handicapped baby because they didn't want the financial and emotional burden of raising it. The jury was unable to find either one guilty. At the end, in the elevator, Victor Sifuentes is standing behind the couple. He looks down and sees them discretely clasping each other's hand and realises they are guilty and were exonerated with his help. This episode is on YouTube.
8th Sep 2016
Family Guy (1999)
Untitled Griffin Family History - S4-E27
Character mistake: When the family is about to drown in the panic room and start arguing with Peter about not liking "The Godfather," Chris starts listing off the great actors in it. "Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, I mean, you've never seen...ROBERT DUVALL!" Robert DeNiro is in "The Godfather Part II," but not in the first one. (00:19:30)
7th Mar 2016
Futurama (1999)
Continuity mistake: When everyone is being scanned by the machine that determines who stays on Earth and who gets evacuated, the machine approves Amy, saying that they were in the same sorority and they do a "Sigma Beta" dance. In the first episode, Amy says that her sorority is Kappa Kappa Wong. (00:10:30)
28th Feb 2016
Dr. No (1962)
Trivia: Ian Fleming didn't like the casting choice of Sean Connery, saying he was "too thuggish" to be Bond. After seeing the film, Fleming liked him enough that he went back and ret-conned Bond's biography to make him Scottish.
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