Corrected entry: In the beginning they show an Illinois license plate with OPA! on the plate. There are no punctuation marks on Illinois license plates.
Captain Defenestrator
11th Apr 2016
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)
Correction: They could have gotten one that says "OPAI" and just used a little paint to touch up the I into an exclamation point. Probably illegal, but doable.
After reviewing the scene, there's no possible way it was done with just some paint (nor is it possible in real life to do). Illinois license plates don't use any letters or numbers that resemble a lowercase "l."
18th Apr 2016
Licence to Kill (1989)
Corrected entry: When Q gives Bond the camera gun and scans in his palm print, the "gadget" Q is using is nothing more than a cheap calculator.
Correction: He's giving Bond a camera gun and exploding toothpaste; why wouldn't the scanner for the gun look like something else innocuous?
28th Feb 2016
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Trials and Tribble-ations - S5-E6
Corrected entry: When Kirk comes onto the bridge, and discovers the Tribble in his chair, he sits down, and hits the Comm button to call McCoy. It makes a sound that signifies the channel's open. In the original shot in TOS, the button only clicked, with no extra sound added.
Correction: O'Brien is posing as an engineer in this timeline. He could have been called upon to actually fix something, freeing up an engineer that wasn't available in the original timeline to fix a low-priority problem like the Captain's bridge comms not beeping right.
28th Feb 2016
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Financial Permeability - S2-E14
Corrected entry: When Leonard returns from talking with Penny, the guys are playing Talisman. Stat counters are randomly placed on the board, when they should always be associated with cards. Then Howard rolls "double sixes" - in Talisman you advance your character by rolling a single die. Raj then acquires a sword without rolling - only the character that rolled would have acquired an item without additional gameplay. (00:13:45)
Correction: Fountain of Wisdom, Pool of Life, and Magic Stream all put stat counters on the board to be picked up by whomever lands on them. A Horse allows one to roll two dice for movement, and Market Day or Acquisition would allow someone to acquire items out of turn.
27th Feb 2016
King of the Hill (1997)
Peggy Hill: the Decline and Fall (2) - S4-E1
Corrected entry: Hank states that DiDi is three years older than Peggy. However, in the episode "Shins of the Father", he said that he went to kindergarten with Didi, which would make him three years older than Peggy as well. This is not possible, though, because he says in "Luanne Virgin 2.0" that he and Peggy were married when they were eighteen. (If he is three years older than Peggy and he was married to her at age eighteen, he would have married a fifteen-year-old).
Correction: She could have gone to school late. Kindergarten isn't mandatory in the US.
I don't think Didi could have gone to school three years late, though. That would make her twenty-one years old when she graduated from high school, even if she didn't fail a year.
It's quite possible that she only started kindergarten one year late. Then she failed other grades and had to repeat them. The repeated grades would cause her to graduate at age twenty-one. The rules for each school are different, but at my high school, a student could keep attending until age twenty-one.
People have graduated at age 21 or higher in the past. There's no law stating that one can only be in school until the age of 18. Just because YOU doubt it doesn't mean it couldn't have happened.
Correct. At my high school, anyway (graduated in 2006), a person could keep going until they turned 21, then they were required to get a GED instead.
26th Jan 2016
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Pants Alternative - S3-E18
Corrected entry: Sheldon claims the X-Men were named so after the X in Charles Xavier's' name. In The X-Men #1 (1963), Professor X states that mutants possess an extra power that humans do not have. Xavier then says "That is why I call my students... X-Men, for EX-tra power!"
20th Jan 2016
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Corrected entry: In the shot where uncle Vernon falls out of Harry's window one outside shot shows his legs are almost out of the window while in the next shot they are completely in the window.
Correction: He was still trying to grab Harry when Fred stepped on the gas and he got pulled a bit more out the window. By the time he let go, it was too late. Just re-watched the scene, nothing inconsistent.
6th Jan 2016
Fight Club (1999)
Corrected entry: When the police hold Jack on the table, in 3 shots, a boom mic is visible at the top of the screen.
Correction: They're in a police interrogation room, which are all wired for recording. Most microphones are probably more subtle than an overhead boom, however, there's no reason they couldn't use one either.
16th Nov 2015
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Grasshopper Experiment - S1-E8
Corrected entry: Leonard wonders aloud "I wonder who's going to tell his (Sheldon's) parents they're not having grandchildren." Leonard and Sheldon have been sharing the apartment for long enough for Leonard to know that Sheldon's father has been dead for a number of years, but it is at least since S1E04, when Sheldon's mother says "God rest his soul" while talking about his father.
Correction: Episode S01E04 ended with Sheldon asking his mother if Dr. Gablehouser is going to be his new daddy and her saying "We'll see." So he could be the other "parent." Or his mother could have met someone else between the episodes.
2nd Nov 2015
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Corrected entry: When Lector attacks the officers in the cage, and he bends over to pick up the knife to finish the second officer off, look closely at the one lying supposedly dead on the ground. If you watch his jacket buttons, you can see them go from light to dark; meaning that he's dead but still breathing, as his jacket is still moving from the reflection of the overhead lights.
Correction: We don't know for certain that Lector beat him to death right then. He may well have beaten him nearly to death and will finish him off after arranging the other guard's body.
4th Jun 2008
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Corrected entry: When they get to Debra's home, they open the door and have to disarm the alarm. She punches in the wrong number, and the alarm goes off. However, they find the family (now zombies) inside the house. The alarm should have gone off by the family's movements before the group got there.
Correction: Home security systems often have settings for "Home" and "Away." The Home setting leaves the alarms on the doors and the windows operational in the event of a break-in, but disables the internal motion detectors so the alarm doesn't go off every time residents in the house move around. Since Debra's family made it home before everyone turned, they probably switched it to the Home setting when they arrived.
9th Oct 2015
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: In the Swamp, Hawkeye, Trapper and Radar are playing with red backed cards, and Ugly John is holding blue back cards.
Correction: Being in the middle of nowhere and a mobile facility, it's not hard to imagine a situation where some cards from both decks got lost and they decided to combine two partial decks. (They might then choose to ignore the fact that they could tell which cards are from which deck out of sportsmanship).
Correction: Ugly John had been sleeping for two hours. The others grabbed a new deck to avoid waking him up.
11th Sep 2015
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Corrected entry: When the planes fly in to the rescue at the end of the movie, Miller refers to them as being part of the Air Force. The Air Force was not established until after WWII. During WWII it was the Army Air Corps.
Correction: United States Army Air Corps was the name from 1923-1941. From then, until 1947, when they became their own branch of the military and dropped the "Army, " their official name was The United States Army Air Force. He could also simply be shortening it for simplicity's sake rather than saying the entire name in the heat of battle.
17th Aug 2015
The West Wing (1999)
The Indians in the Lobby - S3-E8
Corrected entry: When at Thanksgiving Josh is trying to get to his mother's house in South Florida, Donna tells him she got him on standby to a direct flight to Boca. The tiny Boca Raton airport is actually only for private planes; commercial flight go into West Palm Beach or Ft. Lauderdale airports. (00:32:20)
Correction: Commercial flights are often redirected to alternate, smaller airports during busy travel times like Thanksgiving. I live in a city with an international airport and a civil airport across town, and the civil airport is equipped to land a commercial flight if needed.
13th May 2015
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered - S2-E16
Corrected entry: Amy refers to Diana as goddess of love. The correct goddess of love would be either Aphrodite for the Greeks or Venus for the Romans. Diana was goddess of the hunt, virginity, and childbirth.
Correction: Amy says that for a love spell to work requires pure intent. The spell she casts causes Obsession rather than Love, therefore a goddess of The Hunt would be more appropriate than the goddess of Love. (She's also only been a witch for less than a year, so she's bound to make mistakes).
11th Apr 2015
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Corrected entry: Ramius says that when Hernàn Cortés reached the new world that he burned his ships, which is historically inaccurate. Cortés actually sunk his sank his ships in July 1519 and that wasn't his first visit to the new world either. And he actually sunk his ships for militaristic reasons, not because he had no desire to return to Spain.
Correction: The idea behind Cortez sinking or burning his ships (nothing wrong with a little dramatic hyperbole) wasn't because he didn't want to go back to Spain, it was to motivate his men so that they knew that there was no way back except to obey his orders. Presumably, they'd build new ships later.
29th Jan 2015
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Corrected entry: Stromberg's ship "The Liparus" had to be large enough to house the three submarines, the operations room, the room with the weapons and missiles, and the rooms for the captured prisoners...but with a ship that had at least a few hundred crew, where did they sleep?
Correction: It's a giant supertanker that doesn't actually have any oil tanks. The crew quarters are probably in the normal place, and all the other things you mentioned are housed where the oil tanks would normally go.
2nd Feb 2015
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: The ship on which Indy and Marian flee Egypt with the Ark is not a freighter, but a small coastal tanker, which would not have a cargo hold.
Correction: Captain Katanga and his men are smugglers. Modifying a ship known to not have a cargo hold by putting one in sounds like a smart thing for a smuggler to do.
26th Jan 2015
WarGames (1983)
Corrected entry: When David calls Jennifer from a pay phone where he claims he's at NORAD in Colorado, he asks her to buy him a plane ticket from Grand Junction to Goose Bay, Oregon. NORAD is located near Colorado Springs, that has a main airport. Grand Junction is a five hour drive west through the Rocky Mountains.
Correction: He's just escaped from NORAD. The Colorado Springs airport is probably the first place they'd watch for him. David's smart enough to think of that.
Correction: He said Salem Oregon when you watch the film that's what it sounds like his destination was.
20th Nov 2014
Superman (1978)
Corrected entry: On Krypton, the rings circling and revolving around Zod and company go from revolving smoothly to slightly lopsided and back.
Correction: They're meant to be some kind of prisoner restraint device. It's never explained how it works, but presumably, the rings emit some kind of force field. Varying the speed and direction of the rings' rotation would then be a way of keeping the prisoners from detecting a pattern and escaping.
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Correction: The front plate seen isn't state issued. It's a novelty plate he put on the front. While it would be illegal for him to drive without a state-issued front plate, there isn't anything otherwise preventing him from having a novelty plate on and cops probably wouldn't harass him about it. I drove my last car for 10 years without a front plate in a state that required it and never got a ticket for it, even when I was pulled over for speeding and the cop told me I had to have one.
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