Continuity mistake: When Grissom is in the horse stall, one shot shows the door closed to Grissom's back. Cut to the next shot (a closer shot through the door) and it's open.
Joel Amos Gordon
23rd Mar 2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
20th Mar 2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
The Execution of Catherine Willows - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: At one point Catherine is at the coffee shop and the parents of a murdered girl come to talk to her. She is holding her coffee in the right hand and her cell phone rings and she grabs it with her left. The shot switches angles while Catherine is talking and her cell phone has magically shifted to her right hand.
28th Feb 2007
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Continuity mistake: When Jenny makes the cab stop, the driver gets out and he is a middle-aged man, with black hair and no glasses. The next shot shows them with an older man wearing glasses (and it looks like he has a moustache/beard).
10th Feb 2007
Anchorman (2004)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the brawl, you can see that Brian falls down as the rest of the crew runs forward. In the next shot he is right there with them pointing his gun at other groups.
10th Feb 2007
Anchorman (2004)
Continuity mistake: Right before the brawl, Brian pulls out a pistol which he also has right when the brawl begins. However, in the very next shot someone is swining a weapon down at him and he's holding nunchucks (play it on slow and you can see it's him).
2nd Feb 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
M.I.A. - April 1, 1969 - S2-E22
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, when Sam is undressing and Al is telling him who he leaped into, in one shot Sam is taking off his beaded necklace and in the next his necklace is off and he's taking off his belt, but Al continues the sentence so no time passed during the cut.
2nd Feb 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Sea Bride - June 3, 1954 - S2-E21
Continuity mistake: At the end when Sam punches out the bad guy, there is not a white piece of trash stuck to the back of his left shoulder. Two shots later, there is a white piece of trash there.
2nd Feb 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
M.I.A. - April 1, 1969 - S2-E22
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when dressed in drag, Sam has a cigarette with a long bit of ash on it. He looks at his "reflection" and there is a short bit of ash on the cigarette, then it cuts back to him and there is a short bit of ash.
31st Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Maybe Baby - March 11, 1963 - S2-E20
Continuity mistake: When Sam is talking to Al in the store (while looking at car seats), Al checks on Margaret Dalton and holds the handset at chest level. The shot switches to Sam down on his knees and it's at his face level (about Al's waist). Then the shot switches back to Al and the handset is again chest high.
31st Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Leaping in Without a Net - November 18, 1958 - S2-E19
Continuity mistake: When Sam and his sister are on the trapeze and she does a double and he catches her you can see that the bar she jumped from is not moving behind her. Then when she jumps back to it, it's swinging again.
31st Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Maybe Baby - March 11, 1963 - S2-E20
Continuity mistake: At one point when the police are chasing Sam, the car has a Sheriff's star on the driver's side door; however, when Sam drives into Clayton, no star is to be seen.
31st Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Leaping in Without a Net - November 18, 1958 - S2-E19
Continuity mistake: In practice, when Sam's sister tries to do the triple and he misses her, the wide angle shot shows that she is already below Sam's arms when she reaches out. But when it cuts to a close shot, she is able to almost catch his arms.
31st Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Leaping in Without a Net - November 18, 1958 - S2-E19
Continuity mistake: Throughout the show, the big top changes from one with many blue stripes on the ceiling, to one with a couple of blue stripes and a dark center, and back again.
30th Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
All Americans - November 6, 1962 - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: In the fight between Sam and Ruben in the locker room, Ruben has a white visor in his hands during the fight which magically disappears during the fight after a camera cut, and Ruben leaves after the coach breaks up the fight, without the visor.
30th Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Good Night, Dear Heart - November 9, 1957 - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Sam is at the graveside, snow is falling and a close-up shot shows Sam covered in snow, but the wide angle shot shows little to no snow on him.
30th Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Pool Hall Blues - September 4, 1954 - S2-E18
Continuity mistake: After the bad guy tries to hit the granddaughter with the pool cue, Sam grabs it. In the wide angle shot it shows Sam's left hand about 6-8 inches from the middle (where the dark wood inlay is), but in the next close-up shot, his hand is only about 2 inches from the middle.
29th Jan 2007
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the film when the Russian troops are rushing headlong at the Germans, there is an obvious cut in one shot as several people shift places and one Russian just disappears.
29th Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
All Americans - November 6, 1962 - S2-E14
Continuity mistake: In one play during the montage sequence of the championship game, the quarterback for the Jaguars (Sam) is number 15 - but he wears 12 throughout the rest of the show. This is Sam, because Al later tells him to quit, so he's been playing the whole game.
29th Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Her Charm - September 26, 1973 - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: After the bad guys attack the laundry truck and the girl starts throwing bags out of the truck, one sees in the close up shot a bullet-ridden gray door, but in the wide angle shot it's a pristine brown door.
29th Jan 2007
Quantum Leap (1989)
Her Charm - September 26, 1973 - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: After throwing the laundry bags out the back of the truck, close up shots on Sam and the girl show the back of the truck being relatively empty. However, the next shot from the rear of the truck has the back full of laundry bags again.
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