Continuity mistake: When the 2 girls at the mall leave after calling Freud a geek, the girl in pink puts her purse strap on her shoulder. In the next shot, it's off her shoulder, and she's seen putting it on it again.
Bishop73
23rd Oct 2020
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
21st Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Dick's Big Giant Headache (1) - S4-E23
Continuity mistake: After Harry eats the egg, the lid is still up. When Vicki walks in, the lid is down.
17th Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Continuity mistake: When everyone is in the living kitchen, Tommy ends up getting 2 darts stuck into the dartboard. When Harry throws the remote, the 2nd dart is missing. But it's back in the wide shots after Jennifer comes in. Later, when Tommy throws another dart, that 3rd one is seen, but not the 2nd one.
16th Oct 2020
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Trials and Tribble-ations - S5-E6
Trivia: When the agents ask Sisko which Enterprise ship, he says "the first one." One agent also responds with there's been 6 Enterprises. However, in the 2001 TV series "Star Trek: Enterprise", we learn there was an Enterprise before the "first" one. And (as of 2020), there have been 8, or possibly 9, Enterprise ships. (I have listed this a trivia since at the time of the show it wouldn't have been a mistake. But one could argue this is a mistake or that the TV series ST:E made a mistake, since it's been established TOS Enterprise was the first ship with that name).
14th Oct 2020
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Trials and Tribble-ations - S5-E6
Continuity mistake: When Dr. Bashir picks up the chair in the bar, he grabs it by the armrests. But in the next shot, he's holding it by the back.
14th Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
13th Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Question: I'm watching this show on an app called "Tubi TV" and none of the 1st season episodes have the opening narration from James Earl Jones. I remember watching this on TV, but it would have been reruns and I can't remember hearing the narration then either (granted, I may have forgotten hearing it, but it's so distinct and unique that I don't think I would have forgotten it). When the show was in rerun syndication, was the narration removed? Why? Just to ad 30-seconds of ad time? Why would the narration be removed on streaming services where ad time isn't an issue? Do they not have access to the originals? Has anyone seen the narration removed anywhere else?
13th Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Trivia: Leon is played by John Lithgow's real life son, Ian Lithgow. Although he is often portrayed as a somewhat dim-witted college student, Ian had already graduated from Harvard (like his father) prior to the series starting.
9th Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning when Dick is talking to Sally and Harry about Mary, the position of his tie changes after he says "what's the point."
9th Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Fifteen Minutes of Dick - S2-E23
Trivia: At the book signing with Mark Hamill, a poster of the comic "Black Pearl" is displayed. Mark Hamill created and wrote "Black Pearl."
9th Oct 2020
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
Continuity mistake: When Dick gets out of the chair to talk to Tommy, his newspaper is on the chair cushion. Later, it's on top of the pillow.
6th Oct 2020
Spaceballs (1987)
Trivia: In the merchandising scene, the coloring book is a 1980's Transformers sticker adventures coloring book and the lunch box is a 1980's Transformers lunchbox from Aladdin (the company, not the movie).
6th Oct 2020
Spaceballs (1987)
Trivia: At the beginning, we're introduced to Sergeant Rico. "Johnnie" Rico was the main character in "Starship Troopers", who at one point would have been a sergeant. While the film "Starship Troopers" came out in 1997, the book itself was written in 1959.
11th Sep 2020
Coneheads (1993)
Trivia: Baby Connie was played by Dan Aykroyd's real life daughter, Danielle Aykroyd.
9th Sep 2020
Johnny English (2003)
9th Sep 2020
Johnny English (2003)
Question: When Johnny and Lorna are in the castle, before they go into the small room where Johnny accidentally announces his plans over the PA, Lorna is seen with a back tattoo. It looks like perhaps it's a number, "05" maybe? Was there a deleted scene where we see the tattoo more or where characters talk about it? Or was this Natalie Imbruglia's actual back tattoo? Later it seems to be gone.
9th Sep 2020
Lucifer (2015)
Other mistake: When Maze is knocked down by Lucifer the second time, the footage used of her on the ground is the same footage from when she got knocked down the first time.
6th Sep 2020
General questions
It seems some TV shows, especially in later seasons, will include a version of their own show or movie into the show itself. "Seinfeld" had "Jerry." "Stargate SG-1" had "Wormhole X-Treme." "Monk" had an episode where they were going to make a movie about Monk and the show "Crime Lab S.F." (but that's might have been more a parody of "CSI"?) And now "Lucifer" has "Diablo." What are other examples of TV shows doing this? And this is different then the normal show within a show trope, like "Home Improvement" having "Tool Time" or "Full House" having "Wake Up, San Francisco").
Answer: Supernatural famously had at least two instances of this. There's a running plotline through the series where they discover a series of "Supernatural" books based on their antics, which end up being written by God himself. Even more meta, in the episode The French Mistake they end up in an alternate reality on the set of a show called "Supernatural" where everyone starts referring to them by the real actors' names, their angel friend Castiel is now a goofy actor called Misha Collins (the real actor) and their demon foe Ruby is now actress Genevieve Padalecki, married to one of them (as she is in real life).
5th Sep 2020
Lucifer (2015)
Save Lucifer - S4-E9
Question: This is a question about when Maze walks into the room when Linda is giving birth. Is this what it would look like in real life in a hospital? It looks like Linda is giving birth in her hospital room (even though the sign says birthing room, the room looks set up for guests), there's only 1 hospital staff, and Amenadiel is in his regular clothes, no sterile or protective coverings. And, ignoring the fact that Maze would go wherever she wants, wouldn't a staff member at least try to stop her from going in or try to prep her for entry? Maybe the 1 staff member was prepping her, but it seemed like they added baby crying sounds to indicate she was in the process of giving birth.
Answer: At least as far as clothing goes, I was in regular clothes when my wife gave birth, only changing into scrubs when they thought we'd have to move to an operating room (but ended up not needing to), otherwise I'd just have stayed in them. The room was also pretty much a regular hospital room, but no doubt there were some birth-specific differences I wasn't aware of!
5th Sep 2020
Lucifer (2015)
Devil Is as Devil Does - S4-E7
Character mistake: On Earl D. Bolden Jr.'s wanted poster, it says "if you see this man NO NOT approach..." It should say "DO NOT."
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Answer: I have the entire series on DVD, and season 1 doesn't have the narration on it either. Perhaps the studio cut it to avoid having to pay residuals to James Earl Jones. Some episodes on my DVDs also seem to be missing scenes or parts of scenes that appeared in original airings, but were removed in syndication, so it seems just as likely that all episodes that were supplied for DVD replication or for streaming services received versions that were the edited for syndication.
Phaneron ★
Thank you for this insight. Interesting the DVDs don't have it.
Bishop73