Continuity mistake: In "Three Little Beers" (1935), Curly drops a golf ball on the ground. In the close-up, the ball has moved closer to the ball-washing table.
Steven Lee
9th Apr 2025
The Three Stooges Show (1960)
22nd Mar 2025
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)
The Clampetts Go Fishing - S2-E22
Continuity mistake: Mr. Drysdale and Miss Hathaway are driving in a Dodge convertible. The back seat is empty. When they arrive at the Clampetts' mansion, a giant stuffed tarpon suddenly appears in the back seat.
18th Mar 2025
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Will the Real Mr. Howell Please Stand Up? - S2-E26
Continuity mistake: After building a sandcastle, Gilligan goes to talk with Mr. and Mrs. Howell. When the three go to the spot where the sandcastle was, it is gone. Instead, there is a log, which Gilligan trips over.
18th Mar 2025
Columbo (1971)
Factual error: Columbo is sent to investigate the murder of a man near the Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica has its own police department. The LAPD has no jurisdiction there.
29th Jan 2025
Dennis the Menace (1959)
Dennis Haunts a House - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: Alice picks up a cup of coffee with her right hand. In the next shot, both the cup and her hand are on the table. (00:07:20)
29th Jan 2025
Dennis the Menace (1959)
Dennis' Penny Collection - S2-E14
Character mistake: When Dennis sees Mr. Wilson park his car and put a penny in the parking meter, he asks, "Did you notice the date on it?" Mr. Wilson tells him, "It was 1492." (00:21:15)
28th Jan 2025
Leave It To Beaver (1957)
Continuity mistake: June says, "Good night," to Beaver and walks out of his room. When she gets downstairs, she is wearing a different dress.
20th Jan 2025
I Love Lucy (1951)
Trivia: Lucy sneaks into Cornel Wilde's apartment and winds up getting locked out on the balcony. It appears that she is pressing her face against a sliding glass door, but there is no glass in the door frame. It was removed to avoid reflections of the cameras and studio lights.
11th Jan 2025
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Character mistake: Dexter says "Aconagua" is the highest point in South America. The name of the highest mountain in the Andes is "Aconcagua".
5th Oct 2024
The Parent Trap (1961)
Continuity mistake: When Susan is playing guitar during the "Let's Get Together" song, three - and sometimes four - fingers of her left hand are over the neck of the guitar. In a close-up, only two fingers are shown, and they are barely touching the lower edge of the neck.
26th Aug 2024
Matlock (1986)
Other mistake: In a newspaper article about an overnight break-in and robbery at a bank, three paragraphs in the first column are repeated in the second column.
2nd Aug 2024
Matlock (1986)
The Good Boy - S4-E3
Continuity mistake: When Cal Ritter's wife comes to his furniture studio to talk with him, the clock shows the time as 4:45. After they talk for two minutes, the security guard enters and says, "It's 5:00 and my ride's here. I just want to let you know I'm leaving."
28th Jul 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: Harriet phones a plasterer to repair a wall in the boys' bedroom. He says he will be there the next day. Ozzie phones Mr. Baxter and asks him to replace a broken rain gutter. Baxter comes to the house and tells Ozzie he has two big jobs to finish and "it will be about a week" - but he shows up the next day, same as the plasterer.
4th Jul 2024
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Continuity mistake: As Penelope steals a valuable necklace from the adjoining hotel room of Mrs. Potter and returns to her own room, Harpo is hiding under the bed. After Chico enters Penelope's room, Harpo is shown crawling on his hands and knees in Mrs. Potter's room, but we never saw him leave Penelope's room.
4th Jul 2024
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Other mistake: Cocoanut Hotel manager Mr. Hammer (Groucho Marx) reads aloud a telegram stating that guests will arrive on the 4:30 train. He then says, "The 4:15, eh?" and tells Jamison (Zeppo Marx) that he's going to "meet the 4:15."
28th Jun 2024
Long-Haired Hare (1949)
Other mistake: Just one second after Bugs puts a letter (presumably an order for a pair of earmuffs) into a mailbox, a courier arrives with a package containing the earmuffs.
24th Jun 2024
The Outlaws Is Coming (1964)
Continuity mistake: When Annie Oakley begins shooting at Wild Bill Hickok, he falls backward into a trough of wet cement. Annie then fights with Belle Starr and knocks her into the vat of cement. Belle lands face down on top of Hickok. After a brief shot of onlookers, Hickok is now lying face down with Belle still on top of him.
23rd Jun 2024
Draftee Daffy (1945)
Other mistake: Daffy walks past the same table and couch four times. When he runs the other direction, he passes the same staircase five times.
22nd Jun 2024
The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937)
Continuity mistake: Goodwill captures four of the pigs and confines them in a pillory, a wooden framework with six holes. The head of each pig is sticking through one of the holes. After Goodwill captures Petunia, Porky enters the laboratory and discovers the pillory. Five pigs are now confined, and the sixth hole has disappeared.
21st Jun 2024
The Outlaws Is Coming (1964)
Factual error: Curly Joe asks the bartender for a Coke. John Pemberton created Coca-Cola in 1886. The movie is set in 1871.
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