Continuity mistake: After telling Agent John W. Newton to "go suck an egg", Magnum walks away...but no so far, because he is leaning against the railing just across. His right hand is far away from the vertical beam in the first wide angle, and on top of it in the next closer view. (00:23:00)
Sammo
7th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
7th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: When Magnum bargains with TC the tune-up cost ("I tell you what I'll do"), you can spot the camera crew in Tom Selleck's shades. (00:19:40)
7th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Magnum explains that the "delta section" of the US Army does missions involving stuff like sabotage, assassination, terrorism (!). Laura protests saying "Eric couldn't have been a part of anything like that." She says it with hair in front of her right shoulder, in contrast with the previous shot. It switches back and forth again with the change of angle. (00:12:10)
7th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Other mistake: After hitting the "Delta block", Magnum tells Laura about it. The footage that opens the scene is taken from a previous episode, 1-3 "China Doll", around 00:35:00: same girl in orange bikini showering on the beach, same couple walking by the surf (he has kaki shorts and a blue hat, she is wearing orange). (00:12:00)
7th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Revealing mistake: In a fun bit of 'movie computer science in the 1980s' that ends up with a beeping alarm and odd full-screen warning in ugly vectors for protected data, Mac types the name of the Lt. Eric Tobin with keystrokes that can't possibly match those letters. (00:11:15)
7th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Laura tells the story of the 'visions' she has of Eric Tobin. More and more engrossed, she says he keeps "falling and falling." Her long mane is off the left shoulder. Cut to Magnum for a second, and she's got hair everywhere around her face, only to have again face and shoulder clear of hair in the next change of angle. (00:09:10)
6th May 2020
Saint Seiya (1986)
Yomigaere! Eiyuu Densetsu - S1-E1
Character mistake: Not to dispute physics in an anime about people drawing arcane cosmic powers from constellations, but when Marin explains to Seiya what happens when you shatter a rock into smaller pebbles, she says that you "destroy its atoms." That's not how physics works and luckily for her, Seiya and everyone else in Greece at the time, she did not create a nuclear fission in the palm of her hand just to prove her point.
6th May 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Other mistake: Joséphine Jobert is a Sergeant (the commissioner introduces her as such at the end of the first episode), but in the end credits of all the episodes before she takes over for Camille Bordey and becomes officially a Detective Sergeant, she is merely credited as "Officer Florence Cassell." By comparison, Fidel was credited as "Sergeant Fidel Best", even not being a DS.
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club - S1-E11
Visible crew/equipment: Set lights are reflected in Higgins' shades when he is on the terrace of the club with TC and Rick. (00:08:00)
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club - S1-E11
Revealing mistake: When Henry Lewis falls forward in his surf ski, the boat keeps going and it wobbles the camera. (00:08:50)
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Magnum shows Rick the picture, Rick untangles his fingers twice in the separate shots. (00:11:30)
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: Rick puts the $50 note horizontally for his bet; when Magnum cashes it in, it's vertical. (00:29:20)
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club - S1-E11
Continuity mistake: At the ending of the episode, Charlie puts each earplug in twice. (00:47:00)
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Visible crew/equipment: By the tidal pool, Magnum mentions ESP and says "I am not laughing", crouching down. Following his movement, a boom mike gets lower as well, thus getting in frame. (00:07:45)
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Audio problem: When she comes around at King Kamehameha and especially in the scene by the tidal pool, Rebecca Holden's lines are very noticeably dubbed in.
6th May 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Continuity mistake: When Rick sits by Magnum and Laura, he puts his left hand on the armrest. It's the whole forearm in the next shot. (00:05:15)
6th May 2020
The Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die (2015)
Continuity mistake: Starting their investigation by the pool, Maggie remarks about the difficulties of finding a body in the woods at night. Brooke Burns' hair is clear off her shoulders all of a sudden, while it's in front of them in most of the rest of the scene. (00:24:25)
6th May 2020
The Gourmet Detective (2015)
Factual error: For being set in the spring in San Francisco, the trees (look at Maggie coming back home in the intro) are rather barren and there are dead leaves in the grass.
6th May 2020
The Gourmet Detective (2015)
Continuity mistake: When the culprit tells Henry "You're coming with me", the gun on the table changes position between shots and the pen moves next to it from the opposite part of the book. (01:13:45)
6th May 2020
The Gourmet Detective (2015)
Continuity mistake: When Maggie helps her daughter tie her apron, suddenly the veggies and the other item on the counter change position after the cut. Maggie's ponytail also goes from the front of her shoulder, to behind her back. (01:06:50)
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