Continuity mistake: During the interrogation of Mr. Rogers, the distance between the trumpet and the mute constantly changes between shots. And when he says "So what? Doesn't prove a thing!", Miss Fisher is holding her hand on top of the mute, instead of having her arms folded. (00:49:40 - 00:51:00)
Sammo
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Plot hole: The murder weapon during Miss Fisher's demonstration hardly appears to generate enough momentum not just to send a projectile across the room with lethal force, but also do it achieving full penetration through clothes, disappearing entirely inside the body so the coroner wouldn't notice. That's assuming that the coroner did not even bother to in fact open up the cadaver and perform autopsy, which would be strange, especially with a weapon of undisclosed characteristics, when finding out more about the depth and damage to internal organs would have been crucial. And with any autopsy the dart would have been found, solving the case almost immediately. (00:49:45)
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Audio problem: When Miss Fisher is interrogating Stone and asks him "What's the matter Mr. Stone..." he's gulping down his liquor. She finishes the sentence ("cat got your tongue?") in a separate shot, and the sound of him just putting down the glass is heard. But if you look at the little bit of him that is poking in the foreground, he's puffing smoke instead. Kinda hard to do that with a mouthful of whiskey. (00:31:40)
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Factual error: When the compromising pictures of the lovers in bed are shown, it's also shown that some are taken in rapid succession, with Charles noticing, covering up, charging at the camera. All this quickfire shutter action would be really too much advanced paparazzi tech for the 20s! In the same episode Miss Fisher gets her mugshot taken and it's taken with a big and clunky camera. (00:20:00)
5th Sep 2019
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Continuity mistake: Gargamel finds out of the smurf he captured is Smurfette. She grabs the bars of the cage, but the position of the door hinges changes, switching from her right to her left, back and forth. (00:13:35)
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Character mistake: Miss Fisher is shown tumbling her way into Leonard's apartment in a less than graceful manner, with a rather audible thump, and rolling on the floor and to her feet making quite a ruckus. Despite that, Bobby, who is presumed to be alert and on edge since he's breaking and entering, is completely oblivious of her presence. (00:16:30)
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Continuity mistake: When the two blokes who help Miss Fisher are playing darts, the close-up shows the dart sticking really close to the left line of the segment. When Miss Fisher is nearly impaled by Bert's off-target projectile, the dart on the board is better centered. (00:15:25)
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Revealing mistake: When the band in the nightclub performs the made up song "Mr. Music Man", the suave Mr. Stone, the musician Miss Fisher ends up dancing with, is doing one heck of an hilariously incompetent job at faking to play an instrument, basically playing air-banjo strumming about 3 inches above where the chords are, and wildly off tempo. In the closing bit of the song (as the singer sings "To sin") he even moves his hand at the side of the strings and not above them. (00:03:30)
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Factual error: At the beginning, Charles is trying to sell his airplane to Miss Fisher: he calls it a "Tiger Moth." The series is set in the 20s, and he should have simply said a "de Havilland Moth", which were the most popular recreational aircraft of the decade. The Tiger Moth though came out in 1931, making its mention an impossibility. (when we see the plane, it's a model manufactured in 1942, going by its registration number).
5th Sep 2019
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Continuity mistake: The victim in the close-up is dead with his hand under the bathroom table. But he was seen in the previous shot exhaling his last breath in front of it, with no contact at all with the wooden leg. And as crude as the chalk outline on the bathroom floor is, it is more consistent with that sort of distance and position. (00:00:50 - 00:06:50)
5th Sep 2019
Jessica Jones (2015)
Continuity mistake: As Jessica rips the phone receiver off, in the background Luke can be seen already breaking the bottle and punching the guy as he is shown doing later. If you think this can be somehow justified as an editing trick to show something happening simultaneously, it's not: Jessica witnesses the jealous husband breaking a bottle on Luke's head, but in similar fashion when she has to turn and dodge the punch of the guy who calls her a "psycho", there it is, the bottle-breaking bit happening in the background, behind her. (00:36:00)
5th Sep 2019
Jessica Jones (2015)
Continuity mistake: Jessica is sorting the material for her investigation: when you see her lay down on the table a paper with a yellow sticker on top, look at her reach for the glass. On the table now in front of her there's a pile of pictures just as the scene started. Back to the overhead shot, and papers and pictures are arranged again neatly, including the yellow post-it. (00:17:00)
5th Sep 2019
Fist Fight (2017)

Continuity mistake: As students are watching porn, Strickland struts his way down the school corridor through jumpcuts. Some extras in the background have poses radically different nobody could switch to without reason, like this blonde guy who is turned the other way and that suddenly is leaning against the wall with his arms crossed while Strickland has barely walked one step. (00:01:35)
5th Sep 2019
Jessica Jones (2015)
Continuity mistake: Jessica at the beginning of the episode smashes her aggressive client head first through her door's glass panel. The pictures she took for him are shown slowly floating in the air. However in the close-up of the floor, the shattered glass is all scattered on top of the pictures. (00:02:25)
5th Sep 2019
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
Continuity mistake: A member of the poetry club responds to Will's "You're a poet and you don't know it!" with a sassy "I -AM - a poet and I -DO - know it" in a close-up. In said close-up, she is holding her hand on a book, while in the shots before and after, her arm is in a different position. (00:06:30)
5th Sep 2019
Observe and Report (2009)
Continuity mistake: Ronnie and "Saddamn" are in the middle of the mall trading f-bombs: throughout the scene there are often inconsistencies regarding the position of various people walking by. It's especially noticeable when in some shots the corridors are crowded with people walking or slowly pushing strollers, but after a quick cut suddenly everyone has disappeared. (00:21:00)
5th Sep 2019
Observe and Report (2009)
Continuity mistake: Ronnie approaches Brandi (and incidentally, Bruce) with the excuse to talk about the perv. During the conversation, behind Brandi a woman dressed in black appears and disappears a few times, same as a woman with a white and green shirt who is leaving but comes back just a couple of shots later. (00:04:50 - 00:06:20)
5th Sep 2019
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
Not With My Pig, You Don't - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: During the award dinner, when Hattie says the line about "Zeke sprung from the ground like a big ol eggplant," watch the table in the back, next to the door. The man sitting there wipes his mouth raising a napkin 3 times in 3 separate shots. (00:19:00)
5th Sep 2019
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
Character mistake: When Geoffrey serves tea after his sassy cough at Vivian's sentence about High Tea not being a sacred institution, the actor messes up when it's time to actually serve tea, with a napkin getting caught in the teacup saucer. Granted, accidents do happen, but it's quite uncharacteristic for the perfect butler Geoffrey is portrayed to be, and simply a flub by Joseph Marcell. (00:17:45)
5th Sep 2019
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)

The Fresh Prince Project - S1-E1
Revealing mistake: When Will screams in front of the mirror, imagining himself turned into Carlton, something went wrong making the composite shot and not only you can actually see the line of separation between the two frames, but the superimposed one exposes a bit of the mirror woodframe before it wiggles into the correct position and covers it up. (00:11:30)
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