Revealing mistake: When the Grinch hits the Christmas decoration with the cue stick, the ball rolls over the Christmas tree, not under.
zenee
2nd Jan 2022
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
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Suggested correction: The Grinch picks up the cane, then hits the Christmas ornament with it. The ornament goes past the Christmas tree (in front of it), then knocks the other ornaments off the tree. What is the mistake? The ornament is not supposed to go behind or "under" the tree.
The green branches (i.e. the tree) that the ornament passes over are several inches off the ground, and therefore it shouldn't have rolled over them since it's supposed to be on the ground. In the next shot, we see the ornament rolling on the ground, where it is rolling under the branches before hitting the base and jumping up the tree.
You are correct. I first thought the mistake was talking about a layering issue, where the ornament was supposed to be layered behind the tree, or something. I'm not sure how I misunderstood that, but nonetheless, you're right.
11th Dec 2004
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
Bubblestand / Ripped Pants - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Spongebob first shows Patrick the technique for bubble-blowing, there are two red corals in the background - one on his right and one on his left. Later, when he shows Squidward the technique, the red coral on the left side of the screen disappears.
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16th Aug 2004
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
Jellyfishing / Plankton! - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Spongebob, controlled by Plankton, wasn't aiming directly at Squidward's house, but he eventually breaks through the wall.
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Suggested correction: He might not have been aiming directly at Squidward's house at that moment, but after that shot, there is a 5-second shot of Squidward in his bed before SpongeBob crashes through his wall. Within those 5 seconds off-screen, there was time for Plankton (who is controlling SpongeBob) to turn SpongeBob towards the direction of Squidward's house.
8th Nov 2004
SpongeBob SquarePants (1999)
Jellyfishing / Plankton! - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In Plankton, when SpongeBob steps on Plankton, he steps on him with his left foot, except he pulls Plankton off of his right foot.
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27th Feb 2024
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)
Revealing mistake: In the Milk River scene, you can see the cherry on the sound stage they are recording on.
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Suggested correction: This has to be more specific. Saying, "you can see the cherry on the sound stage they are recording on" is too vague, because there are multiple cherries that the three of them pass while going down the river (and more scattered around the Land of Milk and Cookies). None of them looked off to me, and I couldn't find anything that resembled a sound stage either. If possible, someone please explain.
31st May 2005
Recess (1997)
Audio problem: When Tubby is about to win the race, Mikey shouts "Run Tubby run" in Spinelli's voice.
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Suggested correction: Not really. It definitely sounds like Spinelli due to how he screams the line, but it's not Spinelli's voice. Something similar happens a moment earlier in the episode, when Mikey screams, "Win, win, win!" His voice gets a bit raspy, similar to Spinelli's raspy voice, but those aren't the same voices. Also, I don't know why they would have Pamela Adlon (Spinelli's voice actor) record that one line for Mikey anyway.
8th Mar 2007
Recess: School's Out (2001)
Continuity mistake: When T.J. goes back to the school to investigate the green light, you will first hear him say "9:20." Then a few shots later he says "9:23 and a half." Then one shot later, you will hear him say "9:22 and a fourth."
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Suggested correction: No, absolutely not. When T.J. is watching the school from the bushes, he takes out his voice recorder and says, "9:32 A.M." Two shots later, he says, "9:32 and a half A.M." Finally, two more shots later, he says, "9:32 and three quarters." There is no mistake whatsoever.
9th Feb 2004
Recess: School's Out (2001)
Continuity mistake: In the scene in the treehouse, when the kids are eating ice cream and scattered around with spoons, Gretchen is not eating ice cream, and she says, "Guys. Aren't we supposed eat supper before dessert?" After she says that, all of a sudden, they're all sitting around each other, and Spinelli and Gus are missing their spoons.
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Suggested correction: After T.J. takes the ice cream out of his bag, all the kids (excluding Gretchen) run to a corner of the treehouse to eat it. Then, as Gretchen says her line, we see a shot of the kids in that same corner together, eating the ice cream. Spinelli and Gus also have spoons in their hands. There are no continuity issues.
9th Feb 2004
Recess: School's Out (2001)
Continuity mistake: When the kids are in the vent Mikey is in the back, but when he is about to burp he is in the front.
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Suggested correction: Mikey moves to the front way before he burps, actually. When the gang first reaches the end of the vent, Mikey is in the back. After T.J. says, "The bad guys are talking," the gang is off screen for well over a minute, and when we see them again, Mikey is in the front. He definitely had more than enough time to move to the front.
8th Jun 2005
Recess (1997)
The Great Jungle Gym Stand Off - S1-E21
Other mistake: When TJ says that he and the rest of the gang met at old rusty, it shows you a flashback and the kindergartners are wild, but they only became wild when Gus arrives later (as said in All Growed Down).
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Suggested correction: It's not true. After Gus "changed" the kindergartners he was sent away from school.
This correction misses the point of the mistake. In "Recess: All Growed Down," when Gus moves to the school, the kindergartners are shown as "normal," but then Gus changes them to be wild, and they start to have torn clothes and paint on them. However, in the flashback scene in this episode, it shows the gang meeting on the first day (excluding Gus), and they have torn clothes and paint on them. This doesn't make sense because they only became that way when Gus moved to the school.
19th Apr 2004
Recess (1997)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, Gretchen says she's short on money, so she can't get a chocolate milk, just a white milk. But, when T.J. walks by with his food, Gretchen has a chocolate milk, such is evident from the brown carton.
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Suggested correction: Gretchen tells the lunch lady that because she is one penny short, she will swap the chocolate milk (in her hand) for a regular. She puts the milk on her tray and walks off screen. Then, when T.J. walks past her, the camera pans over to Gretchen watching T.J. with that same chocolate milk on her tray she is holding. Gretchen got distracted by T.J.'s encounter with the lunch lady and stopped to watch him, but she was still going to swap the chocolate milk for a regular later on.
25th Jun 2004
Recess (1997)
Plot hole: Why did Mikey jump to make the feathers fly if Vince said to abort? When TJ gets hit by the feathers, he's on the 'X marks the spot.' But when he got honeyed, he was nowhere near it. Before TJ gets feathered, He gets up onto his feet, like he had fallen down. But he was still standing when Mikey fired the feathers.
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25th Mar 2004
Recess (1997)
The Shiner - S3-E9
Factual error: In the beginning, right before the class is noticing TJ's shiner, Ms. Grotke says, "Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President..." which is true, but on the poster behind her, it says "Abraham Lincoln, 14th President."
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Suggested correction: Incorrect. The poster correctly reads, "Abraham Lincoln, 16th President."
5th Apr 2004
Recess (1997)
Revealing mistake: Right after TJ and friends are looking at the "thermometers" of cans, the Ashleys have at least 4 crates of cans that they bring in on forklifts. However, the end result is 4,362 cans for the Ashleys. This may seem kind of picky, but I think there was more cans than 4,362.
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Suggested correction: This is literally just an assumption, and nothing else. 4,362 is a pretty huge number, and with the amount of cans that we see the Ashleys collect in the episode, combined with the amount of cans that they and the rest of Miss Furley's class collected off-screen, it is perfectly believable that Miss Furley's class would end up collecting that amount of cans.
25th Jun 2004
Recess (1997)
Factual error: When Menlo is hoppin' scotch, he lands on 10 with both feet, and 10 is a single square.
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Suggested correction: He does, but this is simply a mistake Menlo makes as a character. And it is not a 'character mistake'; I can see many people making a very simple mistake like this while playing hopscotch. I know I probably have as a kid. Also, he lands on an 8 square, not a 10 square.
4th Nov 2024
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Corrected entry: When the stroller rolls out of the antique store and crashes into the railing, in the shot where the lady runs up to it, look at the attendant inside the ticket booth in the background. She is completely frozen, with no animation on her at all. (01:17:05)
Correction: This is simply wrong. The attendant can be seen moving and reacting to what’s going on.
You are likely referring to the shot before the stroller crashes into the railing. The attendant is moving there, but after the stroller crashes and the lady runs up to it, she becomes motionless.
Correction: When the lady runs up to the crashed baby carriage, in this shot the attendant in the booth in the background (seen in this specific shot for 2 seconds) you described as "motionless" and "frozen, with no animation on her at all." This attendant does not display movement in this shot; however, her stance and facial expression convey shock at what just happened, so she's staring with her eyes wide open and mouth agape. There's really nothing "revealing" about it.
I suppose I put this mistake under the wrong category, but I never stated that the attendant doesn't react to what happened. You mentioned her stance and facial expression, and I agree with that. But here's the thing: the attendant is standing still, which is fine, but there is no movement to make her look... well, alive. As a result, she looks like a statue. It's an animation error. That's what I'm saying. If I'm still wrong, please explain why, because it really doesn't look right to me.
Within the 2 seconds this attendant is visible, she doesn't look like a statue; she just looks completely transfixed and shocked - appropriate for that moment. And actually, movement to make her look "alive" is unnecessary because for those 2 seconds she's seen, the fact that she's standing there transfixed, with her shocked expression, is quite human. Her animation does not appear odd or weird in any way, to me.
I mean, she still looks off to me, but fair enough, I suppose.
29th Nov 2003
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: In the scenes where Marty enters the Lyon estates, if you look close you can see a stop sign, but if you watch the next two movies the stop sign has been removed. (00:11:50)
Correction: I watched the films and the stop sign is still present.
Correction: The stop sign is present in all three films. It has never been removed.
8th Dec 2018
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)
Continuity mistake: When Linus and Lucy are heading to the pumpkin patch at the beginning of the film, Linus takes his blanket with him, but when they pick up a pumpkin and march back, Linus no longer has his blanket.
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Suggested correction: When they get to the pumpkin patch, Linus drops his blanket. When they leave, he leaves his blanket at the pumpkin patch. He might have forgotten it, but it's not a mistake.
15th Jan 2015
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Continuity mistake: While Schroeder is playing piano, Snoopy abruptly pops in out of nowhere, in the middle of the frame, and starts dancing.
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28th Feb 2007
Hey Arnold! (1996)
Downtown as Fruits / Eugene's Bike - S1-E1
Corrected entry: At the beginning, Iggy can be seen very briefly without his sunglasses.
Correction: What exactly is the trivia here? We simply see Iggy lift up his sunglasses for a short moment; there is nothing substantial about it. And it's not even the only time he is without them; in "Arnold Betrays Iggy," he is not wearing them at all, both at the beginning and the end of the episode.
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