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."
zenee
8th Mar 2007
Recess: School's Out (2001)
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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.
4th Jan 2022
Mr. Bean (1989)
Continuity mistake: Just after Mr. Bean's hand is stomped on by one of the boys, and he lets go of the diving board, the camera pans back to show him falling into the water, but the same shot shows no-one else standing on either of the diving boards. The two boys should have still been standing on the higher one.
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Suggested correction: This is only an error in the "widescreen," aka cropped version of the episode. In the original 4:3 edit, you can see the two boys at the top of the screen, but the "widescreen" shot cuts them off.
And even then, the boys' legs are still visible in the widescreen version.
7th Jun 2005
Recess (1997)
Schoolworld - S4-E21
Corrected entry: When S.A.L tells Principal Prickly that he's retired he says drive safely, but later locks him in his office.
Correction: SAL locks Principal Prickly in his office to prevent him from pulling his plug, because he tells SAL, "I'm pulling your plug," a few seconds after SAL tells him to drive carefully.
20th Jan 2021
Henry Stickmin Collection
Factual error: In 'Escaping the Prison', the description for the Opacitator says that it will turn you opaque, allowing you to pass through walls. 2 problems. First, opaque is the opposite of transparent (see through), despite what the description claims. Also, the transparency of objects only affect how much light passes through them, it doesn't affect any other physics (a glass can't go through walls just because it is transparent). Even if the device did make objects opaque, it would not affect any physics or have any effect on Henry.
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Suggested correction: The word "opaque" is indeed used incorrectly (there is an achievement you can get called "It's a joke..." by clicking on the word "opaque"), but the Opacitator specifically states, "The more opaque (see through) you get, the easier it will be for you to pass through solid objects." This is just how this specific device works. Not all transparent things can pass through objects, just the person that the Opacitator makes transparent.
4th Aug 2005
Finding Nemo (2003)
Continuity mistake: Towards the middle of the movie, we see a shot with Nemo staring out of the tank, depressed. The camera slowly pans toward the side of the tank and Nemo is reflected in the glass twice. However, towards the end of the movie when Nemo is playing dead, all the fish swim to the other side of the tank and Bloat says something like, "What's happening? Why is he playing dead?" The camera pans to the side of the tank again, but the fish are only reflected once this time. They should have been reflected twice.
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Suggested correction: The camera does not pan to the side of the tank, nor do the fish swim past the edge of the glass. The submitter might have confused the black cord that's outside of the tank as the edge of the glass. The view of the fish is correct.
7th Sep 2017
Finding Nemo (2003)
Audio problem: When Marlin and Dory swim into the deepest part of the ocean to reclaim their mask, they see a light (which we know later, belongs to an angler fish). They stop right underneath the light and says "What is it?" but his mouth doesn't match the movements. It looks as though the animators had Albert Brooks (Marlin's voice actor) say a different line than what was animated.
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15th Jun 2004
Finding Nemo (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Marlin and Coral check on the eggs in the nest, when they first look, no eggs can be seen at the mouth of the cave but a couple of shots later the eggs appear.
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Suggested correction: The reason the eggs appear is that the camera may have moved downwards, thus closer to the eggs that would have been at the bottom of the hollow. If it was more upwards, as in the first shot, the eggs would have been below the camera's view.
The camera doesn't move down, it zooms out. There are eggs at the mouth of the cave in the second shot, and in the first shot, the same area of the cave is shown, but there are no eggs visible. The different shot sizes don't matter here.
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