Continuity mistake: In the pool hall, after Johnny Boy's "skank" comment Joey changes his mind and announces that he won't pay, then Joey points at Jimmy with his raised left hand, but next shot it's Joey's right hand raised while calling Jimmy a mook. (00:30:55)
Super Grover
29th Dec 2019
Mean Streets (1973)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Bill is wearing a military camouflage shirt when he, Ralph, and Pam are taken prisoner and brought to Devereaux's island. When Bill and Ralph are escorted to Devereaux's office the camouflage pattern on Bill's shirt is entirely different. (00:34:00 - 00:39:00)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the top secret airplane causes the light aircraft's loss of control, in the long shots the aircraft's tail is red/blue, but in the closeups it's brown/gold and the style differs. Also note the name "Beechcraft" has duct tape covering part of the name. (00:29:15)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
![The Greatest American Hero mistake picture](/images/screenshots/308000-308999/308427_sm.jpg)
Continuity mistake: When Ralph lifts Bill's car the first time, the blue license plate on the front bumper is gone, but when Ralph is amazed at the suit's power he lifts the car a second time, and the blue license plate is in its proper place on the bumper. (00:35:50)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the engineer shuts down the train he's wearing a long sleeve jacket, but in the closeup we see a bare arm wearing a watch. The terrorists remove that engineer and he's replaced with McGivers, another engineer wearing a jacket, and the same bare arm is in closeups. Then a third engineer on another train has the same arm in the closeup. (00:06:40)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: Preacher forces Ralph to stop the sheriff, so when Ralph flies over and pulls the driver's door off the squad car, we see the Sheriff behind the steering wheel wearing his uniform shirt and dark colored pants of some sort, but when the Sheriff stands up his uniform shirt is properly tucked into his normal tan pants, same as earlier. (00:39:05)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Hit Car - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: After Bill is shot in the hand at the beachhouse one of the hitmen takes off in a van with no side windows, but as Ralph begins to run after it the speeding van is different and has windows on the side, then it's back to the original van. (00:27:35)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: At the end, when the aliens appear in the desert again, Ralph is in the front seat of Pam's car as the aliens suggest Ralph try invisibility, but after Ralph shouts that he lost the instruction book, when it cuts to a long shot Ralph is standing in front of Pam's car, then he's back in the front seat. (00:44:00)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: At the hospital, when Ralph is sitting in the wheelchair the nurse calls for the orderly to help subdue Ralph. Two orderlies appear, and the black orderly's tunic has short sleeves well above his elbows, but as they all enter room six that orderly's tunic now has sleeves considerably longer and baggier than the previous shot. (00:02:45)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When the police take Ralph to the hospital he's wearing his red suit that has slim fitted sleeves without cuffs, but as Ralph's right wrist is being forcibly restrained to the gurney, in the closeup Ralph's right sleeve appears to be the long sleeve of a red fleece shirt instead of his red suit. Additionally, in this closeup the white orderly's arms are much hairier and his watch vanished as well. (00:02:50)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Ralph is taken to the hospital and forcibly restrained to the gurney in room six, the black orderly is wearing a watch on his left wrist, but as he closes the restraint strap around Ralph's left wrist in the closeup that orderly's watch has vanished. (00:03:10)
27th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The Greatest American Hero (2) - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: After the trio escape from the locked room, Bill tells Captain Crash to stop the President's helicopter, and when it cuts to the long shot of the approaching chopper, a different type of helicopter is in following shots. (00:32:45)
24th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: When everybody returns to the bus, in the closeups of Bill turning the ignition key to no effect, the sleeve we see has navy blue and white stripes, but Bill is wearing a light color blue striped shirt. (00:33:20)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Bill tells Beck that he's thinking with his "mediocre, uninspired, middle-level mind," it cuts to an exterior shot of Beck's private jet heading to Vegas, but when the jet lands at the airport in the exterior shot it's a different type of jet. Then when Ralph gets the vision he sees Dunn running back toward Beck's jet, and again it's a different type jet. (00:13:40 - 00:16:15)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: While Ralph and Bill are on Beck's private jet, after Dunn tells Ralph how to use the telekinesis powers of the suit, Dunn takes something to read from the clear acrylic magazine holder, but in the following closeups the magazine holder is now black and an entirely different style. (00:15:15)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Don't Mess Around With Jim - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Beck uses the remote to open the hangar door, as Dunn drives the car into the hangar Bill is sitting in the front passenger seat and Ralph is alone in the back, with the hoods still in place over Ralph's and Bill's heads, but when it cuts to a closeup both hoods have vanished. (00:08:00)
19th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
![The Greatest American Hero mistake picture](/images/screenshots/308000-308999/308328_sm.jpg)
Saturday on Sunset Boulevard - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Theresa is wearing gold earrings when she and Serge reunite, but when Carlisle shows up to arrest Serge, Theresa's right earring vanishes and reappears twice. (00:04:05)
18th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: At the paramilitary base, Bunker is wearing a military fatigue cap with a camouflage pattern while he and Bill are talking in the exterior shots, then when they walk into the office with the radar operator, in the interior shots the camouflage pattern on Bunker's cap is entirely different. When Bunker orders the evacuation, the cap reverts back to the original pattern in the exterior shots. (00:22:40)
18th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: At the laboratory in Needles, when Bunker removes the smallpox virus vial from the case he's wearing a digital watch and a ring on his left hand, but in the vial's closeup Bunker's ring has vanished and his watch is a different style. (00:43:15)
18th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: When Bill and Ralph pull up in front of the motel in Faultline, they see Pam walking out of her own room. The problem is Bill's room number is 127, the same as Pam's room number, also 127. (00:16:55)
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