Corrected entry: When Mary is helping the children with spelling she begins to spell Frankenstein and spells it wrong, with an I after the K, instead of an E.
Super Grover
4th Jan 2023
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
27th Aug 2001
Forrest Gump (1994)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Robin Wright is supposed to be playing the guitar and singing nude in the club, you can see the nude-coloured thong she is wearing when they show her from the back.
Correction: The thong is so noticeable that it is apparent that it's presence is a deliberate one. Two explanations within the storyline: One, it's a topless bar not a totally-nude bar and she chose to wear a thong that was flesh/skin colored. Or two, it is a totally-nude bar and perhaps she planned to strip after the song, and didn't get a chance to get that far, due to the unruly crowd and Forrest's interruption.
But what year was it supposed to have been? Thongs weren't invented until 1974.
This scene takes place around 1967 and Jenny is wearing a G-string with a fur front. G-strings had been in use for many years prior to 1967.
30th Nov 2022
The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)
Corrected entry: The Duke Boys drive around in a blue car instead of their General Lee.
Correction: This is a plot point of the storyline, not any kind of a mistake. At the start of this episode, we hear Bo and Luke talking while Rosco is chasing them, and Bo says, "How does he know it's us if it ain't even our car." It's mentioned a few times during this episode, including by narrator, Waylon Jennings. Bo and Luke are driving a "1975 blue Plymouth Fury" as noted by its owner, Cooter Davenport, who was running the moonshine for Boss Hogg.
5th Nov 2022
Law & Order (1990)
Continuity mistake: Detectives Cosgrove and Shaw head to the hospital to interview a doctor which they do in a hallway. At one point the door behind the doctor is a single door then it changes to two doors and then finally when the detectives leave there is no door at all.
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Suggested correction: Dr. Mercer and the detectives stand at a T-intersection of 2 halls (Cosgrove and Shaw at the top arm of the T). In 2 shots facing Mercer head-on, a single door is at the end of the hall directly behind her. In a shot facing Mercer's right side there are double-doors beside her, to her left. The last shot of Mercer is head-on with the single door at the end of the hall. When the detectives leave in the shot from a new angle, we cannot see the hallway (at the right) where Mercer stood, only the opening to the hall (00:18:25).
5th Nov 2022
The Goldbergs (2013)
Rhinestones and Roses - S10-E7
Corrected entry: PopPop makes a reference to YouTube which didn't surface until 2005.
Correction: When Erica tells Pop-Pop that he should go see Adam while he's working at the diner, Pop-Pop agrees and responds, "Also, all this sad sandwich and horse-brush talk makes me want to take a break from you two for a while." Pop-Pop says, "you two" referring to Erica and Geoff, not YouTube.
5th Nov 2022
The Closer (2005)
Corrected entry: When Terrence walks into the bar Gabriel stops him, looks at the front of his shirt, and calls him Terrence. If you look at the front of Terrence's shirt you can plainly see just his last name not his first.
Correction: Yes, Terrence's uniform shirt has a patch with his surname "Hynes" at the right side of his shirt. Rewatch, and you'll also see Terrence Hynes has a photo ID tag with his name that is clipped to the pocket at the left side of his uniform shirt, under the Forensics patch. That is how Sgt. Gabriel knew his name is Terrence. Note, Terrence's ID tag is also visible later in this episode, as well as following episodes he's in.
16th Oct 2022
The Nanny (1993)
Continuity mistake: Fran's belt changes when she is in the kitchen from a pink leather one to a zebra one and then back to the original.
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Suggested correction: As soon as it cuts from the show's intro to the first shot in the kitchen, we see Fran buckling her old zebra-striped belt around her waist. When Niles picks up the artificial lemon tree we see Fran touching her belt, and as the camera faces Niles when he exits the kitchen Fran unbuckles her belt offscreen. In the next shot Fran's zebra-striped belt is in her hand, and she places it back in the box of her old stuff from her Ma's house. No continuity issue. Starting time code 00:03:35.
12th Oct 2022
CHiPs (1977)
Corrected entry: The crash lady is two different people. After the car crashes and John tries to pull her out, she's an older looking blondish woman. But after John pulls her free, in the next shots, she is a much younger brunette gal with large blood smudges on her face.
Correction: The actress is Pamelyn Ferdin, and it's her inside the car in the interior shots, as well as the exterior shots while Jon holds her on the ground. Depending on how the light hits her, her dirty blonde hair can look more blonde or brown. Time code starting at 00:25:20.
25th Sep 2022
The Waltons (1972)
Corrected entry: When Grandma / Esther takes Jon-boy aside to ask him about his grandfather's whereabouts, she says "Zeb" instead 'your Grandpa'.
Correction: While the kids are entertaining themselves with hand shadow puppets, Esther pulls John, not John-Boy, aside and asks, "Isn't Zeb with you?" In fact, twice she says "Zeb" to John, about his own father. And later while Zeb is sitting on Ike's pool table, Zeb says, "Esther" when he's talking to John-Boy. Zeb does this again with John-Boy when he learns Esther's going to the dance. This type of thing occurs throughout the series; it's normal.
Correction: That's not a mistake, character or otherwise. She simply used her husband's name. She even says Zeb several times through the episode. My own Grandparents and parents have switched between using their spouses' names or saying "your ___" depending on the situation.
2nd Aug 2022
Twins (1988)
Corrected entry: When Julius is first driving the Red mustang on two wheels, when it lands back onto all four wheels on the long shot you see the airbag deploy. It's no longer deployed the next scene of Julius smiling in the car. (00:30:50)
Correction: The driver's airbag does not deploy in the long shot, we can see the seat and driver behind the steering wheel. Just as the car lands on all 4 of its tires, a translucent white glaring reflection begins to appear on the right side of the windshield, and as the car fully lands the translucent reflection extends across three quarters of the windshield (could be the reflection of a lighting panel or location lighting).
Correction: It's a 1988 Mustang 5.0, they didn't get airbags until 1990. What you are seeing can't be an airbag. Even if the car did have airbags it is unfathomable that a major film production would not disable them during a stunt.
2nd Jun 2022
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Visible crew/equipment: When Lorelai joins Rory at Luke's, as she opens the door, she reveals camera equipment outside the door. (00:20:00)
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Suggested correction: It's not camera equipment you're seeing; it's one of the newspaper dispensers on the sidewalk outside Luke's, at the curb. These newspaper dispensers are visible in many episodes.
4th Sep 2022
Criminal Minds (2005)
Corrected entry: The kidnappers send the hostage's ear in a box. It is a left ear. When they FBI rescue her she is clutching her bloody right ear.
Correction: Watch the scene again (00:25:10). The severed ear in the box is Sophie's right ear.
11th Aug 2022
The Waltons (1972)
The Actress - S1-E16
Corrected entry: Johnboy tells Alvira he's 17, when in The Hunt and The Sinner he'd turned 18.
Correction: In S1xE5 "The Hunt" John-Boy's age is not mentioned at all in this episode. In S1xE8 "The Sinner" John-Boy's age is mentioned twice as being 17 years old; first, while he's with Zeb in the vehicle, then later when he speaks to Matthew Fordwick.
11th Aug 2022
Emergency! (1972)
Captain Hook - S6-E8
Other mistake: As the fire apparatus are leaving the station for the helicopter rescue, the shot from the front shows doors at the back of the building but when they are leaving it shows a brick wall at the back of the building.
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Suggested correction: When Station 54 are leaving for the "aircraft down" rescue, in the exterior long shot from across the street (of the real Station 127), we are not seeing the apparatus bay with a head-on frontal view. The camera is positioned so that viewers see the apparatus bay at an angle, and we are only able to see the very long interior left brick wall, with the doors to locker room/bathroom and the dorm. The back of the building with the rear roll-up door is simply not visible at this particular angle.
9th Aug 2022
Friends (1994)
The One with the Monkey - S1-E10
Corrected entry: When Ross comes in with the monkey there is a visible shadow in the bathroom and a crew member is closing the door.
Correction: That's Phoebe not a crew member. She walked to the bathroom after her comment about the name Bethel (00:00:25).
27th Jul 2022
Resident Evil (2022)
Corrected entry: We see a zombie (Barry) cuffed to a pole in a bathroom. A few dramatic cello strokes later, there's a close-up of Zombarry ripping his hand off to facilitate eating Jade's face. Zombarry lunges at Jade and his hand is back. (00:24:20)
Correction: From S1xE2, "The Devil You Know." Perhaps use pause and/or play it in slow motion. In the closeup of him "ripping his hand" it's not his entire hand, bones and all, that is "ripping off" at the wrist. It's actually only the hand's skin layer surface, nails included, that comes loose and slides off, leaving the skin-glove hand dangling from the handcuff. After this, the actor's hand has the appearance (kind of meh) of a skinless bony hand, which is most noticeable when Barry attacks Melinda.
21st Sep 2018
The Nanny (1993)
Corrected entry: In the Christmas Episode (s1e8), we are told Fran's watch meant a lot to her because her grandmother gave it to her on her deathbed. In this episode Fran has two living grandmothers.
Correction: Fran's bubbe (Yiddish for grandmother) Sophie is dead though, this is mostly likely a reference to her.
Who is Sophie? Fran's Grandmas are Nettie Fine and Yetta Rosenberg. Both are alive.
Bubbie Sophie is mentioned in S4xE4 The Rosie Show. She's portrayed in the dream cemetery sequence by Fran Drescher. I believe that Bubbie Sophie is meant to be Yetta's mother, so Fran's great-grandmother, and she may have died right before Fran was born, or when Fran was a baby.
19th Jul 2022
ER (1994)
Let It Snow - S15-E9
Corrected entry: Sam is in the bathroom washing her hands. As she goes to leave, 'Ladies Room' is on the glass of the door, however it is oriented facing the inside of the room. It should appear backwards so it would be seen correctly from the outside, not inside. (00:39:52)
Correction: This shot opens on a closeup of Sam's hands under the faucet, as she stands at the sink washing her face, in front of the mirror on the wall over the sink. Watch as the camera faces the mirror, so it's Sam's reflection drying her face and walking out the bathroom door. "Ladies room" is printed on the exterior side of the door's glass window. From the interior side the words are reversed, but since the camera faces the mirror, viewers see the reflection of the words the right way, not reversed.
18th Jul 2022
Batman: Arkham Knight
Corrected entry: The firefighters' helmets should read "GCFD" not "FDGC" since the police department's referred to as "GCPD."
Correction: Gotham City's fire dept is known as both FDGC and GCFD, in the same way as NY's fire dept is known as the FDNY and police dept known as NYPD.
18th Jul 2022
Friends (1994)
The One Where Heckles Dies - S2-E3
Corrected entry: When Mr. Heckles goes back to his apartment, it looks as if he is going upstairs, when actually his apartment is below Monica and Rachel's.
Correction: When Heckles turns away from Monica's doorway he steps up onto the upper landing, not the stairs. The stairwell is at the end of the hallway (on this upper landing) where Heckles is heading, and we don't see him reach the stairs. Other episodes such as S8xE7 "The One With The Stain" and S10xE8 "The One With The Late Thanksgiving" show the hallway.
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Correction: Pete does not ask about the spelling of Frankenstein. Pete asks how to spell "frankincense" for his Christmas play, which Mary begins to spell correctly (01:27:35 and 01:27:55) before it cuts to Zuzu.
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