Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, Bender is wearing a lightning bolt earring in his left ear. However, at the end of the movie when Claire gives him her diamond stud, and he goes to place it in his ear, the lightning bolt is gone. (00:20:15 - 01:34:08)
Super Grover
23rd Jun 2022
The Breakfast Club (1985)
7th Jul 2022
Speed (1994)
Corrected entry: "Tuneman" has no actual license plate on his car, just the same vanity plate on front and back.
Correction: The Jaguar owner has personalized plates, and the rear license plate has the registration tabs (stickers) affixed to it, the month (Nov) at the left and the yellow tab with the year at the right.
26th Oct 2011
Insidious (2010)
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Dalton's father is at work, on the blackboard behind him you can see a face from the movie Saw drawn. In the next shot, the face is erased.
Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.
Suggested correction: If by "in the next shot" you meant the scene when Josh dismisses his class, the Billy puppet face is not erased in the shots facing Josh, we just don't see the left side of the blackboard. Note, in wide shots and side shots, to the right of the Billy face we can make out the erased words "new deal" and 2 vertical squiggly lines (map-type drawing). In the shots facing Josh we still see those vertical lines and the word "deal" but the Billy face is simply offscreen, to the left.
21st Aug 2008
Batman (1966)
The Penguin Declines (3) - S2-E39
Corrected entry: After all the stow-away baddies jump from the Batmobile's trunk, they leave it open. Between shots, it magically closes itself. (00:19:30)
Correction: When the baddies climb out from the Batmobile's trunk, the trunk is open at 00:17:43. Then we don't even see the trunk again until 00:19:54, when the brawl breaks out, and Robin jumps atop the Batmobile and slams the trunk closed.
21st Aug 2008
Batman (1966)
The Joker's Hard Times (2) - S2-E38
Continuity mistake: The Batmobile pulls up in front of the Platter-Porium, and you can see that only Batman and Robin are inside the car. When the shot cuts to close-up, though, Venus is sitting in between them. (Tight squeeze: it's a 2-seater and she must be straddling the transmission hump and hand brake - ouch.) The shot cuts back to full for them to jump from the car, and Venus has disappeared again. (00:13:40)
Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.
Suggested correction: We do see Venus in all three shots. When the Batmobile pulls up in front of Platter-Porium, in the first wide shot we see blonde hair between Batman and Robin. Then after the closeup, in the second wide shot (same angle as the first) when Batman and Robin have exited the car, we see Venus turn and poke her head out of the Batmobile, on Robin's side of the car. Also, in the closeup when Batman opens the door, we see Venus is sharing the passenger seat with Robin, directly beside the transmission hump and hand brake, so no ouch for her. Venus does the same thing in the next episode, when she's brought to the Batcave.
19th Jun 2022
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Vengeance Formulation - S3-E9
Corrected entry: Penny and Bernadette are working and Penny write her hair was in two braids with clips on top. But the second time we see her (same work shift), her hair is partially pulled back with bangs.
Correction: It's not the same work shift. Note that Howard isn't wearing the same clothes.
21st Sep 2002
Top Gun (1986)
Corrected entry: In the first scene where the pilots are introduced to Charlie, Iceman's RIO is has blue Walkman earphones around his neck. You see him put them on and then the next scene you see him with them around his neck.
Correction: Iceman's RIO is Slider, and he does have headphones around his neck. When Ice calls bull on Mav's inverted comment, at 00:27:45, Slider smirks and raises just the two blue foam ear pads up to his ears, leaving the metal headband still around his neck. It's not until 7 shots later that we see Slider, and now the blue foam ear pads are down at his neck again. It was more than enough time for them to have moved.
27th Mar 2007
Top Gun (1986)
Corrected entry: During the volleyball match, Maverick's dog-tag disappears.
Correction: During this entire scene, Maverick's silver chain is always around his neck, even when we don't see the dog tags. I confirmed this by pausing and enlarging the screen. In quite a few of the shots, Maverick's dog tags are hanging down at his back, so they may be overlooked. The tags are visible whenever Maverick turns and/or we see his back. However, what does actually vanish and reappear is his watch, which is noted in another mistake.
14th Jun 2016
Top Gun (1986)
Corrected entry: The scene in the TCTS room, when they are evaluating dog fight maneuvers, Charlie is sitting on the desk wearing a beige pencil skirt, a few moments later when chasing Maverick down outside, she is in a black pencil skirt.
Correction: It is not "a few moments later" between those scenes. During Charlie's review of Maverick's flight performance Maverick is wearing his uniform, and Charlie is wearing a polo top with a light colored shirt (00:51:30). Then sufficient time has gone by because in the next scene (00:52:30) when Charlie is trying to get Maverick to listen to her, both are dressed differently, Maverick is now wearing his civilian clothes, and Charlie is now wearing a different blouse and a black skirt.
27th Aug 2001
Top Gun (1986)
Corrected entry: In the bathroom, Charlie has a tube of lipstick, next cut it's gone.
Correction: You can't say "next cut it's gone" because it's simply not true. When Charlie is holding her lipstick tube it cuts to 3 consecutive closeups, which last approximately 30 seconds, where we don't even see her arms or hands. Plenty of time for Charlie to simply tuck her lipstick into her pocket, while her arms are offscreen.
Plot hole: Elizabeth goes to drop the medallion over the side of the Pearl. Barbossa and the crew gasp and take a step forward revealing they want/need the medallion thus giving Elizabeth the upper hand in the negotiations. Why not let the medallion drop into the water below the Pearl and simply "take a walk" to get the medallion off the ocean floor? The crew can walk under water as shown later in the film so this shouldn't be an issue. (00:38:15)
Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.
Suggested correction: Why not "simply take a walk" to retrieve that medallion? They have spent many years trying to find this bit of precious gold. If it's dropped, the underwater currents will most certainly carry it away, and if they walk underwater their feet will kick up the seabed making it even more difficult to locate. These cursed pirates have finally found their last missing piece, which would once and for all end their miserable curse, so they will not risk it being dropped into the sea.
Suggested correction: They only got startled from the idea, not realizing yet they could reclaim it easily, they are so close after all. Barbossa is not pleading to her, and they were hardly negotiating, Elizabeth was even only demanding they leave, nothing yet about the gold. All the scene does is give the dialogue needed for them to think her name is Turner, so they would keep her onboard and not just the gold. It's not an important part of the plot that they let her think she has the upper hand, if at all.
30th May 2022
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Character mistake: When Allison falls down the stairs her fiancé says "EMILY!"
Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.
Suggested correction: He shouts "Ali", short for Allison, not Emily.
Suggested correction: He shouts, "Ali" which is short for Allison.
31st Mar 2006
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Annabelle gives Frederick her gun, he places it in the mini-coffin and closes the coffin. However, in one of the next shots, we see that all coffins are open.
Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.
Suggested correction: It's not "in one of the next shots" it's actually many shots later, so anyone could have touched that mini coffin for any reason during the time off-screen. After Frederick closes the top of the mini coffin, it cuts to the scene upstairs with Nora and the missing severed head. Then a considerable period of time has passed until we see the mini coffins again, when Lance walks into that room and sees Pritchard with the knife.
24th May 2022
Emergency! (1972)
Other mistake: Stoker prematurely plots 617 Kimble Road on the map as the dispatcher is barely starting to say the address. Then the squad leads in the departure from the station, but when the squad arrives to the above dispatched location the engine is already finished with the dumpster fire.
Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.
Suggested correction: First part of the mistake is already noted in another mistake, and second part is incorrect. Rewatch the scene, please. The Engine and Squad are dispatched to 617-1/2 Kimball for an unknown type rescue, and Squad leads. At the destination, Captain Stanley walks to the front door and rings the bell, while off camera Roy and Johnny get rescue gear and join Stanley at the front door. Dispatch then sends the Engine to a trash container fire at Farber/Wilmington, while Roy and Johnny's Squad stays with the current rescue involving dieffenbachia. After they're done, the Squad joins the Engine.
24th Aug 2021
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: At the start when Homer leaves with Bart, Patty and Selma have their hands in their laps. As soon as they start speaking however their arms are crossed in front of their chests. (00:01:50)
28th Apr 2022
The Twilight Zone (1959)
Continuity mistake: When Martin meets his parents in their house, the door is split and closes in the middle with a screen. In the next shot, it is a full door without a screen.
Upvote valid corrections to help move entries into the corrections section.
Suggested correction: As seen from the exterior, the outer door is a very wide screen door with its handle to the left and hinges at the right. Behind the screen door are two solid doors which swing open inward from the center. Notice the wide screen door is the door Martin bangs on when his father closes the solid double doors (with individual doorknobs), and later in the episode when Martin's mother walks outside we see her push open the screen door.
28th Apr 2022
The Dropout (2022)
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth comes home and calls for her boyfriend, whose name is Sunny, she calls him Tyler instead.
Correction: When Elizabeth walks into the house she lets Sunny know she's home by calling out, "Hey, Tiger," which refers back to Sunny's earlier aggressiveness at the office.
9th Jan 2019
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Kill Chain - S11-E12
Corrected entry: Ellie Bishop introduces herself to Delilah as Emily Bishop in the elevator scene. Her name's Eleanor in the series, but the actress' real name is Emily. She used her real first name in the scene.
Correction: Ellie correctly says, "I'm Ellie Bishop," when she introduces herself to Delilah. I slowed the speed down to 0.5x to confirm.
27th Jul 2019
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Corrected entry: When McGee is doing the run down on Staff Sergeant Cryer, the file on screen shows McGee's lines. (00:07:25)
Correction: It's not the actor's "lines" that are printed on that page, McGee is simply reading aloud Cryer's DOD Duty Specs.
20th Jan 2021
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Corrected entry: When Tony and Ziva are talking to Layla, you can see a random hand come into shot to hold Amira's hand. (00:28:52)
Correction: That is Leyla's left hand we see, not a random hand.
Join the mailing list
Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.
Correction: Bender's lightening bolt earring doesn't just vanish between shots. The fact is, Bender and Claire have been offscreen for quite some time before the closeup of Claire's hand placing her diamond stud in the palm of Bender's hand. We didn't actually see Claire removing her diamond stud, but we know that she did it, offscreen. So while Claire removed her own earring, she told Bender that she wants him to keep it, and he removed his. Viewers do not need to see every single moment onscreen.
Super Grover ★