Continuity mistake: At Skull Rock, after Captain Hook skewers his own feathered hat, when Peter draws his dagger the scabbard promptly vanishes from his right hip and shortly reappears. Then it vanishes again, and reappears when Peter calls Hook a codfish on a hook. (00:43:10)
Super Grover
13th Feb 2023
Peter Pan (1953)
13th Feb 2023
Peter Pan (1953)
Continuity mistake: While Tiger Lily is being held at Skull Rock by Captain Hook, her dress has red and purple stripes around the neckline, with the purple closer to her neck. When Smee is rowing the boat, the two colors near Tiger Lily's neckline have switched in this shot, with the red now closer to her neck. (00:39:30 - 00:41:05)
13th Feb 2023
Peter Pan (1953)
Continuity mistake: In the first few shots on the Jolly Roger, the pirate with red long hair has a wooden leg on his right side, which then switches to his left side. This switch continues in later shots. (00:20:45)
13th Feb 2023
Peter Pan (1953)
Other mistake: At Skull Rock, when Peter Pan mimics Captain Hook's voice while talking to Smee, just as he says, "Oh, and one more thing," note the handle of Peter's dagger. The animation of his dagger is bizarre, the handle's grip is separated from its pommel, as if it's going through Peter's forearm. (00:41:50)
12th Feb 2023
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Continuity mistake: After the bathtub scene, when Nancy opens the mirrored medicine cabinet and removes the bottle of Sta-Awake, her fingernails are short as usual, but in the bottle's closeup Nancy's fingernails are quite long. (00:34:10)
11th Feb 2023
Doctor Who (1963)
Visible crew/equipment: (Episode 5) After The Daleks plan to organize a full-scale search of the jungle at daybreak, when it cuts to The Doctor and Ian, the shadow of the boom mic moves around at the left side of the screen. (00:16:35)
11th Feb 2023
Doctor Who (1963)
Visible crew/equipment: (Episode 5) When Vicki is in the jungle she happens upon the TARDIS and bangs on the door begging to be let in. In the next shot we can see the boom pole/mic hovering in the background, then a hand appears which seems to guide the actress to head in that direction. (00:07:45)
11th Feb 2023
Moonstruck (1987)
Visible crew/equipment: Loretta calls for Ronny at the bakery, and when he picks up the phone then promptly hangs up on her, the dark protruding outline of the microphone wire is visible at his right side. It happens again when Loretta visits the bakery and Ronny tells her Johnny took his life from him. Additionally, later when Ronny and Loretta spot each other at the fountain in the Lincoln Center Plaza, there appears to be an actor's mark at Ronny's feet. (00:25:00 - 00:27:05)
11th Feb 2023
Doctor Who (1963)
Visible crew/equipment: (Episode 4) After Ian shudders from the apparition he continues to follow The Doctor down the hall, and the camera casts a shadow on Ian. Then, when The Doctor finds the stairs leading to the laboratory he tells Ian he must see what's on the table. Just as Ian states his displeasure at the thought, the boom mic (and its shadow) pops up into view at the bottom of the screen, in front of Ian. (00:05:15)
11th Feb 2023
Doctor Who (1963)
The Power of the Daleks - S4-E3
Deliberate mistake: During all the animated parts of "The Power of the Daleks" in numerous shots various illustrated character's such as The Doctor, Polly, and Ben have their buttons, pockets, patches, etc, flipped to the opposite side, sometimes even within the very same shot.
11th Feb 2023
Doctor Who (1963)
Visible crew/equipment: (Episode 6) At the very end, after Vicki and The Doctor have watched Barbara and Ian's return to 1965 on the Time-Space Visualiser, when Vicki hugs The Doctor the moving boom mic casts a shadow at the top, left of the screen. (00:24:30)
8th Feb 2023
Moonstruck (1987)
Continuity mistake: When Loretta takes Johnny to the airport, she's driving his Oldsmobile with the "Ninety-Eight" emblem missing from the side of the car, but when Loretta pulls into the lot with Mr. Johnny's car, the emblem is attached to the Olds. (00:09:00 - 00:12:25)
8th Feb 2023
Moonstruck (1987)
Continuity mistake: At the end, while Cosmo pours the Mumm champagne into the two flutes in the closeup, Loretta wears the ring on her middle finger, but it cuts to the wide shot and the ring has suddenly switched to Loretta's ring finger. (01:36:55)
5th Feb 2023
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Visible crew/equipment: After Jack kills Fro'tak and disintegrates his body with the Zat gun he hides from the guards, then as soon as it cuts to Teal'c and Drey'auc at the house, four T-marks become visible on the floor - white, orange, pink, and blue. (00:23:15)
5th Feb 2023
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Visible crew/equipment: After Daniel finally collapses in the supply room Jack hugs and comforts him, then it cuts to Sam telling Hammond about the probe's data, and an actor's T-mark is visible on the floor near the stairs. (00:39:10)
5th Feb 2023
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Visible crew/equipment: When Teal'c is being led away in chains Hammond says the chains were Maybourne's idea, and as the camera is dollying out the chalk T-mark becomes visible on the floor at Jack's feet, particularly when he walks away. (00:11:00)
5th Feb 2023
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Visible crew/equipment: After Simian has revealed to Hammond and everyone else why Linea is known as the Destroyer of Worlds, the alarm soon blares and Hammond races to the Operations room. When he's told about the unauthorized gate activation, the white T-mark is visible on the floor. (00:41:00)
2nd Feb 2023
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
A 'ohe ia e loa'a aku, he ulua kapapa no ka moana - S10-E21
Continuity mistake: When the Military Police take Lincoln into custody he's handcuffed, then both the left and right handcuffs switch direction while they're around his wrists, note the single and double bars, along with the chain links. Quite impossible. (00:31:40)
16th Jan 2023
Doctor Who (1963)
Continuity mistake: After Skagra demands the book from Professor Chronotis, as Skagra's sphere floats toward Chronotis he's wearing his eyeglasses, but then the Professor's eyeglasses vanish and reappear while his hands are raised.
16th Jan 2023
FBI (2018)
Prodigal Son - S5-E3
Visible crew/equipment: After Agent Hobbs reads the text that Zack sent to Clayton, Jubal tells ADIC Reynolds they need to evacuate Chapman, and in the next shot facing Reynolds there's an orange T-mark taped to the floor behind him. (00:19:35)
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