Continuity mistake: After Clarence saves George from suicide, while they're both inside the bridge tollhouse, a photo suddenly appears tucked behind the thermometer between the two windows which was not in the first interior shot, and then it keeps disappearing and reappearing during this scene. Other changes occur within these shots, such as the window shade to the left of the door and Clarence's book position on the line. (01:39:50)
Super Grover
31st Dec 2019
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Divorce Venusian Style - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: After Zedlocker uses the blow torch on the red suit, for the next bullet test they hang the suit over the black metal fireplace screen, but in the closeup it's hanging over an entirely different type of screen with a wood frame. (00:34:15)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Divorce Venusian Style - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Pam finds one of the small communicators in the motel parking lot she's wearing pumpkin-color hosiery, but when Pam gets into her car and the ignition starts courtesy of the aliens, in the closeups of Pam's legs she is not wearing any hose at all and her shoes differ. (00:17:50)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
There's Just No Accounting... - S2-E18
Visible crew/equipment: At the end, when Carlisle claims he and Bill had a business lunch in June to discuss a case, Pam explains that La Maison Faire is very expensive French cuisine in Beverly Hills, and in the next shot an actor's T-mark is visible on the floor. (00:47:15)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
There's Just No Accounting... - S2-E18
Continuity mistake: While the kidnappers try to grab the judge's son, Bill drives up and stops them. When one of the kidnappers flees the scene Bill takes off after him, and as Bill rams his car into the kidnapper's car, Bill's car is entirely different. Then it reverts back to the original car. (00:31:00)
29th Dec 2019
Mean Streets (1973)
Visible crew/equipment: The morning after the bar shooting, when Charlie and Johnny Boy are in the apartment, we can see the outlines of the hidden mic wires at the front of both of their undershirts, as well as the bulge of the mic transmitter at the back of Johnny's waist. (00:50:35)
29th Dec 2019
Mean Streets (1973)
Continuity mistake: While Tony drives his car to the pool hall with Charlie and Johnny Boy, in the initial overhead shot the car's front license plate is on the car, there are hood vents below the windshield, and there is only one sticker on the windshield. Then when Tony turns the corner the front license plate and hood vents are gone, and there are two stickers on the windshield. (00:27:00)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Audio problem: After Ralph gets the holograph showing Pam and Bill taken hostage, when Ralph makes an embarrassing entrance into the youth crime seminar he quickly impersonates a singing telegram, and his mouth is out of sync as we hear the phone number. (00:37:30)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Heaven is in Your Genes - S3-E6
Revealing mistake: While Ralph is in mid-air, en route to the airport cafe, something dips into view at the top left corner of the screen. Then when Ralph takes off from that cafe, two shots later as he's in mid-air, we can see the shadow of the helicopter filming the background stock footage, but it's been flipped so the helicopter is flying backwards, and when more background footage is shown again the helicopter shadow is flying properly. (00:13:15)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: A woman tells Bill that her blind neighbor, Judy, is still in the burning building. In the following shot, when Tanner approaches the door there's a pane of glass beside the door knob and there's a backplate behind the knob, but in the next closeup both the pane of glass and the backplate have vanished. (00:03:45)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Heaven is in Your Genes - S3-E6
Visible crew/equipment: While Ralph and Pam are in midair together heading to Bill's location, the stunt apparatus is visible under them. (00:34:30)
29th Dec 2019
Mean Streets (1973)
Visible crew/equipment: While Charlie is having dinner with his uncle at the restaurant Mario suggests having a look around, and when Charlie enters the kitchen the actor's curved chalk mark is visible on the floor, in front of the waiter's feet. (01:05:45)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Visible crew/equipment: When Ralph keeps telling Coach Buck not to change his game plan, Ray doesn't listen and Ralph shouts that he's making a big mistake. Then when the two other teachers walk past Ralph, as he starts to follow them we can see two T-marks on the ground where Ralph and Ray had been standing. (00:14:15)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Visible crew/equipment: After Bill and Ralph leave the restaurant to pay Prentiss Hall a visit, when it cuts to Bill slowly driving past the camera, we can see the reflections of the reflector screens, and the cameraman with the camera. (00:26:20)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Visible crew/equipment: While Ralph is flying the "reconnaissance mission" and taking pictures for Powers, in some of his closeups the cushion under his abdomen is visible. Then when Ralph returns to the base he winds up on his knees, and the bulging outline of a mic transmitter is visible at Ralph's backside. (00:29:50)
29th Dec 2019
Mean Streets (1973)
Continuity mistake: During two successive scenes, when Michael and Tony con the boys looking for fireworks and also when they're with Charlie at the movie theater, Tony has the taped bandage around his right pinky and hand. The problem is in the next scene at the pool hall Tony's hand is fine, and it's during the brawl in this pool hall that Tony injures his pinky, which requires it to be bandaged later on. (00:23:45)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
It's All Downhill From Here - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: While Ralph is invisible in order to eavesdrop on Klein, when Klein makes a crack about Bill being little league, Ralph deliberately knocks the cup in Klein's hand so the coffee spills on his shirt, tie, vest, and jacket in the closeup, but in the next shot Klein is spotless. Additionally, Klein has a black pocket square and the cup he holds is white styrofoam, but in the closeup the pocket square is gone and he holds a white mug. (00:27:50)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: While Ralph is searching for the missing boy and finds Johnny's baseball cap, Ralph's watch vanishes and reappears, then it happens again when he finds the boy. (00:38:20)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
It's All Downhill From Here - S2-E16
Revealing mistake: While Ralph is invisible and eavesdropping on Klein's conversation, when Ralph picks up a pencil and taps it on the desk, we can see the stiff wire attached to the pencil moving up and down, at the left side of the screen. (00:27:35)
29th Dec 2019
The Greatest American Hero (1981)
Continuity mistake: At the rec center, when Ralph enters the reserved racquetball court two men force him onto the floor for another polygraph. Ralph's wearing striped socks, blue shorts with white stripes, a blue half-shirt with red/white stripes that bares his midriff, but in the closeups as Ralph sits down and has the polygraph hooked up, all the stripes on his clothing have vanished and Ralph's abdomen suddenly has a significant amount of dark hair. (00:20:55)
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