Corrected entry: Totenkopf has the ability to manufacture gigantic war robots and interplanetary spacecraft, and a huge industrial complex to support both, yet he has to raid New York City to steal electrical generators? Why not build his own generators? To say that he needed the generators to run his plant makes no sense, since he needed the plant to build the robots to steal the generators in the first place. It's a chicken-and-egg problem.
Xofer
18th Oct 2004
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
1st Sep 2004
Seinfeld (1990)
Corrected entry: When George and Kramer go to the newsstand to get change for the $100 bill, the newsstand has multiple copies of Entertainment Weekly on the news racks. This wouldn't be a mistake if it had the same person(s) on the cover but each copy has a different person(s) on the cover. The show probably just grabbed whatever magazines they could find to take up space on the news rack.
Correction: Not necessarily, sometimes magazines like that have multiple covers (sort of collectible covers); TV Guide often does that with multiple stars of a featured program.
24th Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Krusty is asking the girls questions, he reads off a cue card on what to say, but the problem is Krusty can't read.
Correction: In "Krusty Gets Busted" (season 1), we learn that Krusty can't read; however, this show takes place after that, by which point Krusty has probably learned to read somewhat (the cuecards, at least).
4th Aug 2004
Seinfeld (1990)
The Hot Tub - S7-E5
Corrected entry: Towards the end of The Race when they spot Jean-Paul in the lead, if you look over to the right of the road you can see a vehicle with a man filming the scene with a camera.
Correction: This isn't so unusual; a race like that would attract at least the local news, who would want to film the winner.
25th Sep 2004
Star Wars (1977)
Corrected entry: When the stormtroopers enter the docking port where the Millenium Falcon is, they start firing. Despite the fact that there are 5 or 6 of them, not only can't they hit Han but there is no damage whatsoever to the Millenium Falcon. But Han, who only has a single gun, manages to destroy half the port.
Correction: The stormtroopers are trying to take out Han, since they know they won't be able to disable an entire ship with a small rifle, but Han is sheltered by the legs of the Falcon. Also, Han isn't shooting alone; Chewie is in the ship firing the small gun that comes out of the bottom of the Falcon (which "manages to destroy half the port").
21st Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: After Fry buys all the 20th Century items, he puts in a Sir Mix-A-Lot CD, the song (Baby Got Back) started playing, but no one pressed Play on the stereo. Considering this is an antique 20th century stereo, I'm guessing you'd have to press play.
Correction: Not necessarily; I have a CD player I bought in 1999 that automatically starts playing as soon as you put the CD in.
7th Aug 2004
Futurama (1999)
Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love - S2-E9
Corrected entry: When Fry and Zoidberg are fighting in the ceremonial tradition of Crawplah. Bender asks Fry to go down in the 9th round. If he wanted Fry to survive that long, then, why was he trying to blind him with the suns rays to give him a disadvantage at the very start of the fight?
6th Jul 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: How come when Valkan was attacked by a werewolf it happened in the morning, but when Valkan turned into one it happened on the night of a full moon?
Correction: It is explained in the movie that after the second full moon, the transformation is permanent, so the one that attacked him transformed two or more full moons ago.
4th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
I, Roommate - S1-E3
Corrected entry: How can the "closets" of the rooms in the Robot Arms Apartment be so large if all the rooms are so close together?
Correction: It may be that only certain apartments (say, every second or third one) have closets that big, while all the other apartments have small closets in between, or none at all.
1st Jul 2004
Family Guy (1999)
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas - S3-E16
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the episode, Chris gives Stewie a candy cane, which Stewie immediately begins sharpening with a knife, with the intent to stab Lois with it. But if Stewie had a knife the entire time, why didn't he just stab Lois with that?
Correction: Because stabbing someone with a candy cane at Christmas had more poetic flare.
28th Jul 2004
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: Robots cannot, through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. Alcohol is technically harmful. Yet when detective Spooner is talking to his boss in the bar, a robot is calmly serving them beer.
Correction: As a bartender, the robot would be programmed to serve alcohol within a certain limit so as to be unharmful.
4th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Where the Buggalo Roam - S4-E6
Corrected entry: When everyone goes to Mars to visit Amy's parents (and celebrate Mars Day) it is shown that Mars is, like today, a red, desolate wasteland of dirt. However, in the episode "Mars University", Mars is shown to be filled with jungles and plant life. Maybe that is the hemisphere that the Wong family doesn't own, but if that were true, then why would Inez (Amy's mom) say they had the best hemisphere when the other one is, theoretically, filled with grasslands and jungles et cetera?
Correction: They own that hemisphere, therefore, they're obviously going to think it's the best.
16th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: In this episode, robot homosexuals are referred to as "romos". However, in the first episode, it's referred to as "robosexuals", so that would logically mean that it could be cut down to "robos", so why does a robo suddenly mean a robot hobo?
28th Jun 2004
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: The money ratio in 2015 seems incorrect. When Doc sends Marty into Cafe 80's he hands him a $50 for a Pepsi. In another scene when Marty is walking outside, Old Terry asks Marty for $100 to save the clock tower. Usually a soft drink would cost more than what a man waving a can would ask for. Then when old Biff gets out of the taxi, his total comes to $174.50. According to the price of a Pepsi, doesn't this taxi ride seem cheap?
Correction: Two things: the Pepsi/donation ratio isn't that odd; if you paid a dollar for a Pepsi, giving a couple of bucks to help a local landmark is pretty normal. The taxi fare only seems 'incorrect' compared to what we're used to now. Cab rides are expensive due to wages, gas prices, vehicle upkeep, and other expenses; perhaps they've found a way to keep those costs down.
6th Jul 2004
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Obi-Wan, Jar-Jar, and Qui-Gonn are in the Gungan watercraft, they lose power for a bit. When they reach the surface later, it shows that the canopy disipates like a force field. If the pod lost power under water, the force field would not have operated drowning the crew.
Correction: Since the watercraft is semiorganic (like all Gungan technology), it no doubt has some sort of failsafe that keeps the canopy closed whilst under water.
6th Jul 2004
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene after Doc Ock gives Spider-Man to Harry, Harry goes to the table to pick up a dagger. When Harry grabs the dagger off the table (still sheathed) it makes the "sching" sound of a weapon being drawn, despite not being actually taken out of the sheath until later.
Correction: The sound is the metal sheath rubbing against the metal stand.
4th Jul 2004
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Peter is slammed up against a wall and covered in rubble by Doc Ock, he bursts through and his glasses are not even scratched. Then, he drops them in the street from about three feet up and the lens falls out.
Correction: Actually, you can see a crack in the bottom of one of the frames that corresponds to a chip in the lens that falls out.
1st Jul 2004
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Corrected entry: When Peter and Aunt May are sitting in front of the bank worker's desk, they appear to be right next to a low wooden partition, with no way that Peter and May's chairs could move too far apart from each other. However, when Doc Ock comes to rob the bank and a hunk of debris falls towards Peter and May, there is suddenly plenty of space for Peter to kick May's chair and slide her out of harm's way.
Correction: The partition (to May's left) is farther away than it looks; she also ends up right next to it, so she probably collided with it anyway.
10th Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Corrected entry: When the wave hits New York and washes around the library building you can see in the bottom right of the shot vehicles being rolled over before wave has even touched them.
Correction: They're being pushed by other vehicles caught at the front of the wave, and in turn push other vehicles in front of them.
21st Jun 2004
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Corrected entry: In this film, when Doc sees his younger self, he says there will be "plenty of rain all right". However, there isn't - but he should know that, as he has already done the clock tower in Back to the Future 1.
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Correction: Totenkopf probably had a set of generators for his initial robots. To build more robots, he would need more power, but building new generators would've been a waste of resources, when he could easily use his robots to steal generators, as they did.
Xofer