Other mistake: When Mr. Feeny is telling the story about Topanga and Cory in the first grade, he mentions that Shawn told him to leave them alone. However, the season 3 episode "City Slackers" established that Shawn wasn't in school with Cory and Topanga until he was around 12, and that he was in and out of 5 schools in different states before then. (00:18:40)
Phaneron
24th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
24th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Rachel tackles Jack onto the couch and is straddling him, Jack's head ends up resting on the green and yellow pillow on the cushion closest to the door. After Jack says "She's sittin' on me, man," the shot changes and his head is now on the middle cushion. (00:16:06)
21st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Graduation - S5-E24
Audio problem: When Mr. Feeny is reading off the names of all the graduates, you can hear reverb in his voice to indicate that he is speaking into a microphone. The problem is there is no microphone in front of him. You can see Eric holding the microphone next to him and singing into it, with no audio. If that microphone is turned off, then Feeny's voice should not be amplified. If the microphone is on, then we should also hear Eric as he is singing. (00:19:38 - 00:20:56)
21st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Graduation - S5-E24
Continuity mistake: When Jack is showing Shawn the framed caricature drawing, both his hands are holding the frame around the middle of each vertical side. When the shot changes, his left hand is suddenly holding the frame by the bottom corner. (00:06:10)
16th Jul 2020
Aliens (1986)
14th Jul 2020
The Sound of Music (1965)
Question: Did they use blue screens for this movie? I was watching it recently, and certain scenes looked like the distant background was fake, such as the nighttime scene when Captain Von Trapp confesses his love for Maria in the gazebo, the trees in the far background look superimposed, but I can't tell if that's because of the lighting.
Answer: Although bluescreen was used at the time, it was a photochemical process and not that reliable. For the scene you're describing, it was likely shot in a studio with a painted background. For more expansive night scenes, they shot them "day-for-night." They would be shot on location during the day with the image darkened and filtered to look like night.
Answer: In that era, movies didn't have computer-generated images and instead used a rear-projected screen of a previously filmed location. The actors would be in front of the screen to make it appear as if they were in some different location. The actors were posed in a way that the audience could not tell they were in front of the screen.
14th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
13th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: After Topanga angrily walks out of Cory's house, he gets out of his chair and says "She really left," with his arms and fingers outstretched. When the shot changes, his fingers on both hands are curled into loose fists. (00:12:40)
11th Jul 2020
The Simpsons (1989)
Krusty Gets Kancelled - S4-E22
Anthony Kiedis: You told our agent this place holds 30,000 people.
Moe: It does. We had 30,000 here last night. Now play, the audience is getting restless.
Barney: We want Chilly Willy! We want Chilly Willy!
Bart: Hey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, would you guys like to appear on a Krusty the Clown special?
Flea: Sure, if you can get us out of this gig.
Bart: No problemo. Hey Moe, look over there.
Moe: [Turns around and looks at the wall.] What? What am I looking at? I don't see nothin'. [Bart sneaks the Red Hot Chili Peppers out of the bar.] I'm gonna stop lookin' soon. What? What, is that it?
Homer: Hey Moe, can I look too?
Moe: Sure, but it'll cost you.
Homer: My wallet's in the car.
Moe: He is so stupid. And now back to the wall.
11th Jul 2020
The Simpsons (1989)
11th Jul 2020
The Simpsons (1989)
Homer: [Screams] The Moody Blues!
Graeme Edge: Cold-hearted Homer ditching his wife, while ancient Ned runs for his life.
Justin Hayward: Chips of red and blue and white, but we decide which...
John Lodge: Can the poems, it's ass-whooping time!
Ray Thomas: I want fatty!
11th Jul 2020
The Simpsons (1989)
11th Jul 2020
The Simpsons (1989)
Otto: Hey landlord, some clown changed my locks, padlocked the door, and put up an eviction notice.
Landlord: Yeah, that was me.
Otto: You!? But why?
Landlord: Because you haven't paid your rent.
Otto: Well, can I at least get my stuff?
Landlord: All I found in there was a jar of mustard, and a couple of old cycle magazines.
Otto: Wow! I have mustard!?
10th Jul 2020
Batman (1989)
Revealing mistake: In an overhead shot, just before Jack Napier falls into the vat of chemicals, you can see that it is a stunt double, as he has significantly less hair on the top of his head than Jack Nicholson.
10th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Factual error: The Starry Night painting that characters look at in the Van Gogh exhibit is mentioned as being the original painting itself. However, if you compare the painting presented in this episode with the real-life painting that is displayed in the Museum of Modern Art, you can see that it is an imitation, as the colors are brighter and the little details in the painting are not as prominent.
10th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Factual error: When Topanga and Ricky are looking at the Starry Night painting, Topanga reads from her pamphlet and says it mentions Vincent Van Gogh became religious around the time he painted it. Van Gogh grew up in a religious household, with his father being a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Vincent himself actually had a desire to become a pastor. On the contrary, however, when he painted Starry Night, although he still believed in an afterlife, he was actually disillusioned with religion.
8th Jul 2020
Hook (1991)
Question: Is the food fight scene completely imaginary, or are the Lost Boys actually able to will food into existence by imagining it? I always thought it was the latter growing up and we as the audience didn't see it until Peter, as the audience's proxy, saw it for himself, but any YouTube videos I watch about this movie all seem to think all the food was just in everyone's collective imaginations.
Answer: Neverland very much runs on "If you believe, it will happen" which is what Tink means during the meal when she says "If you don't imagine yourself as Peter Pan you won't be Peter Pan." So by the rules of Neverland, as soon as Peter believed it was real it was then real. The dinner was trying to teach him to believe as, in Neverland, if you don't believe it then it won't happen.
6th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
If You Can't Be With the One You Love... - S5-E18
Continuity mistake: When Shawn is cracking open his beer, he grips the top of the paper bag between his forearm and upper arm, with the top of the bag level with his shoulder. When the shot changes, the bag is suddenly lower. (00:09:15)
6th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
If You Can't Be With the One You Love... - S5-E18
Continuity mistake: When the transient is asking Cory if he's a cop, he points his right-hand index finger at him. When the shot changes, his index finger is curled onto his thumb. (00:08:20)
5th Jul 2020
Fantastic Four: The Animated Series (1994)
The Origin of the Fantastic Four: Part 1 - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Thing first walks into Puppet Master's house, the doors are gray. When the shot changes, the doors are blue. (00:17:00)
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Chosen answer: While the opening scene does show her in hypersleep, the moment we she her wake up (after the alien starts to push in her belly) is NOT her waking up from hypersleep, it's just her waking up from another bad dream. At that point she's been in the hospital for some time and already met Burke, but she's having nightmares. Presumably, this particular dream is of her remembering her first moments waking from hypersleep and then turning into a nightmare scene.
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