Factual error: When Peter is fishing, the fish being caught is a largemouth bass. When he holds the fish up in the office, it is a striped bass.
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1st Oct 2015
Office Space (1999)
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Suggested correction: You can see in his cooler a second fish, so it's not just the fish we see him catch.
15th Jun 2023
King of the Hill (1997)
Corrected entry: Peggy seems surprised about Cotton losing his shins in WW2. Yet, in Season 1 episode 8, "Shins of the Father," she's standing there listening to him talk about losing his shins.
Correction: There's nothing I saw that indicated she was surprised Cotton lost his shins, or that she didn't know that. She's upset because she thinks all the stories Cotton told her were lies, and when Hank says "that fraud used to be 6'4"", her response was "so", as in what's your point. And the point of Hank's story wasn't Cotton lost his shins, but that he was walking again after 18 months. If anything, that's what Peggy was surprised at, or that Hank thinks his dad was heroic.
10th Jun 2023
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Trivia: Besides Don S. Davis and Christopher Judge starring with Richard Dean Anderson on MacGyver, in some episodes, the actor Steven Williams who played General Vidrine also starred with Richard Dean Anderson in S1-EP12 Countdown.
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Suggested correction: I think this entry needs to be edited to simply state that many of the actors on "Stargate SG-1" also appeared on "MacGyver". Besides the three mentioned, there have been over a dozen other actors who were on both shows, including Robin Mosley and Garry Chalk.
10th Jan 2020
Columbo (1971)
Character mistake: This episode opens with James Ferris typing the final chapter of a mystery novel. He is using all-capital letters, No professional writer would do that.
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Suggested correction: It's not meant to be all capital letters, but block letters. Just look at the title card and credits in the opening - they're block letters too.
10th Jun 2023
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Trivia: In S5-E1, Savage kills the Jedi with Obi-Wan. However, in S5-E2, she is sitting as part of the Jedi Council.
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Suggested correction: I know there was talk about whether this is a legitimate mistake or a trivia entry. The episodes were simply aired out of order. "A War on Two Fronts" was supposed to be the season premiere, but they ended up airing "Revival" instead. On the DVD, the episodes are ordered chronologically, and "Revival" is placed later between what's regarded on IMDb as episode 13 and 14.
10th Jun 2023
Pleasantville (1998)
Trivia: JT Walsh's final acting role.
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Suggested correction: His final role was in "Hidden Agenda" (1999).
27th Mar 2008
UHF (1989)
Plot hole: Throughout the telethon we see volunteers taking pledges over the telephone. As with all telethons the vast majority of pledges will be paid by cheque. Instant bank transfers were unknown in the days the film was set and the telethon ends at midnight, at which time American banks are most certainly shut! How does George manage to have $75,000 in CASH for Big Louie on site that very night? Not every single pledge would (or could) go out to the remote site to pay in cash - not at that time of the night, anyway - and he couldn't raise more than the required sum as this was a share offer and an oversell would reduce the value of individual shareholder's equity.
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Suggested correction: They were selling stock at the telethon to those in the crowd. At $10 a share, they only needed to sell 7500 shares, and who is to say people didn't buy multiple?
Because they had $75,000 in CASH that night, if they sold 7500 $10 shares to the crowd at the station in order to raise that cash, then the people who pledged their money over the phone and who could not or did not go to the site at the end of the telethon have been cheated out of their money. Lawsuits are coming up.
Not necessarily. Nowhere does it say that they were selling ONLY 7500 shares. That was what they needed to raise the $75,000, but it doesn't mean that was the hard limit. Those pledging over the phone would still get their shares.
If they didn't give anyone any money, they couldn't be cheated out of their money.
Suggested correction: There's nothing to suggest the people on the phone were paying by cheque over the phone. They made their pledge over the phone but came in person to pay in cash and to pick up the stock. That's why there was such a big crowd of people in attendance with cash in hand.
3rd Jun 2023
The Magicians (2015)
Plot hole: Josh is worried about the Quickening, where he has to have traditional sex with an uninfected person. Then, he realizes that he already had sex with someone while he was under the identity spell, which would logically mean that he already met the obligations for the Quickening and it should no longer be a problem. However, it persists as a problem until he has sex with Margo later on in the season.
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Suggested correction: The quickening is tied to the lunar cycle and only happens every 30 years or so. And it's only in the 48 hours before the moon reaches its aphelion when the quickening happens, when the urge must be fulfilled. It doesn't matter what the infected person did before the quickening, the urge still occurs.
It was never mentioned that a lycanthrope had to pass on the curse within the 48 hours. It was explained that in the 48 hours leading up to the Quickening, all lycanthropes develop urges that begin with nightmares or waking dreams. Their condition is technically a curse that is driving them to have sex with an uninfected person or kill them, which would directly imply that so long as the curse is passed on, the needs are met, and the Quickening need not occur.
That's not what was implied at all. The Quickening is an event that happens at regular intervals that gives Lycans an urge that has to be fulfilled, regardless if they passed on the curse sometime in the past. Helen already passed the curse on to Josh, but she also experienced the urge from the Quickening and fulfilled her urge in the timeframe of the Quickening.
2nd Jun 2023
Lincoln (2012)
Factual error: When Mrs. Lincoln is greeting the guests at the party, she says, "The White House and the other house." The presidential mansion was not called the White House until Teddy Roosevelt gave it that name in 1901.
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Suggested correction: Teddy Roosevelt only made the nickname "The White House" the official name in 1901. The nickname was used in the 1800s.
1st Jun 2023
Unbelievable (2019)
Episode #1.7 - S1-E7
Factual error: When Marie is talking with her therapist, she talks about having just gone to see Zombieland. Given that the scene takes place in 2008 and Zombieland wasn't released in the US until October 2009, this simply is not possible.
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Suggested correction: The series starts in 2008, but it's 3 years later. At the beginning, RoseMarie says Curtis was born February 3, 1981 and is 30 years old.
The therapy scenes are in 2008. It's only when the photographs of Marie are discovered that we see Marie 3 years later, in episode 8.
30th May 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Stupidity: There is no reason why any person as intelligent as Janet would keep the knowledge of Kang secret from her family. The extended Pym family are the only people in possession of the one thing Kang needs to escape. The brief explanation she gives is that she wanted to protect her family, but this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and she makes no attempt to explain how this secret keeps anyone safe.
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Suggested correction: She is obviously scared out of her mind concerning Kang. She, through her fear, had hoped that him being trapped in the Quantum Realm would stay permanent as long as nobody knew about it in the normal universe. In that way, she tried to protect not only her family but the entire universe.
Not only does she not say that she is "scared out of her mind", she also doesn't act like it either. There is no indication that she is so frightened by Kang that she has lost her senses - quite the opposite, actually. She appears to function rationally and intelligently in every other area concerning Kang, except of course for simply telling anyone how dangerous the Quantum Realm is because the movie wouldn't have a plot otherwise. It's pretty egregious and wildly ridiculous.
Of course, she doesn't say that or act like that. But what she saw of him, when she touched his ship, scared her enough to go to all that trouble to keep him in the quantum realm at all costs. She thought it would be safe to leave, that he was trapped forever. Her judgment was wrong, probably caused by her fear. She is only human.
"Fear" is not enough to get past this level of stupidity. My point is that she doesn't act so frightened; she isn't irrational in any other way. It's just a flat-out, stupidly written element of the film that is impossible to believe. There is no way on God's green earth she should keep this secret, even after her family has made it to the quantum realm. I get that the movie is trying to say she is frightened, but this goes well beyond making any kind of sense at all; it's ridiculous.
Part of the stupidity also involves Janet's action in the mid-credit scenes of "Ant-Man and the Wasp," where she actively helped send Scott into the Quantum Realm to get quantum energy. If she was so afraid of a signal being sent to the QR, she wouldn't have let Scott go without explaining the dangers of going. This film seems to ignore that and instead seems to focus on Janet simply not wanting to discuss her involvement with Kang and her guilt, thinking no one would go back to the QR.
29th May 2023
Friends (1994)
Factual error: When Bonnie shaves her head, Rachel is supposed to have given her the razors (according to Bonnie.) Nope - the kind of razors needed to do that kind of close shave are a very particular kind, and Rachel isn't going to have them unless she also shaves her own head. It also wouldn't make any sense for Bonnie to have used her own razors; she's not going to carry them around with her unless she's planning to use them.
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Suggested correction: Considering Bonnie always used to shave her head, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that she just kept a razor on her in case she wanted to do it again. She's an impulsive type of person, after all.
22nd Apr 2008
The Longest Yard (2005)
Corrected entry: An umpire does not announce penalties in a game. The responsibility actually lies with a referee. In the movie, the mistake is probably made to move the plot forward so Crewe could throw the football twice on the umpire's groin as a way of forcing the umpire to call a fair game. (01:11:25)
Correction: Or it could simply be that since this is not an officially sanctioned game, they've chosen to use a different process.
Correction: Dude what? There are no umpires in football. It is a referee that is making the biased calls and who Crewe nails in the nuts. The guards even call him ref "ref, you gotta get back in the game".
There is an umpire in football. There's a ump, a ref, and judges. Colloquially, everyone with a striped shirt is called a ref. The referee and the umpire are in the backfield, but only the umpire wears the white hat. He's the one responsible for announcing the penalties. But here, the ump did it.
22nd May 2023
Full House (1987)
Trivia: In this season, you can see DJ, Gibler, and Stephanie having a conversation in the garage. Before the renovation, Stephanie expressed her concern about there being a monster in the garage. However, in the episode before this, they renovated the garage and turned it into Joey's room. The episodes were aired out of order, hence the discontinuity, but it's not strictly a "mistake", more just an indication that this episode is clearly set earlier in the season.
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Suggested correction: The episodes were simply aired out of the order in which they were produced.
In the "world" of the show, however, this is a mistake. The garage can't be renovated in one episode, then be the former garage in the next episode. The rules of this site note that behind-the-scenes explanations are not valid corrections.
No. The correction is valid. It's not a "behind the scene" explanation. The show's continuity remains constant if you watch the episodes in the order they were produced. A network's decision to air them out of order is not the fault of the show. This would be like if you had a book on CD where each track is a chapter but you played the CD on shuffle and then blamed the book for its continuity issues.
I can see both sides of it in terms of it being a "mistake", but it's such a grey area that stuff like this is rarely worth a debate. It's such a blatant discontinuity that it's a byproduct of the episodes being shuffled, making this more of a "prequel" rather than it being a mistake. A bit like errors in subtitles, it comes down to what strictly counts as a mistake in the show vs. A problem arising after the fact, whether someone's "at fault" or similar. I'll refile this as trivia.
20th May 2023
The Good Place (2016)
Corrected entry: Michael was said to be speaking Nigerian as he lives there (their languages are translated to their native tongue). In season 1 episode 7 Michael is living in the US, speaking English as a professor.
Correction: This mistake is all sorts of wrong. 1. It's Chidi, not Michael. Michael is the architect. 2. Chidi says he is speaking French, not Nigerian. 3. Chidi was a professor in Australia, not the US. But he also taught in Paris. But Eleanor isn't the politest of people, so she is amazed at his English for not being an American. That's when he says he's speaking French, which is his native language. The fact he spoke other languages on Earth is irrelevant.
19th May 2023
Jason Bourne (2016)
Character mistake: During the Athens scene, Dewey says "It's David Bourne. Clear to engage the target" mixing up David Webb and Jason Bourne's names. (00:00:22)
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Suggested correction: He says "Stay with Bourne." The two had split up and he wanted Jason followed.
19th May 2023
Bloodsport (1988)
Stupidity: Amongst the dubious statistics attributed to the real Frank Dux at the end of the film is the claim that he holds the record for "Most Consecutive Knockouts in a Single Tournament - 56." A single tournament with at least 56 rounds would include over 72,000,000,000,000,000 entrants.
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Suggested correction: While the entire film could be considered fiction based on Dux's dubious claims, your statement is only valid for a single-elimination style tournament. There are other types of tournaments, such as a round robin which would only require 57 contestant (Dux plus at least 56 guys to knock out).
The kumite is a single elimination tournament. It wouldn't make any sense to have a full-contact tournament, where the action is so (legally) violent that fights routinely end in severe injury or even death, use any other form of bracket.
Nothing is stated that every tournament Dux was in was the Kumite as depicted in the film. Just that he retired undefeated in the Kumite.
The records listed at the end of the film are kumite records. The information comes from Frank Dux himself who made the claims on more than one occasion. When it says 56 consecutive knockouts, it is referring to the kumite and not some other, possibly round robin (which honestly would still be a ridiculous claim) tournament. It is likely the makers of the film believed "consecutive knockouts" meant "single tournament."
I guess everything I've read on him over the decades never made it clear it was talking about one type of tournament with all the accomplishments he's claimed to have. And I've read the same repeated factoid about how many contestants 56 rounds would have that you read.
18th May 2023
A League Of Their Own (1992)
Character mistake: In the opening game Ellen Sue is pitching but the announcer states Kit is pitching.
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Suggested correction: Kit is on the mound. Ellen Sue is playing short stop. But she's the one who beans the guy making fun of the girls, she just wasn't pitching.
16th May 2023
Repo Man (1984)
Trivia: The tan warehouse, with the green doors and windows, directly in front of the car is the same building used as Paddy's Pub in 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'. It's the Starkman Building located at 544 San Mateo Street in Los Angeles. The door used as Paddy's main entrance is located around the corner on Palmetto Street. (01:09:20)
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Suggested correction: This isn't really trivia for this film as It's Always Sunny came after. Not to mention the building has been featured in numerous film and TV series, so it would be like listing a prolific actor's one other movie without making any connection between the film other than the actor (or in this case the filming location).
27th Aug 2001
Little Nicky (2000)
Continuity mistake: When Nicky and Valerie get ice cream, Valerie orders a vanilla cone, while Nicky gets chocolate. However, when we see them later, around the time when they meet up with Adrian, you can see Nicky's cone at the bottom of the screen and he has vanilla instead of chocolate. (00:29:15)
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