Trivia: The scenes of Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a skyscraper clock were filmed on a facade erected on the roof of the L.L. Burns Building at 908 South Broadway in Los Angeles.
Steven Lee
31st May 2024
Safety Last! (1923)
31st May 2024
Safety Last! (1923)
Other mistake: As Harold begins to scale the DeVore Department Store building in Los Angeles, the intersection shown in the background is 10th Street and Broadway. In later scenes, it is 9th Street and Broadway. In the final scenes, it is 6th Street and Spring Street.
28th May 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: The clock shows the time as 2:20. Ozzie goes outside and spends five minutes talking with Mr. Thornberry. When Ozzie comes back inside, the time on the clock is still 2:20.
13th Apr 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: Cathy Calhoun is knitting a pair of socks for her brother, and offers to make a pair for Ozzie. She tells him, "If you really like them, I could get some more of the material." Knitting is done with yarn, not material. (00:06:50)
10th Apr 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Rover Boys - S1-E18
Other mistake: David's teacher is called Mrs. Fraser in some scenes and Miss Fraser in other scenes.
30th Mar 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: Ozzie has just brought the mail in. He says, "Here's a bill. Here's another bill." Instead of looking at the rest of the mail, he hands it to Harriet, telling her, "I've had enough bills for one morning." The time on the clock is 4:15.
25th Mar 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
The Fall Guy - S1-E4
Character mistake: Thorny tells Ozzie that Clara Randolph is throwing a party. When Ozzie tells David and Ricky about that party, he calls her "Mary Randolph."
22nd Mar 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: When David takes a book from the bookshelf and opens it, a small piece of paper falls to the floor. Neither he, Ozzie nor Harriet notices it.
8th Mar 2024
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
Other mistake: Bobby, Clovis and Celia Bradley find a large gold nugget in a mine. An assayer says gold is worth $15 an ounce and values the nugget at $87,425. That would mean it weighs 364 pounds, more than double the weight of the record-setting 173-pound gold nugget found in 1869 in Moliagul, Australia.
3rd Mar 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: Five young boys in Ozzie's backyard are pretending to shoot each other with toy guns. Ozzie pretends he's been shot and falls to the ground. When he sits up, the boys compliment him on the way he "died great." Ozzie then tells them about his great-grandfather, a gunfighter known as Six-Gun Nelson. Following a fantasy sequence with Ozzie portraying Six-Gun Nelson, Ozzie is now magically wearing a gun belt with two holsters and two guns.
27th Feb 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: While Rick plays guitar and sings at a dance, the drummer behind him appears to be playing but never touches the drums or the cymbal with his drumsticks.
11th Feb 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
David and the Stewardess - S6-E15
Other mistake: Rick is playing an acoustic guitar in his bedroom, but the sound we hear is that of an electric guitar.
2nd Feb 2024
The Rifleman (1958)
Factual error: Lucas is wearing a pair of jeans with a large "W" stitched on the right back pocket. These are Wrangler jeans, which first went on sale in 1947. "The Rifleman" is set in the 1880s.
2nd Feb 2024
The Rifleman (1958)
Factual error: Ralph Hayden hires Mario Rosati to kill Lucas McCain, who had shot and wounded Hayden many years before. Hayden says McCain previously lived in Enid, Oklahoma. "The Rifleman" is set in the 1880s and Enid did not exist until 1893. (00:01:10)
21st Jan 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Other mistake: Ozzie says the fiscal year of the Men's Club runs from September 15th to September 15th. A fiscal year beginning September 15th would run through September 14th.
27th Dec 2023
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Factual error: A "maple leaf" Canadian flag is flying at the Savoy Hotel in London in 1953. That flag was introduced in February 1965, replacing the Union Jack flag.
27th Dec 2023
Stan & Ollie (2018)
Factual error: Stan's wife Ida says St. Petersburg, Russia, is a nice place to visit. The city's name did not change from Leningrad to St. Petersburg until 1991.
21st Dec 2023
The Santa Clauses (2022)
No Magic at the Dinner Table! - S2-E3
Trivia: Paige Tamada, who played Elf Judy in "The Santa Clause" (1994), plays a street vendor in this episode.
8th Dec 2023
South Park (1997)
The Tooth Fairy's TATS 2000 - S4-E1
Other mistake: Cartman is excited because the "tooth fairy" left him two dollars in exchange for a tooth. When he holds up the two bills, they are identical. Both have the same serial number.
30th Nov 2023
Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952)
Continuity mistake: Mickey Mouse uses an axe to cut down a tree for Christmas. Each chop he makes is horizontal, but when the tree falls over, the lower part of the trunk comes to a point, and the stump remaining in the ground has disappeared.
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