Factual error: The CSI staff repeatedly refer to the murder weapon as a tire iron. It is a crow bar or demolition bar. It had a nail pulling head, not a socket for the lug nuts.
Rlvlk
4th Sep 2006
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
8th Aug 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Continuity mistake: In the restaurant, Bree makes a salad for Rex at the salad bar. It is fairly tall with lots of tomatoes. The salad she gives him is flatter and missing many of the tomatoes.
21st Jul 2006
My Name Is Earl (2005)
Continuity mistake: In this episode, during the narration, Earl says Catalina spent 4 days on a raft to get to the USA. In Y2K, 1:19, they showed Catalina's trip to the US and there was no raft involved. It was entirely an overland trip.
3rd Jun 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Continuity mistake: When Betty is shown the crime scene photo of Melanie's body, Melanie is inches away from a pallet and the jacket covers most of her torso leaving only the right arm exposed. In the flashback scene, Melanie is feet away from the pallet and the jacket mainly covers her chest and face, leaving both arms uncovered.
3rd Jun 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Continuity mistake: Caleb hits Melanie with a piece of lumber and she falls to the ground. She falls with her feet towards Caleb, but in the close up (and each scene after) her head is now towards Caleb.
22nd May 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Continuity mistake: After Caleb thinks he has killed Melanie, he wipes his right hand across his T-shirt several times and leaves one bloody handprint. When he gets home, there are now several bloody prints from his right hand on the T-shirt.
21st May 2006
The Natural (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the opening scenes, little Roy throws a baseball at a target drawn on the barn wall. The ball goes through the wall, breaking a board in half (bottom half falls inside). The next shot shows the board next to it is broken and it is now the top half missing.
20th May 2006
Desperate Measures (1998)
Factual error: Peter McCabe escapes the operating room partly by turning his oxygen supply into a flamethrower. 100% oxygen makes everything extremely flammable, but it cannot be lit like a flamethrower.
12th May 2006
My Name Is Earl (2005)
Number One - S1-E24
Continuity mistake: When Randy is scratching off the joke lottery ticket, the amount of scratched-off material left on the ticket changes between the three close-ups. One shot shows that the ticket was rubbed and not scratched (the area revealed has a haze to it).
2nd May 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
It Wasn't Meant to Happen - S2-E20
Factual error: Gabrielle visits Dale, her adopted child's natural father, at his high school and interrupts a pep rally for the football team's upcoming game. Dale, the team's Quarterback, even says that in the last game, he threw for 260 yards. The problem is that it is spring. Dale has just returned from a week in Florida for Spring Break. Football season is over. Basketball season should be over or ending soon. There couldn't have been a pep rally if the season is over.
1st May 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
It Wasn't Meant to Happen - S2-E20
Continuity mistake: At the Hooters style restaurant, Edie intentionally trips the waitress. When the waitress falls, there is a lettuce leaf in the small of her back. When she starts to jump up, the lettuce is now at the base of her neck.
1st May 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
It Wasn't Meant to Happen - S2-E20
Continuity mistake: While Susan and Edie are at the Hooters style restaurant, the amount of beer, and amount of head, in Edie's glass changes from shot to shot.
28th Mar 2006
Judging Amy (1999)
Continuity mistake: Episode 6-3: Ignacio pulls his keys from his pocket and shakes them in front of Maxine's face to distract her. He pulls the keys out and shakes them, his key fob (looks like a mini Swiss army knife) is loose and hanging down. The camera moves, he is now shaking the keys by the fob, and the camera moves again, the fob is back in the original position.
20th Mar 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
There Is No Other Way - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: In "Thank You So Much" Valentine's day was on a Saturday or Sunday. In this episode, They are showing Bree marking her chores off a calendar for February and March 2006. The calendar matches the real calendar and Valentine's day was a Tuesday this year. The calendar doesn't match their previous episode. And they do state that "today is Valentine's day." not that they are celebrating it on the weekend.
20th Feb 2006
Desperate Housewives (2004)
Factual error: It is the weekend and Valentine's Day. We see in the following episode that it's 2006 and their calendar matches the real one, but Valentine's Day was on Tuesday that year.
9th Feb 2006
Road to Morocco (1942)
Continuity mistake: When Princess Shalmar, Orville, and Jeff are confronted by Kasim as they are escaping, Orville is wearing a flat topped hat to carry a load on his head with. Kasim uncovers the "hidden" Jeff, Orville steps back into scene and he is now wearing a different hat that looks like a fez wrapped in a turban.
5th Dec 2005
Judging Amy (1999)
Continuity mistake: In the opening statements of the rape trial, the defense attorney whips out a $50 dollar bill to make a point. As she is talking, the camera moves from her side to her back and the $50 bill goes from loosely folded in her hand to neatly folded (in quarters) between her first two fingers.
4th Aug 2005
Wanted (2005)
Plot hole: At the start, they state that they have 96 criminals to go. They bring up the photos of all 96 wanted felons. They then learn that Machado has been pushed to the top of the list and they bring up his file. You can see his mug shot on the screen, among the list of 96, as they zoom into his file. If he is in jail and has not yet escaped, how can he be in the list of 96?
4th Aug 2005
Wanted (2005)
Factual error: When Rose is introduced to the entire team McGloin shakes her hand and says that he (respects or admires) anyone that has survived the POW school. She smiles, nods and walks away. McGloin then explains to the last remaining teammate that all NIOs attend the POW school and explains briefly what it is. First: It is the SERE school. Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape not really POW. Second: Not all, not even most, NIOs attend SERE school, just some.
12th Jun 2005
Big Trouble (2002)
Plot hole: When the pilot rolls the plane to dump the suitcase carrying the bomb, Snake grabs hold and falls out of the plane with it. Snake saves himself from falling to his death by grabbing the railing of the open door. The weight of the suitcase would have either ripped one of Snake's limbs off or would have ripped the railing from the door.
Suggested correction: The suitcase was able to be picked up by Puggy so it didn't weigh enough to rip an arm off. Also railings on stairs have to be able to support lots of weight. They are designed to withstand 1000lbs+.
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