Phixius

Corrected entry: In the Destruction Derby, Herbie gets smashed for the second time. One of his front wheels is bent almost completely sideways, making it impossible for Maggie to drive him around and win, let alone drive him home.

mOnKeYmAn33

Correction: Herbie can wink a headlight. That's contorting metal and glass at will and without damage. I think a bent wheel could be overcome.

Phixius

25th Jan 2004

Red Dwarf (1988)

Timeslides - S3-E5

Corrected entry: We learn in "Ouroboros" in series 7 that Lister is his own father, and Kochanski is his mother. However, if this is so, when Lister fixed time so he never joined the Space Corps, that would mean he never met Kochanski, so his father never met his mother, so he should never have been born, and even if he was, his life should have taken a radically different path from that it did.

Padzter

Correction: These are all time paradoxes. Each story that involves time travel uses it's own set of rules involving these. Whatever rules exist for time travel in the "Red Dwarf" universe clearly allow for these things to happen the way they did.

Phixius

1st Jan 2003

Jumanji (1995)

Corrected entry: In the scene where the mosquitoes are seen for the first time, and Kirsten Dunst hits one throught the attic window with a tennis raquet, you can see the shards of glass that the (computer-generated) mosquito knocked out of the window falling down the inside of the wall, which doesn't make sense - if the mosquito was going outwards, surely the glass would too? (00:25:00)

Correction: Only the glass that the mosquito actually touched would go out; the rest of the glass that splintered and broke would simply fall down.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Miriam tells Moses that his mother is Yocheved, she slightly mispronounces the name. She pronounces it Yo-he-ved. The actual pronunciation would have a stronger sound on the -che, kind of like a rolled -h sound, with a very slight -k sound preceding it.

Correction: Since the character wouldn't have been speaking English to begin with, this can be attributed to the spoken language being different from the one which the name originates. She is speaking English and delivered the English pronunciation of the name.

Phixius

Corrected entry: After Moses and Ramses mess up the statue with their horse race, when the Pharaoh is talking to them, Ramses' hair is dark brown instead of black.

Correction: Dusty from having just left the scene of the broken statue.

Phixius

Corrected entry: Throughout the movie, the pyramids appear as a sandy-stone color, while in reality, the newly built pyramids would have appeared as white with a gold top.

Correction: They weren't all that new at the time of the exodus.

Phixius

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, Ace's landlord says how he "heard animals scratching around" in Ace's apartment. Ace then lets him inside to snoop around, but at his signal all the animals hide. Thing is, the landlord would have a master key that would allow him access to all his tenants' apartments, so why didn't he just have a look himself when Ace wasn't home?

Correction: Because it's illegal for a landlord to enter a tenant's rented space without permission from the tenant.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie when the dolphin is stolen, Finkle puts his hand (wearing the Superbowl ring) on the tank. This is a man's hand, however, Finkle would have a woman's hand seeing as he is posing as Lieutenant Einhorn at this time. There is also no way he could have been Finkle at this point in time because later in the movie it is shown that "she" has been a lieutenant for a while.

Correction: Whilst you are correct that her hands should remain the same size, if you pause the film at the right moment, you can see it is in fact a man, with a man's face, and possibly a black beard (or balaclava), conducting the dolphin-napping. Einhorn shouldn't look like her old Ray Finkle self at this point, unless it was only meant to show her mannish hands to throw us off and they accidentally caught the male actor's face in the clip.

Joshua Bellis

Correction: Finkle had breast implants. He didn't have an operation altering the bone structure in his hands. There's no reason the hands shouldn't look like a man's.

Phixius

Show generally

Corrected entry: In the episode when Jimmy gets the remote that rewinds things, Jimmy, Sheen and Carl run up the tree and flip down and slide on the dinosaurs tail sheen says "Yaba Daba Doo" from The Flinstones.

Correction: He doesn't actually say "Yabba Dabba Doo," just something that sounds like it. At any rate, this *is* a Flintstones reference, but it's so blatantly obvious it doesn't count as "trivia" as per the rules of this site.

Phixius

25th Jan 2006

Roswell (1999)

Four Aliens and A Baby - S3-E17

Corrected entry: Max and Tess's baby would be half alien and half human, not pure human. Since Tess and Max are both half alien, the DNA they give to the baby would be both human and Alien. Therefore the baby would get half human and half alien DNA from *both* parents, meaning he would be half alien as well. That means that the people on Antar wouldn't reject him just because of that.

Correction: The three are told by Nesedo that they are biologically human, (albeit in bio-engineered human bodies, capable of doing things the human race won't be able to do for thousands more generations of evolution) with the alien "essence" of their former lives put into the bodies. So the baby is 100% human.

Phixius

30th Sep 2006

Roswell (1999)

Pilot - S1-E1

Corrected entry: At the very beginning of the episode, Maria asks the man who ends up shooting Liz if he wants more coffee. As she walks away, she has her hand under bottom of the coffee pot. Shouldn't her hand be burning?

Correction: Not if the coffee's only warm and not hot.

Phixius

1st Oct 2006

Beethoven (1992)

Corrected entry: When Beethoven is pulling the two people, they seem stuck to the chairs. Wouldn't they have fallen off?

Correction: They are "riding" the backs of the chairs.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Allie goes to throw up the toilet moves. (01:18:00)

Correction: My toilet can move slightly too. It's either old (as is mine) or poorly installed.

Phixius

28th Sep 2006

Hostel (2005)

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie an Asian girl is tortured, having most of her right face burnt off with a welding-torch, before Paxton rescues her. Miraculously, however, despite the intense burning, none of her hair is so much as singed.

Correction: Her hair was out of her face and she was burnt with a torch that had a very straight flame coming out of it. Not so unrealistic at all.

Phixius

26th Sep 2006

Ghostbusters (1984)

Corrected entry: At the beginning of Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman says that he studies the effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability, when, in fact, he actually studies the effects of positive punishment on ESP ability. This can be seen in the fact that he adds an aversive stimulus to the subject when the subject "gets it wrong" in order to decrease that behavior, which is positive punishment. If he was studying negative reinforcement, he would have to make the shock occur at all times unless the subject guessed the right card, at which point, the shock would be removed. Of course, Peter's methods were shown to be less than sound.

Correction: The "negative reinforcement" occurs with the female subject. She sees that the punishment for getting a wrong answer is electric shock. When she gets the right answer (or so Venkman tells her) she escapes that aversive stimulus. *That* is negative reinforcement. The experiment is bunk anyway, because Venkman is lying to them both.

Phixius

You could just as easily say that she's receiving positive reinforcement because he keeps complimenting her. The only thing that's for sure here is that his experimental design and conduct has a faulty member is poor.

Correction: The shock isn't the only stimulus. He's is also either being overtly obvious that he's helping the woman OR could be that the stimulus is the woman getting all the right answers.

Or that Venkman is a hack and doesn't know the difference between negative reinforcement and positive punishment.

jimba

26th Sep 2006

The Borrowers (1997)

Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie, Pea-Green opens the freezer with a popsicle stick. Freezers seal pretty tightly, so the stick would break. Even if it didn't break, it would be too hard for a borrower to open.

Correction: If you slam or push a freezer door shut then, yes, the vacuum created holds it shut pretty well. If the door was closed without excessive force then it would open quite easily.

Phixius

6th Jan 2004

Red Dwarf (1988)

Backwards - S3-E1

Corrected entry: Throughout this episode writing is backwards. Why, in a backwards universe, would writing be backwards? Surely it would be the correct way around, just that the people in this universe would read it backwards.

Correction: It's a fictional universe. The writers can create whatever customs/rules they like.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Felicity is in the gas chamber it takes 36 seconds from the time the gas starts flowing until the moment Felicity's heart stops. The second time around (when there are two Austins) they waste so much time with talking that it takes more than 45 seconds until Austin frees Felicity.

Correction: Simply explained by the not so simple "chaos theory." Austin changed something subtle by going back, and the gas did not affect Felicity as quickly.

Phixius

5th May 2004

The Mummy (1999)

Corrected entry: Rick throws a stick of dynamite into a niche in the wall where it explodes. In slow motion it can be seen that there are two explosions, the initial one followed by a much larger one.

Correction: Invalid, as per the rules of the site. If slo-mo is necessary, the mistake doesn't count.

Phixius

22nd Sep 2006

Matilda (1996)

Corrected entry: When Matilda reads 'Moby Dick' at the end of the film, she opens the book and turns one page then begins to read. A book has at least 3-5 pages at the start to say who published it, who it was for, etc.

Correction: Two likely possibilities: Either she turned more than one page, and they just stuck together; or this book is part of a series/compilation of classic literature, and the 3-5 pages worth of information that would normally appear in each book appears in only the first or last book of this series.

Phixius

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