Corrected entry: In this episode, Mr. Copper was played by Clive Swift. To those who are familiar with British television, among other works, he played the long-suffering husband Richard Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) to his over-bearing wife Hyacinth in the sit-com Keeping Up Appearances.
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23rd Jan 2017
Doctor Who (2005)
25th Jan 2017
Outbreak (1995)
Corrected entry: Before getting on the plane, Col. Daniels has a conversation with General Ford. Ford salutes Daniels, which is incorrect; as the lower ranking officer, Daniels should have saluted first as a sign of respect and protocol.
Correction: Ford and Daniels are also very good friends. Doing something like that privately and not in the presence of others just shows signs of their friendship.
27th Jun 2016
Family Guy (1999)
Stewie Goes for a Drive - S10-E4
Corrected entry: As it starts to rain, Stewie gets stabbed by a random stranger. Later on the bus, and when he gets off, there's no evidence of the stabbing.
29th Sep 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Operation -- Annihilate! - S1-E30
Corrected entry: When given the option of using intense light to kill the creatures, McCoy says that he could probably rig a cubicle in the bio lab to test the theory. However, that would require him to know engineering, and one of his caustic quotes is "I'm a doctor, not an engineer!", unless he requisitioned Engineering to help.
Correction: Rigging a cubicle with lights wouldn't require engineering skills. He just meant he can set up some intense lights and focus them on a certain spot, not that he'll have to wire anything or build a special device.
10th Jun 2014
A View to a Kill (1985)
Corrected entry: When Bond makes a copy of the check to see the amount, the copy is readable. However, since it was made with a face down copier, the copy should have reversed.
Correction: The image does not appear on the side of the paper that was in contact with the checkbook, which would be a mirror image. Bond flips the paper over to reveal the image (which essentially becomes a mirror image of a mirror image making it appear readable).
28th Feb 2016
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: When Picard is first stripped in the office, there is damage on his left chest. Later, Picard looks down at the damage, as if noticing it for the first time. Damage that bad would have been known after it was done.
Correction: The "damage" he looks at was an incision made when he was drugged where they implanted the device, so he wouldn't have noticed it after it was done.
17th Dec 2013
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Corrected entry: When Peg gets into her car, she adjusts the side view mirror. The mirror is mounted inside a one-piece housing, meaning the outside housing can't be moved. When the camera does a close up on her hand to look in the mirror, she moves the whole mirror, meaning that there were two mirror set ups used.
Correction: The mirrors are not in a housing, they are manually adjustable mirrors standard on AMC Gremlins.
18th Sep 2016
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Corrected entry: This all takes place twenty years after the events of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. Toward the end, Zira's baby was named Milo, in Dr. Milo's memory. However, in this movie, he is twenty years old, and called Caesar.
16th Aug 2016
M*A*S*H (1972)
Corrected entry: In this episode, Potter and company are being introduced to white phosphorous that is starting to be used. But in Season 2, Episode 1, "Divided We Stand", as Henry and Hawkeye come out of the O.R. a wounded soldier is brought in on a Jeep with white phosphorous burns, and they knew what to do.
Correction: Even if they knew how to deal with it at the time, the information might not have been common knowledge. As WP came to be used more frequently, the Army would send instructors to field hospitals to make certain everyone was up on the latest technique for dealing with it. (Col. Potter was also not in the earlier episode you mention, and he wants to hear the information).
Understood, but Potter was there in Season 4, Episode 24 "Deluge" when a WP case was brought in.
Remember that the main plot of this episode is that Col. Potter made a rookie mistake that almost cost a kid's life, and is fearing that he's too old to hack it as a doctor anymore. If the Army's learned something he doesn't know, he wants to know it.
Correction: "New" to the doctors on the front lines and "new" to the doctors back at HQ could be two different things.
It might be old news to the 4077th but new to the Army in general. Without asking a real Army doctor, Instructional briefings like this aren't optional. They don't ask if you already know it. The point of the scene is NOT "How many times has the 4077th already done this?" The point is "Potter thinks he's too old and can't hack it anymore, so IF the Army has learned something new, HE wants to hear it." And also shows us "Potter is on edge about something. Maybe we should call Sidney Green."
You could be the world's top expert in White Phosphorus, but if you're in the Army, and they tell you "You're going to attend a lecture on White Phosphorus," That's called an order and you do it, Mr. White Phosphorus, whether you like it or not.
Correction: Captain Simmons said the new weapon is "white phosphorus rounds." Phosphorus before then was likely used as part of artillery shells.
Correction: I know you can't worry about MASH's timeline or you'll go insane, but six seasons pass between this episode and that one. The Army medics could have learned some new things about treating the injuries in whatever time passed. And again, Col. Potter thinks he's slipping in this episode, so he wants to hear every word, and that's the main point of the scene.
7th Aug 2016
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Corrected entry: Assuming he had smooth skin, Data has chest hair visible in a couple of shots.
Correction: It is well established in multiple episodes that Data has body hair. He was created to look as human as possible.
7th Jun 2016
Family Guy (1999)
Corrected entry: When Peter first has a piano in his bar, it's an upright model commonly seen in bars. The next night, it's a full sized Grand Piano. Given the width of the stairs, the size of the doorways, it seems unlikely to have been put down there without a considerable amount of effort.
Correction: The whole area was transformed, a stage, extra lighting, etc. So, yes, a considerable amount of effort was done. Lois was excited to perform and conceivably hired a bunch of professionals to fix the area up (who are more than capable of bringing a piano down stairs and setting it up).
14th Jun 2016
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Corrected entry: As the vehicles pull up to Cade's home and the men get out, there are fingerprints all over the door frames that shouldn't have been there; obviously they were from other takes.
1st Jun 2016
Superman II (1980)
Corrected entry: As Clark leaves to get hot dogs and orange juice for Lois, there's a wide shot of the observation area, and the kid in the red and white striped shirt is nowhere to be seen. In the close up, the kid is suddenly fooling around on the railing.
Correction: The kid's parents are in front of him, blocking the view of him playing on the rail from the wide shot.
19th May 2016
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Corrected entry: When Max goes to enter Barter Town, he's stripped of his weapons (save for the dagger hidden in the handle of his fly swatter), because, as he's told, "It's the law." When he confronts Master Blaster, about twenty weapons are trained on Master Blaster to subdue them. Unless it's part of the plot to get rid of Blaster, it is an inconsistency.
Correction: The people with the weapons are Auntie's soldiers - it is from there that Max and Blaster are taken to Thunderdome, basically Master Blaster was set up.
27th May 2016
Space: 1999 (1975)
Corrected entry: Ryan, the host, is played by Peter Cushing, who played Grand Moff (Governor) Tarkin, who commanded, and was destroyed with, the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977).
Correction: Pointing out that a well known, instantly recognisable actor whose name appears in the opening and closing credits appears in this episode is not trivia.
2nd Feb 2015
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Request Permission to Escape - S1-E32
Corrected entry: As Schultz goes to salute, the water stream goes up Klink's face to shoot over his head. When the camera cuts to Schultz, the stream now is aimed more directly at Klink's face.
22nd Mar 2016
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: After Indy climbs out of the pit after being double crossed by the guide, he comes upon the guy impaled on the same trap that Forrestal's body was on when they entered. However, the already sprung trap with the body wasn't visible anywhere.
Correction: This trap could have easily been triggered by something that they missed on the way in but didn't on the way out.
24th Mar 2016
Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Dreadnought - S2-E17
Corrected entry: As Janeway talks to the planet representative, the stars are not moving past the window, yet the ship is travelling at full impulse.
Correction: If they are traveling at impulse (which is slower than light), you would not see the stars move. It would take years to notice any difference in the position of the stars.
20th Jun 2014
Stalag 17 (1953)
Corrected entry: At the end, when Sefton has unmasked Price as the spy, he reaches into Price's coat and pulls out the black queen, stating "The one you pulled out from the corner of your bunk and put in this pocket!" When the camera was looking at Price pulling the queen out, Sefton was on his back looking in the direction of his feet, which were pointed at the wall next to the window. So he couldn't have witnessed the event.
Correction: By that point Sefton knows Price is the spy. It's reasonable to assume he'd investigate and learn where the hollow queen is.
27th Jan 2014
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
Corrected entry: The whole story line is a plot hole. The blueprints would be a top secret item, and as such, wouldn't accompany the item they depict (in this case, missiles). Klink carries the prints around as if they were ordinary papers for no other purpose than to be "borrowed", copied, and returned by the Heroes. For this, Klink would have been eliminated.
Correction: Not a plot hole. The rationale for the plans being present was probably because they were to be presented to the assembled general staff. That makes it a deus ex, not a mistake. It's often stated in the series how the Axis general staff considers Stalag 13 a particularly safe place, so there's no reason not to take top secret plans there. As a matter of fact, the safety is precisely the reason the demonstration is held in Stalag 13. As for the reason Klink carries the plans with him, that's not a proper plot hole either. Again, viewed from the German point of view, the plans were safe there, especially rolled up where nobody could peek at them. After all, no prisoner had ever escaped from Stalag 13. Fact is, the Germans have no clue that Hogan's men have ways to get those plans out of country. True, Klink probably shouldn't have put the plans down, but that's just his usual clumsy self, and as already pointed out twice, from his point of view he had no reason to suspect duplicity.
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