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."
Steven Lee
25th Mar 2024
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
10th Nov 2023
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952)
Character mistake: Rick and his girlfriend are enjoying a picnic in the woods when a baby goat wanders by. Rick says, "He looks hungry. Seen any tin cans around?" Peggy replies, "I don't think they eat tin cans until they're older." Goats will eat the labels of cans but they do not eat the cans.
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Suggested correction: It's not a character mistake if Rick genuinely believes goats eat tin cans, but it's clear his girlfriend was being sarcastic in her reply about goats not eating tin cans till they're older. Of course, Rick could be asking if there's one around so The Goat can eat the label.
7th Aug 2023
The Three Stooges Show (1960)
Character mistake: In "Boobs In Arms" (1940), the Three Stooges are in the Army. On the back of Curly's uniform is an advertisement for "soup, salad, entree, coffee, desert" at O'Brien's Kosher Restaurant. "Dessert" is misspelled.
12th Sep 2022
Pinocchio (2022)
Character mistake: When Pinocchio goes outside and sees the sun for the first time, Geppetto explains, "The sun goes around the earth once a day." That is wrong. The earth revolves around the sun.
6th Sep 2021
Perry Mason (1957)
The Case of the Cheating Chancellor - S9-E4
Character mistake: Paul Drake tells Perry the "speedometer mileage" of a murdered man's automobile is 63,192. Speedometers do not show mileage. He meant to say "odometer."
20th Jul 2020
Columbo (1971)
Character mistake: Piloting a helicopter, Leslie ends a radio conversation by saying "Over and out." "Over" means "I'm done talking; please respond." "Out" means "I'm done talking and I'm ending this communication." An experienced pilot would never say "Over and out." They are two different terms.
13th Mar 2020
Wall-E (2008)
Character mistake: Captain McCrea tells the passengers that it's the 700th anniversary of the Axiom's first flight. The Axiom has been in flight for 255,642 days. Actually, 700 years is 255,675 days. That figure includes the additional day in 175 leap years.
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Suggested correction: Leap years only occur because of the earth's rotation around the sun. As the AXIOM is in space, there is no need to correct for the earth's rotation.
First, rotation is the spin of the Earth (which cause day and night). Revolution is the earth orbiting the sun (which causes years). However, this correction is not valid on the premise you're trying to present. Many films set in space still use Earth time, so a day is 24-hours, even though they're in space and there is no sunrise and sunset (although it's stated the Axiom operates on a 25-hour day). So they would use Earth's year, which takes 365.256 days. Since the Axiom isn't orbiting the Sun, it wouldn't experience a year, so they're using something else. The fact that they're slightly off suggests it's a writing mistake and there's no evidence they use an arbitrary 365.203 day year.
13th Mar 2020
42nd Street (1933)
Character mistake: On the marquee at the Philadelphia theater where the musical "Pretty Lady" will be performed, lights spell out GALA PREMIER. A premier is the ruler of a country. The debut of a musical is a première.
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Suggested correction: "Premier" as an adjective means "earliest creation", such as a primer issue or "first in importance or order." In fact, in 1933 "Mickey's Gala Premier" was released. Only as a noun does it mean prime minister or other head of government.
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 Oct 2019
The Goldbergs (2013)
Character mistake: Beverly waves a university brochure in Adam's face and tells him he's going to go "to UCLA. That's in Hollywood." UCLA is in Westwood.
9th Oct 2019
Columbo (1971)
Last Salute to the Commodore - S5-E6
Character mistake: After Commodore Otis Swanson is murdered, Columbo goes to the Swanson Shipyard to speak with the Commodore's nephew, Swanny Swanson. Columbo calls him "Mr. Swenson."
1st Oct 2019
The Three Stooges Show (1960)
Character mistake: In "Movie Maniacs," the Three Stooges arrive in Hollywood via train, sneak into a movie studio and walk onto the set of a movie being filmed. A starlet looks at Curly and says, "Oh, Mr. Howard." There is no way she could have known his name.
16th Aug 2019
The Rifleman (1958)
Character mistake: Micah is clean-shaven but he enters the barber shop and asks for a shave.
7th Apr 2018
Matlock (1986)
The Scandal - S9-E2
Character mistake: Billy has second thoughts about selling his late sister's beach house to a developer who plans to tear it down and build a hotel. Billy tells Ben, "She lived the last years of her life here." But in part 1 of this two-part episode, it was established that the woman had lived in the house for only six months.
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