Deliberate mistake: After Bud overhears the plans for Flipper, he decides to hide his dolphin. When he boards the skiff, there are two flipped wide shots before they head out. Note the reversed dock, launch, and "Whaler" on the skiff.
Super Grover
5th Oct 2023
Flipper (1964)
28th Jun 2023
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Deliberate mistake: After Irene tells Hank that she's starting to think he's a good person, when it cuts to a close-up of Boshane in the field, the bandage is on the right side of his face instead of the usual left side. It's a flipped shot from an earlier scene when Lee Harvey tells Boshane that his dad doesn't eat fast food. (00:59:00 - 01:04:55)
16th Mar 2023
Batman (1966)
Deliberate mistake: At the start of the episode the Boy Scout asks why the Cossacks are in Gotham City, then a moment later as narrator William Dozier says, "At the Gotham City Museum" the closeup we see shows "Los Angeles County Historical and Art Museum" over the museum doors.
16th Mar 2023
Batman (1966)
Deliberate mistake: The Batmobile's Bat-turn lever is located at the center upper console, between the driver and passenger seats. Whenever the Bat-turn lever is used while the Dynamic Duo are in the Batmobile, the same closeup always faces the passenger seat and shows Batman's gloved hand pushing the Bat-turn lever, but the problem is Robin vanishes in this closeup - the passenger seat is empty. Episodes S1xE3 "Fine Feathered Finks", S1xE29 "The Bookworm Turns", and S2xE38 "The Joker's Hard Times" are three examples of the Bat-turn lever being used.
12th Mar 2023
Batman (1966)
The Unkindest Tut of All - S3-E6
Deliberate mistake: When Batman has figured out King Tut's plot to steal ancient Egyptian scrolls from the Gotham City Library, he and Robin rush away, and in the shot of the library exterior, the words "The New York Public Library" is quite noticeable above the entryway. (00:18:00)
12th Mar 2023
Batman (1966)
The Sport of Penguins (1) - S3-E4
Deliberate mistake: After the episode intro, in the first shot we see the words "The New York Public Library" above the entrance to the library, where Barbara Gordon works. However, it's stated in S3xE1 that she works at Gotham City Library, and even in this episode when Penguin listens to the news about the bomb, it's noted as the Gotham Library. (00:02:00)
11th Mar 2023
Batman (1966)
The Purr-Fect Crime (1) - S1-E19
Deliberate mistake: At the end, Batman chooses the button on the right which opens the door on the right, with the tiger inside, but the last shot of the episode has been flipped, so the tiger exits from the door on the left. (00:23:25)
11th Mar 2023
Batman (1966)
Deliberate mistake: When Batman and Robin get free from the train tracks in the nick of time, the shot of the couple on the passing train is flipped; note things are backwards. (00:04:30)
28th Feb 2023
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Deliberate mistake: While McClane drives in the tunnel, Gabriel orders, "Open the gates on the north side entrance." A few shots later the signal light changes from red to green and the north gate opens. The "warning" sign is backwards in this flipped shot. Then, when Gabriel opens the gates at the south entrance, there's a proper shot of the "south" gate opening. The two shots of the "north" and "south" gates opening are the same, but one is reversed. All the dirty smudges on the signs, booths, etc, are identical. (00:41:20 - 00:42:05)
11th Feb 2023
Doctor Who (1963)
The Power of the Daleks - S4-E3
Deliberate mistake: During all the animated parts of "The Power of the Daleks" in numerous shots various illustrated character's such as The Doctor, Polly, and Ben have their buttons, pockets, patches, etc, flipped to the opposite side, sometimes even within the very same shot.
7th Jan 2023
Star Wars (1977)
Deliberate mistake: On Tatooine, after C-3PO tells R2, "No more adventures," he walks off in the opposite direction. When C-3PO reaches the skeletal remains in the sand, and complains that the malfunctioning little twerp tricked him, the closeups of 3PO are flipped shots (also note the position/direction of the skeletal head). (00:10:50)
24th Sep 2022
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Deliberate mistake: After Monk and Sharona speak to Gratnik in Dumbo, they take the subway back to Manhattan. While Monk is sobbing, in the first exterior shot the "A" train slows into the 42 St station in Manhattan; note the "A" at the left with the driver on the right, as well as the "42" station sign not reflected backwards, all revealing a flipped shot. Then it's the "C" train when it stops, with Monk and Sharona back in Brooklyn, even further now at the "Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street" platform (used for TV shows and films), in lower Downtown Brooklyn. (00:21:55)
7th Jun 2022
Top Gun (1986)
Deliberate mistake: During the final dogfight, Maverick tells Merlin he's going to "hit the brakes" then when Maverick gets a good lock on the enemy he fires. The shot of his last missile firing is a flipped shot, note "VF-213" is backwards. (01:38:50)
7th Jun 2022
Double Dragon (1994)
Deliberate mistake: While Jimmy and Billy are being chased by the jet skis one of the baddies fires a missile, and when it lands in the water the long shot is flipped, note "AKZO" is backwards. (00:49:25)
12th May 2022
The Rockford Files (1974)
Deliberate mistake: After Rockford pulls into the gas station and wipes down the windshield he speeds away to lose the tail. When he passes the park bench it's a flipped shot, then when the tail passes the park bench it's another flipped shot. (00:18:15)
20th Jan 2021
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2003)
Untouchable - S3-E20
Deliberate mistake: When Tony's holding the cat's carrot toy he's nearly bitten, and the Probies laugh. Then while Tony directs his amusing fictional rant at one Probie, just as Tony asks, "Getting a kick out of this now, think this is funny?" this closeup is flipped. (00:08:50)
27th Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Deliberate mistake: When Magnum first meets Geoffrey's wife, Penelope, the shot facing Magnum as he asks her if something is wrong, is the start of a series of flipped shots facing each of them during this scene. (00:11:30)
27th Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Deliberate mistake: While Magnum is with Penelope at the cemetery Magnum spots a man standing by the tree, and when Magnum walks over to stand beside Penelope, this shot is flipped. (00:32:55)
27th Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Deliberate mistake: When the Simon brothers are parked across the street from the entrance to Robin's Nest, with Harold Sands in the back seat, Rick uses binoculars to have a closer look at the estate. In the POV shot from within the binoculars, the estate's entrance gate with a sign on the bricks is backwards, revealing it as a flipped shot. (00:12:40)
27th Jun 2020
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Did You See the Sun Rise? - S3-E1
Deliberate mistake: When Greene, Magnum and Rick are flying in the chopper going after TC, their first few closeups are all flipped, note their seated positions, backwards shirt buttons, cap lettering, etc. In later closeups their seating positions are in the proper place. (00:35:05)
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