Corrected entry: When Leela first squeezes the toy Fry leaves her, you can see that eye that pops out is blue. Later on (when she breaks it) the eye has changed to red.
David Mercier
19th Apr 2004
Futurama (1999)
2nd Apr 2004
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Corrected entry: When Jesus is in prison and Mary puts her head to the floor and the camera tracks down to him, you can see that the manacles on his arms are far too big and he could easily slide his hand out. Strange considering they seem to fit for the rest of the film.
Correction: Jesus does not necessairly wear the same pair of manacles all the way through the film.
21st Jun 2004
Frasier (1993)
Corrected entry: In Frasier's apartment Niles is apparently typing on his laptop, which when viewed from behind is off. The screen is totally black.
Correction: Niles has one of those laptops with the old LCD screen, to see what he sees, you have to be pretty much at his angle.
16th May 2004
Friends (1994)
The One Where No One's Ready - S3-E2
Corrected entry: Chandler claims to have hidden Joey's underwear because "he stole my essence." But Chandler didn't go out of the apartment to do this, meaning the only time he could have done it was when he was over there first, and he wouldn't have done because there was no incentive to do so as Joey hadn't taken the cushions off the chair.
8th May 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Corrected entry: The level of the beer in the bottle changes without being touched in the scene in the Chinese restaurant. As this seems to be a normal memory, it is not reasonable to attribute this to the nature of the film either.
Correction: Actually, this wasn't a normal memory since Joel could hear the voices of the technicians in the background, so the level of the beer could easily change since his memory was being distorted.
8th May 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Corrected entry: When Jim is walking on the beach at the start of the film, it is supposed to be snowing, and you can see flakes fall from the sky. Trouble is, there isn't any on the sand and you can't see any landing on it or on the sea. (00:02:30)
Correction: Living in NY, I have witnessed many days when there is snow in the air but no accumulation on the ground. This is especially common when the air temperature is colder than the ground, as it would be near a large body of water.
22nd Nov 2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Corrected entry: Bridget gets into a taxi and asks for "Inns of Court." The problem is there are four Inns of Court and she doesn't specify which one. Not only this, but the driver drops her at a location which isn't at one of the four Inns either.
Correction: Right after she says this, she has the driver bring her to her apartment to change, so she could have given him another destination after changing her clothes.
14th Nov 2004
Sex and the City (1998)
My motherboard, my self - S4-E8
Corrected entry: When Carrie takes her laptop to be repaired, the supposed expert says that "Ctrl Alt Delete," only works on PCs and it's therefore implied that it didn't work because this is a laptop. This of course is totally incorrect; Ctrl Alt Delete is a Windows function and therefore works on anything which has Windows, regardless of it being a PC or laptop.
Correction: It's because her laptop is a Mac. PC is a generic "IBM compatible" term which covers both desktops and laptops.
26th Apr 2004
Father Ted (1995)
Corrected entry: When they are playing snakes and ladders with the depressed guy, right at the end Dougal grabs the wrong piece and moves it down the board. He was supposed to do it with the depressed guy's piece, but he does it with his own, and up until then he had been playing right, so we can't put it down to his stupidity.
Correction: We really don't know how well he had been playing up until then, since this is only the first or second move we see him make. With someone as stupid as Dougal, getting confused halfway through the game and moving the wrong piece is perfectly plausible.
11th Nov 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: Lisa says her IQ is 159, but in "Homer's Enemy," we are told it's 156. Lisa hasn't aged in 15 years so it won't have changed. More likely to be writers not remembering what they have said before.
Correction: IQ measurement is not exact, and many factors, such as a person's environment, can affect how well one performs, intellectually speaking, though one's IQ usually hovers around a certain area of the scale. For Lisa to go from 159 to 156 is not unusual (a drop to, say, 136 would be much more cause for concern). She may just have had another test recently.
9th Nov 2004
Wilde (1997)
Corrected entry: Oscar Wilde is seen giving testimony during his trial. In Britain, defendants were not allowed to give evidence at their own criminal trials until 1898, and Wilde's trial was around 1895/6.
Correction: There is a substantial amount of historical evidence that Wilde did indeed give testimony at his trials.
2nd Apr 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: In the posh woman's house Frank is shown a newspaper with a picture of him at a funeral on the front. You'll have to be quick but you can see that the picture is of him and Lucy at Ray's funeral, which of course hasn't happened yet.
Correction: The photograph on the front page of the Gazette that Mrs. Waterhouse holds up is the photo that Steve's partner snapped at the funeral for Chuck Hughes at the start of the film, as Frank handed out his business cards to the mourners. The actual photo shows Frank wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, giving his business card to a brunette with a hat - but it is clearly not Lucy Lynskey, with a man behind them holding an umbrella, as it was raining during that funeral. That brunette is also visible at the funeral, as Ms. Rhys-Jones says in voiceover, "..Thirty years later as the death toll steadily rises, it appears the grim reaper has once again..." To further stress the point, the day of Ray Lynskey's funeral, Frank was wearing a tee shirt under an open collar red shirt, unlike the photo.
2nd Apr 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: Director Peter Jackson makes a cameo as the punk Frank bumps into coming out of the newspaper office. A nice touch, but Jackson actually vanishes and reappears between the following camera angles.
Correction: When pierced Peter Jackson bumps into Frank, it is only in this close-up shot that he and his Grim Reaper tee shirt, are visible. In the next shot facing Frank, after he stares at the tee shirt, Frank starts to cross the street. In the third shot facing the Gazette newspaper building, the pierced guy is gone, though he did have enough time to 'mysteriously' vanish up the block between shots and he does not reappear in any other shot.
12th Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Skinner's Sense of Snow - S12-E8
Corrected entry: All the children have time to run out of the classroom, put their coats, hats, scarves and gloves on (which are probably in their lockers) in the time it takes for Skinner to open the blind on the window. There is no way they could have done this in such a short space of time.
6th Jan 2004
Batman (1989)
Corrected entry: When Batman is in his plane and stealing the Joker's balloons, he flicks 3 switches to close the claw around the cables. If you look closely, you can see that the red light next to these switches is labelled "volume" - not really anything to do with the claw; and more to do with his stereo.
Correction: The red light has no labeling anywhere near it that says 'Volume', nor do any of the switches that he hits.
22nd Apr 2004
The Patriot (2000)
Corrected entry: There are numerous references made to "Redcoats" in a sense of fear, as though they are the elite troops of the time, I think "We're talking about real redcoats here," even pops up as a line. Whilst this elitism may have been true, nearly 90% of the troops sent to America during the American Revolution were poorly-trained German mercenaries (from the German state of Saxe-Hess), not properly-trained British soldiers as it was too expensive to send the proper troops, and the American generals knew about this flaw.
Correction: Which is why the Colonials are so afraid of "real" Redcoats. They knew they were better than the regular German opponents.
19th Apr 2004
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: If you add up Bender's "metallic constituents" throughout the entire show, it comes to something like 200%, which of course is impossible. He claims at various points that he is 40% titanium, 40% zinc, 40% "dolomite", 30% iron, and there are several others. Naturally, if you add these together it comes to more than 100% which cannot be the case.
Correction: True, he says at various points he is made of several metallic constituents. However, in at least one episode (Episode 203, A Head in the Polls), he sells his body because of the price of titanium. Other episodes he was shot, exploded (Ep. 207), etc. Therefore it is possible that he DID consist of these metallic percentages, but at varying times. On top of this, Bender is a compulsive liar. He may just be saying he is 40% of whatever fits the situation.
26th Apr 2004
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Corrected entry: The British plane which the terrorists crash is Windsor 114. Windsor is the surname of the British Royal family, and it is forbidden for companies to use it as their name, therefore the airline cannot be called this.
Correction: This is incorrect. There are hundreds of businesses called 'Windsor' in the UK - just take a look in the Yellow Pages. It is forbidden for firms to claim Royal patronage or approval, but using the name is perfectly acceptable.
22nd Mar 2004
Bottom (1991)
Bottom's Up - S1-E5
Corrected entry: When the man comes into the shop he buys 3 bottles of champagne and writes the cheque out to Eddie. Later on Eddie says "I'm not bothered, I've got a cheque for £53 here." It isn't possible to divide 53 by 3 and get a whole number.
Correction: Who says it's exactly £53? Could be £52.98 for champagne at £17.66 a bottle.
21st Jan 2004
Paycheck (2003)
Corrected entry: The bullet that is fired at Ben and shown time and time again from the future is a whole bullet. It still has the casing on it; only the tip fires out of a gun.
Correction: There is no casing on the bullet after it is fired. It looks a little like there is because there is a circular groove on the butt of the bullet, but the casing for the bullet is missing. When they show the bullet in the gun, the casing is wider at the bottom, tapering in towards the bullet half way up its length. After it is fired, the bullet shows completely straight sides - no ridge that the casing would have presented.
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Correction: Remember, most of this episode is actually a dream that was created by Leela while she was in a coma. Things changing around suddenly is quite common.