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Correction: Believable character mistake.

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Freaky Phoebe - S7-E19

Corrected entry: When the sisters visit the vampire queen to make a deal, Piper blows up several of the vampires in their bat form. But in season 4's "Bite Me," the book of shadows says vampires are immune to witches' powers.

Correction: The Book of Shadows states that vampires are immune to witches' powers while in vampire/human form but are able to be destroyed in their bat form, which happens in both season's 4 & season 7's episodes.

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Correction: So she left her phone at the restaurant. If she used that cell phone just after leaving it, that would be a mistake, but as such it's simply a character mistake, not a 'movie' mistake.

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His Leading Lady - S2-E13

Corrected entry: Andie is supposedly taking a drug called "Xanax", which Pacey keeps describing as a 'heavy duty drug for anxiety and depression'. Actually, Xanax is a class of medication called Benzodiazepines or tranquilizers, and is primarily to treat anxiety. It is not an antidepressent. In this scene, Andie takes the medicine out of the cabinet-and takes two rather large, blackish capsules. Xanax looks nothing like this, and normally is a very small white pill. Shortly after that Pacey goes into the bathroom, and takes the medicine bottle out of the trash. On the closeup of the label the drug name is printed "Zanac 20 MG, Take two pills once daily". Not only is the name of the drug misspelled, but the dosage is completely inappropriate. The real drug Xanax is normally taken at doses around .25 or .5 up to 2 MG. There is no way a doctor would prescribe a dose of 40 MG a day of Xanax. (00:05:15 - 00:05:50)

Correction: After posting this entry, it occurred to me that the writers may have been using a fictional medication named 'Zanac' as being similar to 'Prozac' (thus the similar AC spelling at the end), which is an anti-depressant for anxiety/depression. The dosage would be more appropriate, if the fictional medication was supposed to be like Prozac. They may have used the name 'Zanac' as a fictional form of Prozac, or a medication very similar to Prozac. It just sounded like Xanax, when the actor was pronouncing it, and because Xanax is a real medication. The writers must have felt more comfortable using a fictional medication, rather than the real one.

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Correction: The episode aired out of order due to controversy caused by an earlier episode. Not a mistake due to the Pokemon being correct in the order it is supposed to be in. On DVD releases, the episode is placed correctly.

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Correction: Perhaps the music we hear is simply from a trailer for Titanic, followed by the ninety minute film which gave Will so much trouble.

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Surprise Artie - S2-E19

Corrected entry: In this episode, Doug takes Arthur out to a favorite buffet. When switching shots between Doug and Arthur arguing about buying one or two meals, the coffee cup by Doug's right arm alternates as to whether it is there or not. (00:06:35)

Correction: The cup is always on the table it just swaps from by Doug to by Arthur as part of the plot.

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Always a Chance - S1-E25

Corrected entry: When Adam shows Alpha the old Mastodon morpher, Alpha claims that the Power Coin was destroyed ages ago - this is not true. Only the Zords were destroyed, not the Coins.

Correction: Actually in "Ninja Quest part 1" when Alpha tried to provide the Zords with more power he ended up causing a power surge which caused the power coins to short circut (Hence the damage shown on Adam's morpher), which is why the rangers never used the Dino Coins after that.

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Correction: He says "hey Chris". But there's also 2 other people saying hello.

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Christmas Special 1999 - S99-E1

Corrected entry: When Barbara gives Nana gives everyone a snowball to drink, watch carefully as Nana talks about her late husband and you will see that the amount of drink in her glass keeps changing between shots.

Correction: It doesn't change.

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Correction: The idea was supposed to be that they were completely scaled-down, meaning even their flight speed was slow compared to the rest of the world. The same went for the monobots, so they were on the same scale, and had comparable movement levels. it looked like the ppg were 'flying slowly' because it would be impossible to draw them as tiny as they were but zoomed out far enough to see how slow they were.

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Corrected entry: Throughout first stage when you see foot shots of Takumi driving, his left foot is on the gas pedal instead of his right foot. This also happens with Bunta when he and Yuichi are taking the Eight Six for a test run on Akina.

Correction: In most cases of the left foot being shown, it is pressed on the clutch pedal or the brake. The right foot is always the one on the gas pedal. In the shots mentioned, the left is simply off-screen.

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