Revealing mistake: When Ted and John argue in New York, Ted walks off across the road and disappears behind a passing car. Look closely - Ted disappears a fraction too early.
Ted 2 (2015)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Seth MacFarlane
Starring: Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Seth MacFarlane, Jessica Barth
Genres: Comedy
Continuity mistake: The money the guy puts on the counter when asking about the Trix disappears with no one touching it. (00:14:00)
Trivia: The head of Hasbro's door has his name displayed as "T. Jessup", a reference to Family Guy writer Ted Jessup.
Question: In one scene, there's a newspaper that says "Wednesday, August 26, 2015" at the top. Why would it say that when this film was released on June 26 of that year?
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Answer: Films are basically never set exactly when they're released. Most likely they just picked a random date around the likely time of release, but scheduling changed. Alternatively they just picked an arbitrary date in the future for the newspaper, but a date in the recent past would have worked just as well.