Question: I'm confused. I can understand the first time they assumed everyone was accounted for due to the neighbour's kid being patted on the head and taking Kevin's number. My issue is that during the check-in at the airport or even getting out of the taxi, they must have realised at some point Kevin wasn't there, even if you are in a rush.
illusions
25th Dec 2025
Home Alone (1990)
Answer: I am not a parent, but I've heard that these things happen. Parents get busy and make mistakes or overlook things. The family slept too late and everyone was rushing around. Also, everyone was annoyed with Kevin because of his behaviour at dinner the previous night - even if they were mostly at fault, because of how they treated him. Everybody was sort of ignoring Kevin the next morning. Lastly, the McCallisters have four other children. They are probably in the habit of making an older sibling watch or check on Kevin. (I say this because my husband is the oldest of six.) So, even if Mum or Dad thought of him during all the rushing around, they might have assumed that he was with someone else.
I would like to add that it is important to note that they went in two cabs towards the airport, so Kevin was assumed to be in the other cab by everyone. Secondly, his ticket went missing, so they didn't have an extra ticket at hand that would mean someone was missing at check-in. I think those are the main reasons Kevin wasn't noticed.
15th Oct 2025
Reacher (2022)
Question: In season one. It just doesn't make sense or the villains/police are thick as hell. Firstly, it starts with the death of Reacher's brother Joe. When they killed Joe, why didn't they just move his body so it couldn't be found? They all knew at that time there were two good cops in that station, why make work for yourself? Secondly, we know Paul Hubble has his number in Joe's pocket. Surely the villains would have checked his pockets first or, as in the first part, moved the body so it can't be found.
14th Oct 2025
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Trivia: Sheldon tells Penny not to sleep with her head close to the door because a headboard is always oriented away from the door; yet in later episodes, we see Sheldon in the exact sleeping spot that he told Penny not to sleep in. At this point I am referring to Pennys' sleep over whilst on Sheldons' couch.
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Suggested correction: Sheldon's headboard (and head) is against the wall on the wall opposite his door.
21st Sep 2025
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Trivia: Not sure where to add this one, but it's funny. When Kimble returns to school after his visit to the hospital near the end, he can be seen picking up the female teacher and swinging her round. Look to the left; you will see a young boy with dark hair doing his best to look up her skirt as she's being spun round.
26th Aug 2025
White Collar (2009)
Continuity mistake: When Burke receives his new watch from Elizabeth, it is totally different to the one he wears when interviewing the dress designer later. (00:18:44 - 00:25:29)
24th May 2025
Reacher (2022)
Trivia: When the goon comes out of the Hotel, Reacher and Neagly are staying, he phones his boss, Shane Langston, who tells him that Neagly registered under the name of Sarah Connor. Robert Patrick, who plays Shane Langston, was also in Terminator 2, where he was the T-1000 sent back to kill Sarah Connor. (00:22:35)
9th Apr 2025
The Bill (1984)
Continuity mistake: In Episode 9 of Season 1, Roy Galloway sells his Ford Cortina to a car dealer. He has to wait a day for paperwork and drives away in a Vauxhall Cavalier A242 GLO. He revisits the car dealer, and his Cortina is up for sale on the forecourt for £1495, then drives away in the Cavalier. However, in the next episode, he is back to driving the same Ford Cortina. Again, you don't see the registration, but in Episode 11, it's visible: BBH 469T, the same as in the pilot episode. (00:20:36 - 00:22:20)
24th Mar 2025
Girl Haunts Boy (2024)
11th Jan 2025
Still Game (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Jack and Victor visit Jack's future flat in the very first episode, they go into the bathroom and close the door. We can see that to the right of the door is the bath and shower. Yet in this episode, neither the bath nor the shower are to the right of the door but are now directly in front when the door is open.
22nd Dec 2024
The Snowman (1982)
Continuity mistake: During the boys' time creating the snowman, we can see that the snowman is facing the front of the house; yet he completes the transformation: he's now facing towards the trees.
7th Oct 2024
Under the Dome (2013)
Trivia: Stephen King has a cameo as the old man asking for coffee. (00:34:35)
2nd Oct 2024
Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)
Character mistake: At the very beginning, when Ray is picking up the food from the floor, he and Deborah refer to their kids by different names. They call one kid Matthew and the other Gregory. Yet we know the twin boys as Michael and Geoffrey Barone. Also, in the same shot when he says, "Clean up Isle 2," you can see one of the bowls fall on the floor, and the second bowl is launched from the highchair without anyone touching it. (00:00:16 - 00:00:40)
17th Sep 2024
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Sheldon's Sandwich goes from looking burnt to not burnt in the next few frames. (00:16:56)
1st Apr 2024
Knight Rider (1982)
13th Nov 2023
White Collar (2009)
Withdrawal - S2-E1
Revealing mistake: At 46:24, Peter and Mozzie are sat on a bench. Peter's paper has the exact same wording on back pages as well as the front page. (00:46:24)
11th Sep 2023
White Collar (2009)
Other mistake: When Neil is in prison and has time on his hands, he puts pieces together that were shredded. Neil's name in the file is CAFFERTY, not CAFFERY. Also, in the same scene, the words "e've" can be seen with the W missing. Yet, later on, when Neil shows Burke the final photocopied piece, the W that wasn't there is now visible.
19th May 2023
Still Game (2001)
Revealing mistake: When Winston, Jack, and Victor are in the sea, you can see Winston's real leg as he tries to keep his balance in the water. (00:23:20)
26th Feb 2023
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Blood Drops - S1-E7
Visible crew/equipment: Near the start there is a visible mic boom just above Grissom's head to the left for a second. (00:03:23)
18th Feb 2022
Lucy (2014)
Continuity mistake: When Lucy breaks free from the cartel prison room and kills the fellow members we see her eating then removing a bullet she grabs a bag that is half full and begins to add more weapons and items when she lifts the bag from the table for the final time there is less than half a bag.
3rd Apr 2013
Please Sir! (1971)
Visible crew/equipment: When the kids are singing "All things bright and beautiful" you can see the shadow of the hydraulic camera. (00:15:15)
Answer: Agree with the other answers, but the entire plot requires a complete "suspension of disbelief." The movie is filled with plot holes and implausible scenarios. In addition to no-one noticing Kevin missing at the airport, all the phone lines on the McCallisters' street are supposedly down due to a storm, but Kevin orders a pizza that same night and later calls the police. His parents just stop trying to call the house and it's claimed they cannot contact even one friend, relative, neighbour, or co-worker for help. When they call Chicago police from Paris, it's just a single doofus guy at a desk, not a 911 call centre. A cop checks the house, then leaves because no-one answers, despite a child reportedly being there alone. Kevin instantly creates many booby traps in a mere few hours. After the next-door neighbour saves Kevin from the "Wet Bandits" at the other house, he just lets him go home by himself, knowing no-one is there. The damage/mess to the house has magically been repaired/cleaned before the family returns.
raywest ★
You can just call the police station without it being a 911 call. I don't think 911 appreciates being called for a check-up. That's not an emergency.
lionhead
A child left alone in a house for days, with no adult supervision, and his family out of the country is 100% an emergency.
Well, I disagree with you there; it's not a 911 call. Besides, like Raywest said, isn't there family that can be called? A neighbour? Anyone living in that town? Then the cops. Not 911. Also, not sure how dialing 911 from Paris would work, if at all.
lionhead
Any unaccounted young child is considered an immediate emergency. The parents are in Paris, panicked, and would call the most direct emergency number, probably through an international operator who'd connect to Chicago's 911. They have no idea what Kevin's circumstances are, if he's safe, has food, is distraught, terrified, has burned the house down, etc. Even non-emergency police numbers do not have bumbling, dismissive cops responding that way. The other family members had said they couldn't reach any friends, relatives, neighbours, or co-workers to check on Kevin, only their voicemails.
raywest ★