Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When WIlly Wonka is talking to Mrs Teevee about Loompaland (at the "Mr Wonka I am a teacher of Geography", "Oh good then you'll know all about it" part), the rear shot of Mrs Teevee shows Mr Beauregarde proceed to eat a giant sweet of some sort. But in the next shot he has the sweet at waist height.

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: When Dana's dad is complaining that his signature has been forged and calls out for his son, a large flock of police cars zoom in behind them. The reflection of a boom mic can be seen in the window of the car that passes closest to the camera. (00:25:59)

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: When Herbie turns the corner just prior to entering the building holding the bullfight, the shadow of the camera can be seen at the bottom of the frame.

Neil Jones

Gortimer vs. The Mobile of Misfortune - S1-E3

Visible crew/equipment: When Stanley is riding the kart in the race, the shadow of the camera equipment is briefly visible bottom right, just before the kart starts to fall apart.

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: When Greg has arrived at church, and he gets out the car he realises he's been sitting on some chocolate. When Greg's dad is trying to clean this off Greg's trousers and the camera pans upwards, the reflection of a cameraman can be seen in the window of the car. (00:24:32)

Neil Jones

Branded - S3-E11

Visible crew/equipment: Towards the end of the episode where Godfrey goes back into the smoke filled hut to rescue Captain Mainwaring, the shadow of the camera is visible on the hut.

Neil Jones

Other mistake: When Warwick Davis shows Joe the form he's tricked his father into signing to allow him to transfer schools, the form is shown full screen. The "home" phone number is the same as that used in the school's letterhead, and there is text that says"insert name of fictitious school here." Also in this scene the name of the headmaster and phone number is visible, but none of those details match what is on the school's advertising board a couple of scenes later when Joe starts at his new school.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When Stefan is reunited with his parents at the film festival he runs to them and stays with them. When Carson Clay arrives and taps Bean on his shoulder, from the back shot Stefan is now suddenly standing next to Bean.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When it is announced that Rowley has won the school cartoonist job, Brett (at the desk next to Rowley's left), starts to clap, then in the very next shot his arms are on the table and you can see him start to clap again.

Neil Jones

Fenced In - S3-E2

Revealing mistake: After Kenan gets his head stuck in the bars it becomes obvious on multiple occasions while Kenan is moving around that the "bar" on his right is fairly flexible, presumably made out of rubber for the benefit of the actor.

Neil Jones

Question: When the crowd are giving Robin Hood the "chop", what's the tune they're chanting?

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: Scotty is collecting the baseball from under the bushes. The ball rolls to a stop and the name is square level. When Scotty scoops the ball up the name is now at an angle.

Neil Jones

Worst Episode Ever - S12-E11

Continuity mistake: When Comic Book Guy turns off the water hydrant, the two boys in purple and blue trunks change position between shots.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When the boy wakes up in the middle of the night after first hearing the dinosaur, his alarm clock reads 2:0x (its not clear but the digit segments on show imply it's either 2:05 or 2:06). The next time we see the clock it's 2:02, then two scenes later when the dinosaur decides to and then does jumps off the table the clock now reads 2:22.

Neil Jones

Episode #4.2 - S4-E2

Continuity mistake: When Ben is serving the puree/meal he created, firstly he removes the lid from the serving dish with his left hand. It then reappears in his right hand. Also the ladle Ben is holding to serve his concoction switches hands for the next three shots.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When Miss Price and the children are first en-route to London on the bed, Paul is holding his cap in some shots (from the side and front) and not at all in the shots from behind him and his sister.

Neil Jones

Communication Problems (a.k.a. Theft) - S2-E1

Question: What's the name of the piece of music played when Basil turns up the radio after Mrs Richards says it (the radio) doesn't work?

Neil Jones

Thorpe Park - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When Neil is jumping around in his Mr Monkey costume because a wasp has entered it, you can see a family of a mum, girl and a boy in a stripey T-shirt in the background and a group of onlookers. When Neil is bouncing up and down on his back, the family and the onlookers are present. When he first takes the costume's head off after standing up, there is no crowd or family of three behind him (though a second boy in similar clothing can be seen, its not the same kid who was with his family). After a cut to his friends and back, the crowd and family of three have suddenly reappeared behind Neil.

Neil Jones

Show generally

Question: Was it ever established in the show whether Hyacinth could drive or not?

Neil Jones

Driving Mrs Fortescue - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When the characters arrive at the pub, Richard parks the car not within the parking bay and with a big gap between the front bumper and the bollard. He then goes into the pub. Meanwhile all subsequent shots of the car show it parked right up against the bollard, and in addition a wide shot seen while Hyacinth is waiting for Mrs Fortescue shows the car is parked within the lines.

Neil Jones

Episode One - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Pete is trying to get the drill back from Ben (before Pete says "I'll give you a fiver if you give me the drill"), the position of Ben's hands on the drill change between shots.

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: When Elijah Wood is being carried down the stairs, the shadow of a boom mic can be seen on the back wall just before the camera pans to look down the stairs.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: Just after Juan shows off his football skills for the first time, he turns to leave and the kids, lead by the blonde boy, crowd round Juan to stop him leaving. The positions of at least two of the group changes between shots. In the initial shot the blonde boy has nobody standing on his right yet in the very next shot he is further in the middle of the group and now has two girls to his right.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When the girl is looking up the fire engine in the oversized book, the little blonde boy in the red T-Shirt on the stool next to her changes the position of his head and hands between shots as she brings the book to the desk.

Neil Jones

Night Out in London - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: When Jay first shouts "Bus Wankers" from Simon's car, the people at the bus stop change between shots, as does the weather. On the first viewing of the stop as we approach it, there are five people around it and it is sunny. On the shot going past the stop there are now six people at the stop. Also the weather in the second shot is now overcast and sunless. Also in the next shot of the boys laughing to Jay's outburst, there is no sign of the bus stop they've just past but in the car's interior shots you can see the Bus Stop road markings through the rear window.

Neil Jones

King-Size Homer - S7-E7

Continuity mistake: When Homer says he's going to the cinema, we see his drinking bird working in front of the computer. It makes a key press on the lower right of the keyboard, however on the following close up shot of the bird pressing the Y key it is a standard qwerty keyboard layout.

Neil Jones

There was a film, I can't remember what it was called but it's most likely from the 1970s but may have been a B-Movie or a TV movie. It featured a bomb on an airplane that would explode if the plane's altitude dropped below a certain level, but they only find out about it once they're in the air above that level. When the fuel in the airplane runs low the pilot eventually works out that he can (and does) land at an airport that is above that altitude and the bomb turns out to be in his briefcase that he's had all along in the cabin.

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: Not long after the main youth characters enter the mine, another boy (the same one they chased through the woods) is followed by the camera from behind as he walks on the tracks holding a torch. The shadow of the camera can be seen just before the shot pans off to the right.

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: When the maid first opens the door to Mary Poppins, you can see a shadow of something, presumably the camera, on the maid's left shoulder until she steps right.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: After the day care centre opens, Phil is playing/singing Rhinestone Cowboy on the guitar. The girl in the polka-dot dress and the boy in the red "1985" T-shirt change positions between shots. She is behind him in the front shot, and in front of him in the rear shot.

Neil Jones

Factual error: Just after Spud gets suspended from school, his mum is looking through a property catalogue of London homes. All the telephone numbers shown start with 020 7. The film is set in 1991, and inner London telephone numbers at that time started with 071, not changing to 020 7 until June 1999.

Neil Jones

Waldorf Salad - S2-E3

Question: What was Basil referring to with his response of "I'm sorry it wasn't wide enough for you - a lot of the English cars have steering wheels" to Mr Hamilton's remarks about the M5 motorway?

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When Peter Pan is fighting the tribe's Pan on the trampoline and they're just about to finish Peter Pan off, the elder chief calls for the fight to stop. Peter's arms are above him in the overhead shot but are outstretched in the view from behind Peter.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When the kids are looking at the Stonehenge-type structures, the younger boy calls for everybody to come and see the hidden message. From the shot in front of the boy you can tell from his body position he's sitting up, however in the next shot from overhead, the boy is now lying down on the rock.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When the car blows up after the dad stabs buttons on the key-fob, the younger boy is standing at the edge of the road and on his mother's left. In the very next shot from in front of the family, the younger boy is now suddenly off the road and on his brother's right. Also the shadows of the family varies in the same two shots, from long in the rear shot to short in the front shot.

Neil Jones

Mr. Bean Goes To Town - S1-E6

Question: In the first act when Bean can only get a decent TV signal by sitting in a certain part of the room, we can hear the soundtrack of a programme "on" Bean's TV. Does anybody know what programme Bean was trying to watch please?

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: Towards the back end of the film, the lady arrives in her car, parks it at the side of the road and she is shot a few minutes later. Her car is seen at the edge of the road behind the sheriff's car when the boy runs down the road after breaking out, but her car has vanished when he drives the cop car away 30 seconds later. Also in the same scene of driving away, the sheriff's car has moved well off the road too.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When Kevin Bacon is shouting "did you open the trunk?" at the boys through the window of the sheriff's car, his hand is full palm on the glass from the exterior shots, but in an entirely different position in the shots of him from inside the car.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: In the dining room scene at the nunnery, just after the meatball falls from the ceiling to land on the sister, Junior has his hands in front of his face laughing. In the very next shot Junior's hands are down at his side.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When the boys are about to enter the woods and they arrive on their bikes, the younger boy can be seen first on his bike, then standing next to his bike in the next shot, then on his bike, then he's off it again where he lets it fall onto its side.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: On the train, when Bean first sits in front of Stepan and Bean is ripping the paper just after wiggling his ears, the position of Stepan's arms changes between the side shot and the view of him from behind Bean. His arms are right over left in the side shot and left over right in the following shot.

Neil Jones

There's a film that's very similar to 2005's The Pacifier and I cannot remember what it was called. The premise was nearly the same as The Pacifier, but the kids were a bit older and one of them was asthmatic - there was a scene in it where somebody threw his inhaler away either off a bridge or next to a river and the asthmatic kid broke down into tears. I think it may be newer than The Pacifier.

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: When the boys approach the cop car and are trying the doors, the camera crane can be seen reflected off the bodywork of the car.

Neil Jones

Episode #5.3 - S5-E3

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode when Peter has seen Stacey undressed, Sue comes up the stairs and Ben is standing on the landing behind her. The position of Ben's arms is different in the close-up of Sue than it is in the wider shot from from behind Stacey.

Neil Jones

Episode #3.6 - S3-E7

Question: The final episode of the third series sees a discussion between Ben and Jake with regards to the news on the telly. After Ben comes out with "That can't be the Pope, because the Pope wears barbed wire pants and kills anybody who knows that Jesus had children", Jake says that this is from a film. Does anybody know what film this is from please?

Neil Jones

Episode two - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Sue gives the house phone to Jake while she's talking on her mobile, Jake takes it with his right hand but he takes it again in his left hand in the very next shot.

Neil Jones

Question: The credits for Hot Shots Part Deux mentions "footage of Home Alone 2." I'm missing something and can't see it. Does anybody know where in Part Deux this appears please? Thanks in advance.

Neil Jones

Question: In the wrestling scene, Leslie Nielsen tags Hulk Hogan who ultimately tags another lady in a red dress. The actress appears to be Joyce Brothers. Is her presence a spoof or am I missing something else here?

Neil Jones

Question: Is it true that if the monarch wishes to abdicate (even in the exceptional circumstances as presented in the film) it can or could only be done by an Act of Parliament as happened with Edward VIII? In other words, The Queen can't just sign a piece of paper and end of discussion?

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: When Kevin is pouring marmalade on his toast, the camera pans to the housekeeper and you can see the shadow of the camera on her outfit.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When Natalie is talking to Kevin just after he has arrived at the house, Kevin says "I'm the adorable one." In the rear shots, Kevin's dad has his hand on Kevin's left shoulder, whereas in the front shots there is no hand on Kevin's shoulder.

Neil Jones

Question: How accurate, bar the dancing obviously, is the Portobello Road presented in the film compared to how it could/would have looked in the real August 1940?

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: After Junior's first night at the home, John Ritter tells Junior they're going camping and Junior says he'd rather be watching cartoons. When Junior is speaking his left arm is up behind his head. In the next shot from behind Junior when John Ritter approaches him, the boy's arm is down at his side.

Neil Jones

Lisa the Simpson - S9-E17

Continuity mistake: When Lisa comes down the stairs prior to watching "When Buildings Collapse", the TV screen is near enough in the corner of the living room and can be seen from the stairs. When Lisa enters the living room, the TV has moved further into the room. Subsequent shots of the TV move it so far into the room that it would not have been possible to see it from the stairs at all in the first place.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie just after Gordie has scared off Ace and the gang, Gordie turns his head towards Chris when his friend repeats the "suck my fat one" insult. When the camera cuts, Gordie's suddenly facing forward again.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the movie when the van screeches to a halt just after all the dogs run off in the wrong direction, the outside shot shows the back door of the van is closed. The next shot from the inside of the van shows the back door to be still open.

Neil Jones

Captain Mainwaring: I intend to mould those men out there into an aggressive fighting force. I'm not going to get very far if you keep inviting them to "step this way."

Neil Jones

Trivia: The English translations for the majority of the German dialogue towards the end of the film, as taken from recent BBC TV airings:
(Outside the house just before Mr Brown enters back in)
Guard: Yes, Yes everything is fine.

(as Mr Brown tries to stop Cosmic Creepers yowling)
Guard: What's that?

(after the guards enter Miss Price's house after hearing the yowling)
Guard: It's just a naughty cat, poor thing.

(after capture of Miss Price, the guard sees Mr Brown as a rabbit)
Guard 1: Jagged hare, this will be good.
Guard 2: Idiot, Do you want to wake up the whole village!

(on the battlefield, prior to Miss Price casting her spell)
Guard 1: Colonel, The bridge is ready to blow.
Guard 2: The railway, road and quay are ready.
Colonel: Good. We detonate in ten minutes. Get everything primed for then.

(start of the march)
Colonel: It's got to be some kind of trick.
Guard: Pretty good trick!

(first sighting of Miss Price by the Germans)
Guard: It's a witch sir!
Colonel: Don't be a fool, there's no such thing as a witch!

(after seeing the size of the army of advancing inanimate objects)
Guard: Shall we retreat sir?
Colonel: Retreat? We are German Soldiers! We do not retreat!

(as the Germans are running away)
Colonel: Hold the line or I will shoot you! You are German soldiers!

(back at the house after having been forced to retreat)
Colonel: There is the witch.
Guard: You said there was no such thing as a witch.

(prior to blowing Miss Price's house up)
Colonel: What are you waiting for, leave nothing behind. Quick, detonate it.

Neil Jones

Caravan Club - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: After Will's taken his shoes off, they are taken by the group of younger boys behind him who start throwing the shoes between them as Will tries to get them back. The boy in blue with the number 23 on his jumper and the dark blue strip down the arms changes position between shots, from left of shot to back of shot, to left of shot. (00:14:05)

Neil Jones

The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair - S9-E12

Continuity mistake: When Stewie spots "evil Stewie", the evil clone is off the carpet and next to the hi-fi. In the very next shot he's moved far closer to Stewie and Brian.

Neil Jones

German Guy - S9-E11

Continuity mistake: When Franz Gutentag falls off the step towards the end of the episode, Herbert is on the porch of the house and reaches out to him. When we see the shot of Gutentag falling in slow motion and the birds fly away, there is no sign of Herbert on the porch.

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: When Captain Mainwaring and Corporal Jones enter the camp site in the steamroller, they run over a few tents and squash all bar the last one flat. When the steamroller is trying to turn round, all the tents that were previously squashed are now standing up again.

Neil Jones

Show generally

Question: Every time there was a murder, Jessica Fletcher wasn't far away. Why was she never suspected in any of the cases?

Neil Jones

Max's Minions - S2-E3

Revealing mistake: When Max is strapped to the armchair it becomes obvious on at least three occasions throughout the scene that the strap is not secure and he can escape the chair by pressing down into the fabric, but chooses not to.

Neil Jones

Question: Even despite the extreme circumstances as presented in this movie, does any producer or director of any live show have any real control over whether a network goes to commercial or not?

Neil Jones

Audio problem: During the party at the end of the film, the hand clapping and dancing drifts out significantly out of time and sync with the music.

Neil Jones

Wrestle It Up - S2-E21

Continuity mistake: When the kids jump in the shower towards the end of the episode, they're all wearing footwear. When the shower is turned on and we see a wide shot immediately after the kids get wet, the boy is now barefoot and there is no sign of his trainers anywhere in the immediate area.

Neil Jones

I seem to remember a TV show, probably an episode from an Australian children's series aired in the UK sometime in the mid 1990s, but I would be grateful if anybody could shed any light on this, or at the very least identify which TV show it came from. In the episode in question there is a boy who, for whatever reason, is chained to a supermarket trolley that obviously follows him around. Said boy and trolley somehow end up in the sea and another kid's mother swims out with some cutters to cut the chained boy from "his" trolley before he drowns.

Neil Jones

Gourmet Night (a.k.a. Gourmet's Paradise) - S1-E5

Visible crew/equipment: At the start of the episode, when Basil follows Manuel into the hotel, the shadow of a crew member holding a boom mic can be seen bottom right as the camera follows them across the terrain. (00:01:30)

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: Where Cody is watching the tape for the first time and Cindy rushes in, Cody can be seen wearing a greyish washed-out looking jumper. When we next see Cody in a couple of cuts time, his jumper is now a brighter shade of blue. (00:45:00)

Neil Jones

Mr. Bean - S1-E1

Visible crew/equipment: When Mr Bean parks his car outside the examination hall, as he reverses into his spot, you can see a group of plain-clothed crew members pushing the camera reflected in the car nearest to the camera. More noticeable as the camera is actually moving. (00:00:35)

Neil Jones

Trivia: The original video releases of the early 1990s include a handful of scenes that are not present on the recent DVD releases.

Neil Jones

Hair By Mr. Bean of London - S1-E19

Continuity mistake: In the scene at the country fair, Mr Bean interrupts a boy doing the buzzer game. When Mr Bean is on his second go at this puzzle and stands up after unplugging the device, you can see the same boy come round a table behind Mr Bean. Cut to the next shot, the boy has disappeared from where he should be behind Mr Bean and can now be seen walking across the back of the hall.

Neil Jones

Hair By Mr. Bean of London - S1-E19

Continuity mistake: At the country fair and during the pet show segment, when the boy in the blue T-shirt is putting his dog into position for the obedience test, he can be seen standing behind the dog as we look at it, but on the next camera cut, he's standing in front of the dog.

Neil Jones

The Kipper and the Corpse (a.k.a. Death) - S2-E4

Revealing mistake: Just after Polly comes down to to the kitchen to tell Sybil that Mr Leeman's dead and they leave, Basil wanders back in, to learn the news. Watch the wall on the right on the staircase when Basil shoves past Sybil on the stairs. The wall shakes so much at that point it's virtually impossible to miss.

Neil Jones

The Builders - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the episode, a couple of scenes before Mr Stubbs arrives, we see Basil start up the tape player prior to hiding in the kitchen. The garden gnome on the desk is right next to the tape player at this point. When Sybil turns the tape off the player has rotated 45 degrees or so (despite nobody else having come into reception in the intervening time) and the gnome is now further along the desk towards the camera as we look on the wide shot. The gnome in the next shot is seen beside the checking-in book when Basil wanders out of and back into the office a couple of scenes later, yet when Mr Stubbs is asking about the lintel for the new door shortly after that and we see Sybil writing in the book, the gnome has moved out of shot altogether.

Neil Jones

Visible crew/equipment: Just after Kevin locks Prescott in the freezer, the shot tightens up on the window and you can see a slightly distorted reflection of the cameraperson in the door below the window. It's quite hard to miss as the shot tightens.

Neil Jones

Goodnight, Mr. Bean - S1-E18

Visible crew/equipment: When Mr Bean is waiting for his ticket number to come up, we see a schoolboy and his mother come in with a saucepan stuck on the boy's head. When the shot is framed to show Mr Bean and the boy, if you look closely you can just about make out the (slightly distorted) reflection of a camera tripod on the saucepan. (00:04:40)

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: At the very end of the movie after the wedding, Cindy and the other guy drive off, leaving Cody behind. We see the boy running after them along a straight road. After Cindy stops short of striking the child, Cody is then hit by another car coming from his right hand side and they're suddenly at a crossroads. They weren't at the crossroads a couple of seconds earlier. (01:11:30)

Neil Jones

The Curse Of Mr. Bean - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: When Mr Bean is trying to get out of the car park through the entrance, he uses a wheelie-bin to simulate a car to get the gate to open. After he's out and shifted the bin, he's blocked in by another car. We see a hand take the next ticket (presumably belonging to the driver of the incoming car) but the car pulling up in front of Mr Bean is so far away from the ticket machine its not possible for him to take it and drive into the car park in the short amount of time seen, plus we never see or hear anybody get out of the car to get the ticket.

Neil Jones

Trivia: When the TV technician is talking to the children through the TV, he is sitting in front of a test card with a picture of an Indian. The Indian's expression changes each time we see it (mentioned on the DVD director's commentary).

Neil Jones

Continuity mistake: In the Christmas Pageant scenes, Miss Leavey is seen pulling down on the rope that raises or lowers the kid playing the angel. By pulling down on the rope, the kid should go higher. But when Miss Leavey pulls down on the rope, the kid is lowered as well.

Neil Jones