Randy DeShong

24th Mar 2007

CSI: Miami (2002)

Triple Threat - S5-E18

Continuity mistake: The real estate mogul is shot on an upstairs balcony. He falls face first and flips over a rail with his head toward the house. He lands on his back on an ice sculpture. When he's shown, his head is facing away from the house. He would have to turn 180 degrees while falling to land in this position.

Randy DeShong

15th Mar 2007

Soap (1977)

Episode 70 - S4-E1

Revealing mistake: Toward the end of the episode, Bert receives an envelope with pictures of him and Danny at a motel with some women. As they look at photos, Bert hands Danny some photos. Danny crosses left. Bert turns stack of photos over and says there is a note. He reads note and turns photos back over afterwards. The backs of the photos are blank. Danny crosses right to Bert holding photos. You can see on the back of Danny's photos the note Bert just read from the other side of the room.

Randy DeShong

5th Mar 2007

The Ringer (2005)

Continuity mistake: The scene where Steve calls his uncle to borrow money,the Yoohoo box and the game controller on his desk move between shots.

Randy DeShong

27th Feb 2007

Sex and the City (1998)

Sex and the City mistake picture

La douleur exquise! - S2-E12

Continuity mistake: In the episode where Big returns from Paris, Carrie meets him at his apartment with a beret and 2 McDonalds bags. She says she got a Big Mac and a Filet O'Fish. She asks him which one he wants, holding the Big Mac in her left hand and the Filet O'Fish in her right. Instantly the sandwiches switch hands in the next shot as Big walks to the right.

Randy DeShong

12th Sep 2006

Havoc (2005)

Continuity mistake: In the scene Ann Hathaway and Bijou Phillips show up at the 16th street picnic. Freddy Rodriguez and another gang member stop them and ask them what their doing there. Freddy has a drink in a green cup in his right hand. Upon seeing the girls he throws it down. We hear it hit the ground. He raises his right hand while talking, no cup. Next shot he takes drink from a green cup.

Randy DeShong

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette and Tea Leoni go to visit Ben's adoptive parents, Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal. Mary and George get into an argument and Mary picks up the 3/4 Brie cheese wheel and chases George into the other room. Cut to Ben yelling at them. Then back to them, the brie wheel now much smaller. Then cut again and the brie wheel is back to 3/4 size when they return to the living room.

Randy DeShong

24th Aug 2006

Swingers (1996)

Continuity mistake: In the scene at the Pancake House after Mike meets Loraine, the waitress removes the orange juices and plates twice in different angle shots.

Randy DeShong

24th Aug 2006

Swingers (1996)

Continuity mistake: After Vegas and after Trent relieves himself and gets back in car, the behind shot of Mikes arm changes from up on the seat back to down by his side, then back up on the seat back. In the front shot his arm never moves.

Randy DeShong

14th Aug 2006

The Fog (2005)

Continuity mistake: When the two men and two women are on the Seagrass, the women are in the cabin when the Fog first strikes. The windows fog up and the blonde woman draws a scale on the window. The drawing differs between her drawing it and the close up. Notice the lines on her drawing extend beyond the base lines of the scale the close up lines do not.

Randy DeShong

Target: Angels - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Jill and Kelly hijack a cab to stop the killer from bombing Charlie's cab. On the way back to the mansion they pass Charlie's cab and almost run into a large truck. They miss the truck, but Charlie's cab hits it head on, doing some serious damage to the cab's front end. After they stop the killer, Charlie's cab arrives and now has no damage.

Randy DeShong

Target: Angels - S1-E5

Visible crew/equipment: The Angels are being stalked by a hired killer. He tries to shot Jill in the boys' locker room where shes teaching basketball. He shoots at her and hits a fire extinguisher. You can see the "plug" for the charge on the extinguisher before he shoots and hits it.

Randy DeShong

Angels in Chains - S1-E4

Visible crew/equipment: During the scene in the Sheriff's car, after the Angels choke the Sheriff and Deputy, they lose control of the car. It goes off the road and a ramp is seen, hidden by some trees, that the car goes off to end up in the swamp.

Randy DeShong

Angels in Chains - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: After the Angels escape the Sheriff's car, they run to a barn. They spot a truck with the back loaded above the cab, with potato boxes. They steal the truck and when they pull out from beside the barn, the truck only has half the amount of boxes. No boxes can be seen higher than the sides of the truck. They don't pull out quick enough for the boxes to fall off.

Randy DeShong

Angels in Chains - S1-E4

Continuity mistake: During the scene where the Angels are being driven out into the desert to be killed, they are chained together. They reach over the front seat and choke the Sheriff and Deputy. In the close up shot, they pull their heads back with the chains. The Sheriff's hands go up in the air. In the long shot, the person driving and passenger are sitting normally and steering the vehicle.

Randy DeShong

3rd Aug 2006

Soap (1977)

Episode 26 - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: In the episode Bert and Danny are helping Jody move a couch into his new apartment. They take a break and Danny hands Bert a beer. Danny opens the beer while Bert is holding it and it sprays over the front of Bert's coveralls. A second later, in the next shot, the beer spray is gone.

Randy DeShong

2nd Aug 2006

Family Plot (1976)

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris are eating hamburgers. He has two on his plate, from a back view she reaches over and takes one. He then removes the cap from the ketchup bottle. The shot switches to a view from his back and the cap is back on the ketchup. He then removes the cap again.

Randy DeShong

26th Jul 2006

Hex (2004)

The Story Begins - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Cassie is walking at Campus and is run into by 2 boys. She drops her art drawings on the ground. 1 boy attempts to help her pick them up but she says no thanks. After she picks them up and during her talk with her teacher, the order of the drawings changes between shots, from pencil drawings to a color painting of a inverted figure back to the pencil drawings.

Randy DeShong

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