24th Mar 2007
Guess What Happened on the Way to the Moon? - S1-E3
Revealing mistake: During the episode Tony and Roger are dropped in the desert to see how they can survive for a week. At one point Tony orders Jeannie to stop interfering. She pops out and Tony spots a "large cat" up on a rock. Close up of the cat, shot of Tony picks up rock, shot of cat leaping. You can see a rope tied to the cat.
24th Mar 2007
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.
15th Mar 2007
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.
5th Mar 2007
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.
27th Feb 2007
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.
12th Sep 2006
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.
27th Aug 2006
Continuity mistake: During the scene at Ben's adoptive parent's house, Ben Stiller and Tea Leoni are sitting on a couch talking to Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal. Watch Patricia Arquette w/baby in the background between Ben and Tea. What she's eating (cracker or cheese) changes size between shots and when she says, "They killed Art Sacheim?" it completely disappears and reappears in the next shot.
27th Aug 2006
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.
24th Aug 2006
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.
24th Aug 2006
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.
14th Aug 2006
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.
3rd Aug 2006
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.
3rd Aug 2006
Visible crew/equipment: The Killer follows Jill, Kelly and Bosley to Charlie's Mansion. There's a shot of him getting out of his car and the film crew is reflected in his door.
3rd Aug 2006
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.
3rd Aug 2006
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.
3rd Aug 2006
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.
3rd Aug 2006
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.
3rd Aug 2006
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.
2nd Aug 2006
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.
26th Jul 2006
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.
18th Jul 2006
Continuity mistake: Kathleen Riley and Carl Anderson are in a room with a blackboard. As they write questions and answers on the board, the writing changes several times between shots.
14th Jul 2006
Continuity mistake: When Chucky is in the barber's chair,in the close up, the hair on his forehead changes between shots. There is a wisp of hair in several shots and it is combed back in another.
3rd Jul 2006
Continuity mistake: At the beginning when Jor-El and the council pass judgement on the three criminals and the huge white dome starts to open, it stops about a third of the way. Long shot of the three criminals, it's completely open. Next shot it's back to a third of the way open.
23rd Jun 2006
Continuity mistake: When Jean and Lenny return from the "Styx" concert,she gets out of the car holding her shoes. Lenny says, "I'll take those", and Jean hands him the shoes. Next shot shows them walking toward house and she is carrying the shoes. They stop and he kisses her and then starts to leave, she stops him by saying I need my shoes. She should already have them since we just saw her walking up the walkway with them in her hand.
23rd Jun 2006
Continuity mistake: When Jean is suppose to meet "Ben" under the Brooklyn Bridge she has a shawl on. Holly meets her to tell her he's not coming. Jean's shawl, in a number of different shots goes from on to off her shoulders several times.
3rd Jun 2006
Continuity mistake: During the pre-trial hearing between Frutt and Lowe, Frutt's hair alternates between being back off her shoulders to down over her left/right side. She at no time uses her hands to move the hair.
1st Jun 2006
Continuity mistake: Jamie and Paul are at the supermarket, and Jamie is eating chips. She leans on a coin operated horse. The bag of chips in her right hand changes from front (Green Label, "Baked Lays") to back view in one shot then to front view again.
21st May 2006
Continuity mistake: When Hugh Grant first goes underground and is interrogated by the "Mole" people, his arms are held behind his back and the hair on his forehead changes between shots. His hair appears combed back in several shots and some wisps hanging down in others. They alternate back and forth between shots.
5th May 2006
Continuity mistake: Spoiler: At the end of the film, Faye Dunaway shoots Tommy Lee Jones. He falls to the floor dead. The positions of his coat and tie change between shots.
10th Apr 2006
Continuity mistake: After Danny and Burt fight in the kitchen, Mary tells them to clean it up. When Burt puts a dish towel over his right shoulder, the dish towel disappears and reappears between shots.
10th Apr 2006
Continuity mistake: When Burt and Danny are fighting in the kitchen, they hit a pot holder on the fridge, which begins swinging. Mary enters and the pot holder stops swinging suddenly, in her close up.
2nd Nov 2005
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, the cocaine dealer goes to a ghost town and is attacked by zombies. As he is running, his denim jacket goes from being partly pulled off, to completely off, to back on, to partly off, in about 5 shots. Very noticeable because he is wearing a white tank top.
2nd Nov 2005
Deliberate mistake: The cocaine dealer who was attacked by zombies returns after the group arrives. He is wearing the denim jacket he took off when the zombies attacked him.
7th Oct 2005
Continuity mistake: When the family is in the traffic jam there's a shot from the front of the car, and in the next shot from the backseat of the car, Peter's face (glasses and part of nose) is reflected in the rear view mirror. However, there's no rear view mirror in the first front shot or shots following backseat shot.
16th Jun 2005
Visible crew/equipment: In the beginning of the movie (about 10 mins. in) Steve McQueen and Aneta Corsaut are driving along and think they hit an old man on the road. They stop the car and get out. There is a shot of the rear right panel of the car, two sets of "lights" are visible reflecting off the car. One single light and 4 lights in a square shape to the right of it. They help the man into their car and there is another side shot of the car and the lights are now 3 sets of 2 lights. They're in the middle of nowhere, at night, along a country road. It looks like "light trees" used to illuminate a scene at night.
11th Jun 2005
Continuity mistake: When Shirley Maclane is in the hospital after her car accident Meryl Streep puts make-up on her. She applies blush to the left cheek, then the shot switches and she applies to the right side, then the shot switches again and she is working on the left side again.
9th Jun 2005
Continuity mistake: When Meryl Streep wakes up in the hospital, she is being asked questions by an appointed psychiatrist. The psychiatrist's hands move from down on her writing pad to up by her face every time it switches from front to back view. (Notice the left side of her face, fingers and pen visible).
29th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the episode, Maude makes Walter breakfast and lists some things she will get done around the house. One is to paint the kitchen chairs. She spray paints the chair with Walter in it - the amount of spray paint on Walter's jacket changes thoughout the scene, especially when Maude is on the phone turning down a job.
24th Apr 2005
Revealing mistake: In the very beginning of the movie, Laurie Cardille is sitting looking at a wall with nothing but a calender on it. She rises and walks up to the wall to get a closer look at the calender. Suddenly hands come out of the wall. If you look closely, you can see the round marks on the "cement" block wall where the hands will come out. Viewed best when freeze framed (which is permitted for a revealing shot such as this one), just before hands emerge.
17th Apr 2005
Continuity mistake: In Jack's first appearance to David in the hospital room, Jack uncovers the food on the tray and takes a piece of toast from another plate on the tray. The silver cover on the tray changes position throughout the scene in various shots. Sometimes the cover is resting partly on the tray and sometimes flat on the tray table surface.
30th Mar 2005
Continuity mistake: Near the end when Kate Capshaw, Harrison Ford, and the kid are on the bridge, Harrison cuts the bridge with a large sword. Several men fall into the water below. The bad guy grabs hold and hangs on to some of the henchmen. The number of henchmen changes between shots. Close-up 3, wide shot 2, close-up no men, then back to 2 and so on. The bad guy throws some off as he climbs up the bridge but the number changes in the wrong order.
10th Mar 2005
Other mistake: When Clint Eastwood arrives at Jessica Walter's house and she has made him dinner, he gets very angry at her and storms out the door stating it's over and he never wants to see her again. He speeds off in his car. It only takes him 1 second to leave through the door, walk to the car, open the car door, start the car, and speed out of the scene making a very loud tire noise. Jessica Walters follows him to the door and we hear the car racing from the scene instantly.
2nd Mar 2005
Continuity mistake: When Adam and Barbara try to scare the new residents out of their house, Barbara holds up Adam's head by the hair. He has glasses on and they are up on his nose where one would wear glasses. However, the next shot is a close-up of the head, and the glasses are down on the end of his nose. (00:16:50)
24th Feb 2005
Other mistake: Right after Sam tells Carla he will sleep with the next woman who walks through the door, in the background there is an "Extra" (blonde-haired woman seen in the background behind Carla) who starts to cross right then turns and crosses left then turns right and stops and looks confused as to where she is to cross. Obviously she was given directions of which way to cross and when, but forgot. (00:04:15)
18th Feb 2005
Trivia: Nicholas Brendon, who plays Xander, in real life has a stuttering problem and can overcome it by knowing what he's going to say: e.g. scripted, rehearsed material. He said in an interview that he has slowly over the years gotten over the stuttering, but has to work hard at his craft at learning exact lines and rehearsing them over and over again. He doesn't do a lot of live interviews because of this.
16th Feb 2005
Continuity mistake: When the girlfriend of the lead actor and his cousin are sitting eating pizza in a diner, his hair goes from a little messed up to extremely messed up, then back to a little messed up in different shots. He at no time touches his head.
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