Tanngrisnir

9th Jul 2014

Scrubs (2001)

My Inconvenient Truth - S7-E3

Factual error: The Toyota Prius uses an electronic transmission that requires the ignition to be turned on. Since J.D. said that he had no idea how to operate the car, he could not have pushed it from the parking space because he wouldn't have been able to put it in neutral.

Tanngrisnir

1st Jul 2014

The Unit (2006)

25th Jun 2014

The Unit (2006)

Games of Chance - S2-E16

Factual error: When the American team almost assassinates the vice-chancellor in the beginning, the German team comes in guns blazing. No special forces unit in the world would do that. They would have suppressed weapons, and use their ammunition diligently.

Tanngrisnir

19th May 2014

2012 (2009)

Factual error: The scene where Yuri starts the car with his voice has two mistakes in it. The first one is that to use voice activation in any kind of car you have to push a button to let the car know that you're talking to it and secondly no car manufacturer would make the voice recognition the only way to start the car, there would always also be the option to start the car via a button or with the key simply because of safety reasons.

Tanngrisnir

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Suggested correction: I'm fairly sure a billionaire oligarch could afford to pay for a custom job like that considering a pop star from the 2000s paid Ferrari a solid gold engine and a lawnmower.

1st Apr 2014

2012 (2009)

Factual error: The coat of arms behind the German chancellor in the briefing scene is wrong. First of all the actual German coat of arms is not oval and secondly this is not the coat of arms used by the German chancellor. The one used by the German chancellor is hexagonal and could also be found on the old German currency.

Tanngrisnir

28th Mar 2014

This Means War (2012)

Skunk, Dog Crap and Ketchup - S8-E13

Factual error: Despite Alan's general bad luck he indeed wouldn't have to be afraid of the skunks. In reality skunks use their anal scent glands very reluctantly and only if they feel threatened because they only carry a limited amount of liquid and have a rather long "recharging" time. To that effect a skunk that apparently feels home in a suburban surrounding would never feel threatened by a human.

Tanngrisnir

24th Feb 2014

Family Guy (1999)

Wasted Talent - S2-E20

Audio problem: At the piano competition you see Peter playing towards the left side of the piano and hear the pitch going higher. This wrong because the keys for the high pitches are on the right side of the piano.

Tanngrisnir

The Return, Part 1 - S3-E10

Character mistake: General Landry says that the Asurans would need to rewrite McKay's macro to gate to any planet in the Milky Way. In fact they wouldn't have to bother with the macro, because they could simply gate directly to the Milky Way from a ZPM-powered Atlantis.

Tanngrisnir

Epiphany - S2-E12

Character mistake: Rodney says that one hour in real time would give them months inside the field. This is incorrect because if the ratio of time were 1:250 as stated before, one hour would only convert to 250 hours, which is 10 days and 10 hours.

Tanngrisnir

21st Nov 2013

Friends (1994)

Trivia: The song 'Into the West' played at the end of the movie is inspired by a young New Zealand film maker named Cameron Duncan who died from cancer in 2003 at the age of 17. The song's first public performance was at his funeral.

Tanngrisnir

18th Nov 2013

Scrubs (2001)

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Suggested correction: Marshall came up with the rule because of Lily and Robin. Before they met, in the era when Ted and Marshall had road trips, they would've had food and drinks.

Nope, the no food or drinks rule is because his brothers made him get 12 hot cups of coffee without lids and drive with them naked, and he got burnt. That was when he got the car, before he met Ted.

It is possible that they stopped and got beef jerky and drinks to eat outside the car. Just a possibility.

They're shown drinking in the car.

Ssiscool

2nd Nov 2013

The Simpsons (1989)

Twanging Your Magic Clanger - S8-E6

Trivia: When Charlie and Alan talk about the age of Charlie's girlfriend Michelle, Alan predicts Charlie will have been dead for some time when she gets 70. As it turns out Alan was right, due to Charlie's untimely demise between Season 8 and Season 9.

Tanngrisnir

4th Aug 2013

Firefly (2002)

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Suggested correction: From a different perspective it's not a factual error. Because Jane shot multiple bullets. It means the gun still can be shot after the space suit case got pierced from the first bullet. So it's a possibility that the characters thought wrong (even though it's a bit silly for space travellers to not know this fact but doesn't mean it won't happen).

Terry Tim

22nd Jul 2013

The Core (2003)

Factual error: In the end when Rat sends the information about DESTINI around the world, it says "Der Spiegel" in Berlin, Germany. "Der Spiegel" is based in Hamburg.

Tanngrisnir

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