Tanngrisnir

19th Jul 2022

The Rookie (2018)

Revelations - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: When Tim puts Lucy in the squad car after "arresting" her, the rear door on the driver side is open, but when the camera pans back to her it's suddenly closed without making a sound.

Tanngrisnir

19th Jul 2022

The Boys (2019)

1st May 2022

S.W.A.T. (2017)

Octane - S1-E6

Revealing mistake: When Street sits in the car at the end, the engine is audible despite the tachometer being at zero rpm. Also, the warning lights inside the tachometer indicate that only the ignition is actually on.

Tanngrisnir

Factual error: When the teacher announces they are going to Prague, they basically walk around the corner to a waiting bus. This is impossible because the part of Venice they are in is inaccessible to motor vehicles.

Tanngrisnir

11th Aug 2019

The Flash (2014)

The Runaway Dinosaur - S2-E21

Character mistake: The way Henry takes Barry's blood pressure, he will not get any results. Neither the blood pressure cuff nor the stethoscope work reliably through clothing. As a doctor, he should know how to do it right.

Tanngrisnir

Factual error: In the aerial shot of the Pentagon the caption reads "Washington, D.C." The Pentagon is in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

Tanngrisnir

29th Oct 2018

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Pono Kaulike - S5-E18

Character mistake: After being asked in class, Max refers to what he does as a "vivisection of a once-living organism", which in itself is a contradiction because vivisections are performed on living organisms. What Max does is called dissection, or more specifically autopsy, because he does it to determine the cause of death.

Tanngrisnir

10th Oct 2018

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

22nd Sep 2018

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Pa Make Loa - S2-E21

Continuity mistake: When he picks up the NCIS agents at the airfield, Danny drives his car up behind the plane and parks very close to it. As the three go back to his car however, it is parked at least fifty meters away and parallel to the plane.

Tanngrisnir

22nd Sep 2018

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

I Helu Pu - S2-E16

Character mistake: Owing to a common misconception, several people in the episode claim that the consulate is Russian soil. Foreign diplomatic missions are awarded special privileges, but they are not considered sovereign territory of the represented state.

Tanngrisnir

28th Aug 2018

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

28th Aug 2018

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

He Kane Hewa'ole - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: During the police chase there are flashing blue lights visible on Chin and Kono's faces during the interior shots, but from the outside of the car only the flashers in the grille are working.

Tanngrisnir

14th Aug 2018

2 Broke Girls (2011)

9th Jul 2018

Castle (2009)

Hunt - S5-E16

Character mistake: Beckett identifies the area given for the Skype call as the whole city of Paris. It's hard to believe that Beckett knows the area of a foreign city by heart, the problem is also that she is wrong. Paris actually has an area of about 105 km² (41 sq mi).

Tanngrisnir

28th Oct 2017

Minions (2015)

Factual error: When Kevin, Stuart and Bob are honored at the end of the movie in front of Buckingham Palace, the Union Jack can be seen flying on top of it. The only flag displayed on Buckingham Palace at that time was the Royal Standard, and only when the regent was in residence.

Tanngrisnir

The Recollection Dissipation - S10-E20

Trivia: When Amy sings "Soft Kitty" in German she more or less translates it literally. The German dubbed version of the show uses completely different lyrics for its rendition instead of just translating the original version.

Tanngrisnir

19th Jul 2017

Game of Thrones (2011)

13th Jul 2017

Bull (2016)

Free Fall - S1-E16

Factual error: Almost all the people being shown skydiving have no experience doing it, but the instructor allows them to jump out of the plane unassisted after only giving a theoretic introduction into the subject. First time skydivers are always assisted in some fashion, usually through a tandem-jump or a parachute opened by a line attached to the plane.

Tanngrisnir

30th Mar 2017

Pacific Rim (2013)

Factual error: When the fisherman in the beginning locates the supposed island on the radar he says it's three miles away. The Kaiju (island) then crosses the distance to the boat in about ten seconds. This would mean that the Kaiju swims at a whopping 1080mph (1738 kph) which equates to about Mach 1.4.

Tanngrisnir

23rd Mar 2017

Castle (2009)

Dead Red - S8-E11

Character mistake: Castle claims that they are technically standing on Russian soil inside the consulate. Contrary to popular belief foreign diplomatic missions, while being afforded special privileges (ie. Diplomatic immunity), are not considered sovereign territory of the represented state. Because of that Castle and Beckett are in fact on U.S. soil.

Tanngrisnir

13th Feb 2017

The Simpsons (1989)

10th Aug 2016

Supergirl (2015)

23rd Jan 2016

Eurotrip (2004)

Factual error: When the guys drive from Bratislava to Berlin it shows them driving past the Black Forest on the make-shift map. In reality the Black Forest is located in the south-western most corner of Germany near the borders to France and Switzerland, so driving in a more or less straight line from Bratislava to Berlin would make them miss the Black Forest by about 550 km (342 mi).

Tanngrisnir

11th Sep 2015

The Host (2013)

Continuity mistake: When the Seeker reports that there are others, two Unimogs can be seen in the wide shot even though one of them just crashed.

Tanngrisnir

9th Jun 2015

The Simpsons (1989)

5th Mar 2015

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

3rd Mar 2015

Men in Black II (2002)

Trivia: The Mercedes E-Class (W221) driven by J in the movie is actually a German version, because the car hadn't been released in the US when the movie was shot.

Tanngrisnir

21st Feb 2015

Hogan's Heroes (1965)

11th Feb 2015

Knight Rider (2008)

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Suggested correction: I can only assume you have never played on a RP server? ERP is a big thing, some players even make gold from it.

Clothes Encounter - S5-E21

Character mistake: The woman in the store claims that the umlaut on the shoe size indicates a half size in Europe. This is wrong because the European shoe size system (used in Germany among others) is completely different from the US system. Carrie's 6 1/2 shoes would be a size 39 according to the European system.

Tanngrisnir

15th Sep 2014

The A-Team (2010)

Factual error: The Swiss license plate on the Mercedes is wrong, it says "ZH 8Q25." The only letters on Swiss license plates however are the two first ones indicating the canton. The real version of this plate would be "ZH 8025"

Tanngrisnir

7th Sep 2014

Castle (2009)

Room 147 - S6-E16

Plot hole: All three murder suspects claim to have seen a picture above the fridge of the hotel room. This picture however is only in the hotel room where the actual murder happened, not in the room that is shown in the video, so they couldn't have seen it.

Tanngrisnir

7th Sep 2014

Castle (2009)

My Damn Stalker - S4-E15

Character mistake: Jake's claim that a vomitorium was place for Romans to vomit is wrong and a common misconception. A vomitorium in reality is a passage in a stadium where a large number of people can exit at once.

Tanngrisnir

Factual error: The way Darius hooks the APC up to the steam catapult wouldn't work. He apparently raises an arm of the catapult and attaches it to the APC, in reality however the arm is on the front landing gear of the fighter jets and the catapult is more like a small sled. (00:57:10)

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

13th Jun 2013

Scrubs (2001)

The Fortress - S8-E19

Factual error: The way Barney employs the green screen wouldn't work because a camera is needed to put a picture over the screen. To the naked eye the screen would still be green. The only plausible way to make the illusion work as intended would be a regular white screen and a projector, but this isn't the case here.

Tanngrisnir

Oh Honey - S6-E15

Other mistake: Robin says she burned the dinner because she mistook the temperature scale on the oven for Celsius. However a given temperature above -40 is always higher in Fahrenheit, so by assuming the oven to be labeled in Celsius she would have undercooked the food. For example: If the directions were to cook at 400°F, she would set it around 200°F (thinking the oven was Celsius.) If the instructions were to cook at 200°C, she would still set the oven to 200°F, undercooking the food in both cases.

Tanngrisnir

Other mistake: During the car chase in London, when Ben almost hits the dogs, we see one dog running up to the car and licking the backup-camera. However since the camera is actually mounted above the license plate, it's impossible to reach for a dog this size.

Tanngrisnir

14th Jun 2010

Stargate SG-1 (1997)

14th Jun 2010

Stargate SG-1 (1997)

Disclosure - S6-E17

Plot hole: Senator Kinsey references the Foothold incident from season 3, yet only a few episodes before it was revealed that Kinsey could never have known about it because it was covered up under presidential orders and he especially was not in on it.

Tanngrisnir

4th Jun 2010

Stargate SG-1 (1997)

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