Trivia: The President's Secret Service code name is "Papa Bear," which is what Stephen Colbert on "The Colbert Report," a satire of conservative American media commentators, affectionately called Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
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12th Jul 2025
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)
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Field of Dreams (1989)
11th Apr 2025
Family Guy (1999)
Tales of a Third Grade Nothing - S7-E6
Other mistake: In the cutaway at Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln receives a cell phone call from someone who is implied to be Thomas Jefferson. While the anachronism of a cell phone in the Civil War can be ignored as humorously deliberate, Lincoln can't be talking to Jefferson; by April of 1865, when Lincoln was assassinated, Jefferson had been dead for nearly 40 years.
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Suggested correction: Where are you getting the implication that it is Thomas Jefferson? You seem to have misunderstood the joke. "I hear you took that black chick home. You're welcome." is not a reference to Jefferson sleeping with one of his slaves. It's simply a reference to Lincoln freeing the slaves. Tom is just a generic name. (Besides, if you're complaining about historical anachronisms in Family Guy cutaways, you're probably missing the point.)
I concede that it's a bit of an assumption, but can you really fault me for making it? Yes, Thomas and its derivations can be common given names, but off the top of my head, I can't think of any from Lincoln's era famous enough for casual viewers to automatically make that assumption.
Conversely, since the allegations about Jefferson and Sally Hemings have endured for 220 years, Occam's Razor suggests it's the first thing probably 99% of us would immediately think of upon hearing "Thomas" and "black chick." And I have no problem with the historical anachronism of Lincoln owning a cell phone. Believe me, I get the joke; his obnoxious behaviour is why Booth shot him, and cell phones are so ubiquitous, it's something we in the 21st century can relate to.
The issue I have is of a factual nature. Even for an animated sitcom, there are certain tenets of reality that I think must be adhered to if a joke is going to be set in a specific time period, two of which are the passage of time and the finality of death. For the sake of argument, humor me and assume that it is Jefferson; it is well-documented historical fact that Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, the 50-year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence's adoption.
The reason why it's so well-documented is because, in one of the biggest coincidences in American politics, John Adams, a political frenemy of Jefferson's, and under whom he served as vice president, also died that day. My argument is that, given the limited context of the scene, under an assumption that 99% of us would make, the Thomas calling Lincoln can't be who it's implied to be, because who it's implied to be had been dead for nearly four decades.
Except Thomas Jefferson wasn't from Lincoln's era. You say yourself he had died almost 40 years earlier. This error seems to boil down to, "I'm going to assume that it is a Thomas Jefferson reference. I'm also going to assume that everyone else will see it that way. And that the producers didn't realise Jefferson was dead at the time. Therefore, it is an error based on my unfounded assumptions."
8th Apr 2024
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
9th Mar 2024
The Skulls (2000)
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The Skulls (2000)
10th Jun 2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
Optimus Primal: Rhinox, Cheetor, maximize!
10th Jun 2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
22nd May 2023
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
22nd May 2023
Zootopia (2016)
Judy Hopps: What did you do that made Mr. Big so mad at you?
Nick Wilde: I, um... I may have sold him a very expensive wool rug that was made from the fur of a skunk...'s butt.
Judy Hopps: Oh, sweet cheese and crackers.
22nd May 2023
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
22nd May 2023
The Muppet Movie (1979)
3rd May 2023
Us (2019)
Trivia: Near the beginning of the film, Addy's mother mentions that a movie is shooting nearby, an allusion to "The Lost Boys", which actually was partly shot at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
12th Feb 2023
Batman Forever (1995)
12th Feb 2023
Batman Forever (1995)
Alfred: I'm sorry to bother you, sir, but I have some rather distressing news about Master Dick.
Bruce Wayne: What? Is he all right?
Alfred: I'm afraid Master Dick has... gone traveling.
Bruce Wayne: He ran away?
Alfred: Actually, he took the car.
Bruce Wayne: He boosted the Jag?
Alfred: Not the Jaguar. The other car.
Bruce Wayne: The Bentley?
Alfred: No, sir. The *other* car.
14th Jul 2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
2nd Jun 2022
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Character mistake: When he rescues the baby T-Rex, Nick says that "she" has a broken leg, but for the rest of the film, the dinosaur is referred to as a male.
20th Jan 2022
Clarissa Explains It All (1991)
7th Jan 2022
Stalag 17 (1953)
Question: I've heard that, because the film was shot in sequential order, some of the actors were unaware who the spy is until the last three days of filming. When they were offered their roles, wouldn't they have received a copy of the script to read in advance to learn their lines?
Answer: The cast would have received copies of the script but with parts of the last scene omitted. They would be given the missing pages during the last days of the shoot, in which time they learn their lines, rehearse, then film the ending. Considering the time involved in filming a movie, actors do not necessarily memorize the entire script beforehand, but do so as each scene is shot. Also, it's questionable as to whether or not any of the cast did not know the ending as the movie was based on the Broadway play.
27th Dec 2021