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2nd Apr 2004

Resident Evil (2002)

Corrected entry: Surely in rooms where lethal viruses are handled and stored, even in outer rooms, you wouldn't have a ventilation system connected to the rest of the facility? (00:02:45)

Correction: The entire facility is under the control of the "Red Queen" computer program, who is the one responsible for killing everyone to prevent the infection from leaving. It's very likely she was able to shut down/manipulate the ventilation system to send the air flow to other parts of the Hive.

No, the original submitter is saying that a room handling that kind of stuff wouldn't have a vent full stop. It's actually pointed out when one of the scientists says its a sealed room.

The point is that Spence released the virus outside of that chamber, in a chamber that had vents whilst he was walking towards the exit. It's not specifically seen where he releases it. Even so, a secured chamber can still have a vent system, but one that has special filters and a closed circuit. Probably wouldn't have mattered to the Queen though.

5th Jan 2005

Resident Evil (2002)

Corrected entry: In the passage to the Queen's chamber when the laser is coming towards the woman standing, you can see she is looking towards it. A second later she turns her head towards it again. (00:31:20)

Correction: She is looking at the door where Alice is. She turns her head towards the laser when One yells for everyone to get down.

This isn't true. She is looking towards the laser with everyone else. But as the leader yells for everyone to get down, she turns her head towards the team.

8th May 2003

Resident Evil (2002)

Corrected entry: After most of the team is killed inside the chamber with the lasers, everyone else leaves, only to return to find the bodies missing. Granted, it's supposed to be creepy, but there really was no one around to take the bodies or the equipment away. The Red Queen isn't physical, the zombies would have left bones or some sort of mess, and the licker would have also left such a mess.

Correction: This may seem wrong but this is actually just a sort of homage to the games. When an enemy or any person in the game is killed and the player leaves the room, when the room is revisited the bodies disappear.

The characters even reference the bodies being gone.

29th May 2014

Resident Evil (2002)

Corrected entry: Near the end right before the end credits we see the streets of Raccoon City completely destroyed, but if you look carefully you can see the background is repeating itself street by street. The best way to notice this is to look at the firetruck right before the end. There is a firetruck, a news van and a bus. Now look to the next street on the other side of the road and the exact same cars appear there. (01:37:05)

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Correction: The final shot is of one long consecutive street. Where are the other streets where the traffic is supposed to repeat itself?

23rd May 2006

Resident Evil (2002)

Audio problem: In one of the scenes right before the solider get killed by the lasers and the alarm is sounding, the commander says to everyone "Hold your positions, everyone stay calm" but his lips aren't moving. (00:31:20)

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Suggested correction: Actually if you look closely they are. You can see the white of his teeth when he talks.

19th May 2004

Resident Evil (2002)

Corrected entry: In the laser corridor, when the grid of lasers is formed, some of the lasers rotate to form the grid, and are no longer emitted from anything, they are just hanging in the air. (00:33:20)

Correction: All of the lasers are connected to the wall at some place. The angle of the lasers simply increases.

6th Jul 2015

The Simpsons (1989)

Principal Charming - S2-E14

Audio problem: When Patty says "Marry me Patty?" while reading Skinner's message, her mouth doesn't move.

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Suggested correction: It's an over the shoulder shot but you can just make out of the edge of her mouth moving.

2nd Dec 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk - S3-E11

Continuity mistake: Before Horst wants to talk with Homer, Lenny is standing beside the donut box, who wasn't seen in the shots before and after. (00:12:15)

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Suggested correction: He is simply out of shot due to the camera angles.

Lenny is against the counter in front of the donut boxes. The next angle we see Homer standing in front of the same part of the counter with the donuts. Lenny should be there.

11th Apr 2020

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (1993)

Day of the Dumpster - S1-E1

Other mistake: After the teens leave the command center, Rita sees this and orders the creation of her Putties. Her henchman slaps down a few things of clay into a mold loosely, that then show the perfect figurines of the putties coming out of them. However with the shape of the mold, there is no way that the clay would come out in shapes like that or with that detail. (00:11:35)

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Suggested correction: Given that these are literal monsters and a witch living on the moon after being imprisoned for 10,000 years, I don't think we can say for certain what their machinery will do.

This is speculating too much. Practically making the same argument that it's OK because magic. The general physics of what is being displayed on the screen doesn't match up with how the clay fits into the mold even in the slightest.

What Quantom is saying is that they are using a press die to create the mold for the putties and no matter how you look at it, the volume of clay going into the mold is not enough to create the detail seen on the putties.

It's not just that, but the shapes don't match up at all. He does the equivalent of putting clay into a round hole and getting a square out of it.

6th Apr 2020

Futurama (1999)

Episode Two: The Series Has Landed - S1-E2

Corrected entry: When they launch to the moon, the ship takes off and arrives at the moon in about 1.5 seconds, at about twice the speed of light. As they are still in Earth's atmosphere, the ship would be, as a result, slamming into air molecules at twice the speed of light. Even at 90% the speed of light, something coming into contact with another molecule would fuse that molecule with the object and send out a huge burst of gamma radiation, tearing apart that molecule and filling the air with plasma. If such a takeoff was to happen in real life, the air molecules that the Planet Express Ship contacts would result in a plasma wall so huge that New York would be leveled, and the ship would just be dust.

Correction: As is specified in later episodes the Planet Express spaceship doesn't move anywhere - it bends space around it. Anyone trying to argue the physics of such a procedure is, quite frankly, wasting their time.

Agreed, the episode in question goes into details about the physics required too.

Correction: Given that there is centuries worth of technological advancement as well as tech from alien cultures, we cannot say that there aren't advances that make it safe.

6th Aug 2007

Die Hard 2 (1990)

Factual error: Firing a full magazine of blank cartridges from an automatic weapon in the police station office as McClane does would be painfully loud. Nobody shows the slightest effect - nobody even winces. Some of the men wince slightly but their reaction is grossly underplayed. Obviously the sound was looped in later. (01:37:40)

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Suggested correction: Every person jumps/winces and cowers out of the way of the bullets, one other officer even draws his gun in response.

What has never made any sense to me about this is that in a room full of cops everyone just stands around watching McClane seemingly gun down their Chief and only one officer even bothers to draw his gun.

That could be attributed to shock, I suppose - no-one expects it to happen that brazenly.

Probably because everyone hates the chief. I wondered about that too.

Suggested correction: What makes the loud bang from guns is not the explosion of the gunpowder, but the bullet itself breaking the sound barrier as it leaves the gun. It's very noticeable when a gun fires a blank because it's so much quite, as the only sound is the small pop of the gunpowder inside. It's little more than the sound of a firecracker, but even more muffled by being inside metal.

Makes you wonder this gun makes the same sound as a gun loaded with real bullets, then. You can't have it both ways.

Yes, that part is in fact a mistake, that it's still that loud while firing blanks.

I have shot blank and live with the military. Both are loud, but sound different. More of a crack with live.

Blanks are very loud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6PESH5LSE0.

2nd Dec 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk - S3-E11

Continuity mistake: When Carl complains that he can't be fired, everybody behind him, Homer and Lenny has disappeared. (00:09:00)

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Suggested correction: No they don't they're still there.

29th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk - S3-E11

Continuity mistake: At the Tavern, when Homer slaps the money on the table, the white cloth that Moe was holding has vanished. (00:04:55)

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Suggested correction: That's because Moe is wiping the corner by the wall. We don't see that corner again for a few minutes. Enough time for Moe to move the cloth especially since he's off camera.

27th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Flaming Moe's - S3-E10

Corrected entry: When Homer goes to another bar we hear him say "Ah, my new watering hole." His mouth doesn't move. (00:17:10)

Correction: His mouth isn't in shot.

27th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Flaming Moe's - S3-E10

Continuity mistake: At the bar, we see Mrs. Krabappel, and she disappears for the rest of the scene. (00:13:40)

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Suggested correction: The place is crowded, she can easily be anywhere in the packed bar and simply out of sight.

27th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Flaming Moe's - S3-E10

Continuity mistake: When Moe tries the Flaming Homer, there are bottles that keep appearing, and the knife disappears suddenly. (00:06:55)

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Suggested correction: The bottles remain on the bar, the knife is not placed on the bar so could easily have been put under the bar where Moe is known to keep a shotgun.

26th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Flaming Moe's - S3-E10

Continuity mistake: Homer drives to Moe's Tavern with his normal shirt on. He has his green jacket on top of it in the next shot. (00:04:45)

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Suggested correction: Homer pulls up in the car with his white shirt on. The very next shot is him walking in. We don't see him park or get out of the car. What's to say he didn't just grab a jacket out of the car?

15th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Like Father, Like Klown - S3-E6

Continuity mistake: At the end of Krusty's story, Homer changes from being in his tuxedo to being in his normal clothing. (00:10:10)

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Suggested correction: It should be noted that a considerable amount of time has passed while Krusty is telling his story. Note the candles in the screenshot for example, they have burnt out during the story. Its reasonable to assume that there would have been a chance for them to change during this time.

12th Nov 2015

The Big Bang Theory (2007)

Season 1 generally

Continuity mistake: In "The Luminous Fish Effect" (S1E04) Sheldon tells Penny he weighs 140 pounds. In "The Porkchop Indeterminacy" (S1E16), he tells his sister he weighs 165. 25lbs difference would be a noticeable change, but he looks the same.

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Suggested correction: Lying to Penny but not to his sister, not inconsistent with the characters and his relationships.

There's been several episodes showing Sheldon is not a good liar.

Yes and no. If you consider S1 E7 I think it is where he creates a very elaborate situation to avoid telling Penny she's a terrible singer. That takes a good amount skill to establish all that. But as you say, there are episodes where he can't.

15th Nov 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Homer Defined - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: While Homer is sleeping, his head is facing the 'Core temperature' indicater. When he wakes up, he is in a different position. (00:04:25)

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Suggested correction: He wakes up and turns round to look at the loud speaker.

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