Revealing mistake: When the bridge is exploding from the mine attack, the stuntman playing Jason obviously launches himself out of the captain's chair.
Scott215
19th Jun 2019
Galaxy Quest (1999)
19th Jun 2019
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Pass the Vegetables, Please - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: After the Professor puts everyone to sleep reading the book, the camera backs up, showing the straight seams of the soundstage floor where the set ends.
17th Jun 2019
Time Tunnel (1966)
Revealing mistake: When the torturer throws himself against Tony, the stone wall buckles when he slams against it.
14th Jun 2019
Gilligan's Island (1964)
Pass the Vegetables, Please - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: The guide wire used to "throw" the coconut through the hut by Gilligan is visible.
3rd Jun 2019
Time Tunnel (1966)
The Revenge of Robin Hood - S1-E16
Revealing mistake: The same crossbowman shown getting hit and falling off the wall twice does not merely drop his crossbow, but throws it away from him.
3rd Jun 2019
Time Tunnel (1966)
Visitors From Beyond the Stars - S1-E18
Revealing mistake: The view of the town seen through the saloon doors is a painted backdrop, as some of the actors cast shadows against it.
31st May 2019
Common mistakes
Revealing mistake: After somebody gets run through with a sword, knife, spear, etc., and withdrawn from the stabbed body, there is no blood, gore, etc., seen on the blade.
30th May 2019
Time Tunnel (1966)
Revealing mistake: Doug throws a grenade at Nakamura that lands just a few inches from a pile of leaves. The leaves explode rather than the grenade, they're a cover for the pyrotechnics.
30th May 2019
Time Tunnel (1966)
Revealing mistake: On the beach, Doug and Tony rest against a heavy boulder that wobbles when they touch it.
22nd May 2019
Time Tunnel (1966)
The Revenge of Robin Hood - S1-E16
Revealing mistake: James Darren's stunt double is visible during his sword fight scenes.
19th May 2019
Star Trek (1966)
Revealing mistake: The stuntman playing Latimer is obvious when he falls after being hit in his back with the creature's spear.
15th Apr 2019
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
Fatal Cargo - S4-E7
Revealing mistake: The seam on the back of the gorilla costume is visible as he attacks the doctor's campsite.
9th Jan 2019
The Longest Day (1962)
Revealing mistake: In the Orne bridge attack, a wounded British paratrooper rolls a grenade over the bridge wall to a walkway where some German soldiers are, the grenade landing in the middle of the walkway. The explosion of the grenade, however, comes from the bridge wall to the right, presumably where the pyrotechnics were placed for the grenade explosion.
6th Jan 2019
The Wild Wild West (1965)
The Night of the Vipers - S3-E18
Revealing mistake: The final gun battle in town has a gunman in a tower shooting at West. The gunman's perch is enclosed on all four sides by a bannister, but when West returns fire, shooting the gunman out of the tower, the bannister in front of the gunman has disappeared, allowing the stuntman a clear path to fall out of it.
6th Jan 2019
The Wild Wild West (1965)
The Night of the Vipers - S3-E18
Revealing mistake: After West shoots the gunman in the tower, the gunman launches himself clear of the tower, rather than merely collapsing and then falling.
28th Dec 2018
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Revealing mistake: When Snots the dog chases the squirrel into the Griswolds' dining room, he barely brushes a high-back dining chair that immediately falls on its side. If you look closely, a string attached to the the right side top of the chair can be seen tightening which then pulls the chair down.
28th Dec 2018
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Revealing mistake: The stunt double for Nicholas Guest is obvious after Julia-Louis Dreyfus punches him. The hair style of the stunt double is different from Nicholas Guest's hair, which is heavily slicked back.
27th Nov 2018
The Wild Wild West (1965)
The Night of the Legion of Death - S3-E12
Revealing mistake: The scar makeup on Montgomery's face begins peeling off as he is giving his speech.
17th Sep 2018
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Revealing mistake: The footage of the traffic in front of Springfield Hospital where Helen Lynch is recuperating is recycled later in the episode.
10th Sep 2018
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
Revealing mistake: When Kolchak closes the door to Mr. Burton's classroom, the wall shakes when the door shuts.
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