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16th Oct 2025

Alien: Earth (2025)

Mr. October - S1-E2

Deliberate mistake: After Captain Morrow zaps the Xeno and Hermit, he starts to spray a web-like substance over the unconscious Xeno lying on the floor. The webbing covers it, but it wouldn't have gone under where the creature was lying down. Yet moments later he grabs the Xeno by its feet and lifts it to drag it away, and it now shows that it's fully covered with webbing, even on the underside that the spray had no way of reaching. (00:32:40)

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7th Oct 2025

Family Guy (1999)

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The Story on Page 1 - S2-E19

Deliberate mistake: At the start of the episode, the family is watching a show called "Sherry and the Anus." When Sherry opens the door and walks in, there is a Star Wars poster hanging above Anus' dresser. However, it doesn't resemble Star Wars at all. The font is all wrong, the lettering is the wrong colour, and the ship on the front is some generic-looking spy plane and nothing like a Star Wars fighter. This was obviously done to avoid any copyright issues, as this was before the Lucas partnership later on. (00:00:07)

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19th Aug 2025

Meet the Engineer (2007)

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Deliberate mistake: The engineer is playing guitar perfectly while wearing a thick welding glove on his right hand. In reality, welding gloves are designed for heavy protection, not dexterity. They're bulky, stiff, and remove nearly all tactile feedback, making precise plucking or strumming impossible. Even holding a pick would be extremely difficult, so his flawless guitar playing is only possible through cartoon exaggeration. (00:00:05)

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19th Aug 2025

Pokémon GO

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Deliberate mistake: Regardless of where the position of the sun is or the shadows cast off the player and his buddy Pokémon, the Team Rocket Go hot air balloons always cast a perfect round shadow directly beneath them. No elongation or shifting due to the light source. This is obviously done so the player always knows when one is overhead, but it still is a mistake in how shadows work.

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18th Aug 2025

Pokémon GO

Deliberate mistake: Fish Pokémon like Magikarp, Goldeen, and Tentacool straight-up hover in the air when you encounter or battle them—even if you're on a mountain, street, or desert. Which just looks goofy, but it's an intentional design choice so you can catch and use water mons anywhere without needing an actual pond. Basically, they're floating in "invisible water" for gameplay balance. They "swim" in the air, complete with bubbles sometimes appearing around them or a splash.

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17th Aug 2025

Live and Let Die (1973)

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Deliberate mistake: The snake that "attacks" Bond in the bathroom can be visually identified as a mere kingsnake. Apparently just a black kingsnake or a California kingsnake. It is in no way venomous or dangerous but is presented in the film as such. This was done to keep Roger Moore safe by using a tame non-venomous snake. However, this breed is easily identifiable, being a kingsnake and safe, a harmless constrictor. (00:32:35 - 00:34:35)

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12th Aug 2025

Family Guy (1999)

There's Something About Paulie - S2-E16

Deliberate mistake: At the dealership, Lois pops the hood of the red car and shows there is no engine in the vehicle. She pulls out a paper that just has a drawing of an engine. Yet moments later, Peter is able to start the car and rev a nonexistent engine and drive it a couple of feet before the wheel falls off. (00:02:40)

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Deliberate mistake: This mistake was admitted to in the DVD commentary by the director. When at the embassy, once they open the window, the camera pans up to show a destroyed helicopter on top of the building. This is a mistake as in Moscow, it is restricted airspace for helicopters, with none at all for any purpose to be allowed to fly over the city, not even to land on the American Embassy. However, the director really wanted the visual of a destroyed helicopter on top of the building so added it anyway. (00:41:49)

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Deliberate mistake: This mistake/trick was revealed in the second DVD commentary on the film. When Bond is underwater in the ship with the flare, this flare does not behave realistically. If they had used real flares, it would have put too much smoke and dirt in the water and quickly made it too murky to see or film through. So the flare used was a special effects prop of a bright light with bubbles being fed through it to give a good effect, but is not how a real flare would be under water. (01:08:25)

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Deliberate mistake: At the speed trap, Tom points his radar gun at a turtle. From his perspective, he seems to be looking through some sort of scope with cross hairs and numbers on it at the turtle to line up the beam. However, when he then looks at the radar gun at the speed indicated as 1 MP/H, there is nothing on the gun where he could have been looking through such a scope. At best, the top of the run appears to have plastic iron sites. The scoped view would not have been from the device itself perspective since it would not need cross hairs or numbers on said cross hairs as that would be for a person looking through it to have reference points. This scope view of the turtle was most likely just added by the film makers to have a better visual representation of Tom aiming the radar gun at the turtle. (00:04:29)

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Deliberate mistake: In the lab where Jessie is working, the canister that Walter had put his bloody hand on when he dies at the end of Breaking Bad still has the bloody handprint on it from that episode. However, this part of the film takes place before that episode happens. In the behind the scenes, the director stated he didn't have the heart to remove the handprint and decided to leave it in as a little "Easter Egg"

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26th Apr 2020

The Walking Dead (2010)

29th Jul 2019

Another Life (2019)

Across the Universe - S1-E1

Deliberate mistake: In the restaurant after their daughter finishes talking to Niko, Erik turns the tablet device around and sets it on the table to talk to Niko. From his perspective, he is looking down at the screen. But in the other shots from Niko's perspective, where he is a life sized hologram, his figure is shown looking up and meeting her eyes. But from her perspective it should look like he's looking down at the table.

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1st Jul 2019

Paddington 2 (2017)

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Deliberate mistake: Paddington puts a red sock in the load of prison clothes which turns all their clothes pink. However, it was a single red sock in the "uniforms" machine, but in the next scene the entire prison is wearing pink clothes now. The machine is nowhere near big enough to wash all the uniforms at once - the pile we see is huge.

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14th Apr 2019

Aquaman (2018)

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Deliberate mistake: Spoilers! When Black Manta is defeated, he is knocked unconscious and tumbles down a rock face after his helmet explodes on his face into the waters by the shores of Sicily. These currents and waves at best would have carried him to the rocks or the beach, leaving him on land or near it. However in the after credit scene he's somehow found out in the middle of the ocean on a broken drift wood. He would not have been carried back out to sea like that.

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Suggested correction: The water is tidal. If the tide was going out, the current would take him out to sea.

There are hardly any tides in the Mediterranean Sea http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=995.

29th Oct 2018

Common mistakes

Deliberate mistake: In fight scenes, it's often one person against a small army. Despite having the person greatly outnumbered, the enemies proceed to attack them one at a time, allowing each to be easily dispatched. The whole point of having so many is to overwhelm your enemy... not take turns getting punched out.

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29th Oct 2018

Common mistakes

Deliberate mistake: Where as its not as common in modern movies, the 80's and 90's movies were really bad about vehicles exploding into huge balls of fire over the littlest things. Cars would hit each other and explode. One would flip over and explode. They would hit walls and boom! Or hilarious ones like Escape from LA, a motorcycle runs into a metal barrel and explodes instantly. As if the cars were filled with nitroglycerin or something.

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29th Oct 2018

Common mistakes

Deliberate mistake: In almost every movie with shootouts, highly trained soldiers, or experienced mercenaries or thugs suddenly get "Storm Trooper Aim" when shooting at the heroes. Even cops do this where they have clear shots of people running away from them, often times multiple of them with fully automatic weapons firing rapidly at a semi close target and somehow just hit all around them and even the ground.

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16th Oct 2018

Common mistakes

Deliberate mistake: Often in rainy scenes in movies, the crew has the rain machines set to have the rain drops far far larger than natural. Huge water drops so that they will actually be visible in the final print.

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15th Oct 2018

Common mistakes

Deliberate mistake: Especially in action movies and westerns, people in gun scenes often go through way more ammo in their weapons than possible and never reload. Especially the heroes.

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