Corrected entry: Cheddar the dog changes breeds from a Pembroke Welsh Corgi to a Cardigan Welsh Corgi and back to a Pembroke again.
Bishop73
6th Apr 2018
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
4th Apr 2018
The Ranch (2016)
Corrected entry: In the second season, Abby wants to take a job in Denver. Colt claims it's 300 miles away, while Beau and Maggie have to drive 6 hours to Grand Junction. Since Denver is pretty much in the center of Colorado, there is no place 300 miles from Denver.
Correction: "The Ranch" takes place in a fictional town, however the opening sequence has shots of the real towns of Norwood and Ouray. While Norwood is just over 200 miles from Denver, as the crow flies, the quickest driving route is 330 miles. When most people talk about how far away something is, they usually mean driving distance, which includes all the twist and turns of the roads that add miles to the distance.
12th Nov 2016
Double Jeopardy (1999)
Corrected entry: When Mattie is driving looking for her son there is a road marker with Route 74 South, only odd numbers routes use north and south, even numbered routes use east and west. (00:57:00)
Correction: It's not Route 74, it's Colorado State Highway 74, and it's a real sign. Colorado SH 74 does run north/south because it's a loop (although it doesn't make a complete loop). Coming off US-HWY 40, it runs west, then turns south. As it continues it goes east and ends at Colorado SH 8.
1st Apr 2018
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
Corrected entry: Obviously Duhovic is supposed to come from Serbia or Bosnia where all the real war crimes took place. Instead Belarus and its flag are mentioned and seen through the whole movie.
Correction: Duhovic was the former president of Belarus. He's not from Serbia or Bosnia, nor is he suppose to be. However, this is a fictitious movie wherein the character has committed a number of crimes and not a movie about actual war crimes.
Though the movie is fictitious, the plot refers to the Hague tribunal over war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia (Serbia, Bosnia). Duhovic is a Serbian name like Milosevic, not a Belarusian name. There has never been a former president of Belarus, its president is still active. Too many discrepancies even for a fictitious movie.
27th Mar 2018
Doctor Who (2005)
Corrected entry: The episode is set in 2049. The lead astronaut mentions that her grandmother used to use the social media and blogging site Tumblr, in a fashion suggesting that the site is by this time a thing of the past, much like slide rules now. However, she is played by an actress who is at least in her late forties, meaning that if you do the math, her character would be more than old enough to have used Tumblr herself.
Correction: The implication may be that much like Facebook now, it's something the older generation uses whereas the younger ones have already ditched it in favour of something else.
Correction: In addition to the implication, you're also assuming Lundvick is as old as the actor playing her. She could in fact be in her mid-30's (or younger). Plus, this episode aired in 2014, and while we know Tumblr continued to be widely used afterwards, it could have no longer been popular by the time Lundvick was old enough to use it in 2015 (perhaps her parents didn't want her using it until she was a teenager, if she is in fact 47 in 2049).
26th Mar 2018
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (1989)
Corrected entry: When Indiana Jones picks up the Holy Grail, he says "That's the cup of a carpenter." Harrison Ford was a carpenter before becoming an actor.
Correction: First off, this happens to be more of a coincidence than trivia since the Holy Grail belonged to Jesus Christ, and English translations of the Bible refer to Jesus as a carpenter. Plus, Harrison Ford was an actor before becoming a carpenter. He didn't become a carpenter until the 1970's when he needed to support his family, which he felt he wasn't able to do with his acting career.
26th Mar 2018
Tremors 2 (1996)
Corrected entry: Kate finds a Graboid fossil and explains that the rock is from the Precambrian era (which ran from about 4.5 billion years ago through about 500 million years ago), thus making them literally the oldest complex life-forms in the history of Earth. Cool idea, but it makes no sense. Life in the Precambrian era was mostly bacterial or simplistic organisms such as sea-sponges and jellyfish late in the era. Something like the Graboids just couldn't have existed, both because they're too complex to have existed in that time-frame and also (and more importantly) because there wouldn't be an adequate food source for them to thrive. Sure, maybe they could have existed during the time of dinosaurs, but that only started about 250 million years ago, way after the end of the Precambrian era.
Correction: They retconned this in the TV series, saying that Kate had misdated the fossil, which was actually from the Devonian Period.
I don't think a retcon validates a movie mistake.
Correction: The oldest known life forms. Graboids existed, therefore other life forms existed too, which they ate, we've just not discovered them yet.
Correction: The graboids might not have originated from earth. Like suggested they could be aliens and their species landed on Earth 5 billion years ago.
The movie states that they are from Earth. The suggestion that they're aliens is invalidated in the film itself, as it is proven wrong by the scene in question. Ergo, this correction is invalid. Also, this correction fails to address one of the key issues brought up in the mistake - they wouldn't have a viable food source and would have died out, even if the preposterous notion that they were aliens were true.
Correction: This is speculation at best regarding creatures that don't exist in real life. There's no way to say they wouldn't have adequate food source without knowing what they needed to survive, or how they evolved.
26th Mar 2018
Air Force One (1997)
Corrected entry: After the Navy plane has rescued the President and he is on board, the Navy pilot proclaims over his radio that he is changing his plane's call sign to "Air Force One" because the President is now on board. Only an Air Force plane with the President on board is Air Force One. (When the President is aboard a Marine helicopter, that chopper is "Marine One." The Navy pilot should have proclaimed (after rescuing the President) that his plane is now "Navy One."
Correction: They sent a USAF MC-130 (along with USAF pararescuemen). When the president is on board, he is in fact on board an Air Force plane.
27th Aug 2001
Carlito's Way (1993)
Corrected entry: The movie is set in the 1970's. In the scene where Al Pacino goes somewhere in Broadway to see his ex girlfriend performing and when she meets him at the table where he's siting, she orders a Diet Coke. There was no diet Pepsi or Diet Coke or any other sort of diet soda back in the 1970's. They all came out in the early 1980's.
Correction: Diet Pepsi was introduced in 1964.
Correction: She does in fact order a Diet Pepsi, which was available in the 70's.
8th Mar 2018
Star Trek (1966)
Corrected entry: Kirk says to the Admiral (actor Jose Ferrer) "Once more, Jose."
2nd Mar 2018
Rocky IV (1985)
Corrected entry: After Duke's speech to Rocky in the barn, Rocky says "thanks Tony." Tony is the actor's name.
Correction: Duke is the character's nickname. Duke's name is Tony Evers. Tony Evers just happens to be played by Tony Burton.
How do you know this?
Duke has appeared in 6 Rocky movies, although I can't recall which film establishes his full name, but Duke is certainly his nickname and Tony is his real name. In Rocky and Rocky II Tony Burton is only credited as "Apollo's Trainer" and the name "Duke" isn't used. But Rocky Wiki and Wikipedia do have established Tony "Duke" Evers pages. It should be noted though that Wood Harris (who plays Duke's son in the film "Creed") is credited as "Tony ‘Little Duke' Burton."
24th Feb 2018
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Corrected entry: When Michael makes his video starting off with "Hey beautiful", his phone seems like a phone from 2013 with its massive bezels, but the movie is set in 2028.
Correction: There's nothing to prevent future technology (or any technology) from using a retro look or style, and the film doesn't have to explain why. There's no mistake for a non-existent phone in the future having massive bevels.
18th Sep 2003
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Corrected entry: While at the saucer near the North Pole, you never once see the men's breath from the cold. (00:20:45)
Correction: That's because visible breath is NOT solely due to cold, but to air humidity. If the air is dry, it does not matter how cold it is, breath will not be visible.
The last statement of the correction is incorrect, and there's a misunderstanding of the role humidity plays. If the relative humidity of the air and your breath combined is 100%, you'll see your breath. There are two ways to affect relative humidity, higher humidity or lower temperature. Thus, at a certain temperature (usually below 45°F), you'll always see your breath, no matter the humidity.
7th Jun 2017
Quantum Leap (1989)
How the Tess Was Won - August 5, 1956 - S1-E5
Corrected entry: The ranch is 50,000 acres, which is around 78 square miles. This is about 3.5 times the size of Manhattan Island. Yet they only appear to have four or five ranch hands to cover all that land, which would be impossible.
Correction: Just because we only see a handful of ranch hands doesn't mean that's all they have. And in one scene, I see 6 ranch hands, so there's more than just 4 or 5.
16th May 2007
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: Numerous times while in the outside, you cannot see their breath in the cold. For example while Lexx is being persuaded on the ship by the two men to help with the expedition, because of the cold, you should be able to see their breath, but you don't. They are in Antarctica which should be very cold.
Correction: As explained several times for other movies, visible breath has nothing to do with cold. It is the humidity of the air around you that matter.
This is a misunderstanding of the role humidity plays in seeing your breath. Seeing your breath is the result of your breath and outside humidity combining to be 100% relative humidity, meaning you're able to see your breath at higher temperatures if outside humidity is high enough. You can affect relative humidity by increasing humidity or decreasing temperature. This means at certain temperatures (usually below 45°F) you'll always see your breath. Given the Antarctic temperatures in the film, we should always see their breath, no matter what the humidity is.
4th Jul 2004
Rocky (1976)
Revealing mistake: When Rocky wakes up on the day of his first jog, the radio announcer reports that it's 28 degrees outside. However, when we see Rocky jogging, you can't see his breath. (01:07:45 - 01:09:00)
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Suggested correction: As pointed out several times before, breath showing in the air is about humidity, not temperature. See Alien vs Predator for similar corrections.
This is a misunderstanding about how humidity plays a role in seeing your breath. If the relative humidity of both your breath and air outside combined is 100%, you'll see your breath, this means you can see your breath at higher temperatures. To reach 100% relative humidity, the outside humidity needs to be higher or the temperature needs to be lower. However, at a certain temperature (usually around 45°F), you'll always see your breath. So at 28°, you'll always see your breath, no matter what the humidity is. This is a valid revealing mistake.
1st Mar 2016
Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
Murdoch.com - S2-E10
Factual error: Enid, the telegraph operator, exclaims that "He is sending an SOS." However, in the 19th century, distress calls did not include the letters "SOS," It was not until the early 20th Century that SOS was chosen as the international distress call.
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Suggested correction: The show is set in the early 1900's, which is the early 20th century. By the time this event transpired, SOS would have been established as a universal distress signal.
The show starts in 1895 and by season 2, it was still the 19th century and before Germany adopted SOS in 1905.
20th Feb 2018
The X-Files (1993)
Corrected entry: When Lt. Col. Stans tries to kill himself by submerging himself in boiling water using the hydrotherapy tub, he sets the gauge to 200 (where it stays). The water boils as planned, but water doesn't boil that low. This takes place in Maryland; assuming an elevation of 3,360 feet, water shouldn't boil until 206°. (00:01:25)
Correction: That's not the water boiling, it's the massaging jets of the hydrotherapy tub (like a Jacuzzi or hot tub).
20th Feb 2018
Samurai Jack (2001)
Factual error: Even though the show is called "Samurai Jack", Jack isn't really a samurai. The correct title for him would be a Ronin as a Ronin loses their master if their master dies or loses favor with their master and also has no home anywhere. Jack has these attributes. He has no master and no home.
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Suggested correction: Nor is his name really Jack. "Jack", and thus "Samurai Jack", is just an alias that the prince takes. It's not meant to be his title or rank. Just like Cowboy Jack wasn't actually a cowboy.
18th Feb 2018
Get Out (2017)
Corrected entry: The Armitage family transplants the brains of white people into the bodies of black people. But why is it then, that the black people sometimes try to "break through" their imprisonment? If their brains are fully transplanted then their whole personality should be completely "white" or destroyed. Where does this inner fighting come from?
Correction: They explained this in the film. "Transplantation. Well, partially. The piece of your brain connected to your nervous system needs to stay put, keeping those intricate connections intact. So you won't be gone. At least not completely. A sliver of you will still be in there somewhere. Limited consciousness. You'll be able to see and hear what your body is doing, but your existence will be as a passenger. An audience. You will live in... the Sunken Place."
Then it is a factual error, cause from the neurological point of view this is nonsense. The nervous system has nothing to do with the consciousness.
The film (or the correction) never said the nervous system controls consciousness. It's part of the brain attached to the nervous system that controls consciousness, such as the the cerebral cortex, or even the basal ganglia. However, there's never been a human brain transplant, or even a partial human brain transplant, so there's no way to claim factual errors as it's all speculation.
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Correction: This is too vague and a specific incident needs to be identified. In the Halloween heists, the one plot involved using a fake Cheddar.
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