Character mistake: When someone tries to call another person's cell phone in an emergency situation and it goes to voicemail, but they just keep calling over and over (with or without leaving a message). They never try sending a text message or similar, they just repeat the same pattern despite knowing the other person isn't answering.
Bishop73
16th Jan 2019
Common mistakes
9th Jan 2019
American Dad (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Thacker is killed, blood splatters on his campaign posters resting against the couch. When security breaks in and shoots Sturges, the blood on the posters is gone.
9th Jan 2019
When the Lights Went Out (2012)
Factual error: On the Yorkshire Post front page it says "Monday 7th March 1974", but that was a Thursday.
4th Jan 2019
Sherlock (2010)
Character mistake: In the opening scene, Sherlock makes a point to correct Barry's poor grammar. But later, when talking to Watson, Sherlock uses poor grammar by saying "who's sleeping with who." It should be "who's sleeping with whom." Not a mistake Sherlock would make.
29th Dec 2018
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
28th Dec 2018
Daredevil (2015)
Blindsided - S3-E4
Question: Matt has the taxi take him to the prison and tells the driver to wait for him. But the taxi is parked right next to the exit gate, so as close to the prison as you can get. During such an intense riot and lockdown, would a corrections officer tell the taxi to move? This is a question for people with prison/correctional work experience in regards to lockdown procedures.
27th Dec 2018
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
27th Dec 2018
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Continuity mistake: When the waitress sits down with Charlie, some of the things in front of him move around. For example, when he pours the wine, the pipe and pen kept switching which side they're on.
18th Dec 2018
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
The High School Reunion - S7-E12
Continuity mistake: Mac puts his name tag on over his lapel, but when Dennis walks away, Mac's name tag has moved and is no longer over his lapel.
8th Dec 2018
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
27th Nov 2018
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Question: When the present/future is altered, what was purpose of Jack, Sam, and Daniel going to recruit Teal'c? Was it just to recreate SG-1 so they could begin going on off-world missions? Did they even have a plan to fix the past/present (prior to Daniel being killed and they jumped back in time)? Then at the end, when the tape said there's no fish in the pond, wouldn't that Jack (Jack #3 if you will) already know there are in fact fish in his pond (since whatever changes to the past that affected the pond would also affect Jack #3)?
16th Nov 2018
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Other mistake: At the end, Anubis/Vaselov is sent to KS7-535 and we see a shot of the gate being partially buried in snow and Anubis frozen. However, the wormhole should have cleared all the snow in its path when it established, meaning it wouldn't be buried in the snow as seen.
16th Nov 2018
Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Character mistake: Sometimes in the show, when a Goa'uld or Tok'ra is speaking (as opposed to the host speaking), they will say "my symbiote", such as when facing danger or illness: "my symbiote will protect me" or "my symbiote will heal me." However the Goa'uld and Tok'ra are the symbiote and they should be referring to themselves protecting or healing the host's body.
29th Oct 2018
Common mistakes
Other mistake: Someone coming into a room, or situation, and delivering a line in response to what was just said, even though there was no way they were able to hear what was just said (or even knowing what the conversation was about).
29th Oct 2018
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
Chapter Six: An Exorcism in Greendale - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: When Lady Blackwood is talking to Zelda about her 2 miscarriages, she only has one hand on her belly, but in the next shot she's using both hands.
29th Oct 2018
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
Chapter Two: The Dark Baptism - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Sabrina is about to sign the book with her blood, the drop of blood keeps changing where it's at. At first it hits a drawn line, then it's above the drawn line and is right below the last name. In the third shot, there is now a line space between it and the last name in the book. It continues to change depending on the camera angle.
25th Oct 2018
Common mistakes
Factual error: Whenever someone flatlines and a doctor (or nurse) grabs the defibrillator and is able to shock the person back to life. Defibrillators only work when the person still has a heartbeat, but the heart is in fibrillation. And even when doctors do use a defibrillator, they still perform regular CPR afterwards, which is rarely (if ever) shown being done. Usually in the film or show, the person comes back to life, sits up, and takes a huge gulp of air as if they had been holding their breath underwater.
21st Oct 2018
Common mistakes
Other mistake: Primitive people or people cut off from civilization that still have brilliantly white and perfectly straight teeth.
21st Oct 2018
Common mistakes
Factual error: When someone dies with their eyes open and another character can close the dead person's eyes by gently running their hand over their face. The eyes of a dead body won't stay shut that way.
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Suggested correction: This is partially true. If the person is recently deceased then you can close the eyes with relative ease. If however they have been deceased long enough for rigor mortis to set in then the mistake is valid. It's a tough one to be honest.
That's not true at all. Muscles can not contract after death. Therefore, if someone tries to close the eyes of someone who is dead, the eyes will open back up to their original positions. They only way they can stay closed is if someone seals them shut, in the case after death, a wet swap may work, which is not what they commonly do in films.
21st Oct 2018
Common mistakes
Stupidity: When someone has duct tape put over their mouth and they're unable to scream for help, or warn someone coming in about a trap. Duct tape over the mouth easily comes off if you open up your mouth because it can't hold your jaw shut. And if you need a little help getting it off your lips because you can't open your mouth wide enough, just stick out your very wet tongue.
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Suggested correction: The spirit of this entry is correct - defibrillation is WAY overused to add drama - but the facts are wrong. First, defibrillators are rarely used unless there is electrical activity but no heartbeat, as is the case when fibrillation is occurring. In fibrillation, the heart is not beating, only twitching without rhythm. CPR is never done after restoring the heartbeat, no doctor would perform compressions on traumatized heart. Finally, most patients suffer serious complications after defibrillation. A patient who jumps up after defib only happens... in the movies.
I did oversimplify when I said heartbeat. But a twitching heart is different than a completely stopped heart. And the point of the entry is the fact that defibrillation machines are over used and patients don't jump up afterwards, which you only confirmed, so the correction is unnecessary. And, where do you get your information about not performing CPR? The general consensus is to do CPR. Here's a short article. Again, this correction is unneeded. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25597505/.
Bishop73
I think the original points that CPR is over depicted in films and TV, and that patients are debilitated after defibrillation is valid. You can make a better case by avoiding terms like always and never, because there is always an exception, and never and end to the comments. By the way, the article you cite is a database review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, not the hospital settings you describe, so now a correction IS needed.