Corrected entry: The dogs get left alone in the cage with the new one, 'stirring' follows as it changes to the Thing, and they howl up a storm, as it cuts to Macready and keepers looking puzzled. Then heading to the dog pen to check it out, but seem too calm but concerned hearing the dog's cries as they flip on the light to see it attacking while Mcreedy stalls in firing the torch to kill it.
pgsgrad16
20th Jun 2025
The Thing (1982)
Correction: I don't agree with this, and the way it's written doesn't really feel like it's accurate to the movie. The dog seemed perfectly normal, and there's no way the team knew there's a "thing attacking" the other dogs. They were just barking... there could have just been an arctic hare that somehow got inside the kennel for all they knew. Clark shows up to investigate the commotion in less than 60 seconds. And the instant someone else hears it, an alarm is pulled, and things move rather quickly. At best, you could argue that Clark panicked and froze after seeing the creature, but that's not a mistake. Anyone would panic seeing that madness.
24th Jan 2025
I Love Lucy (1951)
Corrected entry: When Ricky enters the Mertz's apartment, waking everyone up, little Ricky starts crying in the crib, and Ricky moves closer and accidentally says, 'Why is she awake?' instead of 'he,' as his own baby daughter Lucie was almost 2 at the time.
Correction: The issue was due to his accent; several times during the course of the show, when Rickey said "he," it sounded like "she."
14th Sep 2024
The Waltons (1972)
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth's horse takes the bad fall, Maryellen tells them it has a broken hoof. So they put the horse down instead of taking it to a nearby vet for help.
Correction: This episode takes place in 1945. We see Mary Ellen look toward the mare's front (not hind) legs/joints, which are weight bearing; and when Mary Ellen tells Elizabeth about her mare, Molly, Mary Ellen's actual words are, "Elizabeth, it's her leg. It's broken. It's bad. We're gonna have to put her out of her misery." Viewers are not shown what Molly's "bad" break is, but with Mary Ellen's words, we know the break is severe, which was a death sentence for any horse. Just to add, it all completely depends on the location of the equine injury and the severity of the break/fracture. Nowadays, with modern advancements in equine veterinary care, (thankfully!) some severe breaks may not be a death sentence for a horse.
8th Apr 2022
Fame (1982)
Corrected entry: The staff and Doris are on the office phones during a thunderstorm, when they all know that lighting travels through electricity which includes phone lines, so they could get electrocuted.
Correction: People use phones during thunderstorms all the time - might be ill-advised, but it's not a movie mistake.
23rd Jun 2024
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
The Healing - S1-E5
Corrected entry: Olive wears a gold wedding band on her left hand, though she's single.
Correction: Olive is not a "single" woman, she's a widow who still wears her wedding ring. In the prior episode "Epidemic" (S1xE2), when Loren Bray's sister returns to town she introduces herself to Michaela as Olive Davis (her maiden name is Bray), and is fondly referred to as Miss Olive. When Michaela goes to examine Emily, Olive Davis states that her own husband had died. Olive's ring is visible in other episodes as well.
10th Mar 2024
I Love Lucy (1951)
The Benefit - S1-E13
Corrected entry: There's suddenly an upright piano in the living room where Ricky's desk used to be.
Correction: There's nothing sudden about it. The rearranging of furniture between episodes occurs often, and would only be a problem if it happens within a scene. From the very start of this episode, the card table is already at the center of the living room, with the couch pushed back toward the wall, and the desk is behind the couch (holding telephone, etc), up against the wall where the piano usually is in other episodes. Ethel asks Ricky about the sheet music on the piano, and he explains he's been working on a musical number for the show at the Tropicana. So, for this episode's ongoing musical storyline, the positions of the piano and desk have been switched. Nothing whatsoever makes it a revealing mistake. This occurs again a few episodes later in Breaking the Lease.
9th Mar 2024
I Love Lucy (1951)
Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer - S1-E11
Corrected entry: At the opening, Lucy shushes Ethel to "be quiet, Ricky's sleeping," though she's vacuuming, and they start talking louder.
Correction: That was the joke.
20th Nov 2022
Ghosts (US) (2021)
Corrected entry: Hetty loses her British accent on occasion and sounds slightly Midwestern.
Correction: Hetty isn't British and never has a British accent.
Hetty is of proper English upbringing as a late baroness with a very proper slight British 'lilt' since the show's inception. That wouldn't change in the precipice unless she was narratively merging to a more midwestern-y dialect around her ghost friends in time. Being Isaac and Thor's lilts have not changed a bit.
12th May 2023
The Brady Bunch (1969)
Confessions, Confessions - S2-E12
Corrected entry: While in the store to shop for glue to fix the broken vase, the man tells Bobby the glue he's holding is a 'special glue' that will fix anything which is really just a standard tube of Elmer's Glue used by any household for craft projects.
Correction: At the store, the man never uses the words "special glue" nor does the man say that it "will fix anything" while he's talking with the kids. The man actually says, "This is the best glue we've got, kids," and has them read the bottle's label about it being "good for vases," it being "not invisible," and he tells them "you've got to squint to see it." Also, it is Peter holding the Elmer's Glue-All bottle, not Bobby.
12th May 2023
The Brady Bunch (1969)
The Impractical Joker - S2-E13
Corrected entry: Alice calls the exterminator for them to come out to the house but never gives them an address.
Correction: Alice calls the Zap-It Exterminator Co, and says, "This is the Brady residence, you did a termite inspection for us a while back," then Alice ends the call with, "Yes, I'll be waiting." So the Zap-It exterminators already have their address on file from the termite inspection.
Despite Alice telling them 'it's the Brady residence', there could have been a dozen or so residents in the area last named Brady. So there'd be no way of knowing which one was actually calling, as doubtful they had caller ID or call tracer in 1970.
But it's entirely believable that this specific exterminator might only have worked for one Brady household, and therefore knows who's calling.
9th May 2023
The Conjuring (2013)
Corrected entry: In the movie, Ed and Lorraine Warren are depicted as a younger middle-aged couple when the real Warrens were retirees who died before this film was made.
Correction: This isn't a documentary. It's a highly fictionalized retelling of their cases, which themselves are just dubious claims. This film also takes place in 1971 when the Warrens would have been in their mid-40s, and Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga weren't far off in age at the time of filming. Also, Lorraine Warren didn't die until 6 years after this film came out.
Documentary or film, makes little difference. The fact is that images of the real Warrens in the 1970s were an older couple as mentioned, while the actors in the films are considerably younger in their late 30s to 40s, where respectively age consideration should have lined up but did not.
Ed and Lorraine Warren were both around 45 in 1971 when the film takes place. Both of the actors were around 40 when the film was made and released. That's not a big difference in age. Just because they look a little bit younger doesn't make it a mistake. You're not going to be able to find actors who look EXACTLY like the real people. Also, how does the date the Warrens died have any impact on the movie? The movie takes place in 1971... not the present day.
Correction: It actually does make a difference when it comes to documentary vs. fiction, because this film isn't intended to be a true-to-life depiction, particularly as the real Warrens were con artists. This falls under artistic license. This film also features unequivocal evidence for the supernatural, including ghosts, demonic possession, and violations of laws of physics, none of which are true to the real world. Given all that, the fact that the Warrens look more youthful here isn't a movie mistake.
10th Apr 2023
Three's Company (1977)
Upstairs Downstairs Downstairs - S5-E1
Corrected entry: Jack's nurse date wears a wedding band.
Correction: Doreen is wearing a ring with a raised dark center stone - it glistens as she moves her hand. It looks like a regular fashion statement ring that women wore/wear on either their right or left hand; nothing indicative of a "wedding band" at all.
Explain? Alright. I watched the episode, and Doreen's ring does not look like a wedding band. It appears to be just a normal ring with at least one raised dark gemstone.
Just because it "resembles a wedding band" doesn't mean it is one. And even if it was definitively a wedding band, it's not necessarily a mistake. Three's Company was set in a very sexually liberated time. Doreen could be in an open marriage.
Correction: Generally the idea of seeing a character wearing a wedding ring as a mistake is because in real life the actor or actress forget to take off their wedding ring. In real life, Lee Crawford (who plays Doreen) was divorced in 1978 and wasn't married or engaged at the time of shooting the episode. So it's just a character choice to wear a ring on her left hand and doesn't mean she's married or engaged.
The very point being, that she is wearing on one on her hand, when she's supposed to be single in this episode. So the mistake stands.
No, because it's a character choice. People who are single wear rings on their left ring finger for a variety of reasons, none of which indicates it's a wedding band or that they're married.
There's always a chance she was married but having an affair with Jack, and like most men, Jack didn't pay attention to that fact. Many men don't notice this fact the way that women do - especially single men. Women tend to pay more attention to these types of things.
Correction: I work with a woman who is single but wears a wedding ring and refers to herself as "Mrs - " because it puts men off, and so she gets to choose who she wants to "get closer to" (her words).
29th Mar 2023
The Waltons (1972)
Corrected entry: Prof. "Goat" belittles Jonboy in front of the other two for wrestling with the Sophmores when it was crystal clear who started the kerfuffle.
Correction: The kerfuffle on the bridge is between sophomores and freshmen, at Boatwright University. Professor Ghote, the Chairman of the English Dept, notices Walton and says, "Walton, it occurs to me that I'd like a word with you." Next, in front of the 2 freshmen friends of Walton, Ghote wryly tells John-Boy, "Don't you think you've caused enough damage for your first day? Why don't you go home now?" Then John-Boy and his 2 freshmen friends all walk off, happily smiling. Professor Ghote didn't behave unprofessionally, and he did not embarrass, belittle, or bully John-Boy. At this point in the day, John-Boy has racked up a bit of "damage" with Ghote, personally. First, he parked in a faculty spot; second, he bumped into Ghote causing the Professor to drop and scatter his papers which had been alphabetized; third, he was asked to bring the billy goat to an office which belonged to Professor William Ghote. This is not a "character mistake" or any other type of mistake.
John-Boy had already apologized to Ghote about the parking incident and Ghote chastised both the Sophs and the Frosh for the goat prank. But with the bridge kerfuffle, Ghote is an adult professional who should have known the difference regarding the antagonism, and chose to react otherwise by embarrassing John-Boy instead of applying damage control with the Soph bullies, which was both unethical and undoing. Something even Ms. Hunter would shut down appropriately.
28th Feb 2023
Bones (2005)
Corrected entry: Everyone except Bones and Booth are curious over Dr. Tanaka's true gender identity, so Angela deliberately hugs Tanaka, then audibly 'informs' Hodgins, Saroyan, and Sweets standing 15 feet across at the doorway, that Tanaka is male, instead of discreetly informing them privately apart from Tanaka's presence.
Correction: Remember, when Hodgins asks Dr Tanaka about the microsil, Tanaka replies, "I believe your partly Chinese woman will be able to reconstruct the tool," then Angela walks in saying she heard Tanaka's comment. Nakamura quickly clarifies that Tanaka (who is Japanese) "means no offense" and did not mean for it to "sound so insulting" (00:31:05). At the end, Angela decides to take matters into her own hands so to speak, regarding Tanaka's physical gender. So considering Tanaka's earlier rude comment about her, and even more so, as well as Angela just being our Angela, after Angela hugs Tanaka she walks back over to her team and in a normal voice as usual Angela bluntly says, "It moved, he's a guy" (00:40:40). Angela very simply did not care if Tanaka would overhear this. This is not a "stupidity" or any other kind of mistake, whatsoever.
I would add, Angela is very outspoken through the show and has shown numerous times that she will just say whatever needs to be said rather than hide away from a topic. And if we disregard everything mentioned above, about Tanaka being rude, How is it a mistake that Angela says it out loud?
Yep, agree about Angela being outspoken, that's why I mentioned "as well as Angela just being our Angela" because yes, that's exactly her just being her :).
Tanaka wasn't rude, it was Angela who was rude and unprofessional about the former's identity. And absolutely makes it a mistake when it's a direct failure of professional protocol. One simply does not set out to embarrass a colleague by "proving" anything in a workplace, that could potentially set them up for harassment.
I'd stated that Angela (or the production) failed to use proper professional etiquette when she approached Tanaka to curiously clarify his/her gender, without any privacy of the room. So very much a mistake, considering even Bones would not have done such out of courtesy and respect to another professional. However, Angela did not care. So that was stupidity and or negligence on her part as a supposed forensics professional, in displaying such repugnant behavior. Very much a mistake.
16th Mar 2023
Ghosts (US) (2021)
Corrected entry: When Sam and Jay leave the room after queuing up The Horse Whisperer for Trevor's folks to watch, Hedy, Flower, and Trevor step back to let them by, though they are ghosts and Sam and Jay could have simply walked right through them.
Correction: This isn't a mistake. Some ghosts generally do not like how it feels when people walk through them. And they also affect people who do walk through them, such as Flower making people high. The ghosts intentionally avoid people walking through them, unless they're being devilish like Hetty's husband Elias.
26th Jan 2023
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Shock Waves - S11-E1
Corrected entry: When Sarah enters the lab with the bagged microchip, she tells Greg and the other CSI that she got it from Doc Robbins, when it was Super Dave who'd found it during autopsy.
Correction: Sarah is standing beside Dr. Robbins when he finds the SIM card within what's left of Officer Clark's chest cavity, during autopsy (timecode 00:19:35). Dave wasn't even near Clark, he was with the corpses of Officers Morales and Hooper.
20th Jan 2023
The Waltons (1972)
Corrected entry: Throughout most of the episode, The Car is a standard black with chrome trimming. But at the end it's suddenly beige when Johnboy and the kids are polishing it for their first ride.
Correction: At the end it's not "suddenly beige." Mid-episode Mary Ellen mentions a family project to, "Design you a new-looking car" and Erin adds, "We can paint it." Soon John-Boy says, "I'd like to paint it a nice dignified shade of tan." In the penultimate scene John-Boy drives Hyder and Martha Rudge back home. Time passes offscreen. It cuts to the final scene with Mary Ellen and Erin placing their new cut/sewn seat covers in the newly painted tan car, and nobody is "polishing it for their first ride."
13th Dec 2022
The Brady Bunch (1969)
Kitty Karry-All is Missing - S1-E7
Corrected entry: Near the beginning, after Kitty Karry-all goes missing, Cindy says she's going to tell daddy (Mike) that Bobby took the doll, and Carol tells her daddy went golfing. However, when the kids meet up in the bathroom and begin arguing over who took the lost doll, Mike and Carol suddenly open the adjoining bedroom door to break it up, when he's supposedly out golfing.
Correction: We don't know how long it has been since Mike went golfing and the kids all started arguing. The scene cuts completely in between Cindy accusing Bobby and them talking with their siblings about it.
4th Jan 2023
Three's Company (1977)
Corrected entry: Chrissy grabs an ashtray and lighter from the living room table to give to the old man, when none of them smoke.
Correction: Not uncommon, certainly at that time, for households to have them around for guests. I don't smoke but kept an ashtray for visitors who did.
30th Nov 2022
The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)
Corrected entry: The Duke Boys drive around in a blue car instead of their General Lee.
Correction: This is a plot point of the storyline, not any kind of a mistake. At the start of this episode, we hear Bo and Luke talking while Rosco is chasing them, and Bo says, "How does he know it's us if it ain't even our car." It's mentioned a few times during this episode, including by narrator, Waylon Jennings. Bo and Luke are driving a "1975 blue Plymouth Fury" as noted by its owner, Cooter Davenport, who was running the moonshine for Boss Hogg.
Correction: What exactly do you think they would be suspecting when hearing the dogs go wild and howl like that? None of the humans are suspect of the not-a-dog. They are huskies, probably not the first time they made a ruckus. When Clark goes to check on them, he is rightfully freaked out by whatever he saw and puts his own life above that of the dogs. Also, some dogs got out.
lionhead
You are correct to a sense. They are huskies known for hunting/rescuing. But with the situation at hand, it just seemed poor timing in aiding the dog's obvious distress. I've been racing down that hallway in a panic that something awful had happened. And I did not see any proof that any of the dogs had escaped. The one that went chewing on the fence was killed when trying to get away, while the others either coward or got shot at or also maimed in the chaos.
pgsgrad16 ★
I'd like to add that indeed the dogs do sound very much in distress, but when Clark comes to check it had only been a minute since they started. Adding to that the fact that Clark and the others are probably very tired and ready to go to bed, so a sense of rush probably doesn't come very quickly. But, when Clark reaches the gate of the kennel, the dogs strangely go quiet. Then, when he opens it, two dogs escape, seemingly unassimilated (however they managed that).
lionhead