Mike Lynch

Plot hole: When Marion is being carried in the basket, being chased by Indy, he is hot on their heels the entire time. She's placed on the truck with the ammunition, only to explode when it topples over while trying to get away. Marion's dead. Later, he finds her in Belloq's tent very much alive. Indy concludes they must have switched baskets. When did her abductors have the opportunity to do that, and why would the Germans be in a hot hurry to get the truck out of there if the basket was empty?

Mike Lynch

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Suggested correction: He concludes they switched baskets, but they didn't. He's not in hot pursuit either because he has to retreat and hide behind a wall from the machine gun once he gets to the truck. They put the basket with Marion inside the truck but simply got it out before it started driving. Indy could have never seen that and there is no basket in the truck that explodes. They wanted it out of there because it is full of explosives and possibly as a diversion for where they were really taking Marion.

lionhead

Factual error: Near the end of the movie, when the Tennessee Valley Authority flooded the valley after the dam had been completed, it is filled with water in a matter of minutes. In reality, it took months before the valley was filled to capacity.

Mike Lynch

15th Nov 2025

The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Invaders - S2-E15

Deliberate mistake: The woman being attacked by the tiny astronauts lives in very primitive conditions, suggesting a hard life with no electricity or running water. But close-ups of her hands show she has perfectly manicured nails.

Mike Lynch

16th Oct 2025

Gilligan's Island (1964)

Trivia: During the course of the show, whenever a character is listening to the radio, no matter the program, the same announcer is heard every time.

Mike Lynch

15th Oct 2025

Common mistakes

Revealing mistake: Multiple examples in movies and TV shows where actors are pretending that boxes, coffee cups, and luggage are full, but the ease of movement indicates they are empty.

Mike Lynch

Continuity mistake: When Hilts and Ives are put into the cooler for attempting an escape, they are both covered in mud for trying to dig their way out. When they are finally released days or weeks later, both are perfectly clean.

Mike Lynch

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Suggested correction: It's not unreasonable to assume they would have had a shower at some point.

Continuity mistake: When Hilts is put into the cooler at the beginning of the movie, he is given twenty days for going past the warning wire and insubordination. When he is released three weeks later, Hilts is clean-shaven.

Mike Lynch

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Suggested correction: Even in isolation, officers were entitled to basic human rights such as hygiene. Hilts and anyone else would have been able to wash and shave during their time in the cooler.

20th Sep 2025

Seinfeld (1990)

The Beard - S6-E16

Other mistake: When George and Elaine are arguing about a bald woman rejecting him because he's bald, he says, "No one walks into a beauty parlour and says, 'Give me the Larry Fine.'" Larry Fine, who was partially bald like George, was a member of the Three Stooges. George should have said, "Give me the Curly Howard." He was another member of the troupe, and fully bald.

Mike Lynch

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Suggested correction: This isn't a mistake; just because Curly was "more bald" than Larry, it doesn't make the joke wrong, or the statement an error. If anything, the fact that—as you point out—Larry's hair was more similar to George's makes it more appropriate that George references Larry rather than Curly.

15th May 2025

Trading Places (1983)

Plot hole: Clarence Beeks plants the angel dust on Winthrop at the Heritage Club, which is discovered by the police at the station. Though he's out on bail, Winthrop is still facing years of jail time if convicted. But nothing again is mentioned about it for the rest of the movie, nor is he trying to clear his name.

Mike Lynch

Plot hole: At the end of the movie, when Rhett famously leaves Scarlett, she thinks about how she can win him back, and with a smile on her face, says, "After all, tomorrow is another day." Her daughter tragically died a few days before. Scarlett isn't the least bit heartbroken about losing her.

Mike Lynch

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Suggested correction: This is not even a mistake, much less a plot hole. A character not acting the way an audience member expects them to is not a mistake.

It should also be noted that in the 1860s there was nothing unusual about a child dying. In those days, roughly 30% of children in white, well-off families like the O'Haras would die before the age of 5.

Plot hole: At the beginning of the movie, we see Chekov and Captain Tyrell looking for a lifeless planet needed by Dr. Marcus for her Genesis experiment. The Federation has been exploring the Alpha Quadrant for decades and has undoubtedly catalogued tens of thousands of planets. They'd have more than enough candidates to choose from that didn't contain life. It makes no sense that they'd need a starship to find a new one.

Mike Lynch

19th Mar 2025

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Plot hole: At the end of the movie, as Morbius lay dying, he had Commander Adams press a lever that irreversibly set the countdown for the planet's destruction. Morbius said earlier in the movie that they were in a learning laboratory for the Krell children. Why would the Krell have given their children access to something so dangerous to begin with, in a place where the switch didn't belong, and without any safety precautions to prevent an accidental countdown?

Mike Lynch

10th Nov 2024

Common mistakes

Deliberate mistake: In TV shows when people are gathered around the table, usually because they're eating a meal, the characters do not sit completely around the table. Rather, they sit unnaturally horseshoe-shaped so the characters at the end of the table don't have their backs to the audience. Not a way any group would ever sit in the real world.

Mike Lynch

19th Mar 2024

Common mistakes

Other mistake: The main protagonist in a TV show or movie is being shot at by machine guns, and he somehow manages to dodge the bullets.

Mike Lynch

24th Jan 2024

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Continuity mistake: In the climatic confrontation between Artie West and Mr. Dadier at the end of the movie, West cuts Dadier in the hand with his knife. The scene cuts to Dadier holding up his hand, and it's already covered in blood.

Mike Lynch

13th Dec 2023

Elf (2003)

19th May 2023

Star Trek (1966)

Assignment: Earth - S2-E26

Stupidity: When Gary 7 learns that agents 201 and 347 were killed in an automobile accident, he must take over the mission and save the earth from nuclear war. However, their technology allows them to transport anywhere they want through the vault device. It makes no sense for both agents to drive to McKinley Rocket Base when they could have easily transported there.

Mike Lynch

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Suggested correction: Good point, but it seems more likely that 201 and 347 were executing a careful plan that depended on their cover as normal humans acting normally. Using transporter technology risks discovery. Gary Seven only used the vault transporter as an emergency measure, missed being observed materializing by mere seconds, and was detected by a guard moments later. Same for Kirk and Spock.

Deliberate mistake: When Indy and Marion are sealed in the well of souls, they are completely cut off from the outside world. As such, other than the torches, it should be pitch black, but it is surprisingly well lit in there.

Mike Lynch

19th Jul 2022

Star Trek (1966)

The City on the Edge of Forever - S1-E29

Factual error: When Edith Keeler is killed by the truck, it is traveling at about 25 miles per hour. At that speed and her weight around 120 pounds, she would have been thrown about 50 feet. However, she's seen dead on the ground in front of the mission where she was hit.

Mike Lynch

Factual error: In order for Anne Heche and David Schwimmer to be on vacation for 6 days and 7 nights, they would have had to arrive at night and leave at night. However, the two arrived in the day and David Schwimmer left in the day.

Mike Lynch