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12th Sep 2019

Wheels on Meals (1984)

Revealing mistake: As the biker punks roam the streets disturbing shoppers and merchants and endangering people sitting quietly at the cafe tables, the majority of the extras are actually laughing and having a great time even when they are yelling and waving angry fists. (00:14:40)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

Wheels on Meals (1984)

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Continuity mistake: When David tosses the skateboard to Thomas so he can start taking orders and serving clients, Thomas backflips onto it. You can see behind him a veggie stand with 2 customers, that have completely disappeared in the shot when he lands on the skate. (00:13:15)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

Wheels on Meals (1984)

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Continuity mistake: Yuen Biao by mistake splashes the policeman with his bucket. Behind the officer, the van has very little soapy foam left over the store logo. But once the policeman smears his face with the greasy rag, the quantity of soap has increased, effectively blocking out of the writing. (00:06:12)

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12th Sep 2019

Couples Retreat (2009)

Continuity mistake: Dave is annoyed by his wife and friends not treating him like a shark attack survivor, and gets up and leave. When the whole table is in frame Kirsten Bell is drinking from her big glass, but the glass is firmly set on the table in the following shot.

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

Couples Retreat (2009)

Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the fish-feeding exercise, Jason Bateman sniffs his fingers and tosses the chum into the sea. Next shot and he has a couple of fishes in hand, and then switches again between a hand in the water or a hand on the buoy holding the live bait.

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

Couples Retreat (2009)

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Continuity mistake: When the daughter of Lucy and Joey agrees to go change her skimpy clothes, there's a single shot of the whole room where Kristin Davis is wearing her hair over her right shoulder. Throughout the rest of the scene, before and after, her hair is worn all the way over the left shoulder.

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Queen of the Flowers - S1-E9

Factual error: Behind Jack and Miss Fisher as they are waiting to get an answer about the whereabouts of Jane's mother there's a wall calendar that has November 4 as a Tuesday - wrong for 1928, and also inconsistent with the other calendar seen in the episode, in the kitchen. (00:43:00)

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Away with the Fairies - S1-E8

Character mistake: When Hugh is talking with Dot making up a letter as he goes, he says that he's been going out with a wonderful girl for "nearly 6 months." This episode takes place merely a day after the previous, which was set in October. The first episodes when Dot and Hugh could start being called an item were set in August. That is nowhere near 6 months. (00:23:00)

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Away with the Fairies - S1-E8

Factual error: When Miss Charlesworth asks where everybody has gone and Letitia answers, you can get a good view of her desk, sporting above it amongst many photos also an illustration surely out of place in 1928: the "We can do it!" girl created by J. Howard Miller in 1942 and more or less apocryphally identified with Rosie the Riveter, a feminist icon that is quite specific to WW2. (00:22:10)

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Away with the Fairies - S1-E8

Plot hole: Camellia is awake when she is being carried away, and later in the episode she fights using martial arts. It is unclear how even caught by surprise she was apprehended without a single sound being made except two times by doors slamming and not even a whimper...considering she is even not gagged.

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Away with the Fairies - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: Dot is going through the agony aunt mail: she mentions the woman with 9 kids who does not want to deny her hubby, and you can distinctly see her put back on the table her left hand, holding a letter. Cut, and that hand is now hovering above the table. (00:19:55)

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Away with the Fairies - S1-E8

Continuity mistake: During Miss Fisher's conversation with John/Giovanni/Miss Greenthumbs in the building stairway, when she asks him about Artemis he inhales from the cigarette. Smoke is present and visible, disappears in the reverse shot, back to full visibility as the original angle returns, and no smoke at all when we get back to the reverse shot. (00:15:35)

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Away with the Fairies - S1-E8

Character mistake: Striking conversation with the inspector, Miss Fisher asks him if he's still thinking about when he kissed her 'the other night'. The kiss happened in the previous episode during a police operation happening at 3 PM. Hardly "the other night." (00:06:40)

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Away with the Fairies - S1-E8

Factual error: Miss Fisher wakes up at her usual time (not quite cockcrow), receives from Dot the news of the death of her friend, that she heard on the radio, makes her way to the crime scene, and finds there Jack, who is just at that time closing the victim's eyelids. A little strange gesture to be performed, hours after death. Unlikely to work with rigor mortis, too. (00:03:15)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

CHIPS (2017)

Continuity mistake: When Ponch is texting just before Face Time starts, the battery power of his phone is at 21%. The camera begins rolling and on the side you see the charge being suddenly at 36% when the toes are in frame, 37% when the knees, panties and breasts are in view for the first time, 35% for the second boob shoot and 36% again for the last bit. (01:14:25)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

CHIPS (2017)

Continuity mistake: Jon fell over on the rainy day and he can't get up. When he blindly goes for his phone, clothes he had on the bedstand (and that he could have put on) disappear between shots, and when he knocks the magazine off the bedstand and the pillow underneath, there is no trace of the tube that is instead perched on it later in the scene. (00:46:10)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

CHIPS (2017)

Revealing mistake: When Jon and Ponch are giving chase to the bikers after spotting them from the overpass, they are cutting through by going down the slope, dangerous and steep. Despite being such a daring move, there are already multiple tire tracks on their path. (00:40:25)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

CHIPS (2017)

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Continuity mistake: Jon is scarfing down a burger at the Tommy's kiosk while Ponch is jerking off in the bathroom. He gets a mess of mustard all over the shirt, down to the belt, and to the pants. The pants stain vanishes right away for the remainder of the scene (but shows up later in another scene). (00:35:40)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

CHIPS (2017)

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Continuity mistake: When Jon talks to his ex in the pool, she wringing her hair in a ponytail in front of her left shoulder, several times, but in the reverse shot it's like it never happens, the hair every time is still and not being pulled or raised. (00:35:00)

Sammo

12th Sep 2019

CHIPS (2017)

Continuity mistake: When the corrupt cops are checking out of the (cheesily photoshopped, but I assume it's intentional for comedy) pics of Poncharello in Redding, Kurtz says "It's the only way he's ever going to get clean", talking about his heroin-addicted son. The sentence is a bad, jumpy edit, he's leaning against the chair with his hand in a very sudden way. (00:34:10)

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