Trivia: When Jake Fratelli is escaping from the jail and running to Mama Fratelli's car, he is wearing a hat. The hat he is wearing is identical to Indiana Jones' hat in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and its sequels/prequels - films directed by Steven Spielberg, who created the story for The Goonies.
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17th May 2005
The Goonies (1985)
29th Jul 2004
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Audio problem: When Kevin plays the tape of his Uncle Frank singing in the shower, it starts with "We know a guy that can really do the cool jerk" twice. Yet, when he first tapes his Uncle, he doesn't start the recording until after that has been sung. The recording also sounds very clear. When he tapes him the door is closed, but the tape sounds the same throughout. Also, when his Uncle says he's gonna "slap him silly" Kevin shuts the door behind him and you can hear it shut. On the tape there is no sound of the door shutting.
7th Jul 2004
Seinfeld (1990)
Trivia: When Jerry and Elaine discuss how evil Newman is, Elaine comments "Maybe he's an enigma, a mystery wrapped in a riddle." This quote from Winston Churchill was referenced in JFK (1991), which featured Newman actor Wayne Knight.
2nd Jun 2004
Seinfeld (1990)
1st Mar 2004
A Bug's Life (1998)
Trivia: When Molt sheds his entire skin from being scared of the ants, the skin is the model that they use before they add the color.
12th Jan 2004
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
Trivia: The guy whose spot was stolen on the ride "The Spider", by Axel, is George Lucas. Appearences are also made by Joe Dante as Jailor, Barbet Schroeder as the guy in the Porsche, John Singleton as the fireman and Arthur Hiller as the bar patron.
8th Dec 2003
JFK (1991)
Trivia: In JFK Wayne Knight plays Numa Bertel. In Seinfeld Wayne Knight plays Newman. In JFK he was used in Jim Garrison's demonstration of the single bullet theory. In Seinfeld he and Kramer told Jerry a story exactly the same as the single bullet theory only that it was spit that hit them not a bullet. Jerry then does the same demonstration that Jim Garrison did in JFK to explain the story. The layout is also the same in both the film and Seinfeld.
29th Nov 2003
Kids In the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)
Trivia: If you look in the scene where a bunch of people are running out of the door marked "Depression Project" you can see Brendan Fraser making a cameo. He's the one holding a cage.
28th Nov 2003
The Cat in the Hat (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Cat fills up the cupcake tray it is very messy with cupcake batter all over the tray but when he closes the tray it is clean and perfect with the batter in each cupcake holder perfectly.
28th Nov 2003
Dogma (1999)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie Loki is speaking to a nun about the church at the airport. When they sit down Loki puts his arm around her chair. When she starts to get up it is still there but then the split second she gets up both of his arms are in his lap.
12th Oct 2003
Anger Management (2003)
Factual error: Near the end of the movie Dave is trying to get to the Yankee game before Buddy proposes to Linda. One of the shots before the game is of the grounds crew doing the YMCA. The grounds crew does the YMCA in the 7th inning. (01:23:45)
29th Sep 2003
Problem Child (1990)
Trivia: In the theater and video version of the movie you see Junior get dropped off at the rich woman's house as a baby, he pees on her, and then she takes him to a new home. Because of TV censorship they could not show him peeing on her so on the TV version it looks like he gets dropped off and taken away for no reason.
27th Sep 2003
Problem Child (1990)
Audio problem: When Junior picks up the cat and it starts to hiss you can see that the cat's mouth isn't moving.
27th Sep 2003
24 (2001)
Day 2: 12:00 Midnight-1:00 A.M. - S2-E17
Factual error: When Yousef uses his Nextel to call Jack he uses the bleep button on the Nextel. Yet when Jack gives the phone to Wallace it is a regular call and not the Nextel bleep.
26th Sep 2003
24 (2001)
Day 2: 12:00 Midnight-1:00 A.M. - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: When Kate and Jack are escaping CTU the mirror breaks off one of the doors when the security guard tries to close the gate. Later on in the episode both of the mirrors are on the car.
8th Sep 2003
Scarface (1983)
Continuity mistake: When Tony is supposed to do the assassination for Sosa they are following the man and his family in a car. There are two beer cans and chinese food containers on the dashboard. When it shows Tony and the rest of the people in the car one of the cans is smashed. When it shows the view of the car in front of them it isn't smashed. The can changes from shot to shot. (02:18:00)
7th Sep 2003
The Master of Disguise (2002)
Revealing mistake: When Pistachio gets out of the cherry pie, he is covered in cherries and cherry juice, yet when he runs away from the guards, he leaves no cherry juice footprints.
7th Sep 2003
Best Men (1997)
7th Sep 2003
Animal House (1978)
Revealing mistake: You can see that the Jack Daniels that Bluto chugs is not real, because it foams. It was probably iced tea or something. (01:07:30)
6th Sep 2003
Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
Trivia: The kid who is very good at stocks and wants to work on Wall Street name is Dobbs. Dobbs is a company on Wall Street.
5th Sep 2003
Animal House (1978)
Continuity mistake: When they show Flounder's face on the screen they throw beer cans at it and it gets soaked. When Otter gets up it is completely dry. (00:13:55)
5th Sep 2003
Animal House (1978)
Factual error: The Coca-Cola sign on the pop dispenser in the cafeteria has the "Dynamic Ribbon" device as part of the Coca-Cola trademark. The movie is set in 1962. Coca-Cola didn't start using the Dynamic Ribbon on its trademark until 1970.
3rd Sep 2003
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, Indy's partner takes the idol, throws down the whip, and leaves him hanging on a ledge with the ceiling closing down to the ground. While he is hanging the you can see that the ceiling barely has enough room for Indy to fit. Indy struggles to get up which during this time he would have no room to get under, yet when he finally gets up the ceiling has risen giving him plenty of room to get under. (00:08:45)
2nd Sep 2003
Toy Story (1995)
1st Sep 2003
Finding Nemo (2003)
Trivia: The Mermaid from the short film "Knick Knack" is seen inside the fish tank.
31st Aug 2003
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Chosen sees all his friends wounded in the field, he has a tattoo saying "mouth" with an arrow on his left cheek. The tattoo can't be seen after this scene. There was a deleted scene where Chosen One was captured and tortured, one of the tortures was to tattoo an arrow that said 'mouth' on it. In another one, the "one boob" woman uses magic to erase it. Still a mistake, but there's the reason. (00:54:45 - 00:56:15)
31st Aug 2003
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
Trivia: Steve Oedekerk did all the dubbed voices except for Woah.
31st Aug 2003
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
Revealing mistake: When the Chosen One fights Betty in the water he gets knocked down. When he gets up you can see that it's not Steve Odenkerk but the guy who was in the original kung-fu movie they added people and audio to.
31st Aug 2003
Finding Nemo (2003)
31st Aug 2003
Casablanca (1942)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the movie a man comes outside the door to look for Rick and the spotlight passes by him. When he walks over to Rick it passes by him again. All the other times the spotlight passed it took about a minute to come back around again. (01:12:00 - 01:15:30)
28th Aug 2003
Animal House (1978)
Trivia: The saying under the Delta flag is the saying for MGM studios.
26th Aug 2003
The Terminator (1984)
Trivia: O.J. Simpson was going to play the Terminator but the directors thought he wouldn't be taken seriously.
26th Aug 2003
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
Revealing mistake: At the end of the movie when The Chosen One is fighting Betty he gets punched in the face and hits the ground on his back. Look when he hits the ground you can see a whole section of the ground wiggle. It is definitely a cusion to break his fall.
26th Aug 2003
Animal House (1978)
Factual error: When Karen Allen is in the kitchen she passes a fridge that has a Bicentennial sticker on it. The movie was set in 1962 and the Bicentennial didn't happen until 1976. (01:21:40)
24th Aug 2003
Back to the Future (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Marty is playing at the dance the picture on the guitar disappears in some shots.
22nd Aug 2003
Mallrats (1995)
22nd Aug 2003
Mallrats (1995)
Trivia: Both Brody Bruce and Randall Graves (from Clerks) have a cousin named Walter. In Clerks Randall tells Dante about his cousin Walter breaking his neck trying to suck his own d**k. In Mallrats Brodie starts the movie by telling you a story of how his cousin Walter kept shoving cats up his ass to get a gerbil out of there.
22nd Aug 2003
Jaws (1975)
22nd Aug 2003
Jaws (1975)
Trivia: After the shark blows up and they show it under water you can hear a sound, taken from "Creature from the Black Lagoon ". It was also used when the truck was falling off the cliff in Duel, another Spielberg movie.
22nd Aug 2003
Jaws (1975)
22nd Aug 2003
Back to the Future (1985)
Continuity mistake: When the Doc is trying to pull the cable to connect it the cable is stuck and when he pulls the cable hard the other connection breaks off. Watch when it breaks off you cn see that after Doc pulled it the cable gave him more length and would surely get Doc's arm to the other cable but when they show the Doc a second after he hasn't moved one bit. (01:39:35)
16th Aug 2003
Clerks (1994)
Trivia: The film's events take place the day after the events of "Mallrats." As an example: In "Mallrats," Julie Dwyer died in the YMCA that day and in "Clerks," Randall refers to Dwyer's death as happening "yesterday."
15th Aug 2003
Mallrats (1995)
Trivia: The third contestant on the game show Truth or Date is called Gil Hicks. The guy who plays Gil Hicks is Brian O'Halloran the guy who plays Dante Hicks in Clerks.
15th Aug 2003
Mallrats (1995)
Trivia: When Brodie and TS are being arrested, Renee runs to get Jay and Silent Bob. The person they are with, Willam, calls her Brenda. Brenda is Shannen Doherty's character from "Beverly Hills, 90210."
15th Aug 2003
Clerks (1994)
Trivia: If you watch the end credits you will see that Walter Flanagan, Scott Mosier, and David Klein play about five people each. Walter Flanagan: Woolen cap smoker,Egg man, Offended Customer, Cat admiring bitter customer. Scott Mosier: William Black, Angry hockey player, Angry mourner. David Klein: Hunting cap smoker, Low I.Q. Video customer, Hubcap searching customer, angry mourner, angry crowd at door.
9th Aug 2003
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Trivia: Brodie says "Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?" He said the same thing in Mallrats.
7th Aug 2003
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Trivia: Mel Brooks is in every one of his movies. Even though in this one you don't see his face, when Gene Wilder hits the cat with the dart, Mel Brooks did the sound of the cat.
5th Aug 2003
The Mask (1994)
Trivia: When Stanley is the Mask he does many different things from Looney Tunes cartoons in this movie. If you look around Stanley's house you will see a lot of Looney Tunes memorabilia such as the Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cell drawings over his bed, and the Taz the Tazmanian Devil pillow on his couch.
4th Aug 2003
Speed (1994)
Trivia: When they show the gap the bus has to jump for the first you see birds fly through the gap. The birds were digitally edited in and the gap was digitally added on to a real bridge.
4th Aug 2003
Speed (1994)
Trivia: When we first see the bus in the airport you see a plane go over the bus. That scene took 50 takes.
4th Aug 2003
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Trivia: When Jim Carrey does the cotton mouth face after he take the pills, the face looks a lot like the Fire Marshell Bill face.
1st Aug 2003
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Trivia: When Bruce is in traffic in his new car he parts the cars and screams "Hi Ho Silver Away....". He said the same thing in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls when they went to a projection room and he put the Lone Ranger Mask on the councillor.
1st Aug 2003
Trojan War (1997)
Trivia: When Brad is trying to get back to Brooke's house he gets on a bus. The bus driver goes crazy when he has no money. If you look closely on the top of the bus you can see the number 2525. The same bus number from Speed.
1st Aug 2003
Big (1988)
Trivia: The scenes from the amusment park in the movie were filmed at Playland, in Rye, NY.
31st Jul 2003
Double Take (2001)
Trivia: When Freddy and Daryl are driving in the car listening to the Spanish hip hop music, at the back window there is a bee persistently trying to get into the car.
31st Jul 2003
Caddyshack (1980)
Trivia: The "Cinderella story" sequence was all improvised by Bill Murray.
30th Jul 2003
Problem Child (1990)
Trivia: In the movie John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck play Ben and Flo Healey who go to the doctor to find out if they can have a baby. In 1990, John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck played a couple named Ray Evans and Mrs Evans on the Cosby Show that were having a baby.
30th Jul 2003
Old School (2003)
Trivia: The man that shows up at the door to ask about the orgy, is the director of the movie: Todd Phillips.
30th Jul 2003
Fantasia (1940)
Trivia: Mickey is the Sorceror's Apprentice to the Sorceror Yensid. The Sorceror's name is Disney spelled backwards.
30th Jul 2003
American Pie (1999)
30th Jul 2003
American Pie (1999)
Trivia: In the scene when Jim and his Dad are looking and talking about the porno magazines the whole scene was improvised. Jason Biggs would open up to any page and Eugene Levy would start improvising on that picture. In fact, you see Jason Biggs' actual reaction when he's laughing about the last picture of a giant orgy.
29th Jul 2003
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Trivia: In the beginning of the movie when Buzz is on the moon land looking for Zurg the moon land background is Ant Island from A Bug's Life only in a different colour.
29th Jul 2003
Finding Nemo (2003)
Trivia: The kid in the waiting room is reading a comic with Mr. Incredible on the cover, from the Disney/Pixar movie The Incredibles. (01:19:25)
29th Jul 2003
A Bug's Life (1998)
29th Jul 2003
A Bug's Life (1998)
29th Jul 2003
Old School (2003)
Other mistake: When Mitch, Frank, and Beanie decide that they are going to have a party they say the party is on a Friday night. When they show the outside of Mitch's house you see the sign for the party and it says the party is on Thursday at 9:00. Then when Frank talks to the guys with the beer bong he says that tomorrow he has a nice Saturday planned. If the sign is right then he would have a pretty nice Friday.
29th Jul 2003
Finding Nemo (2003)
Trivia: If you look closely when Nigel hits the dentist's window, you can see Boo's mobile from Monsters, Inc. attached to the dentist's ceiling. (00:28:30)
29th Jul 2003
Unbreakable (2000)
Trivia: The man that David Dunn stops at the football game is M Night Shyamalan the director.
29th Jul 2003
Speed (1994)
Trivia: In this movie the only reason why Howard Payne is trying to blow the elevator and the buses is because he wants money. He also gets very upset when the paint explodes in the bag. If you look on the back of bus 2525 there's a green sign that says "Money isn't everything (Yeah Right)".
29th Jul 2003
Finding Nemo (2003)
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