Corrected entry: On 10/6/03, Kate asked Marlena not to reveal her secret past with Stefano. Kate says she doesn't want Roman to know that she was was once a "high priced call girl." The error here is that although Kate mentioned to Marlena that she did indeed have a past involvement with Stefano, she never said exactly what it was. So this would be the first time Marlena was hearing that Kate had ever been in that line of work, and surely she would have been shocked. Instead, the scene was written as though Marlena already knew about it.
DavidK93
8th Oct 2003
Days of Our Lives (1965)
8th Dec 2003
The Simpsons (1989)
Corrected entry: Bart asks Lisa how she knows so much about the Talmud. She credits her imaginary Jewish friend. But Bart was with Lisa in episode 3-6: "Like Father, Like Clown," when she made an extensive study of ancient Jewish texts. So Bart shouldn't need to ask the question in the first place, and Lisa's answer is incorrect, or at least incomplete.
9th Oct 2003
Will & Grace (1998)
Corrected entry: At the end of the episode (6-3), Will's mother finds a video in his apartment whose title she describes as "Splendor in the Grass, with the G-R missing." The only problem is that "Splendor in the Ass" really is the title of a pornographic film, but it's a straight film - not a gay one like Will would own. (I looked it up on the Internet, I swear.)
Correction: "Splendor in the Ass", if you look on search engines, is also a title of a gay video/DVD. If you include Gay in your search along with the title you will probably find it.
1st Sep 2003
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Corrected entry: If Sarah Rose Cosmetics has been seized by the IRS, how did all the girls wind up on a bus together on their way to the supposed national pageant?
Correction: The IRS shut them down before the girls arrived. When they left, or when the semi-finals took place, Sarah Rose could've still been in business.
10th Nov 2003
The Simpsons (1989)
My Mother the Carjacker - S15-E2
Corrected entry: Throughout the episode, Chief Wiggum acts rather dilligently in his attempts to track down and capture Mona Simpson. But when Mona first appeared (7-8: Mother Simpson), Chief Wiggum was the one who tipped her off and enabled her to escape. He was grateful to Mona because her break-in at the germ warfare lab inadvertently cured his asthma.
Correction: When they first see her in the diner, the other officers are the ones to identify Mona and get Chief Wiggum involved. Chief Wiggum had to track her down, or it'd be questioned why he let her escape. He could "anonymously" tip her off in the first instance because the Springfield police never really got involved.
16th Oct 2003
Angel (1999)
Corrected entry: Nina asks if Angel can cure her of lycanthropy, and he says no. But why can't he? In the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz found a way to prevent the transformation through meditation. That information should be available to the characters on this show as well.
Correction: Oz gains a measure of control through meditation, but as the events of that Buffy episode show, he was still prone to "wolfing-out" under certain circumstances. This hardly qualifies as a cure, so Angel was quite correct to tell Nina that he couldn't cure her.
18th Sep 2003
Mama's Family (1983)
Corrected entry: In her answering machine message, Aunt Effie refers to Thelma as her cousin. If Effie is Thelma's cousin, then she is a cousin once removed to Vint, Eunice, and Ellen, and a cousin twice removed to Buzz and Sonya - not their aunt.
Correction: It's very common for people to call someone their aunt or uncle, even if they're not really related to them in this way. It's used as a term of respect and affection.
13th Sep 2003
Mama's Family (1983)
Corrected entry: When Thelma, Fran, and Naomi get up on stage and lip-sync to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," they do a coordinated dance. In the real world (i.e., not a musical), three people can't decide to do a dance together on the spur of the moment, and somehow spontaneously know all the steps to a three minute dance.
Correction: They don't decide to do the dance on the spur of the moment-earlier in the episode, Thelma tells Vint that they were planning on pantomiming to the record, which means they would have rehearsed the dance.
Correction: It's a TV and movie convention, you just have to suspend disbelief otherwise 99% of the dance numbers in TV shows and movies would never exist.
At the 6:46 mark of the episode, Thelma tells Vint that Naomi, Fran and herself are going to pantomime dance as the Andrew sisters and has him sit down so she can show him the dance that they have choreographed when she is interrupted by Buzz and Sonia telling her they voted to have a "punk" dance with the group Medication.
This was a fundraiser dance at Edgar Allen Poe H.S. in Raytown. They were trying to "save" the school auditorium/gym. The punk band did not arrive, so Thelma, Fran and Naomi went on stage to save the dance. Prior to the students voting to have the punk band to perform, Buzz and Sonja, had given the idea of a 1940's USO Revival. T, F and N had already practiced this lip sync and dance routine w/the belief they would perform it. Also, 40 yrs ago who didn't lip sync and try to copy Michael Jackson?
It's a convention of musicals, where singing and dancing are fanciful or are depicted as performed by characters who are actors that have rehearsed a performance. It doesn't apply to this scene of a non-musical sitcom where the characters are aware that they are singing and dancing on the spur of the moment, and have not prepared for it in advance.
1st Sep 2003
Clueless (1995)
Corrected entry: Cher, Dionne, and Tai decide to skip class to see "the new Christian Slater." Christian Slater only made three movies in 1994-1995, and they were all rated R. So whichever one they were planning to see, the 16 year old main characters wouldn't have been able to get in to see it alone.
Correction: It's a pretty common practice (at least here in the States) for 16 year-olds to sneak into/have admission granted to an R-rated movie.
Correction: You have forgotten that Kate used to see Marlena for therapy shortly after giving birth to Lucas. It was during that time that Kate divulged her "secret past" to Marlena. We never saw any of these scenes on screen, so the writers are free to do with them what they will.