Tobin OReilly

7th May 2004

Family Guy (1999)

The Thin White Line (1) - S3-E1

Corrected entry: When Peter catches up to Brian in the golf cart at the rehab facility, Brian is seen wearing a track suit with a headband and holding hand weights. Peter convinces him to go mess with the pregnant teens across the lake and in the row boat over Brian is still wearing the tracksuit and headband. However, when we see them enter a room where the pregnant teens are he has obviously taken off the tracksuit and headband and is just seen wearing his dog collar.

Correction: Where's the mistake? In the original entry it states "He's obviously taken off the tracksuit and headband" Clearly enough time has passed from docking the boat to arriving in the hallway for him to do so.

15th Mar 2004

Family Guy (1999)

Corrected entry: During the opening theme when Lois and Peter are at the piano, when the series first started the pictures on the back wall are indecipherable but as the series progresses the pictures show Stewie, Meg and Chris's faces.

Correction: This is because the series starts in 1999, when Family Guy is was just standard definition TV. The animators didn't bother to draw the pictures, as they're only a part of the background, and is not really that important, as the video quality is in SD. When the series began to look a lot more clearer (and closer to HD), the animators decided to draw the pictures a lot more clearer and recognizable.

Agreed. This is like comparing the Simpsons' opening from '92 to '18. As technology progresses so does animation.

Also, an animated series is typically not given much of a budget until it has proven itself to be a hit and thus worthy of a bigger budget from the network upon which it airs; this is also evident when you compare early episodes of other series such as South Park, American Dad, King Of The Hill, etc. to those from later seasons.

Precisely. A network isn't going to funnel money into something that could sink in the ratings. That's why many shows are contracted for a couple of episodes before a full season is commissioned.

24th Jun 2004

The Simpsons (1989)

Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy - S5-E14

Corrected entry: When Lisa is having her little town meeting awaiting the spoken words from Malibu Stacy she has all of her other dolls in front of her sitting in little chairs facing a little podium. However when Lisa is venting having heard the moronic slogans Malibu Stacy speaks when her string is pulled there is a close up on Lisa and then the next shot is a wider one of the room and it shows Lisa still holding Malibu Stacy but all of her dolls and furniture are gone. During the entire scene Lisa has her entire focus on the Malibu Stacy problem and is not seen moving about the room at all.

Correction: If you watch carefully, you'll see that Lisa is on one side of a divider and the dolls are on the other side. When the scene pulls out to the wider shot, we see Lisa holding Malibu Stacy (just before the wide shot, we see her pull the doll over the divider). Her other dolls are gone, but they're supposed to be. They are on the other side of the divider (the side closer to the window, as established in the first shot of the doll convention, when we see the living room BEHIND Lisa).

14th Jun 2004

The Simpsons (1989)

Pygmoelian - S11-E16

Corrected entry: When Homer puts the family through an early morning fire drill and rushes them out to the car and drives away they are all in their respective sleeping clothes. However, when they pull up at the Duff Festival they are in their regular clothes, and knowing Homer he wouldn't think far enough ahead to bring a change of clothes for everyone.

Correction: There is nothing to say Homer didn't put clothes in the car. He planned to make the trip to Duff day as quickly as possible. Homer even planned ahead to take the door latches off to ensure no one would escape, meaning this was no spur of the moment decision. There was also enough time between the time they left and arrived at Duff day to have put some clothes on in between.

24th Jun 2004

The Simpsons (1989)

Corrected entry: In the opening sequence of the show Marge's car pulls in and parks on the left side of the driveway (actually garage but still the left side) while Homer's car is on the right side. However, throughout the series Homer has always parked his car on the left side and Marge has parked hers on the right.

Correction: They do not always park with Homer on the left. When Homer hotwires her car in the Canyonaro episode, for example. His is on the right.

22nd Apr 2004

Hellboy (2004)

Corrected entry: When Hellboy raises what's left of Ivan from the dead he still has eyes, teeth and a gray beard. This is highly unlikely since these parts of the body are usually the first to decompose.

Correction: Uh, no. Teeth are among the last things to decompose along with the rest of the bones. As far as eyes and hair, we don't know the conditions the body was under; it is possible those parts remained.

7th May 2004

Family Guy (1999)

The Thin White Line (1) - S3-E1

Corrected entry: When the Griffins are driving Brian to rehab there's a front licence plate on the car, but it has no characters on it.

Correction: So? It's probably a white piece of plastic. Our truck has that too.

7th May 2004

Family Guy (1999)

Corrected entry: When the Generals are looking at the screen that says Happy New Year, in one shot of the y in Year, the bottom of it curves to the left and in another shot it's straight.

Correction: The words are made of moving lights that are tracking flying missiles - you'd expect them to move about a bit, wouldn't you?

9th Jan 2005

South Park (1997)

Corrected entry: In the school classroom the alphabet above the chalkboard is all screwed up with the alphabet in capitals being normal but the lower case letters are all jumbled up.

Correction: Yes, that's true, but it is an ongoing joke. How can the kids learn if even the alphabet is all screwed up? As Stan said himself, "We just fake it to shut him up."

1st Nov 2003

Will & Grace (1998)

It's the Gay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - S5-E5

Corrected entry: When Leo tosses the large pumpkin to Grace in the pumpkin patch, Grace starts to fall over well before she catches it.

Correction: She does fall before she catches it- but this is because she trips trying to catch it, and then the weight of the pumpkin adds to her own momentum.

17th Jan 2005

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Corrected entry: When Bond is being chased at the docks, he reaches the top of the stairs with the Asian girl and a man with a submachine gun starts shooting at him. Bond fires back, the man throws his arms up in the air and screams. In the very next shot with the camera looking up, a second gunshot is heard and he comes flying over the edge. Given that the first gunshot caused a serious injury, how does he suddenly have the strength to hurl himself over the edge (the bullet would not have enough momentum to do it for him)?

Correction: Just because he screams doesn't mean its a fatal or even serious injury. It could just have been really, really painful, leaving him plenty of strength to hurl himself over the edge.

16th Nov 2003

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Corrected entry: The role of Indiana Jones was initially offered to Tom Selleck, who couldn't do it due to commitment to "Magnum P.I.". Harrison Ford was their second choice.

Correction: This is only partially true. The statement about Tom Selleck is accurate, but Harrison Ford was Steven Spielberg's first choice and Tom Selleck his second. George Lucas didn't want to cast Harrison Ford again due to him having been in American Graffiti and being involved in the Star Wars trilogy. After Selleck became unavailable Lucas agreed to cast Ford.

1st Jun 2004

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Corrected entry: In the movie Jack Hall describes that the chunk of land mass that broke off where he was in Antarctica was the size of Rhode Island. In 1992, there was an iceberg that floated away from Antarctica and broke in two and the larger half, given the moniker B-10A, was the size of Rhode Island.

Correction: In the beginning of the movie, they say that they are at the Larsen B ice shelf. The movie was referring to the March 2002 collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica which was also the size of Rhode Island.

29th Dec 2004

Crazy People (1990)

Corrected entry: When Emory decides to take the stairs down in his office building Stephen comments that it is 120-odd flights down. The movie takes place in New York, at the time the tallest buildings there were the World Trade Center towers which were only 110 stories.

Correction: Flights of stairs doesn't always coincide with the number of floors. If the stairs curve around twice per floor the building has 120 flights and landings and 60 floors.

18th Apr 2004

Chappelle's Show (2003)

Ep. #212 - S2-E12

Corrected entry: When Wayne Brady shoots the guy in front of the night club and when he shoots Dave in the leg you can tell that the blood has been "digitally enhanced."

Correction: This is the gag. It happens any time someone is shot on this show.

17th Sep 2003

Jason X (2001)

Corrected entry: When Jason is frozen in the cryo-stasis machine he is frozen in there along with his machete. Knives need to be constantly resharpened in order to cut yet after hundreds of years we never see his blade resharpened. Nevertheless it seems to slice and gut people with no problem.

Correction: A knife does not have to be razor sharp to hack through people, especially when wielded with the incredible strength of one Jason Voorhees. Secondly, the reason knives have to be continuously sharpened is that they are being continuously used. Jason's machete has been unused while frozen with him, therefore it would be just as sharp as the day he was frozen.

Correction: As a follow up: deep freezing knife blades has been shown to actually make them more durable and resilient (google 'ice hardened knife' for more info). While freezing a blade for over 4 centuries is a bit of a stretch, the science stays the same, meaning Jason's machete would be even more capable of cutting and slicing up folk once it was thawed out.

19th Apr 2004

The Simpsons (1989)

Corrected entry: The oil stain on the Simpsons driveway changes from being there to not being there depending on the episode.

Correction: Seeing as this is between episodes, something could have happened to get rid of the stain and cause it to be there. For example, by one episode it could have been cleaned and by another the car could have leaked some oil. If that happened often, then it was probably done for humour.

29th Jan 2005

Sideways (2004)

Corrected entry: When the car crashes into the tree the sound effect for the crashing noise happens a split second before the car actually hits.

Correction: I've watched this scene many, many times, and the sound of the car hitting the tree syncs up with the actual accident just fine.

1st Jul 2005

War of the Worlds (2005)

Corrected entry: When the train goes speeding by with its interior ablaze, how is this possible? The aliens use one beam to kill living creatures and another to destroy structures and vehicles. Even if the aliens use their human killing beam instead of the more powerful beam, there is no way that the train could still stay on the track at that speed.

Correction: The aliens couldn't possibly wipe out everything made by humans - in fact, Ray's wife's house in Boston is almost intact. We don't know the train's destination, nor when and where it left. For all we know, it could be destroyed as soon as it got out of sight. As for being on fire, the station it passed through could have been destroyed as it went through, causing the fire and the death of everyone on board.

Grigory the Wanderer

18th Apr 2004

Chappelle's Show (2003)

Ep. #212 - S2-E12

Corrected entry: When Wayne Brady kills the cop he flees the scene leaving behind his drivers license. It's not a fake license either since the cop looked at the license and then Wayne Brady and back at the license before verifying that it was in fact, Wayne Brady himself.

Correction: Brady should have thought about getting his license back but may have just forgotten to take it. Its a character mistake not a mistake on the show's makers.

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