31st Jul 2015
The One Where The Stripper Cries - S10-E11
Continuity mistake: When the stripper first walks in, he is wearing a uniform with a circular badge. A few moments later the badge is not circular, it is a shield type and shape and the uniform appears to be different.
Suggested correction: When the stripper walks in, he's wearing a zippered uniform jacket (and uniform shirt underneath). After he says, "So where's the young lady who I'm supposed to take downtown," it cuts to Phoebe cringing as she says, "Oh, God," and while the stripper is offscreen, he quickly removes his uniform jacket. In the next shot, he's holding the uniform jacket he just took off, and he's wearing his buttoned uniform shirt with a different badge, sleeve patches, etc.
6th Apr 2005
There's Something About Paulie - S2-E16
Corrected entry: When Lois asks to speak to Peter in the other room after sitting down for supper with Paulie, the door they come out of is where the front door is all the time, not the kitchen. (00:10:30)
Correction: Rewatch, please. When Lois pulls Peter out of the kitchen into the living room, they are exiting the door that is located beside the refrigerator inside the kitchen. Within the kitchen, this door is directly opposite the door (beside the wall telephone) that opens to the driveway (at the side of the house). Furthermore, within the living room, as Lois pulls Peter, we see this door is perpendicular to the wall with the stereo and stairs. This door is consistent with the home's usual layout.
I was just looking at this last night, watching this episode for some mistakes, and I looked into this. What appears to really be happening is I think the house is mirrored here, with the kitchen and door on the wrong side of the house to where it usually is. However, it is kind of hard to tell, and I cannot be certain.
After reading your reply, I was curious about what you said (it's always fun, for me, to see reversed/mirrored backgrounds and flipped shots). So I rewatched these scenes, with particular attention to the entire layout of the house, the kitchen, and the doors. Unfortunately, my own conclusion is that the home's layout - the house, the kitchen, the doors - is not mirrored; all are accurate in their placement.
2nd Aug 2025
The Tempest - S5-E10
Other mistake: After getting the horses inside the barn, Mike sees the twister and hurries inside the homestead to grab Katie and take cover under the staircase. When Sully and Brian arrive the next morning to find debris littering the house, they call out for Mike, and she comes rushing down the stairs holding Katie, instead of coming out from the staircase where they were safe.
Suggested correction: By morning, the tornado has already hit and its threat is long passed, so there was absolutely no reason for Michaela and Katie to have remained hiding under the staircase. Prior to that scene, Sully and Brian were on their way back home, and when they took refuge from the twister, they released their four horses to instinctively find their own safe place. After the tornado passed, once it was safe to ride again, Brian and Sully needed to first find all their horses, and then continued riding back home. As you said yourself, "Sully and Brian arrive the next morning."
27th Dec 2014
Candace Disconnected/Magic Carpet Ride - S3-E5
Corrected entry: During the Magic Carpet Ride episode, we see Candace and Stacy inside the Better Panda Chinese Restaurant. During the shot with Candace and Stacy at the table, the old man's eyes merge together.
Correction: This man is seated at the table with a woman, and they're holding hands while looking at each other. The man's eyes "merge together" to form a big heart as he gazes lovingly at the woman. This is not a mistake of any kind, due to an animation error. This is an acceptable stylistic choice by the animators. Timecode approximately 00:13:20.
22nd May 2025
Thomas and the Breakdown Train - S1-E7
Corrected entry: The sky backdrop appears to have ruffles.
Correction: The sky backdrop may appear to have "ruffles" but in fact, there are no ruffles. There's nothing revealing about it that makes it a revealing mistake. This backdrop merely has some interesting dark cloud formations, which are also on sky backdrops of other episodes. Thomas has been working "all afternoon," and by the time he helped James back to the shed, it's late in the day. Have a look at the many real, unique cloud formations in the photo gallery at Cloud Appreciation Society.
22nd Jun 2025
Corrected entry: After Chef and Sheila finish making love, Chef gets up and leaves. But a few seconds later, when Gerald comes into the bedroom to ask Sheila how it was, Chef is shown as still being next to her in the bed when she says, "Pretty good."
Correction: First, I need to point out that Chef's skin colour is the same as the brown headboard, and the inner part of the brown headboard is curved. Second, when Chef says, "I got a long way to go to raise the money I need," as Chef stands up and leaves, there's a green oval pillow between the brown headboard and the white edge of the blanket. Lastly, when Sheila says, "Pretty much what I expected," we are seeing the brown curved headboard with the green oval pillow in front of it, and the white edge of the green blanket. So, Chef is not in the bed in this shot (00:11:00). Rewatch, please.
29th Dec 2003
Corrected entry: While Billy Ray is outside the heritage club "Stealing" the briefcase, his trainers change colour from black to white. (00:16:10)
Correction: Billy Ray's sneakers do not change from black to white. Rewatch the scene, please. The two officers confront Billy Ray about being a con man, then lift Billy up from the wooden rolling crate, and when Billy lowers his legs, we see he's wearing white sneakers with a downward black stripe; these appear to be white Puma sneakers (00:15:00). Billy continues to wear these white sneakers outside the Heritage Club before and after he bumps into Winthorpe, being accused of stealing his briefcase, and when he gets chased inside the club.
20th Jan 2022
Corrected entry: The stock exchange shouldn't be open on New Year's Day.
Correction: It was January 2, Winthorp said it at the beginning of the movie.
Correction: Adding to the original correction: At 00:21:50, Penelope mentions the party that Mumsy wants to have for them on January 2, so Winthorpe tells her he can't do it that day because January 2 is the day the crop reports come out.
24th May 2025
Corrected entry: Andy gave the prisoner his jacket when tied to the tree. Later, Andy has another jacket on when chasing the prisoner in the woods.
Correction: This is a plot point in this episode. Rewatch, please. Earlier, the escaped convict ("prisoner") sneaks out of the courthouse wearing a short, thin denim jacket. When he finds Andy by the lake, the convict is carrying that denim jacket, then tells Andy he'll freeze being tied up to the tree (while Andy will be going to the park ranger station across the lake). So Andy gives the convict his own longer, warmer jacket and takes the man's denim jacket to wear (00:16:40). That's why when Barney and Gomer see a man from behind wearing the denim jacket, they assume it's the escaped convict. Later, when Andy catches the escaped convict, Andy's still wearing that denim jacket and the convict is wearing Andy's warmer jacket (00:22:10).
27th Oct 2024
Corrected entry: When Margrete is searching her apartment for Linda with her pistol, she goes from holding it with one finger on the trigger to having two fingers on the trigger. (01:50:40)
Correction: Margrete doesn't instantly go from one finger to two fingers on the trigger; it's five shots and over twenty seconds later. Your two pictures are not an accurate representation of the actual onscreen continuity. Margrete turns off the bathtub faucet. She walks through the bathroom shown in the top picture (01:50:06), and the camera then pans toward the window and pans back to Margrete. It then cuts to a shot of the parlor area, then cuts again to Margrete as she pulls the gun's slide back. The next shot is of Linda grabbing the scissors. Then, finally, in the next shot, Margrete hears Linda, so she turns her head with her two fingers on the trigger, shown in the bottom picture (01:50:32).
9th Feb 2025
Corrected entry: In the Well of Souls, Indy and Sallah place the Ark in the box. Indy closes the box with a wooden lid and looks up. In the next shot, a torch has appeared in Indy's hand, a rope has appeared, tied to the four sides of the box, and Sallah has appeared next to Indy's left shoulder. In addition, the box is already several metres above Indy and Sallah in the second shot. (01:09:43)
Correction: There is an obvious time jump between the shots. They simply decided not to spend ten minutes showing all the details of sealing the box and tying the rope around it.
I wouldn't say this was a deliberate time jump, as they show Indy carefully and slowly placing the Ark in the box, then sealing it. In addition, when he looks up, he immediately says, "All right... take it up! Easy!" so it's clear this is a continuity mistake.
He says, "All right. Take it up" after the cut. Yes, he does look up before the cut, but since everything else is different, we are supposed to interpret it as a jump in time.
In fact, almost nothing changes between these two scenes, except for these small but clear details.
There's a deliberate jump in time between these two shots, and this transition is done creatively. First, we're below with Indiana as he places the lid on the crate and looks up toward the top entrance; it then cuts to the entrance POV, and now we're looking down as the tied-up crate is being lifted. The jump in time between these two shots is transitioned using a type of match cut. Absolutely no mistakes regarding these two consecutive shots.
23rd Dec 2020
Corrected entry: When Scar wants to eat the mouse, he holds it with his left paw. When Zazu calls out to him, he holds it with his right paw.
Correction: This change does not occur between shots. When Scar holds the mouse up with his left paw and dangles it over his tongue, it then cuts to a shot facing Zazu as he says, "Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?" In the moments that Scar is offscreen, he lays the mouse on the ground and covers it with his right paw.
9th Feb 2025
Corrected entry: When Snake and Wolf are fighting in the prison, a guard crashes down to the floor from above. Later, however, the guard is gone. (01:01:43 - 01:02:29)
Correction: When this guard falls to the floor between Wolf and Snake, he points to Diane Foxington at the upper level. Then, in the many shots that follow, we do not actually see the floor area where Wolf and Snake are being held by their own two guards. While Diane is taking out a bunch of other guards in multiple shots, the guard who originally fell has had ample time and opportunity offscreen to carefully flee—just hightail it out of there. So, as stated in the mistake, that guard is gone "later" in the scene, but this is not problematic to continuity.
That is a very legitimate correction. I do have one possible counter. When Diane was perched atop the railing, the ceiling above had additional lights above her, indicating it was the top floor/level. When Diane jumps high when the lights turn red, you can count the number of floors. There are three floors above the ground level. If that's the case, I personally feel it would have been very hard for the guard to move at all, let alone flee.
I do get what you're saying, but even if it's as you state "very hard" to flee, it is not impossible; though I don't think it's actually quite that hard. For instance, there are double doors directly behind that guard, and he could have slipped out that way. It's just the fact that, during the numerous shots of this lengthy sequence, we do not have eyes on this guard, nor do we see the floor area he was lying on. So, since it's possible, we cannot claim his being "gone" "later" as a mistake.
3rd Feb 2025
The Sauna at the End of the Stairs - S1-E11
Corrected entry: Cody sees that after he electrocuted his father, the wall plug is on fire and has burn marks. He removes the plug plate and replaces it. We see him remove the plate and the central area where the plug holes are. Plugs aren't made that way. The outer area (the plate) is easy to remove, but the central part would require an electrician to remove and rewire.
Correction: There are two 'self-closing outlet covers' in both the bathroom and bedroom. Cody didn't remove the wall outlet receptacles that conduct electricity; he only removed and switched the outer self-closing outlet cover plates: the bathroom cover plate decorated in wallpaper and the bedroom's plain outlet cover plate. In the bathroom, when Morgan removes the self-closing outlet cover (without wallpaper), they see the scorched outlet receptacle is still there from the fire. Near the end, during the reenactment, when we hear Morgan say, "He cleans up any evidence of a fire," note the self-closing outlet cover plate in Cody's hand that he places over the scorched outlet receptacle to conceal the burn marks. Rewatch, please.
Thanks. I've never seen covers like that.
This type, and other similar variations, has often been used by people (myself included) to child-proof and pet-proof wall outlets.
8th Feb 2003
Corrected entry: In one scene, Grandpa packs up all of Arnold's stuff, but in the scene when Arnold and Gerald have a sleepover, all of Arnold's stuff is back in his room.
Correction: When Arnold finds Grandpa packing Arnold's stuff, at 00:18:40, Grandpa says, "It's only a matter of time now. Everyone else has sold... I have to sell." Then Grandpa tells Arnold about the Tomato Incident. Arnold is convinced he'll track down the historic site document within the next two days, and he'll save the homes and stores when he shows the document to the mayor. At 00:21:10, Arnold tells Grandpa not to sell the boarding house, and Grandpa replies, "You're a bold kid, I'm with you all the way." So while offscreen, Arnold and Grandpa unpack Arnold's stuff. It's at 00:33:25 that we next see Arnold's room when Gerald is sleeping over that night. The continuity is not problematic.
20th Nov 2020
Corrected entry: After the first bus blows up, Jack hears the phone ringing. It is a two phone stand. When Jack first reaches for the phone to answer it you can see he answers the phone on the right hand side. To the right of the phone you can only see trees to the right side. In every scene after that, he is on the left hand side phone.
Correction: While the telephone rings, Jack walks over. At the very start of the shot (00:28:58), when Jack lifts the phone receiver, we can see it's the receiver of the left payphone stand; the metal case of the right payphone is visible at the right side of the screen, and in the space between the two payphones, we can see the shrubbery ("trees") in the background. So, Jack lifts the payphone receiver on the left and continues to use the left receiver in the following shots. Rewatch, please.
11th Jan 2025
A Penny For Your Thoughts - S2-E16
Corrected entry: In the episode "A Penny For Your Thoughts," when the man puts his cracked glasses on after the crash, the crack is in the left lens, but when he takes them off and puts them on in a later shot, the crack is in the right lens.
Correction: No, the left lens that cracks does not change. After the car knocks Hector down, all three shots of Hector's eyeglasses properly show his left lens is cracked. First, at 00:02:25, in Hector's close-up when the car's driver thinks about Hector's "asinine jaywalking." Then a bit later, at 00:04:00, in the two shots of Hector when he puts the glasses back on while he's with his boss, Mr. Bagby (on the phone with Felicia, the chorus girl), Rewatch, please.
11th Jan 2025
Corrected entry: When Marv is trying to regain balance at the entrance to the basement, his crowbar (which had been hooked onto the window frame) is now floating midair, perhaps dangling on string to drop at just the right moment.
Correction: Marv's crowbar is not "floating midair," nor is it "dangling on string to drop at just the right moment." After Marv falls down the icy stairs and says, "Ow," when he uses the crowbar to help himself stand upright, we can see that this exterior door has a lower raised solid panel under the glass panels. When Marv peeks through the glass and falls again, the crowbar gets caught on the top lip of the door's raised solid panel for a moment, turns, then slips off the panel's lip and drops. Rewatch, please.
7th Jan 2025
Corrected entry: The taxi leaves the scene with a left turn. You can see it is missing the front hubcap on that side, but it was in its place just moments before; no further crashing happened. (01:37:25)
Correction: It's not like the taxi's front left hubcap suddenly goes "missing" between two shots. The reckless taxi first hits the median island (sparks in this shot), then hits three metal trash cans, and finally slams into a car. It's quite plausible to accept that, due to all these jarring impacts, even though no further crashing happened the left hubcap has already been jostled loose; so during Martin Lawrence and Will Smith's iconic close-up shot, there is sufficient time for that hubcap to fall off while the taxi is off-screen.
I never said it was from consecutive shots, just that there were no other collisions. It didn't look loose in the slightest after all the collisions you mentioned. The last time we see it on screen, it is actually hidden by a fender that is not supposed to be there because of another mistake already reported, so we could say that is part of that other mistake, if anything.
Even though "there were no other collisions" that occurred, within the scene it's a reasonable possibility the hubcap could have been loosened by all the impacts from moments before. And the problem with stating "it didn't look loose in the slightest" after all the collisions is that a loosened hubcap can sometimes be completely unnoticeable visually while the vehicle is in motion. The hubcap could have fallen off as the taxi is driving away, while off-screen (blue fender shot notwithstanding).
14th Aug 2024
Corrected entry: When Jan cuts Marcia's hair, Cindy is lying on her side. When she wakes up, she's lying on her back.
Correction: This is all within Jan's dream, and this change does not occur between shots. While Cindy is off-screen, there is ample time for her to roll onto her back. In the first shot, we see Cindy on her right side. Then, there is a shot of Jan walking closer to Marcia. It cuts to a close-up shot of the scissors cutting Marcia's hair. It's in the next shot that we finally see Cindy on her back and lifting her head up.