Trivia: This was the only movie in the Star Wars series until Episode VII in 2015 without a scene on the planet Tattooine.
Xofer
26th Oct 2011
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
13th Apr 2011
Insidious (2010)
15th Jun 2008
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Revealing mistake: Near the end of the Bishop sketch, when they use the man as a battering ram, you can see the entire wall behind them tip as they smash through the door.
8th Apr 2006
Slither (2006)
Audio problem: Just after the car crash, when the zombies are taking Starla, Bill and Kylie yell after her, but they call her Carla.
13th Feb 2006
Capote (2005)
24th Sep 2005
Corpse Bride (2005)
14th Aug 2005
Family Guy (1999)
Family Guy Viewer Mail #1 - S3-E21
Trivia: During the second act (Super Griffins), just as Mayor West says he's going to roll around in toxic waste, the crowd gives him a standing ovation. Watch the bottom center of the screen; a bald man in a grey shirt grabs the butt of the woman in a green dress next to him for no reason.
10th Jul 2005
Fantastic Four (2005)
Trivia: Fantastic Four creator (and Marvel editor-in-chief) Stan Lee has a cameo as Willy Lumpkin, the Four's mailman. It was his only Marvel movie cameo based on an actual comic character.
10th Jul 2005
Fantastic Four (2005)
10th Jul 2005
Fantastic Four (2005)
Trivia: It has been stated by FF creator Stan Lee that their powers are based on the four elements: Mr. Fantastic's stretching ability is based (loosely) on the malleability of water, the Invisible Woman's power is based invisibility of air, the Thing's rocky appearance is based on earth, and the Human Torch's is obviously based on fire.
20th Jun 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
14th Jun 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
Continuity mistake: Near the end, when the Smiths are hiding in the shed, from the inside the front of the shed and the door have several bullet holes (as do the sides), but in the long shot of the shed, the front is in perfect condition. (01:45:00)
8th Apr 2005
Futurama (1999)
Three Hundred Big Boys - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: Right before Leela dives into the whale tank, she drops her snorkel and mask, but when the shot pulls back, they've completely disappeared.
5th Apr 2005
Futurama (1999)
Trivia: The scientist with the degree in homeopathic medicine has a degree from Evergreen State College, creator Matt Groening's alma mater.
28th Mar 2005
The Muppet Show (1976)
Diana Ross - S4-E23
Continuity mistake: When Diana Ross finishes her first song, the bird has both his feet on the ground; in the next shot, the bird has one leg raised, without enough time passing to do so. (00:08:45)
10th Mar 2005
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Other mistake: During the Toad Elevating Moment, John Cleese enters and says "Good evening," even though his character only says the beginnings of words (he should have said, "G- Ev-"). (00:06:05)
19th Jan 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Lisa's Pony - S3-E8
Trivia: At King Toot's music store, Homer is asked whether Lisa's Sax is a tenor or an alto. Actually, it's a baritone.
8th Jan 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Weekend at Burnsie's - S13-E16
Audio problem: There is an elaborate bass line right at the end of Phish's song; however, the bassist's fingers don't even move. There's no way he could play that line without moving his hand. (00:13:50)
6th Jan 2005
Family Guy (1999)
Stuck Together, Torn Apart - S3-E19
Continuity mistake: When Peter goes to see his ex-girlfriend, she says she never washed her hand and takes off her right glove to show a black hand. It is like this right up until Peter leaves. She then turns around and the hands have switched colours. (00:10:00)
25th Nov 2004
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
22nd Oct 2004
Team America: World Police (2004)
Trivia: Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" is the only non-original song in the film. Trey Parker wrote all of the other songs. (Battle Without Honour or Humanity, from Kill Bill, is just music, rather than a song).
22nd Oct 2004
Team America: World Police (2004)
Trivia: The "Montage" song is actually from an episode of South Park (Parker and Stone's TV show) called "Asspen," where Stan learns how to ski in a similar montage style.
16th Sep 2004
Hero (2002)
3rd Aug 2004
Futurama (1999)
Bender Gets Made (a.k.a. Bendfellas) - S2-E17
Other mistake: At the end, when Fry, Leela and Bender are sitting at the table, Fry's legs disappear (and the gray blotch beneath him isn't them - it's the table leg; and it's not hiding them either - his knees should be visible behind it). (00:21:35)
9th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Other mistake: A few of the liquid people are shown wearing clothes; while you can usually see through the people to the walls, etc, behind them, you can't see the clothing through them. (00:11:10)
9th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Fry is first confronted by the guards, they pull their spears out of nowhere. (00:08:35)
9th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
1st Jul 2004
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Question: Are the paintings of Spider-man 1 in the credits from a comic adaptation of the movie, or trading cards, or something like that, or were they done specially for Spider-man 2?
Chosen answer: They were painted exclusively for Spider-Man 2, by Alex Ross, who painted the very famous Kingdom Come storyline a few years back.
24th Jun 2004
Futurama (1999)
Trivia: In the original ending for this episode (as seen in the DVD's deleted scenes), Bender says he'll be less like his old self when robot hell freezes over, to which Fry replies that it does freeze over during the winter. He reads this out of a book. In the aired ending, when Leela asks Bender to be less like his old self, he asks her if she could stand a 100' drop (or something), and Fry says "Good ol' Bender." However, you can still see the book in his hand from the original ending.
5th Jun 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Trivia: For those that haven't read the book, the creators of the Marauders Map are none other than young Remus Lupin (Moony), Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail), Sirius Black (Padfoot) and James Potter (Prongs); the names come from their animal forms (James Potter's was a stag).
1st Jun 2004
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
7th May 2004
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror - S3-E4
Visible crew/equipment: When the Merchant Banker sends Mr. Ford through the trap door, you can see a crew member waiting to catch him below the stage. (00:06:50)
18th Apr 2004
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
The War Against Pornography - S3-E6
Revealing mistake: When John Cleese (as Long John Silver) falls over after being shot with a tranquilizer dart, you can see his real leg, which was tucked behind him when using the peg leg. (00:20:10)
18th Apr 2004
Jersey Girl (2004)
Trivia: The kindergarten girl at the musical night is Harley Quinn Smith, Kevin Smith's daughter.
22nd Mar 2004
Secret Window (2004)
Trivia: In a shot of Mort's coffee table, we see a book by Hunter Thompson. Johnny Depp (Mort) played Thompson in "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" (1998).
15th Mar 2004
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Question: After seeing the endings of The Matrix and Reloaded, I'm wondering: does Neo always see the Matrix as the green "coding" whenever he's inside it, or can he switch back and forth between that and "normal" (that is, how everyone else sees it)?
Chosen answer: You might understand it as an extra "sense." As is told in the first movie, Neo would be able to manipulate the Matrix as he sees fit. It would make sense that he could see both.
8th Mar 2004
Underworld (2003)
Trivia: The plot was supposedly loosely based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
26th Feb 2004
Spider-Man (2002)
25th Feb 2004
The Meaning of Life (1983)
Trivia: When the title first appears, it says "Monty Python's Meaning Of Liff," which abruptly changes to "Life" with the title is struck by lightning. Author Douglas Adams (friend of Graham Chapman and occasional Python contributor) contacted Terry Gilliam to ask if he could use the title "The Meaning Of Liff" for a mock dictionary he was writing at about the same time. Adams and the Pythons agreed that the crossover publicity could be mutually beneficial. (00:17:35)
25th Feb 2004
Wayne's World (1992)
Trivia: Dana Carvey is actually an accomplished drummer, and did his own drumming in the film.
24th Feb 2004
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Question: Is there any significance behind the song "England's Mountains Green" (or whatever it's called)? It seems to be the only song anyone ever sings, outside of sketch-specific songs (like the Lumberjack Song).
Chosen answer: The song you talk of was originally a poem by William Blake called 'Jerusalem'. It speaks of the possibility of Jesus having visited England. The poem has four verses but you only ever hear the Monty Python boys sing the first one which goes, "And did those feet in ancient time/Walk upon England's mountains green/And was the holy Lamb of God/On England's pleasant pastures seen?" If there's any sort of in-joke connected to it's use, I'm not aware of it. It seemed to just be the standard song/hymn they used when a song was needed that wasn't sketch specific. Some of the sketches it appeared in were 'Salvation Fuzz/Church Police', 'Buying a Bed' and 'The Art Gallery Sketch'. Something that may be relevant, though, is that the only one who was present every time it was sung was Eric Idle. Perhaps he just liked it?
4th Feb 2004
The Muppet Show (1976)
Mark Hamill - S4-E16
Revealing mistake: When Luke Skywalker is introducing his 'cousin' Mark Hamill at the end, you can tell it's a split screen by the fact that Luke looks right past him, even once he's on stage. (00:25:10)
28th Jan 2004
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Question: Does anyone know who played the knight that hit people over the head with a dead chicken?
Chosen answer: That would be Terry Gilliam, who played a lot of non-speaking roles in the series, and some speaking ones like Cardinal Fang in 'The Spanish Inquisition.' He did all the animation as well, but I'm sure you knew that.
22nd Jan 2004
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
Question: Does anyone know what the killer joke (German version anyway) translates to in English? I tried running it through BabelFish, but it still made no sense.
Chosen answer: Fortunately for the entire English speaking world, there is no translation. It is not real German.
21st Jan 2004
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Other mistake: It's revealed that the Knights who say Ni can't say "it" (at least, after they become the Knights Who Say... that other thing), but they still say "it," most notably when they're telling Arthur to place the second shrubbery next to the first one - "When you have found another shrubbery, you must place IT here, beside this shrubbery..."
Suggested correction: They aren't the Knights Who Can't Say "It" - they are the knights who are determined to be a pain in the **** regardless. They are going to be as big a nuisance as they can to anyone who comes along and pretending they can't say "it" is just their latest tactic.
12th Jan 2004
Muppets From Space (1999)
12th Jan 2004
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Trivia: Statler and Waldorf appear as ghosts (the Marley brothers) in memory of Richard Hunt and Jim Henson, who played them, respectively, and who both died prior to the movie being made.
12th Jan 2004
Big Fish (2003)
Trivia: The banjo player in Spectre who is playing 'Dueling Banjos' is Billy Redden, who as a boy also portrayed Lonnie in 'Deliverance', playing the same song on a banjo (though it was a professional musician's hands who actually strummed the banjo).
12th Jan 2004
Big Fish (2003)
Continuity mistake: When Bloom first goes to see Jenny about buying her house, the door is rhombus-shaped (as to fit with the slanting house), but when Bloom rips the door off, it lands on the floor as a regular rectangle. (01:36:35 - 01:39:05)
2nd Jan 2004
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Trivia: The vehicle that Anakin steals for the Coruscant chase scene has deer whistles on it, right behind Anakin and Obi-Wan's heads. For those that don't know what deer whistles are, they are small whistles that mount on the bumper of your car and make a high-pitched noise (too high for human ears but perfect for animals) to scare deer off the highways.
2nd Jan 2004
Futurama (1999)
Question: One thing I never understood about Futurama was all the famous heads-in-jars, especially people like George Washington, or other people who would be long dead and decomposed in OUR time, let alone 1000 years from now. How did they get them? Cloning (which we know they have, thanks to Cubert)? If so, then why not just keep cloning and avoid the jars altogether?
Chosen answer: Matt Groening has actually mentioned that this is indeed a mistake and a historical inaccuracy, but says it's still funny and allows historical references and gags to be made.
2nd Jan 2004
X-Men 2 (2003)
Question: Who is the kid in the mansion changing the channels by blinking? I recognized most of the "background" mutants (Siren, Jubilee, Artie, etc.) but this one's eluding me.
Chosen answer: In the comic book there was a mutant with the same powers called 'Blink' but blink was a girl, so i guess they just gave the kid some random ability from the comics.
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