Corrected entry: The Tweedys are obviously very poor, and are desperate for money. But when Mr. Tweedy asks Mrs. Tweedy which chickens he should get to be made into pies, Mrs. Tweedy replies "All of them". What did Ms. Tweedy plan to do after all of those pies were sold? It makes no sense that she would want to kill all the chickens at once.
Gary O'Reilly
28th May 2005
Chicken Run (2000)
29th Apr 2005
Family Guy (1999)
Death Lives - S3-E6
Corrected entry: When Death and Peter get into a fight outside the pet store, Death controls his severed arm to poke Peter in the eyes. However, Peter is wearing glasses. His eyes could not have possibly been poked unless his glasses, for some reason, did not have lenses in them.
Correction: In another episode Stewie breaks Meg's glasses and Peter tells her that "Nobdy needs glasses". Meg says "But YOU wear glasses" and Peter replies "That's just to fool the man from the draft board..." So maybe his glasses DON'T have lenses in - it's something so stupid and pointless that it fits Peter's character perfectly.
15th Apr 2005
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Corrected entry: When the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion are watching the guards marching around the witch's castle, the three guards who sneak up on them throw away their spears and attempt to subdue them in hand-to-hand combat. Why would anyone throw away a spear in a fight?
Correction: Because they've been ordered to capture them alive rather than stab them repeatedly?
26th Mar 2005
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: Unless future forensic science goes terribly wrong, the scientists should not have let Del touch that hologram without proper protective gloves.
Correction: Actually if future forensic science has progressed enough, it should only take about 5 minutes to extract every possible piece of evidence from such a small item, meaning that letting someone touch it without protective gloves (especially a detective) wouldn't be a problem.
22nd Oct 2004
Team America: World Police (2004)
Corrected entry: One of the countries represented at the peace conference is Zaire. Zaire has been known as The Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1997.
Correction: There are many "mistakes" such as this dotted around the film. They are intentional, beyond even "deliberate mistake" level, as the whole film is a satire on how America sees the rest of the world. Another little thing to watch out for is Tony Blair is the head of "England" in the film, not the United Kingdom.
26th Feb 2005
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Corrected entry: Mina is a vampire, so why is she checking her reflection in a pocket mirror, in Gray library. When we all know vampires cast no reflection in mirrors.
Correction: This film does not follow the classical plots of all its individual characters. Mr. Hyde is actually smaller than Dr. Jeckyl, Dorian Gray had youth for as long as he lived, but he a) lived a shorter life than he would have anyway (he went mad and essentially killed himself) and b) could look at the painting as often as he liked (and he did, often, to reflect on the degredation of his soul). It never says anything about not being killed/hurt. Quite possible that in this universe, vampires have a reflection.
5th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles - S5-E7
Corrected entry: It is explained in the episode "A Clone of My Own" that when you reach 160 years old you are taken by the Sunset Squad to the Near Death Star. Why is it, then, when the Neptunian used the age machine, she didn't immediately inform the Sunset Squad? Surely, she couldn't have known that Farnsworth had once escaped from the Near Death Star with the aid of his crew?
Correction: It's never said that what the sunset squad do is legal. They may just be robot rebels who have decided that they know best for the old humans. It's unlikely that they'd ever be found, because Zapp is the head of the Earth's defence forces, and he is amazingly inept. It's certainly never said that anyone agrees with what the Sunset Squad do, just that it's inevitable, and it's unlikely that anyone knows how to contact them (after all, it took the Smellascope for Fry and co to find them).
21st Dec 2004
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Corrected entry: When Ace is in the asylum and begins to "reverse" his previous movements and speech, you can see Melissa desperately trying to contain herself.
Correction: Why is this a mistake? She's there trying to convince the place that he's insane, but she doesn't know exactly what he's going to do. It'd be the same as you and a close friend doing the same thing.
17th Dec 2004
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Corrected entry: When Trinity jumps out of the window and an agent is chasing her, she gets a few severe glass cuts. Once she is resurrected and back in reality, though, her face seems to be just fine. It was stated in the first movie that every wound you get in Matrix is going to appear on your physical body, too.
Correction: This seems to be an odd point in the matrix. In the first film, where Neo gets shot repeatedly in the chest/stomach, the wounds don't appear in the real world. It seems that only wounds that the body can re-create easily (such as when neo falls, he spits up blood, his body could create this by biting his tongue or cheek or something) actually appear in the real world, but the effects (pain, death in extreme cases) still carry over as these are controlled by the mind. So the wounds wouldn't show up on Trinity's real body, but she probably still feels some pain.
26th Oct 2004
Red Dwarf (1988)
Corrected entry: In this episode Rimmer receives a letter telling him his father is dead, however in an earlier episode he said that his father committed suicide. He already knew his father was dead, so why was he so shocked by the letter? And for that matter, why did his mother tell him his father was dead?
Correction: He says "...before that rather unfortunate suicide business." The joke in it is that Rimmer's Father was saying that with a short haircut, you can handle anything, but then something came up and he obviously couldn't deal with it so he attempted suicde. Rimmer doesn't actually say that his father killed himself, just "unfortunate suicide business" which could mean he attempted suicide, but failed. It's a long shot, but possible, especially when considering Rimmer's usual poor choice of words and his tendancy to crave attention/lie about his family.
12th Nov 2004
Johnny English (2003)
Corrected entry: Isn't it weird at the end when Bough plays the wrong DVD of Johnny in the bathroom thatJohnny is looking at the hidden camera the whole time?
Correction: It's a one way mirror with a camera behind it. I've danced and sang while watching myself in a mirror, as I'm sure (or at least I hope!) many other people have.
28th Aug 2004
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Corrected entry: When Picard, Data and Worf are making their way to Engineering, they wake up the Borg that are stacked on top of each other, then they drop down from a second level. How do they get up there in the first place?
Correction: There are shots of the crew trying to escape the Borg by climbing up some ladders, and the Borg subsequently pulling them down and climbing up the ladders themselves. As seen in the series and other films, Borg ships are made up of many levels, so it's likely that the Borg turned the Enterprise's decks into similar multi-leveled areas, using the ladders to climb to the upper levels.
23rd Oct 2004
Van Helsing (2004)
Corrected entry: When Carl's "solar bomb" goes off, Dracula is still alive even though we see the bright light shining through every one of the windows, and every other vampire (other than one bride) is incinerated by the blast.
Correction: Well we've seen in the film that Dracula isn't a normal vampire. Wooden stakes, crucifixes, holy water etc seem to hurt him, but not kill him (the woman gives a long list of all the methods they've tried to kill him). Dracula could have been seriously hurt by the light (which would explain why he doesn't go out in daylight) but not killed.
12th Aug 2004
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: Master Ffnog could not have possibly put on that full body suit and connected it up to the TV in the time that elapsed from when he talked to Leela to when the bell rang to start the battle.
Correction: The robot probably has some basic AI of its own, enough certainly to walk into the ring and punch Bender, giving Fnog time to get into the suit and control him for a real show of pummeling and skill.
25th Sep 2004
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: When Qui-Gon is walking with Jar-Jar in the city of Tatooine, look at the side, and you will see Luke Skywalker's speeder standing next to two aliens.
Correction: A) This isn't a mistake, if anything it'd be trivia and B) You can't expect Luke's speeder to be the only one of that model ever made. Chances are there are mass produced speeders, droids, ships and weapons in the Star Wars universe, just like there are in ours.
26th Sep 2004
Finding Nemo (2003)
Corrected entry: The three sharks said they were vegetarians. Bruce said their motto was, "Fish are our friends, not food." Sharks need to eat fish or they'll die. So, it's impossible for sharks not to eat fish.
Correction: Sharks can't talk, either. Neither do stingrays teach small fish of all kinds, and turtles are not surfer like hippies. It's a kid's cartoon, the exact dietary requirements of sharks don't really have to play into it.
11th Sep 2004
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Corrected entry: When the Enterprise is under attack by the Son'a, the Son'a fire a subspace weapon to open a dimensional tear in space. Geordi then says that the warp core is acting as a magnet, so they eject the core and blow it up to seal the tear. But then Geordi tells a bridge officer that the Son'a could do it again and they are "fresh out of warp cores". If however the warp core acts as a magnet to the subspace tear, a second similar attack by the Son'a would not affect the Enterprise because it is now without its warp-core.
Correction: No, the tear wouldn't chase after the Enterprise, but it'd still expand rather quickly, and leave a nasty big hole in subspace. And without a warp core they have absolutely no chance of outrunning one.
1st Sep 2004
I, Robot (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Sonny is to be "killed", the professor says that it is done by microscopic robots, nanites. However, you can see them swimming in the fluid. How can this be if they are microscopic?
Correction: The things we see may be swarms of the robots swimming together to make something large enough to be seen. They would probably be programmed to do this so that someone could tell at a glance if the cylinder contains the nanites, and that they are in fact active.
20th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Corrected entry: Blurnsball in this episode isn't played at all like the Blurnsball in the episode "Fear of a Bot Planet" except for a few similarities (like the ball on an elastic cord).
Correction: Blurnsball is shown to be an extremely complicated game (by our standards anyway) as there is so much that can happen. It's quite possible that every game played is completely different in terms of what happens. In "Fear of a Bot Planet" for example, the ball is "locked" and multiball is engaged (like in a pinball machine). In this episode, the ball isn't locked, so none of that would happen. It seems to be pure luck for the ball to be locked in that way (and presumably the scooter driving round the track is a sort of tradition for that kind of score/point).
30th Aug 2004
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Corrected entry: Concerning the scene where the big lost guy makes his way to Hole in the Wall. He belches, then explains he "ate some berries in the dark". What kind of berries grow in Maine in the middle of winter? Frozen blueberries? (00:30:10)
Correction: The book goes into more detail about it. Basically, the guy is lost, confused, and he ate something that he *thought* was some berries, but was probably a strange growth of Ripley/byrus.
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Correction: She could sell all of the pies she makes, then buy more chickens for half the price, then make them into pies and so on (don't forget, one chicken will make far more than one pie). Knowing how much she seems to hate Mr. Tweedy, however, it's far more likely that she'll take the money they make off selling the pies and just leave him.
Gary O'Reilly