The Maternal Congruence - S3-E11
Corrected entry: Sheldon tells Leonard and Penny that he had inflatable lawn decorations as a child (in the late 80s/early 90s). Those weren't invented until 2001.
MovieFan612
18th Sep 2023
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Correction: He says he had an inflatable Santa Claus, but nothing to suggest it was an "air blown" version that you seem to be talking about.
Inflatable means you blow air into it.
Yes, but it doesn't mean to blow air into constantly with a portable fan. That's why kids before 2001 had beach balls and other inflatable pool toys. What you seem to be describing or alluding to are called "Gemmy Airblown Inflatables," introduced in 2001.
Very true, Bishop. And even then... the technology Gemmy Airblown Inflatables use existed long before 2001. As I said in my response, it's the same basic tech used for things like inflatable planetariums. I'm confused as to what MovieFan612 is getting at. They seem to be indicating that inflatable decorations in general didn't exist before 2001... which is just factually wrong.
28th Jul 2023
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Clean Room Infiltration - S8-E11
Corrected entry: Howard and Leonard contaminate the "clean" (sterile) room by allowing a bird into the room. The very first thing they should have done is cover all of the sterile instruments strewn over the worktable. But they did not.
Correction: It wouldn't matter if they had. They hopelessly contaminated the sterile room by opening a window to allow the bird in in the first place. The bigger mistake is that some idiot allowed an unsealed window that could be opened in a sterile room in the first place.
2nd Jun 2023
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Agreement Dissection - S4-E21
Corrected entry: Amy has a monkey in her apartment smoking a cigarette for a study. At one point, he asks for another cigarette. Amy gives him one and walks away without lighting it, but a few seconds later, he's puffing smoke.
16th Jan 2023
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Bakersfield Expedition - S6-E13
Corrected entry: Sheldon says he once borrowed his sister's makeup and ended up with pink eye but he was dressed as a zombie and he won second place. There is absolutely no way his hyper-religious mother would let him dress as a zombie.
Correction: This "mistake" relies on a single person acting in precisely the same way that someone else expects them to 100% of the time. People act inconsistently all the time, often totally at odds with their professed beliefs. This "mistake" is only valid if Sheldon's mother was seen forbidding him to dress as a zombie, and that did not happen.
Correction: How do you know she knew? She might have been out of town, busy that night, and so on and so on. Sheldon is hyperintelligent - he wouldn't put on his costume in front of her.
Sheldon is incapable of deception. And guessing where his mother was at the time is too much of a stretch.
What deception? He didn't tell his mother about a costume he wore, and she didn't find out independently. There is no mistake here.
26th Jun 2022
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Boyfriend Complexity - S4-E9
Corrected entry: Penny tells her father that Leonard has to work tomorrow. But then we see Sheldon come up the stairs carrying laundry. Everyone knows Sheldon fits his laundry Saturday night at 8:15. And Leonard works Monday through Friday.
19th Jun 2022
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Vengeance Formulation - S3-E9
Corrected entry: Penny and Bernadette are working and Penny write her hair was in two braids with clips on top. But the second time we see her (same work shift), her hair is partially pulled back with bangs.
Correction: It's not the same work shift. Note that Howard isn't wearing the same clothes.
19th May 2022
Still Alice (2014)
Corrected entry: When Alice is making the video with instructions about how to commit suicide, we see her typewritten notes, and she has misspelled "labeled", something a linguistics professor wouldn't do.
Correction: Both "labeled" and "labelled" are correct spellings of the word. Labeled is chiefly the American spelling whereas labelled is chiefly the British spelling. It should be noted, co-writer Wash Westmoreland is British.
However, Alice has the disease! She was already deep into it when diagnosed. By the time she is making the video she may not have had the ability to proofread.
Alice spoke and wrote American English, regardless of the cowriter.
Alice was an English (American) linguistics professor. She would have correctly written the American version.
There is no "correct" American version. Both are acceptable in America.
The "American version" would only be a "preferred" or predominant spelling but, as already pointed out, either spelling is acceptable. [It is still an interesting "catch", perhaps worthy of turning into a "trivia" entry.].
7th Jan 2022
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Confirmation Polarization - S12-E13
Corrected entry: Sheldon meets two new fellow scientists, one of which is Sean Astin, who played Sam Gee wise in the Lord of the Rings. Surely, Sheldon would know who he is.
Correction: Suspension of disbelief has to play a part here. Actors are allowed to play other roles, and being many years later, Sean Astin looks quite different, so even if there was a meta element of "this person looks like the actor who played Sam", Sheldon wouldn't necessarily even notice the similarity.
Correction: I'm not sure if this is meant to be a troll entry or a joke. Sean Astin doesn't play himself in this episode, he plays Dr. Pemberton.
11th Feb 2021
Friends (1994)
The One With Phoebe's Husband - S2-E4
Corrected entry: When everyone hears that Chandler has a third nipple, even Ross is surprised. He's known Chandler for many years - and they were college roommates - so Ross would certainly know this fact.
Correction: A third nipple is usually much smaller than the other nipples, several inches away and looks more like a mole. For example, Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple that looks like a mole. It is likely if Ross saw Chandler without a shirt on and saw anything, he assumed it was a mole and Chandler did not tell Ross what it was. Chandler likely mentioned it to Joey.
29th Jul 2012
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, the narrator refers to Pooh by his formal name but incorrectly calls him "Edwin Bear" instead of the correct "Edward Bear."
Correction: Pooh is always referred to as "Winnie the Pooh" or "Pooh" in the movie. He is never referred to as either "Edward Bear" or "Edwin Bear."
24th Aug 2012
The Three Stooges (2012)
Corrected entry: The bell falls from the roof onto Sister Mary Mengele and knocks her out cold. She falls to the ground and there is a metal bucket about three feet from her head. When Moe and Curly grab her under the arms and slide her further away from the building, there is now a fire hydrant with a tuft of grass that her head is banged against.
Correction: The fire hydrant is always there. You see her standing in front of it, although several feet away, before getting hit by the bell.
1st Jul 2011
Cars 2 (2011)
Corrected entry: During the first instant replay of the finish of the Toyko race, Francisco Bertoulli crosses the finish line with no other cars around him (in the shot from track level). In the shot from above, Lightning McQueen is shown crossing the finish line half a car length behind him.
Correction: McQueen is seen the whole time.
30th Jul 2013
Friends (1994)
The One with Mrs. Bing - S1-E11
Corrected entry: Phoebe and Monica are in the hospital room speculating about the coma guy's name, yet he is wearing a hospital bracelet with his identifying information which is easily seen on his wrist, lying above the covers.
Correction: She was wondering what his real name was.
4th Aug 2014
Friends (1994)
The One With Ross's Sandwich - S5-E9
Corrected entry: Later in the episode, while in Joey's apartment with everyone, Joey says that Rachel found his underwear in the girls' apartment but it was actually Phoebe who found them.
24th May 2015
Friends (1994)
The One With the Breast Milk - S2-E2
Corrected entry: Ross asks Phoebe if she heated the breast milk in the microwave. However, there is no microwave in Monica's apartment.
Correction: There is a microwave in Monica's apartment. In Season 1 TOW with all the poker, you can see her warming up some food in the microwave when they were playing poker with the girls for the first time. Also, in the same episode itself i.e. Season 2 episode 2, you can see the microwave beside the fridge in the scene where Monica is thanking Rachel for her jacket after coming back from lunch. The microwave is visible in many scenes throughout the episode.
24th Mar 2015
Friends (1994)
The One Where Joey Speaks French - S10-E13
Corrected entry: In 3-7 Phoebe mentions that she can't say "croissants" and then does so perfectly. In this episode she is fluent. She had mentioned in yet another episode that she learned it while living on the streets and met friends behind a dumpster to learn it, so it's not she learned between episodes.
Correction: The whole joke is that she can say it but thought she couldn't. She doesn't say it in the context of not being able to speak French.
16th Jan 2014
August: Osage County (2013)
Corrected entry: During the fish lunch with Ivy, Barbara and Violet, all three smash their plates on the floor, yet after Ivy runs out and drives away and Barbara returns to the dining room, their full plates are still on the table. Violet was the only one in the room and she was too weak to have cleaned the mess, especially in such a short period of time.
Correction: Watch the scene again. Barbara does not throw her main plate. When the scene returns to the dining room, hers is the only main dish plate on the table.
7th Aug 2014
Friends (1994)
The One Where the Monkey Gets Away - S1-E19
Corrected entry: Monica tells the guys that she and Phoebe will search the third and fourth floors for the monkey and the guys would search the first and second floors. But Monica and Phoebe knock on Mr. Heckles' door, #9, which would be on one of the lower floors.
18th Oct 2010
Toy Story (1995)
Corrected entry: After Mom steps on the soldiers and one of them is injured, the plastic piece that connects the feet is broken (which the commentators indicate is the reason he cannot walk). But when he is being lifted into the potted plant, the plastic piece connecting the feet is whole again. (00:13:10)
Correction: Its feet are fixed because he was healed by a "medic." You can see a medic army toy giving a thumbs up, indicating that he healed the broken soldier you are referring to.
12th Aug 2010
Tombstone (1993)
Corrected entry: After Doc stabs Ed Bailey and he and Kate are exiting the saloon, he is holding his cigarette in his left hand down by his hip when he is moving through the doorway. Yet when the scene cuts to him stepping onto the boardwalk, he has the cigarette to his lips in his right hand.
Correction: Not correct. In fact Doc has the cigarette in his right hand as he approaches the door to leave, turns and puts the cigarette in his mouth with his right hand collects the money from the table,puts the smoke in his mouth to tip his hat to them and then takes the cigarette out of his mouth with his right hand and walks through the door holding the smoke in his right hand which the camera picks up outside where he takes it out with his right hand to kiss his partner.
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Correction: Sorry, but this is completely incorrect. I had inflatable decorations back in the 90s, and there were absolutely inflatable lawn decorations in the 80s. You can still buy some inflatable 80s decoration secondhand on sites like eBay. "Modern" inflatables like balloons date back 200 years, and the air-inflation process had been used prior to that even. I can only presume you're referring to the more current in-vogue inflatables that use fans... but even those existed before 2001, albeit they weren't as widely used. (Ex. The StarLab inflatable planetarium that many schoolchildren still experience to this day uses the same basic fan system and was invented in the 1970's.)
TedStixon
I researched my answer. Can you provide more info on yours?
MovieFan612
How could you have possibly done research on inflatables and come to the conclusion that inflatable decorations were invented in 2001? My info is that I literally owned some, and you can still find plenty second-hand online. Go to Etsy and search "vintage inflatable" and there are currently multiple inflatable decorations that date from the 80s and earlier that people are selling secondhand.
TedStixon