Factual error: Police do not wait 24 hours to start looking for a possible missing person.
brianjr0412
4th Jun 2020
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
16th Jul 2018
Charmed (1998)
Factual error: Melinda Warren says that after Matthew turned her in to the council, she was burned at the stake for being a witch, except witches were not burned at the stake, they were hanged.
23rd Dec 2017
Charmed (1998)
Factual error: Phoebe is going to be burned at the stake for witchcraft like they're starting the Salem witch trials again, but witches weren't burned, they were hanged.
13th Aug 2017
Psych (2006)
Factual error: Cops can't force someone to leave a park because they're male and have no children.
18th Jul 2017
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Factual error: After the eastern hub explodes from the gas, and after Mathew's rant, McClane looks out over the city as the power goes out and all the lights begin to shut off. But all the headlights of the cars on the streets also begin to turn off, despite not being connected to the grid.
7th Jun 2017
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Factual error: The person who has the kidney removed would most likely have died since the killer is not a surgeon, he wouldn't know what he's doing.
4th Jun 2017
Monk (2002)
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Factual error: Monk typing the address into his laptop would not affect the trace the agents are doing, it definitely wouldn't pop up on the agent's screen as the result of the trace.
23rd Jan 2017
CSI: Miami (2002)
Factual error: After Horatio shoots out a window in the lab everyone starts waking up immediately, it would take much longer than one second for the gas to leave that size of a room and the people's systems.
19th Nov 2016
CSI: NY (2004)
Youngblood - S2-E5
Factual error: When they are looking at footage of the suspect leaving the crime scene they notice something in his sleeve and the computer generates an image of a steering wheel lock. There is no way they could come up with that from the outline in the suspect's clothes.
6th Jul 2015
Scream (2015)
Factual error: There is no way cops would just walk up and open fire on a suspect unannounced, not knowing if he is armed or not, and with an innocent bystander so close.
19th Feb 2015
CSI: Miami (2002)
Factual error: There is no way the gun in this episode would work, the bullet world be moving way to fast for the shooter to accurately control the bullet to the target.
3rd Oct 2014
Z Nation (2014)
Factual error: In a scene when the group is supposed to be near the east coast a Banner furnace and fuel truck explode, the problem is, Banner Fuel is only in Spokane, WA, on the west coast. Spokane is where the show is filmed.
Join the mailing list
Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.