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** Sinric refers to the Eastern Roman Empire and its inhabitants as "Byzantine". It's basic knowledge for every history buff that the term "Byzantine" was first employed during the Renaissance period and the Eastern Roman Empire was never called that during its existence. Its subjects simply referred to it as "the Roman Empire" as they simply considered it a continuation of the classical Roman Empire (as it legally was). In Western Europe it was more often called "Empire of the Greeks", as they attributed the legacy of the Rome to the Holy Roman Empire founded by Charlemagne instead.
** The show's subtitles interchangeably refer to the language spoken by the Franks as "Old French" and "Old Frankish", but the two are very different languages, despite the name. "Old Frankish" was a ''Germanic'' language, as the name suggests it was originally the language of the Franks, which in modern times evolved in Dutch and the dialects spoken in Western and Central Germany (this dialectal continuum is in fact called ''Franconian''). "Old French" is the correct name for the older stage of French, the ''Romance'' language, the one used in the show. When the Franks invaded modern France, they gave their name to the region and its people, but eventually adopted the native romance language already spoken there. Modern French actually doesn't owe much to Old Frankish besides its name, and descends mostly from the language spoken by Romanised Gauls.
** Sinric refers to the Eastern Roman Empire and its inhabitants as "Byzantine". It's basic knowledge for every history buff that the term "Byzantine" was first employed during the Renaissance period and the Eastern Roman Empire was never called that during its existence. Its subjects simply referred to it as "the Roman Empire" as they simply considered it a continuation of the classical Roman Empire (as it legally was). In Western Europe it was more often called "Empire of the Greeks", as they attributed the legacy of the Rome to the Holy Roman Empire founded by Charlemagne instead.
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* In ''VideoGame/WildArms2'', the Kuiper Belt is [[spoiler:an EldritchAbomination that's best described as a sentient, evil parallel universe]]. This has practically no relation to the real Kuiper belt, which is simply a ring of debris that surrounds our Solar System.
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* One story arc of ''Manga/MagicKaito'' revolves around a priceless ruby named Red Tear despite the fact that the gemstone is blue. This is meant to serve as a clue that [[spoiler:the jewel needs to be held near fire to uncover its secret]]. The problem is, there's no such thing as a blue ruby. Ruby is the name specifically given for ''red'' coloured corundum, and any differently-coloured variety would be called ''sapphire''.
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** It begins [[AuthorTract its descent into utter madness]] [[note]]or utter silliness, if you consider that the whole series' satire, such as it is, went from blatant to subtle[[/note]] starting in the third issue that includes, among many, MANY other offenses, the protagonists scooping up some water with microbes in it to use as a "biological clock" for their time machine, under the logic that ''they'll know to stop when the microbes evolve into a dinosaur''. It just gets worse from there.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Jimmy in one episode refers to the Cretaceous period as the Cretaceous ''era'' (the era was the Mesozoic), and that it ended 200 million years ago. Any dinosaur-crazed eight-year-old could tell you that it ended 65 million years ago.
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* In the NoBudget film ''Film/{{Tartarus}}'', a man buys "Bolivian rock" but is given a bag of white powder, which he starts snorting. The filmmaker apparently didn't know the difference between powder cocaine and crack cocaine. Then, the dealer reveals that he's a cop and demands to know who the man's supplier is. The man's supplier would be the undercover cop himself, who just gave him the drugs. The filmmaker apparently didn't understand basic aspects of the drug trade.
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** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]], Mary Shelley comments on Ashad possibly being a "composite of multiple men" in what is clearly meant to imply her inspiration for [[Literature/Frankenstein]]. However, the Monster in the novel is not made of parts of other men, but is rather made from "raw materials" which are then imbued with vitality. The idea of Frankenstein's Monster being a patchwork of body parts comes from the later movie adaptions.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In the sixth season episode "Bobby Goes Nuts", when trying to punish Bobby for kicking Hank in the groin, Peggy gets kicked in the groin by Bobby and just smirks at him when in reality it should have hurt almost as much despite her lack of testicles. Maybe she ''was'' bluffing...
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** In the sixth season episode "Bobby Goes Nuts", when trying to punish Bobby for kicking Hank in the groin, Peggy gets kicked in the groin by Bobby and just smirks at him when in reality it should have hurt almost as much despite her lack of testicles. Maybe she ''was''bluffing...bluffing...
** More egregiously, John Redcorn identifies as an Anasazi. The Anasazi tribe not only died off before white people came to North America, they also never lived in Texas.
** In the sixth season episode "Bobby Goes Nuts", when trying to punish Bobby for kicking Hank in the groin, Peggy gets kicked in the groin by Bobby and just smirks at him when in reality it should have hurt almost as much despite her lack of testicles. Maybe she ''was''
** More egregiously, John Redcorn identifies as an Anasazi. The Anasazi tribe not only died off before white people came to North America, they also never lived in Texas.
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* In ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaWorldHeroesMission'', several characters claim the villain's 'Quirk Doomsday Theory' is unsubstantiated/mythical... including Katsuki Bakugo and Shouto Todoroki, who both dealt with children who had incredibly strong Quirks during the 'Remedial Licensing Exam' arc. The episode in question addresses the 'Quirk Singularity', which is practically word for word the same as Quirk Doomsday, only scientific instead of religious. It could be forgiven that the writers missed this detail, as the episode aired over a year before the movie was released in theatres... but Creator Kohei Horikoshi has been known to forget details like this in the past, so it is not surprising as much as it is disappointing. (It could also be that they don't want to give a zealous religious cult any amount of validation while quietly understanding that, but given there appears to be no awareness of this contradiction, the safest bet is that this Trope Applies.
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* In ''Anime/MyHeroAcademiaWorldHeroesMission'', several characters claim the villain's 'Quirk Doomsday Theory' is unsubstantiated/mythical... including Katsuki Bakugo and Shouto Todoroki, who both dealt with children who had incredibly strong Quirks during the 'Remedial Licensing Exam' arc. The episode in question addresses the 'Quirk Singularity', which is practically word for word the same as Quirk Doomsday, only scientific instead of religious. It could be forgiven that the writers missed this detail, as the episode aired over a year before the movie was released in theatres... but ''Creator/Kohei Horikoshi'' Creator Kohei Horikoshi has been known to forget details like this in the past, so it is not surprising as much as it is disappointing. (It could also be that they don't want to give a zealous religious cult any amount of validation while quietly understanding that, but given there appears to be no awareness of this contradiction, the safest bet is that this Trope Applies.
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* ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'': A teacher says that 3,486,522 is a prime number. Even numbers other than 2 can't be prime numbers.
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* ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'' features ''a scientist'' who claims that "the heart is made up of a single cell."
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* ''Series/StrangerThings'': When Will tells Dr. Owens that his favorite candy is Reese's Pieces, Owens agrees that "chocolate and peanut butter are an unbeatable combination." But there's no chocolate in Reese's Pieces, just peanut butter and a candy coating.
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** In ''Battle of the Commercials'' he takes a shot at the ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' by claiming it bombed and that the ''UsefulNotes/GameGear'' was a million times better. Anyone who grew up with these consoles or who even has a passing knowledge of video games knows the polar opposite is true, as the Game Boy blew the Game Gear out of the water and outsold it over ten-to-one with a much longer lifespan. Even in terms of technical specs, really the only thing the Game Gear did better were graphics as it had a color screen and twice the video ram than the Game Boy, but even this worked against it as it made it much more expensive and drained batteries much faster.[[note]]That is, '''much''' faster: A Game Boy got thirty hours out of four AA batteries; a Game Gear got ''around three hours out of six AA batteries''[[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': Dorothy claims that the world and everything in it are made of molecules in "The Magic School Bus Makes a Stink". However, the only things made of molecules in real life are known as matter.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' has Lenny the shark pretend to be a dolphin so that he can live his life as a vegetarian, and be accepted by the fish. Dolphins eat fish as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/LeoTheLion'': The titular character is a vegetarian lion (although he looks painfully thin for the entire movie). Additionally, his love interest is an elephant who has conjoined twin babies... that are connected at the tail.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'': {{Troll}}s aren't malware like viruses or Trojan Horses. They're actual people.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Flint, a scientist, invents a machine that turns water into food. He claims this works by mutating the water's genetic code, despite any high schooler knowing that DNA is only present in living creatures.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' has Lenny the shark pretend to be a dolphin so that he can live his life as a vegetarian, and be accepted by the fish. Dolphins eat fish as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/LeoTheLion'': The titular character is a vegetarian lion (although he looks painfully thin for the entire movie). Additionally, his love interest is an elephant who has conjoined twin babies... that are connected at the tail.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'': {{Troll}}s aren't malware like viruses or Trojan Horses. They're actual people.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Flint, a scientist, invents a machine that turns water into food. He claims this works by mutating the water's genetic code, despite any high schooler knowing that DNA is only present in living creatures.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' has Lenny the shark pretend to be a dolphin so that he can live his life as a vegetarian, and be accepted by the fish. Dolphins eat fish as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/LeoTheLion'': The titular character is a vegetarian lion (although he looks painfully thin for the entire movie). Additionally, his love interest is an elephant who has conjoined twin babies... that are connected at the tail.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'': {{Troll}}s aren't malware like viruses or Trojan Horses. They're actual people.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Flint, a scientist, invents a machine that turns water into food. He claims this works by mutating the water's genetic code, despite any high schooler knowing that DNA is only present in living creatures.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' has Lenny the shark pretend to be a dolphin so that he can live his life as a vegetarian, and be accepted by the fish. Dolphins eat fish as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/LeoTheLion'': The titular character is a vegetarian lion (although he looks painfully thin for the entire movie). Additionally, his love interest is an elephant who has conjoined twin babies... that are connected at the tail.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'': {{Troll}}s aren't malware like viruses or Trojan Horses. They're actual people.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Flint, a scientist, invents a machine that turns water into food. He claims this works by mutating the water's genetic code, despite any high schooler knowing that DNA is only present in living creatures.
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* Near the end of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Road Chip'', [[TheSmartGuy Simon]] claims that there's no such thing as 1000%. As any child whose passed ''5th grade math'' could tell you, percentage is a numerator built on relative quantity. Claiming that 1000% doesn't exist is roughly equivalent to saying the number ten doesn't exist. It was a clumsy way of stating something that ''is'' true; there cannot be more than 100% of something where 100% is defined as the ''limit'' of that thing. For example, you cannot give more than 100% of your time. But you could give someone more than 100% of the amount of money that is in your wallet, by using a credit card.
* ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'' features ''a scientist'' who claims that "the heart is made up of a single cell."
* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', it's a huge plot point that Ultron is prevented from hacking into the "Nexus Internet Hub" in Norway and gaining access to nuclear codes. There are two major problems here:
** Not only does the Nexus Internet Hub not exist in real life, but the entire point of the Internet is '''not''' relying on a central hub. It was originally created by the US government wanting to connect its defense systems in such a way that the network would still function if one or more points were destroyed. Even after the Internet went public and international in the 90s, it retains this fundamental aspect.
** No country keeps its nuclear codes online. In the United States, the codes are printed on hard copy and have to be spoken by the president over a secured phone line. The system has more or less stayed the same since the 1940s to avoid the exact problems this movie spells out (keeping the codes from falling into the hands of a malicious hacker).
* ''Film/BigglesAdventuresInTime'': The {{tagline}} of the film is "Meet Jim Ferguson. He lived a daring double-life with one foot in the 20th century and the other in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI." World War I happened in the 20th century.
* ''Film/TheDeadlyMantis'': "Every known species of animal has a bony skeleton." What?! Then someone asks him "Every animal?" and he replies "Even birds have bony skeletons". Apparently in this universe people think only humans have bones.
* ''Film/DieHard2'':
** If you have even a cursory knowledge of airports, the entire plot will fall flat on its face. It relies on the whole cast not knowing that all of those airliners flying around without a working runway can just fly to another airport. The movie tries to explain this by saying that the nearest other airport is shut down because of the snowstorm, but if those airliners are carrying enough fuel to circle the sky for ''two hours'', they can just fly to an airport farther away. For reference, the film takes place in Washington, D.C., which has two nearby airports that are actually mentioned in the film: Dulles International (the target of the terrorist plot) and Reagan National (the one that's shut down). With the Mid-Atlantic United States being the most densely-populated region in the country, there are at least a ''dozen'' major airports within 300 miles of DC that an airplane can reach in two hours with fuel to spare (Baltimore International, for instance, which isn't that much farther away from Dulles than Reagan), not counting the various military bases that would receive commercial airliners in the event of an emergency.
** It also features a scene where the hero claims that the criminals were carrying "Glock 7" handguns that are invisible to airport scanners because they are made of porcelain rather than metal. Even accepting this ludicrous premise (a real Glock is about 87% steel in reality and cannot get through an X-ray or metal detector, and the action of firing a bullet creates too much pressure for the barrel or chamber, even of a handgun, to be made of anything ''but'' metal), anyone would know that bullets are ''also'' made of metals such as lead (there's a reason the phrase "Eat lead!" refers to bullets), and would thus set off metal detectors regardless of what the gun carrying them is made of. This is also ignoring that airport scanners don't ''just'' look for metal, but ''shape'' as well. A non-metallic gun will still show up, and though it won't be as bright as a metallic one, anything gun-shaped will raise eyebrows.
* ''Film/EverAfter'': After the robbers are chased off, Leonardo da Vinci reaches into a saddle bag and ''unrolls'' the Mona Lisa. It takes about ten seconds to check the real painting was painted on wood, and can't be rolled.
* ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'': A teacher says that 3,486,522 is a prime number. Even numbers other than 2 can't be prime numbers.
* ''Film/FantasticFour2015'': Victor's rant about how it's not "fair" that Planet Zero will be first explored by astronauts instead of the people who built the teleporters has a lot of this. He complains that maybe they're going to send in the CIA. The CIA, being an intelligence agency, would have ''absolutely nothing'' to do with the exploration of new planets. Their purview is more about already-established countries.
* ''Flight Of The Living Dead'' has an ''amazing'' one for anyone with even a faint knowledge of medicine, by having a mutated Malaria Virus be the cause of the outbreak. That must be one hell of a mutation to turn a parasitic protozoan into a virus.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': For all the good things we can say about the [[Film/{{Godzilla1954}} Japanese cut]] of the first ''Godzilla'', it's still got a pretty glaring one of these when Prof. Yamane says that dinosaurs lived 2 million years ago, when any child could tell you that they went extinct 66 million years ago.
* ''Film/TheKissingBooth2'': While Elle is visiting Noah in Boston, they both order alcohol at a bar. Elle is asked for ID, though strangely Noah is not asked. Even with her ID though, Elle shouldn't legally be allowed to buy alcohol because the drinking age in Massachusetts is 21, and both Elle and Noah are around 18.
* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'': The infamous line "Yesterday he absorbed Latin in two hours. It took me one year just to learn the Latin alphabet". Latin alphabet is the same as the modern English alphabet, minus a few letters (such as J, U and W) that were added later.
* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** Morpheus's exposition that people are kept in suspended animation because they were needed as batteries for the machines is such an egregious violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics that it makes everyone with just a cursory knowledge of physics groan. The original treatment had the brains of humans used as sub-processors, which is at least defensible, but thought to be [[ViewersAreMorons too complicated]] for moviegoers.
** Agent Smith mentions his contempt for humans, claiming that humans are the only creatures that don't instinctively seek an equilibrium to stop population growth, saying they are more like viruses than mammals. In reality, all animals will reproduce out of control if given the opportunity (i.e. enough food and a lack of predators). Humanity has witnessed (and caused) this to happen in a wide range of species when something happens to the population of their predators or when introduced to a new environment (rabbits in Australia for example). There is no natural instinct against it-rather, a species will continue doing this until they wreck their environment and go extinct, or are culled by predators (assuming they are prey animals).
* ''Film/PatchAdams'': The title character is ranting at God after [[spoiler:love interest Carin dies]][[note]]in real life Carin was a man and he and Patch Adams were not romantically involved.[[/note]]. At one point, he laments that of all the creatures on Earth, humans are the only ones who kill their own kind. Ever watched the Creator/DiscoveryChannel, Patch? It'd be more accurate to say that humans are the only ones who bother to feel bad about it.
* According to ''Film/PumaMan'' Stonehenge is apparently an Aztec artifact. Even if you only have passing knowledge of the [[{{Mayincatec}} Aztecs]] and Myth/AztecMythology, you'd probably know Stonehenge is in Europe while the Aztecs were in Central America.
* ''Film/Scream2'': Randy states that ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' can't be considered [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a case of a movie sequel being better than the original]] because it was part of a planned trilogy, and thus is not a true sequel. Even accepting this dubious premise, anyone who knows even the first thing about the creative development of the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy knows that about the only planned thing about sequels to the first film was that there would be sequels; ''Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye'' was written to be a low-budget sequel to ''Film/ANewHope'' in case it was a flop, and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen ESB went through several major rewrites before it became the classic it is.]]
* ''Film/TheSuckers'': Characters who should know better InUniverse (they all connected to big-game hunting) talk about orangutans in Africa and snow leopards in South America. Apparently the writer thinks that all apes are found in Africa, and that there is no distinction between a leopard and a jaguar.
* In the NoBudget film ''Film/{{Tartarus}}'', a man buys "Bolivian rock" but is given a bag of white powder, which he starts snorting. The filmmaker apparently didn't know the difference between powder cocaine and crack cocaine. Then, the dealer reveals that he's a cop and demands to know who the man's supplier is. The man's supplier would be the undercover cop himself, who just gave him the drugs. The filmmaker apparently didn't understand basic aspects of the drug trade.
* ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'' has this line: "It's only Neutron. We call him that because he's so positive." Neutrons of course have no charge.
* ''Film/AViewToAKill'': Creator/RogerEbert pointed out that the villain's evil scheme makes no sense if you have any knowledge of computer manufacturing. Zorin's plan is to corner the market on microchips by destroying Silicon Valley, which would wipe out his competitors. In reality, this would do very little to affect Zorin's market share, since microchips aren't usually manufactured in Silicon Valley. If he wanted to destroy his competitors, he would have had to attack factories overseas somewhere like China. Also, given that many of the tech firms in Silicon Valley produce devices that ''require'' microchips, Zorin would essentially be taking out a huge chunk of his own customers.
* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''. Even if every single polar ice cap and iceberg on the planet melted, it wouldn't be ''nearly'' enough to flood the entire Earth. Let alone have ''Denver'' be a mile underwater.
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* Near the end of ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Road Chip'', [[TheSmartGuy Simon]] claims that there's no such thing as 1000%. As any child whose passed ''5th grade math'' could tell you, percentage is a numerator built on relative quantity. Claiming that 1000% doesn't exist is roughly equivalent to saying the number ten doesn't exist. It was a clumsy way of stating something that ''is'' true; there cannot be more than 100% of something where 100% is defined as the ''limit'' of that thing. For example, you cannot give more than 100% of your time. But you could give someone more than 100% of the amount of money that is in your wallet, by using a credit card.
* ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'' features ''a scientist'' who claims that "the heart is made up of a single cell."
* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', it's a huge plot point that Ultron is prevented from hacking into the "Nexus Internet Hub" in Norway and gaining access to nuclear codes. There are two major problems here:
** Not only does the Nexus Internet Hub not exist in real life, but the entire point of the Internet is '''not''' relying on a central hub. It was originally created by the US government wanting to connect its defense systems in such a way that the network would still function if one or more points were destroyed. Even after the Internet went public and international in the 90s, it retains this fundamental aspect.
** No country keeps its nuclear codes online. In the United States, the codes are printed on hard copy and have to be spoken by the president over a secured phone line. The system has more or less stayed the same since the 1940s to avoid the exact problems this movie spells out (keeping the codes from falling into the hands of a malicious hacker).
* ''Film/BigglesAdventuresInTime'': The {{tagline}} of the film is "Meet Jim Ferguson. He lived a daring double-life with one foot in the 20th century and the other in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI." World War I happened in the 20th century.
* ''Film/TheDeadlyMantis'': "Every known species of animal has a bony skeleton." What?! Then someone asks him "Every animal?" and he replies "Even birds have bony skeletons". Apparently in this universe people think only humans have bones.
* ''Film/DieHard2'':
** If you have even a cursory knowledge of airports, the entire plot will fall flat on its face. It relies on the whole cast not knowing that all of those airliners flying around without a working runway can just fly to another airport. The movie tries to explain this by saying that the nearest other airport is shut down because of the snowstorm, but if those airliners are carrying enough fuel to circle the sky for ''two hours'', they can just fly to an airport farther away. For reference, the film takes place in Washington, D.C., which has two nearby airports that are actually mentioned in the film: Dulles International (the target of the terrorist plot) and Reagan National (the one that's shut down). With the Mid-Atlantic United States being the most densely-populated region in the country, there are at least a ''dozen'' major airports within 300 miles of DC that an airplane can reach in two hours with fuel to spare (Baltimore International, for instance, which isn't that much farther away from Dulles than Reagan), not counting the various military bases that would receive commercial airliners in the event of an emergency.
** It also features a scene where the hero claims that the criminals were carrying "Glock 7" handguns that are invisible to airport scanners because they are made of porcelain rather than metal. Even accepting this ludicrous premise (a real Glock is about 87% steel in reality and cannot get through an X-ray or metal detector, and the action of firing a bullet creates too much pressure for the barrel or chamber, even of a handgun, to be made of anything ''but'' metal), anyone would know that bullets are ''also'' made of metals such as lead (there's a reason the phrase "Eat lead!" refers to bullets), and would thus set off metal detectors regardless of what the gun carrying them is made of. This is also ignoring that airport scanners don't ''just'' look for metal, but ''shape'' as well. A non-metallic gun will still show up, and though it won't be as bright as a metallic one, anything gun-shaped will raise eyebrows.
* ''Film/EverAfter'': After the robbers are chased off, Leonardo da Vinci reaches into a saddle bag and ''unrolls'' the Mona Lisa. It takes about ten seconds to check the real painting was painted on wood, and can't be rolled.
* ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'': A teacher says that 3,486,522 is a prime number. Even numbers other than 2 can't be prime numbers.
* ''Film/FantasticFour2015'': Victor's rant about how it's not "fair" that Planet Zero will be first explored by astronauts instead of the people who built the teleporters has a lot of this. He complains that maybe they're going to send in the CIA. The CIA, being an intelligence agency, would have ''absolutely nothing'' to do with the exploration of new planets. Their purview is more about already-established countries.
* ''Flight Of The Living Dead'' has an ''amazing'' one for anyone with even a faint knowledge of medicine, by having a mutated Malaria Virus be the cause of the outbreak. That must be one hell of a mutation to turn a parasitic protozoan into a virus.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': For all the good things we can say about the [[Film/{{Godzilla1954}} Japanese cut]] of the first ''Godzilla'', it's still got a pretty glaring one of these when Prof. Yamane says that dinosaurs lived 2 million years ago, when any child could tell you that they went extinct 66 million years ago.
* ''Film/TheKissingBooth2'': While Elle is visiting Noah in Boston, they both order alcohol at a bar. Elle is asked for ID, though strangely Noah is not asked. Even with her ID though, Elle shouldn't legally be allowed to buy alcohol because the drinking age in Massachusetts is 21, and both Elle and Noah are around 18.
* ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'': The infamous line "Yesterday he absorbed Latin in two hours. It took me one year just to learn the Latin alphabet". Latin alphabet is the same as the modern English alphabet, minus a few letters (such as J, U and W) that were added later.
* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
** Morpheus's exposition that people are kept in suspended animation because they were needed as batteries for the machines is such an egregious violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics that it makes everyone with just a cursory knowledge of physics groan. The original treatment had the brains of humans used as sub-processors, which is at least defensible, but thought to be [[ViewersAreMorons too complicated]] for moviegoers.
** Agent Smith mentions his contempt for humans, claiming that humans are the only creatures that don't instinctively seek an equilibrium to stop population growth, saying they are more like viruses than mammals. In reality, all animals will reproduce out of control if given the opportunity (i.e. enough food and a lack of predators). Humanity has witnessed (and caused) this to happen in a wide range of species when something happens to the population of their predators or when introduced to a new environment (rabbits in Australia for example). There is no natural instinct against it-rather, a species will continue doing this until they wreck their environment and go extinct, or are culled by predators (assuming they are prey animals).
* ''Film/PatchAdams'': The title character is ranting at God after [[spoiler:love interest Carin dies]][[note]]in real life Carin was a man and he and Patch Adams were not romantically involved.[[/note]]. At one point, he laments that of all the creatures on Earth, humans are the only ones who kill their own kind. Ever watched the Creator/DiscoveryChannel, Patch? It'd be more accurate to say that humans are the only ones who bother to feel bad about it.
* According to ''Film/PumaMan'' Stonehenge is apparently an Aztec artifact. Even if you only have passing knowledge of the [[{{Mayincatec}} Aztecs]] and Myth/AztecMythology, you'd probably know Stonehenge is in Europe while the Aztecs were in Central America.
* ''Film/Scream2'': Randy states that ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' can't be considered [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a case of a movie sequel being better than the original]] because it was part of a planned trilogy, and thus is not a true sequel. Even accepting this dubious premise, anyone who knows even the first thing about the creative development of the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy knows that about the only planned thing about sequels to the first film was that there would be sequels; ''Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye'' was written to be a low-budget sequel to ''Film/ANewHope'' in case it was a flop, and [[WhatCouldHaveBeen ESB went through several major rewrites before it became the classic it is.]]
* ''Film/TheSuckers'': Characters who should know better InUniverse (they all connected to big-game hunting) talk about orangutans in Africa and snow leopards in South America. Apparently the writer thinks that all apes are found in Africa, and that there is no distinction between a leopard and a jaguar.
* In the NoBudget film ''Film/{{Tartarus}}'', a man buys "Bolivian rock" but is given a bag of white powder, which he starts snorting. The filmmaker apparently didn't know the difference between powder cocaine and crack cocaine. Then, the dealer reveals that he's a cop and demands to know who the man's supplier is. The man's supplier would be the undercover cop himself, who just gave him the drugs. The filmmaker apparently didn't understand basic aspects of the drug trade.
* ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'' has this line: "It's only Neutron. We call him that because he's so positive." Neutrons of course have no charge.
* ''Film/AViewToAKill'': Creator/RogerEbert pointed out that the villain's evil scheme makes no sense if you have any knowledge of computer manufacturing. Zorin's plan is to corner the market on microchips by destroying Silicon Valley, which would wipe out his competitors. In reality, this would do very little to affect Zorin's market share, since microchips aren't usually manufactured in Silicon Valley. If he wanted to destroy his competitors, he would have had to attack factories overseas somewhere like China. Also, given that many of the tech firms in Silicon Valley produce devices that ''require'' microchips, Zorin would essentially be taking out a huge chunk of his own customers.
* ''Film/{{Waterworld}}''. Even if every single polar ice cap and iceberg on the planet melted, it wouldn't be ''nearly'' enough to flood the entire Earth. Let alone have ''Denver'' be a mile underwater.
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* ''Series/BostonLegal'' frequently makes errors obvious to even non-lawyers. Lawyers routinely meet with judges without the presence of opposing counsel, evidence that has nothing to do with the case is introduced at the last minute, and the same firm occasionally represents ''both'' sides in a case.
* One episode of ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' had Sarah say "Hormones travel the same paths in the body as adrenaline". Any high schooler taking a science class would be able to tell you adrenaline ''is'' a hormone. For a character who's supposedly studied science professionally in order to make a career out of it, this is an inexcusable lack of knowledge.
* In the "killer gamers" episode of ''Series/CSIMiami'', the bad guys are basing their crimes on the plot of [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 a video game]]. [[PacManFever The only way the team can find out what happens next is to play the game]] since the game company executive they talk to refuses to tell them the plot since it's a "trade secret". Even if you have zero knowledge of video games, you've probably heard of Wikipedia, and know that the plots of all media can be found on it, often in excruciating detail. At least Horatio immediately has the executive arrested for obstruction of justice.
* ''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'': Much is made about Tom Kirkman being the first independent president of the United States, except that there have already been [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington two]] [[UsefulNotes/JohnTyler independent]] presidents.
* A major episode of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' had a tornado hitting the neighborhood. It's shown on newscasts as a major blob of red/yellow coloring slowly coming forward and folks are shown packing up hours in advance to get away. As soon as the episode aired, the viewer reaction forced the writers to admit that they thought a tornado was like a hurricane, which are predicted days in advance. In reality, a tornado is a ''byproduct'' of a powerful storm, and while the storm itself can be tracked, tornadoes are notorious for popping up with little to no warning and are nearly impossible to predict until they're literally happening. The best a meteorologist can tell you is if the conditions are ''right'' for one to appear.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''--being a science-fiction show--can [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief get away with a fair bit]]; but sometimes the only reaction to something has to be "no, it isn't".
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]], the Doctor and Rose find themselves on the titular planet, which apparently is so-called because it's in orbit about a black hole. Which is ''perfectly'' possible; a planet can orbit a black hole as easily as it can orbit any other massive body. What would be much more difficult would be to remain ''hovering'' over the hole, while material in the hole's accretion disk (which is in orbit) continually blows over it. That's actually the situation in the story, but somewhere along the way the exposition fell over and sprained an ankle.
** An even more egregious example came in the 2014 episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon "Kill the Moon"]], which shamelessly breaks the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief several times over.
*** The Moon's mass increasing tenfold caused "high tide everywhere at once". Quite apart from the question of where the extra water is supposed to come from, anyone who knows anything about lunar tides knows that they bulge out along the line to the moon, not in all directions. Also, the Moon having an Earth-like gravity should have made a tidally-locked binary system.
*** The "giant [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment single celled prokaryotic]] bacteria" have teeth, hair, saliva, and joints, which are features too complex for a prokaryotic organism, and downright impossible to have if the entire thing is just one cell.
*** The entire concept of the Moon being an egg. An egg is a closed system with the same mass from when it's laid to when it hatches, meaning the Moon could not have just suddenly gained extra mass out of nowhere.
*** The egg breaking apart harmlessly, despite logic dictating that the gigantic pieces of shell should now rain down on Earth as fiery meteor chunks (this is especially bad because one of the characters is treated as ''morally deficient'' for pointing out the danger and not expecting the DeusExMachina dissolution). Also, the strange lack of flooded continents, despite tides having been mentioned as a problem.
*** The creature hatching from the egg immediately lays another egg, which becomes Earth's new moon. How did the creature and the new egg ''both'' fit inside the original moon-egg?
* On January 18, 2012, the commercials for ''Series/EntertainmentTonight'' previewed a story about the ''Concordia'' cruise ship capsizing disaster, which they called "The RealLife Film/{{Titanic|1997}}". [[AluminumChristmasTrees One would think the real-life Titanic]] would be, well, the ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]''.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' episode "The Sound and the Fury" is full of chess metaphors, but the actual game between Harrison and Hartley disregards the rules. Harrison, in check, moves his rook in front of Hartley's king, which is illegal because it doesn't remove the threat to his own king. Even if it were legal, it would only put Hartley in check because Hartley could have taken Harrison's rook with his knight.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** The son of a professor states that individuals with beneficial mutations have to fight harder than other people to survive. Which not only fails biology, but also inverts the definition of "beneficial".
** And those ever-so-convenient eclipses, which somehow occur all over the planet. Even in Japan and the United States simultaneously, never mind how it'd be ''the middle of the night'' in one when it's mid-day in the other. Season 3 even has a two-parter where an eclipse lasts for several hours (which is... unlikely, to say the least).
* ''Series/TheOReillyFactor'':
** In an example that produced no fewer than two {{meme|ticMutation}}s, O'Reilly claimed that there was no scientific explanation for tides, notoriously claiming "You can't explain that!"[[note]]meme one[[/note]] while the guest he was interviewing, David Silverman, stared at him with a face that just ''screamed'' "you can't be serious"[[note]]meme two[[/note]]. For bonus points, when the mechanics behind tides were later explained to him, he showed his lack of understanding of the scientific method by claiming that tidal forces are "[[GravityIsOnlyATheory just a theory.]]"
** A viewer wrote that the average life expectancy in Canada is higher than in the US. Bill replies that this is only natural... then makes a statement that would fit right in as a "spot the flaw in the logic" problem in an elementary school math class: 'The [=USA=] has ten times as many people as Canada, leading to ten times as many violent crimes and accidents, leading to a lower average life expectancy.'
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In the "Sweet and Sour Victory" episode, Sabrina enters a martial arts competition and uses her powers to become an instant expert, then feels guilty after defeating the current champion, a man. Like most athletic competitions, martial arts tournaments are strictly divided by gender, and Sabrina, being a girl, would ''only'' be allowed to fight in the women's division.
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': The pilot revolves around the counterfeiting of "Spanish Victory Bonds", some rare 1944 bonds issued by the US government "to support the Spanish underground in their battle against the Axis." But the Axis did not invade Spain during UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarII}}W2, a neutral (and ''Axis-leaning'') country through the whole war.
* ''Who Dares Wins'' once had the contestants tasked to fill in a list of countries in Asia. During the run-down of answers that weren't given by them, one of the apparent correct answers was United Kingdom, which is nowhere near Asia. Especially embarrassing for a British show.
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* ''Series/BostonLegal'' frequently makes errors obvious to even non-lawyers. Lawyers routinely meet with judges without the presence of opposing counsel, evidence that has nothing to do with the case is introduced at the last minute, and the same firm occasionally represents ''both'' sides in a case.
* One episode of ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' had Sarah say "Hormones travel the same paths in the body as adrenaline". Any high schooler taking a science class would be able to tell you adrenaline ''is'' a hormone. For a character who's supposedly studied science professionally in order to make a career out of it, this is an inexcusable lack of knowledge.
* In the "killer gamers" episode of ''Series/CSIMiami'', the bad guys are basing their crimes on the plot of [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 a video game]]. [[PacManFever The only way the team can find out what happens next is to play the game]] since the game company executive they talk to refuses to tell them the plot since it's a "trade secret". Even if you have zero knowledge of video games, you've probably heard of Wikipedia, and know that the plots of all media can be found on it, often in excruciating detail. At least Horatio immediately has the executive arrested for obstruction of justice.
* ''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'': Much is made about Tom Kirkman being the first independent president of the United States, except that there have already been [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington two]] [[UsefulNotes/JohnTyler independent]] presidents.
* A major episode of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' had a tornado hitting the neighborhood. It's shown on newscasts as a major blob of red/yellow coloring slowly coming forward and folks are shown packing up hours in advance to get away. As soon as the episode aired, the viewer reaction forced the writers to admit that they thought a tornado was like a hurricane, which are predicted days in advance. In reality, a tornado is a ''byproduct'' of a powerful storm, and while the storm itself can be tracked, tornadoes are notorious for popping up with little to no warning and are nearly impossible to predict until they're literally happening. The best a meteorologist can tell you is if the conditions are ''right'' for one to appear.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''--being a science-fiction show--can [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief get away with a fair bit]]; but sometimes the only reaction to something has to be "no, it isn't".
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet "The Impossible Planet"]], the Doctor and Rose find themselves on the titular planet, which apparently is so-called because it's in orbit about a black hole. Which is ''perfectly'' possible; a planet can orbit a black hole as easily as it can orbit any other massive body. What would be much more difficult would be to remain ''hovering'' over the hole, while material in the hole's accretion disk (which is in orbit) continually blows over it. That's actually the situation in the story, but somewhere along the way the exposition fell over and sprained an ankle.
** An even more egregious example came in the 2014 episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon "Kill the Moon"]], which shamelessly breaks the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief several times over.
*** The Moon's mass increasing tenfold caused "high tide everywhere at once". Quite apart from the question of where the extra water is supposed to come from, anyone who knows anything about lunar tides knows that they bulge out along the line to the moon, not in all directions. Also, the Moon having an Earth-like gravity should have made a tidally-locked binary system.
*** The "giant [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment single celled prokaryotic]] bacteria" have teeth, hair, saliva, and joints, which are features too complex for a prokaryotic organism, and downright impossible to have if the entire thing is just one cell.
*** The entire concept of the Moon being an egg. An egg is a closed system with the same mass from when it's laid to when it hatches, meaning the Moon could not have just suddenly gained extra mass out of nowhere.
*** The egg breaking apart harmlessly, despite logic dictating that the gigantic pieces of shell should now rain down on Earth as fiery meteor chunks (this is especially bad because one of the characters is treated as ''morally deficient'' for pointing out the danger and not expecting the DeusExMachina dissolution). Also, the strange lack of flooded continents, despite tides having been mentioned as a problem.
*** The creature hatching from the egg immediately lays another egg, which becomes Earth's new moon. How did the creature and the new egg ''both'' fit inside the original moon-egg?
* On January 18, 2012, the commercials for ''Series/EntertainmentTonight'' previewed a story about the ''Concordia'' cruise ship capsizing disaster, which they called "The RealLife Film/{{Titanic|1997}}". [[AluminumChristmasTrees One would think the real-life Titanic]] would be, well, the ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]''.
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'' episode "The Sound and the Fury" is full of chess metaphors, but the actual game between Harrison and Hartley disregards the rules. Harrison, in check, moves his rook in front of Hartley's king, which is illegal because it doesn't remove the threat to his own king. Even if it were legal, it would only put Hartley in check because Hartley could have taken Harrison's rook with his knight.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'':
** The son of a professor states that individuals with beneficial mutations have to fight harder than other people to survive. Which not only fails biology, but also inverts the definition of "beneficial".
** And those ever-so-convenient eclipses, which somehow occur all over the planet. Even in Japan and the United States simultaneously, never mind how it'd be ''the middle of the night'' in one when it's mid-day in the other. Season 3 even has a two-parter where an eclipse lasts for several hours (which is... unlikely, to say the least).
* ''Series/TheOReillyFactor'':
** In an example that produced no fewer than two {{meme|ticMutation}}s, O'Reilly claimed that there was no scientific explanation for tides, notoriously claiming "You can't explain that!"[[note]]meme one[[/note]] while the guest he was interviewing, David Silverman, stared at him with a face that just ''screamed'' "you can't be serious"[[note]]meme two[[/note]]. For bonus points, when the mechanics behind tides were later explained to him, he showed his lack of understanding of the scientific method by claiming that tidal forces are "[[GravityIsOnlyATheory just a theory.]]"
** A viewer wrote that the average life expectancy in Canada is higher than in the US. Bill replies that this is only natural... then makes a statement that would fit right in as a "spot the flaw in the logic" problem in an elementary school math class: 'The [=USA=] has ten times as many people as Canada, leading to ten times as many violent crimes and accidents, leading to a lower average life expectancy.'
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In the "Sweet and Sour Victory" episode, Sabrina enters a martial arts competition and uses her powers to become an instant expert, then feels guilty after defeating the current champion, a man. Like most athletic competitions, martial arts tournaments are strictly divided by gender, and Sabrina, being a girl, would ''only'' be allowed to fight in the women's division.
* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': The pilot revolves around the counterfeiting of "Spanish Victory Bonds", some rare 1944 bonds issued by the US government "to support the Spanish underground in their battle against the Axis." But the Axis did not invade Spain during UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarII}}W2, a neutral (and ''Axis-leaning'') country through the whole war.
* ''Who Dares Wins'' once had the contestants tasked to fill in a list of countries in Asia. During the run-down of answers that weren't given by them, one of the apparent correct answers was United Kingdom, which is nowhere near Asia. Especially embarrassing for a British show.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Scratches}}'' takes place around the 1970s. This setting has led to two mistakes.
** When Michael Arthate keeps calling the bank, the employee on the other hand eventually answers the phone with the words that he will call the police if Michael keeps calling. Given the above setting, the employee's phone would not have any Caller ID, making it impossible for him to know that it's Michael calling, without even saying anything. Of course, it could simply be an ''assumption'' on the part of the bank employee. If you get five calls from the same person in a row, you might reasonably assume that it's the same person after picking up the sixth time. Admittedly, this is probably bad practice for a bank.
** One newspaper article talks about how a large amount of money was stolen, with the currency listed as Euros. The Euro currency was not established until 1999, a good 20 years after this game takes place, and physical Euros weren't available until the end of 2001. There's also the fact that Britain never took on the Euro currency and has retained using Pounds, making this a double-whopper of a mistake.
* Update 1.12 of ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' introduced parrots, which could be fed chocolate chip cookies. Mojang quickly fixed this with a patch providing an alternate food due to the fact that Chocolate is poisonous to parrots (and other animals in general). The in-game parrots now die if fed cookies.
* The early Creator/{{Sierra}} game ''Time Zone'', an adventure through time and space, was among the earliest by Roberta Williams, who claims in the game's manual that "History books aren't a lot of fun." This would explain why the game believes man discovered fire in 10,000 B.C.
* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'': The game developers apparently believed a hockey mask would keep a person safe from a bullet, given you can't kill thugs with hockey masks by shooting their heads.
* The ''VideoGame/LEGOJurassicWorld'' video game refers to the people working on Alan Grant's and Ellie Satler's dig as archaeologists. Archaeologists deal solely with ''human'' remains and artifacts; those who work with fossils and dinosaurs are ''palaeontologists'', and the two disciplines require vastly different skill sets and knowledge bases. You'd think a game devoted to ''dinosaurs'' of all things would get this correct.
* In ''EA Sports UFC 2'', Russian martial artist Khabib Nurmagomedov is shown performing the Sign of the Cross in his victory pose. Nurmagomedov is a devout Muslim, hails from a predominantly-Muslim region in Russia, and is one of the most famous Muslim athletes in the world. After he called out EA Sports for such a grievous error, they quickly apologized and changed his victory pose in the next patch update.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' has one that reaches horrifying levels of UnfortunateImplications and FridgeHorror: almost ''everything'' it has to say about Fei's Dissociative Identity Disorder and his recovery from it is either (at best) outdated due to the lack of available knowledge of DID at the time of the game's writing, ''extremely'' inaccurate (it's not bipolar and schizophrenia), or straight up InsaneEqualsViolent stigmatizing (Id's entire personality being "KILL KILL KILL"). Plus, fusion is not the end goal or treatment for DID, and a fusion forced under threat from the "good" alter under emergency conditions is likely to actually just be itself a traumatic experience leading to ''more,'' not less, structural dissociation and potential worse issues in the future. Almost the only things it gets correct in a StoppedClock Moment are that it is a traumagenic condition as a result of early childhood abuse/neglect/suffering, and that [[FairForItsDay people with it deserve inclusion and care from their friends]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Scratches}}'' takes place around the 1970s. This setting has led to two mistakes.
** When Michael Arthate keeps calling the bank, the employee on the other hand eventually answers the phone with the words that he will call the police if Michael keeps calling. Given the above setting, the employee's phone would not have any Caller ID, making it impossible for him to know that it's Michael calling, without even saying anything. Of course, it could simply be an ''assumption'' on the part of the bank employee. If you get five calls from the same person in a row, you might reasonably assume that it's the same person after picking up the sixth time. Admittedly, this is probably bad practice for a bank.
** One newspaper article talks about how a large amount of money was stolen, with the currency listed as Euros. The Euro currency was not established until 1999, a good 20 years after this game takes place, and physical Euros weren't available until the end of 2001. There's also the fact that Britain never took on the Euro currency and has retained using Pounds, making this a double-whopper of a mistake.
* Update 1.12 of ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}'' introduced parrots, which could be fed chocolate chip cookies. Mojang quickly fixed this with a patch providing an alternate food due to the fact that Chocolate is poisonous to parrots (and other animals in general). The in-game parrots now die if fed cookies.
* The early Creator/{{Sierra}} game ''Time Zone'', an adventure through time and space, was among the earliest by Roberta Williams, who claims in the game's manual that "History books aren't a lot of fun." This would explain why the game believes man discovered fire in 10,000 B.C.
* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'': The game developers apparently believed a hockey mask would keep a person safe from a bullet, given you can't kill thugs with hockey masks by shooting their heads.
* The ''VideoGame/LEGOJurassicWorld'' video game refers to the people working on Alan Grant's and Ellie Satler's dig as archaeologists. Archaeologists deal solely with ''human'' remains and artifacts; those who work with fossils and dinosaurs are ''palaeontologists'', and the two disciplines require vastly different skill sets and knowledge bases. You'd think a game devoted to ''dinosaurs'' of all things would get this correct.
* In ''EA Sports UFC 2'', Russian martial artist Khabib Nurmagomedov is shown performing the Sign of the Cross in his victory pose. Nurmagomedov is a devout Muslim, hails from a predominantly-Muslim region in Russia, and is one of the most famous Muslim athletes in the world. After he called out EA Sports for such a grievous error, they quickly apologized and changed his victory pose in the next patch update.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' has one that reaches horrifying levels of UnfortunateImplications and FridgeHorror: almost ''everything'' it has to say about Fei's Dissociative Identity Disorder and his recovery from it is either (at best) outdated due to the lack of available knowledge of DID at the time of the game's writing, ''extremely'' inaccurate (it's not bipolar and schizophrenia), or straight up InsaneEqualsViolent stigmatizing (Id's entire personality being "KILL KILL KILL"). Plus, fusion is not the end goal or treatment for DID, and a fusion forced under threat from the "good" alter under emergency conditions is likely to actually just be itself a traumatic experience leading to ''more,'' not less, structural dissociation and potential worse issues in the future. Almost the only things it gets correct in a StoppedClock Moment are that it is a traumagenic condition as a result of early childhood abuse/neglect/suffering, and that [[FairForItsDay people with it deserve inclusion and care from their friends]].
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* ''WebVideo/GameTheory'':
** [=MatPat=] called a lawyer, [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]], a paralegal. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of law knows that paralegals aren't qualified to be lawyers by definition.
** In the "Who Would Win - Samurai, Knight, or Viking? (''VideoGame/ForHonor'')" video, [=MatPat=] says that greaves--leg armor--are worn on forearms.
* ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'': In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0 preview]] for their ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' review, Mike claim that there were 65 million years of dinosaurs before humans. Unfortunately, he has that backwards: dinosaurs have been ''extinct'' for 65 million years.
* WebVideo/MatthewSantoro:
** In "Catching Up: With Matt! (#1)", Matt says that UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} is part of UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica, [[ArtisticLicenseGeography but it's actually part of North America]].
** In "10 Famous Paintings with HIDDEN CODES!", Matthew refers to Hades as a "Greek goddess." Hades is male.
* ''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter'':
** He claims in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XawmU9zn4 Animated Atrocities review]] of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "One Coarse Meal" that whales only eat krill, ignoring that some whales in RealLife actually ''do'' [[http://www.whalefacts.org/what-do-whales-eat/ eat plankton]]. He actually does bring up this point in his "Top 11 Worst Episodes Reviewed" video, admitting he did some research and yes, some whales do eat plankton. In the same video, he mentioned that Pearl was a Sperm Whale, which doesn't eat plankton.
** In his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudbfEWmX30 Top Ten Worst Cartoons of the 2000s]] special, he states that American kids' first exposure to anime outside of Creator/StudioGhibli was in the 2000s, even though kids had long been exposed to anime, such as ''Manga/SailorMoon'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', and if we're going earlier, ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', ''Anime/GoLion''[=/=]''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', and ''Manga/AstroBoy'', and that's before factoring in the numerous other titles that were influential within the US anime community and premiered much earlier, such as ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'', ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' and ''Anime/NinjaScroll''.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': [[https://twitter.com/Linkara19/status/1254759420812124161 So much so that he has done a series of videos listing his mistakes]].
** His review of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' he mocks how the house the survivors are hiding in somehow has a "radio hook up" but the phone lines are down. Has nobody ever told him radios don't have "hook ups" but receive wireless transmissions, and that a radio will function as long as there is power?
** In ''Battle of the Commercials'' he takes a shot at the ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' by claiming it bombed and that the ''UsefulNotes/GameGear'' was a million times better. Anyone who grew up with these consoles or who even has a passing knowledge of video games knows the polar opposite is true, as the Game Boy blew the Game Gear out of the water and outsold it over ten-to-one with a much longer lifespan. Even in terms of technical specs, really the only thing the Game Gear did better were graphics as it had a color screen and twice the video ram than the Game Boy, but even this worked against it as it made it much more expensive and drained batteries much faster.[[note]]That is, '''much''' faster: A Game Boy got thirty hours out of four AA batteries; a Game Gear got ''around three hours out of six AA batteries''[[/note]]
* ''[=Thoughty2=]'s'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwSvQwuPcR4 The Insidious 'Toxic Masculinity' Myth is Damaging Humanity."]] Where to even begin?
** He says being gay is more socially acceptable now than ever. Homosexuality was widely accepted in many ancient cultures, such as Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
** He talks of nature's "doctrine" of "survival of the fittest", and seems to think that [[GoalOrientedEvolution nature and evolution somehow have a will and purpose in mind.]]
* ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears''
** In his review of the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis ''[[VideoGame/TheLionKing Lion King]]'' game, after the FinalBoss, he states that he can't tell if it's raining or snowing in the Pridelands, even though it was very clearly rain in the film and it never snows in Africa.
** In his review of ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'', he calls the first boss "a gigantic stegosaurus," when, in fact, anyone can tell that Tricky is a triceratops. He also says you have to "topple" the boss, as if to imply that you're fighting him, when you actually have to defeat Tricky in a race.
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* ''WebVideo/GameTheory'':
** [=MatPat=] called a lawyer, [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]], a paralegal. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of law knows that paralegals aren't qualified to be lawyers by definition.
** In the "Who Would Win - Samurai, Knight, or Viking? (''VideoGame/ForHonor'')" video, [=MatPat=] says that greaves--leg armor--are worn on forearms.
* ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'': In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0 preview]] for their ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' review, Mike claim that there were 65 million years of dinosaurs before humans. Unfortunately, he has that backwards: dinosaurs have been ''extinct'' for 65 million years.
* WebVideo/MatthewSantoro:
** In "Catching Up: With Matt! (#1)", Matt says that UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} is part of UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica, [[ArtisticLicenseGeography but it's actually part of North America]].
** In "10 Famous Paintings with HIDDEN CODES!", Matthew refers to Hades as a "Greek goddess." Hades is male.
* ''WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter'':
** He claims in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XawmU9zn4 Animated Atrocities review]] of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "One Coarse Meal" that whales only eat krill, ignoring that some whales in RealLife actually ''do'' [[http://www.whalefacts.org/what-do-whales-eat/ eat plankton]]. He actually does bring up this point in his "Top 11 Worst Episodes Reviewed" video, admitting he did some research and yes, some whales do eat plankton. In the same video, he mentioned that Pearl was a Sperm Whale, which doesn't eat plankton.
** In his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudbfEWmX30 Top Ten Worst Cartoons of the 2000s]] special, he states that American kids' first exposure to anime outside of Creator/StudioGhibli was in the 2000s, even though kids had long been exposed to anime, such as ''Manga/SailorMoon'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', and if we're going earlier, ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', ''Anime/GoLion''[=/=]''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', and ''Manga/AstroBoy'', and that's before factoring in the numerous other titles that were influential within the US anime community and premiered much earlier, such as ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'', ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' and ''Anime/NinjaScroll''.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': [[https://twitter.com/Linkara19/status/1254759420812124161 So much so that he has done a series of videos listing his mistakes]].
** His review of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead'' he mocks how the house the survivors are hiding in somehow has a "radio hook up" but the phone lines are down. Has nobody ever told him radios don't have "hook ups" but receive wireless transmissions, and that a radio will function as long as there is power?
** In ''Battle of the Commercials'' he takes a shot at the ''UsefulNotes/GameBoy'' by claiming it bombed and that the ''UsefulNotes/GameGear'' was a million times better. Anyone who grew up with these consoles or who even has a passing knowledge of video games knows the polar opposite is true, as the Game Boy blew the Game Gear out of the water and outsold it over ten-to-one with a much longer lifespan. Even in terms of technical specs, really the only thing the Game Gear did better were graphics as it had a color screen and twice the video ram than the Game Boy, but even this worked against it as it made it much more expensive and drained batteries much faster.[[note]]That is, '''much''' faster: A Game Boy got thirty hours out of four AA batteries; a Game Gear got ''around three hours out of six AA batteries''[[/note]]
* ''[=Thoughty2=]'s'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwSvQwuPcR4 The Insidious 'Toxic Masculinity' Myth is Damaging Humanity."]] Where to even begin?
** He says being gay is more socially acceptable now than ever. Homosexuality was widely accepted in many ancient cultures, such as Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
** He talks of nature's "doctrine" of "survival of the fittest", and seems to think that [[GoalOrientedEvolution nature and evolution somehow have a will and purpose in mind.]]
* ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears''
** In his review of the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis ''[[VideoGame/TheLionKing Lion King]]'' game, after the FinalBoss, he states that he can't tell if it's raining or snowing in the Pridelands, even though it was very clearly rain in the film and it never snows in Africa.
** In his review of ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing'', he calls the first boss "a gigantic stegosaurus," when, in fact, anyone can tell that Tricky is a triceratops. He also says you have to "topple" the boss, as if to imply that you're fighting him, when you actually have to defeat Tricky in a race.
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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Brock once claimed that Water-types are weak against Fire-types. The opposite is true.
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* Music/BoB's "Flatline", which promotes various conspiracy theories (the Flat Earth Theory among them), has him ask why UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} is part of the Department of Defense. However, as NASA themselves pointed out in an FAQ, they aren't part of the Department of Defense.
* "Peek A Boo" by Music/LilYachty infamously contains the line "she blow that dick like a cello", a comparison which falls apart if you know that a cello is a string instrument, rather than a woodwind. After receiving mockery for the mistake, he blamed his record label's A&R division for not catching it.
* "Peek A Boo" by Music/LilYachty infamously contains the line "she blow that dick like a cello", a comparison which falls apart if you know that a cello is a string instrument, rather than a woodwind. After receiving mockery for the mistake, he blamed his record label's A&R division for not catching it.
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* Music/BoB's Music/{{BoB}}'s "Flatline", which promotes various conspiracy theories (the Flat Earth Theory among them), has him ask why UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} is part of the Department of Defense. However, as NASA themselves pointed out in an FAQ, they aren't part of the Department of Defense.
* "Peek A Boo" byMusic/LilYachty Lil Yachty infamously contains the line "she blow that dick like a cello", a comparison which falls apart if you know that a cello is a string instrument, rather than a woodwind. After receiving mockery for the mistake, he blamed his record label's A&R division for not catching it.
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* A ''Anime/LupinIII'' episode had a sign marking the Kansas/Washington D.C. border. Was it that hard for the writers to get a map of the United States?
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* A ''Anime/LupinIII'' episode had a sign marking the Kansas/Washington D.C. Kansas[=/=]UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC border. Was it that hard for the writers to get a map of the United States?
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* ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'': A large portion of the mid section of the story's plot takes place in Lebanon. The locals are glossed in editor's notes to be speaking Farsi. The average Lebanese would be speaking Arabic, Lebanese or French at the time. Ironically enough, later, one of The Joker's Iranian henchmen is described by Batman as an Arab. Iranians are ethnically Persian and not Arab.
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* ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'': A large portion of the mid section mid-section of the story's plot takes place in Lebanon. The locals are glossed in editor's notes to be speaking Farsi. The average Lebanese would be speaking Arabic, Lebanese or French at the time. Ironically enough, later, one of The Joker's Iranian henchmen is described by Batman Franchise/{{Batman}} as an Arab. Iranians are ethnically Persian and not Arab.
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* Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Jump on It" insinuates that prostitution is legal in Las Vegas, when it is not. It is legal within other parts of Nevada however - Mix was probably thinking of the infamous "Chicken Ranch" brothel which is about an hours drive away from the strip.
* B.O.B's "Flatline", which promotes various conspiracy theories (the Flat Earth Theory among them), has him ask why NASA is part of the Department of Defense. However, as NASA themselves pointed out in an FAQ, they aren't part of the Department of Defense.
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* Sir Mix-a-Lot's Music/SirMixALot's "Jump on It" insinuates that prostitution is legal in Las Vegas, UsefulNotes/LasVegas, when it is not. It is legal within other parts of Nevada however - Mix was probably thinking of the infamous "Chicken Ranch" brothel which is about an hours hour's drive away from the strip.Strip.
*B.O.B's Music/BoB's "Flatline", which promotes various conspiracy theories (the Flat Earth Theory among them), has him ask why NASA UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} is part of the Department of Defense. However, as NASA themselves pointed out in an FAQ, they aren't part of the Department of Defense.
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* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, pleased with the success of Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}} on [=SmackDown=], Wrestling/SmackDown, decided he wanted another high-flyer ''luchador''. So he hired Wrestling/UltimoDragon and then got upset when he discovered Ultimo Dragon really was not a high-flyer at all, which shoud've should've been obvious to anybody within the wrestling business (such as [=McMahon=]) with a knowledge of wrestling outside the United States, UsefulNotes/UnitedStates, as Ultimo Dragon is a Japanese wrestler, and Japanese wrestling, or ''puroresu'', is bound to entirely different dynamics to those of Mexican ''lucha libre''. This is despite the fact Ultimo Dragon had wrestled under the WWF Wrestling/{{WWE}} banner before and won a WWF championship, WWE Championship, suggesting Vince did not even watch ''his own product''.
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** "Stop Normalising Nazis" was panned for many reasons, but one of them was the fact that they said that the Iron Cross is a Nazi symbol, and that it should inspire revulsion amongst the playerbase. Germany still ''uses'' the Iron Cross ''to this day''. In fact the Iron Cross ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predated]]'' the Nazis. They also featured a game called ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV''... which doesn't even ''use'' the Iron Cross as a stand-in for the Swastika. They use the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenkreuz Balkenkreuz]]''.
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** "Stop Normalising Nazis" was panned for many reasons, but one of them was the fact that they said that the Iron Cross is a Nazi symbol, and that it should inspire revulsion amongst the playerbase. Germany UsefulNotes/{{Germany}} still ''uses'' the Iron Cross ''to this day''. In fact the Iron Cross ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predated]]'' the Nazis. They also featured a game called ''VideoGame/BattlefieldV''... which doesn't even ''use'' the Iron Cross as a stand-in for the Swastika. They use the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenkreuz Balkenkreuz]]''.
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** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE12TheLionAndTheUnicorn The Lion and the Unicorn]]" Alfred tells Bruce he's in London, in which Bruce asks 'London England?' and Alfred replies 'There is only one', though there is a city of London in Ontario, Canada, and at least 8 Londons in the United States, among others.
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** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE12TheLionAndTheUnicorn The Lion and the Unicorn]]" Alfred tells Bruce he's in London, UsefulNotes/{{London}}, in which Bruce asks 'London England?' "London, England?" and Alfred replies 'There "There is only one', one", though there is a city of London in Ontario, Canada, and at least 8 Londons in the United States, among others.
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** In one episode, Gambit travels to Washington, D.C., which apparently is located in the state of Washington.
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** In one episode, Gambit travels to Washington, D.C., UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, which apparently is located in the state of Washington.
