This thread is about stupid mistakes which appear in popular entertainments, books, teleison, movies music etc.
The mistakes I am talking about are those which should have been picked up by an editor and could be easily corrected.
I was watching a re-run of the televison show “Monk”. two characters drive in a car until the engine begins to make noise, a bang, then clatters then it stopsd running. A mechanic arrives and advises that it is “the solenoid”.
The solenoid? the solenoid is essentially a big electric switch, part of the starting system. It has nothing whatsover to do with how the engine runs.
I’m only looking for one example from any one response.
Oh and as to pointing out my mistakes in this post - there is no editor here so thes mistakes don’t qualify as they are not “those which should have been picked up by an editor”.
Nope, but most are used for changing various modes of operation. There are solenoids to change air intake, cam profiles, fuel injection mixes. Heck, I think solenoids are used now for cars that want to shut down the number of cylinders in use. So nowadays a solenoid failure could stop a car from running.
Big Bang Theory screws up gaming details all the time. The guys spend 96 hours working their way to a room that contains “the Sword of Azeroth”–except that room does not exist, not does the sword, in the real World of Warcraft game. Further, a player that did what Sheldon did would be hated by his fellow gamers for “ninja looting”–ie, unfairly taking the prize for himself and leaving the party.
In another episode, Sheldon’s account got hacked…so the guys tracked down the hacker, and Penny kicked him in the balls to make him return Sheldon’s stuff. Doesn’t work that way in the real game. If you get hacked, there’s a form to fill out, and Blizzard will investigate and hopefully return your stuff.
That card game they play—Mystic Warlords of Ka’ah (or something like that), while appearing to be a knockoff of Magic: The Gathering and other similar games, does not exist and has no known rules.
It’s kinda like the writers know games exist, and that nerds like games, but they don’t bother to get any of the details right.
Uh… Yeah, so? Sure, they use “real” games in other contexts, but why should they use real games all the time, especially when MMOs are a lot more popular than TCGs, and so the “lack” of a real one of the former would be a lot more noticeable than the latter?
You do have the ability to edit your posts w/in the first five minutes of posting, of course…
But seriously:
The recent kerfluffle about Connecticut Senators voting against the 13th amendment in Lincoln when in fact they voted for it is something that was easily fixed - and wasn’t.
I suspect it’s more likely they didn’t want something nerds/gamers would senselessly dissect in minute detail. So they used a made up game. And look what happened!
The others were artistic license to accommodate the plop construction and to make jokes, pretty clearly.
Not having seen that episode, it may have been intentional. Perhaps the mechanic was scamming them; knew it was just a dirty air filter but said “it’s the solenoid” in order to pad the bill.
Fictional auto mechanics are known for that sort of behavior.
