Archives: TV & Movies

Surprising as it may seem, TV and film are no more immune to the mistakes we love here at the Proofreader's Hall of Shame than any other medium.

...there's no limit to what I can accompish. New!: From one of Hiro Nakamura's subtitles in episode 12 of NBC's TV show Heroes. A minor typo, sure, but I notice these things.
Tuesday, Dec. 30nd at 7:00pm — found by amnewsboy: From a TV promo. How do you pronounce that? Thirtiend?
Shinning Star: From an info graphic on a local news broadcast. Fittingly enough, it's the same station that shows The Simpsons.
Tommorow at 9:00 AM: Another local TV promo, which could've benefited from a quick spell check.
On it's way!: From Paramount's scientifically questionable sci-fi movie The Core, this screen shot shows apostrophe abuse at its finest.
Toyko International Airport: From the movie Austin Powers: Goldmember comes this misspelled subtitle. Just because it's a comedy doesn't mean you shouldn't learn how to properly spell one of its settings...
New Zion Baptish Church: Not exactly Baptist, just vaguely similar, I suppose.
ddssgoovvernmentaaccesss: The message at the bottom of the screen has remained for months on an unused cable channel which formerly housed an out-of-town ABC affiliate. Our focus, however, is on the recent "addition" to the message, located at the top of the screen...
First 200 atheletes...: Spotted on another cable access channel, this one used by-- you guessed it-- the public school system. [Pertinent names have been obscured to protect the guilty...]