Continuity mistake: When Homer ignores Lily, she gets upset then runs out of Moe's, and in the interior shot the door is hinged at the left, but in the next exterior shot that door is hinged on the opposite side, while Lily is crying outside. (00:09:35)
Super Grover
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Marge walks out of her aunt's house onto the porch, the screen door's handle is at the right side, but in the following shots the screen door opens the opposite way. (00:10:05)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: While Lily continues to "light up all the men's lives, except Homer's," when she walks into the power plant with picnic lunches, Homer is wearing a solid peach colored tie, but in the next shot it's a striped peach and pink tie. (00:11:00)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Homer takes Lily home after her date with Burns, as Homer pulls up to her house, the doorknob is on the left side of its front door, but when Lily enters the house, the doorknob is on the opposite side of the door. (00:16:20)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Lily is back at a pub in England and meets Homer's doppelganger, his single shirt pocket and button are at his right side, but as he and Lily leave the pub arm in arm his shirt pocket and button are on the opposite side. (00:20:20)
9th Sep 2023
The Simpsons (1989)
The Nightmare After Krustmas - S28-E10
Continuity mistake: When Krusty is in the hospital, the style of his bed rail changes. (00:04:20 - 00:05:35)
9th Sep 2023
The Simpsons (1989)
The Nightmare After Krustmas - S28-E10
Continuity mistake: When Homer moves Maggie's crib closer to the gnome, the wall outlet under the light switch has nothing plugged in, but in the next shot as Homer exits the bedroom, a nightlight is suddenly plugged in. (00:10:20)
9th Sep 2023
The Simpsons (1989)
The Nightmare After Krustmas - S28-E10
Continuity mistake: While Krusty is in the hospital talking to Sophie, he pops the IV line from his arm so the tubing hangs down from the fluid bag. But when Krusty tells Sophie that he knows she's reaching out, suddenly Krusty's IV line is properly inserted in the cannula again, only to change back to the tubing hanging down. Also, the white pillow propping up Krusty's foot vanishes and reappears during these shots. (00:05:15)
9th Sep 2023
The Simpsons (1989)
The Nightmare After Krustmas - S28-E10
Continuity mistake: When Bart opens the door for Krusty and Sophie, Bart is standing on a floor mat, but in the next exterior shot, that indoor floor mat has vanished. Other changes include the cane's handle within Krusty's grip facing the opposite way, as well as Krusty's and Sophie's positions at the outdoor purple mat. (00:06:50)
9th Sep 2023
The Simpsons (1989)
The Nightmare After Krustmas - S28-E10
Continuity mistake: When Krusty is at the hospital, in the first shot, Krusty's IV tubing is attached to the fluid bag over the bed's safety rail, but in following shots, the tubing is inserted between the rail bars. (00:04:00)
20th Jul 2023
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: After Homer reveals the secret ingredient, one week later, Homer walks into Moe's. In the exterior shot, the door swings open at its right. However, when Moe lights the Flaming Homer, in the next exterior shot, the door swings open at its left. (00:21:00)
28th Jul 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: After Phil eats the "horse" egg at Moe's he asks to be taken to the hospital, and when it cuts back to Homer at the power plant, the direction of the stripes on Homer's tie switch to the opposite direction, mid shot. The same thing occurs again later. First, when Homer is standing outside the office while Fred talks to Burns about the benefits package, and also when Homer can't stay for Marge's turkey breakfast. (00:07:05 - 00:12:20)
28th Jul 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: While Homer, Carl, and Lenny are at Moe's with their new bud Fred, in the interior shots the swinging front door to Moe's swings open on the left side, but in the exterior shot when they all leave Moe's, that door still swings open on the left side, opposite to the interior shots. (00:08:00)
6th Jul 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: While Marge and Homer are standing by their front door when everyone leaves the house Marge is wearing earrings, but when it cuts to the closeup both of Marge's earrings have vanished. (00:08:10)
6th Jul 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: After Marge has bitten the candle down to size, when she wipes Bart's face her left earring vanishes. (00:03:35)
15th May 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: After John shows up in his car to take the Simpson family for a drive, Marge has her purse strap hanging off her left shoulder when she asks Homer to at least say hello to John. In the next shot, as she tells Homer that he liked John that morning, note Marge's purse strap is missing from her shoulder, but the purse is still there just hanging in midair under her arm. The strap reappears in its proper place in the next shot. (00:07:50)
15th May 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show - S8-E14
Continuity mistake: During the last taping of Homer's Poochie character, June Bellamy is standing beside Homer, and she's wearing a watch on her left wrist, but her watch vanishes in some shots. (00:19:40)
12th May 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: After Brodka lets Bart go with a warning the boy rides his bicycle home, and in the closeup the handlebar's single brake lever is at Bart's right hand, but in the next wide shot the brake lever is at his left hand. In the closeup there's also a bar at the center of the handlebar, but it's gone in the wide shot. (00:09:05)
12th May 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Brodka brings Bart to the security office and plays the shoplifters video tape, Troy McClure's trench coat buttons are on his right side (viewer's left), but when Brodka turns off the video the buttons are on Troy's left side, between shots. (00:07:30)
12th May 2022
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: At bedtime, while we hear Marge singing to Lisa in her bedroom Bart is lying in his bed, and on Bart's nightstand beside the door there's a framed photo of Krusty and an alarm clock, but in the next closeup the photo has vanished and instead there's a Krusty telephone. (00:15:55)
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