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Trolls picture

Revealing mistake: When Branch first takes Poppy into his bunker, and down into his storeroom, the lever that he uses isn't there, but when the shot goes to Poppy, and then returns to Branch, the lever is magically there.

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The Old Grey Hare picture

Revealing mistake: When Bugs Bunny is walking away from Elmer Fudd, you can see a futuristic building in the background that keeps disappearing repeatedly when it reaches the end of the frame.

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Hey Arnold! The Movie picture

Revealing mistake: When the head of security carries Arnold and Gerald into Scheck's office, as the camera zooms in on Scheck, one of his buttons disappears twice in two frames, and his other button completely disappears mid-shot. (00:30:18)

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Revealing mistake: Just after Superman and Supergirl have their talk about him going after Brainiac, it cuts to Lois at the Daily Planet on her laptop. There is a close up and you can see her fingers on the keyboard. She is typing really fast, but the animation shows her fingers just hitting the same 3 or 4 keys over and over again. (00:20:05)

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Meet the Engineer mistake picture

Revealing mistake: When the Level 3 Sentry is firing up into the air for no apparent reason, it fires some rockets with a clear defined smoke trail behind them and disappear off screen. Then the shot jump cuts to further away and suddenly the smoke appears again, but the end of the smoke trails are solid and crisp indicating the animators used the smoke animation as if the rockets had just been fired from that spot... in the middle of the sky. (00:01:10)

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The Little Cars in the Great Race picture

Revealing mistake: During the final race, Wrangler is shown knocking a yellow car off the race course. A few seconds before this, there are two shots from behind Wrangler, that are just still frames. The shot does not show Wrangler driving or even moving and is completely still. The shot from behind is merely just a still image, that has been extended to last a split second. The same still frame image is also repeated two shots later. (00:27:35)

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The Simpsons Movie picture

Revealing mistake: When Grandpa is being rolled out of the church, everyone is looking at him. As this happens, look closely at the Squeaky Voiced Teen sitting next to Hans Moleman on the right hand side of the church. As he turns his head around you'll see his eyes disappear as he stops turning his head. (00:06:05)

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Bug Bites: An Ant's Life picture

Revealing mistake: When Sal is eating the leaf, nothing is ever shown breaking off it or going into his mouth. It just appears to remain intact whilst eating it. (00:08:10)

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Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs picture

Revealing mistake: When Leela brings soup to Zap and Amy in bed. Leela is wrapped up by a tentacle. The animator forgot to erase the lines of the tentacle as it overlaps. A huge graphical error can be seen.

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A Boy Named Charlie Brown picture

Revealing mistake: Near the end of the film, Charlie Brown, Linus and Snoopy all cast shadows from the moon, and then suddenly seconds later all the shadows are fully gone. Also, no shadows were cast from any other object around them when the shadows were shown on the characters.

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The Bad Guys picture

Revealing mistake: This happens in the second ceremony when Wolf didn't press the button to shut off the lights to steal the golden dolphin because of the good comments. Few seconds later, the lights shut off, and you can see that the meteor on the top disappears at the time.

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The Fifth-Column Mouse picture

Revealing mistake: When the mice are feeding the cat, the cat sits up and a mouse passes through his head.

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Salt Water Tabby picture

Revealing mistake: When Jerry walks towards the crab with the soda bottle cap stuck on his head, one of the crab's legs disappears for a frame or two.

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Toy Story 2 picture

Revealing mistake: When the toys are watching Woody being stolen the games machine on top of the TV doesn't have its controllers plugged in, but Rex was playing earlier with a wire coming out of his controller, which clearly wasn't actually connected to anything.

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Nasty Quacks picture

Revealing mistake: When we see the duckling growing up to being Daffy Duck, the calendar behind him keeps changing months but the position of the days are exactly the same.

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Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure picture Ryan's World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure mistake picture

Revealing mistake: In many shots where Ryan is live streaming his magic show, Aiden's phone screen reveals she is actually recording in the iPhone Camera app. (00:01:17)

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