Best short movie continuity mistakes of all time

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The Battle of the Century picture

Continuity mistake: When Charlie Hall slips on the banana skin with his tray of pies outside the pie shop, he places the tray on top of his left leg, but in the next shot the tray is under his leg.

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Hare-Way to the Stars picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is climbing up the ladder, you can see that he has a toothbrush in his right hand, but when he enters the rocket ship, the toothbrush has disappeared.

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Ask Father picture

Continuity mistake: Knowing a security guard is about to eject him from an office building, Harold Lloyd grabs a secretary's pillow and flings it into the hallway. The pillow lands at an angle to the doorway, but when Lloyd is shoved out and lands on the pillow, the pillow is parallel to it.

Steven Lee

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My Favorite Duck picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky is making his breakfast on the stove, the direction of the frying pan handle changes between shots.

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Three Little Bops picture

Continuity mistake: When the three pigs are listening to the wolf playing his trumpet in Hell, the position of the double bass behind the pig who is playing the piano changes between shots.

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Smarty Cat picture

Continuity mistake: After Tom kicks Jerry out of the house again, Jerry lands in Spike's mouth and then opens Spike's eyelid. When this happens, the position of Spike's left arm changes between shots.

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Stork Naked picture

Continuity mistake: Daffy Duck is holding an axe in both hands when the telegraph pole he is standing down falls over, but when we see him in the next shot, the axe has disappeared.

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The Fair Haired Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When we first see Bugs' home at the start of the cartoon, there is nothing around the hole. When the camera pans in on the hole, pieces of carrot have appeared.

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Cue Ball Cat picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom shoots a stream of balls to flatten Jerry, the last ball in the pack is coloured purple, but when the balls rebound off the side rail, the last ball is now a green one.

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An Egg Scramble picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky inspects Prissy for eggs, you can see that the nest to her has nothing on the wall, but when Porky threatens Prissy to lay an egg, a sign with "Daphne" on it has appeared.

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Daffy Duck in Hollywood picture

Continuity mistake: When Von Hamburger shows the producer the completed reel, it has a green spool and he puts it by the side of the producer's desk. Daffy then replaces it with his own film and you can see that the spool is light blue. The spool then becomes green again in the next shot.

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Hyde and Go Tweet picture

Continuity mistake: When Dr Jekyll enters his laboratory at the start of the cartoon, he locks the door with his key. After drinking the Hyde Formula, he turns into Mr Hyde for a short time before going back to Dr Jekyll. When Jekyll leaves the laboratory, he opens the door without unlocking it.

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A Mouse in the House picture

Continuity mistake: When Butch points his pistol at Tom, you can see that the handle has nothing written on it, but in the next shot the words "Ajax" have appeared.

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Buccaneer Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When we see the rowing boat on the beach at the beginning of the cartoon, you can see that the oars are standing straight and the boat is on the sand. But when Bugs Bunny takes the boat to escape from Sam, the boat is in the water and the oars are now in the rowlocks.

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Design for Leaving picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy pushes a button to start the massaging chair, you can see that the button panel is on the arm of the chair, but when we see Elmer receiving a massage, the panel has disappeared.

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Bacall to Arms picture

Continuity mistake: When the newsreel begins at the movie theatre, we see the back garden of a family home and you can see that the screen on the radar has nothing above it, but when we see a close-up of the radar in the next shot, a sign with the word "Radar" has appeared.

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Pluto's Christmas Tree picture

Continuity mistake: Mickey Mouse uses an axe to cut down a tree for Christmas. Each chop he makes is horizontal, but when the tree falls over, the lower part of the trunk comes to a point, and the stump remaining in the ground has disappeared.

Steven Lee

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The Pied Piper of Guadalupe picture

Continuity mistake: When Sylvester has caught all of Speedy's friends, he puts them in the bottle and he is holding the flute in his hand. But when see Sylvester a little later on, the flute has gone, and after Speedy has rescued one of his friends, Sylvester has the flute again.

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Puss n' Toots picture

Continuity mistake: When Jerry runs onto the record player, he runs next to a button panel and there are four buttons on it: Fast, Stop, Start and Change. But when he is pressing random buttons later on in the cartoon, a "Record" button has been added and the "Change" button has disappeared.

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The Fifth-Column Mouse picture

Continuity mistake: When the mice are serving the cat, there is a mouse who is taking the cat's order and he drops his notepad on the floor when he says "Mouse?" and runs off. But when we see a full view of the cat and the mice in the next shot, the notepad is nowhere to be seen.

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