Best short movie continuity mistakes of all time

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Apes of Wrath picture

Continuity mistake: When Mama Ape takes Bugs Bunny out of his bed, Bugs is wearing a baby hat, but when Mama is holding him in the next shot, the hat has disappeared.

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Hair-Raising Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When the scientist locks the door to prevent Bugs from escaping, you can see the latches are made of metal, but in the next shot they are now made of wood.

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Rhapsody Rabbit picture

Continuity mistake: After Bugs shoots the man in the audience for coughing, the style of notes in the music book in front of him changes between shots.

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Ballot Box Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When Yosemite Sam is doing his speech in the stand at the start of the cartoon, you can see beside him there is a stand with a jug and a glass next to it. But when we see Sam from behind in the next shot, the glass has disappeared.

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Fish and Slips picture

Continuity mistake: When Sylvester Junior is turning the wheel to pump oxygen into his father's diving suit, he spots a worm and starts following it, walking away from the pump. But when Sylvester bangs on the tank glass telling him to start pumping, we cut back to Sylvester Junior and he is back near the pump again.

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The Bear's Tale picture

Continuity mistake: When Papa Bear is drinking from the hot water tap after eating the hot porridge, the tap handle changes position between shots.

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Trap Happy picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom picks up a telephone book, you can see he is holding the book with both hands, but when we see a close-up of the "Ajax Mouse Exterminators" in the next shot, his hands are nowhere to be seen.

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Rabbit Rampage picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is horrified to realise that he was holding a picket sign, the yellow paint on his tail disappears briefly.

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Hillbilly Hare picture

Continuity mistake: During the square dance sequence, Bugs snips the ends of the Martin brothers' beards, but when the brothers emerge from the creek, their beards are intact.

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Bye, Bye Bluebeard picture

Continuity mistake: When Bluebeard cuts the steak on the plate, there is a small piece left over. But when we see Bluebeard grabbing the mouse, the piece has gone.

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Racketeer Rabbit picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs drills a hole in the hotel floorboard, he puts on a nightcap and descends into the hole. But when he emerges from the hole a little later on, he is now wearing a nightshirt.

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We Give Pink Stamps picture

Continuity mistake: When the lion jumps into the basement while chasing the Pink Panther, the doors of the basement are initially flat but in the next shot they are slightly raised.

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Hare Splitter picture

Continuity mistake: Casbah has whiskers on his mouth when he eats the exploding carrot that Bugs gave him, but when the carrot explodes, they disappear.

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Northwest Hounded Police picture

Continuity mistake: When the convict trips outside the plastic surgeon's office, the sign on the window reads "plastic surgery" which changes to "plastic surgeon" in the very next shot.

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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.

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Piker's Peak picture

Continuity mistake: When Yosemite Sam says "I dares" to Bugs, you can see there is nothing behind Bugs, but in the next shot he is standing in front of a mountain.

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Odor of the Day picture

Continuity mistake: When Pepe Le Pew enters the house all frozen up, you can see there is nothing on the table next to the bed where the dog is, but when Pepe goes into the bed with the dog, a glass and jug have appeared.

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What's Opera, Doc? picture

Continuity mistake: When Elmer is stabbing Bugs' hole with his spear, there are rabbit tracks around the hole. But when Elmer says "I'm going to kill the wabbit!" the rabbit tracks have disappeared.

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