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Jerry's Diary picture

Continuity mistake: After Tom has torn up Jerry's diary, you can see that the pie is next the hole of Jerry's home, but when Jerry comes around the corner and sees Tom, the pie is now positioned near Tom's foot.

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Plane Daffy picture Plane Daffy mistake picture

Continuity mistake: At the flight station, when the captain addresses his men and says, "That's 28 men and 28 tries," the captain's ribbons, medals, and cap change colors. (00:03:15)

Super Grover

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Elmer's Candid Camera picture

Continuity mistake: When Elmer is reading his book at the beginning of the cartoon, you can see it reads "How to Photograph Wild Life" on the spine, but when we see Elmer in the next shot, the words have gone.

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My Little Duckaroo picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky tells Daffy to arrest Nasty Canasta, you can see the window next the door has four panes of glass, but when Daffy challenges Canasta to a fight, the number of panes has increased.

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Cracked Ice picture

Continuity mistake: When the St Bernard dog is preparing the drink for the frozen bird, he puts a cocktail stick with a piece of orange and a cherry into the glass, but when we see the dog holding the glass in the next shot, the cocktail stick has disappeared.

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Scram! picture

Continuity mistake: When Arthur Houseman takes out the water from the jug and replaces it with gin, you can see there are two glasses in front of the jug, but when we see him pouring gin into the jug in the next shot, the glasses have changed position.

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Hog Wild picture

Continuity mistake: Oliver Hardy is teetering at the top of a ladder which is in the back of Stan Laurel's car. Stan is driving west on Wilshire Boulevard when Oliver, and the ladder, fall into the street. Oliver gets back into the car but now is it inexplicably atop the streetcar tracks and facing the opposite direction.

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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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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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Ali Baba Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When Hassan is trying to remember the magic word to open the cave door, you can see there is a burrow tunnelling under the entrance, but when we return to Hassan trying to remember the word later on, the burrow has disappeared.

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Knighty Knight Bugs picture

Continuity mistake: When King Arthur says "A good idea, fool!", Bugs Bunny stops and you can see that behind him is a wall. In the next shot, Bugs is now in front of King's Arthur's chair, and when he says "Beheaded?" he is back in front of the wall again.

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Portal: No Escape picture

Other mistake: When the captive begins her escape, she kicks the bed through the orange portal offscreen, but the portal only starts about a foot off the ground, so the bed would have hit the wall, rather than have gone through the portal.

Knever

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The Wearing of the Grin picture

Continuity mistake: When Porky Pig arrives at the castle, he appears completely dry. But when he opens the door in the next shot, he is soaking wet, and when we see Porky a few shots later, he is dry again.

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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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Rabbit Transit picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs Bunny crashes into the tree, he hits it face first. But when he slides to the ground, his back is now facing the tree.

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Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur picture

Continuity mistake: When Casper the Caveman takes off his caveman's outfit to go swimming, he puts his outfit near the edge of the bank. After Daffy says that he can't swim, he reverses back onto the land and goes and collects his suit, but this time the suit is now much further away from the bank.

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Pluto's Fledgling picture

Continuity mistake: When we first see the baby bird in its nest at the beginning of the cartoon, you can see that the nest is positioned on a branch, but when we see the bird attempting to fly later on, the nest is now in the crook of two branches.

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Bedevilled Rabbit picture

Character mistake: When Bugs is reading the book, he says "Octopuses", but when we see a close-up of the book, it reads "Octopus."

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Ain't She Tweet picture

Continuity mistake: When a postman comes along with a parcel for Granny, he puts it in a postbox by the front gate of Granny's home. The postbox was not there previously when Granny collected Tweety Pie from the delivery man earlier in the cartoon.

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The Tee Bird picture

Continuity mistake: When Dapper says to Woody, "You shoot first, pal!", Woody is holding his golf club behind his back. In the next shot, he is now holding the club upright.

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