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Their First Mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When we see Oliver reading his newspaper at the beginning of the short, the door behind him is open. In the next shot, the door is closed, and in the following shot, the door is open again.

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Caballero Droopy picture

Continuity mistake: When the bandit takes Droopy's wallet, he empties the contents and finds a photo of Droopy's girl. At this point, you can see the bandit is holding the photo with two hands, but when we see a close-up of the photo in the next shot, he is holding it with only his right hand.

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The Screwy Truant picture

Continuity mistake: When Screwy squashes the truant officer's nose with a mallet, the nose jumps off in pain and then hides under the officer's face. At this point, the truant officer is wearing a hat on his head, but in the next shot the hat has disappeared.

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Norman Normal picture

Continuity mistake: When we see Norman standing by the desk in his boss' office, you can see there is nothing in front of the boss on his desk, but when we see the boss in the next shot, a piece of paper suddenly appears.

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Ragtime Bear picture

Continuity mistake: In this first Mr. Magoo animated short, Waldo is playing a four-string banjo. Throughout the cartoon, the number of strings keeps changing. Sometimes there are three and sometimes there are only two.

Steven Lee

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Ain't That Ducky picture

Continuity mistake: When the hunter is holding the piece of paper that was in the satchel at the end of the cartoon, you can see that his left hand is on the side of the paper, but in the next shot it is now on the corner.

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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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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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Angora Love picture

Continuity mistake: When Stan and Oliver are about to wash the goat, Oliver pours a bucket of water into the bathtub, but Stan pulls the bathtub away and the water goes onto the floor. At this point, you can see the floor is wet, but when Oliver goes back into the kitchen with the bucket, the floor is now dry.

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The Hoose-Gow picture

Revealing mistake: When the governor and warden reverse the car back into the paint truck at the end of the film, watch carefully and you can see the two barrels of whitewash tip over before the impact.

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The Grey Hounded Hare picture

Continuity mistake: Throughout the race, watch the bands on the dogs. In some shots, they have numbers on them: others they don't.

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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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Wise Quackers picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy eats all of Elmer's food to check for poison, he stops eating for a second and there is a pea and some mashed potatoes on his plate. After a quick cut to Elmer, we return to Daffy, and his plate is now completely empty.

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Below Zero picture

Continuity mistake: When Oliver is laughing after Stan tossed the woman's bucket in the street, the top of Oliver's coat and his bowler hat are covered in snow. In the next shot, the snow has disappeared.

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Oily Hare picture

Continuity mistake: When the oil tycoon says "Lower away, Maverick!" his two guns are beside him. But after a quick cut to Maverick, we return to the oil tycoon and the two guns have now disappeared.

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Deduce, You Say picture

Continuity mistake: When we see Dorlock Holmes at his desk at the start of the cartoon, you can see that he is writing with the feather in his right hand, but in the next shot he is holding the feather with his left hand.

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Hare Lift picture

Continuity mistake: When Sam confronts Bugs underneath the box with the cord, you can see that there is nothing above the words "Pull", but in the next shot the words "Bomb Release" suddenly appear.

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The Wacky Wabbit picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs hides in the hole from Elmer, he puts the cow skull over the hole. Elmer then takes away the skull and then puts his head in the hole. At this point, you can see that the background is a desert, but when Elmer takes his head out of the hole, it has changed to a cliff. The background goes back to a desert when Bugs appears in the next shot.

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Hare Conditioned picture

Continuity mistake: Throughout the cartoon, watch the handkerchief in the store manager's top pocket of his jacket. In some shots it is in the pocket; others it isn't.

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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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