Best family TV mistakes of all time

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

More Here Come the Double Deckers mistakes
Rugrats picture

Bug Off/The Crawl Space - S9-E5

Continuity mistake: In Moving Away, Tommy tells the other Rugrats how they first met when Angelica lied about the nasty things they did. However in the Crawl Space, there is a flashback of Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil playing in the playpen when they were younger. Chuckie is scared of the Jack-in-a-box in that flashback, so the Rugrats could not have met for the first time back then.

More Rugrats mistakes
More Who's the Boss? mistakes
My Three Sons picture

Show generally

Factual error: In "The State Vs. Chip Douglas", Ernie finds his missing 1914-D penny when it falls out of his pocket. A close-up shows an Indian head penny lying on the floor. The problem is that Indian head pennies were not minted after 1909.

Jeff Swanson

More My Three Sons mistakes
More Big City Greens mistakes
Haunted Hathaways picture

Haunted Babysitter - S1-E6

Factual error: The conversation between Taylor and Michelle tells us that school is over for the day and that Taylor talked to her crush at lunch. When the boy shows up at the bakery later, he and Taylor plan to meet at 3 that afternoon; if its before 3, they should still be in school.

More Haunted Hathaways mistakes
The Honeymooners picture

The Sleepwalker - S1-E6

Factual error: When Ralph goes out the window onto the fire escape to save Ed the first time in the episode, Alice is looking out the window (to her right) telling Trixie all the step by step movements of both men, ending with, "and he's taking him right into your window." The Norton's live directly upstairs from the Kramdens, but Alice never changes the direction she's looking at the whole time. She should be looking straight up as Ralph leads Ed into their window. There is no other window to the right. (00:02:30 - 00:03:04)

DrLoomis1978

More The Honeymooners mistakes
More Yu-Gi-Oh! mistakes
The Addams Family picture

Show generally

Continuity mistake: In the episode where Fester invents a fabric: When Fester lies down on the parking lot, his head is first pointing upwards, towards a car, then in the next shot he has turned 90 degrees and his head is pointing towards Norman's legs.

littlestar

More The Addams Family mistakes
Balamory picture

Living Statue - S2-E5

Factual error: When PC Plum picks up a set of keys from the table, Eadie McCredie claims they are her keys for her minibus. She drives an LDV Convoy minibus and the key is from a Vauxhall, a completely different design.

GalahadFairlight

More Balamory mistakes
More Star Wars Forces of Destiny mistakes
Ovide and the Gang picture

Show generally

Revealing mistake: The "hostage" episode reuses footage from the "Dinosaur" episode, which doesn't totally fit. When the giant crabs attack and destroy the group of houses on the island, the longshot of the damage is recycled from the earthquake episode - including an earth fissure, something the giant crabs wouldn't and probably couldn't have done.

Spiny Norman

More Ovide and the Gang mistakes
The Neighbors picture

Pilot - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Larry Bird hands Marty the pie, Marty takes it with one hand and then grabs it with his other hand. In the next shot, the pie is no longer in his hands and he's seen grabbing it with both hands at once.

Bishop73

More The Neighbors mistakes
More Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue mistakes
H2O: Just Add Water picture H2O: Just Add Water mistake picture

Catch of the Day - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When Cleo is invited by Lewis to hang out, her book keeps changing position between cuts. When the camera faces Lewis, the orange end of the book faces left while the black end faces right. When the camera faces Cleo, it's reversed. (00:04:47)

More H2O: Just Add Water mistakes
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide picture

Art Class & Lost and Found - S3-E5

Other mistake: Ned paints a rather obscene painting and brings it up to his teacher. He had just painted the painting and his teacher gets angry at the school cutting the art budget, so Ned holds the painting against his chest. When he takes it off his chest, there is no paint on his chest and the painting had no chance to dry before he put it on his chest.

bobthedancingdonut

More Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide mistakes
More The Loony Toons Show mistakes
More Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street mistakes
More Byker Grove mistakes
Power Rangers Time Force picture

Trip Takes a Stand - S1-E19

Other mistake: In this episode, Eric tries to destroy a mutant, apparently unaware that Rangers don't destroy mutants but freeze them. Yet in Quantum Quest and Clash for Control, he froze a mutant.

More Power Rangers Time Force mistakes

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.