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Continuity mistake: Game Over: When the Simpsons meet God, the Simpsons go from looking at God to looking 90° in the opposite direction between shots.

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Continuity mistake: Game Over: On the Wii and PSP versions, just as the opening cutscene finishes, Shakespeare is standing atop the gates to heaven, but as soon as the level starts, Shakespeare is standing on the ground.

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Continuity mistake: Five Characters In Search Of An Author: Maggie suddenly appears on Marge's baby carrier as soon as the game engine start to crumble. She nor the baby carrier attached to Marge was never visible at any point before this.

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Continuity mistake: Five Characters In Search Of An Author: When Matt Groening unveils the Game Engine self destruct button, the painting hiding it changes position in relation to the self destruct button between shots.

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Continuity mistake: Five Characters In Search Of An Author: After you have reached the interior of the mansion, try and run up a staircase as Bart. If you change the camera angle to an aerial shot and walk up the staircase, a chandelier will appear. If you do nothing the chandelier will just vanish from shot, despite not having moved.

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Continuity mistake: Five Characters In Search Of An Author: When the Simpsons enter the gate to go to Matt Groening's mansion, the mansion is shown to be almost a few miles behind the gate. Later as the intro clip starts and Homer and Bart have reached the mansion, the key card gate is only a few yards in the background. Then as the level starts, there is now a gate to the mansion in the background and the gate that requires key cards is now way behind the gate to the mansion.

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Continuity mistake: Five Characters In Search Of An Author: Whenever you approach the golden gate in the Game Engine game play, the four slots to place the key card in are the same colour. When the Simpsons and poorly rendered Simpsons approach the gate at the start of the level, the four key card slots all match each colour of the key card and not the gate itself.

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Continuity mistake: Medal of Homer: When Homer, Bart and Abe return to the village after stopping Burns, they exit the van with the door left open. Very next shot, the door is closed.

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Continuity mistake: Medal of Homer: When Homer, Bart, Abe and Burns discuss the plan, they are all standing next to each other. Burns suggests that he and Abe get the paintings, and we can see the other three aren't visible around him at all anymore. Abe then replies and the other three still aren't visible at all. Then in the next shot, the four are suddenly all next to each other again.

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Continuity mistake: Medal of Homer: At the start of the level, Homer and Bart have to run up to Uter. As soon as the cut scene starts, Homer and Bart are suddenly back to where they started.

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Continuity mistake: Medal of Homer: As soon as you will start to have to walk over to Uter. A cut scene plays where he throws a rock into one of the windows and the French citizens put up surrender flags in their windows. However, as you walk over to Uter before the cut scene, you can see the houses already have a flag in their window.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: When the woman in blue is crushed by the huge heart, Marge, Lisa and Poochie go from standing a feet away from the corner of road to standing right on the street's corner.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: When the ending clip starts, Marge's position on the tiles she is standing on differs between shots. The tiles change size too.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: Note the background behind Marge, Lisa and Poochie at the start of the ending cut scene. You'll see there are no cracks on the floor between the barriers and the concrete wall a few meters behind them. In the next shot, as Marge says "Sorry, Poochie" to Poochie, a crack on the ground has suddenly appeared between the barrier and the concrete wall.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: The woman in blue gets crushed by the huge heart fixed onto the sweet store. This heart was never visible during the wide shot at the start of the cut scene.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: Before the cat pimps begin to charge at Marge, Lisa and the mob, they get rid of the barriers in order to charge at them. Yet as soon as the cut scene begins, the barriers have reappeared.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: The ending cut scene starts with a far away shot where Poochie's head is fully raised. As Marge says "Sorry, Poochie" in the next shot, his head is suddenly lowered.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: Marge, Lisa and the mob need to destroy two vans, then rebuild two ice-cream trucks and rebuild a sweet store. Behind all of this is a barrier. As soon as the cut scene starts, Marge and Lisa (without the mob) are standing next to the sweet store walking by and notice Poochie and the barriers aren't there anymore. Then as the cut scene ends and it cuts back to gameplay, the mob has reappeared next to Marge and Lisa and the barriers behind the trucks are back. Although the barriers were never visible during the cut scene, the game play part of the level shown barriers completely covering anything behind the two trucks, so Marge and Lisa still wouldn't have been able to see Poochie.

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Continuity mistake: Grand Theft Scratchy: When the mob knocks down the piece of highway, the cables that were holding it together suddenly vanish.

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Continuity mistake: Bartman Begins: When Bart first discovers The Simpsons Game manual, the manual lands in a 12 o'clock direction in front of Bart. Next shot, the manual has shifted to a 9 o'clock direction, then to an 11 o'clock direction.

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Trivia: The Land of Chocolate: When the Simpsons are watching TV, if you listen to the TV, you'll hear that an advert for the game Grand Theft Scratchy is playing. Grand Theft Scratchy ends up being a part of the plot later in the game.

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