Continuity mistake: When Bart is digging his hole, Homer goes over and starts talking to him, and you can see a spade standing up outside of Bart's hole. The spade wasn't there in the previous shot of Bart digging. (00:02:05)
Hamster
14th Sep 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
14th Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart attempts to skate over Homer's car, his three mates are watching. Between shots they change from standing on the driveway to standing on the pavement. (00:10:55)
14th Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Homer is driving to Truckasaurus there is a wide shot of the road with two cars on it, but in the next side shot of the road, the road has loads more cars on it. (00:06:30)
14th Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart falls off his skateboard after attempting to skate over Homer's car, as the shot zooms out you can see his board is nowhere to be seen. (00:11:05)
14th Aug 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart skates towards Homer's car, attempting to skate over it, the distance between the car and Bart changes between shots. (00:11:00)
28th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: As Milhouse walks up to the TV to turn up the volume, Lewis is nowhere to be seen in a wide shot, but as Milhouse walks back over to the couch you can see Lewis sitting on the floor. (00:02:15)
28th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the family is talking at the dinner table about going to see Truckasaurus, the amount of food on everyone's plate continually changes between shots. (00:03:40 - 00:04:25)
28th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When at the dinner table, Marge tells Homer and Bart that they can go to see Truck-o-saurus. In one shot Bart has his hands on the dinner table, but in the next shot his arms are by his side. (00:04:20)
25th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Maggie goes through the checkout at the beginning, Marge's trolley is grey and has a red handle. But in the next shot, when Maggie pops out of the bag, the trolley handle is turquoise. (00:00:30)
25th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: While having breakfast, all of the Simpsons' glasses of orange juice keep disappearing and reappearing throughout the scene. (00:05:35)
22nd Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Millhouse, Bart and Lewis are talking about the fake Santa, Millhouse's eyebrows go from blue to black to blue again. (00:14:15)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart climbs on the roof to get the remote control plane, he falls, and smashes into a gargoyle which falls and smashes beneath him. But when he is hanging from the roof, below him the gargoyle is nowhere to be seen.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Millhouse is being chased outside by a sun ray, the ray burns the pavement. It then turns around, and the pavement is now no longer burned. (00:01:40)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer and Flanders drop their presents, the presents move around and change colours between shots. (00:10:20)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Martin does his book report, on the blackboard it says 'An afternoon with Ernest Hemingway: Reflections by Martin.' But when Bart goes up to do his report, the blackboard is clean. (00:01:25 - 00:02:20)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the big song near the end, there is a birds eye view of everybody outside dancing and singing, and Krusty, Chief Wiggum and Skinner are there outside with everyone. But in the very next shot, they all appear out one of the windows, singing a line to the song.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Marge arrives after the song, Flanders and Lovejoy are talking to her, and behind them you can see a crowd of people. The crowd then disappears in one shot, only to reappear a shot later.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer walks up The Front drive you can see the road and there are no markings on it. But when he turns to look at his house, there are orange lines running down the road. (00:08:50)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the angry mob smash all the statues and the fountain before the song, during the song you can see all the statues and the fountain intact.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer has been informed about the Christmas money being spent on Bart getting his tattoo surgically removed, he leaves the house. When he opens and closes the door to leave, the wreath on the door is white with a red bow. When Homer then turns to look his Christmas decorations, the wreath is now green. (00:08:50)
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