Continuity mistake: Bart and Homer escape from the court by jumping out of a window, however in the next shot they are running away from the door as if they escaped via the doors.
OL1V3R666
26th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
25th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Trivia: The couch gag in this episode shows the family in the style that Matt Groening drew them on the Simpsons on the Tracy Ullman Show.
24th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Trivia: When Willie punches Professor Frink, look at the picture of Chewbacca on his shirt. If you look carefully the eyes on it move.
17th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
The Last Temptation of Homer - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: When Homer and Barney are at Moe's, Barney drinks his beer and then his cup his empty, and Homer's is full. Then later, Homer's cup is empty and Barney's cup has magically refilled itself.
16th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Audio problem: When Homer is talking to the family about their complaints about the nerds, he says something that ends in "where we can all live in harmony". When he says this the audio does not match his mouth movements.
16th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
The Last Temptation of Homer - S5-E9
Revealing mistake: Just before Homer drives backwards into the trout hatchery, when Homer turns the key it is obvious that it is repeated footage of Marge turning the key because the hand is a lot thinner.
13th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
13th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Brother From the Same Planet - S4-E14
Question: When Homer is at the Bigger Brothers place, he looks at a book of children who want a Bigger Brother. When he looks at one of them he says "Zooie. Zooie." What exactly does he mean by this?
Answer: Alternatively, the kid in question could just look like a pig in general.
13th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Revealing mistake: When Bart is swinging on the clothes line into the night, it is obvious that the brightness has been turned down because the sky is the same colour as in the previous shot. If it were night time, then the sky would be a dark purple colour. (00:04:20)
11th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Tree House of Horror IV: The Simpson's Halloween Special IV - S5-E5
Continuity mistake: At the end just before the Simpsons say "Happy Halloween everybody" they are about to bite Lisa (and make her a vampire). Maggie has no dummy (or in America, pacifier) in her mouth, but it suddenly appears when she closes her mouth.
9th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart is talking to Jessica after she stole the collection plate money, she is far away from Bart. But when Bart says "but you're not very nice", she is right next to him.
9th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Halloween Special: Tree House of Horror - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: In "Hungry Are The Damned", when the family are looking up at the UFO and Homer says that the burgers are getting cold, the burger he is eating has a bite out of it. In his close-up it is a whole burger.
8th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
The Secret War of Lisa Simpson - S8-E25
Continuity mistake: When Lisa has just been saved from falling, from the Eliminator at night, three boys approach. The two boys on the right swap positions between shots.
6th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Last Exit to Springfield - S4-E17
Continuity mistake: When Mr Burns is telling Homer to resign, he has glasses on in the first shot in the scene. However his glasses are on his desk the next shot onwards.
5th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Other mistake: When Homer is giving people tartar sauce at the cafeteria, he says "plenty for everybody" with his mouth closed at the end of him saying it. However the photo in the newspaper is shown with his mouth open. Also, for the last part of "everybody" his mouth doesn't move.
5th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: In this episode Hans Moleman's skin colour is yellow. However in "Duffless " his skin colour is brown and in other episodes it is a dark yellow-green colour.
5th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Last Exit to Springfield - S4-E17
Revealing mistake: When we see Lisa singing and playing the guitar for the second time, if you look to the right you can see a blue mark on the building that is behind her (On the middle turquoise stripe). It appears and disappears twice.
5th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Last Exit to Springfield - S4-E17
Continuity mistake: When we see McBain at the beginning of the episode, after shooting some people, the magazine falls out of the machine gun. But from the next shot onwards it is back in the gun.
4th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Other mistake: When the Be Sharps are singing at the Statue of Liberty, in some shots the stars in the sky are black.
4th Jun 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Audio problem: When Homer is playing on the piano, he says the word "fault". When he says this you can hear a key being pressed but Homer doesn't touch any keys.
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Chosen answer: Homer is imitating a pig's squeal, implying that the kid in the book is too fat for his liking (he can talk!).
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