Continuity mistake: When Bertram climbs through the window into Stewie's bedroom, just as he tiptoes past a sleeping Stewie, the lightswitch on the wall is in the up position and the room is dark, but two shots later Stewie wakes up and now the lightswitch is in the down position so Stewie flips it up, then the light turns on. (00:10:20)
Super Grover
30th May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
30th May 2024
Casper (1995)

Continuity mistake: When James and Kat first enter Whipstaff Manor, they drop their stuff on the floor. The large suitcase falls over on its side, but it cuts to the overhead wide shot and the suitcase is standing upright (the ghosts didn't do it). (00:19:45)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Homer ignores Lily, she gets upset then runs out of Moe's, and in the interior shot the door is hinged at the left, but in the next exterior shot that door is hinged on the opposite side, while Lily is crying outside. (00:09:35)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Marge walks out of her aunt's house onto the porch, the screen door's handle is at the right side, but in the following shots the screen door opens the opposite way. (00:10:05)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: While Lily continues to "light up all the men's lives, except Homer's," when she walks into the power plant with picnic lunches, Homer is wearing a solid peach colored tie, but in the next shot it's a striped peach and pink tie. (00:11:00)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Homer takes Lily home after her date with Burns, as Homer pulls up to her house, the doorknob is on the left side of its front door, but when Lily enters the house, the doorknob is on the opposite side of the door. (00:16:20)
27th May 2024
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Lily is back at a pub in England and meets Homer's doppelganger, his single shirt pocket and button are at his right side, but as he and Lily leave the pub arm in arm his shirt pocket and button are on the opposite side. (00:20:20)
27th May 2024
The Wizard of Oz (1982)

Continuity mistake: Near the start, when Uncle Henry pulls up in the farm wagon in the long shot, the wagon's seat has a high back, but when Aunt Em walks around the horses, the seat's high back is gone, and it reappears when Em sits beside Henry. When they ride away, it briefly disappears, then reappears again.
27th May 2024
The Fanatic (2019)

Continuity mistake: Leah asks Moose if he brought the cutters, so he looks in his bag then hands Leah scissors. In the shots facing Leah she holds up the scissors by its handles, but in the shots facing Moose she holds up the scissors by its pointy end. (00:10:20)
19th May 2024
Friends (1994)
The One With All The Resolutions - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: Rachel mentions "the big thing," so Joey sticks his fingers in his ears to block her out. When Rachel pulls on his arms, the only things on the table are Joey's bottled drink, crayons, and coloring paper. In the next shot, we see Rachel's arms and she's not holding anything. It cuts to the next shot facing Joey, as he says, "Well then, it wouldn't be a secret, so yeah, that would be OK," and now there's a drinking glass on the table. Rachel removes it in the next shot.
19th May 2024
Friends (1994)
The One With All The Resolutions - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: At the start, when the countdown hits 3-2-1, there's a closeup facing the TV, and in the TV's reflection the couch and armchair are both quite empty, but in previous and following shots both have people seated.
18th May 2024
The Greatest American Hero (1981)

Continuity mistake: Bill's car has narrow whitewall tires when he pulls off the road, but in the close-up of the tire when Ralph lifts the car, instead of a whitewall tire there's a Bridgestone tire at the front passenger side.
15th May 2024
The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Trouble with Templeton - S2-E9
Continuity mistake: At Freddie's speakeasy, when Laura lifts Barney's script from the table, she begins to fan herself. In the wide shot, the script's titled top page with corner diagonal stripes is gripped under Laura's four fingers, with the blank back page at her thumb. It cuts to a close-up, and now the script is gripped in Laura's hand the opposite way, with the top page at her thumb (the back page is blank).
6th May 2024
Route 66 (1960)

Same Picture, Different Frame - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: While Morgan is driving she gets a flat tire, and in the close-up the Cadillac's license plate number is 84-I33, but in the wide shot it's 5G6-420. (00:09:20)
1st May 2024
Friends (1994)
The One Where Rachel is Late - S8-E22
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Rachel and Ross leave for the hospital, Rachel grabs the keys. In the close-up, when Rachel asks, "Do you think we have time?" she holds the keys up in her left hand while Ross holds her empty right hand. It then cuts to a medium shot, and the keys are now in Rachel's right hand, the same hand Ross holds. (00:20:40)
30th Apr 2024
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Hallet goes to retrieve the rubber seals from the cellar, she opens the trap door and the diagonal wood creates "Z" bracing; but in the next shot, as Hallet heads down the stairs, the diagonal wood cross brace is now attached to the door in the opposite direction, making a backwards "Z" bracing. None are flipped shots. (00:27:30)
30th Apr 2024
Hey Arnold! (1996)

Part-Time Friends / Bio Square - S2-E19
Continuity mistake: Part-Time Friends: When Arnold and Gerald get part-time jobs at the flower shop, while Mrs. Vitello explains things to them, she asks if she's going too fast, and in the next close-up, Arnold's apron vanishes, then it reappears.
30th Apr 2024
Friends (1994)

The One Where Rachel Tells... - S8-E3
Continuity mistake: At the start, before Monica and Chandler leave for their honeymoon, note the chairs around the kitchen table. When Rachel walks in to tell the couple to have a good honeymoon, the chair in front of the fridge and the chair in front of the stove have switched places.
3rd Apr 2024
Ben-Hur (1959)

Continuity mistake: During the chariot race, Judah's chariot has a decorative front metal rail, and in some shots there is a plump curved cushion attached to the rail, on its inner side. It repeatedly disappears and reappears throughout the scene.
3rd Apr 2024
Black Sunday (1977)

Continuity mistake: Near the end, while Kabakov is atop the blimp, he finally attaches the cable hook to the blimp. Just as he wraps the canvas strap around the hook, Kabakov's white shirt is neatly tucked into his pants, whereas in the previous and following shots, his white shirt is fluttering in the wind and we can see his abdomen and back. (02:18:55)
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