Continuity mistake: When Bertram sneaks into Stewie's bedroom, he tiptoes past Stewie, who is sleeping. But in the next close-up of Bertram, the shot pulls back and pans the room so we see Stewie's crib is empty. But in the next shot, Stewie is still sleeping, and then he wakes up. (00:10:25)
Super Grover
23rd Jun 2024
Family Guy (1999)
31st May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
The Courtship of Stewie's Father - S4-E16
Continuity mistake: After Peter and Stewie's Jungle Cruise ride, when Michael Eisner walks up to the duo, Eisner's suit buttons are on his left, but then the buttons switch to the opposite side, and his tie's stripes change direction as well. (00:19:50)
31st May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
The Courtship of Stewie's Father - S4-E16
Continuity mistake: When Peter takes the garden hose upstairs, the bathroom doorknob is on the right side. As Peter kicks in the door, but from inside the bathroom, the doorknob is on the opposite side of the door, so it swings open the opposite way. (00:10:25)
31st May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
The Courtship of Stewie's Father - S4-E16
Continuity mistake: After Peter's mess of glee club, in the first shot of Obi-Wan the right side of his robe is over his left side, but next shot it's the opposite way with the left side over the right. (00:02:15)
31st May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
Brian Goes Back to College - S4-E15
Continuity mistake: After painting the stripe on the van, the side passenger door handle vanishes when Peter/Hannibal gets into the front seat; then, that handle reappears when Quagmire/Face enters the van. (00:09:10)
31st May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
Brian Goes Back to College - S4-E15
Continuity mistake: When Brian is escorted into the New Yorker's writers' lounge, the door has a knob and backplate, but the backplate vanishes in a following shot. (00:03:15)
31st May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
Brian Goes Back to College - S4-E15
Continuity mistake: After the opening credits, Peter/Hannibal is wearing a jacket with pockets only on his right side; then pockets suddenly appear on his left side between shots. (00:00:40)
30th May 2024
Family Guy (1999)
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)
16th Mar 2023
Family Guy (1999)
![Family Guy mistake picture](/images/screenshots/351000-351999/351188_sm.jpg)
Continuity mistake: After Mayor West enjoys eating the taffy, when it cuts to the Griffin family standing on their lawn, the post-mounted mailbox is placed on the right side of the front door's walkway, but then it switches to the left side of the walkway.
21st Feb 2023
Family Guy (1999)
![Family Guy mistake picture](/images/screenshots/350000-350999/350749_sm.jpg)
Continuity mistake: In the first shot of the pool party, Peter's "President" sash is draped from his left shoulder with the visible letters "n" and "t" in reversed positions. In the following shots the sash is draped correctly from Peter's right shoulder.
21st Feb 2023
Family Guy (1999)
Continuity mistake: At the IRS, when Peter walks into Stratford's office there is no light switch beside the doorway, but a 3-gang rocker light switch appears in following shots.
21st Feb 2023
Family Guy (1999)
![Family Guy mistake picture](/images/screenshots/350000-350999/350747_sm.jpg)
Continuity mistake: While Peter is with Mayor West at Town Hall, when Peter winds up in the trap door, the doorknob on West's office door changes sides (so the door opens the opposite way) and the plant moves away from the corner.
21st Feb 2023
Family Guy (1999)
Continuity mistake: When Peter's great-great uncle, Ulysses S. Griffin, is with Robert E. Lee, all the Confederate soldiers have their straps over their left shoulders, but in the closeup two soldiers have their straps over their right shoulders.
11th Aug 2022
Family Guy (1999)
![Family Guy mistake picture](/images/screenshots/345000-345999/345836_sm.jpg)
Continuity mistake: After the LASIK surgery Lois has bandages covering her eyes, and the pairs of crisscrossed tape switch their over-under positions within the same shot.
28th Jul 2022
Family Guy (1999)
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas - S3-E16
Continuity mistake: At the mall Stewie is wearing a pair of mustard color fingerless mittens, and the problem occurs while Stewie is sitting on Santa's lap. When Stewie first mentions plutonium and being a good boy, Stewie's hands show all of his fingers which means he's mittenless, but the color of his hands is the same color as his mittens. Then, when Santa tells Stewie to wrap it up, Stewie is wearing his mustard color mittens, then his mustard color fingers return again.
28th Jul 2022
Family Guy (1999)
Continuity mistake: After the Robert Redford clip, when it cuts to the Griffins walking toward Doug's house, in this exterior shot (and a previous exterior shot) the front door is located between one window and the garage, but in the following interior shots there's a window on both the left and right side of the front door. (00:14:20)
24th Jul 2022
Family Guy (1999)
![Family Guy mistake picture](/images/screenshots/345000-345999/345219_sm.jpg)
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas - S3-E16
Continuity mistake: When Brian is in the kitchen with the oven fire and an empty fire extinguisher, the side door behind Brian has its door handle on the right side, but when the family returns and Lois opens that door, the handle is on the left side of the door.
24th Jul 2022
Family Guy (1999)
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas - S3-E16
Continuity mistake: While Lois is driving her family home from the mall, the animation process did not properly color Lois during the car ride. First, she's wearing white gloves, but in one shot both of her hands are bare on the steering wheel. Second, Lois is wearing a green coat and white scarf around her neck, but in the shot facing the town's tree through the windshield, her scarf/collar is red (her Santa hat has a red narrow tip with a white pom-pom).
24th Jul 2022
Family Guy (1999)
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas - S3-E16
Continuity mistake: While at Joe's house Peter opens the door for Cleveland and Quagmire, and when Lois walks over the buttons on her blouse switch from her right side to her left side.
24th Jul 2022
Family Guy (1999)
A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas - S3-E16
Continuity mistake: When Peter is in the kitchen getting coffee Peter's shirt buttons are on his right, but as he exits the kitchen with the cup of coffee Peter's shirt buttons have switched sides.
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