Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: Right at the beginning of this episode, Homer is wearing a watch on his left hand, and he is still wearing it in one shot when he's in the car, but when he reclines his chair it is gone. (00:00:30)
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: When we first see the book-reading Ms.Krabbapple is sitting at the end of the row. The next time, Groundskeeper Willie is there. And the third time we see the audience, Apu has appeared in The Front row as well. (00:02:25)
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: When Homer comes home in the Ambulance we can see there is a yellow logo on the back passenger door. In one shot it randomly disappears. (00:05:40)
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: When Marge is typing her novel on the computer, in one close-up shot of her we see there is a pencil on one side of the table and a pot of flowers on the other. Yet when the shot changes to further away we can see that the pencil has been replaced by a napki, a pot with two pencils has appeared, and the flowers have moved to this side of the table as well. (00:06:20)
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: At the book signing, Dr Marvin Monroe is significantly slimmer when seen from behind than when see from in front. (00:14:50)
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: During the "performance" at the end of Marge's book, "Ned" is skewered by a harpoon and falls off the cliff. When "Homer" walks up to the cliff edge you can no longer see the rope trailing from the end of the harpoon. However, moments later he gets his leg caught up in it and is pulled over himself.
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: After the clown balloon that rips at the car dealership there is a bit of material left over and there is also a cord attached to the wooden platform where the balloon was. After a reaction shot, it cuts back and the material and the cord have both disappeared.
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife - S15-E10
Continuity mistake: When Homer goes to Ned to make sure Marge imagines nothing again, Homer puts his hand through the door, then he puts his hand through the mailbox, then Nelson puts his hand out to steal the doormat. Nelson puts his hand just over the mailbox, then in the next shot when it reveals Nelson is there, his hand is suddenly under the mailbox without enough time to move it.
Answer: I'm not sure if this is the one you're thinking of, but an episode of "Ray Bradbury Theatre," called "A Sound of Thunder," dealt with a similar matter: a group of hunters travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs, only to find things have changed when they get back because someone stepped on a butterfly.
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