Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Character mistake: When Marge is making a model of Homer for Bart and Lisa, she makes him bald with his hair round the back of his head as we all know it, but at this point in the story Homer was not yet bald. (00:18:15)
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: When you see a shot of the church from outside in the scene where the bee sharps sing there, look closely at the sign. It says 'Also: The Bee Sharps', only they don't name themselves that until later on in that episode.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: In the flashback where Marge is making a model of Homer, the models head falls off and Santa's Little Helper picks it up, but the Simpsons did not own the dog back then.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Audio problem: When the Bee Sharps are singing 'Goodbye my Coney Island Baby' next to the Statue of liberty, you can hear Chief Wiggum's voice singing with the other members of the group, but he got chucked out of the group earlier on in the episode.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: At the sale, when Bart and Lisa first find 'The Bee Sharps' album, the order of the records in the stack change in subsequent shots.
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.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, while the B-sharps are singing on top of Moe's Cavern, the guy climbing the building asks the people to look at him. As he moves his hands, his gloves change color from red to white and back to red.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Audio problem: When grandpa is listening to the radio, he says something like 'oh.', but his lips are not moving.
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.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Audio problem: After Jasper has sung on the stage to Homer, Apu and Skinner, they simultaneously say "Next". But if you listen carefully you can't hear Homer's voice.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Other mistake: When Bart and Lisa are looking at records, there is a picture of Homer. He had hair at the time the record was made, and the hat he's wearing isn't big enough to cover it, but there's none visible as there should be.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer is talking to George Harrison, he sees that he has a brownie. Then he rushes over to a pile of brownies and starts scoffing them down. The pile of brownies doesn't get smaller.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Audio problem: In the scene where the Be Sharps first sing "Coney Island Babe" (I don't know what the song's really called) at Moe's, Skinner sings the rhythm. But when they sing the last few lines, you can still hear Skinner's part, but his mouth is moving like the rest of the group.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: In the deleted scene where the Be Sharps unveil 'Donut Records', Barney's hair flashes red a couple of times in the close-up of the band.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: Homer and Marge's bedroom has photos of Bart and Lisa when they were 10 and 8 years old. However, the story takes place when Bart and Lisa were only 3 and 1.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: When Bart and Lisa find the record Melvin and the Squirrels, they hand it to the Comic Book Guy to play. While the record is in his hand you can still see it displayed on the rack.
Cape Feare - S5-E2
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode when we see MacBain on TV he goes through a curtain, the curtain stays open for a second even though he isn't touching it.
Cape Feare - S5-E2
Continuity mistake: When Bob has finished singing the score of the H.M.S. Pinafore, an English flag comes down. But when he draws his sword to kill Bart, the flag is gone. Where could it have gone?
Cape Feare - S5-E2
Continuity mistake: When Bob is working out on the weights, he has a tattoo of something on his knuckles, but when he is watching the exercise video, the tattoo dissappears.
Continuity mistake: Just after Homer has used the proton accelerator, Dean talks to him. In this scene he is writing something on a piece of paper, but he writes on the same line every time. He finishes writing on that line, then starts on it again.
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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