The Simpsons

The Canine Mutiny - S8-E20

Continuity mistake: When Bart sees "The Covet House" order in the catalogue he has picked up from the trash can, he is reading it with both pages open, but when we see him in the next shot, he is reading the catalogue with the back pages folded under.

The Canine Mutiny - S8-E20

Continuity mistake: When Marge finds Lisa's German verb wheel in the post during the breakfast scene at the start of the episode, you can see Lisa has nothing in front of her. In the next shot, a bowl and a glass have appeared.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In "Citizen Kang", when Homer pulls off the masks off the fake Clinton and Dole at the White House, the two transform into aliens and you can see Homer is between them. In the next shot, Homer is missing, and in the shot after that, he is back again.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In "Citizen Kang", when Homer tries to save Clinton and Dole in the spaceship, Homer is standing behind a control panel and you can see there is nothing on left of it, but in the next a large lever suddenly appears.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In Citizen Kang, when Kang and Kodos (as Clinton and Dole) are speaking to the man from the Democratic National Committee, you can see the building in front of them has a plant outside and there are shades on the windows. But when Homer appears in the next shot, the plant and shades have gone.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In "Citizen Kang", when we see the family eating breakfast at the table, you can see that Bart has a bowl in front of him. But when Homer comes into the kitchen, there is now a glass by the bowl, and in the next shot the glass has gone again.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In "Citizen Kang", when Kang and Kodos are transformed into Clinton and Dole, Homer is standing in front of the control panel and you can see in front of him there are several buttons, but in the next shot there is now only a green and red button in front of him.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In "Citizen Kang", when Bill Clinton and Bob Dole are in the suspended animation tubes in the aliens' UFO, you can see that Clinton is facing left in one shot, but a few seconds later he is now facing right.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In "Citizen Kang", when Homer is fishing, you can see behind him on his boat there are a brown box and a rolled up mat, which is standing up. But when we see a view of Homer's boat from the UFO, the mat is now lying flat on the back of the boat and the box is now coloured red.

Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1

Continuity mistake: In "The Genesis Tub", when Lisa takes the bowl of cola to the microscope on her dressing room table, you can see a brush near the edge of the table, but in the next shot the brush is behind the microscope.

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Tree House of Horror X - S11-E4

[The Simpsons are driving down a road as fast as possible.]
Homer: Dear God, it's Homer. If you really love me you'll save my life now.
[The gas needle immediately drops to empty and the car stops.]
Homer: D'oh.

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Trivia: Maggie scans as $847.63 in the supermarket at the beginning (not NRA4EVER, as Troy Maclure asserts in 3F31 "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular), the price it costs to feed and care for the average American baby every month.

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Answer: Willy referred to an encounter he believed he had with actual aliens, while Wiggum thought he was referring to the arcade game.

Answer: The joke is that Willie was so addicted to Space Invaders that he believed it was reality: every time he played, he was actually defending the Earth from dangerous aliens. It's a surprise to him that it was actually a game.

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