One If By Clam, Two If By Sea - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire are in jail, Peter is the only one of them with a inmate number on his outfit. It's the same with the other inmates. Some have numbers and some don't.
Continuity mistake: Chris puts a video recorder in his room to try to capture the angry monkey in his closet to show Peter and Lois. He views the tape the next day and sees Peter and Quagmire enter his room. Quagmire punches Chris in the eye and bruises, it but when we see Chris the very next day, there's no black eye.
A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Bucks - S2-E11
Continuity mistake: In one shot of the Griffins at the hotel, Brian's collar is yellow instead of red.
I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: During Lois' fight with Gloria Ironbox, Peter is wearing his usual white shirt and not his suit for one shot, then goes back to wearing his suit. (00:20:40 - 00:21:10)
Continuity mistake: Lois is wearing a green dress when peter is looking at her from the stage, but she's wearing a blue dress throughout the scene.
Continuity mistake: After the "Lint" scene, Meg's glasses disappear.
Continuity mistake: Stewie's overalls are missing during one of the shots of the Griffins at court.
Family Gay - S7-E8
Continuity mistake: Just before Peter tells Chris he is the man of the house, he is standing with his arm around his partner Scott's back standing in front of him. Next shot, he is now standing even with Scott, 90° more turned to Chris.
Continuity mistake: As the helicopter is shown sliding down the hill, it is shown from several angles to have just a single rotor blade. However, one shot shows two rotors, one of which disappears halfway through the shot. (00:16:10)
Boys Do Cry - S5-E15
Continuity mistake: At the Little Miss Texas pageant, just as Lois finishes saying "It's what you do when you're in Texas", she and Stewie walk past a judge and a little girl. In a close-up of Stewie, the judge and little girl have suddenly become a plant. (00:15:25)
Continuity mistake: Peter says "Oh crap" as soon as he realises Ernie the Giant Chicken is looking at him in the window. When the camera pans over to Ernie, he is standing an inch away from the glass. It then cuts to a wide angle where Ernie jumps through the window, and he has instantly moved back a few inches. (00:07:00)
Continuity mistake: In the restaurant scene during the chicken fight, after Peter says "oh yeah? What are ya gonna do about it?" the chicken already has a black eye just before they begin fighting.
Continuity mistake: During the chicken fight, when the cruise ship crashes into the airport, the man directing the planes disappears a split second before he gets run over. (00:05:50)
To Live and Die in Dixie - S3-E12
Continuity mistake: When the FBI agents are telling Lois that the killer knows where they are, the sky keeps alternating from night to daytime and back.
Continuity mistake: In the scene with the multiple versions of Stewie and Brian come back to 1999, one Peter is with one of them. When Stewie asks everyone to vote between 9/11, Peter is standing in the foreground, but disappears when one of the Stewies says Brian had his throat slit. (00:18:25)
Continuity mistake: When Peter (from 1999) arrives at Quagmire's house for the stag party, the window is small. But in the next shot when Brian looks through the window, it is a lot bigger. (00:05:55)
Road to the North Pole - S9-E7
Continuity mistake: At the end when the camera pans out from the Griffin house, Cleveland's old house is nowhere to be seen. (00:42:10)
Road to the North Pole - S9-E7
Continuity mistake: When Stewie and Brian are taking the unconscious man to the closet, a blood trail is left behind him. However, when Stewie and Brian get the man into the closet, there's barely any blood there. (00:34:45)
Road to the North Pole - S9-E7
Continuity mistake: When Stewie and Brian put out the presents in the first house, there is a plate with three cookies on behind them. But when Brian goes to eat the cookie, there is only one cookie there and no plate. (00:33:20)
Answer: Lacey Chabert was the actress who originally voiced Meg in early episodes. She left of her own accord due to being in school and other acting work; Seth MacFarlane has stated there was no tension with her leaving, but it makes for a handy joke for the show.
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