Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Revealing mistake: After the manager of the arcade takes money from other customers and cancels Stewie's reservation, Peter and Chris start walking along a row of arcade machines. Here the background was just copy and pasted over again, as they walk by the same place twice, and start a third time before the scene changes. (00:07:35)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Peter walks in from the front door and stands behind the couch where Lois and Brian are seated before he tells them he canceled the party reservation. Between shots, his position behind the couch suddenly changes as does the angle that Lois is looking up at him from. (00:08:05)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: After Lois says, "When Meg and Chris turned one I missed everything," it flashes back to Lois writing 'happy birthday Meg' on the cake, and there's wallpaper border at the top of the walls, but when Peter asks her what she's doing in the kitchen the wallpaper border is gone. The paper cups that Lois filled with punch also vanish, and the rolling pin, board, etc. suddenly appear. (00:11:30)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: During the scene where Peter is taking Meg away from the cult group, in some shots he is wearing a watch and in others, he isn't. (00:18:40)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: In the cake scene at the end, the cake and things on the table move and disappear in between shots. (00:21:00)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Just before Chris tells Stewie to make a wish, there is a pie server next to the cake on the table. When it cuts back to the family it has vanished. (00:21:29)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Peter asks Stewie what he would want most in the whole world, Stewie's hands change from hanging limp to rubbing each other. (00:21:35)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Meg introduces Jennifer to Lois, she is, as usual, wearing her glasses. However, right when Jennifer says, "Bye Meg," Meg is seen in the shot, and her glasses have disappeared. Her glasses are back on in the next shot.
Continuity mistake: When we first see Stewie playing with his Sesame Street phone, he gets closer to the Griffins' path between shots. (00:00:05)
Continuity mistake: When Peter comes home from his fishing trip he leaves mud prints all over the floor. Even Lois points it out, but after he goes through his two flashbacks, the mud is all gone. (00:03:15)
Continuity mistake: When Peter comes home from fishing his hat disappears from the side of the couch in a later shot. (00:03:40)
Continuity mistake: When Peter is talking about how annoying it is to be locked up in the house, Brian disappears from the couch in quite a few shots. (00:07:50)
Other mistake: When Lois is saying that she'll make a nice romantic dinner, Chris's picture on the wall not only looks completely different, but he's wearing glasses. (00:08:00)
Continuity mistake: When Peter first goes down into the basement, there is no railing on the stairs. One suddenly appears later in the same scene. (00:08:40)
Continuity mistake: When Lois is talking about how amazing her singing was, in one shot Stewie disappears from his chair. (00:14:15)
Continuity mistake: When Lois starts crying in the supermarket, the boxes on the top shelf change colour between shots. (00:16:40)
Audio problem: When Peter goes down to the basement, the Pawtucket Patriot guy appears and Peter thinks he's coming on to him. He says, "Listen, I don't swing that way, pal. I got a date with my female wife, I just came down to get some beers." However, his lips very obviously do not sync up with those words.
Continuity mistake: While cooking dinner, and waiting for Peter, Lois has a watch on. As she comes down the basement stairs, it's suddenly gone.
Continuity mistake: When Peter is saying how he hated the last few years of MASH, Mr. Weed just appears behind him in a shot change. (00:01:35)
Continuity mistake: During the scene where Joe is putting his trophies on the shelf, the size of the shelf in relation to the trophies changes. (00:07:15)
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.
Jon Sandys ★