Airport '07 - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Chris is sitting on the floor because Peter has taken the couch outside, his position in relation to the rug changes. (00:02:10)
Airport '07 - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When we first see Peter lounging on the front lawn with his feet in the baby pool, there is water that has spilled out of the pool onto the lawn, but in the next shot, the spilled water is gone. (00:02:15)
Airport '07 - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: Peter puts the spray paint on the driveway. After the close-up of the truck window, they are now on the grass. (00:03:50)
Airport '07 - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Peter hits Quagmire's car, his truck leaves grey marks across the grass. When we get the close-up of people escaping, the marks on the floor have disappeared. (00:04:10)
Airport '07 - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Peter is backing up and sees the airplane fuel there is a tank near the ladder and the hose is hooked up to it but when Peter walks up to it to plug it into the truck the tanker is way farther away. (00:05:00)
Airport '07 - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Peter unplugs the plane's fuel hose, he spills fuel near the stairs, but when the two airport workers come over, the spilled fuel is gone. (00:05:05)
Airport '07 - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Peter and his friends are at the bar after the plane has crashed, Quagmire's mug changes position between shots. (00:08:25)
Continuity mistake: When Peter comes home from work, the position of the rug moves in relation to the sofa. Note Chris' feet. (00:03:50)
Continuity mistake: The rug in the living room vanishes when Peter walks across and sits down. (00:04:00)
Continuity mistake: When Peter shocks Chris he is right next to him. In the next shot Peter is further away from Chris. (00:04:50)
Continuity mistake: When Peter is hiding in the bedroom, the colour of the books by the TV change between shots. Most noticeable is 2 blue books become 1. (00:06:00)
Continuity mistake: When Joe and all the handicapped meet in front of Peter's restaurant, Joe is by some white lines in one shot and not in the next. (00:16:30)
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)
Boys Do Cry - S5-E15
Continuity mistake: When Jake plays the piano the music on the sheet changes. Notice the big gap on the sheet which gets smaller. I know the sheet is changed, but the gap still changes.
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: At the start of Peter's fight with the Big Chicken, Peter is slammed into the wall, which cracks. After Peter gets up, the wall behind him is perfectly fine again. (00:07:05)
Continuity mistake: When the family goes to Morning Wood Academy, the sign in the front says No Irish and Irish OK underneath that. The next time we see the sign, those words are replaced with the date the academy was founded.
Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode Chris is taking his suitcase upstairs. He walks in front the couch where everyone is sitting and heads towards the stairs. Next shot shows him walking behind the couch as if he entered the front door and walked behind the couch and over to the stairs.
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: In the flashbacks to 1984, Peter and Lois are both 18, but in a previous episode, Lois says that she's two years younger than Peter.
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 ★