Lizzie McGuire

Lizzie McGuire (2001)

73 continuity mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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Obsession - S1-E16

Continuity mistake: After Lizzie has been sent home from school for some sleep, as her mum and dad walk her over to the couch, Lizzie is not wearing a bag. But as they all sit down, now Lizzie has her small bag hanging over her left shoulder. (01:47:00)

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Sibling Bonds - S1-E17

Continuity mistake: When Matt is trying to entertain Lizzie with magic tricks at the beginning, he picks up a black cloth from the table. In the next shot it is back on the table and then back in his hands in the next. (00:00:05)

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Sibling Bonds - S1-E17

Continuity mistake: When Matt handcuffs himself to Lizzie and they become stuck, Matt is wearing his magician's hat and cape. Then when they begin to look for the key the cape and hat are no longer on him, but then a few shots later he is wearing them again. (00:07:35 - 00:09:10)

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo sit down in class and begin to take their equipment out, Lizzie unzips her blue bag and takes a black case out of it - twice between shots. (00:03:50)

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When the guy is choking on a gumball in the cinema, in one shot he slaps his friends bucket of popcorn out of his hand to the floor. Then in the next shot the popcorn bucket has reappeared in the friends hand. (00:12:30)

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When the guy begins to choke on a gumball, him and his friend begin to playfully hit each other as they panic. In one shot the friend (who is wearing a blue hat) is hit and his hat almost falls backwards off his head. Then in the next shot the hat is back on his head firmly. (00:12:40)

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Lizzie runs over to help the choking man by giving him the Heimlich maneuver, in wideshots the bag she had on her left shoulder has disappeared. But in closeups the bag is on her shoulder again. (00:12:45)

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: As the guy is choking on a gumball in the cinema, Lizzie runs over to help him (by giving him the Heimlich maneuver.) The guy has three red sweet (candy) laces hanging around his shoulder; and the amount keeps changing from shot to shot. In one shot one falls off, then it is back on, then two fall off - but in the final shot of the gumball being spit out of his mouth, all three laces are around his neck again. (00:12:45)

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Miranda, Lizzie and Gordo are talking in the cinema lobby after they realize that they're going to be on TV and that they will get caught for sneaking to the cinema, from shot to shot Miranda's bag straps keep altering from sitting on top of each other, to each strap being apart on her shoulder. (00:14:30)

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: When Jo and Sam McGuire are talking about Lizzie, after Jo received the phonecall from the cinema, in frontal shots of Sam he holds a spanner down on the table, but in shots from behind you can barely see that he is actually holding the spanner by his face; this repeats a few times. Also during the conversation Sam leans his head to the right as he says Lizzie is a "lying hero", yet in the next shot his head is suddenly upright. (00:15:15)

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Gordo and the Girl - S1-E19

Continuity mistake: When Gordo is talking to Lizzie and Miranda and then walks off (and Lizzie then says "I think he just broke up with us") the position of the blue handled fork on Lizzie's plate keeps changing. (00:09:10)

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Gordo and the Girl - S1-E19

Continuity mistake: When Matt and Lanny enter the kitchen area with handfuls of items (just after Mrs. McGuire found Matt's gambling book) in one shot Lanny puts down his handful of items on the table they are standing in front of. But two shots later all the items are back in his hands and he puts it all down again before running away. (00:16:55)

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Educating Ethan - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Lizzie and Miranda walk over to the table which Gordo is standing on top of (as he sells his pudding cup) in one shot Miranda puts her lunch tray on the table and her hands are empty in the next shot. But in the following shot the tray is suddenly in her hands again. (00:00:15)

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Educating Ethan - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Gordo hands Lizzie his 'flier' which promotes his tutoring service, in this shot we can see that the whole edge of the paper (including the perforated margin) is completely intact. But in the next shot half of the margin is missing (torn off) which then appears again in the next. (00:02:20)

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Educating Ethan - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Mr. and Mrs. McGuire are talking to Matt and Oscar (who are on the floor surrounded by toys) in the first shots we see Oscar sitting with a toy gun on the floor in front of him. In the next shot it is instantly on his lap. (00:03:55)

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Educating Ethan - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: When Lizzie and Miranda are pushing their table closer to the one that Gordo and Ethan are sitting at, they eventually knock the tables into one another, causing everything to tip over, including their two drinks. Between shots the arrangement of the items over the tables changes and the two drinks glasses disappear as well. (00:08:10)

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Rumors - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Lizzie attempts to confess to Kate in the hallway she is wearing a red and white shirt with no bag. However in one shot from behind, you can see that there is a blue bag strap over her left shoulder. This is the same blue bag she can be seen wearing in later scenes. (01:01:15)

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Gordo: Yeah, well, there's lots of weird stuff in this world - tofu bacon, hairless cats, country music.

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Rated Aargh - S1-E18

Trivia: When Lizzie, Miranda and Gordo enter the cinema to watch "Vesuvius: The Eruption" if you looks closely at the poster for the movie behind them, you can see it has "A Stan Rogow Film" printed near the bottom. Stan Rogow is an executive producer of the show Lizzie McGuire.

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