Magic Show / 24 Hours to Live - S1-E18
Continuity mistake: The boarding house has a downstairs bathroom, but in "Gerald Comes Over", there's only one bathroom and it's upstairs.
Continuity mistake: When Helga is talking about Arnold, the computer store she is in front of is on a corner (Phoebe is seen going around the corner) but a few shots later the store is no longer on a corner.
Save The Tree / New Teacher - S2-E1
Audio problem: Save the Tree: At the end, when Bob says, "Yeah, I'll just build my beeper emporium in that vacant lot down on Vine Street," his mouth doesn't move until the word "build." Arnold's mouth also doesn't move when he says, "Huh?" (00:11:27)
Save The Tree / New Teacher - S2-E1
Audio problem: New Teacher: When Helga gives directions to the kids to prank Mr. Simmons, she says, "Everyone know the drill?" and they all put their hands in. Arnold can be heard saying, "Alright," but he was never present in the scene. (00:13:47)
Save The Tree / New Teacher - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: New Teacher: Arnold's classroom door vanishes from its door frame in various shots, then the door reappears in its proper place. That door's doorknob also switches between the right side of the door and the left side a few times.
Save The Tree / New Teacher - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of 'Save The Tree', the tree ladder is a distance above the ground. Later on in the episode, when Arnold and his friends go to the tree house for the last time, the ladder is practically touching the ground.
Save The Tree / New Teacher - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: When Harold eats Mr. Simmons' tomato sandwich, there is a red stain from the tomato on Harold's desk. This stain disappears in later shots.
Save The Tree / New Teacher - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: In New Teacher when the principal is telling the class about their new teacher the students switch seats between shots.
The Big Scoop / Harold's Kitty - S2-E3
Revealing mistake: Harold's Kitty: When Arnold kicks the ball during the kickball game, he starts running, and he is layered over Helga, even though he is supposed to be behind her. (00:12:20)
Longest Monday / Eugene's Pet - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: In "Longest Monday" at one point in the episode, Arnold and Gerald run off of a bus and down an alley. Two fifth graders come chasing after them. In the next scene, you see Arnold and Gerald hiding in the sewer under the 5th graders. Arnold then crawls through a very narrow tube, and Gerald follows. You then see the end of the tube and Gerald come out of the it first, and Arnold climbs out last. It would be impossible for Arnold and Gerald to switch places inside the tube because it was way too narrow.
Audio problem: Ms Perfect: When Lila says, "Whatever you do, don't smell that cow," the boys are heard laughing, but only Stinky is shown laughing. (00:15:14)
Continuity mistake: Ms Perfect: When Lila is wearing her new blue outfit at recess, she wears light blue bows in her braids, but when she is shown in close-up, she is wearing her regular green bows. There is also a small animation glitch with Lila's right bow. (00:15:22)
Continuity mistake: Ms. Perfect: When Lila goes to Patty's locker, the books she is holding constantly change. First, she is holding two books, then three, then the red book is suddenly on top, then the red book disappears and the rectangle on the brown book changes to white, then it goes back to yellow and the blue book gets replaced by the red one, and finally, the blue book reappears (she is also suddenly not holding the locker handle, and the way she holds the books changes). (00:15:48)
Continuity mistake: Ms. Perfect: When Patty opens her locker and the jello falls on her, her head is raised above the floor, and there is no jello on her head. In the next shot, her head is on the floor, and there is jello on her head. (00:16:24)
Other mistake: Ms. Perfect: When the girls sabotage Lila's lunch, as Helga pours out Lila's milk from her thermos, the milk crosses an invisible line and disappears. (00:16:56)
Continuity mistake: Ms. Perfect: When the girls prank Lila, the table has its flap down, there are four chairs around it, and there is nothing on it. When Helga walks Lila over to the table, the flap is up, there are only two chairs around it, and a "Reserved" card appears on it. When Lila runs out of the cafeteria, there are four chairs around the table again. (00:18:06 - 00:18:48)
Continuity mistake: Ms. Perfect: The red strings attached to Lila's table and chair are only there as Lila is getting pranked; they are not visible in any other shot of the table. Also, when Rhonda pulls the string attached to the table, the string attached to the chair isn't there. (00:18:32)
Continuity mistake: Ms. Perfect: When the flap on Lila's table falls down, her lunch bag falls over. When the tray of spinach and fish falls on her, it changes position. (00:18:37)
Continuity mistake: When Lila is finishing her first joke, Rhonda suddenly switches from her French outfit to her "usual" one; also, during the Jell-O incident, her beret disappears and then reappears.
Continuity mistake: In "Miss Perfect", Helga, Rhonda, Sheena, Phoebe, and Nadine are cooking up ways to make Lila's (the new girl) life miserable. In one shot, Rhonda is wearing her new blue outfit. When the scene cuts to the boys and Lila, and then back to the five girls, Rhonda is wearing her standard red sweater and black pants. For the rest of that day, she is back in her new outfit.
Answer: The episode doesn't really elaborate on who the kid was and what his motives were, so its pure speculation as to why he took it. Perhaps the kid could simply want a ball all for himself and decided to just take it, or was simply a rotten kid. The truth is the kid's motives are not important to the story other than it highlights Arnold was having a lot of trouble getting through the list.
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