Arnold & Lila / Grand Prix - S3-E13
Continuity mistake: Arnold and Lila: On the bus, when Arnold tells Lila that he doesn't like her like her, Lila is smiling at him. In the next shot, she is suddenly frowning. (00:07:01)
Runaway Float / Partners - S2-E20
Continuity mistake: Runaway Float: When Arnold first sees the beeper float, he says, "How can they control that thing?", and Gerald is sitting on the curb to the right of Arnold. In the next shot, Gerald is suddenly behind him. Arnold is also a lot further away from the curb than he originally was. (00:08:16)
Arnold's Room / Helga vs. Big Patty - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: In the locker room, Sid's hair goes from stringy to full and back to stringy.
Eating Contest / Rhonda's Glasses - S2-E13
Continuity mistake: In the last scene, Rhonda is seen through the bus's rear window as sitting in the back of the bus - but just before that, she's talking to the girl with the frizzy hair in a seat closer to the front.
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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