Door #16 / Arnold as Cupid - S1-E10
Factual error: Ernie removes two screws from a glass panel in the skylight, but then lifts the panel from the side that's still screwed in.
Das Subway / Wheezin' Ed - S1-E12
Factual error: There's no way Grandma could have connected two "live" wires with her bare hands without electrocuting herself, and there's certainly no way the wires could have stayed connected.
Coach Wittenberg / Four-Eyed Jack - S2-E16
Factual error: When the kids are bowling for the first time, the placement of the pins is wrong, and when Arnold is bowling there are 11 pins.
Weird Cousin / Baby Oskar - S4-E11
Factual error: Stephen Viksten is credited twice for voicing Oskar.
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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