Downtown as Fruits / Eugene's Bike - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: Downtown as Fruits: After Arnold and Gerald arrive at the school, it cuts to Helga crying about her play being ruined. When Phoebe taps her, her left arm is coming from the side of her cheese costume, but when the angle changes, it's coming from the front of her costume. (00:10:43)
Downtown as Fruits / Eugene's Bike - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: In the Eugene's Bike episode, when Arnold has to tie his shoe, he sets his books down on a bike in a bike rack. This causes the bike to tip over and makes all the other bikes in the rack to fall down. Eugene's bike falls into the middle of the street and get ran over. When Eugene finds out his bike is destroyed, he looks at Arnold and yells. Right after this you get a good look at the bike rack. You'll notice there are no bikes in or around the bike rack.
The Little Pink Book/Field Trip - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: On the "Presidents of the United States" sign behind Helga, the word "United" becomes "Nvited"
The Little Pink Book/Field Trip - S1-E2
Other mistake: When Arnold is reading the diary at the school the other kids ask him to read more. He says "OK, but it is the last page." There are more pages. When he starts to read, then it is the last page.
Arnold's Hat/Stoop Kid - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Grandpa is telling Arnold about how how he tried to cover his head when his hair falls out, the camera cuts back to him with his arm on Arnold's shoulder and Arnold has his hat on, even though the whole story is about him losing his hat.
Arnold's Hat/Stoop Kid - S1-E3
Audio problem: When Harold says, "Hey, what are you, scared?" his mouth stays open for the last word. It never closes for the "d" at the end.
Helga's Makeover/The Old Building - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When the classroom is first shown, the first two desks against the wall near the door are occupied by Curly and Eugene, Gerald and Arnold are sitting where Curly and Eugene were shown.
6th Grade Girls/The Baseball - S1-E5
Other mistake: Sixth Grade Girls: When Arnold and Gerald are dancing with Connie and Maria, in one shot, Maria's left foot is incorrectly overlapping the right foot of the girl behind her. (00:07:32)
6th Grade Girls/The Baseball - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: While walking down the stairs, Maria only has three toes on each foot; she has four at the pool.
Other mistake: Snow: After Grandpa turns the street into an ice rink, it cuts to Arnold in the backyard (by the garage) of Sunset Arms where he's been stowing logs in a storage container. When Grandpa shows up in the backyard and tells Arnold, "You got no play ethic," we see the fronts of Green Meats and Art's Shoe Repair behind Grandpa, but that's impossible because Sunset Arms is on the same side of the street as those two stores; we should only see the buildings/stores that are across the street from the boarding house. (00:21:30)
Operation Ruthless/The Vacant Lot - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Operation Ruthless: When the Cheese Festival is first shown, Arnold and Gerald are standing at the bumper car ride, but in the next shot, they are suddenly standing in a different location, which seems to be at the green building from the beginning of the episode. (00:03:12)
Operation Ruthless/The Vacant Lot - S1-E7
Audio problem: Operation Ruthless: When Arnold first starts repeating "Hi Ruth," the shot cuts to Gerald as he says, "Stay cool, Arnold." Arnold can still briefly be heard saying his line, but his mouth doesn't move. (00:03:42)
Operation Ruthless/The Vacant Lot - S1-E7
Revealing mistake: Operation Ruthless: When Helga and Phoebe are chasing Ruth in the bumper car, when Ruth's car stops and Helga looks back at her, Helga's right lower leg is incorrectly layered over the bumper car seat, and Phoebe's legs are colored black. (00:08:11)
Operation Ruthless/The Vacant Lot - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: Operation Ruthless: When Helga and Phoebe's bumper car flies into the air and lands on the hot dog truck, as the people start to run away, watch for one person that disappears from the shot, then reappears, and his shirt changes from green to orange. (00:08:36)
Operation Ruthless/The Vacant Lot - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: In Operation Ruthless, the pedal in Helga & Phoebe's bumper car changes color from black to gray to black between shots.
The List/Haunted Train - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of The Haunted Train Grandpa's ice cream changes color from orange to white.
Other mistake: Mugged: When Arnold gets mugged, some of the shots use a flipped background. Note the wall colours, and the sign that says "MARKET," which is reversed. (00:01:16)
Other mistake: Mugged: When the people are standing outside Sunset Arms waiting for Arnold to come out of the garage, Oskar is coloured incorrectly: he has grey hair, a grey beard, an orange shirt, a light blue jacket, and white shoes. (00:05:12)
Continuity mistake: Mugged: Throughout the scene with Arnold and Grandma on the bus, Arnold is not wearing his hat. When the creep runs off the bus and the camera shows Arnold and Grandma from outside the bus, Arnold is wearing his hat. (00:11:35)
Door #16 / Arnold as Cupid - S1-E10
Other mistake: Arnold as Cupid: When Oskar gives Arnold breakfast, besides the fact that the objects move from the left side of the tray to the right between shots, look at the glass of orange juice as Oskar lowers the tray to Arnold. Despite Oskar never rotating the tray around, the glass of orange juice glides itself over to the top left corner of the tray. Very weird. (00:14:34)
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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