Modern Family

The Bicycle Thief - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Luke gets his new bike when Phil places the helmet on Luke's head the strap is not buckled up, but when the shot changes back and forth again it's buckled up and fastened. (00:05:05)

renesis

Family Portrait - S1-E24

Continuity mistake: The scene in which the whole family were mud-fighting. Just after the camera man says "Excuse me, are we still doing this" look at Manny's shirt. It just has a small mud stain on the pocket, but as the scene continues the stain looks different with no reason and there is suddenly mud on Manny's face too.

Usama Yousri

Daddy Issues - S9-E18

Continuity mistake: In episode 8-20: All Things Being Equal, while Lily is going to a feminist protest with Claire, Gloria, Haley, and Alex, Alex said something like 'The women burnt their bras', and Lily says 'Not me, I just got my first bra'. But in this episode Lily steals a bra because she's embarrassed to ask Mitchell and Cam to buy one for her.

Snapped - S11-E2

Continuity mistake: Mitchell puts a sandwich down close to Cam on the kitchen island whilst talking to him. The sandwich then moves closer to Mitchell and a plastic food container is now moved to the other side near Cam instantaneously. (00:14:00)

Tricia Webster

Moon Landing - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: When Claire comes in the kitchen a wine bottle with a blue/white label is standing up on the table. When Luke explains the effects of Jägermeister the same bottle is lying down on the table. In the next scene the bottle is standing upright again. (00:16:10)

Patriot Games - S6-E22

Continuity mistake: When Alex opens the door for Sanjay she is wearing red headphones around her neck, in the shot after that the headphones are gone. Two shots later, they reapear. (00:11:10)

Hawaii - S1-E23

Continuity mistake: When Haley, Claire, Phil and Jay are by the pool and Claire is talking to Phil. Claire's shirt (cover up) changes position several times. (00:02:00)

Family Portrait - S1-E24

Continuity mistake: After the photographer asks Claire if they are still taking the picture Claire says no and puts mud on Gloria's belly. You see that its a round stain. In the shot after that the stain on Gloria's dress has become just a smear. This changes again in the shot after that. (00:20:05 - 00:20:40)

Brecht Boerland

Up All Night - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: When Javier is setting up the pool table and Jay is about to break, we see in the next shot that the balls have slightly changed position, and in another shot before the end of the scene the balls have changed position again, without any play made between either of them. (00:09:00 - 00:10:00)

Chris88

ClosetCon '13 - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: In the scene after Luke tips the contents from the box onto the table, when he puts the box upright after tipping it, there is a white hose hanging over the edge. But in the shot when the box is visible again, the hose is on the table. After that when you see the box again, the white hose is once again hanging on the box, but in a different position than it was originally. (00:08:40)

Zyen Hoo

A Fair to Remember - S5-E7

Continuity mistake: When Jay is sitting in the patrol cart with his partner eating ice-cream, the amount of the partner's ice-cream that has melted keeps changing from shot to shot. Sometimes the ice-cream has melted a little bit, sometimes it has melted over his fingers, sometimes it hasn't melted at all. Jay's ice-cream also changes just as often, but is not as obvious. (00:09:20 - 00:10:25)

Zyen Hoo

Party Crasher - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: During the outdoor scene from Manny's surprise party, Phil is chomping away on corn on the cob like a madman. When he gets up, he wipes his mouth with his napkin while leaving some corn on his face. Claire jumps up and tells Phil that "they have a gardener", and the corn is still there. However, as he turns around with Claire by his side, the corn disappears. (00:23:00)

djrnewcastle

Show generally

Continuity mistake: Gloria speaks Spanish to Manny and he seems to understand it. But later, when his brother Joe was born, a tutor had to be hired because Manny didn't speak or understand Spanish.

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En Garde - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: When Mitchell and Claire are in the park and Mitchell says that he never loved figure skating, the position of Claire's arms constantly change between shots, without her moving. (00:17:10)

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Run For Your Wife - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: During the episode when Claire and Phil do their warm-up before racing each other, their children Alex and Luke arrive from school. They get down from the car, and the car takes off and goes away. But in the 2nd shot we can see that same car parked in front of them. (00:17:00)

Nishant Singh

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Jay Pritchett: God knows I couldn't love them more, but even the Kennedy's didn't get together this often.

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Trivia: Though Luke is portrayed as being stupid, Nolan Gould has an IQ of 150 and is a member of Mensa.

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The Cold - S6-E3

Question: Mitchell is watching the wedding video and suddenly he is shocked by what he saw on the video - Cam dancing with Lilly. I don't get it why he is shocked?

Answer: He has seen himself dancing, and is mortified at how bad he looks.

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