Best short movie mistakes of all time

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Hare Splitter picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is pretending to the Cupid, there are two arrows in his holder. When he is aiming at Casbah in the next shot, there is now only one arrow.

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Night Owls picture

Continuity mistake: Edgar Kennedy plays a cop who persuades Laurel & Hardy to break into the police chief's home so he can arrest them and "get in good with the Chief." Jimmy Finlayson plays the Chief's servant. When he hears noises, he stumbles at the top of the stairs and falls down the staircase. When he lands (it is obviously a stunt double), he is sprawled parallel to the stairs with his legs pointing to the right. In the close-up, he has reversed position and his legs are pointing to the left.

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Home, Tweet Home picture

Continuity mistake: When we see Sylvester reading his newspaper at the start of the cartoon, you can see the front page has only one picture on the cover, but when we see a close-up of the picture in the next shot, another picture has appeared under it.

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Bedevilled Rabbit picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is trussed like a roast pig, the Tasmanian Devil puts salt and pepper on him and he leaves the salt shaker on the tree stump next to Bugs. But when the Devil unties Bugs later on, the salt shaker has disappeared.

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French Rarebit picture

Continuity mistake: When Bugs is making Francois look like a rabbit, he cuts up Francois' moustache to make whiskers. When Bugs says "You make a swell rabbit, Doc!" the whiskers disappear.

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Designs on Jerry picture

Continuity mistake: Before Tom is about to draw a line on the alarm clock on the blueprint, you can see on the left hand side of the clock there is an "A" and an arrow, and on the right hand side is some writing. When Tom draws the line, the "A", arrow and writing have all disappeared.

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I Do picture

Revealing mistake: Harold Lloyd is trying to cross a busy intersection. Apparently the scene was double-exposed. As one car passes by, it appears translucent and the streetcar tracks can be seen through it.

Steven Lee

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The Tramp picture

Continuity mistake: In this movie, the Tramp leaves a letter for a girl, which shows up twice; It is obvious that the second time it shows up, it is a different letter. (00:24:50 - 00:26:00)

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Stupor Duck picture

Continuity mistake: When Cluck Trent is using his typewriter at the beginning of the short, you can see there is nothing by the machine, but when the camera closes in on Trent, a sign saying "Cluck Trent Reporter" appears.

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Trap Happy picture

Continuity mistake: When Tom picks up a telephone book, you can see he is holding the book with both hands, but when we see a close-up of the "Ajax Mouse Exterminators" in the next shot, his hands are nowhere to be seen.

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The Battle of the Century picture

Continuity mistake: When Charlie Hall slips on the banana skin with his tray of pies outside the pie shop, he places the tray on top of his left leg, but in the next shot the tray is under his leg.

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Bunker Hill Bunny picture

Continuity mistake: When we first see the "They" flag on Yosemite Sam's fort, it is completely fine. When Sam says "Ahoy, there!" there is now a hole in the top right hand corner.

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Ready.. Set.. Zoom! picture

Continuity mistake: When the Coyote attempts to capture the Road Runner for the first time, he is standing on a bare patch of pavement surrounded by the puddle of glue he is spreading. In the next shot, the Coyote is now standing on glue with no bare patch, and when he realises he is about to be hit by the truck, he is standing on bare pavement in middle of the glue puddle once again.

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Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam picture

Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Billy is talking to the bum (who later turns out to be Tawny), the bum has a glove on his right hand. When he reaches his right hand out to Billy and Billy gives him a subway token, there is no glove. It's back in the next shot.

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Heir-Conditioned picture

Audio problem: When the yellow cat attacks the brown cat for not keeping his mouth shut during the "unprivileged child" sequence, the yellow cat's mouth can be seen moving after he says "shut" but no words are coming out.

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Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z picture

Continuity mistake: When the Coyote has put on his Batman outfit, you can see behind him there is a boulder and an empty box before he is about to jump. But we see the Coyote on top of the cliff in the next, the boulder and box are nowhere in sight.

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The Great Piggy Bank Robbery picture

Continuity mistake: When Daffy realises he's Duck Twacy, he breaks the two telephones on his desk. But when we see the telephones in the next shot, they are now completely intact.

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Hare Tonic picture

Continuity mistake: When Dr Killpatient (Bugs Bunny) arrives at Elmer Fudd's home, the "Rabbititis" sign that was on the front door earlier in the short has disappeared.

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The Big Snooze picture

Continuity mistake: When Elmer takes out of his fishing gear, there are pieces of his torn up contract by the log. When Elmer walks off, they have disappeared.

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