Continuity mistake: When Jim is wandering the deserted streets after waking up from his coma, there is one overhead shot of Jim walking down the street, towards a silver car. When it then cuts to a closer shot a red double decker bus appears underneath the "Landmark Advertising" billboard. A small white van/truck has appeared in front of a medium-sized white lorry, and the position of the silver car parked in the centre of the traffic lights grid changes between subsequent shots. Also between these and following shots, the position of the trash littering the streets differs. (00:11:05)
Hamster
19th Nov 2005
28 Days Later (2002)
13th Dec 2004
Scary Movie 2 (2001)
Visible crew/equipment: When Hanson enters the dining room with the trolley of food, a crewmembers hand can be seen ready to catch the door Hanson comes through. (00:22:10)
10th Oct 2004
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Continuity mistake: When Alice returns to the caterpillar and he says "keep your temper" he is coloured opposite to how he normally looks, with a dark blue front and light blue back. (00:34:15)
29th Jul 2005
Rat Race (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Zack opens the cooler to see the heart, the level of ice cubes in the cooler lowers between shots. (00:58:00)
31st Mar 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: The photo Edna sends to Bart differs when he shows his parents. The angle is different from what it was previously, revealing part of a photo frame on the wall which wasn't there before, and the sheets/pillows on the bed are different, and her eyes are closed when they look at it, but when Bart looked at it, they were open. (00:09:05 - 00:18:25)
28th Oct 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1
Continuity mistake: In 'The Thing and I' Dr. Hibbert is about to explain Bart's irregular birth. In the closeup before the story, Dr. Hibbert has a stethoscope around his neck. This wasn't there in previous shots. (00:03:50)
5th Sep 2005
Beetlejuice (1988)
Continuity mistake: During the dinner party, in one shot from behind we see Otho has very little wine in his glass, but in the following shot of him from in front, his glass is now nearly full. Nobody refilled it between the shots. (00:48:55)
27th Aug 2001
Beetlejuice (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Otho is going through the house suggesting changes he is wearing white sneakers in one room and red ones in the next. (00:16:25)
19th Jul 2004
Beetlejuice (1988)
Continuity mistake: When Adam creates the door to gain access to the spiritual world, he draws the outline and door knob quite visibly with chalk. Yet when the door is closing after they have gone through it, though you can still see the outline of the door, the door knob has mysteriously vanished. (00:26:15)
27th Aug 2001
Beetlejuice (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When Barbara tries to leave the house and falls into the sandworm's world you can clearly see her knee pads. (00:19:00)
5th Sep 2005
Beetlejuice (1988)
Visible crew/equipment: When Adam, Barbara and Juno ascend a staircase, talking about how Adam and Barbara should start more simply if they want to scare the Deitz family out of their home, there are two tape markers - a yellow and a blue one, very clearly on one of the steps. (00:34:35)
1st Aug 2005
Rat Race (2001)
Visible crew/equipment: When Duane hits the second cow while hanging from the rope, if you watch carefully you can see the head of someone, bent down behind the cow, wearing a white hat. (01:01:30)
28th Aug 2005
Bring It On Again (2004)
Continuity mistake: When Marni writes "BETTER" on the whiteboard, the handwriting changes between shots.
30th Mar 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Edna waits in The Gilded Truffle, she checks her watch. In the next shot the watch has gone. (00:15:40)
30th Mar 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Tree House of Horror V - S6-E6
Continuity mistake: In 'Nightmare Cafeteria,' in the opening shot we see Bart standing on a desk in the back row. It cuts to a closeup, and he is now on a desk in the second row from the back, as well as people appearing around him, such as Milhouse, who wasn't even in the classroom in the opening shot. (00:15:25)
7th Nov 2004
Mr. Deeds (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Deeds enters the basketball stadium, in a closeup there is a man playing a violin. In the following wide shot though, he disappears, but he returns in the next shot, when Deeds walks past the old man, the two chefs, he then walks past the violin player. (01:04:25)
30th Mar 2005
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Edna sits at her desk saying "Oh, Woodrow. How could you stand me up?" the clock reads 3 O'clock. Seconds later, as Bart talks with Edna, the clock reads 4 O'clock. (00:16:45)
18th Feb 2005
Labyrinth (1986)
Continuity mistake: When Sarah is hanging on the branch over the bog, Ludo calls a rock and the rock rolls into the bog, and is pretty round, with no large flat areas on it. However when it's floating in the bog, Sarah jumps onto it and the rock now has a very large flat area. (00:58:45)
30th Jul 2005
Rat Race (2001)
Continuity mistake: When Jason and Kimberley are jumping on the beds, the bolster on one of the beds falls off in one shot, but is back on in the next. (00:10:50)
8th Jan 2003
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the women are putting the eggs into the car and Ouiser walks over to Annelle and begins to converse with her, she is holding a carton of the eggs. The two front corners of the eggs keep changing colors as the shots keep changing from Ouiser and Annelle speaking.
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