The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: While having breakfast, all of the Simpsons' glasses of orange juice keep disappearing and reappearing throughout the scene. (00:05:35)
Hamster
25th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
25th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Audio problem: When Homer is putting Christmas lights around the outside of the house, he falls from the roof. You can then hear Lisa and Bart sarcastically clap. But you can see they both have their hands by their side, and no-one is clapping. (00:04:55)
22nd Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Millhouse, Bart and Lewis are talking about the fake Santa, Millhouse's eyebrows go from blue to black to blue again. (00:14:15)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart climbs on the roof to get the remote control plane, he falls, and smashes into a gargoyle which falls and smashes beneath him. But when he is hanging from the roof, below him the gargoyle is nowhere to be seen.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Millhouse is being chased outside by a sun ray, the ray burns the pavement. It then turns around, and the pavement is now no longer burned. (00:01:40)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer and Flanders drop their presents, the presents move around and change colours between shots. (00:10:20)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Martin does his book report, on the blackboard it says 'An afternoon with Ernest Hemingway: Reflections by Martin.' But when Bart goes up to do his report, the blackboard is clean. (00:01:25 - 00:02:20)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: During the big song near the end, there is a birds eye view of everybody outside dancing and singing, and Krusty, Chief Wiggum and Skinner are there outside with everyone. But in the very next shot, they all appear out one of the windows, singing a line to the song.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Marge arrives after the song, Flanders and Lovejoy are talking to her, and behind them you can see a crowd of people. The crowd then disappears in one shot, only to reappear a shot later.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer walks up The Front drive you can see the road and there are no markings on it. But when he turns to look at his house, there are orange lines running down the road. (00:08:50)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When the angry mob smash all the statues and the fountain before the song, during the song you can see all the statues and the fountain intact.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer has been informed about the Christmas money being spent on Bart getting his tattoo surgically removed, he leaves the house. When he opens and closes the door to leave, the wreath on the door is white with a red bow. When Homer then turns to look his Christmas decorations, the wreath is now green. (00:08:50)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Christmas Special: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire - S1-E1
Continuity mistake: When Homer walks out Circus of Values with his purchases, he bumps into Flanders, and all the presents scatter everywhere. Watch out for a red present with a green bow that goes flying near the left hand side of the screen. As soon as it hits the ground it turns into a pink box with a white bow wrapped around it, with no shot changes. (00:10:15)
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Helen and Reverend Lovejoy are singing to Belle, in the big song, Principal Skinner and Apu are standing behind them. In the next shot, they've disappeared.
21st Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Marge is standing by the bulldozer, someone fires an arrow which is set alight, and it lands on a tree. But in the next shot the tree in which the arrow landed on has vanished.
14th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: In class, when Lisa is sitting at her desk, pondering the Jebadiah mystery, her tray of cookies and glass of milk is very visible. Then when Lisa says "The missing piece of the puzzle. I've got it." and runs out of class, the cookies and milk are no longer there.
10th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
The Springfield Files - S8-E10
Continuity mistake: At the kitchen table, when Homer talks about getting mocked on his own birthday, they're eating breakfast. But when Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie all go to pet Santa's Little Helper, the breakfast has vanished.
8th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Easter egg: In the Simpsons second series, insert Disc 3. Select the episode "Bart's Dog Gets an F." Then go into Language select and you'll see Santa's Little Helper with a little picture. Click up then right, to highlight that picture. Hit enter, and you'll see a sketch of "The many heads of Bart."
6th Jun 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Tree House of Horror VII - S8-E1
Continuity mistake: In 'The Thing and I' when Lisa and Bart are questioning Homer about the 'thing' up in the attic at breakfast, Homer is the only one eating. But in the next shot you can see Lisa and Bart with breakfast too. (00:01:30)
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