Continuity mistake: After the "sponge incident," Bart is standing in the drive with the sponge packet in his hand. In the next shot he says "everything about me must go," but the packet has vanished from his hand.
David Mercier
27th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
27th Jul 2004
Frasier (1993)
Continuity mistake: During breakfast, there is a bowl of scrambled egg next to Martin that moves itself around, and at one point the fork in it just vanishes and then reappears.
26th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart enters the tree house after being beaten up, he puts his hat on a peg behind him. In some later shots at an angle you can just see the hat behind him. In the shots from directly in front of Bart, the hat is not on the peg.
24th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Nelson takes the cupcakes, you can see that after he has started eating them there are 4 left in the box. Just before he shuts the lid to drop it, you can just see the tops of 6 cupcakes.
23rd Jul 2004
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Continuity mistake: When the shark is chasing the water-skiers, you can see its fin is about 3 feet behind them, meaning its head must be underneath, if not in front of them. However, in the shot from under the water its viewpoint is shown as being behind them.
23rd Jul 2004
Frasier (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Frasier is in his car with the woman, her seatbelt changes several times between shots. At least once it's off then on almost instantly, and sometimes it's under the lapel of her coat and then suddenly on top of it.
23rd Jul 2004
Friends (1994)
Continuity mistake: When they are talking about sperm donation, Joey is eating a cracker with jam on it. Between shots it instantly rotates in his hand. You can tell because the jam goes from being on the top to the bottom side, and because of the way he is holding it you can see there is only jam on one side. (00:14:15)
22nd Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: In the cafeteria at the power plant, in the wide shot the clock on the wall is on 9.00, but closer up it's showing 10.35.
22nd Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming - S7-E9
Continuity mistake: When Bart and Lisa first enter the Duff Blimp, Bart doesn't have his back-pack on. However, he is suddenly wearing it after the bomb has gone off.
22nd Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming - S7-E9
Continuity mistake: When Maggie (sitting on Marge) appears on "Tyrano-Vision," Homer waves his hand in front of her. However, we can see that he isn't leaning over too far, and in the next shot it is clear that both Bart and Lisa are sitting between Homer and Marge, so there is no way he could have reached over to her in the first place.
21st Jul 2004
Frasier (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Martin first finds out how Niles cured the basketball player, Niles is getting a drink, and Martin is in his chair. During the shots between them, the remote control on the table next to Martin instantly rotates between angles at least twice.
21st Jul 2004
The Untouchables (1987)
Continuity mistake: During the shootout on the rooftop, there is a point when Ness is above Nitti who then starts shooting. He hits 2 glass bottles next to some sort of bucket. However, in the next shot of Ness this bucket has simply vanished.
15th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When George and Homer burst out of the manhole, there is a shot of the Simpsons' house covered in mud, then a quick one of it totally clean, then another when it's muddy again.
15th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Continuity mistake: When Bart is looking for candy in the cupboards, the wine bottles in the nearby rack change position between shots.
11th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
Margical History Tour - S15-E11
Continuity mistake: In the Mozart sketch, the music Bart writes with his foot and then picks up suddenly vanishes in the next shot.
9th Jul 2004
Frasier (1993)
A Word to the Wiseguy - S3-E15
Continuity mistake: The guy Niles and Frasier meet at the Cafe puts his coffee cup down twice between shots, after he has made the phone call and before he leaves. (00:09:20)
9th Jul 2004
The Simpsons (1989)
I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot - S15-E9
Continuity mistake: At one point in the cycle shop, Homer has his hand in his pocket in one shot, and it's suddenly out in the next one.
7th Jul 2004
Futurama (1999)
Love's Labors Lost in Space - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: We can see that the door of the cargo area is nearly on the ground. How come Fry can then run out of the same door and then fall out of the door near the top of the ship? (00:17:00)
6th Jul 2004
ER (1994)
Survival of the Fittest - S7-E17
Continuity mistake: When Carter is talking to the boy who has asthma, at one point he says something like "I'm trying to help," notice the tube is not in the boy's mouth. The angle then changes, and he is holding the tube in his mouth instantly.
5th Jul 2004
ER (1994)
Continuity mistake: When Carter is doing the eye test on the old woman, between shots he is holding the glass in front of a different eye instantly.
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