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[Homer is at Moe's Bar talking about when his jaw was broken.]

Homer: And when I couldn't talk, I learned to listen! You can learn so much if you just listen once in a while.

Lenny: Let's try it!

[They listen and hear Moe on the phone in a back room.]

Moe: Hello, uh, I'd like to arrange for an escort, please? TO WHERE? How about orgasm-ville, ya dumb - hey, hello? Hello?

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When Marge takes Homer back inside, his car is seen blocking the traffic. But at least one side of the traffic is driving on the wrong side of the road. The drivers behind Homer's car are on the right side of the road. And the drivers behind Homer's car from the opposite direction are driving on the left side but facing the drivers behind Homer's car on the other side. Either way, one half of the traffic are driving on the wrong side of the road. See more...

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This is the last episode to feature the voice of Phil Hartman, aired September 27, 1998. In it, he voices Troy McClure in a nature video about birds. Phil had been killed by his wife in a murder-suicide that May, and Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz were never replaced. See more...

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The Simpsons (1989) - 336 corrections

Directed by Matt Groening, starring Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Kelsey Grammer, Nancy Cartwright, Phil Hartman, Yeardley Smith (add more)

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Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song (series 5)

When Bart shows his dog in class all the other kids are surprised to see it, but what about when Bart took it to school on the bus? Sureley somebody like Otto or one of the other kids would have seen Bart pick him up? [Bart hid Santa's Little Helper in a box, which he reveals at school.]
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Burns' Heir (series 5)

The nuclear power station has three huge chimney stacks belching smoke. Why? What are they burning? [1) It could simply be steam. 2) The plant is notoriously unsafe and in contravention of most laws so there may well be stuff burning inside. 3) Burns could easily be engaged in some illegal money-making activity inside the plant which involves burning.]
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Deep Space Homer (series 5)

Neither Barney nor Homer underwent any sort of physical or medical examination at all. Homer has a heart condition, he has had bypass surgery, and yet he is still allowed to take part in the mission. Also, both of them are surely too overweight to be allowed to participate. [The whole mission wasn't well thought out to begin. At the end of the day they were looking for a "Blue collared slob" to attract fans, and in that case Barney and Homer were perfect. The fact they were overweight and in average health was not NASA's main concern. Also they do undergo examinations but we probably don't see all of them. One scene we see them doing a lung capacity test.]
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Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy (series 5)

Kent Brockman reports that the US President has been arrested for murder. This can't happen. Murder or not, the US President is immune from arrest while in office. [Not true. President Franklin Pierce was arrested for driving a horse and buggy too fast while in office, and President Ulysses Grant was arrested for driving a horse and buggy while drunk.]
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When Lisa is having her little town meeting awaiting the spoken words from Malibu Stacy she has all of her other dolls in front of her sitting in little chairs facing a little podium. However when Lisa is venting having heard the moronic slogans Malibu Stacy speaks when her string is pulled there is a close up on Lisa and then the next shot is a wider one of the room and it shows Lisa still holding Malibu Stacy but all of her dolls and furniture are gone. During the entire scene Lisa has her entire focus on the Malibu Stacy problem and is not seen moving about the room at all. [If you watch carefully, you'll see that Lisa is on one side of a divider and the dolls are on the other side. When the scene pulls out to the wider shot, we see Lisa holding Malibu Stacy (just before the wide shot, we see her pull the doll over the divider). Her other dolls are gone, but they're supposed to be. They are on the other side of the divider (the side closer to the window, as established in the first shot of the doll convention, when we see the living room BEHIND Lisa).]
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On the way back from the mall Grandpa is sat in the back of the car, and says that he can't unbuckle his seatbelt. How then does he manage to reach over and honk the horn? [He's sitting in the middle, and the buckle being stuck doesn't keep the belt from stretching if you lean forward.]
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Homer the Vigilante (series 5)

Somebody with glasses and a hat drowns in a river, but later when everybody is looking for the treasure, he is there as if nothing has happened to him at all. [The man who goes in the river is driving his car and it goes under the water but we never see him drown. As soon as he goes under the water the shot shows Bart. The guy could have simply got out of the river and ran to the treasure site after that. He was in a convertible car and there was enough time from the car sinking to seeing him at the treasure site to have covered that distance.]
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When we see the outside of Herman's weapon shop, it appears to be a reused shot from Season 1. [Not a mistake, unless there's anything contradicting continuity in that shot.]
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$pringfield (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) (series 5)

When Mr. Burns is laughing in church it has a purple interior instead of its usual orange. [Looking at the shot inside the church there is nothing to indicate that this is the local church that most the townspeople go to. Everything about the church is different from the local church including the walls (which are blue not purple) and the glass paned windows. Being also there is no familiar faces in the church its more likely that this is a different church.]
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Boy Scoutz N the Hood (series 5)

When Bart and Milhouse buy the 'Super Squishy' Bart pays with a $20 bill. Apu gives no change but after this they go to a V.I.P. arcade, buy tickets for 'Catz' and buy loads of bubblegum. Considering they were out of money in the first place how did they afford all this? [What they did was simply an image of what they thought they did as Bart couldn't remember the next morning. Many episodes this happens when one of the characters go into song and dance. In the episode "Homer Badman", Homer goes into a song and dance where he and the family are under the sea.]
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Marge on the Lam (series 5)

When Marge goes to the ballet with Ruth Powers, she has a purple coat with fur around the top. They go to the ballet, and when they come out Marge hasn't got the coat. [She forgot it at the ballet - character mistake.]
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Homer manages to call Marge from a pay phone even though both of his arms are trapped in two vending machines. [It would have been tough, but could have knocked the phone onto his shoulders to hold between his neck and used his nose to push the buttons.]
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Homer's Barbershop Quartet (series 5)

When the people are protesting at Moe's Bar, you can see several arms that aren't attached to bodies. [We can't see the bodies that the arms belong to becuase of the people standing in front of them, so we don't know whether there are bodies there or not.]
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During all of the flashbacks, Homer is in stage 1 hair loss (birth of Bart), but shouldn't he have the amount of hair he had after finding out about Lisa's birth? If the flashbacks did occur 8 years ago, shouldn't Marge be pregnant and Homer be bald? [Marge has already had Lisa by the time of the flashbacks - Lisa as a baby is seen in one of them.]
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Who Shot Mr. Burns? (1) (series 6)

During this episode, Skinner mentions that he doesn't have a secretary, but in a much earlier episode called 'Bart the Genius' he has one. [Skinner said he *doesn't* have a secretary. He didn't say he has *never* had one. He obviously doesn't have one in this episode. He didn't say anything about the secretary he had in Bart the Genius.]
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Groundskeeper Willie says that his father got thrown in the bog, yet in another episode he says that his father was hung for stealing a pig. Also in the episode with the Loch Ness monster, Willies father is alive and well. [Willy said his father was thrown in the bog instead of having a proper BURIAL (presumably for the pig offence). You're right about the Loch Ness episode though.]
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The oil blasts into Bart's treehouse injuring Bart and the dog. But weren't the whole family at the schools oil dedication a few moments before? [No, obviously not. Only Lisa had to be there to switch on the pump. It's entirely in character for Bart to stay at home and play with the dog rather than go to a school function.]
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Lemon of Troy (series 6)

In "Bart's Comet", it was shown that the only way out of Springfield was a bridge across a circular gorge. Yet, in this episode, there is an easy access border between Springfield and Shelbyville. [The geography of Springfield changes often; sometimes it is seaside, sometimes landlocked, sometimes it is a small town, or as big as New York City, or exactly the shape of Texas. This is a pretty obvious gag and therefore not a mistake.]
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Springfield Connection (series 6)

In the scene where Marge is chopping celery, the knife is always in front of the celery as she chops, and never passes through the stick of celery - so no slices should be cut. [This episode was recently shown on T.V. and it does show Marge cutting up the celery.]
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Two Dozen and One Greyhounds (series 6)

In the show where Santa's Little Helper finds his mate and they have puppies, Monty Burns is out with Waylon Smithers. The two are on the street and see the puppies in a box. He starts stealing the puppies but SURELY the people around him (at least ten) would see that he was stealing the puppies. [That's the joke. The Simpsons are worried Mr Burns is going to resort to some complicated, evil plan to take their puppies, but he very simply and very obviously just puts them in a bag.]
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