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The Simpsons (1989) - 1369 mistakes in entire show

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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Bart the General (season 1, episode 5)

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Continuity: 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.

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Moaning Lisa (season 1, episode 6)

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Continuity: Marge drops Lisa off at school for band practice, and she walks up to the entrance steps, and then converses with two boys. Then her teacher comes up, and Marge gets annoyed. When she comes to grab Lisa back into the car, Lisa is right by the roadside, along with the two boys and the music teacher.

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Continuity: When Homer says "I can't concentrate with that infernal racket", the shot goes up onto Lisa's room. From the outside, there is no window frame on the window. But from the inside, there is one going right through the middle.

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Continuity: When Marge is driving Lisa to school, in one shot you can see that her necklace is red. Then in the next shot it is white. It then changes back to red and stays that way.

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Continuity: When Homer and Bart are playing video boxing for the first time, the interior of the living room keeps changing.

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Continuity: When Bart and Homer first play the video boxing, the window behind them shows that it's broad daylight outside. When Homer blames his loss on Lisa's sax, it cuts to Lisa's room and it's night all of a sudden.

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Continuity: When Marge says, "Oh Homer, you'll lose your head if it wasn't secured to your neck," her necklace is white. However, when she gives the cup cakes to Homer and Bart, it is red.

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The Call of the Simpsons (season 1, episode 7)

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Continuity: When the bear first confronts Maggie, she is on a path. Yet in the next shot when the bear lands on the ground, she is on grass.

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Continuity: When the cameraman is filming Homer in the mud, he screams quite a few times. Yet on the news report showing the footage, we only hear Homer yelling and not the screams.

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Other: The scientist who describes Homer as a brilliant beast seems to have some of his hair magically floating above his ear - it's not connected to his head, yet it moves alongside his head.

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Life on the Fast Lane (a.k.a. Jacques to Be Wild) (season 1, episode 9)

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Continuity: At work, the salad in Homer's sandwich disappears when he mentions that 'she' made it.

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Continuity: When Marge is on the phone to her sisters, her necklace changes from white to red.

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Continuity: Near the end when Homer is putting the colored ball things in the tube, right before Marge comes up behind him, the stripes on his tie switch sides for one shot.

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Homer's Night Out (season 1, episode 10)

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Audio problem: Both Lenny and Carl's voices are wrong. At one point Carl's voice is higher pitched, and Lenny keeps speaking like Moe, or like a voice we haven't heard before.

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Continuity: When Bart and his friends are making copies of the photo of Homer, the banner across the copier says "Copies 5 cents," but when they go to deposit the money it says 10 cents.

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Continuity: When Homer and Bart are at the cabaret show, Mr. Burns and Smithers are there with two women. In almost all of the shots there is a woman sitting between Burns and Smithers, except in the close-up of them when Burns asks "How does he DO it?". Then Smithers is shown as sitting right next to Mr. Burns.

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The Crepes of Wrath (season 1, episode 11)

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Other: After Ugolin (one of the French men looking after Bart) has taken Bart to the Chateau Maison, Cesar and Ugolin speak. (they aren't visible in this shot) Ugolin says "Escape is impossible", but the subtitles say that Cesar says it and vice versa for when Cesar actually speaks.

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Continuity: When Agnes meets Bart and his friend, it cuts to Skinner, then to Bart's group and quickly back to Skinner. When it goes to Bart's group (before Skinner) Lewis is yellow like the rest, in all other scenes he is black.

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Krusty Gets Busted (season 1, episode 12)

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Continuity: When the burglar points the gun at Apu and says "Hand over all your money in a paper bag" Apu immediately replies "Yes, yes, I will". But when Bart sees this incident on TV later, the time between the burglar demanding the money and Apu replying "Yes, yes" is much longer.

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Continuity: When Sideshow Bob is shouting and screaming just before he is taken away in a police van, Lisa and Bart swap places right before Bart says "take him away boys".

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