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Homer: How could you? Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church, Captain Whatshisname? We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. [Makes sound effects and laughs.] Where was I? Oh yeah. Stay out of my booze.

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The only voice artists who regularly perform as only one character are Yeardley Smith as Lisa and Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel. Yeardley has also voiced different versions of Lisa (Lisa Jr. and Lisabella) in at least two other episodes. See more...

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The Simpsons (1989) - 1490 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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Rosebud (season 5, episode 4)

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Other: When Homer wakes up and sees the calender, which is marked as "Burns birth day", the calender is showing the month of September having 31 days.

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Simpson Safari (season 12, episode 17)

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Continuity: Towards the end, when the scientist is trying to give everybody diamonds, a shot cuts to just Marge and Lisa, but out of nowhere Maggie appears.

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Little Big Girl (season 18, episode 12)

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Other: At the end when Bart and Homer are singing "twinkle twinkle little star" Bart's tongue is green.

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Trash of the Titans (season 9, episode 22)

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Continuity: When Ray Patterson's / Homer's office is shown, the text on the door is different according to the different shots. When the shot is on the door, the writing on the window (Name and Sanitation Commissioner) is close together, but when the shot is from inside the office with the door open, the writing is apart.

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Lisa Gets an A (season 10, episode 7)

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Continuity: When Lisa is daydreaming about her failed test, the president of Harvard talks to her. When he says, "Nasty business that zero", his right white sleeve turns the same color as the glass above the door.

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Marge in Chains (season 4, episode 21)

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Continuity: When Marge comes to pay for her shopping, she empties her left pocket on her coat, but when Sanjay finds it in her pocket, it's in her left pocket. We know it wasn't in her pocket anyway because when Sanjay finds it, it is bigger than the size of her pocket.

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Lisa's Pony (season 3, episode 8)

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Continuity: At one point in the episode, Homer is on the phone with someone in his work station. I forget who it was, but anyway, when you first see him, the wire is coming from the left side of him and when he turns to his right, the wire is coming from the right side of him.

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The Joy of Sect (season 9, episode 13)

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Continuity: When "The Leader's" car drives by, trailing a cloud of dust, the dust doesn't appear on the people's robes until the cloud clears away.

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Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (season 9, episode 10)

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Continuity: When Bart pulls the melted tree out of the house, a shovel appears out of thin air so he can shovel snow onto it.

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Lisa the Greek (season 3, episode 14)

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Continuity: When the announcer says that the Falcons win, he says "Who would've thunk it" Homer says "My daughter, that's who". When he is saying this, Lisa's arm disappears twice.

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Lisa's Wedding (season 6, episode 19)

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Deliberate "mistake": When Lisa and Hugh go by Taxi to the Simpsons house, you can see that they pass the same buildings all the time, especially "Coffee shop".

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The Canine Mutiny (season 8, episode 20)

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Continuity: When handing out the mail, Marge places a miniature jerry can of petrol on the table. It is gone in the next shot.

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Bart Carny (season 9, episode 12)

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Continuity: When Principal Skinner is playing the ring toss game, in the end he only has one ring left in his hand. Then, after his mother asks "Why do you always fail?", he throws two more rings trying to win the combat knife.

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Brother From Another Series (season 8, episode 16)

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Continuity: In the scene where Sideshow Bob and his brother Cecil are arrested and sits in the the back of the police car, Cecil is missing when Sideshow Bob is talking to the people outside the car though his window. They both entered the car and they can both be seen when the car leaves.

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The Canine Mutiny (season 8, episode 20)

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Continuity: In the opening scene of the episode, envelopes are pushed through a mail-slot on the front door. However, when Laddie arrives and Bart goes outside to meet him, the front door's mail slot has disappeared.

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The Simpson's Halloween Special: Tree House of Horror (season 2, episode 3)

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Continuity: When the Simpsons are eating for the second time the alien on the very left, which previously had spots on his cheek, now has no spots.

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Lemon of Troy (season 6, episode 24)

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Continuity: When all the dads are together in front of Homer's house, one of them is wearing a grey sweater. When they enter the RV the man with the grey sweater doesn't, but throughout the episode he keeps appearing and disappearing on the RV.

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Home Away From Homer (season 16, episode 20)

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Continuity: When Homer tries to leave his seat in the cinema and complains about eating the apple, the shot shows his body fat has wedged him in the seat. However we can see from all the shots before this that the fat was never wedged in like it was when he was trying to leave.

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Treehouse of Horror XIII (season 14, episode 1)

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Audio problem: When Homer is playing the piano, and Marge is playing the cello, Frink grabs Homer and pulls him into the room. However the playing of the piano continues, even after Homer is pulled away.

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Goo Goo Gai Pan (season 16, episode 12)

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Continuity: When Cletus arrives, to get his child back from Selma, we see Lisa wearing purple gloves. In the following shots, as she speaks to Selma, her hands are bare.

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