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Quiet Sam (series 1)

Andy delivers a baby at a farmer's house. While still at the house at the end of the show, he tells everyone the baby is 8 pounds, 9 ounces. Bathroom scales aren't accurate enough for that weight and they didn't have electronic scales at that time. How could he know the exact weight? [How did they know my exactly weight when I was born in 1965? There are accurate scales readily available without having to be electronic.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior

Christmas Story (series 1)

Ben brings Sam in to be arrested for moonshining. His argument is moonshiners cut into his profits because he sells spirits. Andy has said many times before that Mayberry is a dry county. [While Andy has said that, nowhere does Ben mention that he is selling spirits in Mayberry. He could be selling in a different county.]
Edit Corrected by Zwn Annwn

The Big House (series 3)

When Andy arrives back to the courthouse, just prior to Barney showing Andy that Gomer has been chosen as a second deputy, Andy gets out of the car and walks briskly to the courthouse. Right up until the time Andy reaches the courthouse his pant legs are tucked into his boots. The next shot is an inside the courthouse shot showing Andy walking in. His pant legs are nice and pressed and not tucked in. [Andy never "tucks" his pant legs into his boots. Due to the style of the boots - his pant legs occasionally get caught in the boot. However, just due to walking or stretching the leg - the pant leg becomes un-caught easily. So, it could looked tucked in one instant and untucked the next.]
Edit Corrected by Zwn Annwn

Barney's First Car (series 3)

When the thing in the steering wheel comes out at Barney, during that scene look out the back window of the car. The background moves, yet Barney's hands on the wheel don't move. [I'm not quite sure how this is a mistake. The plot calls for the car to be moving - which, by looking at the background, it is. Barney's hands are normal for a person driving a car. He is "driving" straight - there is no real reason his hands can't remain fairly still.]
Edit Corrected by Zwn Annwn
In the end where the old lady asks for Mr. Fife the second time, she doesn't say Fife, she says something like "Mr. Fipe". [People mispronounce words and names all the time.]
Edit Corrected by jairodrigue

The Great Filling Station Robbery (series 3)

In the end where Andy overhears Barney on the phone saying his poem to Thelma Lou, right before Andy starts saying it, Andy looks at the camera a few times. [An assumed look at the camera should not be considered a mistake - Andy could just have been looking in that direction.]
Edit Corrected by Zwn Annwn
In the scene where Barney is reciting his poem to Thelma Lou, if you look to the right of the screen near what looks like a typewriter, you can see the hidden sheet of paper with what Barney needs to say on it. [It was never implied that he was reciting from memory. He had to read it so Andy could come in and join in.]
Edit Corrected by jairodrigue

The Return of Malcolm Merriweather (series 4)

As Andy walks in the house with Malcolm and greets Aunt Bee, he asks her, "You remember Malcolm don't you?" She replies that she does. This is not possible because in the other episode he appeared in, "Andy and the English Valet", Aunt Bee left town to care for a sick cousin and never met him. [It's possible that she met him another time, just not during that episode.]
Edit Corrected by ctown28