The Simpsons Movie

Continuity mistake: This is when Homer is about to conquer the 'Ball of Death', on his third attempt. As he is going up, just after Lisa shouts, "Don't slow down, speed up," when Homer has his fingers on the brakes, the Ball of Death suddenly gets a lot bigger.

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Continuity mistake: During the bike stunt at the end, Homer's hair flows in some shots, but is completely rigid in others. (01:10:00)

Continuity mistake: Marge and Bart discover the wanted poster of them at the gas station. When the clerk enters the scene, his shadow is cast on the wall, cork board and the wanted poster behind him. The clerk never moves, nor does the lighting ever change, but as he says "OK" after Marge asks for diapers, his shadow has vanished.

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Continuity mistake: After Marge shouts into the megaphone for the bomb to be thrown, it cuts to Homer and Bart while they're riding sideways on the motorcycle, and the bomb's under Bart's left arm while he's holding onto Homer with his right hand, but in the following shots the bomb's under Bart's right arm while he's holding Homer with his left hand.

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Continuity mistake: In the exterior shot of the Simpson house, before showing Homer and Marge watching the news about the silo being found in the lake, we see the side window (facing the Flanders' house, from which they escape later) is a horizontal sliding window. However, from inside the bedroom and also when they are escaping, that same window has changed to a vertical sliding window. The same thing happens with the other window on the opposite side of their chimney.

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Continuity mistake: When Homer is riding the motorbike around the ball of death, the first try he has the bike does not have flames painted on but after the third try the flames have appeared on the bike again. (00:41:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Homer returns to Springfield, there is full security around the Dome. However, when the bomb explodes there is no sign of any security whatsoever. (01:00:00 - 01:10:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Marge and Homer are watching the news about the silo being found, the '6' on Kent Brockman's microphone keeps getting smaller, the color of his belt buckle changes and the landscape in the background changes. (00:32:00)

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Continuity mistake: The lead singer of Green Day disappears in the shot from behind the drummer's back - he is nowhere to be seen, even though where he was standing before means he should be visible from that angle. (00:03:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Homer tries to convince Bart to come with him on the motorbike, he first holds the bomb in his right hand, but then it's in his left one in a different angle.

Continuity mistake: When the spaceship is landing, there are no craters near, but when Scratchy gets out, there are some craters there. (00:00:31)

Continuity mistake: When Mayor Quimby asks Cletus to demonstrate the anti-pollution barriers around the lake are idiot-proof, his entourage is spread apart, but the next shot of Quimby shows his entourage bunched closer together behind him.

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Continuity mistake: When Homer and Bart are trying to outrun the crack in the dome, they are falling towards the damaged "P" in the Springfield sign. From their view, the top of the "P" is level with the letters "S" and "R" but when they use the bent leg of the "P" as a ramp to relaunch themselves at the dome, the top of the "P" is scrunched down almost halfway down from the other letters.

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Continuity mistake: When the dome is lowered it is done so by 100s of helicopters that release the dome as Homer runs outside. The camera zooms out to show the whole dome and the helicopters have disappeared instantly. (00:26:20)

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Continuity mistake: While Marge and Homer are watching the news on TV note their bed's footboard, then when Lisa angrily rushes into her parents' bedroom to confront Homer, the footboard's style is entirely different, but when Marge pulls Lisa away from Homer the footboard changes back to the original style.

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Continuity mistake: When naked Bart skateboards past Wiggum's squad car, the vehicle does not have a partition screen between the front and back seats, a rear-view mirror, or a side mount searchlight, but in the following shots all have suddenly appeared, with other changes.

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: During the church scene, Martha Quimby is wearing an outfit with sleeves, but soon she's sleeveless, then back to sleeves, and finally sleeveless again. Behind Martha sits Bernice Hibbert, whose pearls also disappear and reappear.

Super Grover

Continuity mistake: When Maggie does her disappearing act through the sinkhole, and Marge rushes to get Homer, the wooden porch swing is directly in front of the window, with its top beam as high as the top of the window. When Homer says, "This dome can play tricks on you," note the door and window behind Marge, because the swing is now gone. (00:31:10)

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EPA official: Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power.
Russ Cargill: Of course I have! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you.

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Trivia: Near the end there's a scene where Homer picks up Marge on the motor bike and in the background you can see Otto and his old girlfriend Becky hugging (these two were about to get married in season 11 but didn't because Otto chose his music instead of Becky).

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Question: In the scene, where Lenny informs Homer that they're giving away free donuts at the shop and that they're going very fast, why didn't Homer ask Lenny to save him some? If he did and Lenny agreed, Homer wouldn't have to hurry up nor dump silo in the lake, thus the dome situation could have been avoided.

Answer: Homer has been known not to make the smartest decisions, and the decisions he does make, he makes without fully thinking them through. Clearly he wanted to get some donuts as quickly as possible without thinking of any other ways, so he decided to ditch the silo in the lake as it would be the fastest way of getting it off his back, even if it's not the smartest. Also, putting that aside, he likely wanted his own pick of the donuts rather than have Lenny guess what he wanted.

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