Continuity mistake: When Stewie first discovers Lois and Meg spying through the peephole, the peephole is too high for Stewie to reach, but when Stewie walks up to the peephole, it is low enough for him to look through.
Continuity mistake: When Stewie is golfing and spots Brian in disguise, Stewie has a putter. When Stewie realizes that it is Brian and goes after him he is holding a chipper.
Continuity mistake: When Stewie pushes Brian down the stairs, in the background at the moment he pushes him that the stairs are visible behind Stewie as well.
Continuity mistake: When Peter is giving the team steriods, the syringe always goes back to the same place.
Continuity mistake: When Peter and the rest are at the bar and Quagmire is telling Peter that he looked through his garbage, Quagmire's mug tops up between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Stewie is playing golf at the top of the stairs before attacking Brian, the layout of the upstairs floor changes quite radically between shots. First Stewie is playing golf with the stairway behind him. Then when Brian puts on the disguise and walks past, there's suddenly a wall behind Stewie. Brian walks off to the left and Stewie begins to chase him that way, but in the next shot Stewie is chasing Brian off to the right. In that same shot you can see that Stewie is running away from the stairs, but in the next shot, without changing direction, he pushes Brian down the stairs, which mysteriously have appeared in front of him.
Continuity mistake: During the scene where the Griffins have Tom Brady over for dinner, when we first see the establishing shot of everyone at the table, Chris is sitting with an empty chair between him and Tom. However, when he asks if he can call him Tom along with Lois and Meg, he is sitting right next to Tom, with no empty chair between the two.
Continuity mistake: When Stewie has chicken pox the red marks on his face change position many times between shots. A noticeable one is just as he is saying "No, damn you, I've got to finish what I started".
Continuity mistake: When Stewie and Bertram are parachuting down to Earth after the air strike, their parachutes get much closer to each other between shots. This occurs just before they start slapping each other.
Continuity mistake: Brian and Stewie see Meg enter Mayor West's motel room. She's wearing a purple dress. They follow them to a restaurant and Meg has her regular hat and outfit on.
Peterotica - S4-E24
Continuity mistake: After the Quahog Creek clip is over, they show a picture of the house. In the background there is a tall silver building that wasn't there the last time they showed a shot of the house. (00:17:45)
Peterotica - S4-E24
Continuity mistake: When Peter is reading Lois his erotica in bed, the size of his paper changes just after he says "his really cool spaceship".
You May Now Kiss The...Uh...Guy Who Receives - S4-E25
Continuity mistake: When Peter drives his car in the field it is perfectly visible, but in the next couple of shots the car's gone, and so are the tire tracks.
Petergeist - S4-E26
Continuity mistake: The table with the TV on in Peter and Lois' room is just a small table at the beginning of the episode when Stewie talks to the poltergeist. But as they speak to Stewie in the TV it's on a high up chest of drawers. (00:08:00 - 00:12:00)
Petergeist - S4-E26
Continuity mistake: Lois slaps the skull out of Peter's hand and it lands on top of the dirt pile. They both turn around to look at the house and the skull is nowhere in sight.
Petergeist - S4-E26
Continuity mistake: The filing cabinet that was beside the TV moves to the corner beside the desk.
Petergeist - S4-E26
Continuity mistake: When the spirits first come out of the TV, notice the wall beside the TV. There's nothing there. Brian says who's here? Next shot shows a filing cabinet with a pink blanket on top.
Untitled Griffin Family History - S4-E27
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Al Cowlings and his "trusty white bronco" help the Griffins escape, his white horse changes color to light brown during the passing view then changes back to white in the following overhead view.
Continuity mistake: When Stewie is trying to get a drink from Brian, there are two alcohol bottles on top of the table. But one is gone for two shots, then comes back. Also the bottles change from closer to father.
Continuity mistake: Brian insults Stewie about the water and there is a water glass by Bryan's plate. Then it cuts to a shot of Stewie and Chris, and the glass is gone.
Answer: Lacey Chabert was the actress who originally voiced Meg in early episodes. She left of her own accord due to being in school and other acting work; Seth MacFarlane has stated there was no tension with her leaving, but it makes for a handy joke for the show.
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