Brian: Portrait of a Dog - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When the cop is making Brian lay down on the sidewalk, the fender wells of his squad care are a brownish red color. When Brian lays down, in the close up this all turns black. (00:09:37)
Brian: Portrait of a Dog - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: After the dog show, the next establishing shot is the family car driving down the road past a fence, a blue building, and a pink building. Immediately after, the shot cuts to inside the car and suddenly the fence is gone, and the blue building has turned yellow with other buildings changing or appearing. (00:07:57)
Brian: Portrait of a Dog - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: After Brian throws the treat at Peter and storms off, Peter tells him to not walk out on him. There are people in the bleachers behind him. When it cuts to a close up of Peter, suddenly more people appear on the bleachers. (00:07:45)
Brian: Portrait of a Dog - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: At the dog show, Stewie starts to try to get out of his stroller before asking Meg to push him into a lake. The person on the right of the screen as he's struggling is only seen from the calves down, and is wearing blue pants and black shoes. After Meg gets up and says she'll find him a juice box, the people behind Stewie do not match up with this at all. And then in the next close up of him, there are identical legs in the same position as before, but now with black pants and white shoes. (00:06:42)
Brian: Portrait of a Dog - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: After Lois gives Brian a new collar for the show, he turns to thank her and in the reflection of the mirror, we see there is a cabinet and the shower curtain on the right side of the room. Then after she leaves the room and he puts eye drops in, the reflection is shown again and suddenly the cabinet and shower are on the left side of the room. (00:05:32)
Brian: Portrait of a Dog - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: After Peter said he tried to go on a game show, it cuts away to a scene of Jeopardy with the man at the stand holding a card. When it cuts to a close up of the man, the position of his fingers shift downward on the card, and his wrist is turned down. (00:04:14)
Brian: Portrait of a Dog - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: When Chris and Lois are watching the news on the couch, there is a tall fan on a stand behind the couch next to Chris. Moments later when Peter walks in and goes around the couch, the fan is missing. (00:02:54 - 00:03:21)
Continuity mistake: When the head Native American is saying he wishes he had a spiritual vision also, there is just his right hand man beside him and the Indian in the grey suit to his other side with nobody directly behind him. When the camera cuts to a wide angle from more of a distance, suddenly the fat Indian with the cigar appears behind him, then vanishes again in the next shot. (00:20:04)
Continuity mistake: When the Native Americans make ghost sounds at Peter and Lois scaring them out of the office, the chair on the right side of the screen is empty. It cuts to Peter and Lois turning to run out of the door for a split second, then back to the Native Americans in a different angle. Suddenly that chair that was empty now has an Native American in a grey suit sitting there. (00:15:44)
Continuity mistake: In the car, Peter talks about how he shouldn't have had that prune smoothie. Suddenly their car has no rear window, and the ceiling of the car is completely different with lines going everywhere and extending back down over where the rear window used to be. (00:09:24)
Continuity mistake: Peter picks up the phone to call the Scout leaders and points his finger up in the air. In the side shot, it's just his finger extended up, but when it cuts to a closer angle, suddenly his thumb is extended outward as well. (00:07:00)
Continuity mistake: On the couch, Lois tells Peter that maybe Chris is the one that should be earning that badge. As she does, Peter's arm is down at his side and her hand is resting on it. It then cuts to his reaction and suddenly his arm is out in front of him with no time between shots.
Continuity mistake: Peter rescues the Fishmans. When the family pulls him up he's holding both of them under one arm and has a huge rock that came from nowhere under the other arm. (00:19:50)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Just before Chris tells Stewie to make a wish, there is a pie server next to the cake on the table. When it cuts back to the family it has vanished. (00:21:29)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Peter walks in from the front door and stands behind the couch where Lois and Brian are seated before he tells them he canceled the party reservation. Between shots, his position behind the couch suddenly changes as does the angle that Lois is looking up at him from. (00:08:05)
Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: Peter goes to a save the animals machine at the arcade and at first fails. Inside the machine you can see a yellow bear up against the corner to Peter's right. In the next shot the bear is gone. Several other items inside also change. (00:06:26)
Yug Ylimaf - S11-E4
Continuity mistake: In reversed time, we see Cleveland falling back to the inside of his house that had just been wrecked by Peter who launched himself with a cannon into it. The camera zooms in on Cleveland as he falls back to the inside of his house, only for Peter to suddenly be visible along with an additional piece of the roof taken away, after the area in which Peter would appear on and the roof-piece disappear at was off-camera for a few seconds.
I Never Met the Dead Man - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: When Peter comes back into the room after the TV comes on and is wanting to take the family to the folk festival, he stands at the end of the couch with his back to the window. You can see their front door off to the side behind him but not close enough. When it cuts to a different angle, suddenly the door is right behind him, then the window again when it cuts back. (00:17:10)
Continuity mistake: In episode 6, right before Brian's death when Stewie decides to go back inside the house to get his knee pads, he stops right before he enters the house. In this episode, when the same sequence is displayed along with Stewie (from the future) returning to that time, his former self never stops before entering the building. (00:18:40)
Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q - S10-E3
Continuity mistake: Throughout the entire intervention scene you can see Brenda's hands. After her boyfriend starts talking he says they are getting married. Brenda holds up her hand to show her ring and suddenly there's a splint on her finger.
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.
Jon Sandys ★