Continuity mistake: When Luke Perry and Peter are sitting on the couch together, Luke says he has to go and checks his wristwatch. In the next shot, when Peter spills wine on Luke's shirt, he's suddenly not wearing a wristwatch anymore. (00:19:58)
Continuity mistake: Peter tries to seduce Luke Perry by rubbing ice and an orange on his nipple to get it hard. In the next shot, his nipple is suddenly back down to normal again. (00:17:40)
Continuity mistake: When Peter and Brian are trying to get close to Luke Perry, there's a shot of Luke at the pool and the camera pans over to him. In that shot, there is no drink on his table. When it cuts to a close-up, suddenly he has a drink sitting there, as well as a piece of paper that appears on his table. (00:17:12)
Continuity mistake: When Meg is walking by lockers with students reading the paper that has Meg's story in it, the lockers change between shots. They go from tall single lockers to double-stacked lockers. (00:13:23)
Continuity mistake: After Peter sees the magazine with Luke Perry on it and gets an idea, he stands up. Suddenly, the family couch, that was seen in several shots before, is right up against the wall where the table should be and the house front door is missing. The circular rug at the foot of the couch is missing. (00:11:33 - 00:12:19)
Continuity mistake: After Meg gives Brian a copy of her report on Mayor West, he reacts to it and Peter takes a copy. Suddenly, the couch they are sitting on becomes longer with more space between Peter and Brian. Brian goes from sitting in the middle of one of the cushions to on the crack between two of them. (00:11:44)
Continuity mistake: Lois takes away the box of Fig Newtons from Stewie and sets it on the counter in the kitchen. In the first shot, the open side of the box is facing towards what would be the left if you're facing it from the kitchen, then in the next shot the box is turned around so the open side is facing the right. (00:09:11)
Continuity mistake: When Meg walks up to Neil's desk, there is a cup of water on the side of the desk next to the paper, and Neil puts his hands on the paper near the edge. Then in the next shot, his hands move to the centre of the paper and now the cup of water is also on the paper. (00:06:34)
Continuity mistake: When Neil goes to wash his retainer at the water fountain, in the first shot there is no button on the fountain, but it appears in the close-up. Also, between shots, the corner of the cork board moves further away from the fountain. And the guy holding the camera next to Neil goes from hands on camera to the camera just dangling around his neck with his hands down. (00:06:25)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode when Peter is meeting with Mayor West, there are military generals standing behind West. When it cuts to a close-up of him, suddenly the generals behind him disappear. (00:20:45)
Continuity mistake: In the Can't Touch This parody song with Peter, he chains Joe to the back of the truck with a chain. Between shots, the handle of the door changes from grey to a silvery white, the chain itself changes from grey to black, and the panels under the chain and handle go from grey to a darker bluish-grey colour. (00:11:45)
Continuity mistake: In the cutaway gag after Peter says he thought about selling his body to science, there is his skeleton in a classroom hanging up. The teacher asks a girl to come up to it, and between shots, the stand his skeleton is hanging on moves much closer to the wall and corner of the room behind it. (00:01:03)
He's Too Sexy for His Fat - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: When Lois is trying to Get Stewie to eat some cake, there is a bowl on the table with flowers. In most of the shots, the bowl has 4 flowers in it. Then after Chris walks in and sits down, Stewie exclaims that he's ready to eat his cake, and in a close-up suddenly there's 5 flowers in the bowl now. (00:11:25)
He's Too Sexy for His Fat - S2-E17
Other mistake: After the cutaway with the lemonade stand not taking credit cards, the episode cuts to an exterior shot of the hotel that the Griffins are now staying in. For a large hotel like that, the parking lot is way too small, showing only two cars in the front with only three visible spots, and one car parked in the street behind the building. Far too few spots and far too few cars considering how many room lights are turned on. (00:05:50)
Big Man on Hippocampus - S8-E10
Character mistake: Brian says Pretty Woman was a 1980s movie. It was released in 1990.
Continuity mistake: When Brian is talking about Superstore USA, he goes from sitting on the carpet to sitting on the rug without moving. (00:09:50)
Continuity mistake: At the start we see Chris place some shorts on top of an orange shirt, with a small amount of orange sticking out the side. When the shot changes, a lot more orange is now showing. (00:00:50)
Continuity mistake: When Peter is going for ice cream, his fork simply disappears from his plate. (00:18:40)
Continuity mistake: When Lois is carrying Stewie down the stairs, the brick patterns in the wall change between the wide shot and the close-ups. (00:14:10)
And Then There Were Fewer - S9-E1
Plot hole: Every time someone dies, Diane is never in the room with everyone else, and they never notice she's always missing during the murders.
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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