Continuity mistake: When Lois asks Chris who he's talking to on the phone, she get considerably closer to him between shots. (00:02:25)
Continuity mistake: Just before Lois suggests they toilet train Stewie, she and Peter move considerably between shots. (00:03:55)
Continuity mistake: While cooking dinner, and waiting for Peter, Lois has a watch on. As she comes down the basement stairs, it's suddenly gone.
Continuity mistake: After the "Lint" scene, Meg's glasses disappear.
Continuity mistake: When Brian is at the psychiatrist's for the first time, the psychiatrist's chair changes position between shots. (00:08:20)
Lois Comes Out of Her Shell - S11-E6
Other mistake: When Lois goes to Justin Bieber's dressing room, when she enters the room and Justin looks at her reflection in the mirror you can see her arm disconnect from her body as she talks to him. (00:17:15)
Continuity mistake: When Peter winks at the camera wearing an afro, it is black, but when he sits back down, the afro is brown.
Continuity mistake: During the flash back at the ice cream store Peter's eyes change in size twice before he licks the ice cream and then one more time after he licks the ice cream before falling down.
Continuity mistake: Stewie's overalls are missing during one of the shots of the Griffins at court.
Other mistake: When the cut scene goes to Star Trek The Next Generation, all of the rank pips on the crew's collars can be seen on their left side. All Starfleet rank insignia, with the exception of Admirals in this series, is situated on the right side. (00:18:45)
Blue Harvest - S6-E1
Other mistake: In the scene where the Millennium Falcon has just left the death star after Obi-Wan has been killed, there are two shots of the ship flying away through space. In the second shot, the cockpit is missing. (00:33:35)
The Most Interesting Man in the World - S12-E17
Revealing mistake: When Peter is attempting to sneak into the Drunken Clam whilst keeping an eye on Stewie, Peter rips out his eye and throws it towards Stewie, though his glasses are in the way of his eye. (00:03:10)
Continuity mistake: Near the end of the episode, Joe and Quagmire are shown sitting at a booth inside the bar with Joe pulled up to the corner of the booth. As Peter apologizes to them, Joe is no longer seen next to him. As Peter takes Quagmire's check, a part of Joe is seen sitting in the next booth. In the shot after, he disappears again for the rest of the scene.
To Live and Die in Dixie - S3-E12
Continuity mistake: When the FBI agents are telling Lois that the killer knows where they are, the sky keeps alternating from night to daytime and back.
Boys Do Cry - S5-E15
Revealing mistake: When Lois places Stewie on the floor whilst at the Little Miss Texas pageant, one of the girls is seen looking at herself in a mirror, only she doesn't seem to have a reflection. (00:15:35)
Road to the North Pole - S9-E7
Continuity mistake: When Stewie and Brian are taking the unconscious man to the closet, a blood trail is left behind him. However, when Stewie and Brian get the man into the closet, there's barely any blood there. (00:34:45)
Road to the North Pole - S9-E7
Continuity mistake: When Stewie and Brian put out the presents in the first house, there is a plate with three cookies on behind them. But when Brian goes to eat the cookie, there is only one cookie there and no plate. (00:33:20)
Continuity mistake: In the restaurant scene during the chicken fight, after Peter says "oh yeah? What are ya gonna do about it?" the chicken already has a black eye just before they begin fighting.
And Then There Were Fewer - S9-E1
Continuity mistake: When Diane Simmons tells Lois that she is the murderer, Quagmire has already left the manor with Stephanie's body in the boot. When Diane is walking Lois outside, Quagmire is seen again even though he just left. This has been cut from the DVD. (00:45:40 - 00:46:50)
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 ★