Continuity mistake: When the university dean is looking at Meg's transcript, the folder of other papers he has on his desk suddenly moves back with more of the large white paper underneath it moving. And the text boxes at the top of the paper he's holding vanish in a closer shot. (00:04:31)
Continuity mistake: When Stewie finds the chemistry lab, the door knob is on the left side. Moments later, when the processor pushes Stewie back out of the room, the knob is now on the right side of the door and much bigger. (00:03:12)
Continuity mistake: Stewie enters the Chemistry Lab at the university and is stopped by a professor. In the background is an anatomy diagram of a human body. Between shots, lots of the detail disappears, including a blue circle, some organs, several lines of text, and the orange and green circles change size, shape and position. (00:03:24)
Continuity mistake: Brian, Chris and Stewie enter the Physics Department of the university, and Room 105 is on the left side of the hallway. As they walk down the hall, they pass Room 105 again, but on the right side of the hall. (00:03:05)
Continuity mistake: After Peter tries to bribe the admission at the University, he, Lois, and Meg sit down on a waiting couch as Lois says she had friends who got shot at her old school. There is a painting of a yellow building on the wall above and behind them. It has 8 windows at the top. In the next shot, it just has 7 windows at the top. Also, the bushes and road are drawn a little differently with less road visible through the bottom bush. (00:02:08)
Continuity mistake: The family is standing outside the gate of Brown University, and their car is on the left, parked just off to the side behind Meg. In the next shot, the car vanishes. You can tell where it was supposed to be by the position of the white lines on the road, meaning no, it's not just off camera. Where the line is shown, the front of the car should be visible behind Meg. (00:01:19)
Deliberate mistake: At the start of the episode, the family is watching a show called "Sherry and the Anus." When Sherry opens the door and walks in, there is a Star Wars poster hanging above Anus' dresser. However, it doesn't resemble Star Wars at all. The font is all wrong, the lettering is the wrong colour, and the ship on the front is some generic-looking spy plane and nothing like a Star Wars fighter. This was obviously done to avoid any copyright issues, as this was before the Lucas partnership later on. (00:00:07)
Continuity mistake: After La Toya Jackson says the prayer in Mayor West's office, the military personnel that were behind Mayor West vanish in the next shot. (00:20:55)
Other mistake: When Peter sits down with Mayor West to discuss terms, West says, "Thank you all for coming." As he does, he tilts his head down and the bottom half of his nose disappears until he moves his head again. (00:20:38)
Continuity mistake: At the pool party with the other world leaders in Joe's pool, Achmed is cooking on the grill and Stewie is standing on a blue stool next to him. Moments later, in a closer shot of Achmed, the stool Stewie is on is suddenly brown with grey legs. (00:18:18 - 00:18:58)
Continuity mistake: In the kitchen after Petoria is cut off from the world, the fridge is shown with two notes on the freezer door next to the handle with scribbled writing on them. After Stewie takes a dump in his newspaper diaper, it cuts to a different closer angle, and now the writing on the notes has vanished. Usually in animation, details being lost in a further out shot is normal; however, this is details lost in a closer angle. (00:17:42)
Continuity mistake: When Chris tells Peter that some guy won't let him go to school, Peter turns so that his front doorway threshold is to his right. But then, when it cuts to the next shot with Peter asking "him and what army?", suddenly his back is to the doorway again. (00:14:07)
Continuity mistake: In the UN Cafeteria, Peter goes to sit down next to some other world leaders for lunch. Between shots, the size and shape of the food trays change, and also the Asian guy's tray vanishes altogether. (00:12:50)
Continuity mistake: After Robert E. Lee loses the drinking contest to Griffin, he sets his mug down and it is under half full. In the next shot, suddenly it's about three-quarters full. (00:10:08)
Continuity mistake: In the Ulysses S. "Griffin" cutaway gag, just when Griffin and Lee go to start chugging their beer, the soldier behind Griffin suddenly goes from brown hair to blonde. The soldiers also get closer together between shots. (00:10:04)
Revealing mistake: After Peter's encounter with Mayor West, we have the family standing next to the sidewalk in their front yard. Lois walks up holding Stewie, and now you can see there is a perspective error in the animation as next to Lois the mailbox looks comically small, barely big enough to put a stapler in. (00:08:11)
Continuity mistake: Peter enters Adam West's office, and the words "Adam West Mayor" are on the door. Adam West then tackles Peter to the ground and starts punching him in the next shot. During that moment, part of the letters are still seen, and the "OR" at the end of "MAYOR" is noticeably much smaller, and the "R" is a different shape. (00:06:45)
Other mistake: When Peter is digging a hole in his back yard, he uses his shovel to cut the power supply to all of Quahog. We see Joe watching TV and Quagmire messing with his sex doll. The power cuts off, and so then Joe's TV turns off and Quagmire's doll turns off. However, the lights in the rooms they are in stay on. The power being cut would have turned off the lights also. (00:05:32)
Continuity mistake: After the IRS visit, Peter is digging a hole in his back yard for a pool. His kids are standing around at the edge of the hole watching. When it cuts to a close-up of Stewie, he's suddenly standing much closer to the hole. (00:04:18)
Continuity mistake: When Peter sits down at the desk in the IRS office, there is a pen and what appears to be a business card on the corner of the desk next to where he’s sitting. After Miss Stratford says she farted, it cuts to a frontal angle of Peter, and suddenly the pen and business card have disappeared. (00:03:07)
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 ★