Continuity mistake: Peter goes to see his mom. She's drinking coffee and puts the cup down on the table to answer the door. In the next shot the cup disappears.
Continuity mistake: When Lois opens the door to Peters mum, Peter appears at the door and Lois simply vanishes. (00:05:00)
Continuity mistake: When Lois is talking to Brian about having homicidal thoughts, the rug colours swap order. (00:14:20)
Continuity mistake: At the start, Chris' hat is all yellow instead of yellow and black. (00:00:30)
Continuity mistake: Lois and Brian go outside and celebrate Peters dads death. Behind them you see the trash cans. They come back in and sit down and the trash cans have vanished. (00:12:33 - 00:12:54)
Continuity mistake: When Meg's boss tells her to fire Peter, he has plungers on his nipples. He walks over to Meg and takes them off. A second later his shirt is tucked in without Peter being able to tuck it in. He's holding plungers in both hands.
The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: Stewie uses a chair to climb into his tanning bed. He tells Brian to come get him in 15 minutes. When he comes back 6 hours later, the chair is back over by the table.
Continuity mistake: The gun in Peter's first cutaway vanishes when the stage goes dark.
Continuity mistake: One of the ping pong balls that fall off Peter vanishes when it hits the ground.
Continuity mistake: As the helicopter is shown sliding down the hill, it is shown from several angles to have just a single rotor blade. However, one shot shows two rotors, one of which disappears halfway through the shot.
Boys Do Cry - S5-E15
Continuity mistake: At the Little Miss Texas pageant, just as Lois finishes saying "It's what you do when you're in Texas", she and Stewie walk past a judge and a little girl. In a close-up of Stewie, the judge and little girl have suddenly become a plant. (00:15:25)
Continuity mistake: Peter says "Oh crap" as soon as he realises Ernie the Giant Chicken is looking at him in the window. When the camera pans over to Ernie, he is standing an inch away from the glass. It then cuts to a wide angle where Ernie jumps through the window, and he has instantly moved back a few inches. (00:07:00)
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.
Boys Do Cry - S5-E15
Continuity mistake: When Jake plays the piano the music on the sheet changes. Notice the big gap on the sheet which gets smaller. I know the sheet is changed, but the gap still changes.
Continuity mistake: When Peter shocks Chris he is right next to him. In the next shot Peter is further away from Chris.
Continuity mistake: All the army men including Brian and Stewie have USA symbols on their arms, but when Stewie and Brian talk to one of them, after they shoot each other in the foot, the USA symbol on the man's sleeve is orange lines and a arrow.
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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