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Diggers Split Up - S4-E20

Continuity mistake: After getting off the school bus, when Gus falls into the hole that Sam has dug in front of the school, he's wearing his watch as usual. As Gus sits up, his watch vanishes mid-shot; then it reappears on his wrist.

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Diggers Split Up - S4-E20

Continuity mistake: After Upside-Down Girl tells TJ he must do something about Dave, when the gang look for Sam and discuss the situation with him, the clock over the school doors repeatedly changes time between shots. Then, when Sam grabs the shovel and jumps back into the hole, the two hands of the clock vanish, only to reappear and change time yet again.

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Diggers Split Up - S4-E20

Other mistake: At lunch, when Sam is using a spoon to shape his mashed potatoes on the tray, his right arm clips through the tray just as he says, "Maybe I should clear out the east wall like this." Then, when Sam says, "Maybe I should fortify the south side first," he's using the spoon to move the mashed potatoes on top of the tray, but his arm and spoon are under the tray, so it looks as if the potatoes move on their own. Additionally, when Sam states that he's so confused, the spoon held up in his right hand appears to vanish in the next shot.

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Diggers Split Up - S4-E20

Continuity mistake: The gang hatches a plan and tells Dave that Sam is trapped in a cave-in, so Dave begins digging to save him. When Sam and Spinelli return with their ice cream cones, Sam's gloves vanish and reappear a couple of times while he is holding his ice cream.

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The Army Navy Game - S5-E5

Audio problem: When Gus and Cornchip Girl are sitting in the principal's office, Lieutenant pats Cornchip Girl on the head and says, "Especially if the girl is as cute as," then Luke comes in and cuts him off. The camera cuts to Lieutenant before he says the word "as," but his mouth doesn't lip sync the word.

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The Pest - S1-E13

Continuity mistake: When the gang is playing marbles, there are seven marbles in the ring, with three black ones on the left and four orange ones on the right. In the next shot, there is suddenly a green marble on the right side of the ring, with a black marble next to it.

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Mama's Girl - S2-E14

Continuity mistake: After Miss Grotke avoids the mud puddle, a kid says, "Spinelli just called Miss Grotke Mama!" In this shot, Ashley Q is near the left side of the screen, Ashley B is near the right, and the other two Ashleys are nowhere to be seen. In the next shot, all four Ashleys are suddenly shown together, laughing.

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Big Ol' Mikey - S5-E6

Other mistake: When Gretchen tells Mikey, "I'd be happy to help with matters of enunciation and syntax, of course," the soles of Gretchen's shoes are brown, as they should be, but then they turn white mid-shot. The next time we see Gretchen, they are brown again.

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Schoolworld - S4-E21

Continuity mistake: When Gus gets locked out of the school after recess, he asks SAL to open the hallway door. He looks up at the clock, and the time on it is 10.46.05 (then goes up to 10.46.08 by the end of the shot). A few seconds later, the time changes to 18.46.16, then 10.46.17, then 10.45.18.

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The New Kid - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: In the beginning, after the kids have gone to recess, Vince starts talking to TJ about Gus. The number of bricks between the windows on the wall behind them and the bricks' position changes four times.

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The Big Prank - S4-E2

Continuity mistake: When TJ's friends climb on the jungle gym to try and take TJ's place, we see that Gretchen is the last one up and there is no-one on the bars behind her. But in the next long shot, Mikey is right behind her. Then when it shows a close-up of them, Mikey is gone again; then he reappears a moment later.

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One Stayed Clean - S3-E1

Character mistake: When Mikey looks at the Picture Day schedule, he points out that 4th grade is going last. However, the schedule says they are after 3rd grade and before 5th grade, actually making them fifth. The faculty is actually listed last on the schedule.

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Continuity mistake: Across the show, the number of kids in a class/what kids are in which class varies. For example, in "The Great Can Drive", the Ashleys are in Ms. Furley's class. However, in almost every other episode besides this one, the Ashleys are all in Ms. Grotke's class, and the exception are a couple of episodes in which 2 Ashleys are in Ms. Grotke's class, and the other 2 Ashleys are in another class (which is not specified by name), making a serious consistency error.

The Trial - S1-E16

Plot hole: Whenever Gretchin calls Mikey up to the stand to explain what he saw, he says that he had followed Spinelli and Randall to the wooden fence, where he Saw Randall on his knees in front of Spinelli, begging for forgiveness, then Mikey began running to the other side to stop Spinelli from pummeling Randall with the "rock" but didn't make it in time. We then later find out that Spinelli had actually rescued Ms. Finster's cat out of a tree and Randall hit himself with the rock out of spite. But it is impossible that Spinelli could have given up on hurting Randall, climbed up a tree, rescued a cat, climbed down, handed the cat back to Ms. Finster, gotten praise from Ms. Finster, then have Randall attempt to pick up a big rock, then get a smaller one and hit himself with it in under 3 seconds (the duration of how long Mikey ran before he heard Randall's scream).

The New Kid - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: In the beginning, as Gus' dad walks away, the A/C duct goes way down the hallway, and one side is halfway in one tile and the other side is halfway on another tile. When Gus is talking, the duct is much shorter, and the whole duct is contained in one tile.

Theodore J. 'T.J.' Detweiler: Never kid a kid who hasn't had his recess.

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