Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: When Principal Wartz tells Helga she cannot volunteer again, he removes the "revered badge" and its black crossbody strap from Helga. Helga then selects Phoebe as the next hall monitor. When Phoebe joins them on the stage, Helga is again wearing the crossbody strap with the badge in the wide shot, but it's gone in the next shot as Wartz places it on Phoebe. (00:02:10)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: While Phoebe is hall monitor, her watch repeatedly disappears and reappears on her wrist, even mid-shot. (00:05:00)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: After Phoebe's eyeglasses are stepped on, when she tells Helga, "Out with the old Phoebe, in with the new," Phoebe's belt buckle and two brown pouches have vanished, then reappear in the next shot. Later, while Phoebe sits on the desk during detention, her belt buckle is missing in her close-ups, and it reappears mid-shot as she crosses her legs. Then, when Phoebe's classmates share how they miss the "old" Phoebe, her buckle and the two brown pouches vanish, but they all reappear in a moment. (00:05:05)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: In the cafeteria, when Gerald throws his detention slips on the floor, Phoebe gives him another slip. Phoebe is first behind the railing, but in the next shot, she is in front of the railing. In the following shot, she is behind the railing again. (00:08:26)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: In the first and last overhead shots of the detention classroom, the "fire" sign, the fire extinguisher, and light switch are not on the wall beside the door, though all are on the wall in other shots during this scene. (00:09:30)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Harold's Bar Mitzvah: In the beginning, when Stinky asks Harold if he wants to play stickball, there is no wristband on his arm. Harold says he has to go do his lessons, and in the next shot, a wristband appears on Stinky's arm, then disappears. Later on, when Harold comes out of the synagogue, his wristbands are back on his arms. (00:12:03)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: While Helga is hall monitor, her watch repeatedly disappears and reappears on her wrist.
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Continuity mistake: Hall Monitor: During the school assembly, Principal Wartz's necktie has diagonal stripes, and its top knot stripes switch to the opposite direction, then revert to the proper direction.
Answer: The show is based in present day times. Plus most cars aren't old fashtioned, I recall seeing a limo and not to mention a cherry picker, etc.