Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Helga Blabs It All: When the boys get ice cream from the Jolly Olly ice cream truck, Arnold gets a chocolate popsicle, and Gerald gets an ice cream cone. Then, when Helga falls into Arnold's attic bedroom, all the boys stare at her, and as Helga backs out of the room, the ice cream cone Gerald holds changes to a chocolate popsicle.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Helga Blabs It All: While Helga hides in the overhead ventilation shaft, the vent cover has either four, five, or six slat openings in various shots.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Harold the Butcher: The front door of Mr. Green's meat store has either "Green Meats" or "Green's Meats" printed on the door's window.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Harold the Butcher: Mr. Green's meat store has a shopkeeper bell over its front door that vanishes in some shots, then it reappears. For instance, the bell is gone when Arnold is in the store while Harold sits across the street, but we hear it jingle and then the bell reappears when Harold enters the store.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Harold the Butcher: In some shots of Mr. Green's meat store, its front door handle switches to the opposite side. Such as at the start, when Harold stops in front of Mr. Green's meat store because he's hungry. Also, while Harold sits across the street from the meat store, Green asks Arnold if Harold is still out there, and the store's front door handle is on the wrong side of the door. Next shot, as Arnold exits the store, the door opens properly. (00:19:30)
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Harold the Butcher: After Mr. Green informs Harold that his week is up, Harold follows Mr. Green into the store, and the green front door remains open. Mr. Green explains that he's getting ready for the annual meat sale, and as Harold begs to keep working in the store, we can see in the background that the store's green front door has vanished. The open green front door is back when Harold exits the store. (00:19:05)
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Harold the Butcher: When Mr. Green tells Harold his week is up and that Harold is done paying him back, both of their aprons have a white oval patch with "Green Meats" printed on it. As the scene continues, the white oval patch vanishes from Harold's apron entirely, and Mr. Green's apron patch loses its white background. (00:18:40)
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Harold the Butcher: At Mr. Green's meat store, there are at least two instances that the word "MEATS" is misspelled as "MAETS" on the store's aprons. When Mr. Green gives Arnold the package for Grandma, Green's apron changes to the misspelling. Then, when Harold returns to help Green with the crowd of customers, Harold's apron has the misspelling.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Helga Blabs It All: While Helga is in the ventilation shaft, when she calls Phoebe for help, the rope is tied around Helga's waist with a knot at the front, but it cuts to a closer shot and the knot vanishes.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Helga Blabs It All: After Helga successfully snatches the message tape, when she rushes out of Sunset Arms the front door is missing its handles, but one handle reappears when Campfire Lass and other girls chase after Helga.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Helga Blabs It All: Phoebe stops the Jolly Olly ice cream truck and gets inside. As they head toward Arnold's house, in the interior shot a rearview mirror appears on the windshield where there wasn't one. Then, when the ice cream truck is parked in front of Sunset Arms, there are some changes to its appearance.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Helga Blabs It All: When Helga falls from the vent opening, she knocks the telephone and answering machine onto the floor. Just as Helga notices the tape in the answering machine, the push button telephone has changed to a phone with a rotary dial. It then changes back to push button. (00:10:05)
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: Helga Blabs It All: While Helga goes after the tape at Sunset Arms, room numbers repeatedly change/vanish, or doors disappear and reappear. Some examples: Door 3 vanishes when Helga lowers herself via rope the first time. When Arnold unfolds the attic stairway, the closest doors are 7 and 8, but when Arnold and Gerald run down those stairs, door 8 changes to door 1. When Grandpa talks to Mr. Hyunh, door 1 is now door 3. When Grandpa and Ernie enter Hyunh's room, door 7 becomes door 5. When Grandma exits door 4, it then changes to door 2.
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Other mistake: In the credits, actor Elliott Gould's name is misspelled as "Elliot Gould." (00:22:55)
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Other mistake: Helga Blabs It All: When Helga accidentally ends up in Arnold's room, and the camera pans over to Arnold, he is sitting in mid-air. (00:10:59)
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Audio problem: Helga Blabs It All: When the boys hear the ice cream truck from outside, they all start running and saying, "Ice cream," but none of their mouths are moving. (00:08:48)
Helga Blabs It All / Harold the Butcher - S3-E1
Other mistake: Helga Blabs It All: When Phoebe goes inside the ice cream truck, notice how the door jumps from closed to open, with no animation at all. (00:08:34)
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.