Grandpa's Packard / Phoebe's Little Problem - S5-E19
Continuity mistake: Phoebe's Little Problem: When Phoebe tells the lunch lady what she wants and she questions her choices, the lunch lady is standing behind the counter, as she should be. When she is shown again two shots later, she is standing in front of the counter, when she should be behind it. (00:04:03)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Other mistake: Hall Monitor: When Helga chooses Phoebe to be the new hall monitor, as Phoebe starts walking to the stage, she is briefly layered behind the boy sitting behind her, and she is layered over Joey and the boy sitting next to him. (00:02:31)
Runaway Float / Partners - S2-E20
Other mistake: Runaway Float: After Nick talks about redesigning the parade float, Bob asks the kids who wants to ride on the float. Arnold then tells them it's great the way it is, and when the kids start saying, "Me! Me!", there is an animation glitch where part of Robert's head and hands get stuck in the air for about a second. (00:06:01)
Back to School / Egg Story - S4-E8
Other mistake: Back to School: After Principal Wartz tells Phil he will find a classroom for him, it cuts to a shot inside Mr. Simmons' classroom. If you look at Sid in this shot, the lower half of his body is cut off. Phoebe's right foot is also layered over him. (00:03:58)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Other mistake: Hall Monitor: During detention, the class helps Phoebe realise how much she has changed. When Helga wipes the window so Phoebe can see her reflection, in the first shot, Phoebe's reflection is not backwards as it should be. (00:10:45)
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: 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: 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.
Helga's Locket / Sid and Germs - S5-E7
Other mistake: Helga's Locket: When Helga climbs to the top of the boarding house and looks at Arnold and Grandpa through the window, as Arnold tells Grandpa, "It's embarrassing and weird," Helga's left sleeve is incorrectly coloured pink instead of white. (00:09:02)
Sid's Revenge / Roller Coaster - S3-E8
Other mistake: Sid's Revenge: When Sid is telling the police officer that he killed his school principal, Arnold's pants are the same colour as his skin, and his hat is not coloured in. (00:09:13)
Save The Tree / New Teacher - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: New Teacher: Arnold's classroom door vanishes from its door frame in various shots, then the door reappears in its proper place. That door's doorknob also switches between the right side of the door and the left side a few times.
Curly Snaps / Pre-Teen Scream - S3-E6
Other mistake: Pre-Teen Scream: When the kids are sitting on Arnold's stoop in the beginning, there are two shots where Arnold's pants are the same colour as his skin, giving the sense that he has no pants on. (00:12:03)
Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: Buses, Bikes, and Subways: Helga wears a watch on her right arm throughout the episode. However, when Helga approaches Sheena's uncle Earl and wakes him up, her watch is missing, then reappears when Earl's boat sinks. It disappears again when Helga comes up from the water, then reappears a moment later. (00:18:59)
Arnold's Thanksgiving - S3-E14
Other mistake: When Arnold is in his room putting on his costume, his reflection in the mirror shows his buttons on the left side of his clothes. Then, when Arnold answers the door, his buttons are on the same side; the reflection was not reversed. (00:09:26)
Parents Day - S5-E6
Continuity mistake: During the flashback, when little Arnold says goodbye to his parents, in the next shot of Stella and Miles, the bag's strap is slung over his dad's left shoulder as a crossbody, but mid-shot, the strap switches to his right shoulder with the bag on the opposite side. (00:14:30)
Parents Day - S5-E6
Continuity mistake: When Grandpa enters and exits Arnold's bedroom, the door opens the opposite way in various shots, with the doorknob on either the left or right. Additionally, the light switch beside the door appears and disappears, between 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)
Answer: The episode doesn't really elaborate on who the kid was and what his motives were, so its pure speculation as to why he took it. Perhaps the kid could simply want a ball all for himself and decided to just take it, or was simply a rotten kid. The truth is the kid's motives are not important to the story other than it highlights Arnold was having a lot of trouble getting through the list.
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