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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)

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Sid the Vampire Slayer / Big Sis - S5-E3

Other mistake: Sid the Vampire Slayer: While Sid stands in front of the mirror and points his rubber sword at Arnold and Stinky, the two ghoulish vampires, Arnold asks him, "How can we be vampires if we have reflections?" So when Sid is aware of his mistake, Arnold's eyes disappear and reappear in his reflection mid-shot.

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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.

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Arnold Betrays Iggy / Helga and the Nanny - S3-E10

Continuity mistake: Arnold Betrays Iggy: When Arnold goes to Iggy's home near the start, the front doorknob is on the left side of the door, but the next time Arnold goes to see Iggy to bring him the box of chocolates, the front door opens the opposite way, with its doorknob now on the right side of the door. (00:01:20 - 00:06:40)

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Suggested correction: I don't believe it is ever established whether Arnold is left or right-handed in the series. Without confirmation; he may very well be part of the ambidextrous population that uses both. I used to write with both hands myself in school.

I do believe he is ambidextrous. In "The longest Monday" he is using chop sticks with his right hand. Many other episodes he uses his left hand to write.

Except the mistake is saying he switches hands in between shots during the test. Not that one episode he's left handed and the next he's right handed. Yes, the teacher was shown for about 1-2 seconds before the switch happened. But these mistakes should be considered valid as an actual mistake in animation rather than to suggest to the audience that for no reason whatsoever, Arnold switches hands to finish the test, and only does so when not seen.

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I'm ambidextrous myself, and I often switched hands when taking tests. It was very useful for preventing hand cramps. It only takes a couple of seconds to switch the pencil to the other hand, so I don't see why Arnold can't do it within that span of time too.

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Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold - S4-E7

Trivia: In 'Weighing Harold', when Arnold is in the comics store, there are comics in the background referencing other Nickelodeon shows, "Catdog" and "Spongebob Squarepants." The former had aired almost exactly a year before this episode did ('Catdog' premiered on 4/4/1998 and this episode on 4/7/1999). The later aired about a month after this episode.

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Girl Trouble / School Dance - S3-E18

Other mistake: Girl Trouble: When Phoebe says she has costume designs for the Mandans, the Chinook, and Sacagawea, Gerald says, "I could have sworn it was Sacagawea." Then, there is a shot of Helga and Phoebe, but there is a problem with this shot. What we're supposed to see is Helga and Phoebe sitting in their seats at their side of the table. Instead, the background is of Arnold and Gerald's side of the table, while Helga and Phoebe are shown in front of the table, which doesn't make sense. (00:02:31)

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Ransom / Ms. Perfect - S2-E6

Other mistake: Ms. Perfect: After Lila answers Mr. Simmons' question about the inventor of the telegraph, as Phoebe says, "But I knew that," the book on Nadine's desk is overlapping the back of Phoebe's chair. (00:14:07)

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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)

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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)

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The Aptitude Test / Oskar Gets a Job - S3-E9

Interviewer: You're kidding, right?
Arnold: No, it's not a joke, he really wants to work.
Interviewer: He's 38 years old, he's never had a job, and you expect me to hire him... as an X-ray technician? [Laughs].

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Question: Does anybody know what year this show takes place? I've noticed that there are all these present day video games, keyboards, etc. on the show, but all the cars are old fashioned.

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.

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