Longest Monday / Eugene's Pet - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: In "Longest Monday" at one point in the episode, Arnold and Gerald run off of a bus and down an alley. Two fifth graders come chasing after them. In the next scene, you see Arnold and Gerald hiding in the sewer under the 5th graders. Arnold then crawls through a very narrow tube, and Gerald follows. You then see the end of the tube and Gerald come out of the it first, and Arnold climbs out last. It would be impossible for Arnold and Gerald to switch places inside the tube because it was way too narrow.
Mud Bowl / Gerald Moves Out - S2-E9
Continuity mistake: When Gerald catches his little sister destroying his cassette tape, the book she is wrapping changes color from blue to green. (00:12:30)
Other mistake: Ms. Perfect: When Lila and her father are eating dinner, as Lila's father says, "You sure are quiet tonight," the flap of Lila's can of beans is layered under her father's left arm. (00:19:04)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Other mistake: Hall Monitor: Helga tries to convince Phoebe that being hall monitor is the greatest job, with plenty of perks. Just as Helga says, "I couldn't let this job go to anyone; I picked you," Helga's hand is on Phoebe's shoulder, and part of Phoebe's shoulder is missing. (00:03:10)
Hall Monitor / Harold's Bar Mitzvah - S2-E15
Other mistake: Hall Monitor: At the start of the school assembly, when Principal Wartz thanks Helga for her month as hall monitor, Wartz's right arm is atop the lectern, with his fingers over the lectern's front edge. As Wartz gestures toward Helga with his right arm and hand, the fingers of his right hand oddly remain over the lectern's front edge. Then, after Helga announces she may volunteer again, the audience groans, and in the next shot facing Wartz, he has four hands at the lectern's edge. (00:01:35 - 00:02:00)
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: 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: While Helga is hall monitor, her watch repeatedly disappears and reappears on her wrist.
Part-Time Friends / Bio Square - S2-E19
Continuity mistake: Part-Time Friends: When Arnold and Gerald get part-time jobs at the flower shop, while Mrs. Vitello explains things to them, she asks if she's going too fast, and in the next close-up, Arnold's apron vanishes, then it reappears.
Continuity mistake: When Lila is finishing her first joke, Rhonda suddenly switches from her French outfit to her "usual" one; also, during the Jell-O incident, her beret disappears and then reappears.
Freeze Frame / Phoebe Cheats - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: Phoebe Cheats: After Phoebe reads the poem from her book, she sets the book back against the lamp, and it is closed. Then when Phoebe gets up out of her chair, the book is suddenly open. (00:14:05)
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)
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)
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.
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.
Part-Time Friends / Bio Square - S2-E19
Other mistake: Bio Square: While Phoebe and Stinky are telling the class about their science fair experiment, just as Phoebe shares that it was in honor of her hero, "I.P. Pavlov," watch as Stinky's eyes move off to the side of his head, then the animation layer of his eyes return to normal.
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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