Full Moon / Student Teacher - S4-E1
Revealing mistake: Full Moon: When Principal Wartz tells Arnold to name the boys who exposed themselves, as Arnold says, "I can't do that, Principal Wartz," his mouth briefly disappears. (00:02:42)
Full Moon / Student Teacher - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: Full Moon: When Principal Wartz tells Arnold to see him every day after school for the next four weeks, the words on his office door are yellow. About a second later, they change to red, then back to yellow. (00:02:57)
Full Moon / Student Teacher - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: Full Moon: When Arnold leaves the school at the beginning, he is carrying a green book. A few seconds later, the rectangle on the cover changes to white, then back to green. (00:03:14)
Full Moon / Student Teacher - S4-E1
Other mistake: Full Moon: When Arnold tells Sid, Stinky, and Harold that he was given four weeks' detention, Harold tells him to not rat on them. Arnold says he won't tell, and when he walks away, his hair passes right through Sid's head. (00:03:30)
Full Moon / Student Teacher - S4-E1
Revealing mistake: Full Moon: When Harold tells Arnold, "Remember when I said you didn't have any guts because you wouldn't moon Principal Wartz?" his mouth briefly disappears. This is easier to see in slow motion but is still visible at normal speed. (00:11:16)
Full Moon / Student Teacher - S4-E1
Revealing mistake: Student Teacher: When Olga says, "But, nothing, baby sister!" before giving Helga detention, Rhonda and Brainy disappear for one frame. (00:17:17)
Full Moon / Student Teacher - S4-E1
Continuity mistake: Full Moon: Throughout the episode, Harold's eyes change from yellow to white during a few consecutive shots, as well as mid-shot.
Big Gino / Jamie O. In Love - S4-E2
Other mistake: In the cafe, after Charice speaks, when Gerald says "Aloha, Gladiators on Ice", there are three places where Gerald's mouth disappears.
Big Gino / Jamie O. In Love - S4-E2
Continuity mistake: During "Jamie O. in Love," in the very last scene, Jamie drives up in a car whose front license plate reads "Killer." When they leave, the back license plate reads "Killr." There is no space for a letter to have possibly fallen out (not that a letter can fall off of a license plate).
The Beeper Queen / Oskar Can't Read? - S4-E4
Continuity mistake: Oskar Can't Read?: When Oskar comes home at the end, Ernie and Mr. Hyunh are standing on Arnold's left. As they walk inside the house, they are on Arnold's right. (00:22:36)
Dinner for Four / Phoebe Skips - S4-E5
Other mistake: Dinner for Four: When Arnold and Lila are talking to each other in the beginning, Lila says that she hopes to become a famous ballerina one day if she practices hard enough. In this shot, a stripe on her shirt is mistakenly drawn over her gold button. (00:01:26)
Dinner for Four / Phoebe Skips - S4-E5
Other mistake: Phoebe Skips: When Lila tells Helga, "I just didn't feel right about destroying Rhonda's personal property," she blinks, and her right eyelid is not colored in. (00:16:19)
Dinner for Four / Phoebe Skips - S4-E5
Other mistake: When Helga and Phoebe leave the girls' bathroom together near the end, Helga pushes the door outward, but the hinges are on the inside, so it should only open inward.
Helga's Parrot / Chocolate Turtles - S4-E6
Audio problem: Helga's Parrot: After Arnold accuses Lila of flicking his ear, as he says, "Well, somebody flicked it," his mouth only says, "Well." It never says, "somebody flicked it." (00:08:38)
Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold - S4-E7
Other mistake: Love and Cheese: When Arnold accidentally kisses Gerald's hand on the bus, his left foot is missing. (00:02:00)
Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: Love and Cheese: When Arnold asks the man at the CheeseBall Toss for three tries, Eugene in the background is mistakenly drawn with black skin and a red shirt, like Gerald. His shirt is also red in a later shot when Arnold is trying to knock the bottles down. (00:05:52)
Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: Love and Cheese: When Arnold is trying to knock the bottles down and Lila gives him a flirty look, her collar turns green for one frame. (00:06:12)
Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold - S4-E7
Character mistake: Love and Cheese: When Arnold and Lila are sitting at the table at the Cheese Festival, Arnold asks Lila, "Do you want to ride on the Tilt-To-Whirl?" However, the ride is actually called "Built-To-Hurl." (00:06:59)
Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: Love and Cheese: When the sign for the Built-To-Hurl is first shown, it is spelled with a hyphen between "To" and "Hurl." When the sign is shown again, that hyphen is missing, then reappears a moment later. (00:07:19)
Love and Cheese / Weighing Harold - S4-E7
Continuity mistake: Love and Cheese: When Helga drills the hole into the back of Arnold and Lila's boat, she drills it into the side of it, but when it's shown from inside the boat, it's in the center. (00:09:06)
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.