Continuity mistake: When driving the Mini, the cars around them are constantly changing. (00:12:05)
Continuity mistake: When Carrie asks Doug what he's been doing, her hands change place instantly. (00:07:20)
Continuity mistake: Just after picking the big turkey, Carrie's bag keeps changing place in the trolley. Note its position in relation to the handle. (00:06:00)
Continuity mistake: When Doug is handing the deodorant back to Arthur the way he holds it changes between shots. (00:06:15)
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Carrie is talking to Arthur about being inseparable she has her jacket over her arm. Camera cuts and now she is putting it on instantly. (00:00:10)
Continuity mistake: During both driving scenes, the street lights in the background do not fade away in the distance to indicate they are actually driving forward. When Doug, Carrie and Arthur are pulled over waiting for Spence (and again when waiting for Arthur at Dairy Queen), lights scroll over the car and the sound of a passing vehicle can be heard but no car is seen to pass by or drive away in the distance. (00:07:45)
Continuity mistake: Deacon states on a few occasions in this episode that him and Doug started at around the same time at IPS. However, in later episodes it's revealed Deacon is senior to Doug by quite a bit in flashbacks to how Doug got his job. (00:10:00)
Continuity mistake: When talking to Doug in the back yard, Carries hands are changing position between instant cuts. In some shots they're together in her lap in others she's holding Doug. (00:04:00)
Train Wreck - S1-E20
Visible crew/equipment: When Carrie grabs the mail off the floor if you look in the window behind her you can see the pole of a boom mic moving around. (00:12:45)
Court Date - S1-E17
Continuity mistake: When Doug, Carrie and Ritchie are talking about the cop having not called her yet, Doug's hands are either on or off the bottle of beer, and the level of beer/foam changes between shots too. (00:16:30)
Court Date - S1-E17
Continuity mistake: When Arthur storms out saying that was his drug speech, Carrie has her wrists in the table in one shot and under the table in the next. (00:15:10)
Hungry Man - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: At the very end when Carrie walks out the level of foam on Doug's beer bottle changes between shots. (00:21:20)
Visible crew/equipment: After Spence gets weird while taking pictures of Sara at the anniversary party, when it cuts to the wide shot as Arthur says, "Okay, Garver!" a camera is visible at the right side of the screen.
Visible crew/equipment: At the start, when Doug walks over to the corner armchair, the shadow of the moving boom mic is visible at the top, left side of the screen. (00:00:10)
Continuity mistake: While Doug is sitting on the corner armchair reading, Carrie's on the sofa holding her coffee mug and magazine, but when she tells Doug to join her on the sofa her coffee mug vanishes from her hand, and then it reappears. (00:01:00)
Visible crew/equipment: After Arthur tells Doug he wants to move back in, Doug loses it and starts to rail, then as he shouts, "How about my kidneys, I have two," a piece of equipment is visible at the right side of the screen, before it moves back out of shot. (00:20:30)
Answer: Sara hasn't been mentioned in later episodes, and it suggested in later episodes that she never existed, and that Carrie is an only child. Kevin James stated that the producers couldn't think of an good plots to use with Sara, so they left her out.