No Retreat - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: When Horseback riding Doug is holding on to the straps with either one or two hands depending on the shot. (00:16:50)
No Retreat - S4-E5
Continuity mistake: When horseback riding, the track behind them is constantly changing. For example, when Doug hits the tree, the tree then vanishes. (00:17:40)
Continuity mistake: At the store, Doug picks up 5 or 6 bags of sweets. Most noticeable is 2 yellow bags. Camera cuts and they have disappeared. (00:01:05)
Continuity mistake: When talking about getting a pumpkin, Deacon knocks a toy onto the floor, When the camera moves back you can see the toy has gone. (00:01:30)
Continuity mistake: When Carrie is taking the shopping out of the bag, the items are constantly moving on the side without being touched. (00:03:30)
Continuity mistake: Arthur throws Doug's pumpkin out near the start and there is no pumpkin on the floor in the kitchen. A few minutes later in the scene, there is pumpkin on the floor in the kitchen. (00:03:40)
Continuity mistake: When Deacon and Kirby are at Doug's the house over street is a mid terraced house in one shot, and an end terrace in another. (00:06:00)
Continuity mistake: When the nurse walks away from Doug, she walks away, camera cuts and she starts to walk away again. (00:07:25)
Continuity mistake: When the doctor is explaining to Carrie what is wrong with Arthur, he has a stethoscope round his neck that keeps changing position between shots. (00:08:30)
Continuity mistake: When Arthur is talking to Doug in the hospital, the pillow behind Arthur keeps changing position. (00:11:00)
Continuity mistake: When scooping the ice creams for Arthur, Doug scoops pineapple, then banana, from the open case. He then finds lemon, but has to open the case again. (00:17:45)
Continuity mistake: The bag Doug puts on Arthur's hospital table is a lot bigger than the bag he got at Gabe's. We know it's not a different bag as he ran from Gabe's, and the bag says Gabe's on it. (00:19:00)
Continuity mistake: Doug closes his magazine at the start. His thumb is in the pages. Camera cuts and now his thumb is on the cover. (00:01:00)
Continuity mistake: When arguing with Arthur about moving upstairs, Carrie has her hand on a chair or the table depending on the shot. (00:05:50)
Continuity mistake: When Carrie is on the phone to change the insurance cover, her hair is either tucked behind the phone or covering the phone depending on the shot. (00:15:50)
Continuity mistake: When arguing about who is going to die first, the amount of whipped cream around Doug's mouth changes instantly. (00:19:20)
Continuity mistake: When Doug is speaking to Spence and Deacon about Carrie throwing up, Spence takes the cap off his beer which reappears a few shots later. (00:02:45)
Continuity mistake: Carrie tells the preacher that she and Doug met at a bar. When she hears the lie about her falling on Doug as a kid, she believes it and acts as if that was their only meeting before the bar. But in the episode "Road Rayge", she mentioned a junior high school dance where Doug asked her to dance.
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.