Batman: The Animated Series

The Last Laugh - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: Captain Clown gets pressed into a block of scrap metal. The ascot faces the front side (the one facing the direction the conveyor belt carries it to) in the first shot, then Joker dumps more junk on Batman and goes away sitting on the block; the ascot is facing now the back. (00:17:15)

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The Last Laugh - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: The boat with the gas-emitting garbage goes past the bridge, and its odor approaches the bridge trailing behind, from the left of the screen. A few seconds later it also intoxicates the street workers, but the miasma approaches from the right. (00:02:00)

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Nothing to Fear - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: Scarecrow just terrorized the security guard. His two goons approach him asking what did he do. The one with the grey coat has his Tommy gun in his right hand, the one with the brown coat keeps it off frame. In the second they are off camera, grey coat switched hands to the gun, and brown coat is holding his to his chest. (00:04:20)

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I've Got Batman in My Basement - S1-E20

Continuity mistake: The size of the egg the Penguin's guys steal changes throughout the opening. It's twice as big as the ginger's hands when he holds it, but passed through a small triangular (for some reason) section they cut in the window, and when Batman reveals himself the egg is smaller.

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It's Never Too Late - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: Thorne's henchman that stayed behind to check out the aftermath of the explosion is wearing a flower on the lapel of a white coat the first time we see him, and then a gray coat with no flower when he sneaks away to report to his boss. (00:10:15 - 00:11:20)

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Two-Face (2) - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: Grace puts down the coffee mug. When "Detective Leopold" shows her in close-up the beeper, the cup has turned around, with the handle where it would have been visible earlier (but it was not). (00:06:50)

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Two-Face (2) - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: Thorne bangs angrily his fist on the newspaper with the article about the robbery. The letter opener bounces and stops, but in the next shot it's gone. (00:03:55)

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Two-Face (1) - S1-E17

Continuity mistake: Once Big Bad Harv identifies himself and tosses Thorne against his goons, the dossier is gone from the desk as he poses all menacing, and is back there later. (00:18:10)

Sammo

Heart of Ice - S1-E3

Other mistake: When Batman is watching the security footage of Victor Fries' accident, at first Fries is addressing the camera directly which follows him and pans according to his movements and Ferris Boyle interrupting him, which would suggest a second person was in the room with a handheld camera. But after Ferris Boyle enters the room and orders Fries' experiment terminated, there are several cuts from various angles in the room suggesting surveillance cameras. The surveillance style footage also often conveniently cuts to the face of whichever person happens to be speaking or will cut to a certain angle in order to put emphasis on the action, all of which would require multiple mounted cameras and purposeful editing by either Boyle or one of his subordinates, which would be completely illogical since they don't want anyone to see the footage in the first place. (00:12:20 - 00:13:55)

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Trivia: The series was animated on darker (typically black) paper as opposed to standard white paper. This helped aid in the show's aesthetic, and also helped save time when animating nighttime sequences, since they wouldn't have to paint the entire background black.

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Answer: She escaped off-screen and created a copy of herself to fool everyone.

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