Continuity mistake: Spencer arrives at his destination with butter on his elbow but it disappears a few moments later.
Continuity mistake: Sam pushes Freddie into the "haunted" apartment. In the very next shot, from inside the apartment, Freddie is standing up. In the next shot, outside the apartment, Sam is pushing the cart with Freddie's equipment on it and Freddie's voice says something like, "Ow! Quit it, Sam!" as if he is still lying on the floor. In the next shot, back inside the apartment, Freddie is standing up again.
Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Benson walks into Carly's apartment holding the clothes she picked out for Freddie, the clothing repeatedly turns around in her arms and also when she places them on the counter.
Continuity mistake: Carly and Sam stick their heads in buckets of water to stay awake. Their heads and clothes are wet during the whole scene, but when the show comes back from commercial, their hair and clothes are completely dry.
Continuity mistake: During the attempted record-breaking webcast, when Spencer is seen explaining his sculpture on the studio's screen the red leaf blower falls backwards, but when he is seen live the blower has fallen forward.
Other mistake: When the military barge into Nevel's house, Uncle Roger puts the camera down and you can see it not moving whatsoever, but in the shot from the POV of the unmoving camera the shot is moving.
Other mistake: There is an A stuck to Carly's butt, but nothing touched Carly's butt when she got downstairs. (00:20:30)
IHeart Art - S1-E14
Continuity mistake: When Spencer is working and the dentist pushes back the tongue and his saliva sprays on Spencer, you can see that every time it switches back to Spencer, the wet stain on his shirt decreases in size.
Continuity mistake: Sam hires a personal chef, Sonia. When Carly, Sam and Freddie are sitting at the table and Spencer is talking to them, Sonia takes the blueberry muffins out of the oven and puts her oven mitts down. Next, Spencer starts walking away. Then Sonia is putting down her oven mitts again. There is no way she could pick up and put down her oven mitts that fast. (00:13:15)
Continuity mistake: When they have the first meeting with the techfoot people, Sam is eating a sandwich. Every time the shot goes back to her and Carly, the amount of the sandwich she has eaten changes. Sometimes there is a bite taken, and then the next time there isn't a bite taken out of it.
Character mistake: Freddie mentions that they had an audience of 355k which was the most they've ever got. But in the earlier episode of ISpy a Mean Teacher, they had an audience of over 500k.
Continuity mistake: When Carly's cousins come over, Sam goes upstairs to read a book. When her cousins are gone and Carly goes upstairs, she sees a boy rubbing Sam's feet. In between shots, Sam's right foot goes from facing inwards to being flat.
Other mistake: When Carly and Sam are pumping the watermelon full of air, one shot zooms in on Carly's finger as she hits the on-switch. The device is turned off as she removes her finger. (00:01:32)
Continuity mistake: When Carly and Sam are on the web show at the beginning, Sam puts the air hose around the edge of the watermelon. When the camera cuts back to the watermelon later on, the air hose is in the center of the watermelon.
IStage an Intervention - S2-E2
Visible crew/equipment: When Carly and Freddie are talking in the hallway about his bad luck, you can see a crewmember's shadow on the wall next to Freddie.
IStage an Intervention - S2-E2
Visible crew/equipment: Every time the shot shows the chair between living room and kitchen (when they show where the chair is), the reflection of the studio light is seen on the bottom of the chair. For example here when Carly looks at Pack Rat, when she walks, you can see the studio lights at the bottom of the chair.
Continuity mistake: Spencer is talking to the Sunshine girls about stealing his spot. After he gets pushed in the street, when his skateboard goes flying and breaks in two, one half goes offscreen, and one goes under the table. In the next shot both halves are by his feet, but in the next shot they are back in their original positions.
Continuity mistake: When Spencer and Carly are blowing bubbles to the ceiling, when the bubbles pop, and the soap comes down, Carly's hair is all knotted and messed up. But when she sits up, her hair is perfectly parted and straight.
Continuity mistake: When Lewbert is on the ground and everyone's in the lobby, you can see that Carly's shoe doesn't have a large wart before Lewbert screams, "Where's my wart!"
Visible crew/equipment: When Spencer is replacing Lewbert, you can see the studio lights reflecting off the bronze dome.
Answer: Their father is in the military and is on a submarine and the mother is never mentioned.
Shannon Jackson