Chitty Chitty Death Bang - S1-E3
Continuity mistake: When Meg introduces Jennifer to Lois, she is, as usual, wearing her glasses. However, right when Jennifer says, "Bye Meg," Meg is seen in the shot, and her glasses have disappeared. Her glasses are back on in the next shot.
Continuity mistake: When Chris is saying "I'm not supposed to tell Mom cos she'll just bitch about it" there is a door behind Lois with a box next to it. In the next shot there is a smaller box next to that box which was not there before. (00:09:00)
Continuity mistake: After Lois accuses Stewie of peeing on the carpet, he asks her to bend down and slaps her with a glove. The glove remains in his hand in that cut, is still there when there is a wide shot of Peter, Stewie, Lois and Brian (you can just see it next to his trousers in his hand), but when it cuts back to Stewie and he starts on about "the outrages" etc, it is gone (the cut is instant, no time for him to put it back in his pocket). A common error, this one just struck me as strange, because the sandwich Stewie threw at Lois is there the entire scene. (00:03:35)
Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Lois goes down to the room where Peter is dancing, Peter is wearing blue pants. After he walks over to the door and greets her, he still has blue pants. The next shot of Lois and Peter dancing has him wearing his normal green pants, but after that it goes back to blue pants for the rest of the scene. (00:11:35)
I Never Met the Dead Man - S1-E2
Continuity mistake: The family visits Peter in the hospital. In the long shot, there is nothing on Stewie's head. In the next close up, a band-aid appears on his head. (00:20:30)
Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Peter is at the baseball game, Stewie is sitting next to a boy he calls "Opie." The camera then cuts away to a clip. When the camera cuts back, "Opie" is gone and a grown man is now sitting next to Stewie. (00:02:55)
Continuity mistake: Just after Patrick 'kisses' his imaginary girlfriend goodbye and tells Brian to look after her, Brian switches position on the couch. In the first shot he is sitting on a crack between couch pillows, but in the next shot he is sitting in the middle of the centre pillow. (00:13:50)
Continuity mistake: When Meg is putting down traps for Joe, she puts down a lot. Then when the Griffens leave and the giant rat comes, there are only a few. Then when Joe says "bring it on," there are a lot again. (00:11:00)
Continuity mistake: When Peter is talking about how annoying it is to be locked up in the house, Brian disappears from the couch in quite a few shots. (00:07:50)
The Courtship of Stewie's Father - S4-E16
Continuity mistake: When the baseball crashes through Herbert's window, the glass shards are in different places in different shots. (00:04:05)
Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater - S2-E1
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Griffins are at the yacht club, Peter is telling a rat story. Before he talks about a steak, Lois' earrings are white, but right after they suddenly change to blue. (00:09:10)
Continuity mistake: When we first see the two commentators in the box, the blue suited one doesn't have a mug, but in the next shot, there is a mug next to his microphone. (00:15:35)
Continuity mistake: When we first see all the guys at the NAAFP meeting, there are two guys in the top right corner; one with a singlet and one with brown hair and a green-brown T-shirt. In the next shot, these two guys come in from the opposite side of the screen. (00:12:15)
Continuity mistake: At the bottom of the stairs there is a picture of Peter and Lois, and the song "So Long, Farwell" starts. The kids start singing and you can see in the backround the picture is gone then comes back when the kids are going back up the stairs. Not only that, look closely at the picture of Stewie, you will see it has grown. (00:04:20)
Barely Legal - S5-E8
Continuity mistake: When Meg is introducing Brian to Meg's friends, they are at the mall sitting at a table with trays on it. There's a close-up on one of Meg's friends, and the trays and food are gone. (00:12:40)
Continuity mistake: When the family is in the traffic jam there's a shot from the front of the car, and in the next shot from the backseat of the car, Peter's face (glasses and part of nose) is reflected in the rear view mirror. However, there's no rear view mirror in the first front shot or shots following backseat shot.
Continuity mistake: When Peter is pretending to be a man-eating tree, there is more of a shadow on the tree in the first shot than in the shot right after he spits out 'Dan Rather'. (00:05:50)
Continuity mistake: When Brian is sitting on the deckchair reading 'Utne Reader', the words 'Utne Reader' switch from being on the front cover, to the back cover, and then to the front again. (00:07:40)
Continuity mistake: The position of the hole on the leg of Meg's pants changes. In the scene where Meg is putting the mouse traps around Joe, the hole is on the right side. When they arrive at the house with Randy Newman and Meg is telling Peter that the Twinkee factory in Natick may not even exist, the hole is on the left side. This happens again throughout the episode. (00:10:55 - 00:12:30)
To Live and Die in Dixie - S3-E12
Continuity mistake: When Lois is on the phone to the FBI agent, the phone switches from being an old fashioned circular dial phone, to being a keypad phone. (00:16:45)
Answer: Lacey Chabert was the actress who originally voiced Meg in early episodes. She left of her own accord due to being in school and other acting work; Seth MacFarlane has stated there was no tension with her leaving, but it makes for a handy joke for the show.
Jon Sandys ★