Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways - S5-E1
Revealing mistake: Buses, Bikes and Subways: When Helga and Harold are riding the clown bike, a tall clown and two little clowns start chasing them. As the clowns are running, the left little clown is layered over the tall clown's right leg for a few frames, and the right little clown runs right through it. (00:17:39)
Summer Love (a.k.a. Beach Story) - S5-E9
Revealing mistake: When Helga is sitting on the boardwalk talking to her locket, as she starts to lay down, she is layered over part of the boardwalk that is in front of her. Her shadow is also layered over it. (00:12:24)
Summer Love (a.k.a. Beach Story) - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: When the seagulls start flying above Arnold and Summer, they are both holding hands. In the next shot, they're not. (00:11:26)
Summer Love (a.k.a. Beach Story) - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: When Helga sprinkles bread crumbs around Arnold and Summer, six seagulls come and fly above them. In the next shot, the shadows of the seagulls are visible, but there are only two seagull shadows. Then when both look up at them, there are only five seagulls flying above them instead of six. (00:11:26)
Summer Love (a.k.a. Beach Story) - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: When Arnold talks to Helga after overhearing her, he tells her that he heard everything she said. As Helga says, "You did?", the lifeguard stand that was behind her suddenly isn't there. Then when Arnold and Summer walk away from her, they are suddenly a lot further away from the lifeguard stand than they were before. (00:11:47 - 00:12:12)
Summer Love (a.k.a. Beach Story) - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: When Arnold walks up to Helga after overhearing her, a surfboard suddenly appears behind Helga, which wasn't there before. A few shots later, it disappears. (00:11:42 - 00:12:07)
Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways - S5-E1
Revealing mistake: Monkeyman!: When Arnold tells the kids that Monkeyman saved him, as he says, "He went after the two guys who were trying to mug me," he moves his right hand, and it's layered over Helga's hair. (00:01:25)
Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: Monkeyman!: When Sid tells the kids that Gerald should tell the legend of Monkeyman, Arnold is squinting. In the next shot, he's not. (00:01:41)
Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways - S5-E1
Audio problem: Monkeyman!: When Gerald begins to tell the legend of Monkeyman, as he says the word, "Monkeyman," it looks as if his mouth only says the word, "Man," and it never says the "N" sound at the end. (00:01:50)
Helga's Masquerade / Mr. Green Runs - S5-E2
Other mistake: Mr. Green Runs: When Green tells Arnold he can't be himself and needs to come up with some fancy words, Arnold is wearing a "Vote Green" button. Then, just as Green says, "I gotta get outta here," Arnold's button now reads "Voet Green" with Vote misspelled.
Revealing mistake: In Arnold's nightmare, when Bob points out that a stork is flying off their roof, his legs are incorrectly layered behind his cape. (00:12:50)
Grandpa's Packard / Phoebe's Little Problem - S5-E19
Audio problem: Phoebe's Little Problem: When Harold wets his pants at the end, Stinky can be heard saying, "Harold wet his pants," but in the shot, he is actually laughing. (00:11:39)
Helga's Masquerade / Mr. Green Runs - S5-E2
Continuity mistake: Helga's Masquerade: When Arnold compliments Lila's bows, she says, "In fact, I'm certain I wear them just, every old day." Ironically, her right bow disappears mid-shot, and it remains missing in the following shot. It comes back shortly after. (00:01:50)
Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways - S5-E1
Other mistake: Buses, Bikes and Subways: When Helga and Harold are running to catch the bus, as Harold says, "Ow, quit pulling my arm," Helga is frozen at the right side of the screen for a second before she starts moving. Also, her mouth doesn't move when she says, "The bus is leaving, you dumb oaf." (00:13:59 - 00:14:53)
New Bully on the Block / Phoebe Breaks a Leg - S5-E5
Other mistake: Phoebe Breaks a Leg: When Phoebe is about to be taken to the hospital, as Gerald says, "Now that is truly sad," there is an animation error where Arnold's mouth opens and closes for a split second. (00:14:42)
Arnold Visits Arnie / Chocolate Boy - S5-E12
Audio problem: Arnold Visits Arnie: During the hayride, Arnold tells Hilda that she has a little straw in her hair. When he says, "Let me get it for you," his mouth does not move, it just stays in a smile. (00:09:14)
Parents Day - S5-E6
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Arnold's parents leave for the last time, Grandma's hair is dark at first, then it becomes purplish-gray.
Monkeyman! / Buses, Bikes and Subways - S5-E1
Continuity mistake: Mr. Simmons counts 30 students in the bus, but nowhere near that many got off (nor have nearly that many fourth graders ever been shown).
Ghost Bride/Gearold VS Jameo - S5-E25
Continuity mistake: In the scene where they are running from the second ghost bride, they go into a crypt and close the doors. One of the kids puts a shovel through the handles to keep it shut. In the next shot, it's gone. In the shot after that it's back.
Beaned / Old Iron Man - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: When Arnold reads to Helga, the book title says "GEO-" and "GRAPHY" (two words); the next day, it says "GEOGRAPHY" (one word).
Answer: The episode doesn't really elaborate on who the kid was and what his motives were, so its pure speculation as to why he took it. Perhaps the kid could simply want a ball all for himself and decided to just take it, or was simply a rotten kid. The truth is the kid's motives are not important to the story other than it highlights Arnold was having a lot of trouble getting through the list.
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