Following is a sample list of bloopers you can find watching re-runs of "The Simpsons."
Why Was Smithers Black?
One of the biggest bloopers to ever be aired on "The Simpsons" appeared in "Homer's Odyssey." During production of this episode, Smithers was painted a dark color, almost black, rather than yellow. The mistake was entirely the fault of Klasky-Csupo, the animation company. In the fourth season, the production company that animates "The Simpsons," changed to Film Roman.
"Homer the Great"
Homer joins a secret society, the Stonecutters, where his greatness is revealed, but only after he destroys the secret parchment and stripped of his membership.
- Watch the dining room scenes closely. Food and other items appear and disappear from frame to frame.
- In the first shot of Grampa having dinner with the family, he has something to eat, and a napkin. But after that shot, there is nothing on the table.
- The plumber's wrench disappears.
- The stripes on the shields on the Stonecutter mugs go from diagonal to horizontal and back to diagonal.
- In the pool game, the cue ball changes color after striking the front ball of the rack.
"The Springfield Files"
Homer witnesses something out of this world in Springfield woods, but no one believes him, not even FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
- The writing on Moe's breathalyzer changes between scenes.
- Marge's T-shirt disappeared sometime between when she showed it to Homer and the last scene.
- The second shot of pain killer makes Mr. Burns' pupils expand, when it was actually the eye drops that originally caused this effect.
"Mr. Plow"
After Homer wrecks the two family cars during a snowstorm, he buys a snowplow and starts a business called "Mr. Plow." However, the competition becomes cut-throat when Homer's best buddy, Barney, starts up a competing plowing business, "Plow King."
- When the school bus approaches, the sidewalk is covered in snow, marred only by Martin's footprints. When Bart gets off, the sidewalk has been shoveled. But when Bart falls face-first onto the walk, his fall is conveniently broken by a layer of snow.
- When Homer goes to bed, he is wearing just the Mr. Plow jacket and under shorts. But when he wakes up the next morning, he is also wearing jeans.
"Maximum Homerdrive"
Homer takes on a gruff truck driver in a beef-eating contest. But when the trucker pays the high price of trying to top Homer's bottomless stomach, Homer vows to deliver his cargo, leading to a cross-country truckin' adventure. Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa make the best of a troublesome new doorbell.
- Red blinks while he's dead.
- The price tag in Homer's hat appears and disappears.
- From the first point of view, Bart's burger has many bites, but from the close look, it has only one.
- Lisa rings a yellow-framed doorbell, but when Marge picks it out, the frame turns brown.
"Treehouse of Horror VI"
First, Springfield is destroyed by a band of angry, marauding billboard icons. The Lard Lad, Professor Peanut and the Duff Cowboy escape their billboards and crush everything in sight until guest star Paul Anka saves the day with a catchy jingle. In the second segment, Groundskeeper Willie picks off the students of Springfield Elementary one by one. In the third segment, Homer steps into an alternate dimension, where he becomes a 3-D rendering.
- The message left by the footprint should have been backwards. It would have been normal when written on the giant mascot itself.
- Kent Brockman is eaten by a mascot, yet he appears intact in the end.
- When Martin is asleep in class, Lewis can be seen in the background, but after Martin's death Lewis seems to disappear in other angles.
- Martin's Latin is wrong.
- Lisa doesn't open the can of Buzz cola before putting the baby bottle top on it and giving it to Maggie.
- When Homer goes into "Erotic Cakes," the door is already open but we hear a "door-opening" sound effect.
