Animation errors occur in cartoons when certain scenes look strange, inconsistent or sometimes illogical. Usually these mistakes are committed by artists working on animation, often due to lack of diligence.
Types of animation errors[]
Animation and technical glitches[]
Discoloring[]
This error frequently appears in the sixth season of Garfield and Friends, where certain characters (Mona and Penelope Pussycat, see below) have two or more color schemes even in the same episode.
Sizing and shape errors[]
These errors usually occur as attempts of depicting certain facial expressions of characters, especially verbal communication (talking, yelling, yawning and so on). Female cats in
Garfield and Friends episodes often suffer from these imperfections.
Season 1[]
For a split frame, Jon is missing his nose.
When jumping back into bed, both of Booker's eyes are discolored yellow.
While fanning Butch, the poodle is missing her right arm's wrist tuft.
One of the mice Floyd is gathering to move to Jon's house is missing an ear for a moment.
Odie's ears are yellow on the diagram.
Garfield's eye color changes.
Orson's eye color changes twice in Lanolin's song.
Season 2[]
Even though Orson is completely covered in mud, Wade is still clean.
Roy throws away his fortune,
He suddenly has it a scene later.
When Booker says "Hey, we had a deal", the animation gets stuck for a split second.
In the quickie before the episode, Orson's eyes are completely pink while he skids.
Odie's ears are discolored the same color as his fur.
All of Orson's brothers eyes turn yellow, rather than just Gort's.
The inside of the elephant's right ear is uncolored.
Retinas visible through the nose.
Lanolin missing eye shadow.
King Orson's eye and eyelid colors are reversed.
Garfield wearing light blue pants.
Garfield wearing darker blue pants.
An odd straight line across
Lola's thumb.
Lola lacks purple eye shadow when winking. She instead, has a blue color.
Lola with grayish blue sclerina.
The same Lola with lighter blue sclerina.
Lola has lost her eyes while fluttering eyes.
Lola's left ear appears smaller than her right one, despite the en face view.
Darker tones of Lola's sclerina and eyeshadow.
Lola's eyeshadow and sclerina changed colors to visibly lighter tones.
Orson has white irises that he does not normally have.
Garfield's eyelids are discolored yellow.
Season 3[]
Buchanan lacking yellow cheeks.
When the captain points at Jon, Jon's eye is uncolored.
Before Jon appears in the frame, the woman is missing her eyelashes.
Miss Kitty with darker hair color.
The same Miss Kitty with visibly lighter hair color.
Miss Kitty is missing the line dividing her eyes.
Orson's forehead is discolored white, the same color as his eyes.
When Garfield initially reacts to the viewer's head shake, his right index finger is uncolored.
When Marian winks at Jon, her bottom eyelid is uncolored.
Toward the end, Marian has overly large eyes.
When arguing with Bo, Lanolin is missing the outline of her mouth for a split second.
Lanolin without mouth lines #2
Lanolin is shown without eyeshadow.
Lanolin without eyeshadow #2
The episode's goofs are intentionally full of weird and inconsistent scenes, since its humor is supposed to revolve around the lack of logical continuity.
See: Mistakes Will Happen/Gallery
In the title card, the character
Maharishi is thinner, compared to the episode. His overcoat is a different color as well.
Season 4[]
A red line crossing Madame LaFong's lips.
Lines crossing Gwendolyn's cheeks.
Fur exceeding Gwendolyn's left ear.
Pinkish fur tone on Gwendolyn's hand compared to remaining cream fur color.
The line dividing Gwendolyn's fingers is missing.
Gwendolyn without cheek moles.
In the titlecard, Mama Manicotti has hoop earrings.
However, in the episode, she has pearl earrings.
Odie's ears are discolored the same color as his fur.
In two present day scenes, Wade's father's hair is brown. Elsewhere in the present, his hair is gray.
Odie's nose's colors are inverted when Billy Bob says, "To take you back I can't afford."
Season 5[]
In the background window, it is shown to be nighttime,
But in the next shot, changes to daytime.
Garfield's lips are discolored orange.
Jon's eyes are shown off his face.
In one shot, Jon is shown without pupils.
Garfield is shown without a nose.
Cicero without yellow lips/cheek area.
Garfield's left eyelid is missing its orange color.
Penelope has no lipstick in the title card.
When the Buddy Bears sing on television, their lips do not move.
The Buddy Bears are heard from Jon's portable TV, even though Binky is shown on screen.
Garfield missing ear color.
Female cat's ear blending with water.
Lola's eyes lose their outlines.
Penelope has the wrong fur color.
The dancing she-cat is missing the black color inside her ear tufts.
Female Persian cat without lips.
Lola missing the line dividing her ear from her cranium.
Penelope wrong fur color #2.
Garfield's head stripes are visibly thinner than the stripes on his tail.
Season 6[]
Bork with lighter skin tone.
The same Bork received a deeper skin tone.
Jon is missing his mouth.
One of the 45 screencaps, where Penelope lacks temple whiskers and flesh inside her ears.
In the "Beauty and the Floyd" poster, Floyd is shown with a black nose.
Error 1: In the background poster, Binky has no make up.
Error 2: Floyd's black nose #3
Error 1: Binky without make up #2
Error 2: Floyd's black nose #4
Wade's beak lacking colors around his left cheek.
Penelope gets her eyelashes back, even though they were removed after her second appearance.
Penelope's eyelashes disappear again.
The animation error typical for Penelope episodes - Penelope has black eyes instead of blue ones.
Miscolored Binky the Clown.
Buddy with too small ears.
Mona has weirdly bent side hair.
Mona missing a line that divides her opened eyes.
Mona's bent beehive hairdo #1.
Mona with a different fur color.
Mona's bent beehive hairdo #2.
Mona's bent beehive hairdo #3.
Mona's bent beehive hairdo #4.
Mona with unusually small lips.
Mona missing her lipstick.
Mona's fingers are raised in size, as bent hairdo #5.
Mona's bent beehive hairdo #6.
Mona's upper lip is more forward than usual.
Mona bent beehive hairdo #7.
Mona's bent beehive hairdo #8.
Mona's bent beehive hairdo #9.
Flesh inside Penelope's ears are the wrong color.
Penelope's wrong flesh color #2
Penelope's wrong flesh color #3
Penelope's right facial side could have been drawn better.
Penelope with strangely shaped lips.
Penelope with a beehive hairdo, instead of her standard forelock.
The whiskers have disappeared.
Another example of a missing ear.
The placement of Penelope's ears and hair look strange when she expresses happiness.
Penelope with enlarged lips when screaming.
Missing beauty spot on Penelope.
Penelope's neck appears to have longer fur than it is supposed to have.
Lanolin missing her eyeshadow.
Receptionist is missing lipstick.
Penelope's left cheek hair appears to be drawn too dense.
The lower lip looks as if it did not exist.
Penelope lacking fur inside ears.
Penelope lacking fur inside ears for the second time.
Four hair tufts inside ear, while the proper amount is three tufts per ear.
Five hair tufts inside ear.
Penelope's right eye (the first one from the left) appears to not fit the eyesocket at all.
Poorly depicted ear tufts inside Penelope's left ear.
Light gray cheeks in the original design.
The title card reads the word "review" instead of "revue".
Season 7[]
In one scene, Garfield's hand is a different color.
Penelope's Stetson hat has changed shape into a boater.
The hat has transformed into a top hat.
Penelope's Stetson fails to cover her eyes.
Black pupils instead of blue.
Aloysius' bowtie is missing.
When Aloysius takes off Orson's costume, his notepad drops to the floor...
...and vanishes in the next shot.
It does not show up when Aloysius runs away from where he dropped it.
For a split frame, both Odie and Jon are missing their eyes. Odie's ears also have no finishing line.
When Aloysius puts his hat on Orson's stomach, there is no lace.
Aloysius' hat is colored pink for a split second after Orson sings "The doggie was dead!"
Aloysius is drawn with
Orson's nose and his bow is the wrong shape when he says "More death, to say nothing of high cholesterol!".
Aloysius' lace disappears for a few seconds when Roy says "And really sell it!".
The book Aloysius reads from is plain red at first...
But after he sings "harangue", the spine becomes green...
...and turns back to red after Aloysius asks "Pie throwing?"
Garfield misses lips, while staring through binoculars.
Vivacia's mouth is shaped differently compared to the rest of the episode.
Vivacia's differently shaped mouth #2
In two shots, Vivacia's color is enhanced.
Vivacia enhanced color #2.
The character holding a plate of bat has a dark brown undertone and a blue and light brown baseball kit.
The same character's skin and kit randomly changes color.