These are all of the reoccurring goofs that are seen appearing on the main characters based on their model or design.
General Character Goofs[]
These are goofs that apply to most or all of the characters. (Although some of these might be done on purpose.)
Teeth Goofs[]
Disco Bear with no teeth.
Petunia with gapped teeth.
Shifty with gapped teeth.
Hats vs. Physics[]
Russell's hat should have fallen off long before now.
Handy, Flippy, and Shifty's hats should have floated as they sank in the water.
Look at me! I be fallin' wit' me hat on me head!
Pop's hat, along with his pipe, should be falling right now.
Cuddles' hat I can understand, but Russell's hat has no excuse.
Handy and Shifty's hats should be falling.
Physics of water? What's that?
After everything they went through, including falling down a water fall, their hats are still on.
There were thousands of times for his hat to fall off in this episode and this is one of those times.
I guess The Mole hat doesn't even fall.
He falls in the water like this...
... and still has his hat on.
Please make Russell's hat understand how gravity works...
This show really doesn't understand how hats and water work.
Pop and his hat should float.
Does Handy use glue for his hat?
I´m falling, and my hat forgot...
Why didn't Russell's hat fall (again)?
Uh no, these hats are long gone.
Sniffles' lost his head, but not his hat.
Shifty's hat should've fallen onto the road.
Russell with his never-falling hat, again...
...and their hats never fly off even while being sliced in half, do they?
Flippy with his special never-falling hat.
His hat still doesn't fall.
Have you ever seen anybody underwater with a hat on their head like this?
Cub´s hat should've been on the floor.
How can his hat still be on his head if he's lying like this?
Being stop-motion doesn't excuse gravity.
Don't understand why his hat hasn't fallen yet...
Flippy's never-falling hat appears again.
I´m in pain but great my never falling hat works.
Cub is literally swung around like a rag doll...
...yet his hat goes nowhere.
Cub's hat should have fallen off of him at this point.
Tail Goofs[]
Cuddles without a tail (and slippers).
Buddhist Monkey without his tail.
It's not his tail, but Mime's tailbone is missing.
Russell's tail is missing in this scene...
Lifty and Shifty missing their tails.
Cuddles and Toothy missing their tails.
Oh, now Toothy is a bear (or his tail could be laying flat).
Bear version of Toothy again...
Mime is missing his tail.
Unless her tail is buried in the snow, it should be visible here...
Toothy's tail is smaller than usual.
Sniffles' missing snout can at least be explained.
Maybe he lost it from whatever accident brought him here.
Buddhist Monkey with a cut tail again...
Petunia's tail could be laying flat.
Petunia's large tail is somehow hidden under a towel.
Petunia's tailbone and muscles probably ripped off with her skin.
Handy's tail is smaller than usual.
Wrong Eyes/Inverted Pupils[]
Nutty should never have pac-man eyes.
Fliqpy's eyes are not the right color.
Toothy with a Cub's/Mr. Pickels' eye.
Something's wrong with the duo's eyes.
Giggles' pupils face outward.
Disco Bear's pupils facing outward.
Ditto, but in reverse direction.
Toothy's outward facing pupils.
Handy's eyes are facing outward.
Fliqpy with pac man eyes.
Philtrum Goofs[]
Cub missing his philtrum.
Pop's philtrum dislocated from his nose.
Russell without his philtrum.
Something's wrong with Nutty's mouth.
Fliqpy without his philtrum.
Petunia without philtrum.
Lifty and Shifty without their philtrums.
Giggles without philtrum.
Cuddles without philtrum.
Petunia without philtrum.
Losing his nose, doesn't mean he should lose his philtrum too.
Disco Bear without philtrum.
Giggles without philtrum.
Cuddles' philtrum is not attached to his nose, nor is Giggles'.
Fliqpy has his nose placed wrong.
Miscolored Blood[]
Red blood on Toothy's neck, orange blood spilling on the floor.
Red blood on the ground, pink blood on Nutty's tail, limbs, and head.
Orange blood from Giggles' eyes.
Pop, Cub, and Lumpy's orange blood.
Orange blood from Lumpy's hand.
Petunia with brownish-red blood.
Cuddles with pinkish blood.
Handy with orange blood... again.
Five Finger Hands[]
Lumpy with an extra finger.
Splendid with five fingers.
To be fair, they needed an extra finger to do this gesture.
Lumpy with an extra finger again.
One of Flaky's hands have five fingers.
The okay sign apparently requires five fingers.
While this is an alien, Pod Lumpys were previously shown to have four fingers.
Shifty with five fingers.
Incorrect Design[]
Pop with his season 1 and season 2 design.
For a brief frame, Mime's face uses assets from the earlier seasons.
For unknown reasons, the animators used Giggles' classic design.
Splendid uses his old design oppose to his modern one.
Toothy is using his modern design in a short that is animated with the old style.
To be fair, this could've been to demonstrate The Mole and Handy being younger in the license.
If you thought Lumpy looked off, you are not wrong. He is erroneously using his old design.
The characters are using their old designs in this shot.
Cuddles is occasionally seen missing his slippers as well as inaccuracies with his cheeks. Once he even had his whole arm going from his cheek.
Cuddles without his slippers.
Cuddles without his pink cheek.
Again Cuddles with no cheeks.
Cuddles with white cheeks.
Cuddles´ arm going from his cheek.
Just like Nutty and Petunia, Giggles' most frequent goof often involves her marking. In some episodes Giggles' marking isn't visible when it should be seen. This goof mostly takes place in the early episodes and stopped appearing after season 2, until Happy New Year aired. Her eyelashes used to frequently disappear too.
What the back of her head is suppose to look like.
But the marking isn't there here.
...here we can´t see it too...
Her marking is dislocated.
Her marking is drawn wrong.
Giggles with eyelashes before her injury...
...and then missing lashes after her injury.
Her eyelashes were absent for the entire episode.
Eyelashes disappear once her eyes are pulled out.
Giggles looks spatially but her wrong nose ruin it (it isn´t spatially).
Toothy's most reoccurring goof involves his teeth. Toothy is suppose to have large, gapped buckteeth, but he is often seen with small standard teeth instead. This goof appears quite often in the early series and even appears in the TV episode Take a Hike. Sometimes his teeth will switch from standard to gapped in the same episode.
How Toothy's teeth are suppose to look like.
The only pop-up to feature this goof.
One of the very rare times where this goof occurs after the TV series.
Another rare time where this goof occurs after the TV series and the only DVD cover to feature this goof.
Look! I bought new teeth prosthesis!
Regular teeth seconds later.
Lumpy debatably holds the most infamous reoccurring goof in the entire series, as his antlers switch positions in almost every single episode he appears in, they sometimes even switch in continuous shots (There have actually been a couple of instances where both of his antlers stick up). This goof carries through every season, but there are some instances of Lumpy going entire episodes without this goof occurring but this is usually when he barely has any screen time. One example of Lumpy having a lot of screen time and his antlers not switching is In Over Your Hedge. The show is also very inconsistent with his teeth, sometimes they're on his nose, or his mouth, sometimes it's both at once. His mouth can also appear from the end of his snout.
Even his starring pop-ups...
... can't make up their mind on those antlers.
Considering how this is the first time we see Lumpy, this may be how his antlers are suppose to be.
His right antler is pointing down...
... and surprise surprise, it's sticking up again...
He looks pretty awkward with both antlers up.
Yet again, both antlers are pointing upwards.
This episode has his teeth INSIDE his nose which is just disturbing.
Just like Giggles and Nutty, Petunia's reoccurring goof involves her head marking. It will usually either disappear or stretch all the way down the back of Petunia's head. Her eyelashes and tail would also occasionally disappear.
What the back of her head is suppose to look like.
Her tail marking is also gone.
Petunia's marking reaches the bottom of her head.
The ugliest design for Petunia's marking, ever.
Suddenly different marking here...
Petunia without her eyelashes, though this is fixed later in the episode.
Petunia missing her eyelashes again.
Without eyelashes once again.
While this goof is hard to notice, it happens very often. The hammer and screwdriver which are in Handy's tool belt tend to switch places with each other, sometimes in continuous shots. This goof even occurs in Handy's most recent appearance, A Handy Nanny. Also a minor goof can be seen whenever his helmet pops up, his ears are missing, although there are exceptions. A minor goof that happens with Handy is his nub stretching out whenever he wipes his head, which shouldn't be possible.
The first appearance of Handy's tool belt.
His tools swap places in the next following shots...
It should look like this...
So why did you switch your tools right after?
...and again...and again...
How Handy is supposed to look like with his ears visible.
Another rare instance of Handy with ears.
...they're still the same...
Handy forgot his ears in the closet again...
His nub is now long enough to have an elbow joint.
How fast can those tools switch sides...
Ha! Same pose as before... but still wrong.
Handy, will you promise us not to swap your tools around again?
It might be 2023, but some things never change! (like Handy's lack of ears)
Nutty's reoccurring goofs involve his eye, his two lollipops, candy cane, and head marking. In numerous episodes the all-day sucker and the lollipop switch places on Nutty's cheeks, his lazy eye switches places with his good eye when it's always suppose to stay on the left, and his candy cane switches the direction it's facing. Similar to Lumpy, these goofs usually don't happen if Nutty doesn't have to much screen time in an episode. In every episode that uses old animation, Nutty's head marking is never visible from the back of his head with Icy You being the only exception.
All of his candy is in its correct spot.
All of the candy (except the apple) is inverted.
What why? Nutty didn't even shift his head in another direction, yet the lollipops switched anyway.
Again lollipops switching places...
The candy cane switched positions.
What the back of his head is suppose to look like.
Nutty's marking visible from the back of his head in an old episode.
One of the rare instances of a characters marking disappearing in the TV series.
Why is his candy-cane on his hip?!
One of Sniffles' reoccurring errors involve his pocket protector switching places on his chest or disappearing. His other error is his snout changing lengths. While this mostly happened in the old episodes, in one very rare occasion, in a TV episode, Sniffles' snout is very long in one frame. In three episodes, his mouth appeared below his snout instead of at the tip. The tape on his glasses also disappears occasionally.
The length of his snout in earlier episodes.
Sniffles' long snout in a TV episode.
Sniffles' mouth is always on the end of his snout... This shot also looks very wrong..
You can see Sniffles' smile, but it's drawn wrong.
His mouth is between his cheek and snout.
Pocket Protector on right.
Now the pocket protector is on the left.
Missing pocket protector.
Again missing pocket protector...
And again his pocket protector is missing.
Sniffles without tape on his glasses.
A better view of his tape-less glasses.
There are times where Pop would open his mouth and his pipe appears to just be floating in mid-air.
Pop's pipe just floating there.
This makes even less sense, he's facing down.
I look great with pipe in my face!
...again, it's not falling...
Oh no, son! My pipe is falling!
They let me fix this...but not my falling pipe...
To this pipe.. I have no comment...
What to catch first? My son or my pipe?
Cub's reoccurring goof involves the safety pin on his diaper constantly switching the position it's facing, sometimes it switches during continuous shots. Cub's size also tends to inexplicably change.
...suddenly became right.
Cub is barely shorter than Pop.
…and now Pop's remains is smaller than Cub.
Another example of Cub almost reaching his father's height.
Cub is unusually large in this episode.
Cub is larger than Whistle.
But now, Cub is able to fit in Whistle's mouth.
There are occasional inconsistencies that either involve Flaky's quills or dandruff. Sometimes her quills phase through objects or disappear, along with her dandruff.
Flaky without her quills.
Again Flaky without her quills.
Flaky loses a huge portion of her quills.
Flaky missing most of the dandruff flakes on her body.
Flaky without many flakes.
Flaky without flakes on her quills.
Flaky's quills faze though a chair.
The surfboard is through Flaky´s quills.
The Mole's reoccurring goof involves the mole on his face, in almost every episode The Mole appears in, his mole switches sides on his face, sometimes during continuous shots.
Russell actually has two goofs and they involve his hook and eyepatch. His eyepatch tends to switch between his two eyes and his hook switches which hand it's on. These goofs didn't happen as much in the older episodes and started appearing more and more during and after the TV series. On several occasions, his tail would also disappear or be placed on his back.
The eyepatch and hook switch.
Russell's feeding hook...
...becomes his painting hand.
Russell's tail attached to his back.
Lifty and Shifty's main goof lies in their pupils. This is mostly because the animators couldn't decide which kind of eyes suited the duo the best. This only counts as a goof if their circular pupils are used in the early episodes or if their pac-man pupils are used in the TV series.
One pupil is circular the other is pac-man shaped.
Pac-man eyes (in small version).
In
Gems the Breaks, their pupils are circular only for the beginning of the episode.
From this point, their pupils are pac-man shaped for most of the episode.
With so many assets used for his face paint and markings, there are bound to be mistakes. Surprisingly, they aren't that common but sometimes occur with the old animation.
What his face is suppose to look like.
Mime's eyebrows float off his head.
Last I checked, Mime's makeup covered his whole face.
...followed by Halloween costume.
Who thought Mime without his eyebrows and cheeks would make him look so scary?
One of Mime's eye markings is raised over his head.
Cro-Marmot's reoccurring goof involves his club constantly switching hands, despite the fact that it and Cro-Marmot are frozen.
Flippy's reoccurring goof involves the crest on his beret switching places, sometimes in continuous shots. As for Fliqpy, his eyes, while usually light green, have sometimes been given other colors.
Usual position of Flippy's beret.
There can only be one explanation...
... he has two crests on his beret.
...why are we still surprised?
Usual color of Fliqpy's eyes.
Fliqpy with pac-man eyes.
Flippy with blue eyes (Note that this occurred even before he became a zombie).
Splendid's reoccurring goof comes from his patagium (skin flaps). They often disappear or disconnect from his arms.
Splendid and how his arms and skin flaps should look like.
Where the h**l are my flaps?!
Missing patagium on one arm.
Oh yeah, somebody cut my flap...
His flap passes one of his arms.
Twilight is so boring that my flap rather leave my arm.
It's hard to see but one of his arms are disconnected from his skin flap.
Lammy's reoccurring goof involves the bow in her hair. It switches positions very often. If she stars in an episode her bow tends to switch in continuous shots quite a bit.
Lammy's bow faces left...
Mr. Pickels' size varies throughout his appearances.
Mr. Pickles is this big...
His whole body must be Handy's size if Handy didn't have legs instead of his hands, since he can reach the wheel like this.
Flaky was probably able to swallow him because of his shrinking powers.
Now again BIG Mr. Pickles standing on the loo.