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Babe (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The sheep thieves drop their ramp when they leave, but when Hoggett arrives it has gone.
  
  
• Continuity: Babe's feet are muddy when he runs over to the wagon, but clean soon after.
  
  
• Continuity: The fax machine Hoggett receives as a gift is different from the one he uses to send his application for the show.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Straps holding sheep in neat formation visible.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of Babe's competition, Farmer Hogget removes the leash which then reappears and disappears in subsequent shots.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The Boss uses the phone on the fax to call about the competition, yet the power doesn't get restored to his house until he's at the competition. - Telephones do not need the electricity to be functioning in order to work. Phone lines provide independent power to keep communication lines open, even without main power working. While the fax machine would not work without power, the telephone could still be used.
  
  
• Continuity: Farmer Hogget shears sheep yet next time the sheep are seen they have full coats.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Farmer Hogget goes outside to inject his dog with a tranquilizer, he injects the serum under the dog’s skin. In actual fact, tranquilizers are given to animals in the muscle on their backs above their tail.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the end credits, it lists "Terry Knapp" as "Cat and Poulty Trainer." Notice Poultry is misspelled.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Babe says it's "nearly dawn", you can tell from the shadows that the sun is already up.
  
  
• Factual errors: Farmer Hoggett kills a duck for Christmas lunch on Christmas Eve. But duck's meat needs 5-8 days to be softened in order to be edible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Esme Hoggett rubs Babe's belly, it is obvious Babe is a sow (girl pig). Yet the voice of Babe implies Babe is a boar (boy pig).
  
  
• Continuity: In the final act, just after Farmer Hoggett latches the pen, there are three long shot views of the field, two from deep in the grandstand and one from the view of Rex and Flye. In only the latter can Farmer Hoggett and Babe be seen, there is no sight of them in the shots looking out from the grandstand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The competition clock at the sheep dog trials has no minute hand.
  
  
• Continuity: On the day that Farmer Hoggett spends with the sheep, and shearing them, the number of sheep keeps changing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Farmer Hoggett is shearing sheep, it is morning and lunchtime. However when he piles the fleeces on the wagon it appears to be sundown. He then continues his shearing with the sheep, and also giving Babe a chance to drive them out of the pen.
  
  

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