Franklin

When they are eating dinner after Franklin calls Sam a monster Franklin's mom calls his name but when she does her purple necklace turns red for the scene.

Viewers learn in this special that Grandma Turtle lived on Turtle Lake when she was little until a huge fire destroyed her house and killed her parents.

At the end of this special, the dedication "To everyone's grandma" appear before the credits.

At least two new characters are introduced in this film, Aunt Lucy and Samantha. Aunt Lucy is Franklin's kindly aunt and a good friend of Franklin's Grandma. Samantha is described as her "headstrong young god-daughter." Little else is known about Samantha at this time, but it is written that she will complicate affairs for Franklin and his friends.

In normal episodes of Franklin, Franklin and his parents do not have beds in their bedrooms, but in Back to School With Franklin they do.

The DVD features a "close-caption" track that looks more like subtitles and contains numerous errors. Colons following a character's name are often inexplicably followed by a comma. Words are sometimes scrunched together and the caption / subtitles often extend off the screen in both directions.

Based on the apparent timeline, viewers are apparently expected to believe that Franklin and his friends have aged approximately four or more years since the first season of the show.

Franklin and Harriet are both shown sleeping in beds in their grandparents' house in "Franklin's Magic Christmas," yet in "Franklin in the Dark" and other Franklin stories, Franklin sleeps on the floor, inside his shell.

In "Franklin's Magic Christmas," Franklin's family has a large yellow car with a roof. In the TV series, the Turtle family car is white and has nothing but a windshield. Also, the Turtle family household has received some kind of paint job, as it's now brown instead of its normal white color.

Character Watch: Mr. and Mrs. Raccoon can be seen at the picnic grounds in "Franklin's Expedition." They have never been seen on the show before. Mr. and Mrs. Badger, who only rarely appear on the show, are also there.

In "Franklin the Coach," Snail is on top of Franklin's shell. After Beaver takes over coaching the soccer team and starts being bossy, Goose announces she's quitting. Franklin decides the same thing shortly after and takes off, but Snail apparently gets no say in the matter. The scene changes and Franklin is with Bear, discussing the matter. Snail is no longer present, so he apparently went home with somebody else, or has already been dropped off.

The collapse of the treehouse in ""Franklin Plays it Safe" has a profound impact on Franklin and Bears' friends. They give them an immediate apology.

In "Franklin in Charge", when Mr. Turtle is getting into his car, he's wearing Mrs. Turtle's necklace.

Character Watch: Viewers see Mr. Goose and here him speak for the first time in "Franklin's Swimming Party." He runs the pharmacy. Raccoon can be seen and heared speaking in "Franklin's Soccer Field Folly." A character that may be Squirrel can be seen sitting next to Badger on the schoolbus, also in "Franklin's Soccer Field Folly." Younger versions of Mr. Mole and Mr. Turtle also appear in that story. Mrs. Turtle is not seen in Mr. Owl's classroom with Mr. Turtle, suggesting that they did not attend school together and there may be something of an age difference between them.

Bear trades his Oscar Ocelot, Gordy Gopher and Marty Mongoose hockey cards for Franklin's Larry Lemming and Wallace Wallaby. Noting that he only gave him two cards, Franklin offers Bear another. He balks, however, when Bear tries to take his Bill Buffalo rookie card.

In the fifth season story , "Franklin's First Star," Coyote is Franklin's favorite hockey player. in "Hockey Fan Franklin," Coyote has been mysteriously replaced as Franklin's favorite by Bill Buffalo. There is no mention of Coyote.

Additionally, Mrs. Bear pours some water into the reassembled vase at the end of "Franklin's Cookie Question" and some of the glued pieces break, causing a leak. The water squirts out and puddles up, reaching the edge of the table. It then remains completely stationary, not dripping off the edge of the table.

Cookie Problem 3: At the end of the story, the remaining cookies are placed on a plate. There appear to be maybe six or seven of them.

Cookie Problem 2: Later on in "Franklin's Cookie Question," Franklin and Bear pull a vase holding the cookies off of Bear's paw and it shatters. A pan shot of the scene is shown and there are at most twelve cookies scattered among the shattered base pieces. Either Bear managed to eat some of the cookies before getting his paw stuck in the vase, or Mrs. Bear ate some of them.

At one point in "Franklin's Cookie Question," the top of the cookie jar is shown and there are six cookies at the top. There are only 28 cookies, but the jar is full and it looks like it could hold more than 28.