History OutOfOrder / WesternAnimation

** "Lucky All-Star" aired before any other episode with Lucky and Tripod's rivalry, which was especially egracious because that particular episode had them ''end'' their rivalry.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': The series premiere, "The Cat and the Claw" is actually the 15th/16th episode in production order.
* Like some of the above examples, Cartoon Network have done this with ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', as several episodes have aired showing new things or aliens Ben doesn't have yet. For example "Store 23", aired as the season 2 finale, showed Ben with [[spoiler:Feedback]] despite Ben not regaining him until "Showdown", which aired as the third season premiere. That episode also introduced his new [[CoolBike Tenn-Speed motorcycle]], which WordOfGod says he doesn't get until "Rules of Engagement", which doesn't air until near the end of the season.

** "School of Crock" is the episode where Poof learns to speak full sentences, and this continues throughout the rest of the season. However, "Fairly Old Parent" -- which is one episode earlier in production order -- premiered afterwards, and it'd be confusing why Poof can't speak there unless you were aware of it being out of order. Then again, ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' was never known for its continuity anyway.

** In general, the series has a peculiar habit of airing season premieres before the previous season has finished airing. The only exception to the rule is Season 4, which began airing six months after the last episode of Season 3 aired.

* ''WesternAnimation/DoubleDragon1993'' was aired totally out of order come season 2. "RPM" was aired as the final episode, despite it taking place before Jawbreaker's HeelFaceTurn in "The Sight of Freedom". "Daj of the Undertown Dragons" was the actual final episode in production order. The Blu-Ray set from Creator/DiscotekMedia opted to fix this issue by placing season 1 in broadcast order[[note]]With the exception of the episodes "Judgment Day" and "Dragon Hunt" which have their positions swapped.[[/note]] and the second season in production order using the best know viewing orders that exist.

* ''WesternAnimation/DoubleDragon1993'' was aired totally out of order come season 2. "RPM" was aired as the final episode, despite it taking place before Jawbreaker's HeelFaceTurn in "The Sight of Freedom". "Daj of the Underworld Dragons" was the actual final episode in production order. The Blu-Ray set from Creator/DiscotekMedia opted to fix this issue by placing season 1 in broadcast order[[note]]With the exception of the episodes "Judgment Day" and "Dragon Hunt" which have their positions swapped.[[/note]] and the second season in production order using the best know viewing orders that exist.

** "School of Crock" is the episode where Poof learns to speak full sentences, and this continues throughout the rest of the season. However, "Fairly Old Parent" -- which is one episode earlier in production order -- premiered afterwards, and it'd be confusing why Poof can't speak there unless you were aware of it being out of order. Then again, Fairly OddParents was never known for its continuity anyway.

** "School of Crock" is the episode where Poof learns to speak full sentences, and this continues throughout the rest of the season. However, "Fairly Old Parent" -- which is one episode earlier in production order -- premiered afterwards, and it'd be confusing why Poof can't speak there unless you were aware of it being out of order.

* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': ** The first produced episode, "Grandpa's Drum/Have Canoe, Will Paddle", didn't air on TV until a month after the series premiered.

* Nickelodeon did this several times with ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
** The most puzzling example, however, is airing the ''sixth'' episode of the third season as the "season premiere", especially given that the episode had many references to events that occurred earlier in that season. Fans were understandably quite confused.
** Danny defeated the MonsterOfTheWeek in that episode ''with a power he got in the season premiere'' and advice from a character ''from that very episode.''
** The episode "Reality Trip" was aired after episodes that it was supposed to precede, removing any level of shock about Danny's secret being revealed in the episode for those aware of this fact; having seen the episodes that took place after it and noting that [[StatusQuoIsGod the status quo was unchanged]], it was obvious ahead of time that a ResetButton would be used.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' had its original third episode "The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest!" (an episode about Huey and Scrooge) pushed back into December to air during the holiday season since the crew travels in the snowy mountains and the original ninth episode ("Terror of the Terra-Firmians!") pushed forward into October to act as a "Halloween" episode due to its theme of fear. While the continuity is left relatively unharmed, WordOfGod admits that this does take a heavy toll on the pacing, causing the show to stay in Duckburg for an uncomfortably long time, have two episodes in a row where Scrooge doesn't make an appearance, and multiple Webby episodes airing back-to-back.

* And before ''Danny Phantom'' got its continuity screwed up, it happened to another show from Frederator Studios for Nickelodeon, ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''. [[http://teenageroblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/problem-of-cartoon-continuity-in-tv.html Rob Renzetti rants.]]

** "Graveyard Shift" and "Krusty Love" premiered in the US on September 6, 2002, 364 days after the preceding half hour, "The Secret Box" and "Band Geeks". These episodes aired in Canada on January 24, and had even aired before then in South Korea and the Netherlands.