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** In another episode Muffy was shown in a Kindergarten flashback but she moved to Elwood City in the second grade.

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** In another episode "Arthur's Dummy Disaster", Muffy was shown appears in a Kindergarten flashback but to the cast in kindergarten, when she moved to Elwood City in the second grade.
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** In the episode "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut (2)", Kenny comes back to life by magically reappearing and the characters (at least Kyle) are shown to be aware of this. In the episodes "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" and "Coon Vs. Coon And Friends" Kenny comes back to life by being reborn through his mother and the characters are unaware of him dying. RuleOfFunny doesn't work on this because NegativeContinuity was played ''seriously'' in CVCAF.

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** In the episode "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut (2)", Slut", Kenny comes back to life by magically reappearing and the characters (at least Kyle) are shown to be aware of this. In the episodes "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" and "Coon Vs. Coon And Friends" Kenny comes back to life by being reborn through his mother and the characters are unaware of him dying. RuleOfFunny doesn't work on this because NegativeContinuity was played ''seriously'' in CVCAF.



** There have been several examples of minor characters' names changing, and even more important secondary characters have inconsistent surnames (Token Williams becomes Token Black and later Tolkien Black, Jimmy Swanson becomes Jimmy Valmer, etc.)
** In "My Future Self 'n Me", one lyric in the song implies that Stan is clean while his "future self" [[spoiler:actually just a guy posing as Stan's future self]] isn't. In "Pee", we find out that Stan doesn't wash his hands.

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** There have been several examples of minor characters' names changing, and even more important secondary characters have inconsistent surnames (Token surnames. For example, Token Williams becomes Token Black and later Tolkien Black, Black (although the latter is an InternalRetcon), Jimmy Swanson becomes Jimmy Valmer, etc.)
Clyde Harris becomes Clyde Donovan, Annie Faulk becomes Annie Knitts and later Annie Nelson, etc.
** In "My Future Self 'n Me", one lyric in the song implies that Stan is clean while his "future self" [[spoiler:actually just a guy posing as Stan's future self]] isn't. In "Pee", we find out that Stan doesn't always wash his hands.hands after going to the bathroom. Granted, the lyric in the previous episode may have meant in comparison, considering "Future Stan" is a JadedWashout.



** The episode "Butter's Bottom Bitch" (S13 E9) begins with Cartman and some of the other 4th grade boys making fun of Butters because he had never kissed a girl. In all actuality, Butters was kissed by Rebecca Cotswold in "Hooked on Monkey Phonics" (S3 E13); [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104019/dio Cartman and the other kids were witness to it.]]

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** The episode "Butter's Bottom Bitch" (S13 E9) begins with Cartman and some of the other 4th grade boys making fun of Butters because he had never kissed a girl. In all actuality, Butters was kissed by Rebecca Cotswold in "Hooked on Monkey Phonics" (S3 E13); [[http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/104019/dio Cartman and the other kids were witness to it.]]]] Even if the boys meant "actively kiss a girl" (considering Butters was caught off-guard by Rebecca) , then Cartman wouldn't be one to talk considering his kiss with Wendy in "Chef Goes Nanners" was also one-sided.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E34PuppyPalooza Puppy Palooza]]," Molly named Tooey's lead puppy Kih Dihdii, meaning "first one," and the spelling was shown on Kih's doghouse. But in "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS2E1MouseTreehouseLeaderOfThePack Leader of the Pack]]," the pup's name is spelled Khi on Tooey's training chart.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has a lot of Continuity Errors, especially in the [[SeasonalRot latest seasons]]:

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has a lot of Continuity Errors, especially in the [[SeasonalRot latest seasons]]:seasons:



** Sparky's scrapbook in his debut episode shows that many of his previous owners were explicitly human adults, who aren't supposed to know fairies exist.



** In one of the Season 10 episodes, Vicky acts evil around Timmy's parents. Vicky being a terrible baby-sitter is a secret. In "Channel Chasers", Vicky was fired after Timmy's parents learned the truth about how she treated Timmy.

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** In one of the Season 10 episodes, Vicky acts evil around Timmy's parents. Vicky being a terrible baby-sitter babysitter is a secret. In "Channel Chasers", Vicky was fired after Timmy's parents learned the truth about how she treated Timmy.

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** “The Impossible Stream” shows Slurms Mackenzie advertising the Slurm Zero product in a commercial even though he was killed in “Fry And The Slurm Factory”. This also comes at the fact that for reasons unknown, Mackenzie is also show he shriveled up and heavily coughing at the end of the commercial.

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** “The Impossible Stream” shows Slurms Mackenzie advertising the Slurm Zero product in a commercial even though he was killed in “Fry And The Slurm Factory”. This also comes at the fact that for reasons unknown, unknown (possibly to imply old age), Mackenzie is also show he shriveled up and heavily coughing at the end of the commercial.[[note]]The tie-in game ''Worlds of Tomorrow'' did imply there are multiple Slurms [=MacKenzie=]s to justify one showing up in that game, but that game is defunct and of dubious continuity.[[/note]]
** "The Impossible Stream" has an ExplodingCalendar montage that suggests Fry stays in the still-suit all the way into 3024, with the crew noting he's been streaming for months (the episode begins in July 3023). The rest of the season contradicts this by explicitly showing events that still take place in 3023, including "Children of a Lesser Bog" (which ''directly follows'' "The Impossible Stream"), "I Know What You Did Next Xmas," and "Rage Against the Vaccine."



** In a similar manner to how Fry reached to Lrrr’s palace, Leela in “Zapp Gets Cancelled” acted very amazed at seeing the Nimbus and compared it to a “Princess cruise ship with laser cannons”. The problem with Leela’s reactions to the Nimbus in this scene is that she had not only seen the ship several times but was also on it in several prior episodes including “Love Labors In Space”, “Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch” and “Zapp Dingbat”

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** In a similar manner to how Fry reached to Lrrr’s palace, Leela in “Zapp Gets Cancelled” acted very amazed at seeing the Nimbus and compared it to a “Princess cruise ship with laser cannons”. The problem with Leela’s reactions to the Nimbus in this scene is that she had not only seen the ship several times but was also on it in several prior episodes including “Love Labors In Space”, “Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch” and “Zapp Dingbat”Dingbat.”

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** Roberto was killed off in “The Six Million Dollar Mon” after he eats a piece of skin from Hermès that causes him to melt and have his brain chip completely destroyed. However “Stench And Stenchibility” has Roberto show up alive and well to rob Zoidberg and Marianne without any explanation.

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** Roberto was killed off in “The Six Million Dollar Mon” after he eats a piece of skin from Hermès Hermes that causes him to melt and have his brain chip completely destroyed. However “Stench And Stenchibility” has Roberto show up alive and well to rob Zoidberg and Marianne without any explanation. “How The West Was 1010001” has Roberto show up alive again and play a major role in the plot, so it can be assumed his death was entirely retconned (perhaps via backup personality).



** “How The West Was 1010001” has Roberto show up alive again and play a major role in the plot of the episode even though he died in “The Six Million Dollar Mon”



** Zoidberg claims in “I Know What You Did Last X-Mas” that he has no family because his species dies when they reproduce. While this does not contradict “Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love”, it does contradict “That”’s Lobstertainmenent” as it is shown That Zoidberg does have a family member who is still alive named Harold Zoid.

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** Zoidberg claims in “I Know What You Did Last X-Mas” that he has no family because his species dies when they reproduce. While this does not contradict “Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love”, it does contradict “That”’s Lobstertainmenent” “That’s Lobstertainmenent!” as it is shown That Zoidberg does have a family member who is still alive named Harold Zoid.

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* In her first episode in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'', Celebrity Star is arranged as Shelton's girlfriend, because she likes out-of-shape, whiny nerds like him. She proves too clingy and oppressive for him... and finally dumps him when he proves to be a middle-school hunk without his glasses. Her next appearance has her making a movie intended to ruin ''his'' reputation for dumping ''her.''

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* In her first episode in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'', Celebrity Star is arranged as Shelton's girlfriend, because she likes out-of-shape, whiny nerds like him. She proves too clingy and oppressive for him... and finally dumps him when he proves to be a middle-school hunk without his glasses. Her next appearance has her making a movie intended to ruin ''his'' reputation for dumping ''her.''''her''.
* ''WesternAnimation/RichieRich1980'': In "Voodoo Island", a second-season Zillion-Dollar Adventure, Gloria Glad tells Richie she can't swim. Yet in the first season, she was seen swimming in the Treasure Chest segment "Young Irona", and in the ZDA "One of Our Aircraft Carriers Is Missing".



** [[WordOfGod Joe Murray has said]] that any flashback contradicting another flashback is just the result of people misremembering or exaggerating things, not unlike in {{real life}}. Thus, Filburt remembering being in high school with Rocko, in spite of Rocko having just moved to the States recently, is just Filburt misremembering.

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** [[WordOfGod Joe Murray has said]] that any flashback contradicting another flashback is just the result of people misremembering or exaggerating things, not unlike much like in {{real life}}. Thus, Filburt remembering being in high school with Rocko, in spite of Rocko having just moved to the States recently, is just Filburt misremembering.
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** "The Cartridge Family" centers around Homer buying a gun for the first time, even though previous episodes like "Radio Bart" and "$pringfield" established that he owned a shotgun and Marge had a police handgun in "The Springfield Connection".
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*** The same episode has Cotton implore Hank to pay a visit to the French woman he made love with in France, even though "Cotton's Plot" established that he'd only ever fought in Japan. In fact, a major [[JustForPun plot]] point in the latter episode was the revelation that Cotton was misremembering a lot of his supposed wartime experiences.

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*** The same episode has Cotton implore Hank to pay a visit to the French woman he made love with in France, even though "Cotton's Plot" established that he'd only ever fought in Japan. In fact, a major [[JustForPun plot]] plot point in the latter episode was the revelation that Cotton was misremembering a lot of his supposed wartime experiences.
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*** Homer's half-brother Herb (voiced by Creator/DannyDeVito) apparently is immune from this (or the writers forgot that he existed), as he had his own car company (until he hired Homer to design him a new car), then got rich by inventing a machine that translates baby babbling. Then again, Herb could have gotten his smarts from his mom's side (his mother being the carny woman who ran the dunk tank and has sex with Abe for money).

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*** Homer's half-brother Herb (voiced by Creator/DannyDeVito) apparently is immune from this (or [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome the writers forgot that he existed), existed]]), as he had his own car company (until he hired Homer to design him a new car), then got rich by inventing a machine that translates baby babbling. Then again, Herb could have gotten his smarts from his mom's side (his mother being the carny woman who ran the dunk tank and has sex with Abe for money).
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** The episode where Squidward becomes nice has [[BrokenWinLossStreak Squidward actually beating [=SpongeBob=] for Employee of the Month at the Krusty Krab]]. The problem with this is that, in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' (which is the chronological GrandFinale [[WordOfGod according to the creator]]), [=SpongeBob=] says he has won that award 374 times in a row. Note that winning employee of the month that many times (let alone in a row) means he's been working at the Krusty Krab for a minimum of 31 years and a bit.
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** In the season 19 episode "Boys & Squirrels", Chris claims to be a paperboy, a job he hasn't had since season 6's "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)", where he gets a job at the Quahog Mini-Mart.
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** Zoidberg claims in “I Know What You Did Last X-Mas” that he has no family because his species dies when they reproduce. While this does not contradict “Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love”, it does contradict “That”’s Lobstertainmenent” as it is shown That Zoidberg does have a family member who is still alive named Harold Zoid.
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** “How The West Was 1010001” has Roberto show up alive again and play a major role in the plot of the episode even though he died in “The Six Million Dollar Mon”
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** in “T: The Terrestrial”, Fry acts amazed at seeing Lrrr’s palace and acts like it was the first time he saw it but he had been there before in “Spanish Fry”


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** In a similar manner to how Fry reached to Lrrr’s palace, Leela in “Zapp Gets Cancelled” acted very amazed at seeing the Nimbus and compared it to a “Princess cruise ship with laser cannons”. The problem with Leela’s reactions to the Nimbus in this scene is that she had not only seen the ship several times but was also on it in several prior episodes including “Love Labors In Space”, “Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch” and “Zapp Dingbat”
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*** In the same episode, Zoidberg revealed that he had been dating a girl named Zindy for four years even though 2 season earlier in the episode “Benderama” showed the he owned a wedding album, which Farnsworth shredded.


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** “Rage Against The Vaccine” has Lrrr and Ndnd use their own son Jrrr as a pawn in sending misinformation on social media to Earth from Omicron Persei 8. This should not be possible due to the episode “T: The Terrestrial” as that episode has Nixon clamp an embargo on Omicron Persei 8 and cut off all communication with them including TV and online messaging. Either that embargo was lifted between 3013 and 3023 or it had become very poorly enforced. Not helping matters was that at the end of the episode, Lrrr and Ndnd received free Explovid vaccinations from Hermes without trouble after contracting the virus.
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** "Pin Gal" has Homer finding about Marge's brief fling with Jacques, despite Marge already telling the famiily about it in "Another Simpsons Clip Show". The episode also depicts Jacques as a genuine Frenchman, despite "Life on the Fast Lane" hinting he was really American, as he briefly dropped the accent when ordering onion rings.

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** "Pin Gal" has Homer finding out about Marge's brief fling with Jacques, despite Marge already telling the famiily family about it in "Another Simpsons Clip Show". The episode also depicts Jacques as a genuine Frenchman, Frenchman despite "Life on the Fast Lane" hinting he was really American, a phony, as he briefly dropped the accent when ordering onion rings.
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** "Pin Gal" has Homer finding about Marge's brief fling with Jacques, despite Marge already telling the famiily about it in "Another Simpsons Clip Show". The episode also depicts Jacques as a genuine Frenchman, despite "Life on the Fast Lane" hinting he was really American, as he briefly dropped the accent when ordering onion rings.
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* Although ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'' is supposed to be part of the Franchise/MonsterVerse, some of the pre-established and sustained [=MonsterVerse=] Skull Island lore is disrupted. For one thing, there's absolutely no sign nor mention of the PerpetualStorm, which encircles Skull Island and ensures anyone who finds it often ends up shipwrecked, with the island's invisibility to sensors instead being put down to magnetic anomalies. For another thing, the island's night sky is starry and clear, when in its other [=MonsterVerse=] appearances the night sky is dominated by a green aurora.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'': In the flashback of "Martha Blah Blah", Martha had to ask to be let out due to the doggy door not being at the back door yet, even though it has been present in the first episode.

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In the flashback of "Martha Blah Blah", Martha had to ask to be let out due to the doggy door not being at the back door yet, even though it has been present in the first episode.episode.
** In "Ain't Nothing But a Pound Dog", Pops was originally a junkyard dog but his owner left him behind and he was eventually adopted by Kazuo. In a later episode, "Martha's Thanksgiving", Pops was already shown at the animal shelter.
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** It's a plot point in "Parasites Regained" that Nibbler cannot poop outside of his litterbox and therefore cannot avoid reinfection by the worms, except he did just that in "The Why Of Fry".
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Removing speculation for Roberto as first off, his robot brain was explicitly destroyed in “the six million dolllar mon” and secondly Roberto initially died from being executed by the police, meaning that the law would never allow for a backup unit for such a robot to exist


** Roberto was killed off in “The Six Million Dollar Mon” after he eats a piece of skin from Hermès that causes him to melt and have his brain chip completely destroyed. However “Stench And Stenchibility” has Roberto show up alive and well to rob Zoidberg and Marianne without any explanation. However, "Lethal Inspection" reveals that robots have a backup unit that enables them to download into a new body after dying, so it's possible that this was the case.

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** Roberto was killed off in “The Six Million Dollar Mon” after he eats a piece of skin from Hermès that causes him to melt and have his brain chip completely destroyed. However “Stench And Stenchibility” has Roberto show up alive and well to rob Zoidberg and Marianne without any explanation. However, "Lethal Inspection" reveals that robots have a backup unit that enables them to download into a new body after dying, so it's possible that this was the case.


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** “The Impossible Stream” shows Slurms Mackenzie advertising the Slurm Zero product in a commercial even though he was killed in “Fry And The Slurm Factory”. This also comes at the fact that for reasons unknown, Mackenzie is also show he shriveled up and heavily coughing at the end of the commercial.
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** "Yo Leela Leela" has a joke where the announcer for the Young People's Choice Awards claims the ceremony is Leela's second time in high heels for a gag where she stumbles getting onstage. Many of her previous formal outfits had high heels, and she never had problems with them then.
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If it was just contradicting Word Of God and not actual canon that's more Flip Flop Of God


** Also in "Ghost in the Machines" we meet Robot God. This does not contradict anything in the series but it does contradict several audio-commentaries on past seasons where Matt Groening and the writers repeatedly stated that there is no Robot God.
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** While “Fox-y Lady”, established that Quagmire is 61 years old, he is still barred from purchasing alcohol in “Underage Peter” when the legal drinking age is raised to 50.
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** In "Chuckie's Complaint" the babies start crying and are taken to the mall bathroom to get their diapers changed, including Chuckie. However, Chuckie was already potty trained as of "Chuckie Vs. The Potty". And Dil appears, so it doesn't take place before that episode.

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** In "Chuckie's Complaint" the babies (except Dil) start crying and are taken to the mall bathroom to get their diapers changed, including Chuckie. However, Chuckie was already potty trained as of "Chuckie Vs. The Potty". And Dil appears, so it doesn't take place before that episode.
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** In "Chuckie's Complaint" the babies start crying and are taken to the mall bathroom to get their diapers changed, including Chuckie. However, Chuckie was already potty trained as of "Chuckie Vs. The Potty". And Dil appears, so it doesn't take place before that episode.
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** "Fear of Flying" (series 6) deals with Marge suffering from the eponymous phobia. She flies to Washington DC in "Mr Lisa Goes to Washington" (series 3) without incident.

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