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(After the Star Donkey kicks the earth into the sun)
Next Time on Invader Zim:
Dib: Remember when I told you not to do that thing, and you did that thing anyhow and a giant donkey destroyed the Earth?
Zim: Nope.
Next Time on Invader Zim:
Dib: Remember when I told you not to do that thing, and you did that thing anyhow and a giant donkey destroyed the Earth?
Zim: Nope.
— Invader Zim Issue 3
Music
Interviewer: So that's an average day for you then?
The Boss: No doubt.
Interviewer: You chop your balls off and die?
The Boss: Hell yeah.
The Boss: No doubt.
Interviewer: You chop your balls off and die?
The Boss: Hell yeah.
—The Lonely Island, "Like A Boss"
Web Animation
So, how many times has the world blown up again?
— Green Chair Guy, The Demented Cartoon Movie
Kenstar: Okay, so the rules are you gotta draw your created character with an existing character from the Girlchan continuity.
Green Guy: What continuity!?
Kenstar: Sssshut your mouth!
Green Guy: What continuity!?
Kenstar: Sssshut your mouth!
Web Original
"If this were a DS9 episode, you could have headed back into the series' rich mythology and shown how these characters have changed over the years, but unfortunately the crew of Voyager look and act exactly the same way now as they did in Caretaker...It doesn’t help that the former Maquis commander is the dullest character to have emerged from this series and plods through history with about as much personality as a mouldy old carrot."
"Now, I must confess that I’ve done this sort of thing before, getting bored with how a show was playing out, ending a match without warning, then moving on to something completely different and pretending that the preceding events never happened. Of course, I was eight years old at the time and my 'promotion' was made up of Hasbro WWF figures and Ninja Turtles, which meant that I was only disappointing an audience of one."
Web Video
"The closest thing to opening up Ocarina of Time is the founding of Hyrule. But there was people living there before, and considering how little Nintendo cares about the timeline, those people probably called it Hyrule to begin with.
That's sounds incredibly stupid doesn't it? That's probably what you're thinking. That would be incredibly stupid. It would almost be as incredibly stupid as the King of Hyrule passionately telling the children at the end of The Wind Waker that their new land won't be called Hyrule, because he wanted the past washed away.
And then, within a few years, they discover a new continent. Guess what they call it."
That's sounds incredibly stupid doesn't it? That's probably what you're thinking. That would be incredibly stupid. It would almost be as incredibly stupid as the King of Hyrule passionately telling the children at the end of The Wind Waker that their new land won't be called Hyrule, because he wanted the past washed away.
And then, within a few years, they discover a new continent. Guess what they call it."
"It's kinda funny; it doesn't even take weeks to contradict themselves. It's immediate. Abyss breaking a board and then 5 min later—not even a commercial break later—he's got a new stick. He's got spares, I dunno. He must have a golf bag full of these things."
"There is no continuity, there is only Insano."
— Spoony's "explanation" of Doctor Insano's Multiple-Choice Past.
Web Original
"I guess my point here is that any established piece of information about a Sesame Street character is subject to change, especially for comedy purposes."
Western Animation
Stan: Cartman, you dumbass! That's not how it happened!
Kyle: Yeah, dude! Kenny just died eight hours ago from that monster; how could he have died back then too?
Cartman: Huh, I guess that ''doesn't'' make any sense...
Kyle: Yeah, dude! Kenny just died eight hours ago from that monster; how could he have died back then too?
Cartman: Huh, I guess that ''doesn't'' make any sense...
Park Manager: Here at Itchy and Scratchy Land, we're just as concerned with violence as you are. That's why we're always careful to show the consequences of deadly mayhem, so that we may educate as well as horrify.
Marge: When do you show the consequences? On TV, that mouse pulled out that cat's lungs and played them like a bagpipe, but in the next scene, the cat was breathing comfortably.
Marge: When do you show the consequences? On TV, that mouse pulled out that cat's lungs and played them like a bagpipe, but in the next scene, the cat was breathing comfortably.
Lisa: You had an older brother named Cyrus? You've never mentioned him before.
Grandpa: And I never will again.
Grandpa: And I never will again.
Real Life
"If something explodes in one episode, in the next episode, it is rebuilt, it is beautiful, right where it used to be, with no indication that it ever exploded."
— Alex Hirsch tell it like it isnote
"Very little on Drawn Together can be considered canon. If you try to find continuity on this show you'll drive yourself nuts. The only thing that's consistent is we try to make the show as funny as possible. And we'd never let a little thing like continuity get in the way of that."
— Bill Freiberger, Executive Producer
"Continuity Alert: Sunday's The Simpsons playfully re-interprets the show's timeline to allow Homer to be a teenager in the early '90s — The Simpsons is a 32-year-old series where the characters do not age, so the "canon" must be elastic/contradictory/silly. This does not mean other beloved classic The Simpsons flashback shows didn't happen. None of this happened. It's all made up. Every episode is its own Groundhog Day that only has make sense for that story (if that). There is no The Simpsons "canon" or "non-canon." There are only stories. If all these crazy things really happened to one family the characters would be in a mental hospital. If you love, hate or are completely indifferent to our Silly Putty paradoxical continuity, thank you so much for watching/caring about The Simpsons at any point in its 100000 years of existence.
— The Simpsons Executive Producer Matt Selman on the show's continuity (or lack thereof) prior to the airing of "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?"
