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** On that note, according to the [[Pixar Regulars|John Lasseter and Ed Catmull]]-run Disney Animation Studios, everything Pooh-related released after [[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]] and before the [[Winnie the Pooh (Disney film)|2011 Winnie the Pooh film]] isn't canon. That means no Pooh's Grand Adventure, no Book Of Pooh, no The Tigger Movie, no Piglet's Big Movie, no Pooh's Heffalump Movie, no Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie, and no My Friends Tigger and Pooh... so pretty much everything released during Pooh's [[Cash Cow Franchise]] days (which makes up a majority of the Pooh media) is no longer canon. It's a pretty gutsy move on Lasseter and Catmull's part, but then again these were the guys who stopped production on Disney's direct-to video sequels so it's pretty clear that they believe Disney should be [[Doing It for the Art]] rather than going after easy money.
* It's likely that the writers for the 3rd ''[[An American Tail]]'' movie, ''The Treasure of Manhattan Island'', were trying to cause canon discontinuity for ''Fievel Goes West'' when they had Fievel say that he [[All Just a Dream|had a dream where the family moved out west]]. The difference here is that the discontinuity had nothing to do with fan opinion, and it in fact angered a lot of fans.
* The much-reviled ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "The Principal and The Pauper", where it's revealed that Principal Skinner is in fact a [[Former Teen Rebel|former street punk]] pulling a [[Dead Person Impersonation]] of the real Seymour Skinner, has been marked as non-canon by the writers. A later episode blatantly contradicts it by showing the familiar Seymour as a baby in Agnes Skinner's womb. Essentially, Principal Skinner is definitely the genuine article - except on the ''very'' few occasions when the episode is referred to for the sake of a joke.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the episode [[Animated Actors|"Behind the Laughter"]], where it turns out that "The Principal and the Pauper" was written during a period of the show where the Simpsons had a massive falling out and couldn't stand to be around each other. As a result, they were forced to resort to [[Take That|"increasingly nonsensical plots and storylines"]] to keep the show going. Cue Skinner announcing he's an imposter.
** Notably, the episode ''itself'' "[[Justified Trope|justifies]]" its own Canon Discontinuity—right before the end credits, the judge explicitly declares that [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again|no one must ever mention the episode's events again]], and act as if it had never happened, "on penalty of ''torture''!" (Cue cheers from the crowd). On the DVD commentary, Ken Keeler, writer of the episode, complains that a couple of sequences that made this point even more obvious - that this was a non-canon episode about how preciously some people can take their relationships with TV characters - were cut for time, though he claims to no longer remember how they went. (Keeler also believes this episode is his best work out of everything he has ever written for TV, which does include the much more popular Simpsons episodes "Two Bad Neighbors" & "Brother From Another Series", plus "Time Keeps on Slippin'" & "Godfellas" for ''Futurama''.)
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