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* In a reversal of the trope, quite a few fans did consider the [[Star Trek the Animated Series|1970s animated series]] [[Canon]] when it [[Canon Dis Continuity|officially wasn't]] (except for certain details, verified later in-canon). It was declared canon after a poll on the official ''[[Star Trek]]'' website in the late noughties, except now you have fans declaring Discontinuity on it as well. There's nothing resembling a consensus on any of these.
** Many (if not all) fans of ''Voyager'' throw out the episode "Threshold." Even the writer admits it was bad. More important, the ship could have returned to Earth right after the credits with the technology introduced. (Sure, it [[Evolutionary Levels|turns you into a newt]], but you'll get better!<ref>Since the Doctor figured out how to reverse the change.</ref>) While not officially removed from canon, the events of the episode are ignored by fans and writers alike, and it did receive a [[Discontinuity Nod]].
** Most ''[[Star Trek Enterprise]]'' fans, particularly those fond of Trip, dismiss the events of the last episode, a decision made easier by the fact it was presented as a holodeck reconstruction many centuries later. The novel ''The Good That Men Do'' is [[
** Even the [[Star Trek the Original Series|original series]] had several episodes (mostly in the third season) that fans consider non-canon. "[[Star Trek (Franchise)/Recap/S3 E1 Spocks Brain|Spock's Brain]]" specifically is almost universally condemned to non-existence. However Vulcan biology works, it shouldn't work that way.
** ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' fans sometimes throw out Season Seven, as so much of what happens (magic books? Dukat posing as a Bajoran to get in Winn's robes?) is considered [[Seasonal Rot|significantly lower in quality]] than the previous six seasons. Other fans might be okay with most of season 7, but would like to pretend that pretty much every Ferengi episode in the series besides [[Good Troi Episode|The Magnificent Ferengi]] never happened. ''Let He Who Is Without Sin...'' is another episode that many would rather forget.
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*** Explained quite easily in later episodes where the Alliance [[Genre Savvy|were smart enough to have a mole]] who fed them specs on her big guns. Making them next to useless on their improved shields. Hard to curb stomp someone who already knows your specs..
** There was an infamous-almost-to-the-point-of-unspeakable animated series called Stargate: Infinity. Even fans with SG-1 and Atlantis action figures have ignored its existence. It was that bad.
* Most fans of ''[[Sea Quest DSV]]'' can only stand the first season. It's curious that the last episode of the first season also acts as a fairly good finale, {{spoiler|1=with the original SeaQuest vessel being destroyed and its crew waiting for a new one to be built}}. For those who choose to carry on, the second season is [[Retool|retooled]] to focus on teen hearthrob [[
* For some, ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' ceased to exist after 2002, when the show went through a revamping to make it more suitable for younger audiences. For others, it was 1998, when ''Elmo's World'' debuted.
* This is common with [[Spin
** Same could be said about ''[[The New Monkees]]''
* The existence of seasons of ''[[Mission Impossible (TV)|Mission Impossible]]'' after [[Real Life Relative|Barbara Bain and Martin Landau]] left is in serious question. None about the execrable 1980s revival.
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** Likewise, a growing portion of the fanbase considers the fifth season finale to be the show's true ending (as Eric Kripke originally intended) and the [[Post Script Season|sixth season]] to never have happened.
*** Nor the seventh.
*** Interestingly, in this case [[Canon Dis Continuity]] is mentioned in-series and actually presented as semi-plausible. Early in Season 7, {{spoiler|Lucifer, or at least Sam's hallucinations of him,}} claims that what's happened since {{spoiler|Sam}} got out of Hell is all an elaborate [[Mind Screw]] designed to psychologically torture him ([[Downer Ending|and]] [[Angst|possibly]] [[Darker and Edgier|the viewers]]). So, the possibility it there if the fanbase ''really'' wants it to be even though though it leaves [[A Fate Worse Than Death|one of the leads to eternal damnation and suffering]] and the other characters' fates as ambiguous, [[Kill
** "Route 666" is an complicated example. Sam's [[Deadpan Snarker|snark]], Dean's [[The Woobie|woobie-dom]], the [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of Cassie being like John stays. The racist truck and the mother's melodramatic speech is OUTOUTOUT.
* Fans of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' tend to [[Hand Wave]] the later seasons. Or the earlier ones, depending on whether they like Topanga as a wild hippie or a sensible career gal.
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* Almost all of the original ''[[Dark Angel]]'' fandom ignores season 2 or rewrites that season's first episode to remove its most offensive plot device - the virus that makes Max deadly to Logan. New fans [[Just Here for Godzilla|watching the show for]] the actor [[Jensen Ackles]] usually do the exact opposite, not bothering with the first season except for Jensen's episode "Pollo Loco"; they get a [[Alternate Character Interpretation|very different interpretation]] of the show and its characters.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' fandom will frequently ignore anything that happened after the season four finale, when Aaron Sorkin, the show's creator and the man who wrote most of the episodes, left. This means "ending" the show on a cliffhanger, but it's either that or a major shift in the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]].
** Out of those who do acknowledge post-Sorkinism, a large portion refuse to acknowledge Toby's wildly [[Out
** There are also Sorkin-era episodes that get this treatment: the post-9/11 [[Very Special Episode]] "Isaac and Ishmael" (which is very easy to ignore because we're told at the outset that it's a one-shot and doesn't fit into the series's timeline), and "The Long Goodbye," which is about C.J. going home for a class reunion and confronting the fact that her father's dying of Alzheimer's, wasn't written by Sorkin, has nothing to do with anything and was blatantly conceived as [[Oscar Bait|Emmy Bait]] for [[Allison Janney]] (who, while she delivered her usual spectacular performance, certainly didn't need a sappy, teary family episode to display her awesome talent any more than the male cast members did, especially since she was doing just fine cleaning up at the Emmys on her own).
*** Several throwaway comments, such as Leo's claim that he has known Bartlet for 32 years but was only friends with him for 11, are blatantly and unanimously ignored, especially if they contradict earlier information.
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