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[[Brain Bleach|Or can you?]]

 

Western cartoons, like other [[Animated Shows]], have their share of things people would just rather forget.

** Fans of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' would also prefer to forget it because it contradicted so much of ''[[Tiny Toons]]'' (i.e. [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Rudy Mookich and Mr. Pussy-Wussy]]) and most of them hate [[The Scrappy|Elmyra]].

* The Direct-to-Video Disney Sequels (and spin-off series) are unaccepted by many due to poor storylines, poor villains and the [[Character Derailment|resetting]] any [[Character Development]]. The greatest offender would have to be ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]] III: A Twist in Time'', which has Cinderella's [[Wicked Stepmother]] and stepsisters [[Retcon]] the original movie's ending with the [[Fairy Godmother]]'s wand so that Anastasia gets the prince.

* Fans of ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'' tend to ignore the fact that the series is a [[Show Within a Show|video game in series]].

* ''Vuk the Little Fox'' is the adaptation of one of the best and most successful Hungarian children books. It is a [[Gushing About Shows You Like|beautiful and emotional experience]], which quite deserves its place in the IMDB top 10 animation. ''Little Vuk'' (aka ''A Fox's Tale'') is its sequel, made in 2008, 20 years later from the book of the original author's son with a really dumb and unoriginal plot. The cartoon features worse animation than the gameplay of most contemporary videogames with characters in the middle of [[Uncanny Valley]]. Most people pretend it does not exist, and the rest have voted it into its quite deserved place in the IMDB bottom 10 animation.

* For quite a few fans, the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' episodes directed by Gene Deitch never happened.

** Simply put: If it didn't come from Hollywood USA, it's not a ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon.

** And then there's the unnecessary sex change of Mr. Garrison...

* Most ''[[Daria]]'' fans hate the episode "Depth Takes a Holiday" so much to the point that fanfics have been written just to explain how it never happened and isn't canon. Granted, despite no [[All Just a Dream]] disclaimer at any point, the episode was probably never intended to be taken too seriously or intended to be canon.

* Many fans like to pretend Season 10 and onwards of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' don't exist for a few reasons. Luanne gets into a relationship with "Lucky", an ugly, middle-aged, stereotypical hillbilly and gets pregnant. This is jarring because Luanne beforehand had gone through a lot of [[Character Development]]: she realized that she had a lot of unused potential; she went to college; she had a vow to never have sex again until her wedding day; she never wanted to be a hillbilly ever again: and she had declared that she never wanted to marry a much older man. All of this was just ignored and wasted.

** Plus, the insult to the fans is that the [[Character Development]] went to the ''wrong'' character. Lucky, the show's [[The Scrappy|least popular character]], got good development and became a responsible husband, father, and homeowner, whereas Luanne—who has been on the show since Day 1—degenerated to [[The Ditz|an even bigger dummy than she was when the show first started]].

* There are a number of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' fans who pretend that the {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]}} ending to ''[[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension]]'' never happened at all.

* Some fans of ''[[Postman Pat]]'' disavow the existence of the newer episodes made by Entertainment Rights. The reasons include political correctness that has seeped into the show and the loss of some classic characters in the recent series.

* Good luck finding a ''[[Bionicle]]'' fan who pays attention to the [[Retcon]]s about how Matoran and every other living thing in the "Matoran Universe" are supposed to be mindless automatons and how being individuals with personality was just a glitch in their AI. Similarly, paying attention to the retcon inducing universal [[Asexuality]] and [[No Hugging, No Kissing]] is a rarity, all the more so since the Mata Nui Online Game and the [[Adobe Flash]] animations, the early material establishing the Matoran's capability to love, is widely considered some of the fandom's favourite parts of the story.

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': The revelation that Heinrich is {{spoiler|a girl}} is considered untrue by a number of fans, mainly due [[Shocking Swerve|to the utter lack of build-up to this twist]] just for the sake of wrapping up Heinrich's plotline before the series ended.

** Actually, there were quite a few things fans of the show considered non-canon, from Chad's {{spoiler|being a double agent all along during his time with the Teen Ninjas}} [[Shocking Swerve|for reasons similar to Heinrich's twist]], to the very final episode where {{spoiler|Nigel Uno ends up having to leave Earth to help the Galactic KND}}.

** Some 1x5 shippers want to ignore the fact that {{spoiler|Numbuhs 2 and 5 get married in the future}}, depsite the fact that it had some foreshadowing.

* Most fans of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' refuse to acknowledge the third ([[Screwed by the Network|and final]]) season of the show, [[Seasonal Rot|due to head writer Steve Marmel leaving the series]], [[Status Quo Is God|ignoring past character development]], [[Leave the Plot Threads Hanging|and plot threads left hanging]] (despite the creator knowing it would be the last season).

** Granted, [[Nickelodeon]] has a bit of a policy about letting on that a show's ending within the show itself; fans should probably count themselves lucky they got as much closure as they did.

** Even those who acknowledge the last season often ignore the finale episode, due to its {{spoiler|revealing Danny's secret to Valerie and his parents, and possibly the world}}. They prefer to play around with the plot ideas that were nullified by this episode.

* Quite a few fans of the [[DCAU|DC Animated Universe]] like to think of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' (specifically, ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker|Return of the Joker]]'')and its [[Spin-Off]] ''[[The Zeta Project]]'' as an alternate future rather than the canon one. This isn't because they don't like it (plenty think it was better than most of the series), but because nobody wants to live with the knowledge that Tim Drake will be {{spoiler|so [[Break the Cutie|brutally tortured]] and [[Mind Rape]]d}} that it takes {{spoiler|him the next ''fifty years'' to fully recover}}, essentially making the entire history of the DCAU Bat-family {{spoiler|a case of [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]}}.

*** Considering [[Trauma Conga Line|what DC is doing to Tim in the comics]]? It almost makes anything [[The Joker]] does to him look ''tame''.

*** Note about Static: In addition to several DCAU crossover episodes, including a ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' crossover, Future!Static also appears in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''. Because of Static being mentioned meeting with [[Green Lantern]] in a JLU episode, which DID happen in SS, most fans use [[Broad Strokes]].

* The [[Seasonal Rot|Genndy Tartakovsky-less seasons 3 and 4]] of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' are often both reviled or/and ignored by fans. It helps that the last episode of the 2nd season makes a good [[Grand Finale]].

* If you want to keep fans of ''[[Family Guy]]'' happy do ''not'' mention the episode "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven". This particular episode was so [[Anvilicious]] and aggressively stupid that it was apologized for in "Jerome Is the New Black".

** It was so bad, it drove a significant portion of fans away.

** Many people don't either consider anything from seasons 4-onwards canon, or anything after season 7 canon.

** There's also in [[In-Universe]] example where apparently the Germans ignored World War II.

* While perhaps not as hated as most things in this category, there are many fans who prefer to forget the painfully average ''Beast With a Billion Backs'' movie from ''[[Futurama]]'' history.

** And many others who prefer to think it ended after ''Bender's Big Score''.

**** ''Yo Leela Leela'' gets this too, due to the fact that it barely feels like a Futurama episode. Nothing even ''remotely'' futuristic happens until the end.

* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' fans tend to ignore Buzzwang, the Kiwi kids, and most of the episodes they even appeared in.

** This goes for any ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' series that doesn't star all the original characters. Without the [[Five-Man Band|cast dynamics]], the series just doesn't work that well. Where would scaredy-cat Scooby and Shaggy be without brave Fred and smart Velma to lead the way?

** Some people desperately pray for the day when they can finally convince themselves that [[The Scrappy|Scrappy-Doo]] doesn't exist. The visceral hatred is just too great to ignore.

* In the minds of some, Season 4 (or mid-Season 3) and above of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' tend to be dismissed as this, with [[The Movie]] taking place directly after the third season and serving as the [[Grand Finale]] to the series. [[Flanderization]] and [[Idiot Plot]]s are abound (not so bad in the fourth season, but [[Seasonal Rot|after that...]])

** However, [[Word of God]] says that the feature film ''is'' in fact the finale, but it takes place after all the other episodes—even the ones that ''[[Anachronic Order|hadn't been made/aired yet]]''.

***** {{spoiler|Plankton actually ''does'' steal the formula in the movie and makes his own Krabby Patties, and then takes over all of Bikini Bottom. His success doesn't last for long though, since he's defeated and locked away at the end (presumably forever, since it ''is'' the finale). The new episode in question cannot possibly take place after this, and it's not unlikely that Plankton hasn't been in jail several times before for his theft attempts. He was probably put away at the end of the movie mainly for what he did to the town and King Neptune (enslaving them, and stealing the latter's crown).}}

** [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Humanized]] versions of the characters always has Spongebob with blond hair and Patrick with pink hair. Whenever the two are shown with hair Spongebob is a brunette and Patrick has black hair.