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== Negative Continuity ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** Special mention should go to the episode where it's revealed that the Principal Skinner we've known throughout the show's long-running history is actually [[Dead Person Impersonation|a fraud named Armin Tamzarian]]. Many people insist that this never happened. The episode is an [[Negative Continuity|in-show example of discontinuity]], too, because the characters in-show [[Status Quo Is God|decide they prefer the fake Skinner, run the real one out of town, and a judge orders that they never speak of the incident again]].
*** It should be noted that this is played upon in a later episode. At some point in the later seasons, Snowball II dies. Lisa goes through a series of new cats to fill the void, each one also winding up dead through various means. Finally, a cat that looks exactly like Snowball II shows up and is the only cat to survive (albeit by causing a car wreck and subsequent explosion). Lisa joyfully adopts the new cat and says that she will name it Snowball II instead of III because she doesn't want to buy a new cat dish. Skinner, walking by, notes the discontinuity of the situation, to which Lisa responds:
{{quote|'''Lisa:''' I guess it is, Principal ''Tamzarian''. }}
** Perhaps the only episode more reviled for its blatant abuse of canon than "The Principal and the Pauper" is "That 90s Show" which depicts the lives of The Simpsons throughout the 90s, completely ignoring that the events of episodes which aired during the show's earlier seasons took place in the 90s, and completely rewriting canon as a result. This may have been upgraded to [[Canon Discontinuity]] in later seasons, since they continue to depict Homer and Marge as having gotten together in the 70s.
** Another in-universe example: Comic Book Guy refuses to admit that Superman moved to Gotham City, even though someone wrote a comic about it; he says instead it was dreamed up by the author and never really happened.
** "The Boys Of Bummer" for containing one of the nastiest cases of [[Disproportionate Retribution]] in all of fiction. Many fans have called one of the worst (of not, '''the''' worst) ever made.
*** A similar mention goes to "Million Dollar Abie".
** "Saddlesore Galactica" and " Kill the Alligator and Run" get this treatment too. The former for its downright ''bizzare'' plot, the latter for being ''completely'' made out of "Florida sucks!" jokes.
** And "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" and "Bart-Mangled Banner" for the same reasons as "Saddlesore". The latter especially for being [[Anvilicious]] as all hell.
** Some fans treat "Lisa The Vegetarian" as this, not for being bad (it's considered genuinely funny), but the fact that they feel this episode started Lisa's eventual [[Flanderization]] into a [[Soapbox Sadie]] [[Canon Sue]].
** Fans usually ignore the presence of Sideshow Bob's Italian wife and son. Possibly [[Canon Discontinuity]] as they're never seen or mentioned again after "Funeral for a Fiend".
** Maude either died a more honourable death (or never died in the first place) according to a few fans.
** And let me make on thing perfectly clear. Barney '''never''' went sober.
** The now [[Official Couple]] of Ned and Edna is getting this.
** "Homer The Heretic" for pretty much being a bizzaro version of "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven
 
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[[Category:Canon Discontinuity]]
[[Category:Fanon Discontinuity]]
[[Category:DiscontinuityWestern Animation]]
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