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→Western Animation: combined the examples for The Simpsons, extracting the Fanon Discontinuity examples from both during the combining.
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* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'': Both Norbert and his brother Daggett suffer this by getting themselves in all sorts of trouble in end of almost every episode. It's mostly from other animals in the forest, and the humans especially.
* ''[[Sealab 2021]]'': The [[Running Gag]] of Sealab blowing up repeatedly. [[Lampshade Hanging]] occurs in the third episode, "Radio Free Sealab," when Marco tells Captain Murphy, "Once again, your stupidity has killed us!" before the explosion. The show also plays with this trope—some episodes reference past shows with perhaps only some characters actually remembering the event. For example, when Quint mentions he was a robot (as revealed in an earlier season) and everyone seems surprised, Quint explains he had told them previously.<ref>It should be noted that the episode in question ended with everyone being killed.</ref>
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has an interesting trend in having mostly Negative Continuity with the occasional [[Continuity Nod]]. Characters will often comment on a previous episode's events, such as Homer's Mr. Plow job when he took off Flanders's roof to use as a snow plow, or Mr. Burns and Krusty the Clown not recognizing Homer and Bart, even if someone points out all the major things they've done to them. It doesn't usually affect the plot for that episode other than a joke. ''
{{quote|'''Mr. Burns''': I'm sure your replacement will be able to handle everything. Who is he, anyway?
'''Smithers''': Uh, Homer Simpsons, sir--one of your organ banks from sector 7-G. All the recent events of your life have revolved around him in some way.
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** Midway through Season 5's "Homer Loves Flanders", Lisa observes that, on account of Homer now being friends with Ned Flanders, something odd seems to happen to their family every week, but soon enough something happens which returns everything to normal. At the end of the episode, the main plot has not been resolved, and Homer and Flanders are still friends, causing Lisa to fear that perhaps this means it's the end of their adventures. We then flash forward to the following week's airtime ("Thursday, 8 PM") when a completely different plot is set in motion. We then see that off-camera, [[Reset Button|the events of the previous week's adventures have returned to normal]] and Homer hates Flanders once again with no explanation given. [[Status Quo Is God|Lisa and Bart both sigh in relief.]]
** The Simpsons did a remarkable job, for a long time, of keeping all their flash-forward episodes in continuity despite no continuity in the current-time episodes. Many episodes implied Bart becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
** 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''. }}▼
* ''[[Aeon Flux]]'': The title character died in every single ''[[Liquid Television]]'' short, usually at the end and once near the very beginning. Justified in that a later episode explains Aeon to actually be a series of identical clones.
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' applies this trope endlessly, with characters dying several times an episode, spouses of otherwise unmarried characters showing up for one episode and then vanishing, the Earth being conquered (and all characters killed) by robot insects with hats, etc.
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* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'': Particularly with the special "[[The Movie|Wishology]]." In this special, Timmy finally becomes [[Genre Savvy]] and makes responsible wishes and even solve some problems on his own without his fairies. However, the next season completely disregards all of this and appears to reset Timmy's character. He, once again, makes very irresponsible wishes.
** In fact, it's moderately common in the show. For example, in one episode, Mr. Crocker does not recognize Poof, who he had a bond with in "Bad Heir Day" (keep in mind, this happened after that episode).
▲** 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''. }}
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