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** Also in ''II'', Loomis says that Michael is 21 years old. Both end credits of the first film and ''II'' lists unmasked Michael's age as 23.
** In the original ''Halloween'', the Myers house is a modest two-story home. By the time we get to ''Halloween 5'', it's a huge, Gothic-style mansion.
* In ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'', Khan recognizes Chekov despite the latter being introduced in the second season of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]''. The episode with Khan was part of the first season. One theory is that, since Chekov never got a formal introduction episode, he could've been in the lower decks since Day One and been promoted to bridge officer after Khan's banishment. It wouldn't even be the first time someone's shown up on screen out of nowhere [[Remember the New Guy?|and been treated like they were on the show the whole time.]] Walter Koenig likes to joke that offscreen they met when Chekov kept Khan waiting at a restroom, then left him with no toilet paper, hence Khan remembering him.
* In ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock]]'', Kirk flashes McCoy the Vulcan hand salute in a throw-away joke ("How many fingers am I holding up?"). Unfortunately, it has been established as recently as the end of the previous film that Kirk cannot manage the Vulcan hand salute (as seen in [[Window Love|the infamous sequence]] in ''Wrath of Khan'' where Spock is slowly dying in the radioactive containment until).
 
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** Data's cat was repeatedly referred to as male since it was introduced, then suddenly became female in the last season and even had kittens. Some [[Fan Wank]] this as his owning several cats over the years and giving them all the same name, which would seem to be in character.
** There were continual goofs in whether Lieutenant Commanders are referred to as "Lieutenant" or "Commander" formally. They could probably have gotten away with either regardless of real-world behaviors if they had just chosen one and stuck with it.
** In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "The Alternate", Sisko strongly implies that his father is dead. This contradicts later episodes where his father is very much alive and running a restaurant in New Orleans.
** As pointed out by Phil Farrand in the ''Nitpicker's Guides'', O'Brien is casually treated as an officer (and once referred to as a lieutenant) in ''Next Gen'' but is explicity and insistently a noncommissioned officer in ''Deep Space Nine''.
* In one episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Sheldon admonishes Leonard for ending a sentence with a preposition. Anyone with even a cursory ability to recognise grammatical structures would remember that Sheldon has never been adverse to this. This may be because the writers [[Viewers are Morons|didn't think anyone would notice]] when they came up with the gag, or because the writers didn't know anything about the "taboo" of ending sentences with prepositions until they wrote that gag and then promptly forgot about it afterwards.
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** An episode has Patrick being visited by his sister, Sam. The problem with this is that he said back in season 2's "Something Smells" that he did ''not'' have a sister. Then again, [[The Ditz|this is Patrick we're talking about...]]
** The episode where Squidward becomes nice has [[Broken Streak|Squidward actually beating SpongeBob for Employee of the Month at the Krusty Krab]]. The problem with this is that, in ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'' (which is the chronological series finale [[Word of God|according to the creator]]), SpongeBob says he has won that award 374 times in a row.
* In the Disney animated series ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]]'', Hercules and Hades always run into each other every other episode, despite the fact that in the film this series is based off of, Hades isn't even supposed to realize Hercules was still alive until the latter is an adult. While a continuity error, this actually makes more sense than the movie due to the plot hole that goes along with it... how on Earth could ''the lord of the dead'' '''not''' be aware that Hercules ''wasn't dead''?
* Similar to the ''SpongeBob'' example above, ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' episode "Double-Oh-Schnozmo!" introduces Cosmo's [[Long-Lost Uncle Aesop|brother Schnozmo]], despite that the earlier episode "The Gland Plan" said that Cosmo didn't have any siblings.
* Happens a lot on ''[[American Dad]]'', but most can be dismissed with the [[Rule of Funny]].
** In "42-Year-Old Virgin", Stan claims to have never killed anyone, but he broke Jay Leno's neck on "Stan of Arabia, part I", killed his co-worker's double at the beginning of "It's Good to Be Queen", accidentally disintegrated one of his other co-workers in "I Can't Stan You", shot down a hang glider in "An Apocalypse to Remember," and shot a painter in "Con Heir."
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