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=== ''Ben 10'' ===
* In ''[[Ben 10]]'' episode "Kevin 11", Ben gets persuaded to sneak into a warehouse and steal a new video game before it's released. Suddenly, police in full SWAT gear arrive in cruisers and helicopters, and immediately start attacking with ''tear gas and bullets''. This is so extreme, it doesn't just ''break'' the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]
** Everyone noticed it. The commentary for the episode notes "Sumo Slammer games must have ''really, really'' tight security!" Of course, it could be theorized that the police were there due to Kevin's presence and not because of the video game; who knows how long that little psycho had been causing trouble with his powers?
* The computer-that-wasn't-broken from "Ready To Rumble." What the Fuck, Gwen?
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** They [[Retcon|decided]] in that episode that Gwen [[Doing in the Wizard|was part alien and didn't have magic powers.]] Okay, but later in the series, she's using magic books, with some half-assed excuse for it about Anodites and "mana". Just make up your minds, guys!
** Worse, Gwen is 1/4 Anodite. '''1/4'''. Yet somehow, she is able to transform into a full Anodite and use all the full powers of an Anodite as well! ''How the hell do those kind of genetics WORK?''
** Gwen's grandmother was [[Easily Forgiven]]. After she has already defeated Ben and Kevin and could have left, she attempts to kill them. Then Gwen appears and she realizes Gwen's her granddaughter and has alien powers. But she is more interested in Gwen's alien powers than in any familial
** Grandma Verdona reappears way, ''way'' later, and she's still as much of a bitch as ever, totally dismissing her other granddaughter, Sunny, while telling Gwen she's "her favorite granddaughter" ''right in front of Sunny''. Not only is this blatantly playing favorites, but it's extremely hypocritical. So Gwen, a goody-goody, mature, responsible girl, is her favorite over Sunny, a wild, out-of-control, hedonistic free spirit....even though the latter description is ''exactly what Verdona was...and in many ways still is?'' And she's [[Designated Hero|supposed to be one of the good guys?]]
* The [[Retcon
* Vilgax's [[Badass Decay|Badass]] and [[Villain Decay]] in the third and final season of ''Alien Force''.
* Related to the aforementioned [[Retcon
=== ''Ultimate Alien'' ===
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** Also, Charmcaster's father Spellbinder (and it's a wallbanger in of itself that he, a single soul, has to be ressurected with 600,000) gives his daughter a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech when he learns what she did, which is well deserved....but it's ''also'' terribly, needlessly harsh and cruel without any sort of understanding shown on Spellbinder's part. "[[Moral Event Horizon|How could you do something so evil?]] [[Complete Monster|You're worse than Adwaitya ever was!]]" That's right, Spellbinder, just ignore all reasoning as to ''why'' your daughter did this. Ignore that she was left alone in the care of her [[Abusive Parents|abusive uncle]] throughout her life, that she was later stuck in this hellish realm for who knows how long, and that [[Evil Power Vacuum|everyone tried to kill each other (and likely her) in an attempt to claim power after Adwaitya was deposed.]] Never mind how traumatized Hope's going to be when you say all this and then go back to being dead ''immediately afterward'', with no words of encouragement for her to redeem herself, no reassurance that she's truly not as evil as the guy who killed you if she does so, or that things will get better for her even without you. But I guess [[True Art Is Angsty]], so just let your daughter suffer! [[Sarcasm Mode|What wonderful parenting!]]
* Bringing Elena Validus and her father from the live action movie into the TV show [[Back for the Dead|just to kill them off]]. Seriously, what the hell? Julie being blatantly made out to be better than Elena in the episode also makes this a possible case of [[Derailing Love Interests]].
** Oops, looks like Elena's not dead, she's back as a complete [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere
* Pierce is killed by the Forever Knights, just so that they can be a bigger threat now. Such a casual throwing away of a character....it's a male version of [[Stuffed in The Fridge]]! Oh, and [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|no-one ever finds out about it, and it's not spoken of again.]]
* Ben's defeat of a monster made from the "trash island" in the Pacific Ocean, after it's moved to the coast of San Francisco to get more trash. Since it's a [[Blob Monster]] he can't beat it conventionally. Then he sees that the waves in the ocean are eroding it. This inspires him to do the only logical thing: use Way Big (a giant alien) to run in a circle around the monster fast enough to create a tornado that ''hurls it into space on course for the Sun''. This series has never been good with the laws of physics and tends to abuse [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]], but this solution came right the fuck out of nowhere, kicked physics in the nuts, and pretty much gave a middle finger to any sense of rationality. Worst of all, it's a complete tangent to the observed weakness Ben was presumably trying to exploit.
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** Nazz appears to be about the same age as Eddy, maybe a few months older. Getting a babysitter that's the same age as the person who she's watching is missing the point of babysitters. [[Early Installment Weirdness]], but it's a pity.
* "A Town Called Ed." Say what you may want to about the Eds; but in this story, they only wanted to watch a monster truck marathon with the others. They try to point out that they own Peach Creek and so should be allowed to join them, but they get brushed off. It doesn't help that it turns out that the missing last page reveals that Eddy's ancestor {{spoiler|bet it and lost to ''[[Oh Crap|Lord Kanker]]''}}.
* "Stop, Look, Ed": After deciding that rules are for fools, Eddy attempts to persuade everyone to break any rule whatsoever in order to have a good time. Naturally, Edd still wants to obey the rules. Near the end of the episode, Edd calls everyone's parents. After panicking, the kids imprison all 3 Eds in a net. Anyone else see what's wrong with that last sentence? That's right: Edd acted
** Eddy seemed to have taken a hit from the [[Idiot Ball]] at the last minute. Out of either panic or loyalty he tried to defend Edd by saying he "broke a rule, like us." Still doesn't change the fact that Ed got caged with them even though he was pretty much oblivious to Edd's treachery until after Edd announced it.
* The show is prone to these for comedy. Sometimes, they sabotage themselves for no good reason. Like with the episode they were making tacos. Why would it have been so expensive to just buy some actual materials to make tacos, if they don't already have things like cheese and vegetables laying around their kitchens anyway? Or in one flashback, they broke Jimmy's jaw with a creampuff that just randomly had a ''bowling pin'' in it. What was the point of inserting that? If they have the time and materials for so many poor replicas of scam components, why don't they simply acquire the actual thing and be done with it?
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** First, Buff Stewie (what else can you call him?) has next to no development and was just an excuse for jokes. [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]].
** Second, why did ''Connie'' become popular again after Chris' downfall when it was ''Neil'' who orcheastrated it?
* [[Seth MacFarlane]] ought to be glad he didn't have much to do with the episode "McStroke"
** Hell, if a restaurant used meat that fresh, that would be the main focus of their advertising.
** However, all this was saved by [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the mustache sequence]]. Why couldn't the whole episode have just kept its focus on that?
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* [[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|Jimmy Neutron]] has fought Chicken egg aliens, living pants, a midget mad scientist, a robot, lots of robot, he has built a robot dog, has a laboratory, breathes in space, fought more aliens, saved the world with a secret agent, stopped a renegade burger restaurant mascot, shrunk down to the size of a bacteria to extract mitochondria from them, went to the depths of ocean, and has done many more, but '''HE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!'''
** Also, he's a huge dick about it to Carl and others who believe in Santa; Cindy and Libby try to get some justified revenge on him....and '''Santa gives them coal for it in the end.''' And Jimmy saves Christmas from what he [[Designated Hero|AS USUAL]] ''caused himself'', so he gets rewarded and [[Karma Houdini|excused for his behavior earlier.]]
* The episode where Jimmy builds a jetpack fueled by gold. That's
* [[Comically Missing the Point|You mean like a jetpack fueled by...oil?]]
* The episode "Science Fair Affair" has Jimmy managing to win the Nobel Prize after his father enters his oil substitute machine to the judge. This oil machine detects garbage and converts it into oil substitute. Then some random kid shows off his bomb of an experiment that sprays mud on the judges; then the machine sucks them up. After the other kids save them, the Nobel Prize judge takes away the prize from Jimmy, saying "I can't believe you're not in jail!". Oh right, reject a potential solution to Earth's oil crisis because of a near death experience that WASN'T THE INVENTOR'S FAULT, and ignore the real trial-and-error process behind inventing and that Jimmy didn't make the large-scale version of the machine.
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** What makes this episode even more of a Wallbanger is that, according to the show, [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|the Cretaceous period was 200 million years ago, and leptictidia lived during the Cretaceous]].
* The episode where Jimmy makes a bunch of clones of himself to do a bunch of chores while he goes to see an astronomical event that only happens every couple thousand years. At the end, he simply freezes them all so that he can "[[Deadly Euphemism|declone]]" them, except for the evil clone who got away.
** What's funny is that the entire ''[[Blade Runner]]'' movie exists to point out how much of a [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] this
** When Evil Jimmy came back, he made an ''evil clone'' of Earth! When Jimmy is on Evil Earth, he runs to the clones of his parents for help. After all, "they may be evil, but they're still my parents, right?" Riiiight. Technically, they're his parents' offspring, his ''siblings,'' if anything. Oh, yeah, and they've never even seen him before. But they're still his parents!
** If the writers [[You Keep Using That Word|are using "clone" to mean "copy"]] in those two episodes - this program is, in theory, about a kid who loves science. The sound contradicts the sense here.
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** Maybe after the incident in the episode, Wade might have set up some kind of account in-between Bueno Nacho and Ron... It could be possible, being a 10 year old supergenius.
* And then there's the show's finale. For some, it was a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. But when {{spoiler|Ron suddenly awakes his full Mystical Monkey Powers and starts beating the aliens all by himself,}} it just went from bad [[It Got Worse|to worse]]; and it keeps doing that ''even'' when it seemed impossible. It's ''[[Fan Service]]'' of {{spoiler|the most popular character}}, but it isn't [[Character Development]] and doesn't leave a good message. {{spoiler|Ron is suddenly told he's ready; he somehow agrees; and then, suddenly, he's the most kick-ass character of the show, leaving [[Chickification|Kim (and maybe Shego) as nothing but a damsel in distress in the final episode of the show with her own name!]] [[Unfortunate Implications|Almost as if to suggest women can't be good enough to be the real heroes of the story...]]}}
** Many people believe that the ending defines everything that came before it. This finale is about the culmination of Ron Stoppable's [[Hero's Journey|journey]]
*** The theme of the show was originally teamwork and [[The Power of Friendship]], like in ''[[The Movie|A Sitch in Time]]'', not "oooh look at Ron he's cool now!" There is an ongoing debate about whether this was a good idea.
== ''King of the Hill'' ==
* The ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "The Accidental Terrorist". Long story short, Hank protested a car dealer by putting up some fliers at night. But some rebellious "friends" had other ideas and blew up a bunch of cars. Guess who gets ALL the blame? Yup. And nothing gets
** It's worse than that. The dealer doesn't help Hank because he believes he's innocent (he doesn't); he helps Hank because Hank can drag the case out longer than the dealer can afford. There are worse reasons, but still...
* In the episode where Lucky tries to get his GED, Peggy decides to sabotage him because he's planning to ask Luanne to marry him after he passes the test. Lucky fails. Then it's revealed that Luanne is pregnant, making Peggy want them to get married. Lucky was clearly smart enough and on track to get his GED before Peggy sabotaged him; but in the rest of the episode, everyone acts as if it was Lucky's fault he failed. Peggy suffers no consequences beyond Hank being mad at her for about five seconds when she reveals what she did. The episode ends with Peggy kicking Lucky in the chest.
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* In ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'', Charlie Brown is in a football team during an important game as the place kicker, but Lucy is assigned to hold the ball for the kicks. Sure enough, she pulls the (in)famous and inevitable ball-pulling prank four times (or is that five?) -- twice on field goal attempts, which eventually leads to them losing the game by one point (that difference coming from Chuck "missing" the extra point after their first touchdown as a result of one of the pranks). It's clear that the writers never thought that Lucy pulling this prank in the open (especially under the circumstances shown the last time she does it) would get ''her'' humiliated. There must have been ''hundreds'' of witnesses who could see Lucy's interference. But the whole team angrily blames Charlie Brown instead, and he naturally doesn't bother to defend himself even when [[Never My Fault|Lucy rubs it in at a party later]]. It didn't matter in the grander scheme ([[Throw the Dog a Bone|Chuck even gets to kiss The Red-Headed Girl at the party]]), but many viewers wrote protest letters about this stupid [[Plot Hole]].
** It can be argued that the kiss doesn't count because Chuck doesn't remember it the next morning.
** The other two times are on
** The backlash forced the writers into a minor [[Retcon]] in future showings. After the missed field goals, watch Peppermint Patty at the bottom of the pile. Her mouth moves, but her original dialogue, blaming things on Charlie Brown, has been [[Nightmare Fuel|backmasked]] and silenced.
* Similarly, in ''Happy New Year, Charlie Brown'', the script goes ''completely'' overboard to [[Deus Angst Machina|make Charlie Brown miserable]]. For instance, Charlie Brown is apparently given an assignment to do a book report on ''[[War and Peace]]'' over the Christmas holiday break. Considering that the book is famous for being over 1,000 pages, no sane elementary school teacher would impose such an impossible project on a child (although this ''is'' based on a storyline from the strips). Furthermore, when Charlie Brown attends Peppermint Patty's New Year's Eve party and takes some time outside to read the book, Patty complains that she can't find him for the countdown despite his being ''just outside the front door''.
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*** ''[[War and Peace]]'' contains illegitimacy, seduction, attempted suicide, allegations of incest and abortion, gruesome battlefield injuries, and no-anaesthetic amputation. It's hard to believe that a teacher could get away with assigning it to a grade-school kid even for an ''all-year'' book report.
** It should be noted that this plot did play out in the comics, but the book in question here was ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', a much smaller and easier book.
* Let's just make this general statement: The rules of the ''[[Peanuts]]'' universe [[Universe Bible|clearly state]] that Charlie Brown is [[Kafka Komedy|never allowed to be happy or succeed at anything]]
* Another example is the summer camp and boat race in ''Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown.'' The gang split up between boys and girls, each with a boat, and went up against a trio of jerks and their [[Cats Are Mean|vicious, over-aggressive cat]]. Unfortunately, throwing all characterization to the wind, ''all'' the girls not only started behaving like [[The Load]] and [[The Millstone]] by not doing ''anything'' at all to help the gang win, but they also berated Charlie Brown every time things didn't go their way. It's in character for [[Annoying Younger Sibling|Sally]] or [[Jerkass|Lucy]] to behave like spoiled brats... but [[Shorttank|Peppermint Patty]]? Even kind, sweet [[Meganekko|Marcie]], possibly the most gentle female character in the ''Peanuts'' world, was [[Character Derailment|derailed]] into a jerk out of the blue just to make things miserable for Charlie.
** It could be a logical extension of Peppermint Patty's over-competitiveness and Marcie's tendency to be dominated by her friend's personalities... Also, since Charlie Brown gets appointed leader of the combined group and then immediately tells the girls to shut up, this is kind of awesome. Now, the guys letting the girls force them to sleep outside when it's ''snowing outside'' - in summer... go figure....
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** Besides, 200 years [[Fate Worse Than Death|hanging on an island as zombies]] doesn't leave the pirates with much else to do besides reflecting on their own lives. Remember what [[Vandal Savage]] went through in "Hereafter" on ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]''? [[Cassandra Truth|And Moonscar might've thought that if he wrote messages telling the truth too bluntly, he wouldn't be believed]].
** [[Did Not Do the Research|You're asking about the point of the random, suspicious, scary guy who hunts catfish?]] It's been a staple of pretty much ''every'' mystery story that there's someone who acts shady as a [[Red Herring]].
* [[What's New Scooby Doo]], Episode: "E-Scream", the gang deals with some little creatures who have a virus which causes them to become violent. The episode ends with the revelation that it's just a VR video game,<ref>
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* The colony of Thorn Valley, a major plot point in the first film, is finally shown. It's a foolishly massive construct complete with concentric irrigation rings and very tall buildings. If the rats were trying to craft a colony invisible to human eyes, then they failed miserably. The rats still make trips into the conveniently close city to steal garbage despite their setting up Thorn Valley to get rid of their dependence on humans.
* The directions to Thorn Valley are "South by south by south.", the directional equivalent of [[555]]. These directions don't make geographical sense, and that becomes painful when these directions become an important plot point.
* The escape of a Mouse of NIMH, who is the daughter of two Mice who failed to escape. (They figure out who she is when she gives her last name.) The survival of the Mice is explained (we should be used to animated filmmakers ignoring exhaust fans); but how this one escaped isn't... well, how she escaped her
** The explanation for the Mice not escaping NIMH was that they were forced to hide in the basement to recover from injuries falling down the vent. By the time they were able to leave, the scientists found them again. There's no explanation why only one of the mice tried to escape using the "South by South by South" directions though.
* Mr. Ages refers to the supposedly dead mice as "The Lost Six." But in the first movie, there were ''eleven'' mice, and all were sucked into the air shafts except ''two'', Jonathan Brisby and Mr. Ages. So, eleven minus two equals...'''''[[Writers Cannot Do Math|six]]'''''? Did the writers even watch the first movie?
** This almost
** The sequel makes other references to the novel not present in the original movie (eg. Brutus' [[Jerkass Facade]], Timmy journeying to Thorn Valley). It may make sense that they took references from the novel more than the original movie. Some of the new characters, while a contrast from the original cast, are Bluth-ish in design (eg. Cecil looks like a concept that would fit better in ''Thumbelina''). It seems the staff looked at almost all possible reference media ''except'' the original movie.
* The rats of Thorn Valley idolise Jonathan Brisby like a
** Furthermore, what happened to the amulet in the sequel?
* The plot twist that Timmy's brother Martin is the villain. Sure, the [[Cain and Abel]] trope is used many times in media but this one is worth mention. Why? Because, for one, it [[Ass Pull|came out of]] [[Shocking Swerve|the left field]] (he was captured and tested off screen outside), two, it totally derails the idea that Dr. Valentine was the bad guy (he now has the mind of a dog) and three, it makes the prophecy [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|a self-fulfilling one.]] (Martin was jealous that Timmy was the [[Chosen One]] and Timmy didn't think he was up to the task, so Martin goes off to stop Dr. Valentine, gets himself captured, and well, this happens..) The only good thing to come out of it was the illogical result of Martin now being a British (voiced by Eric Idle) [[Large Ham]]. At least ''that'' was entertaining.
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*** True, but soon every person in the entire town apologizes after Marge scolds them for being so inhuman, and they actually decide to restage the game until Bart wins to make him feel better. They truly were jerks, but at least they tried to make up for being so uncaring.
* The "ending" to "Missionary Impossible". Was it REALLY that difficult for the writers to come up with an actual ending instead of a [[No Ending]] cop-out with a dig against ''[[Family Guy]]'' disappearing from the airwaves (it did, but it got [[Uncanceled]] just as quick), and a lame fourth-wall joke about ''The Simpsons'' "saving" FOX?
* "Homer's Night Out": Marge throws Homer out of the house because he danced with Princess Kashmir (the stripper) was seen as a bad influence to Bart. Homer didn't rape her or sexually harass her (like he mistakenly did to that babysitter on "Homer Badman") -- he ''danced'' with her. And Bart didn't begin treating the girls at school (or even his own sisters) like sex objects, so why would Marge cite that as her reason why she's angry with Homer over dancing with a stripper (unless she's one of those people who believes that a mere cheesecake photograph of a sexy woman is considered
** To be fair, there's probably not ''many'' wives or mothers who would be particularly impressed with their husband getting caught and photographed dancing with a stripper ''by their ten-year-old son''. Even with rape and overt sexual harassment out of the picture (and one would hope Marge would be ''more'' upset than she was with these involved), you don't have to be a hyper-repressed prude terrified of sexuality to wonder whether that's setting the best possible example you can for the boy with regards to the whole 'women-as-objects' thing. As for the bowling ball example, that's clearly established as being the tip of an iceberg of selfish behaviour on Homer's part, not least an ongoing tendency to both forget her birthday ''and'' then selfishly buy something for himself under the pretext of getting her something. She not contemplating cheating on Homer in that episode just because he bought her a bowling ball (although let's face it, that's still an incredibly selfish thing for him to do), she's doing so because ''she feels taken-for-granted and ignored by him''
* "So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show" pretty much is a display of what a [[Jerkass]] Homer is (and ''this was a season four episode'', well before [[Dork Age|the Mike Scully-run episodes]] of seasons 9, 10, 11, 12, and some leftover episodes that aired in season 13). He pulls tons of cruel April Fool's pranks on Bart (such as making him drink six-month old milk and putting duct tape over his eyes while he slept) and Bart tries to get back at him by giving him a can of beer that was shaken up by a paint shaker from a hardware store. When Homer went to open it, it caused an explosion and landed Homer in a coma (though Bart was blown back and he should have suffered some injuries from that as well). Bart, having not expected this to happen, sadly apologizes to Homer. Homer then proceeds to wake up....and begin strangling Bart. Pretty much all of this episode is one big [[Kick the Dog]] for Bart (and a [[Clip Show]] to pad out the running time as the writers at the time decided to do a clip show episode due to creative exhaustion).
* It seems that [[Patch Adams]] isn't the only one who forgot to watch the [[Discovery Channel]]. In the episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", Lisa, of all people, tries a [[Friend to All Living Things]] routine on a bighorn sheep that's about to attack her; that is, she says "I didn't think you'd go after a fellow herbivore!" Lisa [[Critical Research Failure|doesn't know much about the very animals she loves so much, does she]]? Contrary to their popular portrayal, plenty of herbivorous animals can be just as fearsome and aggressive as their carnivorous adversaries (notable examples being the elephant and the rhinoceros, as well as some surprising ones like the white-tailed deer. [[Awesome Yet Practical|They don't just grow those antlers for fun, you know]].). Lisa has [[Continuity Nod|shown lapses in judgment before]], but this one seems a little reckless even for a little kid.
** In addition, Lisa, of all people, should know that contrary to popular usage, "vegetarian" and "herbivore" are ''not'' synonymous/interchangeable. Being a vegetarian is a personal choice (and in some cases a cultural one), whereas being a herbivore is a preset design by nature.
* "The Haw-Hawed Couple" (the one with Bart and Nelson being friends) really bugs me with Marge. Bart says he's not going to Nelson's birthday party, but then Marge whips right around in anger and tells him to go. Even worse, when he figures out the flaw in her logic, she doesn't back off and smacks him on the head with a wooden spoon. She even threatens to do it a second time. Why the hell is Marge forcing him to go when she's already told him in a previous episode (Bart the Mother) never to hang around with him again (especially since he's going to be walking into a death trap)?!
** Not only that, she's put him in a similar situation when he told him to give a group of
* This Troper got serious pissed during "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" and "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" both of which essentially show that even when Lisa isn't being a [[Soapbox Sadie]] [[Mary Sue]], she's perfectly capable of being a [[Jerkass]] to Bart in ways that he would never be to her. The end of "The Great Wife Hope" is an even more blatant example of fraternal [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]; even if they were having a fight, the fact is the writers assumed "girl punching out boy" would be hilarious, even though the last we saw of Bart was him [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas|heroically defending Marge]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|from a larger, adult opponent]].
* Speaking of "On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister", it's outrageous that Lisa gets away with a restraining order on Bart, [[Disproportionate Retribution|after he only made a fart prank and teased her a little bit]] when she was being an annoying [[Soapbox Sadie]] anyway. Then no, she doesn't stop there as she gets a stick with a philips head screw-driver and pokes it at him and forces him into horrible conditions. After that when Marge finally somewhat calls her out, Lisa responds by saying that she can't remember anything nice Bart has done, [[Sarcasm Mode|because clearly hugging her on the hockey field never happened]]. Then after Bart makes a huge idol,...everything is [[Status Quo Is God|suddenly just better]], without any [[Karma Houdini|consequences]].
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** What'e even worse, is that, when you [[Fridge Logic|think about it]], this story could've been told far more competently and logically by ''keeping'' continuity with ''Beast Wars'' instead of disregarding it. Think about it; by the end of ''Beast Wars'', the survivors have been altered anatomically to the point where it's unknown how or even ''if'' they could be reverted back to their original forms (btw, just ''how'' did the virus in ''Beast Machines'' override the Vok enhancements in the Maximals, but let Megatron keep his Dragon form?), and they are now privy to forbidden knowledge, not just of the Great War (that, as established below, was meant to be classified), but of the dirty little secrets of both the Maximal and Predacon ruling councils. So, if the executives wanted a "[[Rage Against the Machine]], nature vs. technology" story, they could've used ''that'' as a basis, with the Maximals being hunted down by the general populace for their mutations (which, if the "Vok are the evolved Swarm" theory is used, could be contagious, fulfilling the "technorganic Cybertron" ending they were going for), and the government in order to shut them up and keep their knowledge from sparking a revolution. Just another example of how these [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Bangers]] could've been avoided by good ol' [[Let's See You Do Better]].
** One more on ''[[Beast Machines]]'': The End of BW had Megatron's ass kicked in a major way, and him badly humiliated by being a hood ornament on their entire ride home. He was damaged in the fight. The transit through space couldn't have been kind. But lo and behold, all this is ignored with some vague time-dilation talk so that he can now become supreme ruler and nineteen kinds of invincible. That's right, total and utter defeat ensures your supreme victory.
* ''[[Beast Wars]]'' has a huge [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] with its ''continuity''
** Perhaps many or all of the remaining G1 Transformers were, like Ravage, working for the same government(s) that were tightly controlling the records of the events of the events of G1?
*** The [[All There in the Manual|follow-up prequel/sequel comics explicitly show that this isn't the case]]. Most of the remaining G1 Transformers are ''doing nothing of importance'' on Cybertron.
** In ANOTHER comic series, three Generation One characters (Prowl, Ironhide, and Silverbolt <ref>
*** That takes place ''after'' the cartoons. And it's not like they did anything to stop any of the other Autobots ''or'' the Decepticons/Predacons from delving into the past aside from classifying federal records. When you consider both Dinobot and Blackarachnia knew far more about G1 history than most of the other Transformers did, it becomes apparent that the classification of information in the Beast Wars universe isn't equal, raising the question of why G1 history is considered mythical.
*** It's worse than that. Prowl and Ironhide ''died '''in the movie.''''' They can't be online to run the Maximal government.
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**** Though the [[In-Universe]] brings up another Wall Banger, again related to Ravage; [[All There in the Manual|according to supplementary media]], Megatron's plan to change history would've resulted in the destruction of all Transformers, as it required killing Optimus Prime, the holder of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which in turn was the only thing that could kill Unicron. No Prime, no Matrix, no way to stop Unicron from omnomnoming on Cybertron. Megatron likely knew this, and thus put it off as a last resort plan, only implemented when he had no other choice. However, Ravage was ''also'' present during the Unicron incident, and would also know the inherent dangers to the history-changing plan. So why would he be so easily convinced by Megatron to do it? Yeah, it took seeing a recording from the original (G1) Megatron detailing the plan to make him join up, but why? If anything, he should've pointed out that the plan was made before the threat of Unicron was even known (because Megatron would've been transformed into Galvatron, during that time, meaning the message would've been made before then) and continued to haul him in. Or is Ravage's devotion to the Decepticon cause just ''so'' great that he'll ignore ''his own experiences'' with the group to slag up history on orders from his dead commander made centuries ago? And before you answer, please keep in mind that, in his Beast Wars origins, Ravage ''left'' his fellow Decepticons for the Tripredacus council after his reformatting out of some disillusionment on his part, so he ''does'' have at least some history of abandoning the Decepticons if he feels it prudent to.
***** Megatron seems to fall further and further into megalomania as the series progresses. Initially, all he seems to care about is getting Energon. It's only one failure after the next that his ambitions start growing. Seems like every defeat, he comes back with a greater and stronger ego. It's entirely possible that he did have the message from the original Megatron but didn't rightly care about it initially, and it's only after his growing psychosis that "KILL OPTIMUS PRIME, KILL THE UNIVERSE" started to sound like a good idea.
* The episode "Heavy Metal War" of the [[Transformers Generation 1|original series.]] Basically, Megatron challenges Optimus Prime to a one-on-one battle to end the war. Naturally, being the [[Big Bad]], he cheats by transferring the powers of the other Decepticons to himself, and uses them to win the battle. Where's the [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]], you ask? Prime acknowledges defeat and prepares to leave Earth, which wouldn't be so bad except that the Autobots have been fighting the Decepticons for
** Speaking of "Heavy Metal War," note that it was the first appearance of the Constructicons, who are said to have just been built by Megatron. But in Season 2's "The Secret of Omega Supreme," the Constructicons are said to be old friends of Omega that were forcibly reprogrammed by Megatron. (The time of these events is before the ''Ark'' crashed on Earth.) And then a flashback in Season 3's "The Five Faces of Darkness" five-parter shows the Constructicons... building Megatron. *beat* The term "continuity nightmare" is often used to describe this.
* Also from the original series is "Megatron's Master Plan" which involves the most idiotic of all deceptions. It should have been blatantly obvious to someone of average intelligence that the "Autobots" in the tapes were impostors that were acting REALLY badly. Also add in that the humans have witnessed repeated Decepticon attacks and that the human going along with this is already known to be untrustworthy.
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== Other ==
* ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series]]'' has a hell of a [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] in the episode "Generation Hex." For those who've never seen the episode, the gist of it is that Sabrina raises money to save the Greendale Library. She meets her goal ($3500), plus makes an extra $300. While at the comic book store, Sabrina overhears that her rival, Gem Stone, is going to buy a rare collectible doll from an early 1990s cartoon for $250. Sabrina outbids her and spends the extra $300 of her fundraising money on the collectible doll, but her friends, Harvey and Pi, reprimand her for spending the extra money on the doll instead of giving it to the library, despite Sabrina's claim that the extra $300 is just
** The first, and main one, is the fact that Pi and Harvey were too stupid to realize that if the Greendale Library didn't have the books they wanted, they could have either asked the librarian if she could borrow the books from another library so Harvey and Pi could have them, used the school's library to get the books they needed (Pi even said his future of transportation project was for science class at Greendale Junior High), buy the books at a bookstore or through an online retailer, go to another library in another town, or forgo books and use the Internet for all their research needs.
** Secondly, Harvey's life going to hell because he flunked the entrance exam to his dream school and stupidly took his best friend's advice to go after something that falls into his lap is his own damn fault, not because of what Sabrina did. And even if Harvey did have the book he needed to get into Lawyer's Hospital University, there's no guarantee that he'll pass, as past episodes reveal that Harvey isn't exactly one of the brainy students (he's more of the jock/video game nerd/skater boy types).
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* On an episode of ''[[Monster Buster Club]]'' (an otherwise quite enjoyable show), one B-plot revolved around team tomboy Sam. She is angry because there are "no female characters in comics" and has to make her own 'girl comics'. Now ok, you can argue that women are treated differently in comics or objectified; but to say that there are '''no''' women in comics at all... is simply ridiculous. [[Wonder Woman]], [[Birds of Prey]], [[Lady Death]], Photon was for a time Captain Marvel for crying out loud, [[Storm]] used to lead the X-Men. The claim is impossible to back up. It doesn't make Sam look 'strong' or 'passionate'; it makes her sound like she seriously [[Did Not Do the Research]]... which is exactly what the writers did(n't) do.
** ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', "Equal Fights" did something similar: That eppy's baddie, Femme Fatale, goes on a rant about the lack of female superheroes. To their credit, the PPG do come up with a few in response, but FF points out that [[Distaff Counterpart|they're mostly female counterparts to male superheroes]], and the only counterexample the girls can come up with is [[Wonder Woman]] (points above). (She also points out the lack of female villains, but at least remembers to (dis)count Princess and Sedusa.) This ''still'' doesn't detract from the awesomeness of the episode.
* ''[[The Batman]]'' episode "A Dark Knight To Remember", where Bruce gets [[Easy Amnesia]] and forgets he's
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** The first season of ''[[The Batman]]'' is full of Wall Bangers. In "Topsy Turvy," experienced police detectives Bennett and Yin follow up on a Joker card they were sent with no return address telling them to come alone to an abandoned theater. Once they become trapped in gooey Joker gum, it's revealed that the Joker is behind this. They're surprised!
** "The Man Who Would Be Bat". Detectives Bennett and Yin are pursuing The Batman and decide they can find him by following actual bats. These bats lead them to Wayne Enterprises, where the creepy Dr. Langstrom is using them to research a cure for deafness for his pink-clad little niece. Bruce decides to help by giving the little girl a hearing aid. Hearing aids do not work that way.... It turns out the girl can
*** Not to mention if Langstorm knew his employer (Which he should, he works for the guy) - he wouldn't have said it's for his deaf niece. Bruce Wayne is a famous philanthropist, of course he's going to help a little girl out.
** The biggest [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] in the entire series is, immediately after a season finale that establishes her as a member of Batman's crew, even getting inside the Batmobile, Detective Yin [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|drops off the face of the earth]] and is never heard from again on the show.
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** She was kicked out of her band by orangutans for having thumbs. [[You Fail Biology Forever|Orangutans also have thumbs]].
** Actually it's a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]] as there were hints in season one, such as the fact in the flashback the armor could be fixed by duct tape which and one of the buttons popping out a flower, all of which implies the armor is fake and she's lying. Not to mention we never seen ''any'' signs to the contrary, such as her parents.
*** But she also had working rocket boots and other gadgets that would seem to indicate the armor was
* Possibly one of the most infamous episodes from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', "Mime For A Change" involves a clown named Rainbow the Clown accidentally getting doused with bleach and becoming the evil Mr. Mime (no relation to ''[[Pokémon]]''), who has the ability to drain out the color of anybody and anything (including Blossom and Buttercup). After Bubbles cures her sisters, Townsville, and Rainbow himself using [[The Power of Rock|The Power of Music,]] Rainbow goes to thank the girls for curing him of his unintentional dark side, only for the Powerpuff Girls to beat the ever-loving tar out of him and throw his butt in jail. Even The Narrator makes a snarky remark while poor Rainbow is lying in jail, beaten and bruised to a bloody pulp.
** [[Unfortunate Implications|Doesn't this makes the girls]] [[Nightmare Fuel|a lot scarier?]] If you do evil because you are sick or possessed, the girls will still hold you responsible and come to beat the crap outta you...that's something to traumatize a little kid with.
** It seems that the writers themselves noticed the discrepancy with Rainbow the Clown. In a later episode, as a possible [[Author's Saving Throw]], he shows up as a healthy-and-free background character at the Girls' birthday party.
*** The original ending was happy, but they insisted on having them beat him down to give the episode a more PPG-like ending.
* Something happened on an episode of the (otherwise awesome) ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]'' that made hardcore [[Marvel Comics]] fans furious. A young mutant character is kidnapped by the Brotherhood; his awesome, devastating energy powers harnessed for their evil deeds. Is it Havok? Vulcan? Gambit? Franklin Richards? Nope...Nitro! In the comic continuity, Nitro gave Captain Marvel cancer, killed scores of people, and is a ruthless sociopathic mercenary and drug addict. The whole episode is based around how nice, sweet, and innocent its Nitro is and how he [[I Just Want to Be Normal|just wants to be normal]]. Never mind that Nitro is '''not''' a mutant but a
** This version was based on [[Ultimate Marvel]]'s Nitro, not 616. Ultimate Nitro is a mutate who just wants to be normal, and that is probably the one used.
** The episode "Backlash" has the X-Men going off to battle Sentinels in an attempt to destroy Master Mold. Wolverine decides to leave someone behind to look after Tildie Soames, whom they had rescued in an earlier episode. He chooses to leave ''Shadowcat'' behind. Wouldn't you want someone on the team who can disrupt electrical systems when you're going to fight giant robots? The others failed to destroy Master Mold; that battle would probably have gone better if the rest of the X-Men had stayed behind and sent Shadowcat out alone.
** Another example is in the episode "eXcessive Force." During his quest to find Jean, Cyclops pulls Wolverine's loner shtick and delivers a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]-style beatdown to Mr. Sinister's Marauders. At the end, when he's overcome by sheer [[Me's a Crowd|force of numbers]] and [[Big Damn Heroes|saved by the team]], Logan delivers a speech about how [[Loners Are Freaks|Scott screwed up by going off on his own]]...conveniently forgetting that he has [[
* Ty Lee joining the Kyoshi warriors in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Not only does this contradict her entire character's motivation (wasn't the point that she wanted to be individual and NOT be part of a matching set?), but it comes out of nowhere and goes by quickly. We don't ever even see her interact with Zuko, Azula, or Mai, whom she was supposedly closer to, opting instead to be "best friends forever" with the Kyoshi warriors, which makes her seem extremely shallow as well. Ty Lee may be a fandom [[Ensemble Darkhorse]], but it's obvious the writers didn't really care about her story at all.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': the [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] Danny induces at the end of "Reality Trip". All right, the use of the [[Reset Button]] was excusable, as was Danny destroying the reality Gauntlet; but ''mindwiping his parents'' was not. They had just made it clear that they love him regardless of his ghostly nature; Danny ''knew'' it would be this way if they ever found out; and they've tried to kill him once or twice without knowing he was their son. In short, there was ''no'' point in keeping his identity a secret from his family, and he knew it. But [[Status Quo Is God]]...
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** The episode "Secret Of My Excess" has one. Ok, so first Spike gets greedy from people giving him so many gifts (something he's not used to...despite that you'd think that Celestia, Twilight Sparkle's parents, and other people who knew Spike before the series began would give him gifts as well). Odd, but fine. Then, Spike starts growing larger and more powerful as he hoards more things. That's stretching the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] a bit...But, it's a cartoon, so we'll let that pass. It's then explained that Spike's growth is a result of his greed and that the more he wants/obtains, the bigger he gets and they must stop him from being greedy to return him to normal. An interesting metaphor, if a bit overused. But, fine. But, then...''then'' it's explained that this is a '''normal''' aspect of a dragon's growth. (beat) [[Big "What?"|WHAT!?!]] Not only has this ''never'' been established before with the other dragon characters shown in the series (Yes, they did hoard treasure, but they didn't mindlessly grab at any random object they could reach. And they certainly weren't reduced to [[Hulk Speak]] like Spike was), but it doesn't make sense at ''all'' regarding the lesson that the episode is trying to convey. [[Lost Aesop|Spike's greed is normal, but it's bad so we have to remind him to be generous with others by having him remember how good he felt when he gave Rarity that gem?]] Wouldn't a better lesson be "It's ok to want things, but you should learn to be patient and not expect to get everything you want right away"?
** If you thought Pinkie got off easy for destroying Cranky's book, that's nothing compared to what her "friends" got away with in "Mmmystery on the Friendship Express." The former can at least be written off as an accident, the latter was completely selfish and slimy. Does it mean ''nothing'' to them that [[Butt Monkey|the Cakes]] poured their blood sweat and tears into the Mmm, while simultaneously taking care of two newborns? It doesn't matter how tasty it looked, it wasn't theirs to eat! The deus ex machina that took the heat off of them was such an [[Ass Pull]]. What really burns me up, is that we had episodes like ''Suited for Success'' where both sides of the conflict learn a lesson. Here however we see one of the most incredible [[Karma Houdini|Houdinis of the karma and lesson variety]]. Rather than ''"Dear Princess Celestia, today we learned that that we need to have better self-restraint, and that we should confess to our mistakes,"'' the lesson is some half-baked yarn about how Pinkie was in the wrong despite being practically the only person doing anything productive!
* Unfortunately, [[Phineas and Ferb]] had a small one at the end of "Lights, Camera, Candace". Phineas and Ferb's movie is finished and according to the director type, it's being shown to a crowd of teens in a theater. The teens love it...until Doof's Age Accelerator<ref>
** There's also a bigger one in ''Run Candace Run'', which revolves around Candace having to do three things-one for Jeremy, one for Mom, and one for Stacy[[What Happened to the Mouse?|(though Stacy's was never shown later on).]] However, it later on switches to the Johnsons' long lost family member, Annabelle, ''even though that had absolutely nothing to do with what was going on earlier.'' Later on, Candace accidentally reunites their long lost family member. [[Heartwarming Moments|Sure, that was nice and all,]] ''but what about the rest of the plot?'' Couldn't everyone who Candace had to help have just talked it over and come up with a solution?
* The ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' episode "Chicken Scratch". A genius who is frequently seen toying with an atom and messing with the genetics of human beings and the common cold is clueless about chicken pox and buys into his sister's story about turning into a chicken if he scratches - and then it actually happens! [[Beyond the Impossible|Not even]] [[Rule of Funny]] [[Beyond the Impossible|can excuse the massive inconsistency of a kid who can play with the DNA of viruses having no knowledge at all of something as common as chicken pox.]]
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