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* From the episode "Dalek", the ninth Doctor tells Rose the following: "I've got to do this. I've got to end it. '''The Daleks destroyed my home, my people.''' I've got nothing left." And in "The End of the World", he tells Rose "There was a war. We lost." Yet, in the final episode with David Tennant, it is explicitly shown that the Doctor ''himself'' destroyed both Daleks and Time Lords alike. This is also the version of events described in "The Sound of Drums", and "The Satan Pit". Either the Doctor was lying, or else the authors revised the back-story between seasons.
** Daleks started the Time War, so they're at least indirectly responsible for all the deaths that took place - not to mention that this supports the Doctor's denial concerning the atrocities that the Time Lords committted towards the end of the War. Likewise, in "Dalek" the Doctor describes the Time War like this: "The end of the Last Great Time War: everybody lost." So yes, the Time Lords lost, the Daleks lost and the Doctor lost in failing to save everybody. As early as in "Dalek" the Doctor also confesses: "I watched it happen! I ''made'' it happen!" There's no continuity errors there, only slightly different perspectives to the Doctor's tale.

** From the episode "Dalek", the ninth Doctor tells Rose the following: "I've got to do this. I've got to end it. '''The Daleks destroyed my home, my people.''' I've got nothing left." And in "The End of the World", he tells Rose "There was a war. We lost." Yet, in the final episode with David Tennant, it is explicitly shown that the Doctor ''himself'' destroyed both Daleks and Time Lords alike. This is also the version of events described in "The Sound of Drums", and "The Satan Pit". Either the Doctor was lying, or else the authors revised the back-story between seasons.
*** Daleks started the Time War, so they're at least indirectly responsible for all the deaths that took place - not to mention that this supports the Doctor's denial concerning the atrocities that the Time Lords committted towards the end of the War. Likewise, in "Dalek" the Doctor describes the Time War like this: "The end of the Last Great Time War: everybody lost." So yes, the Time Lords lost, the Daleks lost and the Doctor lost in failing to save everybody. As early as in "Dalek" the Doctor also confesses: "I watched it happen! I ''made'' it happen!" There's no continuity errors there, only slightly different perspectives to the Doctor's tale.

** In the revived ''Doctor Who'', the Doctor continually insists that he is 900 years old, which by ''The End of Time'' became 906. This despite the fact that in the original series, the sixth Doctor also claimed to be 900 years old, and the seventh said once that he was 953 in ''Time and the Rani''. Given that the remainder of the seventh Doctor's life and all of the eighth Doctor's life is lived out after this point, the ninth and tenth Doctors must be far older than 900 years old.
*** Not quite; it is mainly thought this is deliberate, in that the Doctor has forgotten his age or is lying in the new series. Romana seemed to believe that he was a few years off in ''The Ribos Operation'', stating that after the first few centuries things tend to get a bit foggy.
*** It's become something of a standing joke that this is the Doctor's mid-life crisis - comparing time machines with younger men, hanging around with leggy twenty-somethings ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Donna]]), refusing to admit that he's passed the big 'four digits' & regenerating into progressively younger and more attractive forms. He probably just goes from 999 to 900 every century (or there abouts).

** From the episode "Dalek", the ninth Doctor tells Rose the following: "I've got to do this. I've got to end it. '''The Daleks destroyed my home, my people.''' I've got nothing left." And in "The End of the World", he tells Rose "There was a war. We lost." Yet, in the final episode with David Tennant, it is explicitly shown that the Doctor ''himself'' destroyed both Daleks and Time Lords alike. This is also the version of events described in "The Sound of Drums", and "The Satan Pit". Either the Doctor was lying, or else the authors revised the back-story between seasons.
*** Daleks started the Time War, so they're at least indirectly responsible for all the deaths that took place - not to mention that this supports the Doctor's denial concerning the atrocities that the Time Lords committted towards the end of the War. Likewise, in "Dalek" the Doctor describes the Time War like this: "The end of the Last Great Time War: everybody lost." So yes, the Time Lords lost, the Daleks lost and the Doctor lost in failing to save everybody. As early as in "Dalek" the Doctor also confesses: "I watched it happen! I ''made'' it happen!" There's no continuity errors there, only slightly different perspectives to the Doctor's tale.

** In later episodes bender joins Robotology and adherents to that religion aren't allowed to drink alcohol. Instead, he's seen consuming "Mineral Oil", so it would seem that there are acceptable alternatives to alcohol for robots.

-->''... and yet I also become annoyed whenever the great {{Homer}} nods off.''\\
-'''{{Horace}}''', "Ars Poetica"

-->"''They never said 'Star Trek,' they said 'Start Wreck!'''"

*** This troper didn't see a necessary continuity error in those lines. Daleks started the Time War, so they're at least indirectly responsible for all the deaths that took place - not to mention that this supports the Doctor's denial concerning the atrocities that the Time Lords committted towards the end of the War. Likewise, in "Dalek" the Doctor describes the Time War like this: "The end of the Last Great Time War: everybody lost." So yes, the Time Lords lost, the Daleks lost and the Doctor lost in failing to save everybody. As early as in "Dalek" the Doctor also confesses: "I watched it happen! I ''made'' it happen!" There's no continuity errors there, only slightly different perspectives to the Doctor's tale.

* Not that anyone would really expect CareBears to be concerned with continuity, this troper was immensely confused when watching her little sister's movies: the first movie tells of the Care Bears finding the Care Bear Cousins in the Forest of Feelings by accident, while ''Care Bears: A New Generation'', which is essentially an origin story, explicitly shows the Care Bear Cousins being in Care-A-Lot from the very beginning as infants. This troper paid too much attention to those movies...

** Is it This Troper or did earlier episodes that showed flashbacks of Cotton with functioning (albeit short) legs with knees, but in a later episode, Cotton mentions that when he lost his shins, they attached his knees to his ankles.. Shouldn't that technically mean that he doesn't have knees, thus changing those flashbacks?

* The most famous is Dorothy's children. Dorothy and Stan were married for 38 years, and the show began two years after that. Considering Dorothy had a shotgun wedding, one of her children needs to be at 40 for this to make sense. Although both of her kids were played by multiple actors over the years, none of them appear to be over 30.

** There's another error earlier where, after being defeated King decides to use End of Earth to take out Demon Card rather than Gale. He uses Warp Road to move the dark bring from the tower to his DC HQ. There's two flaws here. The first is that Warp Road is just supposed to act as a link between the human and sentinoid world, not to wherever the uses feels like. The second is that ''Plue destroyed Warp Road chapters ago''.

** The WholeFlashbackEpisode "And Maggie Makes Three" reveals that Homer had to renounce his dream job at the Bowl-A-Rama and return to his position as security chief in Burns' power plant when Maggie was born. This contradicts Season 1 "Homer's Odissey", where Homer was ascended to security chief (and he already had 3 children, obviously).

** Worth noting said episode depicted college-age Lisa and the rest of the similarly aged Simpson family and supporting cast in the waaaaay distant future of... [[TheFutureAintWhatItUsedToBe 2010]].

* And don't forget ''StarTrekFirstContact'', which depicts Zephram Cochrane as the first human to invent warp drive and conduct the first successful warp-flight ''and'' make [[TitleDrop first contact]] with an extraterrestrial species [[spoiler: the Vulcans]]. In the ''StarTrekTOS'' episode "Metamorphosis", where the Cochrane character originated, it was stated that Cochrane only invented the warp drive; he didn't have anything to do with mankind's first contact with extraterrestrials.

* In ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' Aslan tells people on various occasions that "no one is ever told what 'would have happened'". The wording is unequivocal. Then in ''The Horse and His Boy'' he tells someone "what would have happened". He even uses those very words. Aslan is not supposed to be an inconsistent or untruthful fellow, so that can only mean it was C.S. Lewis who fucked up.

** In a season 13 episode, Cotton in an audio recording, tells Hank to flush his cremated ashes down a bar toilet which General Patton had along with his past war buddies, but in a season 4 episode, he with the help of Peggy fought to be buried in a Texas government cemetery and succeeded.

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* FullHouse:

* ILoveLucy gives Ethel several different middle names, and Ricky two different ''first'' names.
** Pam Beesly of TheOffice has had her name in various incarnations; Pam Beasley, Pam Beesley, Pamela Jean Beesly, the now-canon Pamela ''Morgan'' Beesly...[[spoiler: and finally, Pam Halpert.]]

* In an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, London is shown to be very competent in physical sports. In a recent episode of The Suite Life on Deck, she needs Zack's help. Did she leave her muscles in Boston?

* Not that anyone would really expect CareBears to be concerned with continuity, this troper was immensely confused when watching her little sister's movies: the first movie tells of the Care Bears finding the Care Bear Cousins in the Forest of Feelings by accident, while Care Bears: A New Generation, which is essentially an origin story, explicitly shows the Care Bear Cousins being in Care A Lot from the very beginning as infants. This troper paid too much attention to those movies...
** IIRC, in the second movie they first lived in the Kingdom of Caring and then were moved so that the Care Bears lived in Care-a-Lot and the Cousins lived in the Forest of Feelings.

* ''{{Buffy}}'': In Season 7, Spike is "tortured" by the Turok-Han by being drowned, despite the show and its spin-off, ''{{Angel}}'', explicitly and repeatedly stating that Vampires don't breathe. Apparently the First, the Turok-Han and ''Spike himself'' all forgot that little detail.