Continuity -- or lack thereof -- has always bugged me as well. Not so much with shows like Family Guy, where they don't even try to maintain continuity, but with other shows where they screw it up and think no one is going to notice.
One example I can think of is "Cheers", which later spun off "Frasier" when the original show ended. In the spin-off, Frasier's father is a retired cop. But years previously, on Cheers, Frasier had mentioned that his father was a professor, and had passed away.
Another is the X-Men movies. I loved them, until they screwed up the continuity in the later ones, starting with First Class. At the end of the movie, they explain why Professor X in wheelchair-bound by showing him get a bullet in the spine. That one really annoyed me, because I remember flashback scenes where the professor and Magneto were still working together, still older men, and the professor could still walk. And then in the new movie, they show him getting crippled while he's still a young man, and he and Magneto parting ways at the end of the movie. It mostly got good reviews, and I'm practically screaming inside, "But they screwed it up!" I did, however, find one or two reviews where someone else pointed out they ruined continuity.
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