A while back, I did a post on TV shows and movies ignoring their own timelines, and oh boy, did the commenters have some more examples. Here are 24 times TV shows and movies completely rewrote their timelines and it made no damn sense!
SPOILERS AHEAD!
1. In The Office, when the show originally stated that Jim had started before Pam, then switched it:
2. In Friends, when Phoebe went from not being pregnant to being super pregnant over the span of six weeks:
3. In Harry Potter, when Snape was middle-aged, even though he should've been in his early thirties if he was the same age as James and Lily:
4. In Reign, when Francis's little brothers aged really fast:
5. In Community, when Shirley was only pregnant for six months:
6. In Teen Wolf, when they kept changing when the fire happened, and getting confused on the characters' ages:
7. In Beverly Hills, 90210, when they had a junior year twice:
8. In Days of Our Lives, when Belle went from 5 to 15 super fast:
9. In Gossip Girl, when Rufus and Lily seemed to meet AFTER Dan and Serena were born despite having a child together who's older than Dan and Serena:
10. In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, when Amy seems to be pregnant for over nine months:
11. In Pretty Little Liars, when they kept changing when Toby's mom died:
12. In M*A*S*H, when the characters were supposedly fighting in the war longer than the actual war went on:
13. In Sex and the City, when Aiden met someone new, got married, and had a baby in a year and a half:
14. In Friends, when Rachel was pregnant for over a year:
15. In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, when Hitchcock and Scully looked vastly younger in the '80s than they did in the '70s:
16. In Pan, when it seemed to be set AFTER Peter Pan despite being a prequel:
17. In Black Panther, when Steve and Bucky *should* have been in Wakanda for the events of the film:
18. In The Greatest Showman, when years went by and P.T.’s kids never got older:
19. In the Big Bang Theory, when the timeline of neither of Bernadette's pregnancies made sense:
20. In Outlander, when Marsali and Fergus's baby aged super fast:
21. In Bones, when Daisy got very pregnant, very fast:
22. In Twilight, when Carlisle and Esme looked much older than they were suppsoed to:
23. In Modern Family, when Lily seems to be older than Jay and Gloria's marriage, despite them having been married when Cam and Mitch adopted Lily:
24. And finally, everything about That '70s Show, but especially when there were five Christmas episodes over 4 years:
Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.