When Shows Violate Their Own Common Sense

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sexilizzie2012

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So, we all have our favorite shows. Or shows that we enjoy. But, every now and again, some times the writers decide to violate the series' own common sense. Usually, it drives me nuts.

What are some of your own pick? I'll go first.

The Five Minute Head Start in the series finale of "Justice League Unlimited" - Oooookaaaay. Did an executive mandate this? Seriously, what the hell were they thinking? These villains are hardened criminals. Yeah, they assisted in the fight against Darkseid, but you know what, Lucky Luciano was still arrested, prosecuted and deported. What would have made sense would be for some of the villains to escape during the chaos, and for members of the League to, oh, I don't know, say they'll put in a good word to offer them amnesty.

But, for Batman of all characters to smile and give them a five minute head start? Unreal. Completely unreal.

It was bloody stupid, that's what it was.
 
Everytime someone (especially Shredder) broke the 4th wall in the original 80's TMNT series.

Shredder's supposed to be a hardcore, deadly, beat you 'til you're black & blue ninja, yet he was nothing more than comic relief until the 8th season.
 
Every episode of The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy. And I think its spin-off special Underfist (This fall) will make even less common sense.
 
Fairly Oddparents "Love Struck" comes to mind. Yeah I know the show isn't going to get even 3rd place for consistency, but they've had more than one episode constantly stating that wishes that would mess up true love couldn't be granted. So, the events of LS shouldn't have been able to happen.
 
The Valentines Day episode where Timmy wishes for all of the girls to be gone (basically guys and gals living apart). That would definately have warrented a big wand fart.
 
The only one that comes to mind at the moment is the last season of Xioalin Showdown. The bean guy steals the Treasure of the Blind Swordsman along with some of the really dangerous wu like the Saffire Dragon and the Mosiac Scale only to lose them the next episode(in a remake of Raymundo goes bad, no less). That just annoyed me to no end, particularly since they always did a good set-up of stories in past seasons.
But then the Last season was the weakest.
 
Xiaolin Showdown: I didn't buy Raimundo's motivation for going to the dark side.

TaleSpin "The Golden Sprocket of Friendship": Rebecca is usually the smartest main character, but in this episode she mistakes Trader Moe for Kit even though she gets a good look at his face.
 
Really? I'd have gone dark for less. As with Raimondo, I'd have drawn the line at watching my friends destroyed. Though experience has shown me that my "friends" don't feel the same.

The one that I rather enjoy even though they violated their own rules: X-Men Evo, Rogue sapped Sabertooth's power, then grew hair. She wasn't supposed to take physical features, but "aww, I just shaved my legs", and "Until She'wolf gets a hair cut" was so funny to make it worth the rule fudge :anime:.
 
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Characters will occasionally go OOC in utterly appalling ways, like when everyone except Eduardo played a cruel trick on Mac for no reason.

Shorts with Bugs Bunny and the tortoise: Bugs acts nothing like he normally does.
 
Super Friends: the Legendary Superpowers Show/Galactic Guardians- In the episode "Darkseid's Golden Trap", Firestorm uses his powers to trap an alien guard by making rope and a gag appear around him, seemingly from out of nothing. Firestorm's power is only supposed to be changing objects by rearranging their molecules. He's not supposed to make things appear out of thin air. Unless Firestorm can rearrange air molecules as well, he shouldn't be able to do this. He also made a anchor tied to a chain appear from out of nowhere in "Bizarro Super Powers Team".
 
While I don't care for those cartoons either, I do know that they can considered important for establishing Bugs' dark side. Besides, does Bugs ALWAYS have to win?
No offense. Just wanted to state my opinion, that's all.
 
Hmm... by my logic, just wishing for all the males and females living apart like that shouldn't have made them stop being in love with each other, so no wand fart noise should be necessary (since it'd just be a simple teleportation spell)---though there should be a lot of people wondering where their loved ones went...

That and my other nitpick about the episode being that it assumes (admittedly like most animation outside of "South Park" and the various Fox shows) that there's no gay or lesbian people (whose relationships wouldn't be affected by said wish, of course), who I'd think would give *some* love-strength for ol' Cupid, unless there's not enough of said populace to make him remotely full-strength or something... ;-)

While we're on the subject, not sure how Timmy could wish for Vicky to have a boyfriend in that one episode---isn't that messing with "true love" in some manner? For that matter, if he could do that, why not wish for Trixie as his girlfriend?

-B.
 
That doesn't work at all. Everybody on the show broke the 4th wall from the very beginning, and Shredder was always pretty much comic relief from the first season. You could file it under "Shows That Violated Their Source Material's Common Sense", but the 80s show was always pretty consistant in tone and characterization until near the end, when they made everything darker and then ditched Shredder entirely.

And personally, I think the 4Kids show has been the worse for making Shredder too evil and unrelatable and not having the same asides to the audience as the 80s show did, but I'm very biased in that regard.

To answer the thread, this one's tough, but I think in the 2003 Spider-Man series finale, Peter Parker gave up his Spidey suit rather easily. I know they were planning to resolve it, but still.
 
I tihnk we can establish that the Bendy episode was one of those off days that people have, it just happens to be the cast that everyone in the studio chose the same day to have it off.
 
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