It’s inconsistent in the regard that the face that matches a name may also match another name. Jerry Orbach, S. Epatha Merkerson, Diane Neal and Courtney B. Vance all played roles on various L&O shows before becoming series regulars, and various people have shown up as two different defendants, witnesses or victims. Where they do try to keep a strong consistency of face and name is in judges and defense attorneys.
But the canon is very controlled regarding the regular characters. There are no surprise brothers or fathers in the L&O verse. Anita Van Buren has always had two sons. Jack McCoy’s father is always a cop, never a politician or lawyer or garbage man. Olivia Benson only exists because abortion wasn’t legal when her mother was raped. Hell, they’re even careful with the canon of John Munch that’s been established via five other series.
The thing with Sondra on Cosby Show was weird. Adding a cute little kid is one thing, but adding an oldest child pretty much by definition screws with canon.
How about the one where Dr. Marvin Monroe comes back to Marge’s book signing? He was on the trivia lists for years as a character in the Simpsons who had died.
Marge even said that she thought that he was dead, and he said no that he had merely been very, very sick.
Heh. I love the way they explained that away! And it does sort of make sense for Frasier to talk about his dad that way since they’ve had all that friction.
Meaning what? Star Trek is rated higher than both Wrath of Khan and First Contact on rottentomatoes, and took in $150,000,000 more than Voyage Home at the theatre. You apparently don’t like it, but you’re in the minority as it’s the most critically and financially successful movie in the Star Trek franchise.
I’m not the person you quoted, but just going from memory:
At one point Turk and JD mentioned that everyone always asked: When are Turk and JD getting here?" because they didn’t have a car (it led to an Indian girl having sex with Turk because she thought his name was Turk Enjadi.) Yet JD had his Volvo (Meleke) since high school, and Turk said he initially became friend’s with JD as a freshman because he had a car.
In the first season when JD and Elliot first start dating, she gets very upset that JD talked (very little) about their sex life, yet just a season or so later she has absolutely no trouble talking in public about her sex life with other people, and eventually about her sex life with JD. (Of course, we could write novels about how Elliot went from just slightly neurotic to full-blown, should be on medication-level OCD.)
And speaking of JD and Elliot, for the first few seasons it was established that JD was always great with patients, a good beside manner, as it were, and Elliot was more “book smart.” Yet later, when they were co-chief residents, JD suddenly becomes “Doctor Diagnosis” because he is so good at knowing what’s wrong. Huh?
And yet again with JD and Elliot: In one episode Elliot was all flustered and was even getting in the way of the nurses bringing in the crash cart during a code, and got mad at JD because she had yet to have “her moment” like he had and wasn’t good at codes. But then in a latter episode JD comments how he sucks at “trainwreck” codes, but suddenly Elliot shines at them and acts like she has more than two hands.
And yet more Elliot: From the very first episode, people said how nice her ass is (JD says he thought it looked like two Pringles hugging, Carla said she’d kill for that "wagon she’s draggin’,) yet in other episodes it’s been called “flat.” In season 8, when doing a sketch making fun of the senior hospital staff, the interns pretend to be Elliot by giving one of them a really flat butt.
The last Elliot one, I swear: She joined a private practice in the sixth (?) season, yet she is seen doing things only an actual doctor employed by the hospital would be doing in later seasons, like being assigned interns, doing the graveyard shift, etc…