I want to see a Trek fire fight where someone ducks behind some of those plastic barrels or whatever only to have their cover totally disintegrated.
Right, but the problem is that later episodes imply Ross and Carol had been separated for up to a year before the series started.
Maybe he means Sebastian Shaw, the face behind the helmet.
I’d like to see a cite that *any *of the three were unpaid.
First episode of the Cosby Show:
Claire: Why did we have four children?
Cliff: Because we did not want five.
Cue child #5 returning home from college several seasons later.
I found a few cites, and while David Prowse was paid for his work on Return of the Jedi, his contract did call for him to receive a percentage of the net profits in addition to his base salary. So it was those residuals that never materialized, but he was not unpaid.
Yeah, they were bad. In an early ep, Rachel says when she first moved in with Monica she thought Chandler was gay. In the next season, we see flashbacks that show she met Chandler twice during high school and he pretty clearly wasn’t.
They lampshaded it on S2E16:
Marty: “Hey, what did he tell you about me, Sam. The father, the old cop?”
Sam: “Uh… He told me you were dead.”
Marty: “Dead?”
Frasier: “Well, we had had an argument. You called me a stuffed shirt and hung up on me. I was mad.”
Sam: “You’re a cop?”
Marty: “Yeah.”
Sam: “You told me he was a research scientist.”
Marty looks shocked.
Frasier: “You were dead! What did it matter?”
Separated people are physically incapable of having sex?:dubious:
How so? Some of them don’t fit the way you thought they did but I can’t remember anything contradictory.
Not impossible, but highly improbable when you consider the reason they broke up: Carol was a lesbian and she had left Ross for a female lover. (S3E6) I find it very unlikely that they would have had sex in the year preceding the Pilot episode.
Even if all this is true, it doesn’t render the Tom Paris character as something that doesn’t make sense.
Is there anything in the show that mandates that that time is meant to be a year? There’s no reason why in a fictional program a season must be assumed to be a year.
They were on a break! 
On That '70s Show, Donna had two sisters early on. For the bulk of the run of the show she was an only child. Something that was key to the overall storyline.
Chuck Cunningham.
We do not speak of that with outsiders.
Oh, and don’t go up in the attic.
“Adam-12” and “Emergency” had a crisis of cross-universe-parallel interaction.
There was an episode of Seinfeld where George is bragging to Elaine about his parallel parking skills, and mentions how everyone in his family has the gift, including his brother. Throughout the rest of the series, however, George is apparently an only child.
All of these examples, except for Game of Thrones, How I Met Your Mother, and curiously, The Dukes of Hazzard, are readily explained by observing that Tommy Westphall just didn’t have a very good memory.
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Is the Tommy Westphall universe still active? I don’t mean the website describing it, I mean are there shows currently creating new episodes that are part of TW’s imagination? If there are, then any show (even one that is off the air like The Dukes of Hazard) could still be subsumed into that universe.
Might be interesting to research that a bit; how many shows in the TW universe are in it voluntarily, how many not, and how many got sucked in after they had gone off the air?
OK, I tried to watch a few early episodes, and although I don’t remember if this is the exact one I saw, it certainly fits the mold. More competent Roscoe, and check out Daisy at around the 18 minute mark, trying to pretend to seduce Duke Slater from Gomer Pyle.
It’s a really early one, so making it more kid-friendly later on is certainly the reason why it’s different.