Damn you! Get interrupted by work and don’t preview, and just look what happens.
Wow, I never knew about [noparse]. Thanks.
Eh, the thread’s marked “spoilers likely”…
Not so! “Black Market” has the ender that is the only bit detailing how Zarek took over the criminal underworld – and that is referenced again*. Nothing in “The Woman King” is ever referenced again.
And thus, by that slimmest of margins, “The Woman King” is consigned to nonexistence.
*okay, I’ll spoiler that; it’s from an episode people’d actually care about…That’s why he acceeds to Adama’s made-up blackmail.
Nuked-Earth had no moon. New-Earth did.
And I’m not sure what the constellations are supposed to prove? The temple on Kobol showed the constellations at Nuked-Earth, not New-Earth.
The *Voyager *episode (oh, there are so many to choose from) in which Janeway and Paris turn into giant slugs . . . and mate.
And the *House *episode about a firefighter who was in love with his brother’s fiancee. The solution: electroshock therapy.
Yup. That said, a lot of guys melt down at the moment of truth, and it added to the poignancy when Anya died in the finale. I know, it’s an old series, but y’never know who might we watching it on DVD for the first time.
The cast themselves introduce the episode and say that it’s not really canon, so I don’t think we need to even consider it. It doesn’t exist in the world of The West Wing that we otherwise know.
Oh, no, that’s the only one that did. I’m sorry.
In this vein, the penultimate & antepenultimate episodes of Dollhouse only happened in the Attic.
Actually, as a child of schismatic Yank Protestantism, I find “The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism” quite amusing.
This really bugged me too. Or was the prophecy after his marriage to the woman in Endgame? Oh, well, Endgame was a lousy movie anyway.
I’m pretty sure that one’s practically out-of-continuity anyway. And weren’t the characters generally patronizing? I mean, I like Sorkin, but his mouthpieces can get a bit full of themselves.
I liked Black Market. It had economics! Who doesn’t like economics?
Any episode of any show that serves as the pilot for a failed spinoff. I think Married With Children had at least two or three of them.
But Assignment: Earth from Star Trek TOS gets a pass because it features a very young and very hot Terri Garr.
I think that epsode was always meant to be explicitly out of continuity. Certainly I got the impression when it first aired that it was not part of the story cycle.
My husband and I just finished Battlestar Galactica, and I agree with those of you who have named “Black Market” as an episode that does not exist. It was far, far worse than “The Woman King.” For the record, I liked the finale.
I wish the entire last season of Alias didn’t exist.
Yes, and the constellations shown were, in fact, our real-Earth constellations, and therefore Nuked-Earth was real-Earth.
I’m not sure how one would be able to establish this from the episodes. Just because we never saw the moon doesn’t mean it wasn’t there. And certainly, it had geographic features like broad beaches that one wouldn’t expect on a moonless world.
No it doesn’t. Remember, at the end of the episode, “real” crazy Buffy retreats back into her dreamworld because she can’t cope with her realworld trauma and leaving the imaginary friends/world she created behind. In my book, that still leaves open the possibility that everything after that point is further schyzophrenia.
BTW, I loved that episode myself. Sure, it’s a bit abrupt (both in its introduction, and its resolution), but it’s still a neat concept. YMMOV.
If I were to erase a *Buffy *episode, I’d probably choose the one with Xander possessed by the hyena spirits. It was just stupid and unfunny. Hell’s Bells was also a pretty shitty way to introduce drama into his relationship with Anya. As for killing off Tara just so Willow could become the stereotypical Crazy Lezzie… the less said the better. Whedon, the feminist with the miso clichés 
As for me, I nominate the X-Files episode Fearful Symetry, who committed the triple whammy of pointlessly riding on the coattails of a media sensation of the time (Koko the talking gorilla), hammering an anvilicious feelgood “political message” (save the planet, or gorillas are saaaad, also aliens perform abortions on them) and introducing completely new aspects to the series’ underlying alien mythos, never to be spoken of again. Also, the episode was dead boring. I AM NOT ENTERTAINED !
Oh god, you’re right. I must’ve had already erased that one from my memory.
Bones, I think it was the 100th episode special. 1) It came across as fan fiction - whee let’s bring back the old villain, whee let’s bring back Booth’s brother and 2) On a show about an atheist anthropologist, they have a freakin ghost!
This is almost redeemed by them later making Booth’s visions a symptom of his brain tumor, but not quite since they has Bones briefly see the ghost too without realizing it…
Why do I suspect that all episodes containing Bai Ling will eventually be nominated? lol I know that many fans of Lost consider the episode with her to be apocryphal…What other tv shows has she been on?
[SPOILER]* people from that world play songs written in our world
Not applicable - so do the BSG settlers on Earth-2
- the constellations from that world all look the same as from our world
Maybe. Certainly the twelve colonies are named after our own constellations.
- the shape of the continents as seen from space is the same.
The Earth seen during the zoom-out-zoom-in in the season finale does seem to be our Earth, however, the Earth-1 that they arrive at is never shown to be our Earth in the from space pics, and also it’s explicitly said to have a yellow moon from early on.
- OK, I could maybe accept that a ship making a random FTL jump from the close vicinity of a black hole might accidentally jump back in time, even though there’s no hint of time travel anywhere earlier in the series.
I was originally thinking this was the best solution, but I think Moore ruled this out.[/SPOILER]
I whole heartedly agree with the non existence of the following:
OTOH
This was ridiculous technobabble even for Trek, however, the fact that Janeway and Paris turn into lizards and mate make any otherwise bad writing justificable 
I think any potential poignancy was mediated by Xander’s blah reaction.
I thought for sure this is what they were heading towards but alas the apocalypse seems to be “real”…
Great rule of thumb lol. There are some exceptions of course…
I think this episode is sort of like Project Runway dresses - if you do something out of the ordinary, the difference could appeal to the judges or make them hate it. It’s often strategically best to aim for the middle…
I’m glad no one mentioned the Star Wars Christmas special, because it never happened. It was just a hoax, I tell you. A hoax!
What Star Wars Christmas Special?