To be fair to Phoebe, early episodes also establish that her mother and grandmother lied to her repeatedly about her childhood (the generic picture frame man was her dad, Albert Einstein was grandpa, etc.), so it may not be that Phoebe forgot when exactly her dad ran out; just that she was lied to.

Half of these aren't plot holes, just inconsistencies. I think a plot hole must have a real effect on the plot to be called one.

In the game of thrones one they can't swim but they can walk on the bottom of the pond because they don't need to breathe because they're dead

Dead wrong about the office. They knew they were being filmed at work, but didn't know that the film crew was hiding in the bushes and following them home and to the bathroom and stuff.

Phoebe's plot hole isn't as annoying as Chandler/Rachels 'first time meeting'...they already knew each other even before the pilot episode...

“Why does a fighting game have a sex function.” I could think of a couple of Japanese games where that’s a thing.

I'm assuming whoever wrote this one didn't really watch the Office? This reaction is clearly explained when Pam goes and talks to the (recently fired) boom mic guy, and finds out that they were being filmed and recorded even when they couldn't see the crew. It's also worth noting that the main casts reactions all track very well with their characters.

Claire wasn't an inconsistency, the fact that she never got sick or hurt growing up was brought up several times and even became a serious issue when she got shot. If you can't actually watch a show a second time through to research your facts you probably shouldn't post lists about it. A lot of things that seem like TV plot holes were just stuff that you didn't notice on the first watch. Like The Office gang being upset about the sneaking around the film crew did, and how they promised not to put entirely personal elements in. It's not a plot hole, the tv crew just lied about the level of intrusion. Again that's brought up several times throughout the run.

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel says that he can't perform CPR on Buffy because vampires don't breathe. Yet he talks. You kind of need air to produce sound through your vocal chords. Even if you ignore that, several times during that show and the Angel series, you see vampires smoking which would again need air to push in and out through the lungs. AND if you choose to ignore that, think of the times that vampires were strangled until they were subdued in the series or when Spike is being drowned in season 7.

Regarding the HIMYM one, not really a plot hole. All we see on screen is Ted's memories of what happened, and he has proven multiple times throughout the show that he forgets things and he's not a 100% reliable narrator. So just because Marshall's family was not at the wedding on screen, it doesn't necessarily mean that they were not actually there. Same for Scrubs, those are JD's flashbacks, we don't know how actually accurate they are.

I always thought HRG just told Claire's mom that she died so he could take her. I think that lines up with his personality and actions in the show, and takes care of that plot hole.

You don't need to swim if you can simply walk on the bottom of a lake and not drown. Especially if you're hauling heavy chains to wrap around a dragon.

Where did they say Claire lost her powers? Maybe she just never had a serious injury? That can happen you know.

For the scrubs one, I always figured it was the differing first times each of them made a big impact on the other. It happens, friends will misremember things based on what’s more important to who…

Man, Heroes had soooo much potential. Great cast, interesting characters and effects. But damn it went downhill.

heroes has many many inconsistencies but this isn't one of them, she discovered her powers over and over again and her dad got the Haitian to wipe her memory

I mean, it even shows the white walkers underwater....not swimming....walking.....thats decidedly not swimming................what's hard to uunderstand about that?

i just figured that Pheobe was just mistaken about when her dad left, just doesnt remember cause she was a baby , i wouldnt call that a plot hole

Pretty sure HRG used the Haitian to remove Claire's memories any time her powers manifested. If I'm remembering correctly, the Haitian is sent to remove her memories again whenever HRG finds the video of Claire jumping from the railing, but he doesn't use his abilities that time, allowing her to discover the truth about her life. Haitian DOES use his powers on the boy who filmed Claire, though. That's a whole thing in one episode where she realizes what's happening and who's behind it.

The broken lift in TBBT is simply a way to allow the characters to engage in long conversations (mostly) relating to that episode's story.

The white walkers could have gotten that chain on the dragon without creating a plot hole. They might not be able to swim yeah, but they didn’t need to swim to get those chains to the bottom of the lake and tie it to the dragon. They only needed to sink, then maybe walk out of the lake like the cursed pirates in the Black Pearl.

Honestly, Heroes could have filled up this whole list.

Out of all the plot holes in the final 2 seasons of Game of Thrones, that was the one you guys chose??? The white walkers didn't need to SWIM to drop into the water and then WALK across the ocean floor to wrap the chains around the dead dragon. They're already dead, so it's not like they're going to drown. I can't believe that was your #1 pick lol.

White Walkers are not the same as Wights, and we never see them swimming. So your choice for number 1 isn't a plot hole at all.

You can't trust anything Jon Snow says, after all he knows nothing.

Why does a fighting game have a sec function? Have you met the Japanese? Re: GOT. White walkers cannot swim, but they don't need to breathe either! Sink down, hook up chains, climb back up, shake dry.

The Office one isn't really a plot hole tho, they were shocked about the hidden cams....like obviously they wouldn't have kissed if they knew there was a camera rolling inside a room. So not a plot hole~

Almost none of these are plotholes, you guys really just make up anything without doing research do you:

One that always bothers me is about the space aliens being part of the plot in American Horror Story: Asylum. They keep bringing it up in the first half and near the end, they literally just forgot about them.

Theory: since HIMYM is being told by Ted to his kids, then what we see is their mental imagery of events. Ted didn't have any anecdotes about Marshall's family at the wedding, so he didn't bring them up. I submit they were there, but we don't see them because they weren't mentioned. Yeah, I'm talking out my arse.

I haven't seen Friends in a while but I swear there was a line where Phoebe asked her father why he ran out before she was born and that's when he told her the stories.

My Name Is Earl: Crabman is a member of the witness relocation program, but when he gets engaged theres a huge party with his whole family. Were all 30 of those people actors? Even the children?

Maybe Phoebe's dad left when she was an baby(then she wouldn't remember him) and her mother(or who ever raised her, I can't remember) told her he left before she was born thinking that it would hurt less.

Comedy shows always have thing that don't add up. Also most shows have some inconsistencies, because of the changes in writers, & directors.

Game of Thrones.... basically the entire last season was the plot hole that turned a great show into one that people regret watching.

The Black Mirror one isn't a plot hole either. 95% of game devs are male, give young men a little device that can make you think you're inside a game and can simulate any environment or sensation you like, what is the first thing they are going to program?

Clair in Heores had her memories erased by her father several times. That's why she thinks she's dicovering her powers in that age.

As soon as the GoT show writers ran out of book material, that show got hokey real fast.

5:45 the actor who played Danielle on lost passed away earlier this year.

Why do the undead need to swim to chain up a dragon and drag it out? Why can't the ones that went in the water to do the job just be stuck down there?

The Heroes "plot hole" is explained in season 1. When her dad finds out that she knows she has a power, he sends the Haitian to erase her memories and those of everyone who know about it. It's implied that he has done this multiple times for this very reason (and has definitely sent the Haitian to his wife even more times whenever she gets close to figuring out what his job is).

In Brooklyn 99 that isn’t really a beard. It’s more stubble, jake might be referring to growing a Viking esque beard, something which many people cannot do

For the B99 one, that literally happened to me. My facial hair was always patchy and I couldn’t grow a beard to save my life so I always just shaved mostly… A few years later I was in the hospital for an extended time and grew a nice beard… lmao I always told everyone I couldn’t grow a damn beard too! Sometimes men just mature without knowing it until given the opportunity!

I don't know how you did such a brilliant and hilarious Jon Snow impression with just 1 word, but you did it. Iol

I remember a show called "sliders" having some plot holes but I don't think I can recall what they were

Claire might have just not sustained an injury or momentarily gained her powers in an eclipse. (Which is not as rare as people think.

Was a hepatitis ridden Pimp spitting in Phoebe's mouth SERIOUSLY a plot point of that show? Shit's crazier then I remember

Everything With Stan and Francine Smith on American Dad It's like TBS is a pulling a Simpsons Style retcon job but to lesser degree

For the Heros one, I think HGR eventually admitted he had her memories wiped several times

King of Queens...1) How Doug and Carrie met either as kids or at a club. 2)How Carrie and Kelly know met. Either in college or through Doug and Duncan's friendship.

I don’t think the GOT wight thing isn’t a plot hole. I assume they walked along the bottom of the lake, that’s not swimming

The White Walkers wouldn't have needed to swim; they'd just need to be able to walk underwater. Which they could have because they're dead and don't need to breath.

Writers don't assume there will be 5 or more seasons after the pilot, nor even a second season necessarily. They hope the show's a survivor, and even a hit, but unless they are adapting from lengthy source material, they rarely are writing with future plot continuity in mind. Unfortunately they pigeonhole themselves, or are replaced by new writers with new ideas. Especially in sitcoms, as long as the characters remain consistent, nitpicking over plot seems like a fool's errand.

Mulan on OUAT. It looked like "The Dragon" being in our world was going to set up an explanation she wasn't from Misthaven, but noooo, that was never resolved.

Honestly you could do two or three segments on all the plot holes in Lost alone

Some of these are a little too critical. As an example: White walkers getting the dragon… they just need to sink to it. Grab chain. Jump in. Don’t miss MASSSIVE dragon. Tie dragon. Either sink to bottom & live there forever or climb up the chain. Claire’s healing is another. It’s very easy to assume her healing powers were just super slow as a baby, but picked up into super noticeable bone mending healing with puberty. If her whole life she just never had things like sunburns & none of her wounds ever scar over… that’s a lot easier to not notice.

The white walkers don't need to have the ability to swim to put chains on the dragon, they only need to be able to swim to come back which they may not have. It wouldn't be out of character for the night king to sacrifice some walkers to accomplish his goal.

To be fair about elevator from the Big Bang Theory, I believe the inconsistencies were written intentionally for comedic effect, such as Brian Griffin’s age on Family Guy.

A dragon to be able to fly has to have pneumatic bones, which would make it buoyant... so the only thing needed to get that dragon off of the water is a cowboy walker to giddy up and throw a lasso xD

In The X-Files, in the pilot, Mulder recalls being in his bedroom when his sister was taken. But then, in the season 2 episode 1, Little Green Men, it shows him in the lounge room playing a game with Samantha & watching TV. Granted, Glen Morgan & James Wong missed the pilot, but it's still big, considering it's the driving story behind TXF. Maybe include it in part 2?

With Phoebe, maybe she was lied to? A baby isn't going to remember their dad when they're still in diapers. Maybe the mom lied for whatever reason.

This entire list could just be Game Of Thrones plot holes.

The white walkers can literally control ice, so the night king probably materialised the chains all wound around the dragon corpse and leading up out of the water for the wights to haul on. Not that big of a stretch of the imagination

On the 1970s TV version of The Odd Couple, they did one flashback episode depicting Felix Unger and Oscar Madison first meeting each other when they served in the US army together. In another flashback episode, they first met when they served on a jury together. And yet, a voiceover during the opening credits of every single episode specifically mentioned that when Felix Unger's wife kicked him out, he moved in with his "childhood friend" Oscar Madison.

The White Walkers had an element of magic about them. Recall that they could see, and even touch Bran when he was in his astral viewing form. So it stands to reason the Night King could see visions of the future. When they could raise dead, visions like what Bran could do would be easy. So they likely knew they would have to retrieve the corpse of the dragon from the water and brought huge chains with them.

I figured the Wights who tied up the dragon stayed at the bottom of the ocean. Or, eventually crawled their way back up to the surface. They don't drown since they are dead. The don't really need to swim.

In Lost there’s so many plot holes! In one scene Locke says ‘Say hello to my daughter for me’ But this is after the Man in Black took on Locke’s appearance so…how did he know about any daughter?

did a fighting game have a sex function or was it such an advance piece of technology that it afford total freedom in movement?

For How I Met Your Mother it is stated later that they were at the wedding. Just a case of not seeing them there

From a programming perspective it’s easier to just allow the players to have full body sensation than to write codes to specifically just force them to only fight while experiencing full body sensation.

Yeah most of these are not plot holes, just inconsistency and some can be explained away.

They really should of given Claire a different power in Heroes. Making a character that wants the freedom to show off her powers is fine, but then it comes in the form of "But Why Can't I jump off a building and put it on KZfaq?! It's not fair!"

10 Most Annoying TV Plot Holes Ever All 10 are just crap from "Lost"

Phoebe lied about how her mother died many times for sympathy over the series so it’s likely she changed the story about her father too

Lol yeah I remember thinking, “wait, what?”with The Office QQ.

Black Mirror: have you ever seen what people done with Overwatch? Plus if you design a 'full VR' game it is conceivable sex would be possible I mean what if you're kicked in the groin and don't feel pain and if you do then all bets are off. Lost: isn't she crazed and traumatized? Seeing the same guy looking exactly like he looked decades prior would make her feel even more insane - though on that note one more reason for her to freak ou I suppose. Game of Thrones: they can't swim, but they can dive. It's one thing to 'just walk' for a short distance on the bottom of (I assume) a lake but it's an entirely different thing to walk thousands of miles though the ocean floor. The others I won't even bother... if you're gonna point out plot holes in comedy you can spend the rest of your days making videos about The Simpsons...

Heroes one could be easily explained. She could of blocked memory out and not had a serious injury. Just a thought

on the Heroes issue you missed the big part where Claire's mind was wiped constantly at the behest of her adoptive father.

Regarding the fighting game thing, if someone really came up with a game that allowed one feel everything the characters in the game experience, I guarantee that it won't be a week before somebody comes up with a patch to extend that to sex.

The new star wars is so full of plot holes its staggering.

Yes - I also needed to see that army of White Walkers dive in and attach those chains to the dragon in the lake...

Maybe I'm the only one who remembers the show "Rules of Engagement," but something that always bugged me is how in the earlier seasons, Timmy says at least once that he is a United States citizen already, but towards the end, he loses the right to stay in the US because of something stupid his boss Russell does, so to make up for it, Russell marries him so he can stay.

Im shocked that was the most annoying plothole in game of thrones, when you have... well, every line and decision made on season 8. Which include but are not limited to. - "well, danny kinda forgot about the iron fleet" (even though they were mentioned during a war council earlier) - Some ships with scorpions can snipe a small dragon from mid air at miles away but a whole fleet of the thing can't take down a bigger one. - Davos' knowledge about Storm's end and his skill as a smuggler over a fighter. - Jaime's development. - Jon's character as a whole.

walking under water isnt the same as swimming

Assuming that any sitcom is going for continuity is setting yourself up for failure already. It's like assuming HIMYM was going for being entertaining. You will just be disappointed.

Maybe you ought to do a "10 Times We Got It Wrong" video. That could be a series that runs and runs. :-)

With the game of thrones plot hole he said that they couldn't swim he didn't say that they couldn't walk on the bottom under the water for a short period of time

BBC Merlin: Arthur forgetting Mordred was a druid

But are these really plot holes or are they just inconsistencies do to different writers? MASH is a good example of inconsistencies in the plot thanks to different writers. Everything from Radars arm tattoo in one episode that is not there after that to Hawkeyes and Margarets families.

They actually bring up Heroes without mentioning the SINGLE DUMBEST PLOT HOLE in TV history when they abandon the whole "bring people back to life" capability that revived Claire's dad but somehow ceased to exist (AS IN NOT EVEN WORTH MENTIONING BY ANY CAST MEMBER???) when Nathan was killed off.

I remember the remake of V. I loved the original series so I decided to give it a try. One of the main characters was either extremely stupid or there was a plot hole in the very first episode. A cop investigating a terrorist discovers a spy working for the terrorist. She learns of a meeting investigating corrupt cop's apartment. This meeting is a group of anti-aliens. Through them she learns the terrorist is an alien, however it never occurs to her the corrupt cop, through which she learned of the meeting, might be an alien himself, meaning the aliens know of the meeting.

You could do a whole video on plot holes in the last two seasons of Game of Thrones!

For the BM:SV, how god-damned gross would it be when you come out of VR and you're sitting there with an(or couple) of oysters cooling off in your undies?

Stargate Universe, Eli stay awake since his pod is broken. Doctor Who - only 13 regenerations Twin Peaks ending.

Could do one from Eureka that has bothered me for years. In the first season; Jo Lupo had a tattoo, from her time in the military, that she showed off and was proud of. After the first season, it seems to have disappeared. That's a continuity error, not a plot hole, right? Well, go ahead a season or two and there's an episode where an evil scientist woman swaps their genetics so Jo would look like her, to frame her, and then the scientist could go on living as Jo... Altering genetics wouldn't have altered a tattoo. If they hadn't ruined the continuity with her tattoo, they wouldn't have created a plot hole as, Jo could have easily shown her tattoo to prove her identity.

You could of have this whole list filled with GOT plot holes.

To be fair Claire lost her healing ability during the eclipse and her abilities were again jump started during the eclipse so it may not be an inconsistency

Donna had a little sister and Shaun had an older brother and sister we never met That 70's show and Boy meets world respectivly

The Game of Thrones plot hole goes even deeper. Apart from the White Walkers not being able to swim, where did they get those huge chains? Why build a huge magical wall if a moat would have worked better? And if they didn't have a dragon, how would the have gotten past the wall in the first place? The whole series just fell apart in the end.

Phoebe Not knowing he was around when she was a Baby isn’t a Plot Hole it shows he left before she was old enough to remember him