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Out of Order	comment	A truly strange tendency that some broadcasters have is to air episodes of a television show in an order that disregards the order that they were written in. For some shows, particularly those of the episodic variety, this will make little difference. For a series with continuity, this can confuse the heck out of viewers. Often executives do this to make an Action Prologue, using it draw in an audience for better ratings, while ignoring how many people desert the series later. Occasionally this trope is justified, or at least understandable, if a recent event or tragedy might make airing the episode so close to it be Too Soon. As often as not, it's just because they didn't really care - this was especially the case for local stations airing syndicated shows back when they were stored on physical media. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })This trope is often a symptom of being Screwed by the Network. When the writers intend for a series to be this way, it's Anachronic Order. Not to be confused with the "functional" variety of "out of order"; for tropes to that effect, see Phlebotinum Breakdown, Holodeck Malfunction, Plot-Driven Breakdown and Failsafe Failure. Also not to be confused with the common plot device for a Potty Emergency or justification for a Forgotten Superweapon. NOTE: TV Tropes executives have decided that this article should not be presented in its proper order, and instead have shuffled around the example folders.
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Out of Order / int_2142f93d	comment	Slayers: The order of the movies and OVAs is not very clear. They all take place before the TV series begins, but in what order? Slayers Excellent takes place first, but since it was written as a prequel, it doesn't give the characters any formal introduction, and it's not recommended to be watched first. The Slayers Premium movie is the only "movie" to take place in the middle of the TV series, but even then... it's not very clear exactly WHERE in the series it takes place...
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Out of Order / int_39eb4272	comment	The Doctor Who Novelisations were released without much concern for the original story broadcast order, resulting in Doctor and companion introductions and departures getting seriously scrambled up (not helped by the novelisations' own changes to events - notoriously, Ian and Barbara join the TARDIS on two separate occasions, once in the novelisation of An Unearthly Child and again in the novelisation of The Daleks). Target's official numbering order wasn't much help; it listed the first 73 novelisations in alphabetical order (that is, all the ones up until the institution of the numbering system), then all subsequent releases in intended release order, which didn't always work out as planned.
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Out of Order / int_3aeb1c75	comment	The English dub of the Dragon Ball franchise was subject to this to a certain extent, particularly with the home releases. Uncut DVDs of the series began in 2000 with episodes 68-74 of DBZ, with the end of the series (around 291) being released in 2003, while episodes in the early 200s were still being released in 2005. DBZ alone wasn't available in its entirety until 2007, while the first 13 episodes of the original Dragon Ball series weren't released to DVD uncut in the US until 2009. Naturally, when Toonami expanded to Kids' WB! and started showing Dragon Ball Z, the episodes shown were seemingly chosen completely at random from the entire series shown on Cartoon Network up to that point, despite every episode having a Previously On segment and a To Be Continued segment. Rarely would the show even be on the same story arc on consecutive days. Since no one who started DBZ from Kids' WB! could understand what's going on, viewership plummeted, and Kids' WB! pulled DBZ out of its schedule shortly afterward. In the original Saban dub of DBZ, several episodes from the Saiyan Saga were cut and had certain scenes spliced into earlier or later episodes. During the Namek Saga, the non-canon movie "The Tree of Might" was also made into a three-part episode, despite the obvious continuity problems. Pioneer released Ocean's uncut dub of the first 3 DBZ movies out of order. The third movie, "The Tree of Might", was released on March 17 1998, followed on May 26 1998 by the second movie "The World's Strongest". AB Groupe's infamous "Big Green" dub for the Dragon Ball Z movies and specials was released in a very jumbled order. It went: Movie 3 > Movie 2 > Movie 4 > Movie 5 > Movie 6 > Movie 7 > Movie 8 > Movie 9 > Special 1 > Special 2 > Movie 1
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Out of Order / int_3be307d1	comment	A particularly bad example occurred with Tenchi Muyo!, where episodes from three very similar series were broadcast in the same timeslot in seemingly random order.
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Out of Order / int_402ce432	comment	Good luck trying to figure out the proper order of Pokémon Special by its magazine releases alone. Seeing how being published in two or three different magazines at once is the only reason it's allowed to go beyond a single volume's worth of material unlike other Pokemon manga, expect to be very confused until the volumes do come out.
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Out of Order / int_4f57b33a	comment	Here's a pretty crazy one: When Tokyo Mew Mew was dubbed into English as Mew Mew Power, not only was episode 12 aired as the premiere, episode 13 was shorn of the references to 12.
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Out of Order / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Before Homestuck was a thing that happened, Andrew Hussie made at least three Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comics as part of a discussion on the Penny Arcade forums; when they went up on the newly-established SBAHJ site months later, they were in a different order from the order in which they were made. The famous stairs comic, the first in the site's order, was the third made; the actual first made was the I Banged Your Mom comic, the second in the site's order.
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Out of Order / int_5698d42d	comment	Shiniez was constantly this in the strip's older days; the strips were posted in the order they were completed, not in the order of chronology or even in the order they were thought up. Word of God lampshaded this but rarely gave help. These days this is mostly averted as the comic is updating chronologically and in chapters. Previously standalone stripped have been absorbed by the progressing narrative. Though future strips and pin ups are still released, these are kept in galleries separate from the chapters now making the comic much easier to navigate.
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Out of Order / int_74c1400c	comment	During the pre-cable and kayfabe eras, where the internet was still things of science fiction, many title changes weren't aired on television until several weeks — sometimes six weeks — after they happened, but the former champions will continue to defend their titles until the title change airs on television. One frequently cited example is Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, the WWF Tag Team Champions, losing to Demolition, at a television taping in early October 1989, but the title change did not air until November 4 of that year, but the two continued to defend their titles (usually against Demolition but also the Rockers and the Hart Foundation) in the meantime.
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Out of Order / int_88b348e8	comment	KidsWB trifecta! While Nelvana did dub all 70 episodes of Cardcaptor Sakura (CardCaptors), KidsWB only aired about half of them (the more action packed and/or Shaoran-centered ones), and very much out of order.
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Out of Order / int_8c76c03	comment	Episodes 3 and 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh!: Capsule Monsters aired online before the others aired.
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Out of Order / int_8d50e6ff	comment	Kirby: Right Back at Ya! ran into a minor case of this due to a bit of Merchandise-Driven. A two-part special was created to promote the then-new "Kirby Air Ride'', but in order to air it at the proper time to promote the game in the U.S., it had to be aired far earlier in the series' run than it had in Japan, leading to minor plot holes.
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Out of Order / int_a5549ed0	comment	An interesting example is the New Testament — few Christians realise that Paul's epistles, although they describe events after Jesus's death, are actually the oldest Christian writings. 1 Thessalonians was written around AD 51, while by all accounts, Luke and John were written after AD 59 at the earliest. The Old Testament exhibits this kind of thing as well: what most Christians call the Books of History were originally from two different sections of the Jewish Bible, the Nevi'im (which puts Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings alongside the books of the prophets) and the Ketuvim (which has nearly every other Old Testament book), but early Christians reordered the Ketuvim so that all the story-like books were all together and ran (roughly) in chronological order.
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Out of Order / int_b211ee13	comment	Transformers: Robots in Disguise is a case of the Justified Trope given in the description: a lot of the episodes were pulled from their intended airdate after 9/11 for being Too Soon. Unfortunately, these were also mostly the episodes dealing with the main plot arc. Fortunately, there is a known intended order, and the home video release put them in that order.
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Out of Order / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: Episode 19, "Changeling" has Levy show up and Lucy is already familiar with her, but they meet for the first time two episodes later. Not really that important since Changeling is a Filler Episode.
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Out of Order / int_bd91db47	comment	Kids' WB! reruns of Pokémon were also aired out of order for a while, which may have been one contributing factor to its decline in popularity, since fans lost interest and newcomers were confused. The 15th episode "Battle Aboard the St. Anne" aired first in the U.S. as part of a "sneak peek" due to it being more action-packed and therefore "interesting" to hook viewers. note However, it didn't air in most areas due to the MDA Labor Day Telethon. When the show was picked up for broadcast, it aired in its proper spot. The mid-Hoenn episode "Love At First Flight", which occurs between the episodes "What You Seed is What You Get" and "Let Bagons Be Bagons", was initially skipped over in the US due to elements involving love (and a scene where Brock chases Ash dressed as a girl), eventually airing a few episodes later. Reruns would have it air in its proper spot, however. The episodes involving May's final Pokémon Contest in Hoenn ("Date Expectations" note which didn't actually involve the Contest but lead to it, "Mean With Envy" and "Pacifidlog Jam") were skipped over in the US due to one of the Pokémon Coordinators using a Jynx. This lead to confusion when the Grand Festival came around and May somehow had her final Ribbon. These episodes didn't air in the US until after the Hoenn League. Good luck trying to figure out the proper order of Pokémon Special by its magazine releases alone. Seeing how being published in two or three different magazines at once is the only reason it's allowed to go beyond a single volume's worth of material unlike other Pokemon manga, expect to be very confused until the volumes do come out. And for that matter, good luck trying to figure out the order of episodes after the Infamous Seizure episode was banned in the dub, especially the two episodes that feature Lickitung. To clarify: Lickitung's first appearance was episode 49 in the Japanese airing; the episode in which it was captured was episode 52. Episode 53 also clearly belongs immediately after episode 52 because Togepi, who hatched in episode 50, is nowhere to be seen in that episode. The KidsWB airing further compounded this by airing these episodes after episodes 54-57 (again, by the Japanese numbering, since there had already been three skipped episodes in the dub by this point, only one of which ever aired), with a four-month break from new episodes immediately preceding it, which could easily lead to a person believing that Team Rocket just acquires all of its Pokémon off-screen as James's Victreebel, which was acquired off-screen, made its dub debut before the episode in which Jessie caught her Lickitung aired in the dub.
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Out of Order / int_c223e919	comment	The 80s Astro Boy series' episode order has been completely ignored for all English broadcast and home video releases, with some of the very last episodes airing among the first, and some of the very first episodes airing among the last. Fortunately, the very first and last episodes remained the same.
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Out of Order / int_c6b738c4	comment	After losing their distributor due to the RF incident, Ring of Honor DVD releases came out two to three months after a show had already taken place, much longer than previously, and weren't made available in the order they chronologically happened in.
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Out of Order / int_cf39ca4f	comment	Rare newspaper example with Pearls Before Swine. The creator often keeps certain strips in back burner, either because he thought they were weak or because the content could cause problems, only to run them years later. This often leads to the art style being inconsistent with modern strips, due to Art Evolution.
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Out of Order / int_ef2e1620	comment	Mega Man NT Warrior was also aired out of order, moving the "filler" episodes to later, continuity be damned. At first it was thought to be KidsWB's fault, but other countries who got the show from ShoPro also had it out of order; so, all fingers point to ShoPro for this. note nevertheless, KidsWB aired the already-out-of-order episodes out of order. It just wouldn't be KidsWB otherwise!
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Out of Order / int_f0ccb44c	comment	When Ninja Robots (aka the dubbed version of Ninja Senshi Tobikage) aired in Australia in a block of about half a dozen episodes were televised out of order. This was particularly obvious because it skipped the introduction of a major character. This alternative ordering of the episodes was repeated on the DVD.
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Out of Order / int_f1a38c03	comment	The Belgian comic strip Suske en Wiske serializes all its albums in one unchronological mess. The first 66 black-and-white albums are no longer available, so they simply started again from number 67 (!!) and randomly republished the older albums in color again, together with the newer titles. This makes reading the albums in this new order very confusing.
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Out of Order / int_ff35db96	comment	There was some controversy when the US DVD release of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya undid the Anachronic Order of the broadcast. The company responded by putting the episodes in broadcast order in one disc and chronological order on the other in future releases. Although it does help that the first four episodes, ie a DVD's worth, are the first four episodes.
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