Small Continuity Details From Popular Sitcoms That Fans Noticed

Redditoru/writeprompterSomeone potted one of Fry's girlfriends he mentioned in a throwaway comment from seasons before:

Fry's girlfriends.

I'm going to jump on your top comment in hopes that someone will actually see this. This is continuity and foreshadowing. Leela said it was just a radiator, so how could it show up at Fry's funeral? This happens inside Leela's coma, a fever dream.

The audience does not know much about Willie, but Redditoru/Harogahanoticed a comment in one episode pays off seven seasons later:

InThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love": Groundskeeper Willie talks about where he was born, raised, and educated on a pool table. Seven seasons later, Willie has a flashback, and we see the pool table he was born on.

A gigantic head given to the Simpsons in the second season stays in their basement, and Redditoru/__variable__noted how long they have kept it down there:

They have kept that for 26 years now.

A now-deletedRedditorRedditor found that the first three seasons ofCommunityplayed out with a background joke.

Someone says "Beetlejuice" once in each of the first three seasons ofCommunity. The third time, he shows up.

Redditoru/Akashic101noticed a familiar shape hidden under Bender's butt-plate in the final season that referred to a scene in the pilot episode:

Bender still can s**t bricks after 10 seasons.

Redditoru/melissapplednoticed familiar faces in the second season that called back to a scene from the 12th episode in the series:

Brooklyn Nine-Nine1x12 Holt gives Boyle two rottweilers. Two seasons later, Boyle still has them, and they are all grown up.

Continuity is hard to track in a series that has been on air for as long asThe Simpsons, but Redditoru/Asmornoticed something interesting about Bart tracking from the 6th season to the 29th:

The Simpsons -Season 4 Episode 6 (1992) shows Bart could grow up to be a supreme court justice. Season 29 Episode 21 (2018, 26 years later) shows Bart dies in the future, wearing the same robes.

Despite having a lifetime of hijinks each season, Bart somehow forgot he owned an elephant. As Redditoru/DaRealZlatanpointed out, Lisa had to remind him:

The Simpsons - S5E17 Bart gets an elephant and names him Stampy. S9E7, while at Apu's wedding, Bart tells Lisa he wished he could have an elephant. She then reminds him he owned one a few years ago.

In season 25 ofThe Simpsons, Redditoru/Gallade2712noticed a name spoken in season four that appeared earlier:

In season 4 episode 12 of The Simpsons "Marge VS The Monorail," Homer tells Bart that if he changes his name to Homer Jr., his friends could call him Hoju. In season 25 episode 5 "Labour Pains," a woman Homer helps give birth names her child Homer Jr., whom Homer calls Hoju.

Rick does not like following Morty, but as Redditoru/jaaardstycknoted he made a deal with Rick to call every 10th adventure:

Rick & MortyMorty makes a deal in Season 1 to pick every tenth adventure. In Season 3, he chooses that adventure.

Redditor noticed a familiar face in the finale of Parks & Recreation.u/nelsonmurdocksnoticed a familiar face in the finale of Parks & RecreationParks & Recreation:

Jon Daly played the man seeking Leslie's help replacing the park swing inKroll Show, who played the drunk Leslie chased out of the slide in the pilot (glimpsed briefly in the finale's montage of the Parks staff hard at work, Teddy Roosevelt-style). This is the same guy a decade later, having cleaned himself up after hitting rock bottom in front of Leslie, with neither character realizing who the other is. Most people do not notice this (Daly is almost unrecognizable in the pilot cameo), but it is a stealth piece of full-circle casting.

How I met Your Motherhad continuity details, and Redditoru/Seamoose93noticed one that hinted at a character's death before it happened:

InHIMYMSeason 4 Episode 10 jumps to three to five years later, showing the lightsaber turkey cutter at the dinner table. There is no sign of Marshall’s Dad, nor do they mention him.HIMYMMarshall’s Dad passes away.

Redditoru/PM_ME_REDPILLSspotted a familiar piece of furniture in the ninth season ofThe Office:

The OfficeSeason 3: Dwight admires a chair at David Wallace's house and wants one for himself. In Season 9, he gets the chair.

Redditoru/beunaisenoticed a familiar birds-eye shot from the pilot episode ofMalcolm in the Middlein the series' finale. Instead of just being Malcolm, his entire family watched him graduate from high school.

Redditoru/damn_jexypicked up on interesting mannerisms between the first and eighth season ofFriends:

InFriends, both members (co-founders) of "I Hate Rachel Green Club" describe Rachel's behavior the similar manner eight seasons apart.

According to Redditoru/ChiefJief, a creepy date Leslie went on in the third season ended up dropping a line about the size of her womb, which paid off several seasons later:

InParks and RecreationS3E13: The Set-Up. Leslie's date told her she has a huge womb and could "go triplets right off the bat if she wanted to."

Redditoru/Pickles256noticed a nice callback in the seventh season to a conversation from the first:

The Office - The subtle seven season callback.

Redditoru/pummkineaterCricket's path of destruction and despair stuck with him from one season to the next. This aligns with the theory that Cricket is the gang's Picture of Dorian Gray; his body shows all the horrible actions they took throughout the series but always recovers (crack addiction, broken bones, etc.).

If you thought Charlie's dating profile pic from Raters looked familiar, Redditoru/scatkinsonexplained why:

Charlie's Dating Profile picture is used five years later on Raters.

When Diane explained who she was named after, her birth date conflicted with reality. Redditoru/CosmologiconShe noted that season six fixed this. She mentioned she was not named until she was four.