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Fanon Discontinuity That's The Matrix they're talking about, in
case you were wondering.  The Simpsons, "Husbands and Knives"
In moviedom, Sequelitis is the most common cause of Fanon
Discontinuity. It's very common to hear fans of a popular movie
series disavow all sequels beyond a certain point, typically the
first or second movie. For example, the unofficial slogan of the
Highlander fandom is, "There Should Have Been Only One" (a play
on the franchise's famous quote of "There Can Be Only One," in
case you're wondering). Fanon Discontinuity also tends to arise
when an audience has been dealt a particularly bad Wall Banger.
Doing this can be quite easy if the hated storylines are the
last ever made and it's easy to pretend that the real ending was
in the good ones, but if more episodes/installments are made and
these are loved and canon-worthy, again it's easy to do that if
the hated ones can easily be written out without any loss to the
good