Thread:Mediawatcher/@comment-3581997-20150905032118/@comment-3581997-20150920160956

In both those cases it's a matter of continuity. Mario games are made over and over and over with no connecting elements from one reality to the next, one moment Mario and Bowser are mortal enemies the next they are go-carting with no explanation given. My advice on that would be to treat each game as it's own continuity, like alternate realities. Peter Griffin has a similar phenomenon, one episode need not acknowledge anything to do with previous ones and when they do they just hand wave it as unimportant. It's largely a show that doesn't care and just wants to set up it's pieces for whatever wacky adventure Peter the dumb-dumb want to get into today. And in that case my advice would be, The show doesn't care so why should you?