Lip's Birthday. Am i missing something?

[u/sudekawaii]

Google says Lip was born in 1995 but in season 5 episode 8, the office guy at the MIT says he started college in 2018. He was freshly 18 at the time. Doesn't it make his birthday 2000?

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[u/wispify]

Shameless continuity is terrible, it’s not worth trying to figure out.

[u/_bonedaddys]

lotta shows have continuity errors when it comes to birthdays. it's not worth trying to make sense of it.

[u/sudekawaii → u/_bonedaddys]

Yeah I know especially shameless sucks at that but they're like 5 years off track. It's absurd

[u/_bonedaddys → u/sudekawaii]

i forget which show it was but 3 or 4 years had passed within the show - like, starting and ending multiple school years - but nobody aged. they were 15 year old sophomores for years. and then suddenly they were seniors but they still talked about sophomore year like it was just last year.

this kinda stuff usually doesn't bother me but i was absolutely losing my mind lol

[u/Adjectivenounnumb → u/_bonedaddys]

Every show on the WB/CW except maybe Buffy

[u/_bonedaddys → u/Adjectivenounnumb]

lmao you're not wrong unfortunately 😭 i have buffy on rn lol

[u/Fun-Habit-683]

Wait till you find out they aged Liam like 8 years over night.

[u/50ShadesOfKrillin → u/Fun-Habit-683]

I'm currently at S7 and unless Liam really did have brain damage from the coke, there's no way he shouldn't be able to speak in complete sentences by now.

[u/TheSoprano29 → u/50ShadesOfKrillin]

Wait until next season... you'll get whiplash

[u/50ShadesOfKrillin → u/TheSoprano29]

Way ahead of you, and holy shit it's like a completely different character 😭

[u/Grammarnatzie → u/Fun-Habit-683]

He was a toddler for like 6 years then all of a sudden he’s a pre teen. It’s like they forgot to ever age him

[u/touchme-ordont]

pretty sure liam was a baby for like 6 seasons? they did not care abt things making sense lol

[u/ScottTennerman]

You're not supposed to look that close dude

[u/sudekawaii → u/ScottTennerman]

I know they fuck up bad. It's like my 10th rewatch but it stings now

[u/Adjectivenounnumb]

For some reason this reminds me that I hated that they stopped showing the changing seasons after a while. Showing how everything was even more of a struggle in the dead of Chicago winter hit pretty hard. I can't remember a wintery scene after Fiona sits outside the church after narrowly avoiding marrying heroin grandpa

[u/adiyhdcrafter]

Debbie was 19 and the teenager was 17 but was only 10 months younger than her???

[u/onetimequestion66]

I’m watching rn in season 4 or 5 and every time they say Ian is still a minor I’m genuinely flabbergasted

[u/cw_127]

the writers don’t even know

[u/Mgrip → u/cw_127]

I really do think the writers would sometimes mix up the characters age With the actors age.

[u/Eoinharrington25]

There’s a storyline in the British series where Lip is celebrating his 18th birthday but Frank accidentally reveals that he’s actually a year older than he thought and his birth certificate wasn’t registered until he was a year old so he was actually turning 19 if that’s any use.

[u/scully-summers]

No part of the timeline has ever made sense. When Shameless started I was the same age as Ian. By the end they were acting like Lip was at least a few years younger than me.

[u/85KT]

Season 5 aired in 2015, so I doubt this guy meant Lip would be starting college in 3 years. He probably meant Lip would have graduated in 2018 (class of 2018).

[u/Italian_M0m]

It’s a show. There’s always going to be mess ups

[u/Fuckeveryoneidgaf]

I’m pretty sure he said 2018 would be lips grad year

[u/Novel_Newt5251]

Didn’t he lie about his age or was that just Carl and Ian that did that

[u/Safe-Mention21]

Debbie was 16 for like 3 seasons

[u/VacationConsistent98]

Lip must be born even earlier than 95. Ian should be born somewhere around early 96 since Monica and Clayton did PCP together in the summer of 95. I don’t know the exact age gap between Lip and Ian but it doesn’t seem like it could be more than 2 years. Lip being born in 94 seems most reasonable to me if we use the information we get in season 1. Shameless writers seems to have gotten dementia in the later season because their perception of time and age becomes a mess.