# GotoAndPlay()

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay/39001>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 2, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay/39001 "2004-01-02T01:46:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![RoboLlama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@RoboLlama](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RoboLlama)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gotoandplay/39001/1 "2004-01-02T01:46:29Z")

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I have a MovieClip.gotoAndPlay() statement in my code, but for some reason there is a chance that the statement will be completely ignored. When it’s ignored, my movie acts as if the statement was never there, and I can’t see a pattern in when my movie ignores the gotoAndPlay(). It seems like it just doesn’t gotoAndPlay() when it feels like it.

Is there anything that might cause such a phenomena? Anything that might stop a gotoAndPlay() from being called?