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Compare with [[Parody Episode]] (this trope could be considered the serious side of the coin) and [[Elseworld]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'': "The One That Could Have Been" is a two-parter where the teaser has each of the Friends imagining something that could have happened differently in their lives and the rest of the story drops into an Alternate Reality where these things happened. Monica never lost her teenage weight and is still fat as an adult, Joey is still on ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' and has become famous and wealthy, Rachel married Barry and is quietly miserable (and considering having an affair with Joey the celebrity), Pheobe is a stockbroker, Chandler is a (failing) writer and Carol has not come out of the closet and is still married to Ross (Though she is ''very'' interested in having a threesome with Ross and another woman).
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* ''[[Bones (TV)|Bones]]'' did one in which Booth and Brennan were married, and owned a nightclub (called "The Lab") where many other series regulars worked. A murder takes place there, and we get to see Brennan squicked out by death. This is actually a dream of Booth's, while he is in a coma. It's actually his perfect world and based on Brennan talking out loud to him in his coma while she works on her next book.
* In the two-part ''[[3rd Rock From the Sun (TV)|3rd Rock From the Sun]]'' episode "Dick'll Take Manhattan", the aliens go through a time-space portal to a parallel universe where they lead upscale lives in New York City. Dick is a lawyer, Sally is a columnist in the vein of ''[[Sex and The City]]'', Tommy is a cast member on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (with then cast members Tracy Morgan, Ana Gasteyer, and Darrell Hammond appearing as themselves), and Harry is the president of [[NBC]]. Other characters from the show turn up as well, all leading different lives of some description. Inevitably, the Solomons return home after finding their new lives to be shallow.
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E11 Turn Left|Turn Left]]" is created when time-line interference makes a universe where the companion Donna Noble never met the Doctor, and as a result, he died. A space-ship attack at Christmas meant that Donna lost her job, although she did win a prize out of town the next holiday season. Good thing, too, because without the Doctor there to help London was nuked and everyone in the city died. Then [[It Got Worse]]. The Doctor and Donna weren't there to stop the adipose, and tens of millions of Americans were killed. The Sontarans nearly succeeded in rendering the planet inhospitable, saved only by the heroic sacrifices of the [[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]] team. And ''then'' all of reality began to destroy itself....
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' saved the Fates in "Remember Nothing" and was given a chance to live her life if she had never become a warlord and "When Fates Collide" when Caesar forces the Fates to change his fate making him and Xena rulers of Rome.
 
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