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* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie]]'', sort of. While actually considered pretty good by a surprising number of fans, it has zero relation whatsoever to any other expanded media, or even the [[Sonic the Hedgehog|games]] (besides the characters) and [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot|might have meant to have been part of a series]]. We'll never really know.
* Heck, ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'' is a Big Lipped Alligator ''Series'', with special mention going to the episode in which Dengaku Man is launched up Bo-Bobo's rear end to form a [[Magical Girl]], who then subdues her enemy by [[Magic Music|singing]]. It was so nice they did it twice, though with a ''picture book'' instead of singing.
** Not only that, there are [[Meta Fiction|Meta]]-BLAMs, when there are scenes that can be considered BLAMs even within the context of the [[BLAM Episode|BLAM episodes]]. For instance, during a pointless scene where Bo-bobo is riding a kiddy train ride at an amusement park, a giant baby bursts out of a tunnel, smacks some monkeys, and crawls away without ever being mentioned again.
* The original ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' TV series made some waves at the time of its original broadcast by taking a couple of weeks off from the storyline to air a series of "alternate-universe" vignettes starring the main characters in very different settings (one of which actually [[Spin-Off|spun off]] into [[Pretty Sammy|its own franchise]]). Definitely the first time this trope had ever been used in anime, and possibly a first for Japanese television as a whole!
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had an episode during ''Sailor Moon R'' that featured the main characters having an island vacation in which Chibiusa befriends a dinosaur and the main characters use their superpowers to save said dinosaurs from a volcano. Yea, that's right. The main characters fight a volcano to save a pair of dinosaurs. The show normally didn't venture into such fantastical territory being acceptable, and the existence of ''living dinosaurs'' never comes up in the show again. It's generally considered one of the most pointless episodes of the entire show since absolutely nothing happens to progress the plot or flesh out the main characters, and that's saying something for a show known for its gratuitous filler. It was never dubbed into English and left off the English subbed DVD releases entirely, as it was never dubbed and ADV claimed Toei didn't give them the episode due to the creator not liking it. Most people only complained that it made their DVD collections incomplete, as opposed to genuinely missing the episode.
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