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Although expressed in a form very specific to the genre in which Chandler was writing, the Law can be easily generalized to handle any type of story.
Participants in [[NaNoWriMo|National Novel Writing Month]] (which emphasizes wordcount over quality) know this law by a similar mantra: "If all else fails, [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|have Ninjas burst through the wall and attack someone]]", as the writer should be able to get ''at least'' a few hundred words out of the characters [[You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!|suddenly questioning]] "Ninjas? What the hell is going on here?"
This undoubtedly finds some origin in the [[Rule of Drama]]. If guns are too dramatic for you, try [[Drop the Cow|dropping a cow]] for the [[Rule of Funny]] version. If an entirely new plotline results, see [[Halfway Plot Switch]]. [[Diabolus Ex Nihilo]] operates on this principle with varying levels of success. [[Conflict Killer]] is often a result of this.
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* Joss Whedon has been quoted as saying that whenever they needed to add to the drama in ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'', they'd get someone to point a gun at [[The Woobie|Kaylee.]]
** ...which was a variation of his tactic from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "When in doubt, put Willow in danger."
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* [[Jim Henson]] once commented on his pre-Muppet puppet sketches that when he couldn't think of how to close a sketch, he'd either have an explosion or have one character eat the other. It's pretty clear that this carried over to [[The Muppet Show]].
* ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' has Alan, while writing a movie in a coffee shop, geting writer's block several times and solving it by having a meteor hit the characters.
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{{quote| '''Zoe:''' I don't ''believe'' this! Just when I think we might be having a nice, ''ordinary'' issue to deal with, like adultery, ''you'' come in screaming about ''vampires!'' What happened to normal problems, like credit-card debt?}}
* ''Strip Tease'' is a decent slice of life comic, until the writer decides to throw in some "drama" and has the main character's girlfriend kidnapped... three times... by the same people...
* ''[[Waterworks (Webcomic)|Waterworks]]'' pulls this off when the plot seems to stall, and even the main character comments on how nothing vital seems to be happening. All of a sudden, after the readers have been fooled into thinking that a leisurely talk scene is about to follow, the hitherto [[Shrouded in Myth]] powerful villain bursts through a door, wrestling with a [[Mini
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