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* ''[[Jonas]]'''s first season was your average sitcom, featuring the Jonas Brothers in the title role of course. Its second season, ''Jonas L.A.'', has a stronger plot and is a borderline soap-opera, complete with [["Previously On..."]] and [["On the Next..."]] segments.
* The first season of ''[[Prison Break]]'' revolves around [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|an honest-to-god prison break]] with a cast composed almost entirely of stock characters ripped from classic prison movies, and the second season continues it with the escaped inmates on the run from the FBI. By the end of the second season, the escapees have all successfully evaded the law {{spoiler|(the few that survived, at least...)}} but the writers manage to justify the title by having the main characters all [[Ass Pull|rounded up for random reasons]] and [[It Got Worse|sent to a new, even worse prison in Panama]]. Then the final season rolls around, and the whole series morphs into some weird cross between ''[[MacGyver]]'' and ''[[The Bourne Series]]'' about the main cast trying to take down some [[The Syndicate|evil shadow corporation]] using zany schemes whipped together with loot from the Dollar Store.
* ''[[Community]]'' most episode are comedic joke a minute following the study group and their antics on the Greendale campus. However there are some switchups. "[[Community/Recap/S2 /E10 Mixology Certification|Mixology Certification]]" keeps this up for the first five minutes, but as soon as things switch to the bar, things become more somber. The end of the episode isn't comedic, but poignant. Consuming alcohol doesn't make the characters do anything funny, but makes things ''sad'' (it's the [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|"Lifetime original movie of beverages"]] as Troy puts it).
** ''Community'' is renowned for managing all sorts of single-episode genre shifts perfectly. It's been an action movie ("Modern Warfare"), a Rankin-Bass style Christmas Special ("Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas"), a spaghetti Western ("For a Few Paintballs More"), a single-camera documentary show ("Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking"), and even a zombie movie ("Epidemiology"). The reason it can pull all of this off is because while each episode is great example of the genre it's shifted to, it's also a great episode of ''Community'' at the same time.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' and ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' were mostly similar in setup. Yes, the Atlantis team was initially cut off from Earth, but subsequent seasons eliminated this problem. ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' goes with the "cut off from Earth" part and sticks with it, although the crew of the ''[[Cool Ship|Destiny]]'' is capable of communicating with Earth. Also, unlike ''SG-1'' and ''Atlantis'', ''Universe'' takes a page out of the reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' series and focuses more on individuals struggling to survive to the point where even the musical score is completely different from the "typical" Stargate music. There is an overall story arc, and the show sticks with it much more strongly than the other two shows. Unfortunately, it was [[Too Good to Last]], being cancelled after a cliffhanger.
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** ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' is gritty modern military (unless playing ''The Twin Snakes'').
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' is postmodern magic realist.
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' is ''shamelessly'' martini-flavored [[Spy Fiction]].
** ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' is ''relatively'' gritty military science fiction.
** Also the final boss battles: {{spoiler|1=MGS1 ends with a fist fight and chase sequence. MGS2 ends with a sword duel. MGS4 ends with hand-to-hand brawl. MGS3 avoids this, as stealth is a very effective tactic when fighting The Boss.}}