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In live action sci-fi or fantasy works, special effects are a must. In the past, they were also very difficult to use and expensive so it was rare that you would see any major special effects in dramas or comedies.
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* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' is a stoner comedy, but it contains several fantasy sequences with big special effects and even a lightsaber fight (apparently, the movie they were shooting had real lightsabers and not props).
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]'': While SFX were used toward particular purposes (e.g., removing Gary Sinese's legs or inserting Tom Hanks into historical stock footage), there's also the feather [[Book Ends]].
* ''[[300
** It should be noted that while ''300'' was based on a comic by [[Frank Miller]], the comic was more or less realistic. At least compared to the movie which had monsters and goat-boys throughout. In fact, the inclusion of the goat-boy was a [[Throw It In]] moment by Zack Snyder who saw a sketch by a production designer and decided to put it in.
* In ''[[The Social Network]]'' the Winklevoss twins were portrayed by two non-identical actors, one of whom later had his head painstakingly replaced by a realistic CGI reconstruction of the other's head. A movie from even a decade earlier would have relied on [[Split Screen]] or would simply have hired twins, but this film went the extra mile so that the twins could do things like walk around the frame in front of each other. Effective, but arguably not really required for a dialogue driven drama.
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* ''[[Scrubs]]'' had an [[Imagine Spot]] [[Once an Episode]]. They often featured somewhat elaborate special effects. For instance, in an early episode, JD imagines that his head blows up in a scene that would be more appropriate in a horror film. It was a comedy/medical drama.
* Much like ''Scrubs'', there was at least a [[Once an Episode]] [[Imagine Spot]] in ''[[Ally McBeal]]''. It typically used CGI, which was extremely rare for a show like ''Ally McBeal'' (law drama) in the 1990s.
* Predating ''Scrubs'' and ''Ally McBeal'' was the 1997 ''[[3rd Rock
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