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The examples, naturally, contain ''major spoilers.''
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* The ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' episode "Circus Circus". No other episode sets up as many of the major arcs and themes in the second season: the corrosive effect of secrets; something new beginning as necessarily implying something else ending; stasis as the opposite of life/death/rebirth; the impossibility of simply picking up a relationship where it was left off; one's persona or public self versus one's [[True Self]]; a parent's inability to recognize his or her child.
* The ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' first-season episode "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" was thought to be a comedy filler episode revolving around a series of misunderstandings between Ellen Tigh (who unexpectedly reappears in the fleet) and Commander Adama (who believes Ellen is a Cylon sleeper agent). The whole episode climaxes in an amusing scene where everyone humorously works out their differences, and the matter is resolved. Three seasons later, in "Sometimes A Great Notion", it turns out this episode set up the eventual arc and reveal that {{spoiler|Ellen was the final Cylon}}.
* The ''[[Mad Men]]'' third season episode "My Old Kentucky Home." On its face, the [[Four Lines, All Waiting]] story serves as a series of character vignettes bound by the "work disguised as fun" theme. However, this episode introduces us characters that become prominent in later episodes (Connie Hilton, Henry Francis); and story arcs that carry through the next couple of seasons (Peggy's introduction to the counterculture, Joan realizing that marrying her doctor is not going to give her the life she thought she wanted, Betty looking for a way out of her marriage, among others).
* ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'' had two:
** In the first series "The Gates of Avalon" was a fairly basic [[Monster of the Week]] story, in which Arthur is targeted by two murderous Sidhe, but it also introduces the fact that [[Dreaming of Things to Come|Morgana is a seer]] which marks out her entire [[Character Arc]] from then on.
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