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* Similarly, many of the events of ''[[Friday Night Lights (TV series)|Friday Night Lights]]'' Season Two aren't referenced in later seasons, the most [[Egregious]] of which would be {{spoiler|Landry KILLING a man to protect Tyra, and even confessing to it}}. Other stuff happened that season, too (Matt and Grandma Saracen's maid, Buddy raising a ward named Santiago), but the only major event to happen that season with any significant impact on future seasons is Jason Street {{spoiler|getting a woman pregnant}}.

* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' has the episode where Walt becomes obsessed with killing a fly that has somehow gotten into the meth lab. There are a few moments of legitimate character development and overall series value to this episode, but for the most part, it's a big steaming pile of BLAM.

* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. In the middle of the season that also included Merlin losing his first love, Arthur discovering the truth about his mother, Morgana's [[Start of Darkness]] and the introduction of two of the most powerful/terrifying villains the show had ever showcased (Morgause and the Witchfinder), two utterly superfluous episodes were devoted to a troll successfully marrying King Uther and becoming Queen. It was a great performance by Sarah Parish, but the humor was made up of pratfalls and [[Toilet Humour]], Arthur, Gwen and Morgana were utterly (and uncharacteristically) useless, the audience was scarred for life by being forced to watch Uther go to bed with a troll, and after the episode ends, no one ever again thinks to mention that a shit-eating troll had been the Queen of Camelot for an extended period of time.

* The 1980's ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'' episode "Candle In The Night". This is a show that thrived on an overarching conspiracy by aliens to overthrow the Earth, interpersonal conflict between the cast and gratuitous violence that pushed the limits of what syndicated television could show...and someone decided that an entire episode should be focused on a supporting character ''having a birthday party''. The plot follows one of the team members, Debi, who sneaks out of the Blackwood Project's headquarters to have a birthday party with a bunch of random kids she meets. There's no real tension or drama in the episode, and none of the characters or events are mentioned again.

* [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]] had a surreal, cyborg-free episode where Sarah is in a sleep clinic and is haunted by nightmares {{spoiler|which are actually real, while the clinic is a hallucination caused by a one-off villain probing her mind}}.