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'''You:''' "Okay, [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|what the hell just happened?]]" }}

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** In Once More With Feeling, Buffy and some vampires burst into song during some slayage. She then enters the magic shop hesitant to bring it up, seemingly preferring it to leave it in Alligator territory. It even goes a step further, leaving the audience with the same WTF face, wondering if anyone is going to acknowledge it. But once she talks about it is it revealed that all the others were thinking the same about their own musical numbers that happened off-screen.

** To be fair, the entire first season of Buffy contained quite a few hints at larger storylines that never got mentioned again, with monsters being hinted at as [[Not Quite Dead]].

* On the final episode of series 19 of ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', after given his Odd One Out group, Paul Merton begins to ponder the answer. Suddenly, the camera fade-cuts to some footage of Paul and fellow captain, Ian Hislop, skipping through a field in slow motion to sappy soft music for several seconds. Camera cuts back to Paul, who's got a day dreamy expression on his face. He then shakes his head and apologising, saying he was "miles away". The footage popped up again in the later seasons when Joan Collins hosted in a Dynasty spoof, but aside from that, there was no explanation for it. According to Paul of the Very Best of HIGNFY DVD commentary, he tried for eight years to get that gag onto the show and was rejected two times by two different producers, the third try helped and the gag was put in.

* A running joke in the fourth season of ''[[Nash Bridges]]'' had the SIU move into a former disco which would start playing "Disco Inferno" at random intervals without explanation. It's just as weird as it sounds.

* In the middle of a segment regarding binge drinking on the talk show ''[[The Morning Show]]'' with Mike and Juliet, a picture of a cat in a high chair eating spaghetti randomly appeared for a few seconds, and then disappeared. Nobody acknowledges this or ever talks about it again. This quickly became a meme known as "Spaghetti Cat" and it became a running gag on another show, ''[[The Soup]]''. Apparently it was a type of dialog censor, but it was still so outlandish and out-of-nowhere that it should count.

** The dialogue they wanted to censor was one of the interviewees saying the word "retarded."

** Chuck does eventually apologize to Jenny about it after some major [[Character Development]], and Rufus finally finds out about it in season four.

* Dennis Potter became known for making extensive use these in his TV dramas, particularly ''[[Pennies From Heaven]]'' and ''[[The Singing Detective]]''.

** This is probably a remnant of an [[Aborted Arc]]. The producers had intended to introduce a romantic relationship between Kira and Dukat around this point, but Kira's ''actress'' shot the whole thing down almost immediately, so it never went anywhere. The result is just... bizarre.

** Not quite as bad, but one 4th season episode featuring Kira and [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[Complete Monster|Dukat]] forced to work together to find a long disappeared prisoner transport ship has a scene with the two of them camping for the night. Dukat sits on a 3 inch spike, impaling his butt and requiring assistance from Kira. The next three minutes are just Kira giggling to herself as Dukat wiggles his butt around in the air trying to apply some medicine. Immediately after this, they start talking about the plot/mission again and Dukat reveals [[Mood Whiplash|he plans on killing his own half-bajoran daughter if she is still alive...]]

** I'd call that almost more of a [[Pet the Dog]] moment, since the point seemed to be "humanizing" Dukat somewhat, that he's just like other people: feels pain, and finds a little humor laughing along with Kira when he realizes the medical implement he's using isn't turned on.

{{quote| Worf is shown at his security panel on the bridge, making Klingon discomfort-noises. He then later faints (“Klingons don’t faint,” he complains) and Dr. Pulaski (ugh) keeps it under her hat, so he thanks her by showing her the Klingon Tea Ceremony, which is apparently a thing. All of this happens before the second commercial break. It is then NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. It doesn’t relate to the rest of the episode, it’s not somehow a parallel, it’s just like “oh, here’s some stuff that happened.”}}

*** In the first season episode "Where No-one Has Gone Before", the Enterprise finds itself in a region of the universe where thought can shape reality, leading to scenes of random crewmembers engaging in activities like ballet dancing in full costume and playing the violin in an orchestra. Essentially the crew's random thoughts force big lipped alligator moments to happen all over the ship until Picard decides enough's enough and orders a red alert and for the crew to focus on their jobs.

* "Sushi Roulette" at the start of Season 15 of ''[[The Amazing Race]]''. Nearly every task on the show is something that comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again (barring a ''[[Final Exam Boss]]'' challenge at the end), but they usually have some sort of bearing on the plot. This task, however, is a different beast entirely. Set on a Japanese game show, each of the eleven teams was positioned at a roulette wheel divided into eleven pieces, two of which always contained wasabi. When the wasabi landed in front of a team, the chosen person would have to eat it fast enough to receive their next clue. To really cement its BLAM status, there were such additions as falling confetti, a bizarre voice calling out "Eat the wasabi!" for each new round, and surreal animation that included ''a fire-breathing alligator'' that appeared whenever the wasabi became overwhelming. And when it was over, it never returned in any flashbacks during the season.

* At the end of the first season of ''[[Skins]]'', several characters, including a random bus driver and Tony {{spoiler|who is in a ''coma'' at the time}} start singing Cat Steven's "Wild World". Not just singing it, but as a full-blown musical number, with backing music- See here: [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1lslw_skins-wild-world_music\].

* In the first episode of ''[[Spaced]]'' while Tim and Daisy are looking around the flat, they run into a pair of girlscout [[Creepy Twins]] in a closet who freak them out, before being promptly forgotten. Apparently, they were originally going to be recurring characters, until the makers decided that there wasn't much else that could be done with them.

* ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' has, in season 2, been including musical numbers. On a show that's supposedly about a group of sketch comedy actors. Okay, 3 of the 5 cast members (4 from 6 if you include Marshall, who can do vaudeville) can sing, and sing well, but that's no excuse.

** Something of a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]] and [[Truth in Television]]. Both Nick and Disney have as almost a requirement, that their teen/tweener star (especially the girls), have to be able to sing and dance, so they can push the tie-in [[Idol Singer]] CD's and tours.

** Also, Spencer rubbing butter on his face in ''iPity the Nevel''.

*** That happens because he's bored, in the end, he gets so bored he just randomly walks into the iCarly studio, during one of their webcasts, drinking what's obviously a beer and acting drunk.

* Even though the show is about a bunch of singers, ''[[Glee]]'' has these all the time, with a sudden transition from say, Rachel and Quinn talking in a hallway at school, Quinn turning around and starting to sing, followed by a transition to the football field where her and the cheerleaders start a dance routing during the song.

** Puck randomly stopping the plot and conflict during "Grilled Chesus" to sing Billy Joel's "Only the Good Die Young". The song itself is pretty related to the theme of religion present throughout the episode, but the way it's presented is so random.

** In the middle of the "Restaurant Abuse/Cannibalism" sketch, which was one of the odder ones<ref>and that, of course, is saying something</ref> to begin with, a man in [[Ancient Grome|Ancient Groman]] dress enters, delivers a brief pseudo-Shakespearean speech that has nothing to do with the scene, is told off by the waiter, goes away and is not mentioned again.

* The last season of ''[[The X-Files]]'' features an episode with Burt Reynolds as a bizarre man who may be God, the devil, or both. Just about every scene with him qualifies, none more so than the very ending in which two characters who occasionally showed up in the background start lip-snyching to an Italian folk song, during which the camera pulls away to reveal the area's topography looks just like Reynolds' face.

* An episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' had Stephen lead into a long joke about sheep doing crystal meth getting their own show called [[Breaking Bad|Breaking Baaaaaa]] and then celebrated having executed the Best Pun Ever (BPE) with a balloon drop, music, being carried by men like an Egyptian king, fighting a minotaur to the death with a dagger, and then laying down in the company of several women who fed him grapes.

* On ''[[The L Word]]'', Jenny is looking for directors for the movie of her book, Lez Girls. After a series of relatively normal interviews, she shows up at a small theater where a French man describes his vision of her book as a musical, and opens the curtains to reveal his demo. As if this wasn't strange enough (the song being quite slow and trippy, very unlike your typical movie musical), at the end Jenny recognizes one of the performers as her ex-girlfriend, Marina. Episode ends, incident is never mentioned again.

* Even [[Reality TV]] is not averse to this. One episode of ''[[Fame Academy]]'', a [[The BBC|BBC]] [[Talent Show]], had footage of a governor ([[Insistent Terminology|the part of the engine]], '''not''' a [[Eagle Land|U.S. Senator]] for a few brief seconds. ''Why'' this happened was never explained. This could possibly be a [[Stock Footage Failure]].

* ''[[Fringe]]'': Two Words: [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Singing Corpses]]!

* ''[[CSI: NY]]'' featured an episode where a murder is witnessed on a [[Fictional Counterpart|ChatRoulette-style website]]. This leads to the detectives playing around on the site and Jo gets connected to a Marine in Afghanistan. She picks up her laptop and gives him a view of the New York skyline because he's never been to New York.

* Episode "Girls VS Suits" from ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. Yes, part of the plot was about [[Neil Patrick Harris]]' character to seduce a woman without wearing one of his infamous suits, but still the episode ends with the whole cast in an epic musical number that comes out of nowhere in which Harris' character sings [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GuYMJ32vbA "Nothing suits me like a suit"].

** In another episode, the main character starts singing to describe the best date ever, for no apparent reason, as some random technicians change the decor around him.

** In the first episode of season 7 Robin and Barney have a sudden dance number in the middle of the episode that comes right out of left field.

** For those who have never seen the show, that music video is the cold opening to one of the episodes. No context or anything, just that. It's revealed afterwards that it's a recording of one of the Cat's dreams.

** One should note that the description of the video isn't even accurate, the scene has ''nothing'' to do with "parallel worlds". Apparently even the BBC don't know what was going on with this.

* In any episode of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' that doesn't involve Gaius Baltar, there'll still be a random of scene of him in bed with a beautiful woman that serves no purpose other than to remind us that he's still in the story.

* An episode of Season Two of ''[[The Good Wife]]'' has one at a gala dinner for the Cook County Bar Association where an amateur theater group puts on a strange, poorly-acted play for the lawyers, telling the story of a farm boy who doesn't want his best friend, a cow named Moo Cow, to be drafted to fight in World War II. It is never mentioned again, for obvious reasons.

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