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[[File:firefly-outgenrexp 3977.png|link=Firefly|frame|Would you believe this is a [[Space Western]]?]]
Writing drama is hard. Sticking to a popular formula is easy. That's why sometimes you can create a
This trope can be glaringly obvious or just a subtle genre that doesn't fit into the rest of the series. [[Medical Drama]] is used as an example because it is difficult to hide.
A good test to see whether something fits this trope: If you turned on the television or opened the book at a particular point, would you be able to
This trope is often paired with [[Mood Whiplash]]. For a permanent genre change, see [[Genre Shift]], [[Halfway Plot Switch]] is when the plot starts out as something unrelated leading up to the switch. See [[Genre Roulette]] for a more extreme version, and [[Courtroom Episode]], [[Noir Episode]], and [[Superhero Episode]] for common subtropes. For the same principle applied to video game genres, see [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]].
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* ''[[Moby Dick]]'' includes chapters devoted to explaining various aspects of whaling life, as well as a cetology (study of whales) lesson that could fit into a biology textbook or encyclopedia. [[Non Sequitur Scene|There's also a chapter about chowder.]]
* Similarly, ''[[Les Misérables]]'' has extensive sections detailing the Paris sewers, the Battle of Waterloo, thieves' argot, cloistered orders of nuns...
* Until the final chapters, ''[[Harry Potter and
** Similarly, ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Chamber of Secrets]]'' is kind of a horror story and ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Order of the Phoenix]]'' is kind of a political drama/satire. Also, anything with [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|the Dursleys]] leans on something of a [[Stepford Suburbia]] [[Black Comedy]].
* The ''[[Thursday Next]]'' books are... [[Genre Busting|sort of]] an urban fantasy mystery series about literature and the [[Meta Fiction]] thereof. Once per book, there's a chapter wherein Thursday teams up with Spike [[Meaningful Name|Stoker]] to fight vampires, ghosts, demons or what have you, usually just so she can pay the rent. The narration shifts to a style that would not be out of place in ''[[Dracula]]'' or the more serious modern horror novel. And then things are back to normal next chapter.
** There's also a scene where Thursday has to cross the void between two books in the Bookworld, and the book depicts the wordless void by briefly turning into a comic.
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