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* Lampshaded in ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'', a series that sticks to ''two'' popular genres: medical and crime.
* In the ''[[JAG]]'' episode ''Each of Us Angels'' is about an old man telling stories about his experience on a hospital ship during the [[World War II|storming of Iwo Jima]].
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' season two featured a virus that was capable of disabling powers, and then killing the victim. The series had a tendency to shift into medical drama at times when it followed Mohinder, who was trying to find a cure.
* [[Chuck]]'s sister and brother in law are both doctors, but it dips into "Medical Drama" (or medical ''comedy'', given that this is Chuck) less often then you would think (it still happens from time to time, though).
* The ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Ariel," pictured above, has Mal and crew robbing a hospital in the Core while Simon and Jayne smuggle River into the hospital and to an imaging suite so that Simon can find out what the Alliance did to her. Simon, the resident doctor on board Serenity and once one of the best trauma surgeons in the Core before the events which led to him and River becoming wanted fugitives, poses as a doctor and gets some awesome moments, including one where he risks blowing his cover to save a patient's life, and then ''thoroughly'' chews out the guy who was treating him.
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Grant Morrison]]'s run on ''New [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' was a succession of these instead of the routine superhero stuff: high school drama, sci-fi, murder mystery...
** Interestingly, Morrison fled from this genre bending as far as he could after a certain point in his run, making the good guys and bad guys as unambiguously traditionally super-hero/super-villain in their morals and adventures, despite still keeping the more exotic outward trappings introduced earlier.
* ''[[Sin City]]'' is mostly a crime-noir comic series set in a somewhat realistic world (for a comicbook anyway). Despite this, we've had a few departures.
** Shlubb and Klump had their own short story which was a wacky little story featuring [[Those Two Bad Guys]] and an ending gag straight out of a [[Looney Tunes]] episode.
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* ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]] 2: Freddy's Revenge'' is often described as feeling more like a [[Haunted House]] / [[Demonic Possession]] story than a [[Slasher Movie]].
* Some scenes from ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' can be mistaken for a war film.
* While all the [[Resident Evil]] films were arguably a [[Genre Roulette]], the third one was entirely different from the other 3. It was less a zombie movie and more a [[Desert Punk]] film with zombies occasionally appearing.
== Literature ==
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** The flash-sideways frequently switch genre. Flash-sideways Locke appears to be in some sort of dramedy about coping with his disability, Ben's are a drama set in a high school (yes, a ''canon'' [[High School AU]]), Sawyer and Miles are in a buddy cop movie...
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', which is actually a medical drama, has an arc in which Dr. House hires a private investigator to spy on Wilson. Instant detective drama!
** Two seasons before that, it also dipped into courtroom drama for part of an episode for the conclusion of the story arc featuring Detective Michael Tritter.
** And then the two-hour Season Six opener was a psychology/rehab drama? Either way, definite genre change.
** The Season Six episode "Lockdown" was a character-driven mystery drama.
** Ever since the {{spoiler|mass-firing/departure}} of House's fellows at the end of season 3, the show has done a fairly consistent job of mixing in genre-bender episodes that break with the standard format it had established. Since the end of season 5, in particular, this has become more and more common. These writers really know what they are doing in terms of keeping the show fresh.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' is a sci-fi drama, but has a tendency to shift to different genres depending on who is being focused on. It can be a political drama when following Nathan Petrelli (in season one and late season three), it can be a high school/college drama when it follows Claire, or a cop show when following Matt.
* ''[[Torchwood]]'', a show in which aliens and the supernatural are commonplace, has the episode "Countrycide" {{spoiler|in which the killers turn out to be nothing more than humans. Cannibals, but humans nonetheless}}.
* Similarly, ''[[Supernatural]]'' has the episodes "The Benders" and "Family Remains".
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* For one episode of ''[[The Prisoner]],'' "Living in Harmony," the series' plot is transplanted onto a Western setting.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had a hilarious musical episode. There's also the episode "The Body" which is a "pure" drama with no supernatural elements until the last few minutes. Really, Buffy's eclectic combination of "Horror-Comedy-Romance-Action-Drama" meant that it felt a little unusual for any individual episode to lean hard on any one genre.
** The episode "Helpless" left Buffy without her super Slayer strength for an episode, preventing her from just beating down the villain as usual. This made the episode have much more of a "horror" feel than any other episode in the series.
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' also did a musical episode. Usually they're a medical dramedy.
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys|Hercules]]'' and ''[[Xena]]'' did this rather frequently, with the latter being by far the worse offender. This tendency would eventually be lampshaded later in the latter series.
* "The Rescue Mission", a mid-season episode of ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'', features Terra Venture answering a distress signal left by an alien spaceship - as a result, there are no Zords, [[Super Sentai|Sentai]] footage or regular villains, and most of the fight scenes are unmorphed.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'' has an interesting experience with this trope. {{spoiler|While in prison, Naked Snake can fall asleep [[No Fourth Wall|if you save and quit]]. When you load it back, a hack-and-slash minigame starts. After a few minutes of slicing up [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|giant mutant prison guard monsters]], Snake wakes up from his nightmare, evoking a hilarious radio conversation from Para-Medic when called.}}
* ''[[Jagged Alliance]] 2'' is a squad-based strategy/RPG, set in a [[Banana Republic]], where you assist an uprising against an evil queen and... WHERE THE HELL DID THE HUGE MAN-EATING BUGS COME FROM!?
* A certain village in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'' puts you right into a Spaghetti Western (or a light-gun FPS, depending how you play it).
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts coded]]'' does this in several chapters, taking an action-RPG game and twisting it into a 2D platformer, a hall-running railshooter, and even a turn-based RPG at times.
* In ''[[Fable|Fable III]]'', once the King/Queen first sets foot on the streets of Aurora, there is a rather abrupt (and effective) switch from dark humor/fantasy to full-blown horror and it just gets [[It Got Worse|worse from there.]]
* Each of the ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' add-ons are this. ''Dead Money'' is a slice of [[Survival Horror]] in a Art Deco resort (not unlike [[
* In the NES ice hockey game ''Blades of Steel'', the first intermission entertainment is a short, simplified game of the space-shooter ''[[Gradius]]'' on the arena scoreboard. Then the puck drops for the second period.
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