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Writing drama is hard. Sticking to a popular formula is easy. That's why sometimes you can create a '''temporary''' [[Genre Shift]] in a series to fill up time in your story. For example, many television shows are general drama, but...with a character who is a doctor. You know that soon enough, there's going to be a central episode for that character, complete with a medical plot.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Candorville]]'', a strip with just enough [[Magical Realism]] to avoid fitting into [[Slice of Life]], made a temporary switch to dark [[Urban Fantasy]] in February
* ''[[Mother Goose and Grimm]]'' can't make up its mind whether it's going to have continuity with its title characters, or be an absurd gag-per-day strip without recurring cast members á la ''[[The Far Side]]''.
* Jim Davis intentionally did this for a few ''[[Garfield]]'' strips in which Garfield is in the midst of an abandonment nightmare. Suddenly the strip is entirely creepy and not at all funny.
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