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{{quote|''"This is a [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] bizarre episode!"''|'''Yugi''', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
You're watching your favorite show one day. The episode seems to start as normal... but wait, what's this? Does everything seem completely against continuity? Are the characters acting as if dosed up on tranquilizers? Does everything happening not make sense within the pre-established context? Everything looks surreal or strange?
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Episode 13 of ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', "The Call of Dagomon" (a.k.a. the "Dark Ocean" episode). A tribute to [[
* The "Cowbell" and "Nanami's Egg" episodes of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' feel like this compared to the rest of the series, and trust us, that's saying something.
** The rule for Utena seems to be "BLAM! Every eighth episode ([[Wham! Episode|except episode 32]])".
** However, because this is ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', even these episodes contain themes and ideas that help to explain the rest of the series. Not that you're likely to notice the first time in the middle of the giant WTF it induces.
* ''[[Bleach]]'''s 10th year anniversary episode (ep. 287 to be exact), where Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Rukia and Renji are in a parody of ''[[
** A Halloween episode had a similar premise, but had the characters in a [[Monster Mash]] setting. This time the one having the dream was Komamura (who dreamt of himself as Ichigo for some reason)
** Many [[Filler]] episodes of ''[[
*** And that one wasn't even filler. It was actually in the manga.
* Almost every episode of ''[[
* The episode "Warehouse 13" from the 2003 ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** That episode consisted of two shorts. The other one was Havoc trying to marry Armstrong's sister.
* The episode of [[Ouran High School Host Club]] wherein young!Haruhi suddenly steps into a pastiche of ''[[
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
** Supposedly episode 4 was made as a jab at other anime that decrease in overall quality after the first few episodes, but it was still effed up.
* ''[[Pokémon (
** {{spoiler|The Gastly was also the old woman, actually working off of an existing legend of [[I Will Wait for You|a girl who stood watching at a cliff waiting for her lover to return from a voyage]]. [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|And also to make some money on the side,]] [[Voodoo Shark|but that's never really adequately explained either]]}}.
** The one involving [[Time Travel]]! Brock, May, and Max lose Ash in the woods. Ash meets a cloaked woman in the middle of the woods who is singing a little song about Baltoy and treasure. She has an old book, but Ash doesn't pay it or her much attention at the time. Later, he meets a much younger girl who's searching for a treasure with (you guessed it) her Baltoy. She tells Ash she's searching for a treasure hidden somewhere in the woods, and opens a little book that talks about the treasure. It has a little song in it, which she starts singing. Ash interrupts and starts singing the rest, recognizing the song is the same one the woman was singing. The girl is surprised since the book only just came out. Ash explains about the woman and they eventually find her battling Team Rocket. They win and she takes them to a cave, where they fall down a hole in the floor, leading to a tunnel. As they reach the end of the tunnel, the woman takes off her cloak's hood, revealing herself to be an older version of the girl. She then explains that the giant stone tablet thing at the end of the cave is a time machine activated by a Baltoy. Then she goes back to the future. Then the girl leaves and Ash meets back up with his friends. AND ASH NEVER SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT THE TIME MACHINE!!!
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*** By the way, the episode marks the first time Pikachu is referred to as male in the English dub. This doesn't stop him from getting shipped with Piplup, especially considering [[Ho Yay|what happened seven episodes later]]...
** One episode has it all: Ash and James dressed up as eggplants, an old man attempting to sell souvenirs at every chance he can, [[Fetish Fuel|Nurse May, Dancing Queen Jessie]], [[Wholesome Crossdresser|a crossdressing Meowth and Wobbuffet]], Wobbuffet's flute playing skills, and to top it all off... [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|A GIANT CLAYDOL]]. [[Crack Pairing|Even funnier is that the Claydol actually falls in love with and chases Wobbuffet!]]
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' managed to get a BLAM season. Between the quarter-finals and the semi-finals of the Battle City tournament, they arrive on a submersible military base and have to fight the digitised minds of all previous high ranking officials of KaibaCorp in a mindscrewed reality, at the behest of Seto Kaiba's [[Anime]]-exclusive [[Virtual Ghost]] half-brother, Noah. The season also introduced the Deck Master to the games, a process that makes no sense whatsoever (but what else is new). And to secure it as a total BLAM, the digital mind of Kaiba's father tries to turn into a giant being of fire and eat their jet as its leaving. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Kaiba says [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again|he never wants any of them to mention it again]].
** Then there's the "[[Red Herring Twist|Abandoned Dorm]]" sub-arc in ''GX''. While "investigated" several times in Seasons 1 and 4, answers about what it actually was were few and far between, and usually resulted in bizarre Shadow Duels that get hardly a mention afterward. To this day, fans still argue over what exactly it all means.
** And finally, there's the "Crashtown" arc of ''5D's''. Let's just put it this way: in the middle of a season-long arc of finding the Three Emperors of Ylliaster, let's intercut a Noah-like arc in the Wild West involving a former villain from Season 2, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and put Yusei in a poncho]]. Needless to say, until the real season started getting hit with Wham after Wham, this was the point in which fans were starting to argue whether the cast had used their Duel Runners to [[Jump the Shark]].
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'''Jet:''' Next episode, Jupiter Jazz, Part One.<br />
'''Spike:''' There really is a next episode! }}
* The final episode of ''[[Excel Saga (
** You know what? ''[[Excel Saga (
*** ''[[Excel Saga (
* Episode 101 of ''[[Naruto]]''. Apparently they were trying to figure out what Kakashi looked like without his mask... Oh dear GOD, that will never make sense.
** The "prison escape" arc during the Part 1 [[Filler]] also qualifies. Two of the main villains are giant men shaped like giant Russian dolls (tiny at the top and wide at the bottom) and equally bottomless; their battle cry is "Food! Food! Food!", and Naruto plays hide-and-seek with them (?). Meanwhile, it turns out that the [[Big Bad]] of the day is none other than {{spoiler|Mizuki}}, who is now fully [[Ax Crazy]] and has an old grudge against Iruka. For some reason he has grown giant muscles over the previous year, so the previous [[Bishonen]] now looks like one of those scary bodybuilders with a serious case of [[Testosterone Poisoning]]. And {{spoiler|Orochimaru supplied him with a potion that turns him into a sort of tiger-thing}}. Pass the [[Brain Bleach|mind bleach]], please.
** Many of the one-episode fillers qualify. The first of these was the [[Hot Springs Episode]] 97, which is so different from ''[[Naruto]]'' in animation, story and style, it makes you wonder if you're watching the right show.
* [[Anime]] [[Filler]], in general, tends be this, with ''[[
** The episode of DBZ in which Goku and Piccolo learn how to drive, in particular.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie]]'', sort of. While actually considered pretty good by a surprising number of fans, it has zero relation whatsoever to any other expanded media, or even the [[Sonic the Hedgehog|games]] (besides the characters) and [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot|might have meant to have been part of a series]]. We'll never really know.
* Heck, ''[[
** Not only that, there are [[Meta]]-BLAMs, when there are scenes that can be considered BLAMs even within the context of the [[BLAM Episode|BLAM episodes]]. For instance, during a pointless scene where Bo-bobo is riding a kiddy train ride at an amusement park, a giant baby bursts out of a tunnel, smacks some monkeys, and crawls away without ever being mentioned again.
* The original ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' TV series made some waves at the time of its original broadcast by taking a couple of weeks off from the storyline to air a series of "alternate-universe" vignettes starring the main characters in very different settings (one of which actually [[Spin-Off|spun off]] into [[Pretty Sammy|its own franchise]]). Definitely the first time this trope had ever been used in anime, and possibly a first for Japanese television as a whole!
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had an episode during ''Sailor Moon R'' that featured the main characters having an island vacation in which Chibiusa befriends a dinosaur and the main characters use their superpowers to save said dinosaurs from a volcano. Yea, that's right. The main characters fight a volcano to save a pair of dinosaurs. The show normally didn't venture into such fantastical territory being acceptable, and the existence of ''living dinosaurs'' never comes up in the show again. It's generally considered one of the most pointless episodes of the entire show since absolutely nothing happens to progress the plot or flesh out the main characters, and that's saying something for a show known for its gratuitous filler. It was never dubbed into English and left off the English subbed DVD releases entirely, as it was never dubbed and ADV claimed Toei didn't give them the episode due to the creator not liking it. Most people only complained that it made their DVD collections incomplete, as opposed to genuinely missing the episode.
* The final episode of ''[[
* The [[Filler]] episodes in ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. The first is a series of short bonus stories from the [[Manga]] (which are all a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] in their own rights) with the added story of a town of mages that accidentally cursed themselves to turn into monsters that the [[Main Character|main characters]] all try to eat. The second is a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] that ends unresolved, which is actually made weirder by being mentioned in a later episode.
* May we present to you the ''[[Zatch Bell]]'' [[Manga]], [http://www.mangareader.net/266-25412-1/zatch-bell/chapter-277.html chapter 277]. Context will only make it ''worse''.
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' [[Manga]] (Jet Black Flower) has... Gate Kitchen Battle.
{{quote| '''[[Playboy Bunny|The announcer]]''': Which team will please the palate of Hei-san, the [[Big Eater|Voracious]] Masked King?<br />
'''Hei''': How the hell did this happen?<br />
'''[[Talking Animal|Mao]]''': Beats me, Hei. [[Reality Is Out to Lunch|This is The Gate]], after all. }}
* ''[[Panty
* ''[[
* "The Hot Spring Planet, Tenrei", an episode of ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. The rest of the series is a lighthearted [[Space Opera]] action show, but this episode briefly turns it into a [[Fan Service]]-laden slapstick comedy.
* Episode 22 of the ''[[Black Butler]]'' [[Anime]] adaptation was pretty random, though since it was near the final episode it did have something to do with the [[Plot]]. In fact, since the [[Anime]] [[Overtook the Manga]], it had a lot of stuff which didn't make sense. Anyway, in this episode, Ciel and Sebastian go to Paris for the World's Fair. Ciel reads about how there's a stuffed Angel somewhere there, so they go look at it {{spoiler|due to the fact that they had previously encountered an Angel named Angela}} only to find it's just a taxidermy monkey with wings attached. Suddenly, the monkey COMES TO LIFE! And it ATTACKS SEBASTIAN! And DESTROYS THE LIGHTING! So Ciel runs off to escape the evil winged monkey of doom, and goes to an elevator that leads to the Eiffel Tower. And who should he meet but...THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND! And her butler, Ash! When they go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower, the Queen lifts her veil to reveal {{spoiler|that she's all young again. And it turns out that Ash is an Angel too, and had sewn the Queen and her late husband Albert together...which...somehow made her all youthful or something. And of course, it turns out Queen Vicky was secretly behind Ash's evil plans and the murder of Ciel's parents.}} So, Ash is about to attack Ciel or something, but just then, Sebby turns up (obviously finished his epic battle with the evil winged monkey of doom) and fights him off with cutlery. The Queen and Ash escape and our two "heroes" return to their hotel. And the next morning, his faithful butler hath vanished! So, Ciel attempts to find his own way back to London, which he isn't very successful with. And he strokes a cat at one point. Isn't he allergic to them? Anyway, he finally stows away on a ship, where he meets the Undertaker, who feeds him bone-shaped biscuits. They return to London to find... {{spoiler|London is burning!}} The next episode makes it all sillier when you discover {{spoiler|Angela and Ash are one and the same.}}
* Episode 19 of ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' has [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Pino]], in a dream, visiting a theme park called Smile Land, owned and run by a man called [[Mr. Alt Disney|Will B. Goode]]{{spoiler|, who also happens to be a proxy}}. The episode consists of Pino exploring the park along with a couple of its (presumably also AutoReiv) characters, and ultimately being convinced by Mr. Goode to avoid visiting the park when she, Re-l, and Vincent pass by it for real, {{spoiler|since Goode doesn't want to fight but knows that Ergo Proxy will try to kill him}}. When Pino wakes up, she succeeds in steering Re-l and Vincent away from the park, which was never seen or heard from again.
** Episode 15 doesn't quite qualify; Vincent winds up as the contestant on a "Nightmare Quiz Show", presumably through the devices of a Proxy, and the entire episode depicts an episode of said quiz show. While this is a vastly different style and tone from the rest of the series (with the possible exception of the aforementioned episode 19), the episode delivers [[Info Dump|a lot of important,]] [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot|if cryptic,]] exposition about the backstory and the creation of the Proxies; moreover, the episode is repeatedly referred to, or even [[Flash Back|flashed-back to]], in several later episodes.
* The entire [[
* The ''second'' episode of ''[[Ghost in
* ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'' episode 100. Hiroto and Kogure get lost in the woods, and are challenged to a match by a pair of Kappas, no character development happens, no new techniques are learned, and it's only mentioned in a blink and you miss it scene during a flashback.
* An [[Deleted Scene|unaired episode]] of ''[[
** Though it was all part of an operation that Yurippe came up with, so it's not like there was no reason for it. Though the episode did run completely on [[Rule of Funny]].
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* ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]'' is effectively a BLAM ''series'' for the entire [[DCU]]. With [[Out of Character]] moments, random deaths, nonsensical and time-wasting [[Plot|plotlines]], it firmly cemented itself as a BLAM when [[Grant Morrison]], the author of ''[[Final Crisis]]'' (the event Countdown was supposed to lead up to) ''ignored it completely'' and effectively put the entire thing into [[Canon Dis Continuity]].
** [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/2725-linkara-top-15-wtf-moments-in-comics Just] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/8982-countdown ask] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/9725-top15count Linkara].
* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
** Dr. Droid was supposed to make a return appearance in a later miniseries, as the threat Knuckles was prophesied to defeat. Thanks to [[Executive Meddling]], though, that [[Plot]] was dropped and the miniseries got turned into the infamous "Mobius: 25 Years Later" arc.
* Like the above example, almost every intercompany [[Crossover]] is a [[Bizarro Episode]]. They remain popular because of the potential for a [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]], and if nothing else there's always the hope that fans of one character will read the [[Crossover]] and decide they like the other character as well and start reading that - basically, companies trying to cross-pollinate their [[Fandom]]. However, for legal reasons these [[Crossover|crossovers]] very rarely have any impact on ongoing continuity (although it happens occasionally), and works set in different universes tend to have different assumptions and physical laws, in particular about [[Power Levels]]. Most intercompany [[Superhero]] [[Crossover|crossovers]] have involved characters casually running into each other even though if they existed in the same universe they really should have had plenty of encounters before now or something, and afterwards are never mentioned again in-story unless there's another [[Crossover]].
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== Film ==
* The entirety of [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''Moonwalker''. The premise sounds straightforward enough - MJ uses [[The Power of Rock|The Power of Pop]] to save a little girl from [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|drug dealers]] - but it... really... just... ''isn't''. Even his biggest fans were left scratching their heads, [[This Is Your Premise
* ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'' consists of [[Random Events Plot|a string of odd (and hilarious) happenings]], most of which are never mentioned again.
** ''[[And Now for Something Completely Different]]'' [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. The opening sequence involves a pair of singing disembodied lips...and it just gets weirder from there.
* The "horror" movie ''Skinned Deep'' ([[Nightmare Retardant|horror used very loosely]]) is a pure example of this. Some notable examples include a kid getting cut in half, a headless muscleman with boxer briefs that read DYNO-MITE!!! on them (which hides real dynamite), streaking after a motorcycle ride, and: "I brought you some soup and money". The movie is broken up into 5 or 6 distinct parts (none of which have actual transitions), each of which having little to no connection to the others.
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* The entire second half of ''[[Gremlins]] 2'' is just a long series of gags which don't actually drive the storyline anywhere. In fact, most of the first half of that [[Film]] is entirely useless, as well.
** On the commentary, Zach Galligan eventually notes that despite being the nominal [[Main Character]] of the [[Film]], he's only onscreen for about a third of it thanks to all the gags.
* ''[[Halloween III: Season of the Witch]]'' has nothing to do with Michael Myers and instead has a [[Plot]] that involves a mind-control conspiracy. What, you want continuity? Forget it. Not only does the [[Film]] make no sense on its own, it is a stand-alone [[Film]] with no connection to any of the other Halloween movies at all.
** Originally the idea behind the ''Halloween'' movies was they'd have nothing in common except taking place on Halloween. The problem was the first one did too well and Michael Myers became too much of an icon to make the other movies without him. ''Halloween III'' was an attempt to revive their original plans and was so bad it killed all possibility of making any other movies not centering around Mr. Myers.
* ''[[
** First up, the ''entire movie'' is a [[Flash Back]] being told to a random bird. Why? It's never mentioned except at the beginning and at the end.
** The time traveler says he wants to save the world by giving dinosaurs to all of Earth's children. Ignoring for the moment exactly ''how'' taking animals out of their native environment (never mind geological era) and bringing them to New York City is supposed to save the world, he drops them in the ocean, whereupon, after some time, they coincidentally discover a small boy. Okay then.
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* That [[The Movie]] of ''[[Tank Girl]]'' would end up as one of these was ''guaranteed'' the minute they decided to cast Ice-T as an anthropomorphic kangaroo.
** [[Comically Missing the Point|...Because a part like that should go to Snoop Dogg]].
* The [[Film]] ''[[
** In her review of the [[Film]], [[
* ''[[The Hangover]]'' could be considered a [[BLAM Episode]]. By the end of the movie, you have sort of a vague idea as to what could have happened last night. But you're still left wondering as to how one situation led to another.
* ''[[The Room]]'' is one big old pile of BLAM. So many characters come in and out and give new information without any real sense of cohesion.
* ''[[The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
* ''[[Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter]]'' Ok, so there's a vampire fight scene followed by a pointless musical number, followed by a transformation... then it stops making sense.
* The spy parody ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' . Many things in the [[Film]] are never mentioned again once they happen. It is all completely over the top even for psychedelic sixties spy flicks. Many scenes could be removed from the [[Film]] with little or no damage to the [[Plot]]. There are even some scenes that when seen together have absolutely nothing to do with each other. But somehow it fits together as a whole.
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** Done on purpose by Neveldine and Taylor, who wanted to start work on ''[[Gamer]]'' so urgently but they couldn't due to [[Executive Meddling|studio pressure for another sequel]]. So they threw in lots of BLAMs, hoping the sheer awfulness of the script would get the film dropped so they could work on ''[[Gamer]]''.
* In the context of ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Canon]], the ''[[Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' is essentially a string of BLAMs. It involves a Wookiee family watching a cooking show, some sort of strange Wookiee porn, a sci-fi action scene in cartoon form, a Wookiee watching an instructional video on how to assemble a transmitter (every step of which is shown to the audience), and Bea Arthur as a singing bartender on Tatooine.
* The fourth ''[[Silent Night, Deadly Night]]'' involved things like a [[Straw Feminist]] [[Religion of Evil]] and [[Big Creepy
* '' [[Texas Chainsaw Massacre the Next Generation]]'', where Leatherface is now an effeminate [[Creepy Crossdresser]] whose new family (which includes a guy with a bionic leg) are employed by a government group or cult that is possibly controlled by aliens.
* ''[[Slumber Party Massacre II]]'', which is a ''musical'' full of [[Mind Screw]] where the psycho is a ghostly rockabilly who kills with a drill attached to an electric guitar. The previous film was comedic, but not random as fuck like this one, while the proceeding one was completely serious, and the villains of both of those were just crazy, non-supernatural guys.
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* The ''[[Sweet Valley High|Sweet Valley Twins: The Magic Christmas]]'', a book best described as [[X Meets Y|"Elizabeth and Jessica go to Narnia."]] Even in a series that [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|occasionally acknowledged the existence of the supernatural]], this one was weird.
* ''Dexter in the Dark'', the third ''[[Dexter]]'' novel, shifted the series from crime thriller to supernatural horror, revealing the reason Dexter kills is because the spawn of an [[Eldritch Abomination]] (which comes complete with its own cult) has taken him as its host. The later novels make only minor references to these events, if that.
* ''[[
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* ''[[UFO]]'''s episode "Mindbender" had Straker hallucinate that he was an actor in a TV series about UFOs. One memorable scene had him wandering around the actual ''UFO'' soundstage, showing the HQ and moonbase sets.
* Similarly, Charlie Drake's [[Britcom]] ''The Worker'' ended its original black and white run with an episode in which Drake is confused to discover that he's actually a comedian in a [[Britcom]]. Drake seemingly liked this ending so much he used a variation of it a few years later when the show was revived in colour. There's another episode in which Drake's character gets hit on the head by a boomerang (a deliberate aversion of Drake's song "My Boomerang Won't Come Back") and suffers some weird hallucinations, ending with a trial in which he is the judge, jury, barrister and defendant.
* ''[[Lizzie
* ''[[Roseanne]]'' had some of these, to the point where it may not even count anymore. To set out a brief list, there were a few [[Halloween Episodes]] that seemingly broke reality, a few episodes that were [[All Just a Dream]], and toward the end of the series, plenty of them, such as episodes where Roseanne posed for Playboy, won Miss Universe, and, well actually the entire final season was this after they won the lottery.
* ''Wolf Lake'' did this in the episode "Leader of the Pack", in which an incident is presented as narrated to a team of investigators by Graham Greene's character [[Cloudcuckoolander|Sherman Blackstone]]. To say that he's an [[Unreliable Narrator]] is an understatement; the episode is hilarious and basically told from first-looney's point of view, with Blackstone admitting to telling the investigators the kind of story he would find fun to hear. Random daydreams and [[Fan Service]] are inserted into the story, and salacious elements such as a [[Ho Yay|married pair of gay]] bank robbers [[Incest Subtext|who also happen to be brothers]] are included. Elements that would actually be pertinent to the story are glossed over, such as brushing off murders with comments such as "drinking problem".
{{quote| '''Interviewer:''' According to ''my'' notes, he swallowed two ounces of sulfuric acid, mixed into a White Russian.<br />
'''Blackstone:''' [[Running Gag|That's the worst thing you can do to someone with a drinking problem]]. }}
* A sixth season episode of ''[[
** A later episode had Pearl in the theater quipping with the bots while Mike hung out with Observer and Bobo on the planet below.
* The B-plot of the ''[[
* From ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'': The episode "Black Market". Oh, where to begin? We find that Apollo has been seeing a single-mom hooker and her child regularly on the black market ship Prometheus. This was never mentioned before or ever again. He is seeing and helping out her and her kid due to guilt over leaving his former pregnant girlfriend shortly before the Cylons attacked. This was never mentioned before or ever again. He winds up killing the black market's ringleader in a totally out-of-character manner. THEN he declares that the black market can continue because it's necessary or something. And we never hear anything more about it. It's saved from being a complete [[Bizarro Episode]] by dint of two factors: 1) {{spoiler|Commander Fisk's murder}} in this episode starts a chain reaction of events that eventually puts Lee in command of ''Pegasus'', and 2) the head of the black market is played by Bill Duke. Ron Moore later discussed ''Black Market'' very frankly both on his blog and in the episode's commentary, admitting that it was completely nonsensical and explaining the logic that went into making it that everyone ''thought'' made sense at the time, only to realize with growing horror that it just didn't work.
** Black Market has a third point of relevance: it's the episode where {{spoiler|Baltar decides to run for President when Roslin realizes he could be a thorn in her side and tries to convince him to resign}}. Obviously though, the scene where this happens has ''nothing'' to do with the plot of the episode.
** "The Woman King" came along one season later and stole "Black Market"'s crown. This episode involves a [[Villain
*** It doesn't help that the episode is one of the few remnants of a subplot about the Saggitarons on New Caprica that was soon abandoned (the only other really noticable one is Baltar's mysterious whisper that causes Gaeta to try to kill him, which was eventually repurposed towards another subplot in a webisode series), and scenes in earlier episodes that would have helped explain everyone's refusal to believe Helo were all cut.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' - ''Grey 17 is Missing''. What the ''frell'' were they smoking? Note that the Zarg is never mentioned again...
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** However, despite half the episode being ridiculous and brain haemorrhage-inducing, the B-[[Plot]] is incredibly important to the [[Myth Arc]]: {{spoiler|Delenn becomes the Entil'zha, while Neroon realises that he'll never win the allegiance of the Rangers like Delenn has, leading to the start of his [[Heel Face Turn]]}}.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]''. "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3 E4 The Daleks Master Plan|The Feast of Steven]]", episode 7 of ''The Daleks' Master Plan''. Our heroes have a chase through Twenties Hollywood, get arrested by police in the 1960s, and end up [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]].
** And then there's ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S2 E8 The Chase|The Chase]]'', arguably the silliest Dalek story ever, full of [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
** Oh, and 30th anniversary charity special "Dimensions in Time".
** Also ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E2 The Mind Robber|The Mind Robber]]'', in which the TARDIS materialises outside reality and then explodes, and the characters find themselves randomly interacting with fictional characters.
* The ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' episode "Honey, I'm Spooked". It involves the spirit of a pint-sized clown showing up and weird things happening to the Szalinskis, such as turning Nick into a ficus and Diane regressing into childhood.
* The ''[[Two Pints of Lager and
* Some viewers consider the ''[[
** It also doesn't help that the B-plot indicates that Wesley didn't carry out Fred's final wish that he inform her parents of her death. And that from what we hear, Buffy has turned into [[The Ditz]], having an affair with the evil Immortal, making it come off as a rather petty [[Take That]] after [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]] refused to appear in the show's 100th episode. Whedon later made an [[Author's Saving Throw]] in the ''Buffy'' comics, revealing that it was actually one of several Slayers around the world who are impersonating Buffy to confuse the bad guys.
* ''[[
* The two-part ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' episode "The Eclipse", in which an eclipse randomly and inexplicably removes all the characters' powers. We never found out how or why this happened, and none of the events of those episodes were ever mentioned again.
** And this is just the most notorious example. ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' has a lot of [[BLAM Episode|BLAM episodes]]. If you watch the previous seasons, keep track of how many new characters and storylines are introduced vs. [[Kudzu Plot|how many are still acknowledged in newer episodes]].
** [[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]] had an entire BLAM SEASON. Remember season two? The writer's strike? Micah's cousin who could learn anything she saw on TV? Maya got a bit of a sendoff, but her brother was unceremoniously dropkicked out of the show. Clare's flying boyfriend who hated her father? And best of all, the girlfriend Peter forgot in the future?
* ''[[
* Once or twice a season ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' will include a comedy episode, with a ridiculous [[Plot]] which is just an excuse to use situations like 'Sam and Dean are suddenly trapped on the set of this weird TV show called ''Supernatural'', and we are now going to spend 40 minutes making fun of our own premise, crew, actors, and viewing figures'. This does not necessarily make these episodes ''bad''.
** For those who are less familiar with the show, I think this deserves a little clarification: these episodes are insanely popular, and are widely considered to be the best episodes of the series in terms of sheer entertainment value, once again proving that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|tropes are most definitely not bad.]]
* Significantly, ''[[The Prisoner]]'' did this ''twice'', in the episodes "Living In Harmony" and "The Girl Who Was Death" -- both of which massively change the entire format of the show just to fuck with [[The Protagonist]], [[Mind Screw|not to mention the audience]].
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* The fifth season episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' entitled "Married With Fishschticks" which mostly forgets about the story arc going on at the time to do a pointless filler episode where the feuding Aphrodite and Discord accidentally send Gabrielle into this alternate world where she's a mermaid, and is entirely populated with mer people. The whole thing is weird even by this show's standards, and ends with it apparently being [[All Just a Dream]] as Gabrielle wakes up back with Xena.
** The people behind the show were well aware that this one wasn't their finest moment, and even did some micromanaging of the schedule to make sure it didn't get the distinction of being the show's 100th episode.
* The ''[[Star Trek:
* Certainly a number of first-season episodes of ''[[Star Trek:
** On the episode Hide And Q, the character Q grants the characters wishes, and teenage Wesley Crusher wishes to be 10 or so years older. Then suddenly, BAAM he's transformed into a strapping, tall and exceptionally hunky man. We then cut to Geordi LaForge leering at the new Wesley and saying, "Hey, Wes. Not bad." It has been noted by several sources that Lavar Burton's character was originally supposed to be gay, but this is the only time it appears to be shown on screen, in this season one episode. Thereafter, it is NEVER EVER EVER EVER mentioned again, and the LaForge character eventually falls in love with a holodeck character then eventually an actual woman, and they live happily ever after. BLAM.
** Similarly to "Plato's Stepchildren" mentioned above, this is [[Averted Trope]] in the case of "The Naked Now". Although it fully appears as though this is a [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again]] episode, albeit an absolutely hilarious one, what with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hih2THljVjw Data getting drunk and Dr. Crusher grabbing Picard's crotch just offscreen], the fact that [[The Spock|Data]] and [[Sacrificial Lion|Tasha Yar]] had intercourse ''is'' mentioned in later episodes, notably in "Measure of a Man" where it is used to help establish [[The Spock|Data's]] sentience.
*** It even gets a [[Call Back]] much, ''much'' later in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' with [[The Spock|Data]] telling the Borg Queen that he is "fully functional" in the sex department.
** "Justice" arguably counts -- for no clear reason, the crew of the ''[[Cool Starship|Enterprise]]'' is schmoozing with what appears to be a pre-warp culture, when [[Creator's Pet|Wesley]] knocks over an outdoor decoration and is sentenced to death. And even though the [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|Prime Directive]] didn't prevent them from making contact with this planet, all of a sudden it prevents [[The Captain|Picard]] from saving Wesley.
** "Conspiracy" is another ''[[Star Trek:
*** [[Executive Meddling]] is to blame for that. The story was originally intended to have a purely human conspiracy within Starfleet, but [[Gene Roddenberry]] himself vetoed that because of how it clashed with his vision of ''[[
*** Actually, it was intended to be the hook for the major villains of the series. The thing was, it created too much paranoia that they wanted to avoid, so they changed the concept over to the Borg. Kept the insect theme, what with the drones and hive mind, and they kept the "they take you over" thing with [[You Will Be Assimilated|assimilation]], but made it quite obvious that these were the bad guys, while the people in uniform are the good guys.
** ''[[Star Trek:
* The ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** Want proof? In a later ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
* ''[[
* The final episode of ''[[Candle Cove]]''. Puppets screaming and crying. For ''30 minutes''.
** What episode were you watching? The real BLAM is why everyone suddenly loved watching static, of all things...
* ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]''. [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Four words]]. [[Ninja Turtles:
* On the subject, [[Super Sentai]] has this for its [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]] iteration in the form of its Direct to DVD movie. Released after the end of the series run, it talks of the team 'returning,' since they part at the end. The team is together for the whole movie, and then there's the content itself.
** There's also the now-traditional DVD shorts that both Sentai and its block-mate [[Kamen Rider]] give out yearly in Telebi-kun Magazine. A lot of these are very nonsensical even compared to other filler episodes within the series.
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* The ''[[Bones]]'' fourth-season finale features Booth as a nightclub owner, Brennan as his wife, Hodgins as a hard-drinking novelist, Cam as a detective, etc. {{spoiler|Of course, it's [[All Just a Dream|all in Booth's head as he's actually in a coma]], recovering from the removal of a brain tumor. The dream is "inspired" by a story Brennan is writing, which she is reading aloud to Booth as she sits in vigil by his bedside.}}
* ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'' had an episode where each of the major male characters imagined what it would be like if they were married to Mary.
* ''[[
** ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise
** Also, three episodes (one in TOS, one in TNG and another in ENT) involve a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] that causes the crew to do the [[Mushroom Samba]].
* ''[[
* Part of the charm of ''[[Lexx]]'' is that the normal [[Status Quo Is God]] is what would be a [[BLAM Episode]] in most shows, but it still has a few [[BLAM Episode|BLAM episodes]] by its own standards. The most obvious is the fourth-season episode ''[[William Shakespeare|A Midsummer's Nightmare]]'', where the crew is trapped in the fairie kingdom by Oberon, who seeks a new bride to replace Titania. Oberon is gay, Titania is a male midget crossdresser, Puck is [[Camp Gay]], Kai ends up turning into a tree while dancing and singing, Stanley nearly marries Oberon and gets as far as putting on the wedding dress... Oberon even admits that he has zero understanding of the show's cosmology, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] how the batshit insanity everyone is going through just plain doesn't fit into it.
** In the fourth-season episode "Prime Ridge", the crew (having been unable to find the Lexx's key for several episodes) decide that they have nothing to do, and so they buy a house in a small-town neighbourhood (which is being sold by [[James Bond|Britt Ekland]]). 790 hacks an ATM. The crew live in it for several days. Stanley sleeps on the lawn for some unexplained reason, and then gets hit on by said real estate agent and her daughter. Xev gets a job as a stress counsellor (despite having no resume or references) and the whole episode culminates in a giant firefight between the FBI and a pair of stoned teenagers wielding machine guns. Xev, Stan and Kai get in a car and drive away, and never mention the incident again for the rest of the series.
* "The Bicycle Tour" episode of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. Not only does it have the same [[Plot]] throughout, whereas most episodes were a series of sketches, but it does not begin with the usual theme music and animation.
* "iSpace Out" from ''[[
* ''[[
* Even ''[[Police Stop]]'' isn't infallible to this. The episode ''Police Stop! 3'' has subjects [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|that are never mentioned again for the rest of the series]] and doesn't mention the United Kingdom very much. The same can be said for ''Police Stop! 4'', its sequel that followed in 1995, which had no [[ident|idents]] between episodes. This is surprisingly rare for a documentary to do such things. However, your opinion will differ on this. If you do wish to see the series, watch it on ITV4, it's nearly always shown as reruns.
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' gives us the 4th season episode "... And Fancy Free", in which Hercules enters a dance competition. Nothing rests on this competition other than his partner's self esteem, and a nice trophy. Apparently, in spite of this, the town magistrate finds this competition important enough that he spends most of the episode sending assassins after Hercules and his partner to stop them from winning. No other motivation is given, he just wants his daughter to win. [[Bonus Points]] for guest starring Michael Hurst in drag as the dance instructor
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* The [[Hannah Montana]] Forever episode "Kiss It All Goodbye".
* Similar to the ''[[Mad About You]]'' example noted above, ''[[Friends]]'' had a "what if?" episode that explored the possible consequences of Joey becoming a star with Chandler as his personal assistant, Monica staying fat, Ross's [[Closeted Gay]] wife staying in the closet and keeping their marriage going, Rachel having gone through with her marriage (thus never meeting any of the friends) and Phoebe somehow becoming a stock broker.
* ''[[The X
* ''[[News Radio]]'' had two special episodes that were set out of continuity: one featuring the staff of a radio station in space, and another where they run a radio station on the ''Titanic''.
* Episode 200 of ''[[Stargate SG
** "[[Groundhog Day Loop|Window of Opportunity]]" also counts. Golfing through the Stargate, resigning to kiss someone of a lower rank, ''cycling through the tunnels of the base with a bicycle bell''...
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' [[Musical Episode]] "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
** The season 4 finale, "Restless", starts like this. Eventually what's going on is clarified, as well as the fact that it contains large amounts of [[Foreshadowing]].
** "Superstar". Season 4, ep 17.
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** All of these just go to show that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] in the hands of a skilled writer.
* ''[[Crime Story]]'' was stylishly moody and gritty...then there was the 2nd season episode "Pauli Taglia's Dream". It did show how mobster Ray Luca and his goofus flunky Pauli had earlier survived a nuclear bomb test, but through Pauli's point of view - complete with cartoon sound effects, Three Stooges slapstick, and cuts of him lipsynching Bobby Fuller's "I Fought the Law" wearing impossibly high rockabilly hair and a radiation suit.
* Over its last two seasons it became clear that Day 6 of ''[[
* 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}}.
* ''[[The Odd Couple]]'' had a flashback episode that parodied the James Bond films and featured Felix and Oscar's fathers.
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* "Bakerman" on the Midnight Oil album ''Red Sails in the Sunset''. It's a Japanese school band playing an instrumental oompa ditty, in the middle of an otherwise pre-alternative rock album. Also very [[Mood Whiplash]].
* ''[[The Police|Synchronicity]]'': "Mother", a repetitive tune in 7/4 with screamed vocals and weird lyrics, shows up after the comparatively normal "Synchronicity I" and "Walking in Your Footsteps".
* "You're Gonna Die", a 9½-minute song (using the term loosely) at the end of [[Reel Big Fish]]'s ''We're Not Happy Till You're Not Happy'' album. It's essentially nothing but screaming and static in the same vein as [[The Beatles (
* "Anyone's Daughter" from [[Deep Purple]]'s ''Fireball''. The lyrics are typical DP - a man sleeps with a bunch of women and marries one of them when he gets her pregnant - but the music is in a C&W style that's out of place for this period of the band.
* ''Tell Me What to Swallow'' by [[Crystal Castles (
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* Every cutscene in ''Crash: Mind Over Mutant'', which seems to follow a different art style every time.
* The "What If?" mode in the [[PS 1]] ''Spider-Man'' game. It took the base plot and added tons of silly lines. "Doc Ock has trapped me...and I can't stop dancing".
* ''[[Command and Conquer]] Red Alert'' had two: the secret Giant Ant missions and one multiplayer map set on the moon which randomly reassigned all the units' weapons, so you had helicopters firing flamethrowers and V2 rockets.
* The ''[[Fallout
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has this issue with the Mission Architect system. Due to the [[Sturgeon's Law|overwhelming amount]] of player-made content in the database and a ratings system that leaves something to be desired, it's inevitable that BLAM [[Story Arc|Story Arcs]] will come up fairly frequently in any random sample. If the first time a player tries the system results in having one of these thrown at them it can easily be the last time they will ever bother with the Mission Architect.
** Which is why a number of authors have been taking it upon themselves to review arcs and compile lists in the official forums make it easier to find the "good stuff."
* Atlantica in ''[[
*** Also odd was how nobody seemed to remember any of the events that happened in Atlantica in the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts (
** The minigames were a way to include the world itself, while avoiding having to include the underwater combat from the first game. Notice how Neverland (which featured a similarly-controlled "flying combat" mechanic) doesn't get a return appearance, just a Peter Pan summon cameo?
*** Because [[Disney]] [[Adored
* ''[[
* ''[[Star Fox
* Happens halfway through [[Kid Icarus: Uprising]], when {{spoiler|the main plot is completely put on hold when an ''utterly random alien invasion'' forces all of the main, characters to work together to stop it.}} This lasts for about 3 chapters and then it is never mentioned about again when its done.
** Actually it is brought up a few times afterwards. In fact it's the first thing Pit remembers {{spoiler|after finding out that he's been turned into a ring. The aliens also appear when Pit battles against the Chaos Kin and later when he fights facsimiles of them in Dyntos' workshop.}}
== Web Animation ==
* Episode 20 of ''[[An
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
** [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2002-09-29 This strip].
** Any of the [http://egscomics.com/egsnp/ Newspaper strips], which are specifically not part of EGS continuity.
* "[[
* [[High Fantasy]] webcomic ''[[Exiern]]'' spends a month at the bizarro as part of an [[Overly Long Gag|Overly Long April Fools Gag]] when it is suddenly re-tooled as a a group of trendy twenty somethings hanging out at a coffeeshop/strip club.
* ''[[
** While randomness is par the course for Sluggy, what makes this a BLAM episode is that it went on for an extended period of time right after a very dark storyline, and pretty much ignores all of the lingering questions, including the fate of a character that the group lost contact with and is on a dangerous mission, a character that refuses to accept that her friends thought to be dead are alive, and a plan to finially get rid of the resident physcopathic, ninja, [[Stalker
== Web Original ==
* [http://www.11points.com 11Points.com] presents: [http://www.11points.com/Books/11_Shades_of_Grey 11 Shades of Grey]
* Used and lampshaded in the fan sequel of ''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences
{{quote| Narrator: And so what happens means that it was nothing and just...<br />
(Scene change)<br />
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A BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT! * fanfare* }}
* [[
* ''[[Charlie the Unicorn]]''.
* Fanfic example: Chapter 122 of ''[[
* Creepypasta Example: [[Candle Cove]].
* ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* As funny and clever as it may be, the ''[[Teen Titans (
** I'm pretty sure [[Great Gazoo|he's supposed to be from the 5th dimension]], a la other DC characters like Mister Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite.
** Apparently, that episode was called back to in ''[[Teen Titans Go
** ''[[Teen Titans (
**** Well, the last one was referenced in the big Finale, when Control Freak was using the Lightsabers he got from TV Land.
*** Oddly enough, most [[BLAM Episode|BLAM Episodes]] are right before the season finale. Going from a deranged Hansel and Gretel [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to Raven fulfilling her destiny and ending the world, or from the aforementioned Larry episode to Terra picking off the team one by one led to some absolutely beautiful [[Mood Whiplash]] and gave the show its signature schizophrenic tone.
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*** Except "Nevermore"- though that one ''is'' weird for a solid chunk in the middle, it's less "crazy and funny" weird and more "[[Mind Screw]], [[Uncanny Valley]], and a side dose of [[Nightmare Fuel]]" weird, and the central plot about Raven fighting her [[Enemy Within]] is serious.
*** "Fear Itself" can function as a fairly good bait-and-switch in terms of this. The episode starts out silly, the first part being the debut of Control Freak, where the Titans fight him in a video store and he brings things like candy to life and turns them evil. ''Then'' things get dark.
* ''[[Codename
* ''[[
** What's really odd about "Chicken Jack" is that it's almost a remake of the previous season's "Jack and the Smackback", but with Jack as a chicken.
** And "Jack Is [[Naked People Are Funny]]". Oh, ''so'' much. The [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] with the randomly-appearing elephant-headed fairy is just the tip of the iceberg.
* ''[[
* The [[Donald Duck]] short "Duck Pimples". Donald listens to scary stuff on the radio, causing his overactive imagination to bring a bunch of shady characters to life. First, he envisions a creepy yet silly salesman who drops a lot of horror novels on Don's sofa. As he starts reading one, more weirdos emerge from the book, such as a gruff police officer who accuses Don of stealing a dame's pearls, accompanied by the lady herself. After some [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]-[[Buffy-Speak|y]] gags, both are about to murder Donald because he hasn't "confessed" yet. Just before they cut his throat in half, ''the author himself'' exits the book and reveals the officer to be guilty. The cop confesses it was indeed him, but he ain't amused, and as he steps back to go back into the book's pages, he "shoots" Donald with thin air; he reacts just as if had been shot for real. Terrified, the dame and the author go back to the novel as well. Donald regains conscience and immediately shakes the book to confirm it all ended, as some offscreen voices tell him it was all imaginary. He's not convinced and the cartoon ends with him trembling in fear, slowly muttering to himself "Yeah...Ima......Gination"... Just in time for [[Or Was It a Dream?|the pearls to appear on his neck before the iris out.]] What the hell, Disney!?
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
{{quote| '''Rolf:''' Hello, Ed-Boys! [[Arc Words|Many doors, yes?]]<br />
'''[[Multiple Head Case|Rolf's Second Head]]:''' Too much for...<br />
'''Rolf's Third Head:''' ...Couch-potato Ed-Boys like yourselves?<br />
'''Eddy:''' A three-headed Rolf. [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|Yawn.]] }}
* ''[[
* ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]'' has a recap episode called "The Skeleton King Threat", in which the Monkey Team finally gains the ability to talk to humans and tells them about their adventures so far, including babbling on about some sort of level system they use to label how threatening a monster is. This system is used through the entire episode heavily but is never mentioned again in the series. Even the fandom almost never uses this stuff.
* ''[[
** No, sorry, the winner of that achievement goes to "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUPPvuz8wgo Dexter and Computress Get Mandark]". It was written by a 6-year-old, and is ''psycho-freaking-loco''.
* ''[[
** "Rollercoaster: The Musical". It's essentially a [[Musical Episode]] version of the pilot. But there's random stuff going on, and most of the songs and scenes are never mentioned after they occur, and the barrage of Cameos in the final song, which itself is a BLAM. And I highly doubt it will be mentioned again.
*** On ''Phineas and Ferb'', [[Continuity Nod|they mention everything again.]]
*** It's very self aware about its BLAM Episode status. The episode constantly [[Lampshades]] its repeating of the original episode, as well as the fact that it's incredibly weird even by the standards of the show.
* Arguably, the 20th episode of the third season of ''[[Winx Club]]'' (the pixies' [[A Day in
** Season 2's episode 14 may count, too, or at least the parts involving Bloom, Flora, Sky and Brandon travelling to Sky's homeplanet and trying to save Diaspro. That part of the episode is never mentioned again.
* ''[[
** "Woodland Critter Christmas" is also off of the board. [[Justified Trope]] because {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream|it's actually just a bizarre story made up by Cartman]]}}.
*** Brought up in the Imaginationland trilogy.
{{quote| '''[[Friday the 13th (
* Skeletor, a classic two-dimensional villain with no previous redeeming qualities whatsoever, abruptly [[Pet the Dog|turns good]] for no apparent reason other than "the Spirit of Christmas" in the ''[[He-Man and
** This may just be a relatively unexplored side of Skeletor, though. Behold: [http://wildparticle.com/?p=180 Skeletor, Cake Boss.]
** In another Filmation show, ''[[
* ''[[
** Yes, that title is right. There was no "Escape to the House of Mummies! Part I", and just a preview for "Escape to the House of Mummies! Part III".
*** Also, Caligula was there too. And no, none of that makes even the slightest bit of sense.
* An episode of ''[[
* ''[[
* The episode "Party All the Time" from ''[[
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
** In point of fact, it was written by Steve Gerber (the guy who gave the world [[Howard the Duck (
** It's been reported that [[Paul Dini]] has claimed this is his favorite episode. The man who hates "I've got Batman in my Basement" supposedly likes this episode? I don't think so.
* ''[[
* One ''[[
* Disney's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* In ''[[Stickin' Around]]'', ''every day'' is at the bizarro considering that most of an episode happens in the main character's [[Mr. Imagination|imagination]].
* While [[Toon Physics]] are practically nonexistent as a rule to begin with, ''[[Duck Amuck]]'' shatters any conception of the fourth wall by having Daffy Duck arguing with and being screwed around with by the animator {{spoiler|who turns out to be Bugs Bunny.}}
** {{spoiler|Bugs later}} got a taste of his own medicine in ''Rabbit Rampage'', with the animator being {{spoiler|Elmer Fudd.}}
** Early [[Bob Clampett]] masterpiece ''Porky In Wackyland'' was one of these for ''animation itself''. It almost single-handedly established that every piece of animation did not have to be a rip-off of Disney's latest short.
* The ''[[
* ''[[
** The start of the episode explained how it worked much like a comic book plot, of different realities and different stories. Gwen 10 (or Max 10) probably went very radically in its own direction, but for the sake of continuity and story of the main plot hook, went with Ben 10 still having the Omnitrix. However, that doesn't explain how the mainstream Ben went to the Gwen 10 reality, how he returned to his own, or what happened to that reality's Ben.
* In ''[[Star Wars:
** Also possibly an homage to the 1980s ''Star Wars: Droids'' cartoon, which contained many blam moments if not entire episodes (C-3PO blinking and sprinting, R2-D2's hammerspace gadgets and breakdancing).
** Season 3 has the Mortis trilogy of episodes. The basic plot is that Obi-Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka get stranded on a surreal planet whose only three inhabitants -- Father, Son and Daughter -- are the living embodiments/avatars/personifications of the Balance of the Force, the Dark Side and the Light Side, respectively. {{spoiler|During the course of the episodes Father, Son and Daughter either kill each other, or arrange for the Jedi to do so on their behalf.}} Unsurprisingly it is never referred back to and, aside from the anvilicious hints that Anakin has more sympathy for the Dark Side than is strictly healthy, comes off as extreme padding.
*** It later gets tied into the story of [[
* ''[[Mega Man (
* The episode ''Da Boom'' in ''[[Family Guy]]''.
* The ''[[
* ''[[The Simpsons (
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