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* ''[[Baywatch]]'' tended to do two half-hour plotlines within a single hour-long episode, running them simultaneously in the episode's timeline. Sometimes, this had... possibly unintended results. Such as the hilarity of combining a Very Special Episode plot in which one of the lifeguards gets skin cancer, with a plot in which Hulk Hogan has a wrestling match against one of the WWF heels in order to save a local youth center or similar.
* Parodied in "Mr. [[Monk]] and the Naked Man" which explains his prejudice towards nudists. He even has a silly [[Freudian Excuse]].
* The reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' had an interesting subversion of the VSE when a young colonist sneaked aboard Galactica to get an abortion. All of the components for an allegory about American attitudes towards abortion were in place: Devout colonists considered it immoral, secular colonists considered it a fundamental right, and the single case was turned into a wedge issue during an election. But the critical difference between BSG and the real world trumped the allegory - with the human race reduced to less than 50,000 people, the survival of the species became paramount, and abortion was criminalized.
* Series 3 of the BBC childrens' sitcom ''[[Dani's House]]'' features an episode in which the eponymous heroine becomes addicted to a driving video game, after becoming frustrated at having to rely on public transport and finding she can't afford to have proper driving lessons. There is the possibility that it might be slightly tongue-in-cheek, but the cast play it straight throughout (allowing for moments of humour, obviously).
* "The Good Wound" from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' obliquely dealt with spousal abuse.
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