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* [[Enid Blyton]] built lots of her fairy stories on this.
* The first few ''[[Spellsinger]]'' novels were episodic, but still possessed a plot. Later ones ... not so much. Most obvious in the sixth, which features so many escapes from cannibal tribes that [[Lampshade Hanging|even one of the characters complains about the monotony.]]
* ''[[Congo]]'' (that is, [[Adaptation Distillation|the original novel]] by [[Michael Crichton]]) has this right in the end. After the main characters have escaped the [[Super
* Piers Anthony's ''[[Xanth (Literature)|Xanth]]'' series of books tend to be made up of almost nothing BUT these. It is a common aspect of the books for the main characters, while traveling long distances towards their main goal, to be stopped every couple of pages by some pointless, punnish characters. Sometimes these characters have a small problem, which the main characters tend to solve within one paragraph. Other times, the wayside characters serve no purpose other than introducing themselves and explaining their unique magic ability (many of which are based on readers' mail-in suggestions).
* ''The Plains of Passage'', fourth book in Jean M Auel's [[Earths Children]] series, <s>features a whole lot of this</s> is made entirely of this.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* "Stranger in a Strange Land", a.k.a. the Jack's Tattoos episode of ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]''. Though most episodes are relevant to the overall plot of the series, this one can be skipped entirely without really missing anything. It's also almost universally considered to be the worst episode of the series. In fact, the only character introduced in this episode was later confirmed by [[Word of God]] to have died off screen... in an explosion that happened on screen... somehow.
* "Black Market" episode of ''[[
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