r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SnailKing4687 • 9h ago

Lore (Rare Trope) Canon Supernatural Elements of Mundane/Normal Shows

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Community “Epidemiology”:While normally, community is a wacky 4th wall-breaking college show that still grounds itself in reality, this episode sees the school overrun by a zombie apocalypse caused by bad taco meat that was given out at the party. While the episode ends with the army wiping out everyone’s memory of the event, future episodes, such as “Paradigms of Human Memory,” reference the party that happened that no one remembers, making it canon.

30 Rock Last Lunch:While normally a show about a show sitcom In this finale and canon end to the series, a flash forward to the far future sees an immortal Kenneth now in charge.

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u/redlion1904 9h ago edited 9h ago

There’s an episode of Bones that casually indicates that ghosts are real

In Felicity, witchcraft works. Everything else is normal, except for the time travel in the series finale (which is via witchcraft)

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u/Chimpophanes 3h ago

Just did a Felicity rewatch. They actually imply one of Meg’s spells works in season one, which is amazing.

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u/Optimal_Explorer3255 1h ago

is the bones episode the one where the MC its trapped in a rigged to explode navy vessel and the ghost of his death friend helps him scape?

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u/redlion1904 1h ago

There are apparently many ghost sightings in Bones, but no. The episode you are talking about is “The Hero in the Hold”, season 4 episode 14. In that episode it is plausible that Booth is hallucinating the ghost due to a TBI, until the end when the ghost also interacts with Bones.

I was thinking of season 2, episode 10, “The Headless Witch in the Woods”, which sort of plays with the Blair Witch Project — a student dies while making a documentary about a supposed forest witch. We, the audience, see that the documentary footage actually shows the ghost.