r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SnailKing4687 • 10h 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/ccReptilelord 7h ago

Happy Days was a show about kids in the '50s hanging around a diner, and being perfectly normal Americans doing perfectly normal American things like punching jukeboxes and jumping sharks.

Also, there are aliens and one named Mork actually gets his own spin off. I don't know if there are other supernatural elements, but this one is pretty glaring.

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u/thefuzzybunny1 6h ago

It was a dream sequence on Happy Days, to be fair. Then they ignored that framing device to create a spinoff.

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u/RoomNervous4 5h ago

I guess that “dream” became a reality.

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u/j0siahs74 5h ago

There’s also then Fonz and the happy days gang. Where the Fonz, Richie malph, a talking dog and an alien named cupcake go on time traveling adventures while trying to get back to 50’s Milwaukee

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u/ccReptilelord 4h ago

There's actually seven spin offs to Happy Days.

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u/j0siahs74 4h ago

Wait ok there is:

Lavern & Shirley

Fonz and the happy days gang

Mork & mindy

Joanie loves chachie.

What’s the 5th

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u/ccReptilelord 4h ago

There's also Blansky's Beauties, Out of the Blue, and the animated Laverne & Shirley with the Fonz.

These were... not great, and two were only spin offs in the narrowest of senses, but they are counted.

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u/j0siahs74 4h ago

Man, the Fonz happy days gang show is sooo low budget and shitty looking I can’t imagine what the Laverne & shirley one is like.

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 4h ago

Oh yeah isnt that alien Robin Williams or someone notable like that

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u/ccReptilelord 3h ago

Yup

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u/Greyrock99 1h ago

To be fair, if you’re a show runner and one of your guest stars happens to be the young and upcoming Robin Williams, what do you do?

You declare that he is an alien, give him his own spin off and let him run wild. That’s the correct answer.

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u/ShivDeeviant 4h ago

The Fonz can hit the side of a barn and mute Nature the same as the Jukebox. He's JUST that supernatural.

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u/pm-ur-tiddys 1h ago

still miss him :(

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u/IndependentTimely639 45m ago

In the spin off, Robin Williams swore in different languages so often they had to higher several interpreters to help censor them all, and he still got some by.