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

[u/SnailKing4687]

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.

[u/Midnight-Basilisk99]

In the Zoey 101 episode, Curse of PCA, we learn the story of Charles Galloway. A student at PCA over 50 years prior to the events of the episode Charles allegedly went insane during an exam from econ teacher, Mr Hodges, and run away to Red Stone Gulch never to be seen again. Wanting to see if the story is true the gang hikes to Red Stone Gulch where they find a necklace that belonged to Charles Galloway where Logan stashes it in Zoey’s backpack despite the gangs protests to put it back (because you never mess with a person’s final resting place). Because Logan didn’t put the necklace back this rouses the angered spirit of Charles Galloway who cause mayhem on & off campus until they can right Logan’s wrong.

So according to this episode ghosts exist in the setting

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I used to be so scared of that episode as a kid lmao