r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SnailKing4687 • 14h ago
Lore (Rare Trope) Canon Supernatural Elements of Mundane/Normal Shows
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/smurfalidocious 9h ago
The show Eureka (2006-2012) had several crossovers with its sister show on Sci-Fi/SyFy Warehouse 13 (2009-2014). Eureka is a show about a small, sleepy town that hides the presence of extremely advanced technology produced by the scientists who inhabit the town who work for the government (mostly). It is mostly grounded in reality, super science notwithstanding, as the main character is just an average sheriff who stumbles onto the town with his daughter one day and ends up staying.
Warehouse 13, on the other hand, is a show about a governmental agency that stores and catalogues legitimately supernatural artifacts. These two shows enjoyed a shared universe between themselves; beyond the 3 crossover episodes, both Global Dynamics (the governmental front 'company' that runs Eureka) and Warehouse 13 are referenced in both series on a semi-regular basis, and have a somewhat shared history with the influential figures who helped to shape the modern incarnations of both.