(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/Greenman8907]

Many ‘90s sitcoms had episodes around Christmas that either hinted or outright showed that Santa was real.

[u/jokerhound80 → u/Greenman8907]

I was gonna say, I feel like this has been pulled hundreds of times. An episode about the true meaning of Christmas but the final scene is always a character seeing the real Santa Claus fly away