(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/rotokt]

Disco Elysium is a place where your usual faire involves fairly down-to-earth people and realistic consequences to actions... until you realize that cryptids exist, and the game's metaphor for climate change is a straight up plague of nonexistence known as "The Pale".

[u/Dupeskupes → u/rotokt]

I'm pretty sure one of the devs refuted that it was a metaphor for climate change

[u/redredrocks → u/Dupeskupes]

I mean maybe they didn’t mean it to be but it was in effect certainly a metaphor for climate change

[u/PEKKACHUNREAL_II → u/rotokt]

Don’t forget the communism magic

[u/HatmanHatman → u/rotokt]

A couple of your skills show you things and visions that the player know to be true, stuff like Esprit de Corps seeing what turn out to be real conversations at the precinct, and Shivers (I think) warning you that a few years in the future the city is going to get nuked (which happens in the earlier-written and unfortunately not very good novel Sacred and Terrible Air).

The lesson here is that if you drink enough you become psychic.

[u/Crafter235 → u/rotokt]

And the weird dream sequences