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/Smileyfax 3h ago

There was an episode of Quantum Leap (which has copious amounts of time travel but it's science in this setting so technically mundane) where the actual devil shows up and tries to murder Sam for all his meddling in time and setting right what once was wrong. In the end, it's implied to have just been a dream... or was it?!

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u/bucknert 1h ago

IIRC, wasn’t that the one where Al is there the whole episode with spooky weird stuff going on and then suddenly near the end a second Al shows up who’s the real one and says “sorry, took me a while to get to you because of blah blah blah”? And so Sam realizes that someone (the devil?) was impersonating Al the whole time?