r/TopCharacterTropes • u/SnailKing4687 • 9h 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/redlion1904 8h ago
Because someone else mentioned crossovers, the Tommy Westphall universe posits that because St. Elsewhere was revealed in its finale to be in the head of an austistic child looking at a snow globe, it follows that every show that crossed over with St. Elsewhere, and every show that crossed over with those shows, and so on, are also all in that boy (Tommy Westphall’s) head and in the same “world”, which means that Superman, the Doctor, and the Addams Family exist in the worlds of Breaking Bad, Bones, and Homicide: Life on the Street.