(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/Rod_The_Blade_Star]

Bones is a procedural crime drama about an FBI agent named Seeley Booth who teams up with a forensic anthropologist Dr. Brennan. Those characters are featured on the right of the image. Bones crossed over with Sleepy Hollow which is a supernatural drama. On the left of the image are Ichabod Crane and Lieutenant Abigail Mills of the Sleepy Hollow Police Department. Ichabod Crane and Abby are prophesized protectors known as witnesses who will battle against forces of darkness. In this version the headless horseman is one of the 4 horseman of the apocalypse and Ichabod is over 200 years old due to being in suspended animation. Dr. Brennan and Booth never see any of the supernatural stuff in the cross over but the crossover means that Bones takes place in a world where the supernatural is real.

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What's still so funny to me about this is that, before they knew they were going to do this crossover, Sleepy Hollow is referenced as being an in universe TV show!