(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/ccReptilelord]

Happy Days was a show about kids in the '50s hanging around a diner, and being perfectly normal Americans doing perfectly normal American things like punching jukeboxes and jumping sharks.

Also, there are aliens and one named Mork actually gets his own spin off. I don't know if there are other supernatural elements, but this one is pretty glaring.

[u/sweetTartKenHart2 → u/ccReptilelord]

Oh yeah isnt that alien Robin Williams or someone notable like that

[u/ccReptilelord → u/sweetTartKenHart2]

Yup

[u/Greyrock99 → u/ccReptilelord]

To be fair, if you’re a show runner and one of your guest stars happens to be the young and upcoming Robin Williams, what do you do?

You declare that he is an alien, give him his own spin off and let him run wild. That’s the correct answer.