History BLAM / LiveActionTV

* [[{{Law and Order}} "Is this because I'm a lesbian?"]]

* [[{{Law & Order}} "Is this because I'm a lesbian?"]]

* In series 3 of WaterlooRoad [[ApatheticTeacher Mr. Budgen]], a champion dancer is his youth (which was a ''long'' time ago) is giving a class a ballroom dancing lesson. Bolton, not impressed, takes exception to his dismissive remarks about breakdancing and proceeds to give him a demonstration. Mr Budgen, not to be outdone, proceeds to demonstrate an earlier, related style which he evidently remembers from his youth and which seems completely and utterly out of character for him.

** One should note that the description of the video isn't even accurate, the scene has ''nothing'' to do with "parallel worlds". Apparently even the BBC don't know what was going on with this.

** For example, in "{{Flight of the Conchords}}", there is a scene in which one of the main characters, Bret, suddenly sings a kareoke song in Korean linking two scenes he does not appear in. The song has lyrics such as "sometimes love is as pure as the milk of a cow that has done nothing wrong." As the song ends, he steps out of the screen and the next scene begins.

* The pilot for ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has a bizarre and implausible (though entertaining) scene inside the wormhole where Sisko and Dax's runabout lands on a solid surface that seems to be a planet. Only, when they step out, each sees a different planet. Then they briefly see the planet the other was seeing, an Orb appears and envelopes Dax, Sisko is sent to a white void, and the episode gets on with the plot. While everything else that happens in the pilot regarding the wormhome and the Prophets is explained (or at least developed upon) in later episodes, the sequence with the subjective planet is never explained, never mentioned, and nothing comparable ever happens again.

* In the episode of ''{{Supernatural}}'', 'Hammer of the Gods' the boys are doing their usual thing of looking for weaknesses in their MonsterOfTheWeek when after a few secondary characters have a little conversation the screen suddenly freaks out in a DoNotAdjustYourSet moment, the opening to [[AffectionateParody Ghostfacers]] plays. It goes nowhere and is never mentioned again. Apparently, this was supposed to be a segue into a trailer for ''Ghostfacers''. Why was preserved in the commercialless web copies is anyone's guess.

* ''TheRutles: All You Need Is Cash'' features a 'clip' of the animated film ''Yellow Submarine Sandwich'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y173nMhxQgM featuring the song "Cheese and Onions"]]. Appearing unannounced in the middle of the otherwise entirely live-action film, this [[DerangedAnimation series of unintelligable events]] appears to be pure BLAM, but is actually a dead-on parody of TheBeatles' equally bizarre ''YellowSubmarine''. The true BLAM occurs just minutes later with an excerpt of [[strike:John and Yoko]] Nasty and Chastity's [[LeFilmArtistique art-house motion picture]] ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmbqNsTqfnA A Thousand Feet Of Film]]''. [[spoiler:It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it says on the tin]]. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And it is hilarious.]]]]

* The last season of ''{{The X-Files}}'' features an episode with Burt Reynolds as a bizarre man who may be God, the devil, or both. Just about every scene with him qualifies, none more so than the very ending in which two characters who occasionally showed up in the background start lip-snycing to an Italian folk song, during which the camera pulls away to reveal the area's topography looks just like Reynolds' face.

** In another episode, the main character starts singing to describe the best date ever, for no apparent reason, as some random technicians change the decor around him.

* {{CSI NY}} featured an episode where a murder is witnessed on a [[FictionalCounterpart ChatRoulette-style website]]. This leads to the detectives playing around on the site and Jo gets connected to a Marine in Afghanistan. She picks up her laptop and gives him a view of the New York skyline because he's never been to New York.

* {{Farscape}}, in one episode John orders Pilot to eject a fanatical woman who nearly caused the deaths of hundreds, out into space. When he does so, he laughs in a deep, maniacal, and almost demonic way. He does not laugh like this again throughout the series.

* [[{{Fringe}} Two Words]]: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Singing]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Corpses]]!

* This happened a few times in AreYouBeingServed, but it's most notable in the 1978 special. The store is celebrating Mr. Grace's birthday; the staff have rehearsed an extended musical number to perform as entertainment. At the last minute, they have to perform something else, so they break into an impromptu version of "Steppin' Out". Okay. Suddenly, Mr. Grace appears, holding a puppet body under his neck, singing a song about "bread and drippin'" which contains only a couple of intelligible words in it. This weird little ditty doesn't fit with the other music at all, and turns Mr. Grace from guest of honor to entertainment with no explanation. Then, the staff segue into "Happy Birthday to You" as if nothing had happened.

* Even RealityTV is not averse to this. One episode of ''FameAcademy'', a [[TheBBC BBC]] TalentShow, had footage of a governor ([[InsistentTerminology the part of the engine]], '''not''' a [[{{Eagleland}} U.S. Senator]] for a few brief seconds. ''Why'' this happened was never explained. This could possibly be a StockFootageFailure.

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* Over its last two seasons it became clear that Day 6 of [[TwentyFour ''24'']] was a Big Lipped Alligator ''Season''. Events like [[spoiler:the detonation of a nuclear device in an American city and the attack and incapacitation of an American president while in the White House, which would have deeply impacted the country's history and internal and international policies - and which happened within ''hours'' of each other, are never mentioned or even alluded at in the following seasons. Matter of fact, Wayne Palmer was effectively [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome "brother Chucked"]] without as much as an explanation as to what ultimately happened to him.]]

* At the risk of having there be a small, smoking crater where this trope page once was, here goes: ''{{Lost}}''. One portmanteau word: [[FanNickname Hurleybird]]!
** The bird was [[spoiler:a Dharma experiment in genetic engineering]]. Straight from the short series coda "The New Man In Charge" from the season 6 DVD set. Just like the polar bears, it just got free somewhere along the way.

* At the end of one episode toward the end of ''{{Moonlighting}}'', the episode was padded by having Herb Viola (Curtis Armstrong) sing "Wooly Bully". It had nothing to do with the plot and, for many fans, was further evidence that the show {{Jumped the Shark}} after David and Maddie "did it."

** I always thought that showed the difference between the two, mentally. Dax was almost always happy go lucky and therefore sees the world as a beautiful place while Sisko is a more gloomy person (especially in the pilot since the episode is about him getting help from the prophets to finally be able to move on after his wife's death) and therefore sees the world in a darker view.

* In the episode of ''{{Supernatural}}'', 'Hammer of the Gods' the boys are doing their usual thing of looking for weaknesses in their MonsterOfTheWeek when after a few secondary characters have a little conversation the screen suddenly freaks out in a DoNotAdjustYourSet moment, the opening to [[AffectionateParody Ghostfacers]] plays. It goes nowhere and is never mentioned again. In fact since none of the episode focusing characters are in this BLAM, the joke is on the audience.
** [[WildMassGuessing Perhaps the writers wanted to tease the audience to what is happening in the next episode]] [[EpilepticTrees or maybe it's one of the in-universe gods messing with us]]
*** Actually it makes sense on network TV. Like the episode "changing channels", Kripke & Co added their own touch for the commercial break. The CW had just green lit a web series called Ghostfacers so the first commercial of that commercial break was an advertisement for the web series. It was preserved in the commercialless web copies for... tribute I guess.

* One particularly [[NightmareFuel traumatizing moment]] in the ''PowerRangersJungleFury'' finale qualifies in this category: the furry scene. Granted, in ''JukenSentaiGekiranger'', the furry suits made sense and actually were an integral plotline in that show at one point, but in the ''Power Rangers'' show, they are randomly summoned up during the finale, then suddenly removed within twenty seconds, and nobody mentions the event for the rest of the episode (adding to this is that the characters involved with said furries are reduced to Living Scenery status for the rest of the episode as well, and probably for good measure).
** Hardly traumatizing, just bizarre and unexpected. How could you say anything nasty about [[http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/mrdictionary/powerrangersjunglefurycatfinale.jpg that face]]?

** Though to be sure, "TheOneWith The Ultimate Fighting Champion" is often considered a BLAMEpisode by fans.

* On the final episode of series 19 of ''HaveIGotNewsForYou'', after given his Odd One Out group, Paul Merton begins to ponder the answer. Suddenly, the camera fade-cuts to some footage of Paul and fellow captain, Ian Hislop, skipping through a field in slow motion to sappy soft music for several seconds. Camera cuts back to Paul, who's got a day dreamy expression on his face. He then shakes his head and apologising, saying he was "miles away". The footage popped up again in the later seasons when Joan Collins hosted in a Dynasty spoof, but aside from that, there was no explanation for it. According to Paul [[spoiler: of the Very Best of HIGNFY DVD commentary, he tried for eight years to get that gag onto the show and was rejected two times by two different producers, the third try helped and the gag was put in. Still no idea why he did it...]] [[HoYay Or Do We?]] Hint, hint.

* Even RealityTV is not averse to this. One episode of ''FameAcademy'', a [[TheBBC BBC]] TalentShow, had footage of a governor ([[InsistentTerminology the part of the engine]], '''not''' a [[{{Eagleland}} U.S. Senator]] for a few brief seconds. ''Why'' this happened was never explained. This could possibly be a StockFootageFailure

* Over its last two seasons it became clear that Day 6 of [[TwentyFour ''24'']] was a Big Lipped Alligator ''Season''. Events like [[spoiler:the detonation of a nuclear device in an American city and the attack and incapacitation of an American president while in the White House, which would have deeply impacted the country's history and internal and international policies - and which happened within ''hours'' of each other, are never mentioned or even alluded at in the following seasons. Matter of fact, Wayne Palmer was effectively [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome "brother Chucked"]] without as much as an explanation as to what ultimately happened to him.]]

** There's also "The One With the Baby on the Bus", where Rachel cancels Phoebe's gig at Central Perk to make way for a better and more famous singer. This isn't weird by itself, but after said better singer is introduced, she proceeds to grind the entire episode to a screeching halt in order to play an entire song (about four minutes long) as though performing in concert for the studio audience. Even showing a snippet of the singer singing wouldn't have been bad — it's just that she went on...and on....and on...

* On TheLWord, Jenny is looking for directors for the movie of her book, Lez Girls. After a series of relatively normal interviews, she shows up at a small theater where a French man describes his vision of her book as a musical, and opens the curtains to reveal his demo. As if this wasn't strange enough (the song being quite slow and trippy, very unlike your typical movie musical), at the end Jenny recognizes one of the performers as her ex-girlfriend, Marina. Episode ends, incident is never mentioned again.

* An episode of TheColbertReport had Stephen lead into a long joke about sheep doing crystal meth getting their own show called [[BreakingBad Breaking Baaaaaa]] and then celebrated having executed the Best Pun Ever (BPE) with a balloon drop, music, being carried by men like an Egyptian king, fighting a minotaur to the death with a dagger, and then laying down in the company of several women who fed him grapes.