History BLAM / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/{{Loki}}'': [[JustForPun Pun gleefully intended]] and very much PlayedForLaughs. Why is there an Alligator Loki? Why not? No explanation is given, no rhyme or reason for his being there, and no origin story behind the enigma. Both in and out of universe, as commented on by the characters and series creators, the only reason why he's there is because he is, and he's never seen or mentioned again after the one episode he appears in. Unlike most examples of this trope, this one has been wholly, lovingly embraced by everyone: the characters, the show creators, critics and the fans.

* ''Series/Superstore'' actually uses these as transitions, focusing on the customers in the store. Some notable examples include:

* ''Series/SuperStore'' actually uses these as transitions, focusing on the customers in the store. Some notable examples include:

** In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'', there's the infamous moment where a recently-insane Sister Judy hears Lana's name...and breaks into a fully-choreographed rendition of "The Name Game," with everyone in the asylum's common room (including Lana and Kit) joining in. It's ''somewhat'' justified as a dream sequence to show her SanitySlippage, but it's particularly jarring since, like the Stevie Nicks example, the season had almost no musical numbers beyond this singular high-energy song and dance routine.

* Creator/RobinWilliams and Billy Crystal's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmxZ54ICtQ guest appearance]] at the beginning of the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "TheOneWith the Ultimate Fighting Champion" has no relevance to the plot and is never mentioned again. It wasn't even in the original script, they coincidentally just happened to be in the same building where ''Friends'' was filmed and the writers asked if they wanted to make a guest appearance.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Thespian Catalyst" when Raj daydreams about he and Bernadette as LoveInterests in an Indian-style musical.

* ''Series/{{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.
* One ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' episode has a truly random moment where Badger is aboard the ship. River - who he hasn't met yet - approaches him and starts speaking in a fake Cockney accent. He believes her act but she finishes her little speech and says to Simon "let me know if anyone interesting shows up" before going back to her room. This scene is never referenced later, it's never explained why River chose to do that and it's a bit at odds with her BrokenBird character later on the show. Oh and yeah it has no effect on the plot whatsoever.

** It culminates the long RunningGag that Rodney is convinced that Damien is destined to be some kind of Anti-Christ, as the "Son of Del". Everytime he sees Damien "O Fortuna" plays.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E05Indiscretion}} Indiscretion]]" featured Kira and MagnificentBastard Dukat forced to work together to find a long disappeared prisoner transport ship has a scene with the two of them camping for the night. Dukat sits on a three inch spike, impaling his butt and requiring assistance from Kira. The next three minutes are just Kira giggling to herself as Dukat wiggles his butt around in the air trying to apply some medicine. Immediately after this, they start talking about the plot/mission again and Dukat reveals [[MoodWhiplash he plans on killing his own half-Bajoran daughter if she is still alive...]]

** "Redemption: Part 2": In the midst of all the hullabaloo of the Klingon Civil War, Romulan commander Sela, who's supporting the Duras family, shows up, explains she's the daughter of an alternate timeline's Tasha Yar, tells the story of how that Tasha died, and...that's it. It means nothing to the rest of the episode or even the rest of the series. The main cast doesn't even talk about it amongst themselves or appear to think about it at all, much less angst over their friend's fate. As to Sela's role in the Klingon conflict and her later role in the "Unification" two-parter, she could have been replaced by any generic SmugSnake Romulan and it wouldn't have changed a thing.

* ''Series/Watchmen2019'', in the third episode, the series' protagonist Sister Night is disposing of some incriminating evidence against her into a passing train from a bridge. Thinking no one has seen her, she turns to see a man dressed all in silver staring at her across the bridge. After taking a moment to comprehend, she yells at him to stop, and he races off. A quick chase occurs across the city. As they near an open sewer grant, the man grabs bottles of some oily substance and sprays it over his outfit. He then falls on it back, feet first, and slips cleanly in the sewer and disappears, leaving Sister Night only able to utter "the fuck?!". She is briefly teased about the encounter with "Lube Man" in the next immediate scene and never more is brought up, though the show's additional material gave identity and some fate to Lube Man. Showrunnor Damon Lindelof even intended this scene to be just a random thing amid all the other stuff going on in the series.

* One episode of the game show version of ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'' ended with Rockapella (who did the main theme) suddenly start singing another one of their songs, "Zombie Jamboree." It had absolutely no relevance to the episode, and unless the ZombieApocalypse version of the game was ''very'' well-hidden, no relevance even to any incarnation of the series.

** And outside of the charming BLAM that is Jeb's doggie-rap, the episode is actually a very dark one. Kaitlin is almost killed and it deals with a very [[RealityEnsues real world issue of how people who try to expose environmentally unfriendly business practices may be dealt with by a corrupt industry]]. A very dark and cynical episode, even for VR Troopers, which is at least lighthearted enough to have fun with silly virtual mutants at times such as Sliding-Glass-Door-bot and Snoop-Doggy-Dogg-bot. This makes Jeb's BLAM even more out of place than it already was.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Thespian Catalyst" when Raj daydreams about he and Bernadette as [[LoveInterests]] in an Indian-style musical.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Thespian Catalyst" when Raj daydreams about he and Bernadette doing an Indian-style musical.

* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' pulls an interesting variant with an in-universe example for the very cast and crew filming it! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKEUujz12S4 Well, now we know...]]

** 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 (played by Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders). 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... even though it had no bearing on the plot, [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain was never mentioned again]], and the song itself had nothing to symbolically or thematically connect itself to the events of the episode.
** That's because it was just a snippet on the broadcast version. The [=DVDs=] have her singing "Angel In The Morning" as an extended scene within the episode.

%%* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': "[[SuddenlySexuality Is this because I'm a lesbian]]?" Overlaps with {{Narm}}.

* ''Series/NewsRadio'' had 2 entire episodes which could qualify. In both, Bill [=McNeil=] broke the FourthWall, telling the audience just how out-there it was going to be at the beginning and/or end. One episode turned the station into the Titanic, the other turned it into a space station in the future. Neither episode was ever mentioned again.
%%* Completely intentional (as it's supposed to be a parody of early [[TheEighties 80s]] music videos) example from ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews''; "Nice Video, Shame About The Song".

* In any episode of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' that doesn't involve Gaius Baltar, there'll still be a random scene of him in bed with a beautiful woman that serves no purpose other than to remind us that he's still in the story.

* At Jim and Pam's wedding in ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', when the entire cast danced down the aisle to "Forever". They were parodying a famous Youtube video. Michael even says: "I saw this on Youtube!" in case it was too subtle.

** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling}} Once More, With Feeling]]", Buffy and some vampires burst into song during some slayage. She then enters the magic shop hesitant to bring it up, seemingly preferring it to leave it in Alligator territory. It even goes a step further, leaving the audience with the same WTF face, wondering if anyone is going to acknowledge it. But once she talks about it is it revealed that all the others were thinking the same about their own musical numbers that happened off-screen.

** A justified example in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E16TheBody}} The Body]]". The episode begins with [[spoiler: Buffy finding Joyce dead on the couch]]. After the opening theme, we're shown a flashback to a Christmas dinner at Buffy's house before jump cutting back to the present day. WordOfGod says it's there because he didn't want the opening credits to be playing over Buffy [[spoiler: trying to revive her mother]].

** Part 7 of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" has our heroes picked up by police on Christmas, getting split up on a RoaringTwenties movie set, and finally breaking the fourth wall. It should perhaps be noted that there was a good reason for this. The episode was broadcast on Christmas Day and the production team worried people might not bother tuning in to watch. By making the episode irrelevant to the plot of the complete (12-part) serial as a whole, they didn't have to worry about people tuning back in the week after and not having a clue what was going on. The BLAM aspect is further emphasized when one realizes that the character of Sara Kingdom, featured in the silly goings-on in the episode, ''killed her own brother'' only a couple of weeks earlier and is supposed to be working through the guilt related to this.

** At the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]", Sarah Jane's departure is made slightly less sad by the sheer ridiculousness of her outfit, coupled with the items she happens to be carrying. As [[http://www.scary-crayon.com/spectare/sjsff4/ this blogger.]] described it, "Sarah then exits TARDIS left, clutching a variety of things that seem to be the physical embodiments of non-sequiturs — an owl doll and a tennis racket being the most obvious — as she walks away whistling."

** A related example, from the spin-off series ''Series/Class2016''. Towards the end of the show's debut episode, during TheCameo, the Doctor spots [[spoiler:Clara's name on a memorial plaque, reflecting the fact that she was KilledOffForReal towards the end of Series 9]]. His reaction to it is significant, but it becomes a BLAM in the context of the spin-off because viewers who aren't familiar with the recent story arcs on the parent show (and, thus, weren't JustHereForGodzilla) are never clued in as to why, the characters in the episode are left none the wiser, and the moment is never referred to again in any episode of the spin-off series, making it random enough to meet the spirit of BLAM.

* One episode of ''The Chew'' ([=ABC=]'s old cooking show) had [[WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas The Grinch]] show up on set, say something about hating Christmas but liking the food, and then taking a bite of the food before one commercial break. This came out of nowhere and was never mentioned again once the show came back from the break.

->'''Friend:''' "Hey, watch this scene!"\\
'''You:''' "Um... okay."\\

'''You:''' "Okay, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment what the hell just happened?]]"

* ''Series/NightMan'': For no good reason, [[spoiler: Creator/DavidHasselhoff]] appears as the mastermind of the illegal weapons sale near the end of the pilot. He's on screen for maybe fifteen seconds before [=NightMan=] [[DeathByCameo throws him out a window]], after which Johnny gets a [[BondOneLiner post-mortem one-liner]] to underline the supremely pointless cameo ([[spoiler: "Life's a ''hassle'', isn't it?"]], delivered to no one. Glen Larson stablemates referenced: [[Series/KnightRider one]]. Impact on the plot: zero.

* In the middle of a segment regarding binge drinking on the talk show ''Series/TheMorningShow'' with Mike and Juliet, a picture of a cat in a high chair eating spaghetti randomly appeared for a few seconds, and then disappeared. Nobody acknowledges this or ever talks about it again. This quickly became a meme known as "Spaghetti Cat" and it became a running gag on another show, ''Series/TheSoup''. Apparently it was a type of dialogue censor, but it was still so outlandish and out-of-nowhere that it should count.