History BLAM / LiveActionTV

** There's a REALLY odd one in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E11OutOfMindOutOfSight}} Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight]]" that seems like it should have been foreshadowing but it just never came up again. They're fighting an invisible girl and have seen a duo of [=MIBs=] hanging around the school. Just as they beat her, the Men In Black come in, apprehend her, and take her away. At the end of the episode we see her in a government run school full of invisible students including her being taught to be assassins. One must wonder if they're perhaps [[Series/{{Firefly}} also working on psychic assassins.]]
*** PlotCoupon (the invisibility)? TwistEnding? The girl spends most of the episode feeling out of place and unwanted in Sunnydale High society. She finally has a place to call home. The reason it would not be spoken of again is she's employed by a top secret governmental organization, unbeknownst to the Scoobies.

* {{Lampshaded}} on an episode of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' which involves a goblin breaking loose from its prison and causing havoc among the citizens of Camelot. Having thoroughly embarrassed everyone, two of the characters meet in a hallway and agree never to discuss it again. And they haven't.

* The beginning of the second episode of the third series of ''Series/AshesToAshes'' involves Gene, Chris and Ray dressed as mechanics singing "Uptown Girl". It's promptly revealed as a dream.

* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': A BLAM happens in-universe as a bad decision on Mr. Potato Head's part on how he wrote an episode of his ShowWithinAShow: he had a BLAM at the end of his cop-episode where a clown appears on-stage and sprays everyone with whipped cream. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext This only makes]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext slightly more sense in context]]. Other characters comment on how it made no sense.

* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' had a [[RealLife real-life]] explanation: the program-makers had classed it as a "Variety" series, so that Creator/TheBBC's light entertainment TV department would give them a higher budget than a "Comedy" series. But that meant each episode had to contain at least one musical number and, y'know, ''sketches''. This is not to say that the ''The Young Ones'' team didn't like being able to book and stage their favourite bands, but that's the reason why they did it, along with all the non-sequitur scenes.

* An episode of ''Series/TheColbertReport'' had Stephen lead into a long joke about sheep doing crystal meth getting their own show called [[Series/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 lying down in the company of several women who feed him grapes.
* On ''Series/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.
* Even RealityTV is not averse to this. One episode of ''Series/FameAcademy'', a [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] TalentShow, had footage of a governor/speed limiter for a few brief seconds. ''Why'' this happened was never explained. This could possibly be a StockFootageFailure.
* This happened a few times in ''Series/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.
* ''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.
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' has Sqweegel, a murderer who targets people who got away with crimes and orders them to confess before killing them. Not so bad except that he wears ''a rubber gimp suit'', chases them in a hunched four-limb pose because he's a contortionist, and [[ChewingTheScenery his line delivery is so hammy you can hear bits of the stage between his teeth]]. Despite escaping and hints at him returning, he is never spoken of again.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' 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.
* ''Series/BigTimeRush'' enjoys this trope from time to time, usually with random cutaway gags. Sometimes it subverts this by mentioning an event that happened in their past but has no connection to the plot save being much like what the episode covers (an example being in "Big Time Jobs" when the boys think back to times when they've destroyed things at the Palm Woods). Others it is played straight, like in "Big Time School of Rocque" when they are looking back to when they were wasting the brochures that Kelly gave them (including playing hockey with them, making cutouts of them and even taking a crap with them).
* ''Series/RedDwarf''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU Tongue Tied]] from "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIParallelUniverse Parallel Universe]]". It's a music video is the cold opening to one of the episodes. No context or anything, just that. It's revealed afterwards that it's a recording of one of the Cat's dreams. (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.)
* In series 3 of ''Series/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.
* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': "[[SuddenlySexuality Is this because I'm a lesbian]]?" Overlaps with {{Narm}}.
* In ''{{Series/Eureka}}'', Henry tries to do something romantic for his wife and ends up asking Fargo for advice. The result is a CrowdSong. Technically not an example, since the entire episode was leading up to it, but gets a free pass since the entire ''point'' was for it to be something Henry would never do.
* {{Lampshaded}} on an episode of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' which involves a goblin breaking loose from its prison and causing havoc among the citizens of Camelot. Having thoroughly embarrassed everyone, two of the characters meet in a hallway and agree never to discuss it again. And they haven't.
** In the episode "The Changeling", Princess Elena is fed a live frog by her nursemaid. Presumably, this was because she was possessed by a fairy at birth, but it's still a pointless scene, with no lead-up or explanation, and is never mentioned again.
* ''Series/VRTroopers'' features Jeb (the talking lab assistant dog) doing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfUYhbtcgM the Doggy Rap]] in Kaitlin's Front Page, an episode where a trap is set and the male troopers have to rescue Kaitlin. It is also done by the Troopers in My Dog's Girlfriend, so it's a slight subversion, but outside of those two moments, it is never done or mentioned again. However, it's such a hilarious and lighthearted break from the serious story, that ironically, it's not only the first thing people think of (or may be everything they remember from it) that remember that episode, but it's one of the more memorable moments from VR Troopers itself, despite the fact that it had nothing to do with anything going on at the time.
** 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/BoyMeetsWorld'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muXbrE3u6ns "That farmhouse, there."]]
* In what was perhaps one of the worst edited seasons of Series/{{Survivor}} ever, ''Redemption Island'', this happened to Kristina Kell. She manages to set a Survivor record by finding a hidden immunity idol before day three, before any clues were even handed out. This incident is ''never'' mentioned again - even during the ''season recap'', this is conveniently forgotten. Poor Kristina didn't even get to talk to Probst - and he had praised contestants for doing the same in seasons past.
** In the first episode of ''Heroes vs. Villains'', Russell Hantz and Coach randomly start playing on a makeshift seesaw at camp for no apparent reason, looking ridiculously gleeful the whole time. Courtney walks by them and does a double-take once she realizes what they're doing, and then the episode continues and no further context is ever given.
* In the ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode "Let's Get Hairy", Shawn activates a revolving bookcase which traps Gus on the other side. He then activates it again, bringing Gus back to the room everyone is in. Shawn doesn't notice, and it's never mentioned again.
* In the 9th season premiere of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Evelyn Harper is showing Charlie's house to prospective buyers, when suddenly ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' show up. They bicker for a second. Make sarcastic, and substantially darker comments than they did on their original show, including about divorce and suicide. They decide against buying the house and leave. To say that this is out of left field (especially since ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' was cancelled 9 years before, aired on another network, and actress Jenna Elfman already played a different role in an earlier season of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''), is an understatement.
* ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' is full of these, most provided by the random television shows that the characters watch.
* 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.
* An episode of Season Two of ''Series/TheGoodWife'' has one at a gala dinner for the Cook County Bar Association where an amateur theater group puts on a strange, poorly-acted play for the lawyers, telling the story of a farm boy who doesn't want his best friend, a cow named Moo Cow, to be drafted to fight in World War II. It is never mentioned again, for obvious reasons.
* ''Series/{{Louie}}'' has had a couple of these. In the first episode Louie is going on a date, and as he's standing outside his date's apartment, they yell to each other through the door as she gets ready. As he's waiting for her, an old woman peeks her head out of the apartment next door and tells him to keep it down because she's naked. She stares at him for a while before opening the door to show him her naked body and calls him a pig several times in different voices. Louie panics, knocks on his date's door again, and the old woman retreats back into her apartment. Louie simply says, "Uh, it just got weird out here."
** At the end of that same episode, when the date finally falls apart, the girl jumps up from the bench they're sitting on and runs across the pavement and jumps into a waiting helicopter. There's no explanation for it at all.
* A lot of the witchcraft... things... in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' season four.
* On an episode of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'', a clue had a pre-recorded visual clue featuring an inflatable shark. Said shark then made an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_dDJutbMXA out-of-nowhere appearance]] going into commercial and was never referenced again.
* Near the end of the ''[[Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow George Lopez]]'' episode "George of the Rings", George tries to make up for losing Angie's special ring by renewing their wedding vows. Because this is an in-universe OutOfCharacterMoment for him, time literally slows down when he says "renew our vows". Then, a ghostly image of George (representing his common sense) tries to talk him out of it, but when George doesn't listen, the Ghost!George kills himself by snapping his neck.
* ''Series/TheWorstWitch'' has a couple:
** "When We Feast At The Midnight Hour" - a completely random moment comes when the girls are eating lunch and suddenly start pretending Mildred is a surgeon operating on her food, complete with ''ER'' type music playing over it too.
** "Monkey Business" opens for absolutely no reason with a daydream from Mildred where the teachers fail her for everything and the entire school starts chanting "worst witch!" at her.
* If documentaries count, the Megastructures episode about the Millau Bridge is mostly about the technical and economic challenges faced by the construction team, except for one segment about a base jumper who sneaks into the construction site and parachutes off the bridge, not to be mentioned for the rest of the show. It's cool, yes, but not really related to the show's theme of the bridge as a feat of engineering at all.
* ''8 Out of 10 Cats does Series/{{Countdown}}'' has host Creator/JimmyCarr performing a few live [=BLAMs=] while the countdown is on, and Joe Wilkinson adds improv while "helping" [[LovelyAssistant Rachel]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DgaK1ZoeA The Netflix Example Show]] is completely comprised of such moments, but one that stands out is when a man starts reciting lines from ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' and then makes popping sounds with his lips and clacks his teeth (The audio for most of the video is the sound of a fountain, except for this scene and a scene of the same man dribbling a ball). Other scenes include the man juggling, shots of a fountain, a time-lapse video of the full moon, and a toy train carrying two toy penguins. Of course, the video was probably never meant to be seen by normal viewers, and was even more probably meant to test codecs. Still, why make a video so random?
* 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 was supposed to be a subversion/parody of the WeNeedADistraction trope. The crew is being held at gunpoint by Badger's men to keep them from interfering with Mal's duel with Atherton Wing. While planning an escape, they remark about how they need someone to distract the guards. River, who has presumably been following the conversation through her PsychicPowers, wanders in and provides them with the perfect distraction -Only the crew ends up as bewildered by her performance as Badger and forgets they're supposed to be escaping. Still ultimately a pointless scene, but a [[RuleOfFunny funny one]].
* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'': Rodney's nightmare at the beginning of the first chapter of the 1996 Christmas trilogy, "Heroes and Villians", in which a grown-up Damien not only runs Trotters Independent Traders, but also rules the western world in the year 2026, declaring war on other countries. While Del Boy, Lord of Peckham, and Raquel live a luxurious life in Trotter Towers, Rodney himself is reduced to being an old messenger, Cassandra is a maid after Damien took over her bank and fired her, and Uncle Albert's body has been preserved, repeating his trademark phrase on a constant loop. As Rodney berates Damien for ruining everything, Del wakes him up.
** 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.
* In one first season episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Daphne admits in a lengthy and somewhat unsettling monologue that she was a child star in the popular British television comedy, ''Mind Your Knickers'', for four years; this is never mentioned again.

* ''Series/{{ER}}'' actually has a couple of these moments, most noticeably the man who spontaneously combusted (it's never explained or mentioned again) and the time Carol met a man who may actually have been Santa. For a show with no supernatural elements these are quite unusual occurrences.
* 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.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" contains a whole scene with a mildly offensive {{Eagleland}}er tourist laughing at a Dalek and somehow always turning his back while the TARDIS materialises and dematerialises, followed by Daleks storming the Mary Celeste, followed by a slapstick moment where a Dalek falls into the sea for no reason.
** 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."
*** Made funnier when a later episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]", reveals that instead of dropping Sarah Jane off near her home in a London suburb (where having oddball clothing and gear wouldn't be so bad) the Doctor leaves her in the wrong city. This is actually mentioned in "Hand of Fear" but it's not until later that we learn she was dropped off pretty much at the opposite end of the UK!
** Some moments are so quick you may blink and miss them. Such a one occurs in the 2014 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood Robot of Sherwood]]". In the opening sequence, the Doctor and Clara are arguing about trying to meet Mythology/RobinHood when, out of nowhere, the Doctor produces a large spoon covered with an unidentified food substance (ice cream? custard? icing?), licks the spoon and then apparently puts the spoon away in his pocket. No explanation is ever given for why he's carrying a spoon around - long shots in the same sequence reveal no food in evidence, and it really does seem as if the Doctor puts the ice cream/custard/icing-covered spoon back in his pocket. Clara doesn't appear to notice (in fact the Doctor appears to lick the spoon with his back turned to her so she can't see). It is a truly puzzling moment. A few minutes later we do see the Doctor use a spoon in his comedic duel with Robin Hood, but the spoon is not only completely clean but it looks like a different colored spoon than the one from earlier!

** A related example, from the ''Doctor Who'' 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.
* In ''Series/{{House}}'', the 7th Season episode where Cuddy is concerned that she might have kidney failure or similar. The episode is ''filled'' with these. They are generally shown as dreams she's having, but the two biggest contenders for [=WTF BLAM=] moment are the ''Zombie Apocalypse'' scenario where House fights his zombified team, trying to rescue Cuddy and the ''Broadway Musical'' number towards the end of the episode, with House wearing a tux and dancing, singing and Cuddy is being wheeled around in her hospital bed by a dozen of background dancing show girls.
* In the ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' finale: the furry scene. Granted, in ''Series/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).

* The random dance numbers in ''The Mighty Boosh'' like 'Mod Wolves'.
* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' had a [[RealLife real-life]] explanation: the program-makers had classed it as a "Variety" series, so that Creator/TheBBC's light entertainment TV department would give them a higher budget than a "Comedy" series. But that meant each episode had to contain at least one musical number and, y'know, ''sketches''. This is not to say that the ''The Young Ones'' team didn't like being able to book and stage their favourite bands, but that's the reason why they did it, along with all the non-sequitur scenes.

* On the final episode of series 19 of ''Series/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 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.
* A running joke in the fourth season of ''NashBridges'' had the SIU move into a former disco which would start playing "Disco Inferno" at random intervals without explanation. It's just as weird as it sounds.
* 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.
* In the middle of a segment regarding binge drinking on the talk show ''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 dialog censor, but it was still so outlandish and out-of-nowhere that it should count.
** The dialogue they wanted to censor was one of the interviewees saying the word "retarded."

* Dennis Potter became known for making extensive use these in his TV dramas, particularly ''Series/PenniesFromHeaven'' and ''Series/TheSingingDetective''.
* ''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...]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', meanwhile, had one in its ColdOpen for the episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E18UpTheLongLadder}} Up The Long Ladder]]". [[http://sttngfashion.tumblr.com/post/893469282/2-18-up-the-long-ladder As one blogger put it]]:
-->Worf is shown at his security panel on the bridge, making Klingon discomfort-noises. He then later faints (“Klingons don’t faint,” he complains) and Dr. Pulaski (ugh) keeps it under her hat, so he thanks her by showing her the Klingon Tea Ceremony, which is apparently a thing. All of this happens before the second commercial break. It is then NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. It doesn’t relate to the rest of the episode, it’s not somehow a parallel, it’s just like “oh, here’s some stuff that happened.”
** The pre-credit sequence to the second season episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E2WhereSilenceHasLease}} Where Silence Has Lease]]" has Picard fretting on the bridge about Riker and Worf. We then see the pair sneaking about in a forest before being attacked by some skeleton guys. They fight and kill them, then Worf tries to attack ''Riker'', Riker tells him not to... and they casually walk off the holodeck as the credits come up. It has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the episode.
* And then there's [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold that one episode]] of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' involving transwarp, described in detail [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext elsewhere on the wiki]], which was basically a 45-minute BLAM. It also has the dubious distinction of being the only episode of any Trek series ''ever'' to be made CanonDiscontinuity by explicit RetCon.
* ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'' had the music video parodies.
* "Sushi Roulette" at the start of Season 15 of ''Series/TheAmazingRace''. Nearly every task on the show is something that comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again (barring a ''FinalExamBoss'' challenge at the end), but they usually have some sort of bearing on the plot. This task, however, is a different beast entirely. Set on a Japanese game show, each of the eleven teams was positioned at a roulette wheel divided into eleven pieces, two of which always contained wasabi. When the wasabi landed in front of a team, the chosen person would have to eat it fast enough to receive their next clue. To really cement its BLAM status, there were such additions as falling confetti, a bizarre voice calling out "Eat the wasabi!" for each new round, and surreal animation that included ''a fire-breathing alligator'' that appeared whenever the wasabi became overwhelming. And when it was over, it never returned in any flashbacks during the season.
** Actually 3 seasons later on Unfinished Business upon finding out that the leg will be Japan again Justin mentions having to down a wasabi roll cue a flashback scene.
* 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".
* At the end of the first season of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', several characters, including a random bus driver and Tony [[spoiler: who is in a ''coma'' at the time]] start singing Music/CatStevens' "Wild World". Not just singing it, but as a full-blown musical number, with backing music. See here: [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1lslw_skins-wild-world_music]].
* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' while Tim and Daisy are looking around the flat, they run into a pair of girlscout CreepyTwins in a closet who freak them out, before being promptly forgotten. Apparently, they were originally going to be recurring characters, until the makers found out that there were similar ''Film/TheShining''-style creepy twins in ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen''.
* The beginning of the second episode of the third series of ''Series/AshesToAshes'' involves Gene, Chris and Ray dressed as mechanics singing "Uptown Girl". It's promptly revealed as a dream.
* In the episode of ''Series/{{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 it was preserved in the commercialless web copies is anyone's guess.
* At the end of one episode toward the end of ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'', the episode was padded by having Herb Viola (Curtis Armstrong) sing "Wooly Bully".
* The ''Series/FullHouse'' special where the family went to Disney World had this short sequence where Joey visits an animation studio and draws a sketch of himself on a pad. The sketch suddenly becomes animated, and starts a conversation with Joey before bouncing around playing basketball. Afterwards, Joey leaves the studio to resume the special's actual plot. Soooo... money well spent on paying [[DisneyAcidSequence the Disney animators, guys?]]

Sometimes, this trope is subverted, by having the upcoming hero of heroes defeating a main villain that broke away from the others. For example, [[spoiler:when the Go-Busters protected the Gokai Galleon from Basco during ''Gokaiger vs. Gavan'']]

* The mute little girl sub-plot from the "iSpace Out" episode of ''Series/ICarly''.
** Spencer rubbing butter on his face in "iPity the Nevel".
** The Emma Stone cameo in "iFind Spencer Friends" [[AdvertisedExtra despite being what the episode was hyping]].
* ''Music/TheRutles: All You Need Is Cash'' features a 'clip' of the animated film ''Yellow Submarine Sandwich'' [[https://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 unintelligible events]] appears to be pure BLAM, but is actually a dead-on parody of Music/TheBeatles' equally bizarre ''WesternAnimation/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]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmbqNsTqfnA A Thousand Feet Of Film]]''. [[spoiler:It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. And it is hilarious.]]
* Even though the show is about a bunch of singers, ''Series/{{Glee}}'' has these all the time, some not even musical to begin with:
** At one point the club is performing one of their songs onstage in front of a closed curtain. At the climax of the song, the curtain opens and an ''entire gospel choir is revealed'' and sings along with the cast. This is never brought up again.
** From the same episode, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpKZcPU51MQ Umbrella/Singing in the Rain mash-up]] featuring the cast performing elaborate choreography in front of ''a waterfall in their school auditorium.'' The writers don't even bother trying to explain this.
** Near the end of "Guilty Pleasures", an episode about... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guilty pleasures]], Tina reveals her love of ''Series/SmallWonder''. By dressing as Vicki. And chasing Kitty down the hallway.
** Even in ''Glee'', most of the songs in "Puppet Master" were this. Half of them were gas-induced hallucinations, while the performance of Ylvis' "The Fox" at the end was completely unrelated to anything else in the episode, and was probably included to cash in the song's success.
* With the crazy and often nonsensical sketches in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', it'd be difficult for anything to stand out as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, but the end of ''Cycling Tour'' definitely qualifies. The episode is about Mr. Pither and his crazy adventures during a bicycle trip; at the end, when he and his companion part ways, two cartoon monsters jump out of the bushes and start dancing to Clodagh Rodgers' "Jack in the Box." (Mr. Pither's companion briefly thought he ''was'' Clodagh Rodgers after suffering head trauma in an auto accident, making this also qualify as a BrickJoke.)
** In the middle of the "Restaurant Abuse/Cannibalism" sketch, which was one of the odder ones[[note]]and that, of course, is saying something[[/note]] to begin with, a man in [[AncientGrome Ancient Groman]] dress enters, delivers a brief pseudo-Shakespearean speech that has nothing to do with the scene, is told off by the waiter, goes away and is not mentioned again.

* Bedford's silent movie dream sequence in the 2010 [[Creator/TheBBC [=BBC4=]]] adaptation of ''Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon'', which also doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Film/ATripToTheMoon''

* The last episode of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' opens with Stevie Nicks singing "The Seven Wonders" and a montage of the girls preparing for their tests. And then at the end of the song, the girls descend the stairs and Stevie wishes them luck before walking off. It's never mentioned again, which is especially strange considering that Misty is such a huge Stevie Nicks fan.
* In the ''Series/{{Smash}}'' episode "Publicity," a full-cast Bollywood number appears out of nowhere, completely bereft of context. Even for a show about Broadway musicals, this is strange. It is never mentioned again.
* Kirsty Wark ending a Halloween edition of ''Series/{{Newsnight}}'' by telling viewers to be careful out there and then dancing to Music/MichaelJackson's "Thriller".
* ''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...]]
* Don seeing the [[spoiler:deceased]] Bert Cooper giving a song-and-dance routine (specifically, the old show tune "The Best Things in Life Are Free") at the end of the "Waterloo" episode of ''Series/MadMen''. Fantasy, [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality break from reality]], an [[JacobMarleyWarning ominous visitation]], or madness?
* In episode 1 of season 5 of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'', the competing queens are told that they will be given a special shopping spree in anticipation of their first main challenge. When they all board a bus to go shopping, a music video of the queens lip-syncing to host RuPaul’s "Hollywood USA" from atop the bus traveling along Hollywood Boulevard spontaneously begins. This goes on for about a minute, during which time the queens wave at hilariously green-screened celebrity cameos of the guest judges they'll meet later that season and turn out some crazy choreography (all while remaining safely seated, naturally). They then get off the bus and the episode picks up right where it left off, explaining the components of the main challenge shopping spree. It's not unusual for Ru to challenge her queens to a battle of lip-syncing, but this particular instance is bizarre because it's not a challenge of any kind, has no bearing on the competition whatsoever, and has never been brought up, referenced, or acknowledged in any way since.
* In ''Series/SamAndCat'', Cat does a one-person play as Abraham Lincoln with a British accent. Even for her that's like... uh... ''what?''
* ''Series/SuperStore'' actually uses these as transitions, focusing on the customers in the store. Some notable examples include:
** Two customers getting into a shopping cart fight
** A child using one of the training toilets in the middle of the aisle
** An adult using one of the display toilets
** And an employee eating food off of the floor.
* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': A BLAM happens in-universe as a bad decision on Mr. Potato Head's part on how he wrote an episode of his ShowWithinAShow: he had a BLAM at the end of his cop-episode where a clown appears on-stage and sprays everyone with whipped cream. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext This only makes]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext slightly more sense in context]]. Other characters comment on how it made no sense.
* ''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.

* ''Series/RedDwarf''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t3IKlXqFU Tongue Tied]] from episode "Parallel Universe". It's a music video is the cold opening to one of the episodes. No context or anything, just that. It's revealed afterwards that it's a recording of one of the Cat's dreams. (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.)

* {{Toku}} series will occasionally do blatant promotion of an upcoming show within TheMovie of the previous show; this happened for both ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' and ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', where the action was interrupted so [[Series/KamenRiderDouble Double]] and [[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger the Goseigers]], respectively, could show how awesome they were to get audiences worked up for their own series - all while interrupting the movie's actual plot and contributing little to nothing before running off.
** These are usually mildly averted by the upcoming hero defeating a main villain that broke away from the others. For example, [[spoiler:when the Go Busters protected the Gokai Galleon from Basco]]
** [[spoiler:The Gokaigers' appearance in the Shinkenger/Goseiger crossover turned out to be part of the Time Ranger episode in Gokaiger's own show.]]

* ''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 unintelligible events]] appears to be pure BLAM, but is actually a dead-on parody of Music/TheBeatles' equally bizarre ''WesternAnimation/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. And it is hilarious.]]

*** PlotCoupon (the invisibility)? TwistEnding? The girl spends most of the episode feeling out of place and unwanted in Sunnyvale High society. She finally has a place to call home. The reason it would not be spoken of again is she's employed by a top secret governmental organization, unbeknownst to the Scoobies.

* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' while Tim and Daisy are looking around the flat, they run into a pair of girlscout CreepyTwins in a closet who freak them out, before being promptly forgotten. Apparently, they were originally going to be recurring characters, until the makers found out that there were similar ''Film/TheShining''-style creepy twins in ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen''.

* ''8 Out of 10 Cats does Series/{{Countdown}}'' has host JimmyCarr performing a few live [=BLAMs=] while the countdown is on, and Joe Wilkinson adds improv while "helping" [[LovelyAssistant Rachel]].

** There's also the Cheese Man, who shows up in all the protagonists dreams, and... offers them cheese. WordOfGod is that it was ''meant'' to be utterly nonsensical.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': 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.

** Some moments are so quick you may blink and miss them. Such a one occurs in the 2014 episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood Robot of Sherwood]]". In the opening sequence, the Doctor and Clara are arguing about trying to meet RobinHood when, out of nowhere, the Doctor produces a large spoon covered with an unidentified food substance (ice cream? custard? icing?), licks the spoon and then apparently puts the spoon away in his pocket. No explanation is ever given for why he's carrying a spoon around - long shots in the same sequence reveal no food in evidence, and it really does seem as if the Doctor puts the ice cream/custard/icing-covered spoon back in his pocket. Clara doesn't appear to notice (in fact the Doctor appears to lick the spoon with his back turned to her so she can't see). It is a truly puzzling moment. A few minutes later we do see the Doctor use a spoon in his comedic duel with Robin Hood, but the spoon is not only completely clean but it looks like a different colored spoon than the one from earlier!

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', meanwhile, had one in its cold open for the episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E18UpTheLongLadder}} Up The Long Ladder]]". [[http://sttngfashion.tumblr.com/post/893469282/2-18-up-the-long-ladder As one blogger put it]]:

* And then there's [[{Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold that one episode]] of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' involving transwarp, described in detail [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext elsewhere on the wiki]], which was basically a 45-minute BLAM. It also has the dubious distinction of being the only episode of any Trek series ''ever'' to be made CanonDiscontinuity by explicit RetCon.

** There's a REALLY odd one that seems like it should have been foreshadowing but it just never came up again. They're fighting an invisible girl and have seen a duo of [=MIBs=] hanging around the school. Just as they beat her, the Men In Black come in, apprehend her, and take her away. At the end of the episode we see her in a government run school full of invisible students including her being taught to be assassins. One must wonder if they're perhaps [[Series/{{Firefly}} also working on psychic assassins.]]

** In 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 "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]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Part 7 of ''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.
** "The Chase" contains a whole scene with a mildly offensive {{Eagleland}}er tourist laughing at a Dalek and somehow always turning his back while the TARDIS materialises and dematerialises, followed by Daleks storming the Mary Celeste, followed by a slapstick moment where a Dalek falls into the sea for no reason.
** At the end of ''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."
*** Made funnier when a later episode, "School Reunion", reveals that instead of dropping Sarah Jane off near her home in a London suburb (where having oddball clothing and gear wouldn't be so bad) the Doctor leaves her in the wrong city. This is actually mentioned in "Hand of Fear" but it's not until later that we learn she was dropped off pretty much at the opposite end of the UK!
** Some moments are so quick you may blink and miss them. Such a one occurs in the 2014 episode "Robot of Sherwood". In the opening sequence, the Doctor and Clara are arguing about trying to meet RobinHood when, out of nowhere, the Doctor produces a large spoon covered with an unidentified food substance (ice cream? custard? icing?), licks the spoon and then apparently puts the spoon away in his pocket. No explanation is ever given for why he's carrying a spoon around - long shots in the same sequence reveal no food in evidence, and it really does seem as if the Doctor puts the ice cream/custard/icing-covered spoon back in his pocket. Clara doesn't appear to notice (in fact the Doctor appears to lick the spoon with his back turned to her so she can't see). It is a truly puzzling moment. A few minutes later we do see the Doctor use a spoon in his comedic duel with Robin Hood, but the spoon is not only completely clean but it looks like a different colored spoon than the one from earlier!

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': One 4th season episode ('Indiscretion') featuring 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 3 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...]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', meanwhile, had one in its cold open for the episode "Up the Long Ladder". [[http://sttngfashion.tumblr.com/post/893469282/2-18-up-the-long-ladder As one blogger put it]]:

** The pre-credit sequence to the second season episode "Where Silence Has Lease" has Picard fretting on the bridge about Riker and Worf. We then see the pair sneaking about in a forest before being attacked by some skeleton guys. They fight and kill them, then Worf tries to attack ''Riker'', Riker tells him not to... and they casually walk off the holodeck as the credits come up. It has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the episode.
* And then there's that one episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' involving transwarp, described in detail [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext elsewhere on the wiki]], which was basically a 45-minute BLAM. It also has the dubious distinction of being the only episode of any Trek series ''ever'' to be made CanonDiscontinuity by explicit RetCon.
* ''BillNyeTheScienceGuy'' had the music video parodies.

* At the end of the first season of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', several characters, including a random bus driver and Tony [[spoiler: who is in a ''coma'' at the time]] start singing Cat Stevens' "Wild World". Not just singing it, but as a full-blown musical number, with backing music. See here: [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1lslw_skins-wild-world_music]].

** "Improbable" 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-synching to an Italian folk song, during which the camera pulls away to reveal the area's topography looks just like Reynolds' face.
** "The Post-Modern Prometheus": Mulder, Scully, and {{Monster Of The Week}} go to a Cher concert at the end. It was an important plot point though that the Monster loved Cher which made him un-monsterlike, plus in a perfectly post-modern manner, characters ask authors to change the story and write a better ending. Hence he is not arrested and prosecuted, but they go happily to the concert together.
** "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''": Men In Black supposedly keep showing up randomly, and they look like celebrities. It's explained in-universe that it's supposed to make people who believe in alien abductions and conspiracy theories look confused and stupid.
** "Bad Blood" has Mulder singing the theme song to ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' for absolutely no reason other than that he was drugged. The story was told in {{Rashomon Style}} so we may choose to believe that he in fact did ''not'' sing it.

* ''Series/VRTroopers'' features Jeb (the talking lab assistant dog) doing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfUYhbtcgM the Doggy Rap]] in Kaitlin's Front Page, an episode where a trap is set and the male troopers have to rescue Kaitlin. It is also done by the Troopers in My Dog's Girlfriend, so it's a slight subversion, but outside of those two moments, it is never done or mentioned again. However, it's such a hillarious and lighthearted break from the serious story, that ironically, it's not only the first thing people think of (or may be everything they remember from it) that remember that episode, but it's one of the more memorable moments from VR Troopers itself, despite the fact that it had nothing to do with anything going on at the time.

* In ''SamAndCat'', Cat does a one-person play as Abraham Lincoln with a British accent. Even for her that's like... uh... ''what?''

* Shows like ''FlightOfTheConchords'', ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' and ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' guarantee at least one Big Lipped Alligator Moment per episode.
** For example, in "FlightOfTheConchords", there is a scene in which one of the main characters, Bret, suddenly sings a karaoke 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 random dance numbers in ''The Mighty Boosh'' like 'Mod Wolves'.
** ''Series/SnuffBox'' is kinda similar to the above, except usually the BLAM is the same song repeated every episode, with minor changes to the lyrics.
** ''The Young Ones'' had a [[RealLife real-life]] explanation: the program-makers had classed it as a "Variety" series, so that Creator/TheBBC's light entertainment TV department would give them a higher budget than a "Comedy" series. But that meant each episode had to contain at least one musical number and, y'know, ''sketches''. This is not to say that the ''The Young Ones'' team didn't like being able to book and stage their favourite bands, but that's the reason why they did it, along with all the non-sequitur scenes.

* On ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'', there is scene where Adrian is studying while listening the radio. Then she changes the station and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" starts playing. This prompts Adrian to get up and dance like a spaz for about 10 seconds before sitting back down and changing the station. No explanation is given.

* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' has Sqweegel, a murderer who targets people who got away with crimes and orders them to confess before killing them. Not so bad except that he wears ''a rubber gimp suit'', chases them in a hunched four-limb pose because he's a contortionist, and [[ChewingTheScenery his line delivery is so hammy you can hear bits of the stage between his teeth]]. Despite escaping and hints at him returning he is never spoken of again.

** And outside of that 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.

* ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' is full of these, most provided by the random television-shows that the characters watch.

* ''8 Out of 10 Cats does Series/{{Countdown}}'' has host JimmyCarr performing a few live while the countdown is on, and Joe Wilkinson adds improv while ''helping'' [[LovelyAssistant Rachel]].

* ''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.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': One 4th season episode ('Indiscretion') featuring 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 3 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...]]

* At the end of the first season of ''Series/{{Skins}}'', several characters, including a random bus driver and Tony [[spoiler: who is in a ''coma'' at the time]] start singing Cat Steven's "Wild World". Not just singing it, but as a full-blown musical number, with backing music- See here: [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1lslw_skins-wild-world_music]].

* The beginning of the second episode of the third series of ''Series/AshesToAshes'' involves Gene, Chris and Ray dressed as mechanics singing "Up Town Girl". It's promptly revealed as a dream.

* The ''Series/FullHouse'' special where the family went to Disney World had this short sequence where Joey visits an animation studio and draws a sketch of himself on a pad. The sketch suddenly becomes animated, and starts a conversation with Joey before bouncing around playing basketball. Afterwards, Joeys leaves the studio to resume the special's actual plot. Soooo... money well spent on paying [[DisneyAcidSequence the Disney animators, guys?]]

** Adrian wears Ricky's shirt to school one day after he's caught on video without it (MakesSenseInContext). She then sees him flirting with Grace so she comes up to them and says something like "This is his shirt! And this is where he left it!". She then proceeds to rip off the shirt, chuck it at Grace, and then walks down the hallway in nothing but her bra.

** Something of a case of FridgeBrilliance and TruthInTelevision. Both Nick and Disney have as almost a requirement, that their teen/tweener star (especially the girls), have to be able to sing and dance, so they can push the tie-in IdolSinger CD's and tours.

* ''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.

* {{Lampshaded}} on an episode of ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' which involves a goblin breaking loose of its prison and causing havoc among the citizens of Camelot. Having thoroughly embarrassed everyone, two of the characters meet in a hallway and agree never to discuss it again. And they haven't.

* In one first season episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Daphne admits in a lengthy, and somewhat unsettling monologue that she was a child star in the popular British television comedy, ''Mind Your Knickers'', for four years; this is never mentioned again.

* In episode 1 of season 5 of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'', the competing queens are told that they will be given a special shopping spree in anticipation of their first main challenge. When they all board a bus to go shopping, a music video of the queens lip-syncing to host RuPaul’s “Hollywood USA” from atop the bus traveling along Hollywood Boulevard spontaneously begins. This goes on for about a minute, during which time the queens wave at hilariously green-screened celebrity cameos of the guest judges they’ll meet later that season and turn out some crazy choreography (all while remaining safely seated, naturally). They then get off the bus and the episode picks up right where it left off explaining the components of the main challenge shopping spree. It’s not unusual for Ru to challenge her queens to a battle of lip-syncing, but this particular instance is bizarre because it’s not a challenge of any kind, has no bearing on the competition whatsoever, and has never been brought up, referenced, or acknowledged in any way since.

* ''Series/NewsRadio'' had 2 entire episodes which could qualify. In both Bill McNeil broke the 4th wall telling the audience just how out-there it was going to be at the beginning and/or end. One turned the station into the Titanic, the other turned it into a space station in the future. Neither episode was ever mentioned again.

* ''TheWorstWitch'' has a couple:

** ''TheYoungOnes'' had a [[RealLife real-life]] explanation: the program-makers had classed it as a "Variety" series, so that Creator/TheBBC's light entertainment TV department would give them a higher budget than a "Comedy" series. But that meant each episode had to contain at least one musical number and, y'know, ''sketches''. This is not to say that the ''TheYoungOnes'' team didn't like being able to book and stage their favourite bands, but that's the reason why they did it, along with all the non-sequitur scenes.

* In the 9th season premiere of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Evelyn Harper is showing Charlie's house to prospective buyers, when suddenly ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' show up. They bicker for a second. Make sarcastic, and substantially darker comments than they did on their original show, including about divorce and suicide. They decide against buying the house and leave. To say that this is out of left field (especially since ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'' was cancelled 9 years before, aired on another network, and actress Jenna Elfman already played a different role in an earlier season of ''TwoAndAHalfMen''), is an understatement.

* The pilot for ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' one 4th season episode featuring 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 3 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...]]

* In the middle of a segment regarding binge drinking on the talk show ''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, ''TheSoup''. Apparently it was a type of dialog censor, but it was still so outlandish and out-of-nowhere that it should count.

* At the end of one episode toward the end of ''{{Moonlighting}}'', the episode was padded by having Herb Viola (Curtis Armstrong) sing "Wooly Bully".

* Jesse Watters' "Watters' World" segments on Fox News seem to be mostly composed of interviewees (usually the people who don't watch Fox News) completely confused about what Watters is asking about (usually what's in the news) followed by a mostly unrelated movie clip. Stephen Colbert thought this was pretty funny and did a segment where all the guests actually did know the answers. Eventually, Watters was called out for a segment in Chinatown where many guests did not seem confident speaking English, and many of the clips shown seemed insensitive (such as clips of Mr. Miyagi)

--->Worf is shown at his security panel on the bridge, making Klingon discomfort-noises. He then later faints (“Klingons don’t faint,” he complains) and Dr. Pulaski (ugh) keeps it under her hat, so he thanks her by showing her the Klingon Tea Ceremony, which is apparently a thing. All of this happens before the second commercial break. It is then NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. It doesn’t relate to the rest of the episode, it’s not somehow a parallel, it’s just like “oh, here’s some stuff that happened.”