History Main / BLAMEpisode

** Also, pretty much every theatrical movie, with the exception of the first (which had episodes leading up to it and referenced in the movie itself) and fourth (which provides backstory).
*** Actually, all of the movies have been referenced at some point. (Movie 2 in the Whirl Islands arc, Movie 8 in the Spiritomb episode and the Riolu arc, etc.)

* ''Revolution 9'' from TheBeatles' "White Album". Eight minutes of pure WTF.
* "Mother" on ThePolice's final album, ''Synchronicity''. Totally out of place and a real MoodWhiplash. Its weirdness probably explained by the fact that it's an Andy Summers song, rather than one of Sting's.

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* Moonside in ''{{Earthbound}}'', with the possible exception of the boss fight at the end.
** Justified: they were hallucinating.
* ''PlumbersDontWearTies''. '''THE ENTIRE GAME.'''
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->"''(When the BLAM sign appears) No! It doesn't work, the movie has to have some sort of cohesion! In a movie where shit keeps happening and no-one ever mentions it again, this just doesn't work!''"
->-- '''TheNostalgiaChick''', commenting on ''Xanadu''

->-- TheNostalgiaCritic (as [[HunterSThompson "Raoul Puke"]]) reviews ''[[WereBackADinosaursStory We're Back]]''

*** Hey, whose name is in the title?
* ''{{Halloween}} 3'' has nothing to do with Michael Myers and is instead about a witch who attacks peoples' television sets. What, you want continuity? Forget it. Not only does the film make no sense on its own, it is a stand-alone film with no connection to any of the other Halloween movies at all.

*** This is supposed to be a heartwarming moment of wish fulfillment.

* ''The Room'' is one big old pile of BLAM. So many characters come in and out and give new information without any real sense of cohesion.
* Both ''Crank'' and its sequel, ''Crank: High Voltage''.

* ''{{Eraserhead}}''. Full stop.
* ''TheodoreRex'' is very similar to the aforementioned ''We're Back'' and ''The Room''. We wouldn't know where to start in listing all the insanity.
* The 1967 spy parody Casino Royalle is a Big Lipped Alligator Movie! Every scene is a BLAM. Many things in the film are never mentioned again once they happen. It is all completely over the top even for psychedelic sixties spy flicks. Many scenes could be removed from the film with little or no damage to the plot. There are even some scenes that when seen together have absolutely nothing to do with each other. But somehow it fits together as a whole, YMMV on how well though.

* TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial. The NostalgiaCritic noted that 'we'd be here all day' if we tried to point out everything that could be considered a BLAM in it. And, in the context of StarWars, (both movies and ExpandedUniverse), it's definitely a BLAMEpisode.

-->NostalgiaCritic: Ughhhhh... BigLippedAlligatorMoment

[[caption-width:247: And that's just the start.]]

* May we present to you the ZatchBell manga, [[http://www.onemanga.com/Zatch_Bell/277/01/ chapter 277]]. Context will only make it ''worse''.
* One (or two) episodes of {{School Rumble}} shows all the students having A GUN FIGHT INSIDE THEIR SCHOOL in the middle of the night, and EVERYONE DIED. Next episode, guess what? Everyone's alive and well!

*** The second movie gets a reference when Ash and co meet a child Lugia and its Parent in Master Quest. (They mentioned having seen a Lugia before while in the Orange Islands.)

** The "prison escape" arc during the Part 1 filler also qualifies. Two of the main villains are giant men shaped like giant Russian dolls (tiny at the top and at the bottom) and equally bottomless; their battle cry is "Food! Food! Food!", and Naruto plays hide-and-seek with them (?). Meanwhile, it turns out that the BigBad of the day is none other than [[spoiler:Mizuki]], who is now fully AxCrazy and has an old grudge against Iruka. For some reason he has grown giant muscles over the previous year, so the previous {{Bishonen}} now looks like one of those [[NightmareFuel scary bodybuilders]] with a serious case of TestosteronePoisoning. And [[spoiler:Orochimaru supplied him with a potion that turns him into a sort of tiger-thing.]] Pass the MindBleach, please.

** Apparently they were trying to figure out what Kakashi looked like without his mask....

[[caption-width:247: The sound of one man whapping. Fapping optional.]]

->-- '''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Nostalgia Chick]]''', commenting on ''Xanadu''

->-- The Nostalgia Critic (as [[HunterSThompson "Raoul Puke"]]) reviews ''[[WereBackADinosaursStory We're Back]]''

* The ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Plato's Stepchildren" is just so freakin' weird that were it not for the interracial kiss, most fans would probably consider it a LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain episode. Notable plot points involve alien mind rape, Spock in a toga singing, and Kirk being ridden by creepy little demented dwarves. SoYeah.

* On the subject, SuperSentai has this for its SamuraiSentaiShinkenger iteration in the form of its Direct to DVD movie. Released after the end of the series run, it talks of the team 'returning,' since they part at the end. The team is together for the whole movie, and then there's the content itself. SoYeah.

* The ''StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Threshold". So Tom Paris breaks the "transwarp barrier", right? And this results in being in ''every location in the universe at once''. Somehow this makes him [[EvolutionaryLevels evolve into a higher order of being]]... which then transforms into a [[{{Pokemon}} Mudkip]]-like lizard thing who can't breathe air. He kidnaps the captain and they run away in said transwarp barrier breaking ship. They are discovered ''within range'' and the crew find them on a beach together having just had a small litter of Mudkip ''babies''. (Repeat: Paris had children with Captain Janeway. When they were both Mudkips.) Anyway, the babies are still out there presumably but everything else is [[ResetButton reset]] with antimatter injections. Got all that? Okay, because this is the ''one episode'' out of ''all the'' Star Trek ''episodes ever made'' that is in CanonDiscontinuity.

* From ''BattlestarGalactica'': The episode "Black Market". Oh, where to begin? We find that Apollo has been seeing a single-mom hooker and her child regularly on the black market ship Prometheus. This was never mentioned before or ever again. He is seeing and helping out her and her kid due to guilt over leaving his former pregnant girlfriend shortly before the Cylons attacked. This was never mentioned before or ever again. He winds up killing the black market's ringleader in a totally out-of-character manner. THEN he declares that the black market can continue because it's necessary or something. And we never hear anything more about it. It's saved from being a complete BLAMEpisode by dint of three factors: 1) [[spoiler:Commander Fisk's murder in this episode starts a chain reaction of events that eventually puts Lee in command of ''Pegasus'']], 2) the head of the black market is played by Bill Duke, and 3):

** Ron Moore would actually discuss ''Black Market'' very frankly both on his blog and in the episode's commentary, admitting that it was completely nonsensical and explaining the logic that went into making it that everyone ''thought'' made sense at the time, only to realize with growing horror that it just didn't work.

** Note also that this is the one episode JMS would like to disown.
*** He had some rather harsh words for "TKO" and "Grail" as well, though it would certainly be the only episode after [[GrowingTheBeard]] that was bad enough to disown.
*** Also note that there are two storylines in that episode, and that the other storyline is very relevant. Dealing with Minbari internal politics, the rangers and Neroon's character development.

* The ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' season 4 finale ''Restless'' certainly qualifies. Despite being the season finale it has little to do with the season's plot, and only serves to function as a MindScrew. Reception was either overwhelmingly positive or negative.
** Except that this episode gets referenced later, as it ''tells you one of the key plot points of the next season!''
*** More like every key plot point. The episode is crammed with meaning.
Everything in this episode is relevant, except the Cheese Man (which fans keep sticking into FanFic anyway).
*** The episode is almost a bookend to separate the first four seasons (which are about Buffy as an adolescent) from the last three (which are about Buffy as an adult.) Everything in it either foreshadows future plotlines, or revisits past ones, showing how far the characters have come.
** In fact, {{Joss Whedon}} himself supposedly said that every detail in that episode has meaning, except for "the guy with the cheese". He was included because Whedon knew fine well the fans would search every aspect of the episode for hidden references (justifiably given almost everything is a direct reference to somethign in the show's past, foreshadowing the future, or thematically/symbolically important and worthy of critical analysis). He wanted just one thing which would really would be as meaningless and random as it seems.

* The ''StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Threshold". Ye Gods. Okay. So Tom Paris breaks the "transwarp barrier", right? And this results in being in ''every location in the universe at once''. Somehow this makes him [[EvolutionaryLevels evolve into a higher order of being]]... which then transforms into a [[{{Pokemon}} Mudkip]]-like lizard thing who can't breathe air. He kidnaps the captain and they run away in said transwarp barrier breaking ship. They are discovered ''within range'' and the crew find them on a beach together having just had a small litter of Mudkip ''babies''. (Repeat: Paris had children with Captain Janeway. When they were both Mudkips.) Anyway, the babies are still out there presumably but everything else is [[ResetButton reset]] with antimatter injections. Got all that? Okay, because this is the ''one episode'' out of ''all the'' Star Trek ''episodes ever made'' that is in CanonDiscontinuity.

*** And for a more recent example, Naruto shippuden episode 167. Among other things, this episode featured: [[spoiler: The nine-tails beating Pein into the ground using a huge rock, looney-tunes style; The Kyubi being able to shoot {{frickin laser beams}} for no apparant reason; Pein generally acting like a deranged nut instead of the calm and controlled villain he is supposed to be, and completely unrealistic looking animations throughout the episode.]] Seeing how this was also in the middle of a {{Wham episode}} and was entirely invented by the anime, it also made for a {{wall banger}} as it destroyed all of the drama leading up to that point.