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* In ''WebVideo/TheHeroOfTime'', there's Link's journey out of the Lost Woods. He gets briefly lost and takes a nap, only for a random guard to steal his sword while Link sleeps. Link wakes up before this can happen and ties the guard up, implying in their conversation that the guard is one of a few who swore to protect the forest and forces the guard to tell him how to get out of the woods. This scene, including the fact that Link left someone tied up in a dangerous forest, is completely forgotten after Link leaves. What makes it even odder is besides being a reference to the Lost Woods of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', none of it is a reference to any ''Zelda'' canon, so it isn't even there for the sake of a ShoutOut.

** Similarly, the Dreamon hunt, which takes place after some of the most drama-heavy parts of the L'Manburg Civil War.

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[[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance I am the very model of a modern major general,]] [[MajorGeneralSong I've information vegetable, animal and mineral.]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical. I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations both the simple and quadratical. About binomial theorem, I'm teeming with a lot of news with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus. I know the scientific names of beings animalculous. In short in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major general]].

* ''Platform/GoAnimate'' has [[BLAM/GoAnimate its own page]].

* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': In "Debunkers vs. G*n Control Nonsense" the video they're analyzing ends with a message bashing the electoral college. The Debunkers are dumbfounded as to what the point of that statement was, as the video they were analyzing was about gun control, and the electoral college was never mentioned beforehand, so it had no relevance to the rest of the video.

Simply being random, strange, or inconsequential to the story is not enough. All three criteria have to be met. If a scene is considered "borderline", it is likely not an example. [=BLAMs=] are often {{Level Breaker}}s as well. Usually, [[TheWalrusWasPaul this is done just because]]. Additionally, it has to be a ''moment'' -- if a work can have a BLAM within it, then the work itself isn't a BLAM. It's a BizarroEpisode of it's a weird installment within a body of work, and it's a QuirkyWork if the entire work is made up of weirdness.

Simply being random, strange, or inconsequential to the story is not enough. All three criteria have to be met. If a scene is considered "borderline", it is likely not an example. [=BLAMs=] are often {{Level Breaker}}s as well. Usually, [[TheWalrusWasPaul this is done just because]]. Additionally, it has to be a ''moment'' -- it's a BizarroEpisode weird installment within a body of work, and it's a QuirkyWork if the entire work is made up of [=BLAMs=].

Simply being random, strange, or inconsequential to the story is not enough. All three criteria have to be met. If a scene is considered "borderline", it is likely not an example. [=BLAMs=] are often {{Level Breaker}}s as well. Usually, [[TheWalrusWasPaul this is done just because]]. Additionally, it has to be a ''moment'' - if there can be a BLAM in it, then it can't be considered a BLAM (we already have BizarroEpisode for installments that don't make sense as a whole).

!!Other examples

* '' WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' has plenty.

Context and the nature of the situation matters immensely in comparison to the sliding scale of realism used by the story in question. This trope can be objectively observed but because of the dissonance between the audience and the characters (the audience doesn't live in the exact same world, so what is strange to the audience might be commonplace for the characters) this often ends up as a debatable topic. Even the trope namer has been subject to debate.

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* In the Myth/NorseMythology tale of "The Death of Baldur", there is a part where the [=Æsir=] are gathered at the funeral pyre of the recently-killed Baldur, when a dwarf shows up. The dwarf, named Litr, casually strolls in when Thor notices him and [[BlackComedy punts him into the funeral pyre]]. The tale then resumes as normal and the dwarf is never mentioned again.
* In ''Literature/TheKalevala'', Väinämöinen and the others are burrowing into a mountain to find TheSampo, when they come across a bunch of snakes drinking beer. Väinämöinen is infuriated for some reason and curses all snakes so that they can never drink beer again. This is never mentioned again.
* From the Literature/BookOfExodus, there is "Zipporah at the Inn" - a three-sentence-long episode which happens right in the middle of the narrative just after God has commissioned Moses to free His people from Egypt. Suddenly, one night God tries to kill Moses. However, Moses' wife Zipporah quickly circumcises their son, declaring, "Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me," and God leaves them alone. The narrative then picks up again as if nothing had happened, baffling scholars ever since. [[note]]Why does God try to kill Moses immediately after commissioning him for the task of going to Egypt? How did Zipporah know that circumcising their son would appease God? Was the fact their son was uncircumcised even the problem? (The text just says, "God sought to kill him," - it never specifically states why.) Why is a woman circumcising a boy, something normally only done by a man? Why would Moses delay circumcising his son in the first place? The ambiguous use of pronouns also makes it difficult to tell who exactly is doing what. For example, who is Zipporah speaking to when she says, "''You'' are a bridegroom of blood to me,"? Moses? Her son? God? And what does the phrase "a bridegroom of blood" even mean? Apart from supposing it to be a rather heavy-handed morality tale ("Don't delay circumcising your sons or God will kill you!"), scholars remain bewildered why it should be expressed in this way and in this part of the narrative, with many concluding it must be a fragment inserted from elsewhere. [[/note]]
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