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** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': Adding to the above, how high will the Riders' levels get? How much more ridiculous will the suits look? How much can [[spoiler:Kuroto Dan]] [[RefugeInAudacity get away with]] (and can he get any [[LargeHam hammier]] in the process)? Will the next tie-in movies become even crazier? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking How much of the show can Yuuya Takahashi write or supervise?]]

** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': Adding to the above, how high will the Riders' levels get? How much more ridiculous will the suits look? How much can [[spoiler:Kuroto Dan]] [[RefugeInAudacity get away with]] (and can he get any [[LargeHam hammier]] in the process)? Will the next tie-in movies become even crazier? How much more of the show can Yuuya Takahashi write or supervise?

** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': Adding to the above, how high will the Riders' levels get? How much more ridiculous will the suits look? How much can [[spoiler:Kuroto Dan]] [[RefugeInAudacity get away with]] (and how [[LargeHam hammier]] will he be in the process)? Will the next tie-in movies become even crazier? How much more of the show can Yuuya Takahashi write or supervise?

** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': Adding to the above, how high will the Riders' levels get? How much more ridiculous will the suits look? How much can [spoiler]Kuroto Dan[/spoiler] [[RefugeInAudacity get away with]] (and how [[LargeHam hammier]] will he be in the process)? Will the next tie-in movies become even crazier? How much more of the show can Yuuya Takahashi write or supervise?

* ''MadanSenkiRyukendo'': What [[BigDamnHeroes act of heroism]] will Kenji pull off? How much further can he be [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours powered up]]?

* ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'': How much [[{{Gorn}} gorier]] can the tests get? How much trash talk can the groups dish out ot each other? How BadAss, Evil, and [[AxeCrazy Savage]] can the warriors get?

** 2014: The two episodes (one apiece for ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'' and ''Series/{{Arrow}}'') are mostly self-contained and has no impact on each other.

** 2016: A four-part epic in which Team Flash, Team Arrow, the Legends and ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'' have to repel an AlienInvasion.
** ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}:'' Each season of the flash thus far have their big bads reaching new levels of speed and different ways to foil barry
** reverse flash could go so fast he could appear to be at 2 places at once. as his name suggests his costume is a darker inverse of barry's costume.
** zoom can rip portals into different earths through pure power. his suit is a black version of barry's suit with a demonic like cowl.
** savitar can go so fast he seems to teleporting. he also can't be seen with the human eye. his armor is silver and is about 8 feet tall with blades coming out of his wrists.

** How [[GambitRoulette bad a day]] can [[{{Badass}} Jack Bauer]] save us from this season? What plots will the terrorist pull this season? Assassinate the president? Steal a nuclear bomb? Unleash a devastating virus? Or many cannisters of nerve gas? How will Jack Bauer kill them? Shooting them with a gun? [[GunsAkimbo Two guns?]] Run on the wall while simultaneously snapping their necks? With a ''cell phone?!'' Biting their necks out?!?!

** 2014: The two episodes (one apiece for ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}} and ''Series/{{Arrow}}'') are mostly self-contained and has no impact on each other.

* ''DoubleDare1986'': How much more messy could this show get? How much more ridiculous can the stunts get? How much more can the host who suffers from OCD (!) take before even showing it on camera?

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': In what ridiculous location or circumstance will the next mangled mystery corpse be discovered? How terribly can we mangle it and still show it on-screen, before the censors tell us to knock it off with the gorn, already? Also, how many ways will Christopher Pelant get away with his crimes before he finally gets killed off?

* ''DeadliestWarrior'': How much [[{{Gorn}} gorier]] can the tests get? How much trash talk can the groups dish out ot each other? How BadAss, Evil, and [[AxeCrazy Savage]] can the warriors get?

** How Cosmic a Horror can they [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out]]? [[spoiler:As of Season 11, they've chewed through arch-demons, Lucifer, [[EldrichAbomination Lucifer's predecessors]], and [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and are up against [[TheAntiGod God's evil twin]].]]

** Series 9 '''starts''' with a two-parter featuring the Twelfth Doctor [[spoiler: encountering Davros as a innocent child and abandoning him, and subsequently embarking upon TheLastDance in 1138 Essex as he prepares to atone with what might require his death when the now-dying megalomaniac realizes who he is. From there, there's the return of Missy (the female incarnation of the Master) as a twisted ally to Clara, a new Dalek city on Skaro crawling with villains, and a part one cliffhanger that suggests Missy, Clara, ''and'' the TARDIS are no more]]! The season ''finale'' is a three-parter that involves (among many other things) [[spoiler: Clara's final fate, a fabled Time Lord-Dalek hybrid warrior, and the Doctor '''finally''' making it back to his home planet and people -- and he's mad as hell]].

* ''{{Psych}}'': How much more brazen can Shawn get? How much more ridiculous can the truth of the next crime be? The latter is a necessity of the format in this case, since due to Shawn nearly always being ''right'', the only way to [[CassandraTruth keep the police from believing him right off]], is to [[RefugeInAudacity commit incredible crimes]]... and we're [[strike:a season]] two seasons past the victim being killed by a tyrannosaur.
* ''PushingDaisies'':

** Also the Stefon segments: How crazy can Creator/JohnMulaney and Bill Hader make the club names? What's going to set Bill off into [[{{Corpsing}} cracking up]]? Not to mention how they ended the love story between Stefon and SethMeyers (with [[spoiler:a parody of ''The Graduate'' featuring Anderson Cooper and all of the bizarre characters Stefon has ever described]].

* ''SaturdayNightLive'': This basically encompasses Bill Brasky's life. How many horrifying and magical things can he do? How many things can he destroy? How many people can he kill? How many people can he rape? How much gin can he drink? And how can we not love him for it? To Bill Brasky!

*** And, topping them all, that series' finale has [[spoiler: the revelation that there is ANOTHER Doctor that has never been discussed before, one who's done something so terrible that the Doctor now refuses to acknowledge ever existed. And that's all after the Doctor finally visits Trenzalore, we find out it's the location of his future tomb, the Great Intelligence rewrites every victory the Doctor's ever had BY ENTERING HIS TIMELINE, and the truth about Clara is finally revealed.]] Oh, and that's just at the end of the episode. It STARTS with [[spoiler: the First Doctor and his very first companion, granddaughter Susan Foreman, stealing the TARDIS and fleeing Gallifrey.]] And all of THAT is topped in the 50th Anniversary Special.

** Also the Stefon segments: How crazy can John Mulaney and Bill Hader make the club names? What's going to set Bill off into [[{{Corpsing}} cracking up]]? Not to mention how they ended the love story between Stefon and SethMeyers (with [[spoiler:a parody of ''The Graduate'' featuring Anderson Cooper and all of the bizarre characters Stefon has ever described]].

** The season finales of the new series seem determined to top the previous ones every year. They've gone from having the Daleks invading Earth, to the Daleks ''and'' the Cybermen invading Earth, to [[spoiler:the Master and a race of devolved humans from the end of time itself actually ''conquering'' Earth and massacring a tenth of the population before enslaving the rest to construct an army of warships that would invade the ''rest of the universe''.]]
** The fourth season finale tops even this, [[spoiler:putting ''every single universe'' in peril. If that weren't enough, it features all three of the Doctor's main companions from the New Series returning, plus Sarah Jane Smith, her son, computer, and robot dog, Captain Jack Harkness and the Torchwood crew, plus Rose Tyler's mother and ex-boyfriend (i.e. around 80% of all returning characters from the New Series, probably excepting only those who couldn't fit filming into their schedules). And let's not even get into which villain from the Classic series returns, or which ship finally sets sail.]]
** The next Christmas special tops even this, [[spoiler: with the master turning every single human on earth into a copy of himself, which is only the warmup to the Time Lords coming back from with the intent of destroying the entire fabric of space/time, to allow themselves to "ascend" and become creatures of pure consciousness.]] The only mercy is that Creator/RussellTDavies is stepping down after this, so he won't be tempted to top even this next time.
** The Fifth season finale (before the example after this) has a great example.

*** [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Big_Bang The Fifth Season Finale]] tops even all those with [[spoiler: Daleks, Cybermen, Silurians, Judoon, Sontarans, Sycorax, Autons and more. In an alliance. To trap the Doctor. Which leads to most of time and space never having existed in the first place! Then, the universe gets better, but at the cost of the doctor never having existed at all. (Okay, he gets better too. But barely!).]]. It is very unclear how Moffat can possibly top that next year, though he will probably try. And succeed, of course.

*** As an accompaniment to the aforementioned Fifth Season Finale, one particular exchange stands out:

** Season 6's finale involved River Song changing a ''fixed point in time''. ''History itself'' collapsed.
*** The Doctor managed to change the same moment safely through some LoopholeAbuse [[spoiler: He just had to be at the lake at the time, so the "Doctor" shot was actually the Tesselecta from a previous episode. The Doctor was inside it. Fixed moment? changed. History? intact.]] And then we get to what they were worried about. [[spoiler: the Question? [[TitleDrop Doctor Who?]] Yes, the show's name is a plot point now.]]

*** And, topping them all, that Series' finale has [[spoiler: the revelation that there is ANOTHER Doctor that has never been discussed before, one who's done something so terrible that the Doctor now refuses to acknowledge ever existed. And that's all after the Doctor finally visits Trenzalore, we find out it's the location of his future tomb, the Great Intelligence rewrites every victory the Doctor's ever had BY ENTERING HIS TIMELINE, and the truth about Clara is finally revealed.]] Oh, and that's just at the end of the episode. It STARTS with [[spoiler: the First Doctor and his very first companion, granddaughter Susan Foreman, stealing the TARDIS and fleeing Gallifrey.]] And all of THAT is topped in the 50th Anniversary Special.

* ''TheRedGreenShow'': is there any limit to what can be cobbled together out of old parts, lawn mowers, duct tape, K-cars, and the Possum Van? In the SeriesFinale, he made a perpetual motion machine. With corn.

* ''NinjaWarrior'' (also known as ''Sasuke'' in Japan): This show is one of the most absurdly difficult strength/balance/skill competitions ever. Some of the most notorious obstacles in the 4 stages are the Warped Wall (Stage 1) and the Salmon Ladder (Stage 2). There are 100 competitors in each competition. In the 19th, a particularly evil event, 98 people, including ALL of the "All-Stars", '''failed the first stage'''. The remaining two failed the Salmon Ladder, which is only the second obstacle in Stage 2.\\

* 'Series/{{Sherlock}}'': How much emotional and physical pain can the main leads get?Hm...how about a lot?