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Author: CaveCat

Aug 9th 2012 at 8:56:31 PM

Tropers/{{Cobra Prime}}: That's what I thought, because I have some examples too:

* The {{Green Acres}} episode "The Ballad Of Molly Turgiss" dealt with Oliver trying to get the denizens of Hooterville to tell him about the legend of the eponymous ghost woman. Every time Molly's name was mentioned, strange things happened, such as things getting thrown through the air, pickle barrels falling apart, Mr. Haney's truck starting up on its own, etc. [[spoiler: In the end, Molly promises not to do those things anymore after Lisa had a talk with her and made her beautiful, though she does manage to break the promise for a few seconds by smashing Oliver's guitar over his head, because she did not like the song that he wrote about her.]]
** Another episode "The Saucer Season" involved Eb apparently having interacted with some aliens, which led to him becoming a celebrity about it, much to Oliver's chagrin. However, when an airforce lieutenant tried interviewing Eb about his encounter, Eb's attempts to tell the lieutenant about what he saw are [[{{Sound Effect Bleep}} censored by having him say "Bleep" repeatedly]], to keep the facts in the dark.
* The alien invasion variation is apparently the plot point of the WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}} episode "[[{{Recap/MrBogusS3E9TheBogusInvasion}} The Bogus Invasion]]".