History Main / BLAMEpisode

->''"This is a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] bizarre episode!"''
-->--'''Yugi''', ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''

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You're watching your favorite show one day. The episode seems to start as normal... but wait, what's this? Does everything seem completely against continuity? Are the characters acting as if dosed up on tranquilizers? Does everything happening not make sense within the pre-established context?

Welcome to a BLAMEpisode. Unlike ADayAtTheBizarro, a BLAMEpisode does not truly come across as "surreal" or "strange". A BLAMEpisode is what you get when a BigLippedAlligatorMoment spans the entire screen time. If the show DOES have a continuity, this episode will [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never be mentioned again]], save perhaps as a MythologyGag, and none of the likely wild events will ever be repeated.

A BLAMEpisode can also be applied to movies. If nothing in the movie seems to follow any previous event or plot and [[RandomEventsPlot the whole thing seems to be one spontaneous series of events]], you've probably got a BigLippedAlligatorMovie on your hands.

When the finale of a series is this, it's a GainaxEnding.

Not to be confused with a WhamEpisode, which completely changes the direction of a series. See also AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent. If every episode is like this, a summary may mention that it's [[WidgetSeries That Kind Of Show]]. Rarely, though, a BLAMEpisode may be redeemed if a skillful or cunning writer uses it to construct an InnocuouslyImportantEpisode.

'''NOTICE:''' Please do not use Musicals as examples, as the numbers are part of the show and are rarely anymore out of the ordinary than conversation within context. If it's a musical with absolutely no cohesive {{plot}}, ''then'' you have a [[BigLippedAlligatorMovie BLAM Movie]]. However, a particular song may qualify as a BLAM, such as the TropeNamer; in that case, put it under BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

'''Very Important Corollary:''' If you have ever tried to convince other people to watch a show you like, and they say, "Okay I'll watch ''one episode'' with you if you ''promise'' to stop bothering me about it," we {{Troper}}s can '''guarantee''' that the one episode you watch together will be that series' BLAMEpisode.
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[[folder: Advertising]]
* This has really become a fairly popular {{trope}} to use in ads-- possibly playing off the Internet's fascination with Japanese-crazy ads. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFvIJ_GD0Y here]] (and if you see [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHtMHgzt01k this one]] without seeing that one, it makes even less sense), [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6iHCFiSqIw this one]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgSv1SKCteQ this one, though only if you don't watch the last five seconds]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5pBm2UBTF8 This Wine Gums ad]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48BTtAVsK0 The Kia Soul commercial]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo Cadbury are]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVblWq3tDwY&feature=related pretty good]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk4U2uJuFAI at this]].
* The Hostess ads in Marvel & DC Comics of the 70's and 80's.
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[[folder: Anime & Manga]]
* Episode 13 of ''DigimonAdventure02'', "The Call of Dagomon" (a.k.a. the "Dark Ocean" episode). A tribute to HPLovecraft written by ChiakiKonaka that was occasionally referenced, but never fully explained.
* The "Cowbell" and "Nanami's Egg" episodes of ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' feel like this compared to the rest of the series, and trust us, that's saying something.
** The rule for Utena seems to be "[=BLAM=]! Every eighth episode ([[WhamEpisode except episode 32]])".
** However, because this is ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', even these episodes contain themes and ideas that help to explain the rest of the series. Not that you're likely to notice the first time in the middle of the giant WTF it induces.
* ''{{Bleach}}'''s 10th year anniversary episode (ep. 287 to be exact), where Ichigo, Chad, Orihime, Rukia, and Renji are in a parody of ''Literature/ArabianNights''/ContinuityCavalcade of the Soul society arc. However, it was {{all just a dream}}. Indeed, but Isane was the one who had the dream, not Ichigo.
** A Halloween episode had a similar premise, but had the characters in a MonsterMash setting. This time the one having the dream was Komamura (who dreamt of himself as Ichigo for some reason)
** Many {{filler}} episodes of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' can feel like this, but special mention goes to episode 228. Beach party featuring all the most [[{{Fanservice}} fan-servicey]] characters? Check. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Boob Buckets?]] Check. Giant [[NaughtyTentacles edible watermelon tentacle monsters?]] Double check.
*** And that one wasn't even filler. It was actually in the manga.
* Almost every episode of ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' can count as a BLAMEpisode.
* The episode "Warehouse 13" from the 2003 ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime. The men on Mustang's staff (note, men - Hawkeye was not involved; nor were Ed or Al) believe they have seen the haunted military warehouse 13 and are terrified to walk by the warehouses at night. Mustang is the only one who really stays in character, denouncing the warehouse as foolishness and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rPF2zt45sg going out at night with his men]] to prove to them that it doesn't exist. What really makes this a BLAMEpisode is the fact that four trained military professionals are suddenly freaking out about an urban legend.
** That episode consisted of two shorts. The other one was Havoc trying to marry Armstrong's sister.
* ''[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann GurrenLagann]]'' has its Blammer with episode four: The heroes don't seem to have anything better to do than trying to get some food, Kamina almost kills Simon "to make him more manly", there is a lot of lecturing on how to combine as brotherly as possible and the animation suddenly drops in quality. The only thing relevant to the plot is Kittan and his sisters being introduced, wearing psychedelic costumes while riding cows backwards. The consumption of Boota's tail is instrumental in defeating this episode's enemy mecha, which is piloted by a bunch of pink puffballs.
** Supposedly episode 4 was made as a jab at other anime that decrease in overall quality after the first few episodes, but it was still effed up.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has too many of these to count, but the first was the episode "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak". In this episode Ash and the crew get off a boat on a beach, [[TheLancer Brock]] spots a mysterious girl and falls head-over-heels, but Ash and Misty miss her completely. Team Rocket gets off the same boat, and James suffers the same situation. They run into a strange old woman, who informs them of this condition, and the next day, both of them are kidnapped by the ghost. When they are found, they have become completely obsessed with the girl, and the old woman from the earlier scene explains that the girl is a spirit who wishes to steal their souls. The spirit turns out to be a Pokémon named Gastly, who defeats Ash's and Team Rocket's Pokémon by turning into their weaknesses (AKA: a mousetrap for Pikachu, a ball of yarn for Meowth, a water bottle for Charmander, and he combines an illusionary Venusaur and Blastoise to make a "Venutoise"). However, the sun rises and Gastly vanishes. [[GoKartingWithBowser Ash and co. and Team Rocket party for the night]], and the episode is never mentioned again.
** [[spoiler:The Gastly was also the old woman, actually working off of an existing legend of [[IWillWaitForYou a girl who stood watching at a cliff waiting for her lover to return from a voyage]]. [[CutLexLuthorACheck And also to make some money on the side,]] [[VoodooShark but that's never really adequately explained either]]]].
** The one involving {{TIME TRAVEL}}! Brock, May, and Max lose Ash in the woods. Ash meets a cloaked woman in the middle of the woods who is singing a little song about Baltoy and treasure. She has an old book, but Ash doesn't pay it or her much attention at the time. Later, he meets a much younger girl who's searching for a treasure with (you guessed it) her Baltoy. She tells Ash she's searching for a treasure hidden somewhere in the woods, and opens a little book that talks about the treasure. It has a little song in it, which she starts singing. Ash interrupts and starts singing the rest, recognizing the song is the same one the woman was singing. The girl is surprised since the book only just came out. Ash explains about the woman and they eventually find her battling Team Rocket. They win and she takes them to a cave, where they fall down a hole in the floor, leading to a tunnel. As they reach the end of the tunnel, the woman takes off her cloak's hood, revealing herself to be an older version of the girl. She then explains that the giant stone tablet thing at the end of the cave is a time machine activated by a Baltoy. Then she goes back to the future. Then the girl leaves and Ash meets back up with his friends. AND ASH NEVER SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT THE TIME MACHINE!!!
** May and Meowth had a {{time travel}} episode too. Only instead of a StableTimeLoop, they end up changing the course of history so that a guy doesn't die anymore and a town expands into a city. And instead of a time machine they get zapped by a magic locket. Because of [[ThePowerOfLove love]], or something. Anyway, neither May nor Meowth sees fit to tell anyone about the whole futzing about with time.
** An episode involving a sadistic Togepi, a rocket, and Rayquaza. It's probably one of the funniest and second most surreal episode in recent history and [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/DP142 needs to be seen to be believed]].
*** By the way, the episode marks the first time Pikachu is referred to as male in the English dub. This doesn't stop him from getting shipped with Piplup, especially considering [[HoYay what happened seven episodes later]]...
** One episode has it all: Ash and James dressed up as eggplants, an old man attempting to sell souvenirs at every chance he can, [[FetishFuel Nurse May, Dancing Queen Jessie]], [[WholesomeCrossDresser a crossdressing Meowth and Wobbuffet]], Wobbuffet's flute playing skills, and to top it all off... [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever A GIANT CLAYDOL]]. [[CrackPairing Even funnier is that the Claydol actually falls in love with and chases Wobbuffet!]]
* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' managed to get a [=BLAM=] season. Between the quarter-finals and the semi-finals of the Battle City tournament, they arrive on a submersible military base and have to fight the digitised minds of all previous high ranking officials of [=KaibaCorp=] in a mindscrewed reality, at the behest of Seto Kaiba's {{anime}}-exclusive VirtualGhost half-brother, Noah. The season also introduced the Deck Master to the games, a process that makes no sense whatsoever (but what else is new). And to secure it as a total [=BLAM=], the digital mind of Kaiba's father tries to turn into a giant being of fire and eat their jet as its leaving. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Kaiba says [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain he never wants any of them to mention it again]].
** Then there's the "[[RedHerringTwist Abandoned Dorm]]" sub-arc in ''GX''. While "investigated" several times in Seasons 1 and 4, answers about what it actually was were few and far between, and usually resulted in bizarre Shadow Duels that get hardly a mention afterward. To this day, fans still argue over what exactly it all means.
** And finally, there's the "Crashtown" arc of ''5D's''. Let's just put it this way: in the middle of a season-long arc of finding the Three Emperors of Ylliaster, let's intercut a Noah-like arc in the Wild West involving a former villain from Season 2, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and put Yusei in a poncho]]. Needless to say, until the real season started getting hit with Wham after Wham, this was the point in which fans were starting to argue whether the cast had used their Duel Runners to JumpTheShark.
* Almost all of episode 7 of ''SoukouNoStrain'', "Lavinia's Lovely {{Plot}}", is markedly different (and far more {{Fanservice}}y) from the dark tone of the series. Very little of what happens here is mentioned again, made especially jarring by the fact that ''Strain'' is only a [[TwelveEpisodeAnime thirteen-episode anime]].
* The zombie episode of ''SamuraiChamploo'', which has overtly supernatural elements that would be out of place in the rest of the series, and ends with the {{main character}}s either dead or undead. A very brief and light LampshadeHanging later, and next episode, it's like none of this ever happened.
** In ''CowboyBebop,'' an earlier work by the same director, one episode has some sort of alien {{blob monster}} [[spoiler:[[ItCameFromTheFridge that had come to life in the refrigerator]]]] attack all the crew and apparently kills them. Then again, it might not really count as a [=BLAM=] since in the next episode the first shot you see is the {{main character}} [[CatapultNightmare waking up from a nightmare]], though it's still ambiguous as to exactly what the hell happened.
*** {{Lampshade}}d by [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ed]] in the "Next Episode" preview on the English dub, which leads to a humorous exchange.
---> '''Edward:''' And so, they all passed away, every one. It was a short series, but thanks for your support. [[BlatantLies That was the last episode.]] May they all rest in peace. Amen. ''[pause]'' And for the next series, we bring you ''Cowgirl Ed'', [[ThirdPersonPerson Ed]] is the main character! ''[giggles]''
---> '''Spike:''' Hey! Wait a minute!
---> '''Faye:''' What kinda selfish thing is that?!
---> '''Jet:''' Next episode, Jupiter Jazz, Part One.
---> '''Spike:''' There really is a next episode!
* The final episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d at the very end when the creator of the {{manga}} shows up, ready to kill the director because of it.
** You know what? ''Anime/ExcelSaga''. [[WidgetSeries PERIOD]].
*** ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', the {{anime}} where [[NoFourthWall the fourth wall is nonexistent]], nothing is too crazy, and every episode is a wild parody of something different, pulls the ultimate BLAMEpisode by doing exactly what no one would expect: making one episode that's [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash dead serious]].]] Though said episode still cracks a number of gags, so the success of this attempt is debatable.
* Episode 101 of ''{{Naruto}}''. Apparently they were trying to figure out what Kakashi looked like without his mask... Oh dear GOD, that will never make sense.
** 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 wide 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 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 [[BrainBleach mind bleach]], please.
** Many of the one-episode fillers qualify. The first of these was the HotSpringsEpisode 97, which is so different from ''{{Naruto}}'' in animation, story and style, it makes you wonder if you're watching the right show.
* {{Anime}} {{filler}}, in general, tends be this, with ''{{Dragonball}} Z'' being hit particularly hard. Many {{filler}} episodes are radically different in tone from the rest of the series, with continuity errors that make you wonder if the writer had even seen the show before. You could practically base a {{drinking game}} off of the {{filler}} episodes where one of the characters [[ForgotICouldFly forgets that he can fly]].
** The episode of DBZ in which Goku and Piccolo learn how to drive, in particular.
* ''SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'', sort of. While actually considered pretty good by a surprising number of fans, it has zero relation whatsoever to any other expanded media, or even the [[SonicTheHedgehog games]] (besides the characters) and [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot might have meant to have been part of a series]]. We'll never really know.
* Heck, ''BoboboboBobobo'' is a Big Lipped Alligator ''Series'', with special mention going to the episode in which Dengaku Man is launched up Bo-Bobo's rear end to form a MagicalGirl, who then subdues her enemy by [[MagicMusic singing]]. It was so nice they did it twice, though with a ''picture book'' instead of singing.
** Not only that, there are {{meta}}-[=BLAM=]s, when there are scenes that can be considered [=BLAM=]s even within the context of the {{BLAM episode}}s. For instance, during a pointless scene where Bo-bobo is riding a kiddy train ride at an amusement park, a giant baby bursts out of a tunnel, smacks some monkeys, and crawls away without ever being mentioned again.
* ''SailorMoon'' had an episode during ''Sailor Moon R'' that featured the main characters having an island vacation in which Chibiusa befriends a dinosaur and the main characters use their superpowers to save said dinosaurs from a volcano. Yea, that's right. The main characters fight a volcano to save a pair of dinosaurs. The show normally didn't venture into such fantastical territory being acceptable, and the existence of ''living dinosaurs'' never comes up in the show again. It's generally considered one of the most pointless episodes of the entire show since absolutely nothing happens to progress the plot or flesh out the main characters, and that's saying something for a show known for its gratuitous filler. It was never dubbed into English and left off the English subbed DVD releases entirely, as it was never dubbed and ADV claimed Toei didn't give them the episode due to the creator not liking it. Most people only complained that it made their DVD collections incomplete, as opposed to genuinely missing the episode.
* The final episode of ''{{Ookamikakushi}}'' was probably meant as a {{slice of life}} {{distant finale}}... featuring, among other things, Nemuru and Mana fangirling over a weird frog/rabbit character and Hiroshi crossdressing and getting hit on by gangsters.
* The {{filler}} episodes in ''FairyTail''. The first is a series of short bonus stories from the {{manga}} (which are all a BigLippedAlligatorMoment in their own rights) with the added story of a town of mages that accidentally cursed themselves to turn into monsters that the {{main character}}s all try to eat. The second is a FreakyFridayFlip that ends unresolved, which is actually made weirder by being mentioned in a later episode.
* May we present to you the ''ZatchBell'' {{manga}}, [[http://www.mangareader.net/266-25412-1/zatch-bell/chapter-277.html chapter 277]]. Context will only make it ''worse''.
* ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' ''is'' a GagSeries, but a few instances stand out. The first episode of the second series has its own GagSub with the characters speaking gibberish. There's the time that Harumi [[NoFourthWall listens to an episode of ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' on the radio]] which can be heard indistinctly in the background, and most of all, the instance where Chiri [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever becomes a giantess]] and fights off an alien invasion.
* ''DarkerThanBlack'' {{manga}} (Jet Black Flower) has... Gate Kitchen Battle.
-->'''[[PlayboyBunny The announcer]]''': Which team will please the palate of Hei-san, the [[BigEater Voracious]] Masked King?
-->'''Hei''': How the hell did this happen?
-->'''[[TalkingAnimal Mao]]''': Beats me, Hei. [[RealityIsOutToLunch This is The Gate]], after all.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': CHUCK TO THE FUTURE.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' did this very noticeably in "Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!" which is an entire ''HardWorkMontage'' episode featuring Shinji and Asuka's attempt to work together as a team to defeat an Angel, with hilarious but, ultimately, successful results. The whole ep parodies itself very heavily and breaks so sharply with the overall feel of the rest of the series that it deserves special mention, mostly because most of the show exists in soul draining depression state, ''and this one episode practically turns the show into a light hearted COMEDY!''
* "The Hot Spring Planet, Tenrei", an episode of ''OutlawStar''. The rest of the series is a lighthearted SpaceOpera action show, but this episode briefly turns it into a {{Fanservice}}-laden slapstick comedy.
* Episode 22 of the ''BlackButler'' {{anime}} adaptation was pretty random, though since it was near the final episode it did have something to do with the {{plot}}. In fact, since the {{anime}} {{overtook the manga}}, it had a lot of stuff which didn't make sense. Anyway, in this episode, Ciel and Sebastian go to Paris for the World's Fair. Ciel reads about how there's a stuffed Angel somewhere there, so they go look at it [[spoiler:due to the fact that they had previously encountered an Angel named Angela]] only to find it's just a taxidermy monkey with wings attached. Suddenly, the monkey COMES TO LIFE! And it ATTACKS SEBASTIAN! And DESTROYS THE LIGHTING! So Ciel runs off to escape the evil winged monkey of doom, and goes to an elevator that leads to the Eiffel Tower. And who should he meet but...THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND! And her butler, Ash! When they go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower, the Queen lifts her veil to reveal [[spoiler:that she's all young again. And it turns out that Ash is an Angel too, and had sewn the Queen and her late husband Albert together...which...somehow made her all youthful or something. And of course, it turns out Queen Vicky was secretly behind Ash's evil plans and the murder of Ciel's parents.]] So, Ash is about to attack Ciel or something, but just then, Sebby turns up (obviously finished his epic battle with the evil winged monkey of doom) and fights him off with cutlery. The Queen and Ash escape and our two "heroes" return to their hotel. And the next morning, his faithful butler hath vanished! So, Ciel attempts to find his own way back to London, which he isn't very successful with. And he strokes a cat at one point. Isn't he allergic to them? Anyway, he finally stows away on a ship, where he meets the Undertaker, who feeds him bone-shaped biscuits. They return to London to find... [[spoiler:London is burning!]] The next episode makes it all sillier when you discover [[spoiler:Angela and Ash are one and the same.]]
* Episode 19 of ''ErgoProxy'' has [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Pino]], in a dream, visiting a theme park called Smile Land, owned and run by a man called [[MrAltDisney Will B. Goode]][[spoiler:, who also happens to be a proxy]]. The episode consists of Pino exploring the park along with a couple of its (presumably also [=AutoReiv=]) characters, and ultimately being convinced by Mr. Goode to avoid visiting the park when she, Re-l, and Vincent pass by it for real, [[spoiler:since Goode doesn't want to fight but knows that Ergo Proxy will try to kill him]]. When Pino wakes up, she succeeds in steering Re-l and Vincent away from the park, which was never seen or heard from again.
** Episode 15 doesn't quite qualify; Vincent winds up as the contestant on a "Nightmare Quiz Show", presumably through the devices of a Proxy, and the entire episode depicts an episode of said quiz show. While this is a vastly different style and tone from the rest of the series (with the possible exception of the aforementioned episode 19), the episode delivers [[InfoDump a lot of important,]] [[JigsawPuzzlePlot if cryptic,]] exposition about the backstory and the creation of the Proxies; moreover, the episode is repeatedly referred to, or even [[FlashBack flashed-back to]], in several later episodes.
* The entire [[{{Dragonball}} Fusion Reborn]] movie was this. It starts with one of King Enma's workers getting mutated into a giant reality warping baby, that talks like a Pokémon, traps Enma's palace in a barrier, which causes the dead to return to Earth, transforms the clouds into marbles and the blood pond into a giant jelly bean. Goku attempts to fight him while Paikuhan tries to free Enma, by INSULTING the barrier. Then Vegeta shows up, and he and Goku defeat this powerful demon that fights with Atari-esque special effects. All the while, Goten and Trunks have a cartoonish slapstick fight with AdolfHitler and his army of tanks. Oh, and let's not forget Goku and Vegeta fusing. HoYay doesn't even describe it. Yeah, the writers were smoking something while making it.
* The ''second'' episode of ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex 2nd Gig'' focuses on a one-off character, a pilot named Gino, who plans on assassinating one of his most recent clients. The whole episode is something of a MindScrew, since it tends to flash in and out of Gino's fantasies about doing so. The only recurring characters who appear are Major and Batou, who only appear in rather minor roles that are, to add to the weirdness, totally different from who they are. At the end, it's revealed to be something of a sting to determine whether or not Gino would actually go through with the assassination. They just say he would never do it, the episode ends, and the whole thing is never mentioned again. The entire thing is a WholePlotReference to ''TaxiDriver''.
* ''InazumaEleven'' episode 100. Hiroto and Kogure get lost in the woods, and are challenged to a match by a pair of Kappas, no character development happens, no new techniques are learned, and it's only mentioned in a blink and you miss it scene during a flashback.
* An [[DeletedScene unaired episode]] of ''Anime/AngelBeats'' has most of the cast [[WorldOfHam transform into crazed hyper-hams]] who [[UpToEleven seem impossibly over-the-top even compared to their normal hammy personalities]]. They continue to [[SerialEscalation top each other and become more and more obnoxious and hyperactive]] throughout the episode, and eventually (though somewhat spontaneously) wear themselves out. And...that's pretty much it. The episode was never broadcast, so, of course, none of the insanity that happens in it is ever brought up in any other episode, even though it clearly takes place sometime in the middle of the main plot.
** Though it was all part of an operation that Yurippe came up with, so it's not like there was no reason for it. Though the episode did run completely on RuleOfFunny.
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* ''CountdownToFinalCrisis'' is effectively a [=BLAM=] ''series'' for the entire {{DCU}}. With {{out of character}} moments, random deaths, nonsensical and time-wasting {{plot}}lines, it firmly cemented itself as a [=BLAM=] when GrantMorrison, the author of ''FinalCrisis'' (the event Countdown was supposed to lead up to) ''ignored it completely'' and effectively put the entire thing into CanonDiscontinuity.
** [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/2725-linkara-top-15-wtf-moments-in-comics Just]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/8982-countdown ask]] [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/9725-top15count Linkara]].
* The ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog''/ImageComics {{crossover}} special. Chronologically meant to take place between the ''Return of the King'' special and issue #57 in the ''Sonic'' timeline, it has Particle steal the Master Emerald and bringing it to Dr. Ian Droid, so Sonic, Knuckles, and the Freedom Fighters travel to the ImageComics Earth to reclaim it, and end up joining forces with the Image Heroes. [[ResetButton In the end, Knuckles ends up wishing for everything to be restored to the way it was before,]] and afterwards, all but Particle and Shadowhawk forget the whole thing ever happened.
** Dr. Droid was supposed to make a return appearance in a later miniseries, as the threat Knuckles was prophesied to defeat. Thanks to ExecutiveMeddling, though, that {{plot}} was dropped and the miniseries got turned into the infamous "Mobius: 25 Years Later" arc.
* Like the above example, almost every intercompany {{crossover}} is a BLAMEpisode. They remain popular because of the potential for a UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny, and if nothing else there's always the hope that fans of one character will read the {{crossover}} and decide they like the other character as well and start reading that - basically, companies trying to cross-pollinate their {{fandom}}. However, for legal reasons these {{crossover}}s very rarely have any impact on ongoing continuity (although it happens occasionally), and works set in different universes tend to have different assumptions and physical laws, in particular about PowerLevels. Most intercompany {{superhero}} {{crossover}}s have involved characters casually running into each other even though if they existed in the same universe they really should have had plenty of encounters before now or something, and afterwards are never mentioned again in-story unless there's another {{crossover}}.
* A better example is ''[[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Uncanny X-Men]]'' #153, the classic "Kitty's FairyTale", in which Kitty regaled young Illyana Rasputin with a made-up {{fairy tale}} casting herself and Colossus as heroic pirates, and other members of the X-Men as their allies to rescue the Phoenix Genie. Some see this issue as a coda to the Claremont/Byrne era, as it shows Kitty fully assimilating with the team to the point where she can gently rib her teammates for their peccadilloes (as the story progresses the rest of the X-Men listen in and enjoy a good laugh), and even give the Scott and Jean in her story the happy ending which they were denied.
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* ''SpaceThunderKids'' is a bunch of cheap South Korean animation cobbled together with the biggest effort towards cohesion being the summary on the back of the box. It's impossible to tell who are supposed to be the eponymous Space Thunder Kids as the film constantly shifts between different looking who may or may not are supposed to be the same people who never really do anything important, interspersed with blatant plagiarism that never goes anywhere either, all padded as long as possible(like a spaceship exploding for ''twenty seconds'') leaving the film an incoherent mess where things, even the ending, happen for no adequately explained reason if any reason is given at all.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' consists of [[RandomEventsPlot a string of odd (and hilarious) happenings]], most of which are never mentioned again.
** ''AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is just that.]]
* ''TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''. The opening sequence involves a pair of singing disembodied lips...and it just gets weirder from there.
* The "horror" movie ''Skinned Deep'' ([[NightmareRetardant horror used very loosely]]) is a pure example of this. Some notable examples include a kid getting cut in half, a headless muscleman with boxer briefs that read DYNO-MITE!!! on them (which hides real dynamite), streaking after a motorcycle ride, and: "I brought you some soup and money". The movie is broken up into 5 or 6 distinct parts (none of which have actual transitions), each of which having little to no connection to the others.
* Most of ''The5000FingersOfDrT'' is a dream sequence conjured by Bart Collins who believes his piano tutor Mr. Terwilliger to be his {{archenemy}} who plans on using five-hundred boys to play a giant piano and marrying Bart's hypnotized mother.
* The entire second half of ''{{Gremlins}} 2'' is just a long series of gags which don't actually drive the storyline anywhere. In fact, most of the first half of that {{film}} is entirely useless, as well.
** On the commentary, Zach Galligan eventually notes that despite being the nominal {{main character}} of the {{film}}, he's only onscreen for about a third of it thanks to all the gags.
* ''HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' has nothing to do with Michael Myers and instead has a {{plot}} that involves a mind-control conspiracy. 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.
** Originally the idea behind the ''Halloween'' movies was they'd have nothing in common except taking place on Halloween. The problem was the first one did too well and Michael Myers became too much of an icon to make the other movies without him. ''Halloween III'' was an attempt to revive their original plans and was so bad it killed all possibility of making any other movies not centering around Mr. Myers.
* ''WereBackADinosaursStory''... where to begin?
** First up, the ''entire movie'' is a {{flashback}} being told to a random bird. Why? It's never mentioned except at the beginning and at the end.
** The time traveler says he wants to save the world by giving dinosaurs to all of Earth's children. Ignoring for the moment exactly ''how'' taking animals out of their native environment (never mind geological era) and bringing them to New York City is supposed to save the world, he drops them in the ocean, whereupon, after some time, they coincidentally discover a small boy. Okay then.
*** Furthermore, if this guy is a time traveler, ''why'' does he show up ''at the end'', rather than earlier to prevent the dark climax from ever occurring at all?
** The [[AnAesop Aesop]] of the {{film}} is supposedly that "family is good"; however, none of the action corresponds with this, and the two {{main character}}s' lack of parents is somehow resolved at the end without explanation.
** The tedious scene in which we watch a hat fall onto a young girl's head would appear to drive the {{plot}} somewhere... but it's never mentioned again.
** Likewise, the [[ToyShip children's romance]] doesn't go anywhere either.
** The inexplicable musical number.
** The BigBad's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath unneeded and horrifying death scene]]... right after seemingly learning his lesson about scaring people. This scene would have actually made sense if a previous one had made it into the final product. It's kinda scary though.
** Said horrifying villain death is all the worse because it is immediately preceded by a scene where the dinosaurs go from angry and wild to cuddly and cartoony through [[ThePowerOfFriendship the Power of Hugs]]. Basically, this movie has balls to do this with the picture book it is [[AdaptationExpansion supposedly based upon]].
* That TheMovie of ''TankGirl'' would end up as one of these was ''guaranteed'' the minute they decided to cast Ice-T as an anthropomorphic kangaroo.
** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint ...Because a part like that should go to Snoop Dogg]].
* The {{film}} ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', despite being a musical, is incoherent and ridiculously nonsensical. Regardless of whatever tenuous links to some form of {{plot}} the {{film}} possesses, ''the fact remains'' that most viewers fail to understand this given the sheer oddness of the story, pacing and premise.
** In her review of the {{film}}, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick had to name this {{trope}} because no scene made sense in context of the others.
* ''TheHangover'' could be considered a {{BLAM episode}}. By the end of the movie, you have sort of a vague idea as to what could have happened last night. But you're still left wondering as to how one situation led to another.
* ''TheRoom'' is one big old pile of [=BLAM=]. So many characters come in and out and give new information without any real sense of cohesion.
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother''. GeneWilder's directorial debut. Since he did not [[YoungFrankenstein share]] the writing duties with MelBrooks this time, it seems that while [[GeneWilder Wilder]] has many funny ideas, he doesn't quite have the skill for bringing it all together.
* ''JesusChristVampireHunter'' Ok, so there's a vampire fight scene followed by a pointless musical number, followed by a transformation... then it stops making sense.
* The spy parody ''CasinoRoyale1967'' . 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.
** You can blame this completely on the film's fascinating {{Troubled Production}}. Those ''five'' directors listed in the credits? None had any contact with each other, and none were working with a complete script. Plus, Peter Sellers was originally supposed to be the star, but either quit or was fired depending on who you believe, prior to filming several important scenes, so the film was awkwardly retooled to center around David Niven instead.
* ''{{Hausu}}'' is so unbelievably surreal that it's difficult to even describe. So many moments come out of nowhere that it makes the concept of a [=BLAM=] irrelevant.
* ''{{Crank}}: High Voltage'' is one gigantic series of [=BLAM=]s, starting right from the very opening sequence.
** Done on purpose by Neveldine and Taylor, who wanted to start work on ''{{Gamer}}'' so urgently but they couldn't due to [[ExecutiveMeddling studio pressure for another sequel]]. So they threw in lots of [=BLAMs=], hoping the sheer awfulness of the script would get the film dropped so they could work on ''{{Gamer}}''.
* In the context of ''StarWars'' {{canon}}, the ''StarWarsHolidaySpecial'' is essentially a string of [=BLAM=]s. It involves a Wookiee family watching a cooking show, some sort of strange Wookiee porn, a sci-fi action scene in cartoon form, a Wookiee watching an instructional video on how to assemble a transmitter (every step of which is shown to the audience), and Bea Arthur as a singing bartender on Tatooine.
* The fourth ''SilentNightDeadlyNight'' involved things like a StrawFeminist ReligionOfEvil and BigCreepyCrawlies, among other bits of MindScrew. The previous films were about serial killers prone to dessing up like [[BadSanta Santa Claus]].
* '' TexasChainsawMassacreTheNextGeneration'', where Leatherface is now an effeminate CreepyCrossdresser whose new family (which includes a guy with a bionic leg) are employed by a government group or cult that is possibly controlled by aliens.
* ''SlumberPartyMassacreII'', which is a ''musical'' full of MindScrew where the psycho is a ghostly rockabilly who kills with a drill attached to an electric guitar. The previous film was comedic, but not random as fuck like this one, while the proceeding one was completely serious, and the villains of both of those were just crazy, non-supernatural guys.
* SalvadorDali once made a surrealist film. The first shot is [[EyeScream a pierced eyeball.]]
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* Shusaku Endo's short story anthology ''Stained Glass Elegies'' consists of deadly serious examinations of Catholic faith in everyday life...and an [[RefugeInAudacity over-the-top]], [[CrowningMomentOfFunny sidesplitting]] parody of ''{{Fantastic Voyage|Plot}}''. It was apparently the only comedy story Endo ever wrote, which makes the transition from thoughtful treatises to [[{{Squick}} enema jokes]] all the more jarring.
* The ''{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''I Live In Your Basement!'', due to copious amounts of mindfuckery and {{gorn}}.
* The ''[[SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley Twins: The Magic Christmas]]'', a book best described as [[XMeetsY "Elizabeth and Jessica go to Narnia."]] Even in a series that [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane occasionally acknowledged the existence of the supernatural]], this one was weird.
* ''Dexter in the Dark'', the third ''{{Dexter}}'' novel, shifted the series from crime thriller to supernatural horror, revealing the reason Dexter kills is because the spawn of an EldritchAbomination (which comes complete with its own cult) has taken him as its host. The later novels make only minor references to these events, if that.
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' had a few examples, but a special shout-out goes to the 39th book, ''The Hidden''. The [[TheScrappy Helmacrons]] return, forcing the Animorphs to go on the run with the blue box. Along the way a buffalo and an ant acquire morphing powers, in violation of all previous continuity about how the blue box works. Thankfully, none of these events are ever mentioned again.
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* From ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'': 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 two factors: 1) [[spoiler:Commander Fisk's murder]] in this episode starts a chain reaction of events that eventually puts Lee in command of ''Pegasus'', and 2) the head of the black market is played by Bill Duke. Ron Moore later discussed ''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.
** Black Market has a third point of relevance: it's the episode where [[spoiler:Baltar decides to run for President when Roslin realizes he could be a thorn in her side and tries to convince him to resign]]. Obviously though, the scene where this happens has ''nothing'' to do with the plot of the episode.
** "The Woman King" came along one season later and stole "Black Market"'s crown. This episode involves a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-beloved but insanely racist doctor]] who sets about killing citizens of the "poorer" Colonies under the guise of a free clinic he's operating right on ''Galactica''. Helo's tasked by a woman ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin named King]]) to put a stop to the MadDoctor and avenge her son (who the doc allegedly killed). Helo spends much of the episode on a CassandraTruth wild goose chase because no one believes him, what with the better half of the cast coming down with a sudden case of 24-hour FantasticRacism Disease. Everyone acts {{out of character}}, the episode just goes in circles, and everyone forgets it even happened by the next episode.
*** It doesn't help that the episode is one of the few remnants of a subplot about the Saggitarons on New Caprica that was soon abandoned (the only other really noticable one is Baltar's mysterious whisper that causes Gaeta to try to kill him, which was eventually repurposed towards another subplot in a webisode series), and scenes in earlier episodes that would have helped explain everyone's refusal to believe Helo were all cut.
* ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'' - ''Grey 17 is Missing''. What the ''frell'' were they smoking? Note that the Zarg is never mentioned again...

** J Michael Straczynski has offered to personally apologise to every fan who complains directly to him about the episode, citing it as the bastard offspring of an unholy trinity of Author Brianfart, ExecutiveMeddling, and Ran Out Of Time & Money.
** However, despite half the episode being ridiculous and brain haemorrhage-inducing, the B-{{plot}} is incredibly important to the MythArc: [[spoiler:Delenn becomes the Entil'zha, while Neroon realises that he'll never win the allegiance of the Rangers like Delenn has, leading to the start of his HeelFaceTurn]].
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Feast of Steven]]", episode 7 of ''The Daleks' Master Plan''. Our heroes have a chase through Twenties Hollywood, get arrested by police in the 1960s, and end up {{breaking the fourth wall}}.
** And then there's ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]'', arguably the silliest Dalek story ever, full of [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs crack]].
** Oh, and 30th anniversary charity special "Dimensions in Time".
** Also ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]'', in which the TARDIS materialises outside reality and then explodes, and the characters find themselves randomly interacting with fictional characters.
* The ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' episode "Honey, I'm Spooked". It involves the spirit of a pint-sized clown showing up and weird things happening to the Szalinskis, such as turning Nick into a ficus and Diane regressing into childhood.
* The ''TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'' episode "When Janet Killed Jonny" is one of these. It is an episode set outside of the main continuity, and is a "horror special", featuring many parodies of the horror genre (although it does contain many moments of NightmareFuel, in a [[MoodWhiplash deviation from the show's usual formula]]). The episode features the cast breaking into the deserted Archer pub to drink the leftover beer, only to fall victim to the previously unmentioned "pub curse", which causes them to be "killed by the thing they love the most". As a result, the entire cast is killed off in an assortment of highly gruesome ways, only to later return as zombies.
* Some viewers consider the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "The Girl In Question" to be this - in the middle of a tense, tragic story arc leading up to the heavily depressing series finale, we get an episode revolving around Spike and Angel gallivanting off to Italy to have wacky, {{hoyay}}-tastic adventures while trying to rescue Buffy from the mistake of dating an [[TheFaceless unseen]], vampiric [[TheCasanova sexual predator]] with whom they apparently have a [[RetCon never-before-mentioned]] complex history; this unapologetically farcical storyline is [[MoodWhiplash played against]] a bitter, tragic Los Angeles subplot in which [[EldritchAbomination Illyria]] assumes Fred's form in order to deceive her parents into believing that their daughter is alive and well, a state of affairs which nearly breaks Wesley and is difficult to watch even for the viewers. The episode feels fragmented and out of place at best, and at worst features an incredibly tactless and offensive juxtaposition of storylines.
** It also doesn't help that the B-plot indicates that Wesley didn't carry out Fred's final wish that he inform her parents of her death. And that from what we hear, Buffy has turned into TheDitz, having an affair with the evil Immortal, making it come off as a rather petty TakeThat after SarahMichelleGellar refused to appear in the show's 100th episode. Whedon later made an AuthorsSavingThrow in the ''Buffy'' comics, revealing that it was actually one of several Slayers around the world who are impersonating Buffy to confuse the bad guys.
* ''TheYoungOnes'' could be considered to consist of little else. There are indeed plotlines within episodes, but they don't connect to other episodes, and are often derailed partway through. Sometimes they are not even resolved.
* The two-part ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode "The Eclipse", in which an eclipse randomly and inexplicably removes all the characters' powers. We never found out how or why this happened, and none of the events of those episodes were ever mentioned again.
** And this is just the most notorious example. ''{{Series/Heroes}}'' has a lot of {{BLAM episode}}s. If you watch the previous seasons, keep track of how many new characters and storylines are introduced vs. [[KudzuPlot how many are still acknowledged in newer episodes]].
** [[{{Series/Heroes}} Heroes]] had an entire [=BLAM=] SEASON. Remember season two? The writer's strike? Micah's cousin who could learn anything she saw on TV? Maya got a bit of a sendoff, but her brother was unceremoniously dropkicked out of the show. Clare's flying boyfriend who hated her father? And best of all, the girlfriend Peter forgot in the future?
* ''SeaQuestDSV'' "Knight of Shadows". It's a Halloween episode, and does at least ''try'' to give the OOC characters some excuses. But still, it was a low point for the otherwise shining season 1.
* Once or twice a season ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' will include a comedy episode, with a ridiculous {{plot}} which is just an excuse to use situations like 'Sam and Dean are suddenly trapped on the set of this weird TV show called ''Supernatural'', and we are now going to spend 40 minutes making fun of our own premise, crew, actors, and viewing figures'. This does not necessarily make these episodes ''bad''.
** For those who are less familiar with the show, I think this deserves a little clarification: these episodes are insanely popular, and are widely considered to be the best episodes of the series in terms of sheer entertainment value, once again proving that [[TropesAreNotBad tropes are most definitely not bad.]]
* Significantly, ''ThePrisoner'' did this ''twice'', in the episodes "Living In Harmony" and "The Girl Who Was Death" -- both of which massively change the entire format of the show just to fuck with {{the protagonist}}, [[MindScrew not to mention the audience]].
** There was also "Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darling," which Patrick [=McGoohan=] isn't even ''in'', where the Powers That Be basically put Number 6's brain in some other guy and send him on an errand outside of The Village for them.
*** This was sort of a RealLifeWritesThePlot episode; Patrick [=McGoohan=] was off making IceStationZebra when this episode was filmed.
** Most people would have just mentioned the series finale and moved on.
* The fifth season episode of ''{{Xena|WarriorPrincess}}'' entitled "Married With Fishschticks" which mostly forgets about the story arc going on at the time to do a pointless filler episode where the feuding Aphrodite and Discord accidentally send Gabrielle into this alternate world where she's a mermaid, and is entirely populated with mer people. The whole thing is weird even by this show's standards, and ends with it apparently being AllJustADream as Gabrielle wakes up back with Xena.
** The people behind the show were well aware that this one wasn't their finest moment, and even did some micromanaging of the schedule to make sure it didn't get the distinction of being the show's 100th episode.
* The ''Series/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 point}}s involve alien {{mind rape}}, [[TheSpock Spock]] in a toga singing, and [[TheKirk Kirk]] being ridden by creepy little demented dwarves.
* Certainly a number of first-season episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' would count as this {{trope}}.
** On the episode Hide And Q, the character Q grants the characters wishes, and teenage Wesley Crusher wishes to be 10 or so years older. Then suddenly, BAAM he's transformed into a strapping, tall and exceptionally hunky man. We then cut to Geordi [=LaForge=] leering at the new Wesley and saying, "Hey, Wes. Not bad." It has been noted by several sources that Lavar Burton's character was originally supposed to be gay, but this is the only time it appears to be shown on screen, in this season one episode. Thereafter, it is NEVER EVER EVER EVER mentioned again, and the [=LaForge=] character eventually falls in love with a holodeck character then eventually an actual woman, and they live happily ever after. BLAM.
** Similarly to "Plato's Stepchildren" mentioned above, this is {{averted|Trope}} in the case of "The Naked Now". Although it fully appears as though this is a LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain episode, albeit an absolutely hilarious one, what with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hih2THljVjw Data getting drunk and Dr. Crusher grabbing Picard's crotch just offscreen]], the fact that [[TheSpock Data]] and [[SacrificialLion Tasha Yar]] had intercourse ''is'' mentioned in later episodes, notably in "Measure of a Man" where it is used to help establish [[TheSpock Data's]] sentience.
*** It even gets a CallBack much, ''much'' later in ''StarTrekFirstContact'' with [[TheSpock Data]] telling the Borg Queen that he is "fully functional" in the sex department.
** "Justice" arguably counts -- for no clear reason, the crew of the ''[[CoolStarship Enterprise]]'' is schmoozing with what appears to be a pre-warp culture, when [[CreatorsPet Wesley]] knocks over an outdoor decoration and is sentenced to death. And even though the [[{{Alien Non-Interference Clause}} Prime Directive]] didn't prevent them from making contact with this planet, all of a sudden it prevents [[TheCaptain Picard]] from saving Wesley.
** "Conspiracy" is another ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' example of this. Starfleet command has apparently been infiltrated by parasitic slugs that inhabit the brain of the host creature. This is obviously an event of considerable political magnitude, but it is never again referenced. However, it was [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] several episodes earlier, making it a kind of AbortedArc.
*** ExecutiveMeddling is to blame for that. The story was originally intended to have a purely human conspiracy within Starfleet, but GeneRoddenberry himself vetoed that because of how it clashed with his vision of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' as an {{utopia}} where all humans work towards a common goal in harmony. So they added mind-controlling alien infiltrators to the {{plot}}.
*** Actually, it was intended to be the hook for the major villains of the series. The thing was, it created too much paranoia that they wanted to avoid, so they changed the concept over to the Borg. Kept the insect theme, what with the drones and hive mind, and they kept the "they take you over" thing with [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilation]], but made it quite obvious that these were the bad guys, while the people in uniform are the good guys.
** ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' has a number of oddball episodes that qualify for this, most notably some of the truly god-awful episodes of the final season. After all, we got such lovely inexplicable plots as [[TheMedic Beverly's]] inherited ghost lover and everyone on the ''[[CoolStarship Enterprise]]'' "devolving" into things [[YouFailBiologyForever that make absolutely no fucking sense]].
* The ''Series/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 [[GoalOrientedEvolution evolve into a higher order of being]]... which then transforms into a 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 [[TheCaptain Captain Janeway]]. When they were both Mudkips.) Anyway, the babies are still out there presumably but everything else is {{reset|Button}} with antimatter injections. Got all that? Okay, because this is the ''one episode'' out of ''all the'' Franchise/StarTrek ''episodes ever made'' that is in CanonDiscontinuity.
** Want proof? In a later ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode, Tom Paris says that he has ''never'' travelled in transwarp. '''Never'''.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' went off the rails a few times late in the series, producing such {{BLAM episode}}s as the holodeck baseball game and the ''OceansEleven'' knockoff where the main cast ignored their duty in favor of pulling off a heist to save the holodeck lounge singer from a gangster. (No, it '''''doesn't''''' make sense in context.)
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' has one of the rare examples of [[TropesAreNotBad this trope churning out a great episode]]: over dinner, T'Pol regales [[TheCaptain Archer]] and Trip with the tale of an ancestor of hers who lived on Earth over a century before First Contact.
* ''{{Series/Lost}}'''s infamous "Stranger in a Strange Land". A high ranking Other is introduced, along with their legal system. Neither is mentioned again. Jack's tattoos are apparently full of important insight into Jack's character. He had never mentioned them before. Nobody had. And then Jack flashbacks to his borderline incoherent experiences with a possibly psychic Thai tattoo artist who he sleeps with, then gets beat up for. This is never mentioned again. Meanwhile, Sawyer and Karl discuss the Brady Bunch and how Karl and Alex named stars together. None of this is mentioned again.
* The final episode of ''CandleCove''. Puppets screaming and crying. For ''30 minutes''.
** What episode were you watching? The real [=BLAM=] is why everyone suddenly loved watching static, of all things...
* ''PowerRangersInSpace''. [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Four words]]. [[Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]].
* 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.
** There's also the now-traditional DVD shorts that both Sentai and its block-mate KamenRider give out yearly in Telebi-kun Magazine. A lot of these are very nonsensical even compared to other filler episodes within the series.
* Speaking of KamenRider, it is something of a tradition for a couple of episodes around episode 30 of each series to be a bit... different.
** KamenRiderOOO had 2 episodes celebrating the 999th and 1000th episodes of the franchise, featuring loads of old monsters, the cast trying to make their own Kamen Rider Movie, and Kougami watching Kamen Rider on about 50 different screens.
** KamenRiderW had Shoutaro and Phillip chasing a Dopant that sent people into comas through lucid dreams. To catch him, they fall asleep (while transformed, in the middle of a football pitch) and went into the dream world, where they were samurai. Or something. Even one of the villains point out how odd that is. And that's just the first part!
** KamenRiderKabuto had the Dark Kitchen arc, featuring cooking duels and food that can manipulate emotions, and very little actual Kamen Rider action (just one or two obligatory action scenes disconnected from the plot)
** KamenRiderBlade had Hajime losing his memory and meeting a man identical to himself. They swap lives and have cooking duels, culminating in Hajime's lookalike making himself a suit of armour and beating the monster of the week.
* Part of the charm of ''{{Lexx}}'' is that the normal {{status quo|IsGod}} is what would be a {{BLAM episode}} in most shows, but it still has a few {{BLAM episode}}s by its own standards. The most obvious is the fourth-season episode ''[[WilliamShakespeare A Midsummer's Nightmare]]'', where the crew is trapped in the fairie kingdom by Oberon, who seeks a new bride to replace Titania. Oberon is gay, Titania is a male midget crossdresser, Puck is CampGay, Kai ends up turning into a tree while dancing and singing, Stanley nearly marries Oberon and gets as far as putting on the wedding dress... Oberon even admits that he has zero understanding of the show's cosmology, {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing how the batshit insanity everyone is going through just plain doesn't fit into it.
** In the fourth-season episode "Prime Ridge", the crew (having been unable to find the Lexx's key for several episodes) decide that they have nothing to do, and so they buy a house in a small-town neighbourhood (which is being sold by [[JamesBond Britt Ekland]]). 790 hacks an ATM. The crew live in it for several days. Stanley sleeps on the lawn for some unexplained reason, and then gets hit on by said real estate agent and her daughter. Xev gets a job as a stress counsellor (despite having no resume or references) and the whole episode culminates in a giant firefight between the FBI and a pair of stoned teenagers wielding machine guns. Xev, Stan and Kai get in a car and drive away, and never mention the incident again for the rest of the series.
* "The Bicycle Tour" episode of ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. Not only does it have the same {{plot}} throughout, whereas most episodes were a series of sketches, but it does not begin with the usual theme music and animation.
* "iSpace Out" from ''ICarly'' has a [=BLAM=] subplot, with a random little girl wandering into the apartment when Spencer is there, and not doing anything until she walks out again, it takes up half the time of the episode and literally nothing happens or is resolved. "iMake [[ChaoticNeutral Sam]] Girlier"'s entire plot was [[ChaoticNeutral Sam]] wanting to get a boyfriend; [[NoGuyWantsAnAmazon she tries to act more girly]], but in the end BeYourself wins out. The guy vanishes and is never spoken of again, not even to explain why.
* ''ICarly'' and ''{{Victorious}} each aired an ''April Fools'' episode back to back. Both were utterly nonsensical episodes. Nothing made sense, and it was completely random. There was NoFourthWall. They were both pretty much aware of this trope all the way through
* Even ''PoliceStop'' isn't infallible to this. The episode ''Police Stop! 3'' has subjects [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment that are never mentioned again for the rest of the series]] and doesn't mention the United Kingdom very much. The same can be said for ''Police Stop! 4'', its sequel that followed in 1995, which had no {{ident}}s between episodes. This is surprisingly rare for a documentary to do such things. However, your opinion will differ on this. If you do wish to see the series, watch it on [=ITV4=], it's nearly always shown as reruns.
* ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' gives us the 4th season episode "... And Fancy Free", in which Hercules enters a dance competition. Nothing rests on this competition other than his partner's self esteem, and a nice trophy. Apparently, in spite of this, the town magistrate finds this competition important enough that he spends most of the episode sending assassins after Hercules and his partner to stop them from winning. No other motivation is given, he just wants his daughter to win. BonusPoints for guest starring Michael Hurst in drag as the dance instructor
** There is a later episode featuring the same characters in struggle over fashion...which is about as pointless as "...And Fancy Free". Also no explanation is given as to why the town magistrate has apparently given up his duties to go into the world of ancient Greek fashion.
** Speaking of Hercules, the episode set in the present day which is all about Kevin Sorbo having gone missing, and features the memorable and hysterical [[CrowningMomentOfFunny restroom whistling scene]].
* The HannahMontana Forever episode "Kiss It All Goodbye".
* The ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' MusicalEpisode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More With Feeling]]" is a bizarre case of a BLAM episode that '''''is''''' based on an utterly ridiculous premise, '''''is''''' important to the season's major story arcs and remains one of '''''the''''' most loved episodes of the entire series, like a BLAMEpisode and WHAMEpisode mixed together.
** The season 4 finale, "Restless", starts like this. Eventually what's going on is clarified, as well as the fact that it contains large amounts of {{foreshadowing}}.
** "Superstar". Season 4, ep 17.
** Also, the season 3 episode "The Zeppo" can be seen as this, diverting from the building plot threads of that season to tell a completely zany, full-out self-parody of every Buffy trope in the book.
** All of these just go to show that TropesAreNotBad in the hands of a skilled writer.
* ''CrimeStory'' was stylishly moody and gritty...then there was the 2nd season episode "Pauli Taglia's Dream". It did show how mobster Ray Luca and his goofus flunky Pauli had earlier survived a nuclear bomb test, but through Pauli's point of view - complete with cartoon sound effects, Three Stooges slapstick, and cuts of him lipsynching Bobby Fuller's "I Fought the Law" wearing impossibly high rockabilly hair and a radiation suit.
* Over its last two seasons it became clear that Day 6 of ''TwentyFour'' was a Big Lipped Alligator ''Season''. Events like [[spoiler:the detonation of a nuclear device in an American city by foreign terrorists and the attack and incapacitation of an American president while in the White House - both of which happened within ''hours'' of each other and would have deeply impacted the country's history and internal and international policies - are never mentioned or even alluded at in the following seasons. Matter of fact, President Wayne Palmer was effectively [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome "brother Chucked"]] without as much as a throwaway line to explain what ultimately became of him. [[WordOfGod Howard Gordon]] has stated he lived, but a prop newspaper from the made-for-TV movie ''Redemption'' mentions his death, thus leaving his fate unknown]]. Day 7 has its couple of BLAM episodes in which [[spoiler:an African tin pot dictator and his five - six at most - bodyguards take the White House and everyone inside hostage - with some help from (what else in TwentyFour?) moles on the inside. Jack Bauer resolves the entire situation in two hours of [[BlatantLies "Real Time"]] and the entire situation does not impact the rest of the season - the ''second half'' of it - in any significant way]].
* Similarly, many of the events of ''Series/FridayNightLights'' Season Two aren't referenced in later seasons, the most {{egregious}} of which would be [[spoiler:Landry KILLING a man to protect Tyra, and even confessing to it]]. Other stuff happened that season, too (Matt and Grandma Saracen's maid, Buddy raising a ward named Santiago), but the only major event to happen that season with any significant impact on future seasons is Jason Street [[spoiler:getting a woman pregnant]].
* ''BreakingBad'' has the episode where Walt becomes obsessed with killing a fly that has somehow gotten into the meth lab. There are a few moments of legitimate character development and overall series value to this episode, but for the most part, it's a big steaming pile of BLAM.
* ''{{Series/Merlin}}''. In the middle of the season that also included Merlin losing his first love, Arthur discovering the truth about his mother, Morgana's StartOfDarkness and the introduction of two of the most powerful/terrifying villains the show had ever showcased (Morgause and the Witchfinder), two utterly superfluous episodes were devoted to a troll successfully marrying King Uther and becoming Queen. It was a great performance by Sarah Parish, but the humor was made up of pratfalls and ToiletHumour, Arthur, Gwen and Morgana were utterly (and uncharacteristically) useless, the audience was scarred for life by being forced to watch Uther go to bed with a troll, and after the episode ends, no one ever again thinks to mention that a shit-eating troll had been the Queen of Camelot for an extended period of time.
* The 1980's ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds'' episode "Candle In The Night". This is a show that thrived on an overarching conspiracy by aliens to overthrow the Earth, interpersonal conflict between the cast and gratuitous violence that pushed the limits of what syndicated television could show...and someone decided that an entire episode should be focused on a supporting character ''having a birthday party''. The plot follows one of the team members, Debi, who sneaks out of the Blackwood Project's headquarters to have a birthday party with a bunch of random kids she meets. There's no real tension or drama in the episode, and none of the characters or events are mentioned again.
* TheSarahConnorChronicles had a surreal, cyborg-free episode where Sarah is in a sleep clinic and is haunted by nightmares [[spoiler:which are actually real, while the clinic is a hallucination caused by a one-off villain probing her mind]].
* ''TheOddCouple'' had a flashback episode that parodied the James Bond films and featured Felix and Oscar's fathers.
* ''TheKidsInTheHall'' episode "Chalet 2000" was one long Buddy Cole sketch (with it's own credit sequence), and to top it off, Queen Elizabeth appears and ends up sleeping with a talking beaver.
* ''PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' while surfing Tori got into a major wipe out, and wind up in a MirrorUniverse where the Rangers are the bad guys and Lothor and his goons are good guys. She eventually gets back to her own universe by getting wiped out again.
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* "Bakerman" on the Midnight Oil album ''Red Sails in the Sunset''. It's a Japanese school band playing an instrumental oompa ditty, in the middle of an otherwise pre-alternative rock album. Also very MoodWhiplash.
* ''[[ThePolice Synchronicity]]'': "Mother", a repetitive tune in 7/4 with screamed vocals and weird lyrics, shows up after the comparatively normal "Synchronicity I" and "Walking in Your Footsteps".
* "You're Gonna Die," a 9-and-a-half minute song (using the term loosely) at the end of [[ReelBigFish Reel Big Fish's]] ''We're Not Happy Till You're Not Happy'' album. It's essentially nothing but screaming and static in the same vein as [[Music/TheBeatles "Revolution 9"]] and even contains a BigLippedAlligatorMoment of it's own in "Aaron is Made of Babies," a one-minute novelty song thrown smack-dab in the middle of the hectic track.
* "Anyone's Daughter" from DeepPurple's ''Fireball''. The lyrics are typical DP - a man sleeps with a bunch of women and marries one of them when he gets her pregnant - but the music is in a C&W style that's out of place for this period of the band.
* ''Tell Me What To Swallow'' by Crystal Castles. A dark acoustic song in the middle of electronic stuff. Also MoodWhiplash.
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* ''CityOfHeroes'' has this issue with the Mission Architect system. Due to the [[SturgeonsLaw overwhelming amount]] of player-made content in the database and a ratings system that leaves something to be desired, it's inevitable that [=BLAM=] {{Story Arc}}s will come up fairly frequently in any random sample. If the first time a player tries the system results in having one of these thrown at them it can easily be the last time they will ever bother with the Mission Architect.
** Which is why a number of authors have been taking it upon themselves to review arcs and compile lists in the official forums make it easier to find the "good stuff."
* Atlantica in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' also counts. It has absolutely no {{plot}} relevance and features the characters [[MusicalEpisode singing in order to keep Ariel happy with undersea life]]. Even more [=BLAM=] is the fact that the entire story of the world is based on mini games and seems to just be an excuse to put the world in the game.
*** Also odd was how nobody seemed to remember any of the events that happened in Atlantica in the first ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' [[VideoGame game]]; except for who Sora is. Ariel just...forgot how the last time she made a deal with Ursula ended, and Ursula forgot...dying.
** The minigames were a way to include the world itself, while avoiding having to include the underwater combat from the first game. Notice how Neverland (which featured a similarly-controlled "flying combat" mechanic) doesn't get a return appearance, just a Peter Pan summon cameo?
*** Because {{Disney}} [[AdoredByTheNetwork seems to have a hard-on for]] Disney/PeterPan, having been used in every ''KingdomHearts'' [[VideoGame game]], the focus for a level in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', and so on, regardless of not being {{plot}} relevant, including getting in over ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' in Birth By Sleep?
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Mobile''. It takes place at a weird point in continuity and gives Snake technology that he shouldn't have yet in addition to making him confront The Patriots long before he should even know they exist; Otacon, instead of being chipper Codec support, ''is the "ninja"''; and everything is revealed to be [[AllJustADream All Just A Virtual Reality Simulation]] Snake has been placed in by The Patriots for a reason that is not revealed and never will be. Snake also [[ResetButton gets his memory of the events erased]], but Otacon doesn't, [[FridgeLogic thus implying]] that [[OutOfCharacter in addition to providing needlessly cryptic advice through sinister channels]] he then [[TooDumbToLive kept the entire ordeal and critical information secret from Snake for at least two years]].
* ''[[VideoGame/StarFox1 Star Fox]]'' (the 1993 SuperNES game) combined this with an EasterEgg -- "Out Of This Dimension".
* Happens halfway through KidIcarusUprising, when [[spoiler: the main plot is completely put on hold when an ''utterly random alien invasion'' forces all of the main, characters to work together to stop it.]] This lasts for about 3 chapters and then it is never mentioned about again when its done.
** Actually it is brought up a few times afterwards. In fact it's the first thing Pit remembers [[spoiler:after finding out that he's been turned into a ring. The aliens also appear when Pit battles against the Chaos Kin and later when he fights facsimiles of them in Dyntos' workshop.]]
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* SluggyFreelance brought us Chapter 63: Safehouse, bringing us Torg taking up gardening, and coming up with increasingly surreal plans to protect the garden from chipmunks and deer, that all fail spectacularly, Bun Bun robbing a bank with the help of a talking bear and an old man with a huge mustache, and the entire main cast getting addicted to the latest computing technology and the possibilities it offers, and getting tangled up in weird on-line community shenanigans, and playing a [[SubliminalSeduction suspiciously addictive]] online game which, after a hacker attack, starts a zombie apocalypse that only affects animals.
** While randomness is par the course for Sluggy, what makes this a BLAM episode is that it went on for an extended period of time right after a very dark storyline, and pretty much ignores all of the lingering questions, including the fate of a character that the group lost contact with and is on a dangerous mission, a character that refuses to accept that her friends thought to be dead are alive, and a plan to finially get rid of the resident physcopathic, ninja, StalkerWithACrush that caused said friends to become almost dead. WordOfGod seems to indicate the arc will bare no overall importance as well.
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* Used and lampshaded in the fan sequel of ''FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences'': "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noym0ozXyrg What has tobe riped off]]". [[spoiler: John creates a stable time loop, by hitting himself and giving himself "amneesha"]]:
-->Narrator: And so what happens means that it was nothing and just...
-->(Scene change)
-->WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic: Ughhhhh... BigLippedAlligatorMoment
-->A BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT! * fanfare*
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic had one himself with "You're A Dirty Rotten Bastard". Opened and closed by Santa Christ (who after ''{{Kickassia}}'' heavily dislikes the Critic) like it was a story, going against a lot of established characterization to make Critic look like the biggest jackass in all the world, and never mentioned again.
* ''CharlieTheUnicorn''.
* Fanfic example: Chapter 122 of ''FanFic/GuardiansOfPokemon''. The cast has just gotten back from a [[TrappedInTVLand Trapped In Video Game Land]] arc, only Ash hasn't lost his HeroicMime status, and then it turns out that Butch and Cassidy stole it just before they all left the video game world and now Butch is calling himself "Smash Ketchum" and using Ash's voice to hypnotize everyone over the radio. Then a battle happens and every time someone gets hit, their voice pops out of their body, leading to everyone switching voices for the rest of the episode.
* Creepypasta Example: CandleCove.
* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' sort of has a plot, but it's a RandomEventsPlot at best and seems to run on ChandlersLaw.
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* As funny and clever as it may be, the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Fractured" feels like that. I mean, we learn that there's a whole dimension that exists just for Robin and then the Robin from that dimension (Larry) breaks his finger and everything becomes chaotic. It's hard to believe that no one talks about that ever again.
** I'm pretty sure [[GreatGazoo he's supposed to be from the 5th dimension]], a la other DC characters like Mister Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite.
** Apparently, that episode was called back to in ''ComicBook/TeenTitansGo'', and there was an issue where Larry brings along the Larry Versions of the rest of the Titans.
** ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' had at least one completely insane episode per season, and the tone of the average episode wasn't much less wacky. If anything the episodes which focused on continuity and drama were the ones out of place. "Fractured", "Mad Mod", "Bunny Raven/How To Make a Titanimal Disappear", "Mother Mae Eye", and "Episode 257-494", the episode where Control Freak causes the Titans to become TrappedInTVLand.
**** Well, the last one was referenced in the big Finale, when Control Freak was using the Lightsabers he got from TV Land.
*** Oddly enough, most {{BLAM Episode}}s are right before the season finale. Going from a deranged Hansel and Gretel WholePlotReference to Raven fulfilling her destiny and ending the world, or from the aforementioned Larry episode to Terra picking off the team one by one led to some absolutely beautiful MoodWhiplash and gave the show its signature schizophrenic tone.
** A good rule of thumb was this: if the opening ThemeTune was in Japanese, as opposed to the usual English, you were about to see some weird shit.
*** Especially when the one singing in Japanese is Larry.
*** Except "Nevermore"- though that one ''is'' weird for a solid chunk in the middle, it's less "crazy and funny" weird and more "MindScrew, UncannyValley, and a side dose of NightmareFuel" weird, and the central plot about Raven fighting her EnemyWithin is serious.
*** "Fear Itself" can function as a fairly good bait-and-switch in terms of this. The episode starts out silly, the first part being the debut of Control Freak, where the Titans fight him in a video store and he brings things like candy to life and turns them evil. ''Then'' things get dark.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T. set entirely in the character's parody rich imagination's... number 4 turns into a super saiyan. Operation: W.H.I.T.E.H.O.U.S.E. which was also AllJustADream did make self-contained sense until the very end when number 1 turns into a big monster for no explained reason.
* ''SamuraiJack'': "Chicken Jack". [[DerangedAnimation That is all]].
** What's really odd about "Chicken Jack" is that it's almost a remake of the previous season's "Jack and the Smackback", but with Jack as a chicken.
** And "Jack Is {{Naked|PeopleAreFunny}}". Oh, ''so'' much. The BigLippedAlligatorMoment with the randomly-appearing elephant-headed fairy is just the tip of the iceberg.
* ''EdEddNEddy'': "1 + 1 = Ed", otherwise known as the episode where Ed asks Double-D a bunch of questions, the questions become increasingly philosophical, reality and imagination begin to melt into each other, existential crisis manifests itself into abstract surrealism, and everyone and everything around them becomes horribly deformed and absurd.
--> '''Rolf''': Hello, Ed-Boys! [[ArcWords Many doors, yes?]]
--> '''[[MultipleHeadCase Rolf's Second Head]]''': Too much for...
--> '''Rolf's Third Head''': ...Couch-potato Ed-Boys like yourselves?
--> '''Eddie''': A three-headed Rolf. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight Yawn.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' -- "Mothmoose" is the infamous one, but just about anything starring KidAppealCharacter Buzzwang gets filed here.
* ''SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'' has a recap episode called "The Skeleton King Threat", in which the Monkey Team finally gains the ability to talk to humans and tells them about their adventures so far, including babbling on about some sort of level system they use to label how threatening a monster is. This system is used through the entire episode heavily but is never mentioned again in the series. Even the fandom almost never uses this stuff.
* ''DextersLaboratory'': [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6xjp2_myspacetv-videos-dexters-lab-monsto_na Monstory]]. Really, what?
** No, sorry, the winner of that achievement goes to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUPPvuz8wgo Dexter and Computress Get Mandark]]. It was written by a six-year-old, and is ''psycho-freaking-loco''.
* ''PhineasAndFerb''
** "Rollercoaster: The Musical". It's essentially a MusicalEpisode version of the pilot. But there's random stuff going on, and most of the songs and scenes are never mentioned after they occur, and the barrage of Cameos in the final song, which itself is a BLAM. And I highly doubt it will be mentioned again.
*** On ''Phineas and Ferb'', [[ContinuityNod they mention everything again.]]
*** It's very self aware about its BLAM Episode status. The episode constantly {{Lampshades}} its repeating of the original episode, as well as the fact that it's incredibly weird even by the standards of the show.
* Arguably, the 20th episode of the third season of ''WinxClub'' (the pixies' ADayInTheLimelight episode) may count as this. Although it was referenced in episode 22 when Valtor reminds the Trix about how they were defeated by the pixies.
** Season 2's episode 14 may count too, or at the parts involving Bloom, Flora, Sky and Brandon travelling to Sky's homeplanet and trying to save Diaspro. That part of the episode is never mentioned again.
* ''SouthPark'': "Not Without My Anus." Purposeful BLAM episode on the part of the writers as an AprilFoolsDay joke, delaying the conclusion of "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut" in favor of a ridiculous Terrance and Phillip story.
** "Woodland Critter Christmas" is also off of the board. {{Justified|Trope}} because [[spoiler:[[AllJustADream it's actually just a bizarre story made up by Cartman]]]].
*** Brought up in the Imaginationland trilogy.
-->'''[[Film/FridayThe13th Jason]]''': Man, I do not want to meet the kid that dreamt THOSE things up.
* Skeletor, a classic two-dimensional villain with no previous redeeming qualities whatsoever, abruptly [[PetTheDog turns good]] for no apparent reason other than "the Spirit of Christmas" in the ''WesternAnimation/{{He-Man|AndTheMastersOfTheUniverse}} and {{SheRa|PrincessOfPower}} Holiday Special''. This had no bearing on later evil; it was just something the eighties did, apparently.
** This may just be a relatively unexplored side of Skeletor, though. Behold: [[http://wildparticle.com/?p=180 Skeletor, Cake Boss.]]
** In another Filmation show, ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'', main henchman Tex Hex has a similar moment in a YetAnotherChristmasCarol ep. Subverted in that the woman he saves is his one great love, now lost to him, and when the ending moral is shown, Marshal Bravestarr takes care to tell viewers not to expect Tex Hex to change after this.
* ''TheVentureBrothers'' has this in the form of "Escape to the House of Mummies! Part II." While Doctor Venture and Orpheus have an argument over whether science or magic is better and fill out MadLibs to pass the time. Meanwhile, Brock and the boys are trapped in Egypt with Edgar Allan Poe, Sigmund Freud, and an alternate-timeline Brock in scuba gear. The episode ends in the Arctic as one Brock slices [[TheEmpireStrikesBack open Poe's carcass and puts the freezing Dean inside for warmth]].
** Yes, that title is right. There was no "Escape to the House of Mummies! Part I", and just a preview for "Escape to the House of Mummies! Part III".
*** Also, Caligula was there too. And no, none of that makes even the slightest bit of sense.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' has many, but the most notable is probably "Dear Vikings", in which Spongebob and Squidward are kidnapped by vikings, who force them to work in their ship.
* The episode "Party All The Time" from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''. Frylock contracts melanoma (a form of cancer), which causes him to slowly decay and become sick (which leads to all the fries disappearing from his head, and him dressing in a hat to conceal the fry loss). Shake and Meatwad try a number of tricks to cheer him up (including a performance from Music/AndrewWK), but they find out that it's no use. Suddenly, at the end, Frylock goes to a doctor, who tells him that the melanoma is reversing and that he will eventually get better...and the episode ends, and nothing in it is ever referenced or mentioned again.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'' has always been a little more lighthearted than it's predecessor. However, the episode "Critters" was just plain out there. A farmer and his daughter genetically engineer farm animals so they can become bigger. After a cow runs amok at an agricultural expo, they're ordered to cease their growth hormone experiments. So they send giant preying mantises, demonic chickens, and a talking goat to attack Gotham City. Website/TheAgonyBooth said it best "I wish I was making all this up, believe me. It’s like David Lynch made a Batman cartoon and forced the networks to air it."
** In point of fact, it was written by Steve Gerber (the guy who gave the world Comicbook/HowardTheDuck and other strangeness) and Joe Lansdale.
** It's been reported that PaulDini has claimed this is his favorite episode. The man who hates "I've got Batman in my Basement" supposedly likes this episode? I don't think so.
* ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' has the episode "All Hands on Duck", which was about DonaldDuck being recruited back into the Navy and later fighting a giant bomber drone. Everyone in this episode besides Donald and Daisy is for some reason a {{Dogface|s}}.
* One ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode had the characters star in a James Bond spoof. And there's another one about an evil, singing hot tub where Stan and Francine abruptly die, and there is NoEnding.
* Disney's ''Disney/AliceInWonderland''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' has the episode "Gwen 10". In that episode, they were all back to the first day of summer and Ben was the only person remembering the previous episode's events. As the title episode suggested, Gwen was the one to find the Omnitrix this time. At the end, it got detached from her and Ben thought he'd finally have it like in the original timeline but it went to Max instead. It becomes HilariousInHindsight when it's revealed in a later episode that the person who sent the Omnitrix to Earth expected '''Max''' to have it in the first place. The next episode had Ben with the Omnitrix again with no explanation and "Gwen 10" events were never mentioned in any other episodes of the series.
** The start of the episode explained how it worked much like a comic book plot, of different realities and different stories. Gwen 10 (or Max 10) probably went very radically in its own direction, but for the sake of continuity and story of the main plot hook, went with Ben 10 still having the Omnitrix. However, that doesn't explain how the mainstream Ben went to the Gwen 10 reality, how he returned to his own, or what happened to that reality's Ben.
* In StarWarsTheCloneWars season four there's "Mercy Mission" and "Nomad Droids" - episodes that focus on R2-D2 and C-3PO in their own misadventures when they get separated from the army. The episodes pay homages to various works like Literature/AliceInWonderland, TheLordOfTheRings, GulliversTravels, TheWonderfulWizardOfOz, and RealSteel.
** Also possibly an homage to the 1980s ''Star Wars: Droids'' cartoon, which contained many blam moments if not entire episodes (C-3PO blinking and sprinting, R2-D2's hammerspace gadgets and breakdancing).
** Season three has the Mortis trilogy of episodes. The basic plot is that Obi-Wan, Anakin and Ahsoka get stranded on a surreal planet whose only three inhabitants - Father, Son and Daughter - are the living embodiments/avatars/personifications of the Balance of the Force, the Dark Side and the Light Side, respectively. [[spoiler:During the course of the episodes Father, Son and Daughter either kill each other, or arrange for the Jedi to do so on their behalf.]] Unsurprisingly it is never referred back to and, aside from the anvilicious hints that Anakin has more sympathy for the Dark Side than is strictly healthy, comes off as extreme padding.
*** It later gets tied into the story of FateOfTheJedi's EldritchAbomination BigBad Abeloth. With mixed results.
* ''Series/MegaMan'' had more than its share of camp, but by far the most bizarre and memorable example is "Curse of the Lion Men" - a passing comet awakens a group of ancient mummified lion-men who aim to conquer the world by turning every non-robotic human on the planet into lion creatures using EyeBeams. No, it doesn't make any more sense in context.
* The episode ''Da Boom'' in ''FamilyGuy''.
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* Atlantica in ''KingdomHeartsII'' also counts. It has absolutely no {{plot}} relevance and features the characters [[MusicalEpisode singing in order to keep Ariel happy with undersea life]]. Even more [=BLAM=] is the fact that the entire story of the world is based on mini games and seems to just be an excuse to put the world in the game.
*** Also odd was how nobody seemed to remember any of the events that happened in Atlantica in the first ''KingdomHearts'' [[VideoGame game]]; except for who Sora is. Ariel just...forgot how the last time she made a deal with Ursula ended, and Ursula forgot...dying.

* ''SlumberPartyMassacre II'', which is a ''musical'' full of MindScrew where the psycho is a ghostly rockabilly who kills with a drill attached to an electric guitar. The previous film was comedic, but not random as fuck like this one, while the proceeding one was completely serious, and the villains of both of those were just crazy, non-supernatural guys.

* The 1967 spy parody ''CasinoRoyale'' (not to be confused with the Daniel Craig {{film}}). 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.

* The 1967 spy parody ''CasinoRoyale'' (not to be confused with the Daniel Craig {{film}}). 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, YourMileageMayVary on how well though.

* Even ''PoliceStop'' isn't infallible to this. The episode ''Police Stop! 3'' has subjects [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment that are never mentioned again for the rest of the series]] and doesn't mention the United Kingdom very much. The same can be said for ''Police Stop! 4'', its sequel that followed in 1995, which had no {{ident}}s between episodes. This is surprisingly rare for a documentary to do such things. However, [[YourMileageMayVary your opinion will differ on this]]. If you do wish to see the series, watch it on [=ITV4=], it's nearly always shown as reruns.

*** It later gets tied into the Fate of the Jedi's Eldritch Abomination Big Bad Abeloth. With mixed results.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' Operation: R.E.P.O.R.T. set entirely in the character's parody rich imagination's... number 4 turns into a super saiyan, Operation: W.H.I.T.E.H.O.U.S.E. witch well {{All Just a Dream}} did make self contained sense until the very end when number 1 turns into a big monster for no explained reason

** "Rollercoaster: The Musical". It's essentially a MusicalEpisode version of the pilot. But there's random stuff going on, and most of the songs and scenes are never mentioned after they occur, and the barrage of Cameos in the final song, which itself is a BLAM. And I Highly doubt it will be mentioned again.

* Skeletor, a classic two-dimensional villain with no previous redeeming qualities whatsoever, abruptly [[PetTheDog turns good]] for no apparent reason other than "the Spirit of Christmas" in the ''WesternAnimation/{{He-Man|AndTheMastersOfTheUniverse}} and [[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower She-Ra]] Holiday Special''. This had no bearing on later evil; it was just something the eighties did, apparently.

* 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 point}}s involve alien {{mind rape}}, [[TheSpock Spock]] in a toga singing, and [[TheKirk Kirk]] being ridden by creepy little demented dwarves.
* Certainly a number of first-season episodes of ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' would count as this {{trope}}.

** "Conspiracy" is another ''[[StarTrekTNG TNG]]'' example of this. Starfleet command has apparently been infiltrated by parasitic slugs that inhabit the brain of the host creature. This is obviously an event of considerable political magnitude, but it is never again referenced. However, it was [[{{Foreshadowing}} Foreshadowed]] several episodes earlier, making it a kind of AbortedArc.
*** ExecutiveMeddling is to blame for that. The story was originally intended to have a purely human conspiracy within Starfleet, but GeneRoddenberry himself vetoed that because of how it clashed with his vision of ''StarTrek'' as an {{utopia}} where all humans work towards a common goal in harmony. So they added mind-controlling alien infiltrators to the {{plot}}.

** ''[[StarTrekTNG TNG]]'' has a number of oddball episodes that qualify for this, most notably some of the truly god-awful episodes of the final season. After all, we got such lovely inexplicable plots as [[TheMedic Beverly's]] inherited ghost lover and everyone on the ''[[CoolStarship Enterprise]]'' "devolving" into things [[YouFailBiologyForever that make absolutely no fucking sense]].
* 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 [[GoalOrientedEvolution evolve into a higher order of being]]... which then transforms into a 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 [[TheCaptain Captain Janeway]]. When they were both Mudkips.) Anyway, the babies are still out there presumably but everything else is {{reset|Button}} with antimatter injections. Got all that? Okay, because this is the ''one episode'' out of ''all the'' StarTrek ''episodes ever made'' that is in CanonDiscontinuity.
** Want proof? In a later ''[[StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' episode, Tom Paris says that he has ''never'' travelled in transwarp. '''Never'''.
* ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' went off the rails a few times late in the series, producing such {{BLAM episode}}s as the holodeck baseball game and the ''OceansEleven'' knockoff where the main cast ignored their duty in favor of pulling off a heist to save the holodeck lounge singer from a gangster. (No, it '''''doesn't''''' make sense in context.)
* ''StarTrekEnterprise'' has one of the rare examples of [[TropesAreNotBad this trope churning out a great episode]]: over dinner, T'Pol regales [[TheCaptain Archer]] and Trip with the tale of an ancestor of hers who lived on Earth over a century before First Contact.

*** Makes about as much sense as midi-chlorians.
**** It later gets tied into the Fate of the Jedi's Eldritch Abomination Big Bad Abeloth

** "iStart A Fan War" is one due to it's aesop being anti-{{shipping}} (complete with AuthorFilibuster against it). The next episode was a nuclear level {{shipping}} revelation, rendering the aesop of the fan war utterly pointless and incredibly hypocritical. The shippers in-universe don't listen to what Carly says, and neither do the real life shippers. A completely pointless episode.
* ''ICarly'' and ''{{Victorious}} each aired an ''April Fools'' episode back to back. Both were utterly nonsensical episodes that seemed to have about 5 seconds of time spent writing it. Nothing made sense, it was completely random.. it was closer to a sketch comedy like TheAmandaShow than any scripted show. Both casts ended up on the set of the opposite show, it had people running through sets. An absolute trainwreck that would surely do nothing to help Nickelodeons dismal ratings.
* ''{{Victorious}}'', like it's Nickelodeon stablemate had it's April Fools episode on the same night be subject to the exact same randomness and lack of sense.

** On the episode Hide And Q, the character Q grants the characters wishes, and teenage Wesley Crusher wishes to be 10 or so years older. Then suddenly, BAAM he's transformed into a strapping, tall and exceptionally hunky man. We then cut to Geordi LaForge leering at the new Wesley and saying, "Hey, Wes. Not bad." It has been noted by several sources that Lavar Burton's character was originally supposed to be gay, but this is the only time it appears to be shown on screen, in this season one episode. Thereafter, it is NEVER EVER EVER EVER mentioned again, and the LaForge character eventually falls in love with a holodeck character then eventually an actual woman, and they live happily ever after. BLAM.

** "Conspiracy" is another ''[[StarTrekTNG TNG]]'' example of this. Starfleet command has apparently been infiltrated by parasitic slugs that inhabit the brain of the host creature. This is obviously an event of considerable political magnitude, but it is never again referenced.

* ''{{Babylon 5}}'' - ''Grey 17 is Missing''. What the ''frell'' were they smoking? Note that the Zarg is never mentioned again...

* ''PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': CHUCK TO THE FUTURE.
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' did this very noticeably in "Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win!" which is an entire ''HardWorkMontage'' episode featuring Shinji and Asuka's attempt to work together as a team to defeat an Angel, with hilarious but, ultimately, successful results. The whole ep parodies itself very heavily and breaks so sharply with the overall feel of the rest of the series that it deserves special mention, mostly because most of the show exists in soul draining depression state, ''and this one episode practically turns the show into a light hearted COMEDY!''

* ''{{Animorphs}}'' had a few examples, but a special shout-out goes to the 39th book, ''The Hidden''. The [[TheScrappy Helmacrons]] return, forcing the Animorphs to go on the run with the blue box. Along the way a buffalo and an ant acquiring morphing powers, in violation of all previous continuity about how the blue box works. Gratefully, none of these events are ever mentioned again.

** The BigBad's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath unneeded and horrifying death scene]]... right after seemingly learning his lesson about scaring people. This scene would have actually made sense if a previous one had made it into the final product. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel It's kinda scary though]].

* The ''TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'' episode "When Janet Killed Jonny" is one of these. It is an episode set outside of the main continuity, and is a "horror special", featuring many parodies of the horror genre (although it does contain many moments of HighOctaneNightmareFuel, in a [[MoodWhiplash deviation from the show's usual formula]]). The episode features the cast breaking into the deserted Archer pub to drink the leftover beer, only to fall victim to the previously unmentioned "pub curse", which causes them to be "killed by the thing they love the most". As a result, the entire cast is killed off in an assortment of highly gruesome ways, only to later return as zombies.

*** Except "Nevermore"- though that one ''is'' weird for a solid chunk in the middle, it's less "crazy and funny" weird and more "MindScrew, UncannyValley, and a side dose of HighOctaneNightmareFuel" weird, and the central plot about Raven fighting her EnemyWithin is serious.

* ''Series/MegaMan'' had more than its share of camp, but by far the most bizarre and memorable example is "Curse of the Lion Men" - a passing comet awakens a group of ancient mummified lion-men who aim to conquer the world by turning everyone non-robotic human on the planet into lion creatures using EyeBeams. No, it doesn't make any more sense in context.