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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 16, 2022 8:18:22 GMT -5
One I’m a little split on is when they do an episode that works like a full episode of a fictional show within the series.
I just watched the Bojack Horseman episode that played with this formula a bit. The most infamous example though is probably the South Park Terrance and Philip episode.
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Post by Vanilla Gorilla on Jan 16, 2022 11:07:29 GMT -5
Saved by the Bell had a behind the music one with Casey Kasem, a murder-mystery, the bottle episode in the mall, and the time capsule one.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 16, 2022 14:02:31 GMT -5
There was also a Drew Carey ep where the whole show was filled with heavy, dramatic moments, parodying Emmy-bait tv shows.
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Post by bibboid on Jan 16, 2022 17:35:07 GMT -5
Not always the case, but the musical episode = series killer or at least dampener. Raising Hope and American Housewife, to name two. (I can say that with the latter, it helped kill my interest in the show. That and they had mini-musical episodes as the girl who played the older daughter did have a CD out) The only thing that made the musical episode of Lucifer bearable is that after every song, Lucifer would bitch about how stupid it was that everyone just sang a song. Doesn’t mean I didn’t fast forward through the songs themselves.
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Post by Larryhausen on Jan 16, 2022 18:19:49 GMT -5
The week that the Beatles Anthology premiered on ABC, every show on TGIF did some kind of Beatles tribute, mostly just replacing their intros with Beatles songs.
Boy Meets World had a Monkees reunion.
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Post by zrowsdower on Jan 16, 2022 18:29:59 GMT -5
Sorry if this was already mentioned but CSI and Two and a Half Men swapped writers once I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2022 9:12:56 GMT -5
Scrubs had a few I'd consider "gimmick" episodes.
My Life in Four Cameras, My Butterfly, My Way Home, My Musical.
Also, any of the "His Story, Her Story, Their Story" kinda stuff where it was the perspective of other characters than normal.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Jan 17, 2022 11:52:16 GMT -5
Drew Carey Show did a lot of these. Live episodes, spot-the-mistake episodes, emmy-bait episodes. Friends had some alternate timeline episodes, too. Seinfeld had its backward episode. And Frasier had some, too... I remember one was divided up into three little one-act plays, and one was a door-slamming sex farce. Oh, and Bojack Horseman pretty much perfected this. The entire episode happening in the mind of a person with dementia, the 30-minute monologue episode, the episode where we hear Bojack's thoughts to himself. Or my favorite: the one where the framestory is two therapists talking to one another about the characters, so they have to change-up details to keep them from being identifiable, so Bojack is a Zebra the whole time. You forgot one of the best: The episode that takes place underwater with no dialogue.
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