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How Unscientific!	comment	A moment within a show that doesn't work within the conventions of the genre. For instance, a UFO abduction in a Dom Com, or the sudden appearance of magical elves in a Real Robot Genre series. This usually falls outside the main characters' Genre Blindness, allowing them to see and comment on how manifestly weird it is. It is not, however, based on parodying of the intrusive element (though some satire may be involved). If enough of these happen and stick around, the entire genre of the series may change. Especially common in Massive Multiplayer Crossovers and similar mashups, since these often involve sticking characters from different genres in the same plot. Science Fiction and Fantasy also cross each other often, as they're opposite sides of the same Speculative Fiction coin—not to mention equivalent, per Arthur C. Clarke's third law. If that's the case, expect to hear the intruding elements described in terms that match the original genre (after all, to a starship captain there's No Such Thing as Space Jesus, only Sufficiently Advanced Aliens). If the two sides can't play nice and one view takes over, that's either Doing In the Wizard or Doing in the Scientist; if they can live together harmoniously, it's Science Fantasy. A violation of Genre Consistency. May be caused by Achievements in Ignorance or Power Born of Madness. May also be the result of Filler or other Padding. A character who can consistently do this is Inexplicably Awesome. These moments are likely to be considered Jumping the Shark. See also: Arbitrary Skepticism, Magic Realism, Skepticism Failure, This Is Reality, New Rules as the Plot Demands, Out-of-Genre Experience. Contrast Magic A Is Magic A, Minovsky Physics.
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How Unscientific! / int_10550610	comment	Apparently, the Happy Days universe contains wacky aliens. Good to know? It actually makes the spinoff cartoon with the alien girl a little less nonsensical.
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How Unscientific! / int_1331990c	comment	Inverted in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, when Kyubey, who acts like a demon by making Faustian Pacts, claims to be from space. Although in this case both interpretations can work at the same time if you consider the show to take place in a Cosmic Horror Story universe.
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How Unscientific! / int_153f674f	comment	In the infamous Miami Vice episode "Missing Hours," the otherwise normal TV series sees a lot of weirdness, including Trudy getting abducted by an alien (played by James Brown) and Crockett and Tubbs later seeing a UFO.
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How Unscientific! / int_198091c2	comment	In Logan's Run, Logan and Jessica don't just deal with Sandmen, leftover technology, and strange little civilizations Outside; there are episodes with aliens, people with psychic powers, and even magicians trying to resurrect one of their own. (The desperation of the writers was pretty palpable with this last.) Interestingly, the setting-logical idea of mutants is never brought up, except in a perfunctory manner.
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How Unscientific! / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Hellboy. The eponymous Occult Detective discovers that Aliens exist the hard way when they try to give him an Anal Probing in "Buster Oakley Gets His Wish".
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How Unscientific! / int_1f14718f	comment	Sega's Rent A Hero, aside from the powered suit of the title character, is set in early 90s Japan where he has to deal with thugs, loan sharks, mob bosses and undergo tasks like looking for a missing child, protecting innocents, investigating cases of industrial espionage and so on. All rooted in reality, until some archeologists unearth a sarcophagus from where the spirit of an ancient pharaoh, King Glutenramen, emerges. He possesses one of the archeologists and it's up to Hero to take him to rest again. Unlike the other missions, this one is not further referenced and has no bearing on the overall plot. Also, an Egyptian sarcophagus in Japan?
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How Unscientific! / int_2175d90e	comment	Benson was generally a perfectly straightforward sitcom, but it had a few episodes like this, like the time the mansion staff acquires a robot, the one where Benson and the Governor have a Close Encounter with a U.F.O., and the Halloween episode where Benson ends up challenging Death to a game of Trivial Pursuit to save the lives of a busload of children. Plus there was the dream sequence episode where Benson and Krauss are the only two humans left on Earth.
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How Unscientific! / int_22211d68	comment	Bones: Booth, at one point, is trapped in a room with a bomb, and a door that he's not strong enough to open on his own. He's also hallucinating a soldier buddy that he knows is dead, that he calls a hallucination several times to further reinforce the point. Long story short, he convinces the hallucination to help him open the door, thereby escaping death by explosion. And if you're thinking that he summoned up some Heroic Willpower, at the end of the episode, the Squints, a team composed entirely of genius-level academics, points out that the door really was impossible for one man to open. Eventually, the hallucination is explained by Booth's brain tumor, but the mystery of the door is left unsolved. At the very end of the episode, when Booth and Bones visit the gravesite Bones is shown actually seeing and acknowledging the ghost of the dead soldier, but since she was apparently never shown a photo of the deceased, she never realizes she's seen someone who is dead. A crossover later shows that Bones takes place in the same continuity as Sleepy Hollow, so.
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How Unscientific! / int_2232f584	comment	In the book The Great Detectives, Walter Gibson wrote an article of reminiscence on his work on The Shadow, and he noted that some stories approached or crossed into science fiction, while other Shadow stories stood as conventional crime thrillers.
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How Unscientific! / int_24931627	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Man-Machine Interface arbitrarily features a psychic who keeps astrally manifesting to the protagonist as a raccoon dog and a teenaged girl whose body is made out of a dragon, commenting on her activities in a Trickster-like manner. Motoko's own comment on her first manifestation is "How unscientific" (added with a footnote that it's unscientific to dismiss a phenomenon on the drop of the hat, implying that the author has his own opinions on the subject).
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How Unscientific! / int_24a18ffe	comment	The Ship Who... series is solidly science fiction, though the hardness of it varies Depending on the Author and minor, limited Psychic Powers are sometimes evident. In the final novel, The Ship Who Won, a brainship and her brawn who like to pass the time LARPing high fantasy, encounter a society of mages and magesses who ride flying chairs and teleport, without evidently using machines. No questions asked, Keff immediately decides that magic exists. Carialle is more skeptical and disbelieving, thinking that there must be an explanation.
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How Unscientific! / int_27ff9607	comment	Some of the Milly, Molly books imply that the girls can understand animals, such as when the plovers tell them, "Don't let them fell our trees!". However, in other books, plus the entire TV series, this is never brought up, even when it would've come in useful.
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How Unscientific! / int_29e7cdb8	comment	Japanese Spider-Man, episode 37 of 41. A man who specializes in the occult warns that King Enma from Hell is coming. He comes. Note that for the last 36 episodes, the series has entirely been based on sci-fi.
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How Unscientific! / int_2e7ed09c	comment	Special Unit 2 was a short-lived UPN drama that worked from the idea that all the monsters of myth were just evolutionary off-shoots from existing species. Then came the episode where a "Link" so powerful he could be assumed to be the Devil sought an artifact that could grant him power if he performed a magical ritual. For a show that had been all "science we don't understand," it took a pretty damn hard turn into "magic."
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How Unscientific! / int_2f1032e5	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has a hard science fiction setting for most of its run, yet when Naze is dying from a railgun barrage, the spirit of his wife Amida (who died moments earlier) suddenly appears to cradle his body. It's not a bad thing though, as it only makes the scene feel that much sadder.
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How Unscientific! / int_31060d84	comment	7 Days (1998) mostly deals with Time Travel. Said Time Travel equipment came from a crashed alien ship, so it's sci-fi. Then there's the episode in which the main character stops a nuclear war started by Satan.
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How Unscientific! / int_3106477d	comment	In The Phantom, The Cowl of the title seems to live in surprisingly strong denial of the weirder side of his Low Fantasy world, refusing to admit in the existence of things like aliens or magic when he keeps several monsters (a unicorn, a stegosaurus and a family of primeval humanoids) as pets or his ancestors' journals discuss one ancestor who used magic to regenerate his gouged-out eyeballs.
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How Unscientific! / int_31a85de	comment	Heavy Metal L-Gaim is a Humongous Mecha Real Robot Genre Mecha Show. In the episode 2, the main character meets a fairy capable of casting illusions, reading minds and scouting souls.
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How Unscientific! / int_35ec1cb6	comment	The New Adventures of Robin Hood was mostly a Xena homage Fantasy, but the episode "Dragon from the Sky" was about an alien crash-landing in Sherwood and repairing his spaceship in time before the Sheriff dissected him.
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How Unscientific! / int_36ec6c0e	comment	During the last few episodes of Felicity, a to-that-point relatively tame romantic drama about college life, the main character began to wonder whether or not she'd chosen the right man in her life. So her friend cast a spell that sent her back in time a few years. No, really.
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How Unscientific! / int_3e0a46e7	comment	An episode of The Guiding Light actually featured a character gaining superpowers after a freak accident with Halloween decorations.
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How Unscientific! / int_4447c168	comment	This is especially bizarre when you consider the companion novel Another Note, where Beyond Birthday (somehow) had The Eyes, and L knew that. (To be fair, however, this Light Novel was not written until after the series was over, and was not originally part of the canon, but absorbed into it later. So it could be considered a type of Retcon.)
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How Unscientific! / int_450e2d16	comment	The Decameron suffers from this in one tale, where the mundane medieval setting is disturbed by an actual vision of Hell.
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How Unscientific! / int_45704c5c	comment	Scream VI leans towards the "mundane" by showing Sam going to therapy and taking medication that has subdued her hallucinations, implying that her visions were chiefly due to mental illness.
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How Unscientific! / int_45b21df3	comment	Monty Python's Life of Brian has an alien abduction scene set in a decidedly non Sci-Fi context. It has little bearing on the plot and never comes up again, which is oddly appropriate in a movie explicitly about Insane Troll Logic.
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How Unscientific! / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children had aliens as a plot element in one episode, and also the whole trip to England plot arc which was based on a 17th century curse by a witch. By this point though the show had basically become a live-action cartoon that ran on Negative Continuity and thus these episodes were largely brushed off by fans.
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How Unscientific! / int_476bc61d	comment	Kid Icarus: Uprising takes place mostly in a Greek Mythology inspired fantasy world. With, the exception, of the few Space Pirates, as well as when the world desroying aliens called the Aurum show up.
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How Unscientific! / int_4997726d	comment	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 has for half of the game the supernatural elements in a Medieval castle that are the staple of other Castlevania games, the other half is set in the modern world, where the player as Dracula has to face mooks in Powered Armor, robotic enemies, genetically enhanced super-soldiers and shotgun wielding mutants.
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How Unscientific! / int_4aeea402	comment	The final Doc Savage novel Up From Earth's Center has Doc clashing with someone who might have a demon and visiting somewhere that might have been Hell.
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How Unscientific! / int_4c095a1f	comment	The Transformers was primarily a sci-fi show centered around giant robots. However, there were several occasions where the plot delved into supernatural areas—in one episode they ran into a wizard in the past, in another they dealt with a Quintesson who used magic, and two episodes were devoted to Starscream's ghost.
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How Unscientific! / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory is realistic except for one closing scene where a couple of aliens propose to come to Earth and eat people.
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How Unscientific! / int_4f1f3628	comment	With the possible exception of London's level of stupidity, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was completely realistic, but its sequel series The Suite Life on Deck introduced supernatural elements and at one point crossed over with Wizards of Waverly Place. Admittedly, there were two episodes in the original series that implied a ghost and a visit to an Alternate Universe were real in their credit scenes.
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How Unscientific! / int_529fe813	comment	The early 1980s detective series Matt Houston had one episode where a faked alien abduction was somehow involved in a crime the eponymous hero was investigating. Then, at about the 3/4 mark of the show, Houston, driving by himself, is actually abducted by the stereotypical little gray buggers. He doesn't remember it happening, there's no witnesses, and it has no effect whatsoever on the plot of the episode, and is never mentioned again.
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How Unscientific! / int_53dc3731	comment	Some of the humor in Atomic Robo comes from Lampshade Hanging on things that are too ridiculous for its universe, such as giant ants. This really comes into play, however, when Robo fights the talking raptor Dr. Dinosaur, who claims to have time-traveled from the death of the dinosaurs with a crystal-powered time machine. Robo points out the grossly bad science in this backstory before pointing out that Dr. Dinosaur is probably just a genetic experiment gone wrong (which is implied to be true). At the same time, whenever Robo lampshades how ridiculous, or in defiance of the laws of physics Dr. Dinosaur's plans are, they always work. In a fit of Dramatic Irony, there is a science to Dr. Dinosaur's time travel... none other than Robo's own personal theory of zorth, the fifth cardinal direction.
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How Unscientific! / int_55c5a085	comment	Mazinger Z is a sci-fi Mecha Show. Several times Kouji Kabuto has said (in the original manga) that he does not believe in ghosts or living corpses. Then in a Crossover movie with Devilman, he accidentally awakens a demon and spends the remain of the movie finding and fighting demons and devils.
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How Unscientific! / int_564871a	comment	The "Leap of Faith" episode of Blue Bloods has both the identity of the murderer and an important bit of evidence revealed through the daughter of the Victim of the Week getting messages from God in an otherwise realistic Cop Show.
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How Unscientific! / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond movie Live and Let Die introduces supernatural elements in a film series that had never gone anywhere near the subject before (or since). The Bond Girl Solitaire is a fortuneteller whose precognitive power is directly tied to her virginity, the main villain Dr. Kananga appears to be in his 30's but mentions how Solitaire's grandmother worked for him when she was a virgin, and his henchman Baron Samedi actually comes back from the dead like the deity he's named for/impersonating/possibly is.
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How Unscientific! / int_5f263b7b	comment	Seeing Things: This light-hearted 1980s Canadian dramedy was usually squarely in the Mundane Fantastic camp. It had a single fantastic element: Toronto Gazette reporter Louis Ciccone suddenly starts manifesting precognitive flashes, which allow him to uncover and solve the show's typical mystery-of-the-week mysteries. However, in one very out-of-character episode, a mysterious, befuddled old man found wandering the streets of Toronto and claiming to be an alien actually turns out to BE an alien, complete with anti-gravity levitation powers and a laser battle with hostile reptilian aliens in a Toronto park.
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How Unscientific! / int_616039c3	comment	In The Incredible Hulk (1977), the world was relatively mundane, aside from the main character and his affliction. David Banner mainly faced off against gun-toting thugs and other criminals, and the only super-powered person he ever encountered was another person like himself, who had undergone a similar overdose of gamma radiation. Then, six years after the show ended came the first telemovie, The Incredible Hulk Returns, which included a magical hammer summoning the spirit of a long-dead viking warrior. (By comparison, Kingpin's ninja squad and hoverchair in The Trial of the Incredible Hulk were downright normal)
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How Unscientific! / int_636b0be6	comment	Marginal #4. It's a Slice of Life show about idols in high school - until episode 3, when during a commercial shoot, the twins start having bad luck everywhere, and it turns out it might be demonic possession - it's not. It's a hidden camera show, and they're trying to scare R. But they turn it around on the director, making it look like R killed the rest of them to stop the demon, became a demon himself along with L, and now they need another human sacrifice... Subverted again in the Show Within a Show mystery drama that the boys star in. Atom's character, a young cop, gives Arbitrary Skepticism that Rui's character is his murdered partner's ghost, but accepts it - but it was a lie - the young man is the partner's nephew, joining the case to catch the real murderer - Atom's character. Lighter example - Rui is fond of saying this about things like Atom's lucky underwear.
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How Unscientific! / int_656a52a9	comment	Fahrenheit, known as Indigo Prophecy in North America, has a notorious game shift toward this. What begins as a realistic murder mystery in an American city with vague supernatural elements transforms halfway through into a fantasy game featuring ancient Aztec temples and fight scenes straight out of Dragon Ball Z. Heavy Rain, another Quantic Dream title, had a cut sub-plot about psychic powers in what was otherwise a very realistic Film Noir thriller.
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How Unscientific! / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder campaigns can very easily come across this way, due to the extent of the Fantasy Kitchen Sink being somewhat hidden at first. On the surface, at least, the setting of Golarion seems like pretty straightforward Tolkeinian High Fantasy - elves, dwarves, orcs, wizards, gods, demons, all present and correct. The technology level by default doesn't ever exceed muskets and cannon. There's teleportation and interdimensional travel but it's always portrayed in Magi Babble that squares it with the expected parameters of a High Fantasy setting. So it can be a little jarring the first time you find out that Golarion is also home to some alien lifeforms both organic and robotic that rode in on a crashing spaceship, or that some of the setting's "demigods" are actually very powerful artificial intelligences, or that one of the planets in Golarion's solar system is canonically a dormant space station, or that the planet Earth implicitly exists in the same universe and (thanks to the Public Domain) actual literal Cthulhu is currently asleep beneath its oceans while Baba Yaga conquered a Golarion country for the lols.
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How Unscientific! / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Super Robot Wars has several of these, usually breaking the hard end of science fiction During the War setting from certain series (like Gundam) that forms the main backdrop of each story. In Super Robot Wars F, Master Asia takes out several military Humongous Mecha using nothing but his own martial arts skills. Asuka Langley Soryu utters the trope's title; rather hypocritical, given she comes from a series where the antagonists are Eldritch Abominations and mankind's Super Robots have human souls residing in them. In an official Yonkoma for Super Robot Wars Alpha, Asuka repeats the line when Alberto the Shockwave does the same thing to an Angel, although the former at least fights it to a draw. While Super Robot Wars: Original Generation manages to subvert this, it's played straight once a new Super Robot from a subterranean world assists the cast with two talking cats in two. In fact, this happens so often in Original Generation that a battleship bridge operator lampshades this when he teases the vice-captain, who is thinking of leaving the ship, that he'll miss the latter's constant moments of this trope. The vice-captain doesn't know what the operator means, when he's almost hit with another out-of-this-world experience.
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How Unscientific! / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure Expedition to the Barrier Peaks starts out like any other fantasy dungeon-crawl of the era ... at least until the heroes enter the mysterious "cavern" — actually the airlock of a crashed spaceship full of weird life forms and hostile robots.
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How Unscientific! / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Sin City is mostly just a very exaggerated Film Noir, except for the mute characters, Miho and Kevin. Both are implied to be supernatural entities of a type (confirmed via Word of God), though what they are exactly (aside from Miho being good and Kevin being evil) is never explained.
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How Unscientific! / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape established that various Religion is Magic powers and Enlightenment Superpowers existed in its world almost immediately, but for the most part treated them like other sci-fi treats psychic powers so they don't usually stand out too much. The main exceptions are the episodes where the crew goes up against the evil wizard Maldis, where it suddenly turns into a straight-out fantasy story. Maldis deliberately using a gothic aesthetic in-universe doesn't help.
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Farscape	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_6e1d5f36
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How Unscientific! / int_746814ae	comment	Some episodes of Arthur have scenes implying that aliens actually exist (such as the end of "The Chips are Down" where two aliens are seen talking about how they like ballet). Even more peculiar, sometimes the alien scenes are inconsistent, such as in "D.W.'s Snow Mystery" it's shown that some aliens took D.W.'s snowball thinking it to be human food, but in "Return of the Snowball", it's shown that two different, teenage aliens stole it.
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Arthur	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_746814ae
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How Unscientific! / int_78fc0025	comment	In the second season of Twin Peaks, Major Briggs's experience with Project Blue Book is often alluded to. The context strongly suggests that if the show hadn't been cancelled, it would have veered towards science-fiction.
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Twin Peaks	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_78fc0025
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How Unscientific! / int_7ac43256	comment	While Super Robot Wars: Original Generation manages to subvert this, it's played straight once a new Super Robot from a subterranean world assists the cast with two talking cats in two. In fact, this happens so often in Original Generation that a battleship bridge operator lampshades this when he teases the vice-captain, who is thinking of leaving the ship, that he'll miss the latter's constant moments of this trope. The vice-captain doesn't know what the operator means, when he's almost hit with another out-of-this-world experience.
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How Unscientific! / int_7b53c683	comment	Naturally, Sadie was teen drama/sitcom about a girl coping with the vagaries of high school life. Except for the episode "Ghouls Just want To Have Fun" which featured Hal's girlfriend Tabitha handing out wristbands that turned people into zombies.
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How Unscientific! / int_7ccc77f0	comment	Patlabor featured two episodes that clashed with the show's otherwise stringent policy of depicting "real life, but with robots:" One with a prehistoric giant monster, and another with a haunted building full of ghosts. There were a few other giant monsters, as well. Though all of them had sorta-scientific rationales behind them, they still stretched the Willing Suspension of Disbelief by playing fast & loose with the Square-Cube Law (more so than the relatively modest sized Humongous Mecha of the title, anyway). The first OAV featured a giant monster that was created by a Mad Scientist doing experiments on abiogenesis that somehow rapidly evolved from an amoeba to a humanoid Kaiju that inexplicably had Yamazaki's face. The TV series had a Patlabor sized giant rat created by growth hormone experiments and the monster from the 3rd movie, which was a grotesque giant zombie/fish thing created from genetically altered human cancer cells and alien DNA from a meteor. The prehistoric monster story also played with the unreality by having hyper-rational But Not Too Foreign cop Kanuka Clancy insisting the creature must be some sort of dinosaur and practically using the trope quote as a Madness Mantra, while dreamy Genki Girl Noa insists on calling "him" a dragon. It's "him" according to Noa because "He had a deep voice".
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How Unscientific! / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones: The Great Gazoo is a space alien in a modern stone age setting.
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How Unscientific! / int_7f39a041	comment	Parodied, like many other things, in Gintama; specifically, the episode where Gintoki and co. team up with the Shinsengumi to fight a supposed ghost:
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How Unscientific! / int_819b8c9e	comment	The crossover episodes of Warehouse 13 and Eureka feel like this. The two shows had existed on the opposite sides of Speculative Fiction (Fantasy and Sci-Fi) until they were revealed to be the same universe. (Not even to mention the actor paradoxes.) The gap between the two shows is perfectly illustrated in the episode "13.1" by an exchange between Claudia and Fargo (paraphrased):
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How Unscientific! / int_83d41855	comment	Gargoyles: Goliath, Elisa Maza, Angela, and Bronx during their world tour arrive on Rapa Nui and run into Nokar, an alien sentinel who was sent by his race to protect Earth from another unmentioned race of aliens. This is a little less weird than it seems, though, as science fiction elements had been in the show from fairly early on, with cybernetics and genetic manipulation having already put in appearances.
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How Unscientific! / int_85b79d17	comment	The Black Mirror episode "Mazey Day" is about the titular actress becoming a recluse after a mysterious accident while filming a TV series in Europe and a paparazzo trying to get a photograph of her post-reclusion since it will be worth a ton of money. So far, so good. But when Mazey is finally found in person, the twist of the episode turns out to be that she was bitten by a werewolf and is turning into one. Essentially turning the episode into Urban Fantasy. The sudden Genre Shift can feel too jarring to be taken seriously since all the other Black Mirror episodes, even the most experimental ones, remained mostly consistent within the boundaries of the Thriller and Science Fiction genres.
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How Unscientific! / int_88fce462	comment	The King of Fighters, which already featured ninjas, superpowered martial artists, street fighters, crime lords, secret agents, sorcerers, demons, gods, other preternatural beings, other cybernetically and bio-augmented warriors, and Duck King, entered this territory in spinoff The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 with the introduction of Jivatma and Luise Meyrink as well as the revelation that the Meira brothers were aliens themselves.
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How Unscientific! / int_8a2895c0	comment	The 87th Precinct novel Ghosts involves the paranormal, and in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction notes this serves as a detriment to the novel as a detection.
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How Unscientific! / int_8ba4613a	comment	L, the master detective in Death Note, has solved the world's toughest mysteries, but he is completely stumped as to Kira's modus operandi because he doesn't believe in the supernatural — at most, he allows that Kira must have psychic killing abilities or mental powers, but not something out of (pseudo) Japanese Mythology. When he's finally presented with evidence that shinigami are real, he has a screaming freak-out followed by a short breakdown. Light does his best to convince him there's no such thing as shinigami, while Ryuuk grins in the background. And again in the live-action movie: "Such things could not exist!" Fairly early in the manga, when it looks like he's exhausted all other explanations, L does briefly consider, in a very general way, the possibility that the "Kira" phenomenon really is of some kind of divine retribution. However, after giving the facts a once-over, he concludes that the case still sounds a lot more like a human with paranormal abilities and a god complex than any god or God that he can take seriously based on present evidence. This is especially bizarre when you consider the companion novel Another Note, where Beyond Birthday (somehow) had The Eyes, and L knew that. (To be fair, however, this Light Novel was not written until after the series was over, and was not originally part of the canon, but absorbed into it later. So it could be considered a type of Retcon.)
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How Unscientific! / int_8d817ccb	comment	Invoked on Lost every time the current plot elements shift from pseudo-scientific discussions and theories to mythological and religious elements. Which happens quite often.
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Lost	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_8d817ccb
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How Unscientific! / int_8d81bb26	comment	The fourth season finale of NCIS (a show that is usually firmly grounded in reality) has a doctor encounter a little girl who was heavily implied to be the Angel of Death.
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NCIS	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_8d81bb26
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How Unscientific! / int_8e193f0b	comment	A Halloween special of Boy Meets World has Eric, in typical Eric fashion, convinced that Jack's new girlfriend is a witch. As it turns out, she is a witch, and the episode builds to the attempted ritual sacrifice of Jack and Shawn. Then Eric hooks up with Sabrina, who turns Shawn into a toad. (Another episode featured Sabrina, as part of a crossover, but all she did was set off a Formula-Breaking Episode — set in the 1940s due to a magical time warp — with no other supernatural elements.)
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How Unscientific! / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: Zigzagged in "Spell it Out" where Lucy finds Great-Grandma Harriet's spell book and believes she's made Lisa sticky, broken Lori's phone, made Lana's butt itchy, and all her siblings lose their voices. However, it turns out that Lisa had spilled adhesive on herself, Lori's phone had simply run out of battery power, Lana's butt was itchy because she'd sat in poison ivy, and apparently, the siblings had lost their voices cheering for their grandfather, however, the picture of Great-Grandma Harriet smiles, so it's unknown if that really happened, or if it really was magic and cheering for their grandfather was a coincidence. In "Washed Up", a Nessie-type monster named Plessy is shown to exist.
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How Unscientific! / int_9058ad7e	comment	As for the chain of events: Featuring a plot somewhat similar to The Terminator with elements of 12 Monkeys; the killer, Ward, had supposedly traveled back in time to look for a budding physicist named Deschile who would eventually develop a future technology that would win a future war according to Doyle, who supposedly traveled back in time to stop him. The starting point for Ward is a letter sent by Deschile to a present day physicist with a stain that matches Beckett's coffee spill at the end of the episode. The problem with that is that Ward kills the first victim of the episode in order to find her brother, who was the physicist that inspired Deschile. Why would he do this if he already had stolen the letter from said physicist? Beckett's final explanation also doesn't work. Ward was supposedly an anti-technology nut who tried to kill Deschile for stopping him from blowing up a technology seminar. The letter would be irrelevant there. The fact that both appear in the same psych ward doesn't really help as Doyle claims it will be a future mission. Doyle disappearing twice without warning, once from lockup, also helps his argument.
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How Unscientific! / int_93e3f14e	comment	Tarzan is the story of a Nature Hero raised by Talking Animals. There are no supernatural elements in the story. This carries on to The Legend of Tarzan, the TV spin-off... until an episode introduces Queen La, a villain with magical powers.
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How Unscientific! / int_9431bab8	comment	A crossover later shows that Bones takes place in the same continuity as Sleepy Hollow, so.
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How Unscientific! / int_9888f901	comment	The Daria episode "Depth Takes a Holiday" involves Daria meeting personifications of the holidays asking her to find other missing personifications of them who have run off. Quite different for a show mostly about life in high school. Do yourself a favor and don't bring it up to fans.
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How Unscientific! / int_98b697e9	comment	Scream: In the fifth film, the Final Girl Sam frequently has visions of her dead father, the first film's killer Billy Loomis, including a scene during the climax where he points her to a weapon that she can use. Whether these visions are hallucinations caused by her mental instability or an actual Spirit Advisor is never explained, but until then, the series had always grounded itself firmly in reality, playing as a Deconstructive Parody of what would actually happen if somebody carried out a Slasher Movie killing spree, without any elements that could even be slightly interpreted as supernatural. Scream VI leans towards the "mundane" by showing Sam going to therapy and taking medication that has subdued her hallucinations, implying that her visions were chiefly due to mental illness. It also happened in-universe with the Stab films, where the fifth movie had a Time Travel storyline that one character describes as the point where the series jumped the shark.
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How Unscientific! / int_99055407	comment	Gradually took over the show in Family Matters, with the many and varied inventions of Steve Urkel. It started as a middle-class Sitcom starring predominantly black characters. However, after Urkel's ascent to popularity and building of gadgets, rather than this feeling out-of-place it was effectively retooled to become the Wacky Adventures Of Steve Urkel, Harmless But Mad Scientist.
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How Unscientific! / int_9b6a0d26	comment	This happens at least twice in Craig of the Creek: In Trick or Creek, the halloween special episode, introduces us to a new kid in an astronaut costume who reveals to be a ghost named No-Neck Natthew. In The Haunted Dollhouse, the Dollhouse Boy is invoked by the Witches of the Creek after Craig and his friends by the title dollhouse.
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How Unscientific! / int_9c33b8ab	comment	Sliders was obviously science-fiction to begin with, with the premise of sliding between worlds. Spirituality and psychic phenomena (over which some worlds are depicted as having overt control) came under its domain in short order. Then, all of a sudden, they find themselves in a world of wizards, shapeshifters, dragons, and what can only be described as magic. Scientists Quinn and Professor Arturo, to their credit, are genuinely baffled by this. Quinn's analysis gets as far as something about string theory and fundamentally different laws of physics, but by that time, he is also tempted to settle on "More things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio..." Arturo dismisses not being meant to understand as "blasphemy", but by the end, the events of that particular world force him to admit that, somehow, the system apparently works and he can roll with it.
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How Unscientific! / int_a0500a06	comment	The Rugrats episode "The Santa Experience" ends with Santa's sleigh flying off.
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Rugrats	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_a0500a06
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How Unscientific! / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo has occasionally been known to replace the guy in a monster mask with an actual monster. Generally, if Shaggy and Scooby are alone (or with Scrappy), the monsters are real. If Fred or Velma is there, they aren't. The films, both live-action and Direct-to-Video, usually have real monsters regardless of their cast.
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How Unscientific! / int_a640a5fd	comment	Leslie Charteris' The Saint rarely encountered the paranormal, as he mostly had mundane adventures facing blackmailers, gangsters, kidnappers, and so forth. He encountered advanced technology sought by Dr. Rayt Marius (a no plans, no back-up situation) in The Last Hero, oversized ants in The Man Who Liked Ants, machine to produce gold, advanced aeronautics, zombies, and the Loch Ness Monster. The anthology The Fantastic Saint collects most of these stories.
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The Saint	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_a640a5fd
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How Unscientific! / int_a6543322	comment	In the Touhou Project side manga Touhou Ibarakasen ~ Wild and Horned Hermit, Kanako uses this trope when doing the cold fusion experiment after Reimu wonders if there would be demons or spirits emerging instead of just bubbling water. The whole use is rather ironic considering they are conducting a scientific experiment in Gensokyo, the land where everything fantastic exists.
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How Unscientific! / int_a806ea97	comment	Garrett, P.I.. In Angry Lead Skies, Garrett's already-Genre-Busting world of fantasy noir is intruded upon by strange Visitors which the reader (but not the characters) will quickly recognize as Grey-like space aliens.
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How Unscientific! / int_aa7df067	comment	In the fifth film, the Final Girl Sam frequently has visions of her dead father, the first film's killer Billy Loomis, including a scene during the climax where he points her to a weapon that she can use. Whether these visions are hallucinations caused by her mental instability or an actual Spirit Advisor is never explained, but until then, the series had always grounded itself firmly in reality, playing as a Deconstructive Parody of what would actually happen if somebody carried out a Slasher Movie killing spree, without any elements that could even be slightly interpreted as supernatural.
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How Unscientific! / int_ab3a6a48	comment	Heavy Rain, another Quantic Dream title, had a cut sub-plot about psychic powers in what was otherwise a very realistic Film Noir thriller.
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How Unscientific! / int_ab42c63a	comment	One episode of Get Smart had a brief appearance of what seemed like a ghost.
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How Unscientific! / int_abb70593	comment	The Magician was a show about a Magician Detective where all of the trickery was achieved by sleight of hand. But "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow" features a woman with genuine psychic abilities: the only example of anything genuinely paranormal in the whole series.note The episode was made in the early 70s when parapsychology was an emerging field of huge interest in popular science
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How Unscientific! / int_af872a82	comment	In the chapter of The Black Dossier that deals with Les Hommes Mysterieux, it's specifically mentioned that team leader, air pirate Jean Paul Robur from Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World, specifically avoided using cavorite for his flying ships, instead developing heavier than air flight, for exactly this reason.
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How Unscientific! / int_b0417f78	comment	According to Jim is, for the most part, a realistic Sitcom. However, in the episode after the twins were born, Satan comes to collect Jim's soul, resulting in Cheryl hating him. (It Makes Sense in Context.) The episode's plot then revolves around him trying to win Cheryl's heart back. Of course, it was All Just a Dream, so this might be a Subverted Trope.
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How Unscientific! / int_b0544c27	comment	In Super Robot Wars F, Master Asia takes out several military Humongous Mecha using nothing but his own martial arts skills. Asuka Langley Soryu utters the trope's title; rather hypocritical, given she comes from a series where the antagonists are Eldritch Abominations and mankind's Super Robots have human souls residing in them.
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How Unscientific! / int_b0544c49	comment	In Super Robot Wars V, Velt's first comment about the Dragons once it's revealed they're half-humans is that they're violating conservation of mass and energy.
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How Unscientific! / int_b3454ebd	comment	Starsky & Hutch has "The Psychic," in which a man uses his psychic visions to help the police track down a kidnapped girl, and "Murder on Voodoo Island," in which Hollywood Voodoo causes Starsky to try to strangle Hutch.
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How Unscientific! / int_b389ac77	comment	Enoch Root in Cryptonomicon appears to not age in the half century between his appearances in both the World War II era and the modern era. In The Baroque Cycle, this is elaborated upon, but to someone just reading Cryptonomicon the presence of this unaging man sees pretty much no explanation.
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How Unscientific! / int_b7b888f7	comment	In Dexter's third installment, wherein the Dark Passenger which joins the titular serial killer in his "fun" is pretty much proved to be some sort of primordial creature that comes to certain humans during times of great emotional pain instead of just being part of a (completely understandable) dissociative disorder.
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How Unscientific! / int_b7bfa9a3	comment	The Mysterious Cities of Gold is set around the conquistador times, and is about men in search for El Dorado, and cities full of Gold. While there are some semi-mythical elements (such as Esteban being the "Child of the Sun" and that the imperial-age Quechua Nation have fairly sophisticated fantasy-esque technology), it was always kept in the theme of the period and explained in terms of what was available at the time. Then out of nowhere, the aliens are revealed and watching the protagonists on television screens...
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How Unscientific! / int_b9aed0de	comment	Blade has this to anyone one not familiar with the original comic book. Vampires are explained in Doing In the Wizard fashion (vampirism is a literal virus, they are burned by UV light, they react to garlic but not to crosses, etc) then in the film climax the Big Bad uses a mystic ritual to become the avatar of the vampire's blood god to issue the vampire apocalypse. Despite this he is still killed in a mundane manner.
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How Unscientific! / int_b9d01ac1	comment	A startling example occurs in the second season of the ghost-and-swordmanship filled Jubei-chan, where it's revealed that the reason the Human Popsicle villainess knows about 21th century customs is because upon thawing, she was raised by Talking Animals.
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How Unscientific! / int_bc42183b	comment	The Proud Family: During the first season, the stories are strictly Slice of Life, with some elements exaggerated for laughs. The second season starts introducing overt fantasy storylines, such as a Halloween Episode in which Penny turns into a real superhero, and a camping trip into what turns out to be a Lost World. The Big Damn Movie, which acts as a Grand Finale, has a plot about genetically engineered peanut people, a long way from the mundane plots the series began with.
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How Unscientific! / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask featured cow abductions and a battle against aliens despite its otherwise High Fantasy setting.
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How Unscientific! / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2's Halloween events. TF2 is normally about a (not so) normal war going on between two companies, but every Halloween supernatural elements come into play. For example, in 2013 you had to send your employer's dead brother to Hell, while fending off skeletons with magic.
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How Unscientific! / int_c1b3bc6b	comment	True Crime: Streets of LA is a gritty, if cheesy cop story, mostly dealing with the right and wrong sides of the law, and how doing the right thing can take a backseat to vengeance at the expense of being a good guy, among other things. Except for the part where you descend into the bowels of LA, confront a Japanese mystic guy, and fight off dragons composed entirely of fire that shoot skulls at you. And then Nick, the protagonist, doesn't mention it ever again.
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How Unscientific! / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has the first season episode, "Feeling Pinkie Keen", an episode where Twilight Sparkle attempts to figure out the scientific nature of Pinkie Pie's "Pinkie Sense" and is driven up the wall by the fact that it doesn't make any sense at all. In later episodes it's simply accepted as fact that laws of magic and physics don't really apply to her.
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How Unscientific! / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who slowly crossed the line from at least trying to sound scientific at all times to allowing the supernatural (though usually calling it something else). The dividing line is probably The Key To Time stories in the Tom Baker Years, which introduced the White and Black Guardians. Perhaps best exemplified in The Impossible Planet, where the Doctor encounters a being that claims to be the Devil (not a devil, but THE Devil). The Doctor refuses to believe it, theorizing that it's just some Sufficiently Advanced Alien trying to sound impressive. The episode leaves the whole matter ambiguous. Also nicely mocked in "The Girl in the Fireplace," where the Doctor gives the usual Techno Babble explanation for portals to 18th century Paris in a spaceship, before admitting he made it up just because he didn't want to say "magic door."
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How Unscientific! / int_c511c682	comment	The Asterix book, Asterix and the Falling Sky, features two groups of aliens fighting for control of the magic potion. With Superman clones. And lasers. In an otherwise Low Fantasy version of Ancient Rome.
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How Unscientific! / int_ca07828e	comment	In one episode of The Unit, Kim Brown is investigated because she knew vague details of a mission which she claimed to have learned in a dream. The Colonel brings in a psychic specialist, and by the end of the episode (even though none of the characters realize it), the audience is pretty convinced that Kim is a high-level psychic medium.
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How Unscientific! / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG usually kept itself grounded in something resembling reality... except for the episodes involving Mac's psychic powers and Bud's near-death experience. And then there was that one time a villainous plan involving a fake ghostly vision was foiled by the appearance of a real ghost.
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How Unscientific! / int_cd81dd7	comment	The "silly clowns" option in Quest for Glory II, a game that takes place in a middle-eastern fantasy setting. Granted, these games basically run on Anachronism Stew combined with an overabundance of cheesy gags, but this one has sight gags like a golfer in the middle of the desert.
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How Unscientific! / int_d57d722e	comment	Ōkami starts out as a Far East version of Fractured Fairy Tale, including references to people who live on the moon. Sounds appropriately mystical at first, but you eventually see these people's vessels and the game portrays them as spaceships (one - described the locals as a "metal bamboo shoot" - even looks like a traditional rocket). The Big Bad itself is practically a robot.
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How Unscientific! / int_d59887ee	comment	Beverly Hills, 90210 was a fairly normal prime-time soap opera. The third season Christmas Episode had two angel narrators (who were a Corrupted Character Copy of the angels from It's a Wonderful Life) trying to figure out a way to save the main characters because, as a result of their relationship drama, they put themselves on a bus which was set to collide with a truck being driven by a drunk driver. At the moment of collision, the bus and the truck just magically moved right through each other.
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How Unscientific! / int_d620c56f	comment	The final Nevada level in Tomb Raider III is pretty consistent in theme, ranging from a high security area in the middle of a desert and transitioning to a secret government lab experimenting on aliens and have an alien spaceship locked away in a room. However, at one point, you see a pair of orcas/whales in a tank. The whales are just there without any explanation at all and they severely clash with the theme of the level. The only reason you would jump into their tank is to collect the level's last secret.
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How Unscientific! / int_d64ae569	comment	Highlander II: The Quickening, where the Immortals were revealed to be aliens from the planet Zeist.
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How Unscientific! / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Moon was, most of the time, a Magical Girl show set in the modern day, where the only non-ordinary elements are the Sailor Team itself and the season-specific villain faction. The beach episodes (once a season), however, were strange exceptions: episode 20 had Usagi, Ami and Rei confronted by an (apparently) real ghost, not connected to the Dark Kingdom in any way it is actually the result of little esper girl manifesting something she couldn't control. Episode 67 featured no villains and thus no need for the girls to use their powers, instead presenting a couple of living plesiosaurs. Seriously. Episode 67 had so little to do with the overall plot, it was actually left out of ADV Films' DVD releases of the series. The DVD release simply skips over it.
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How Unscientific! / int_da861da1	comment	In the Veronica Mars episode "Normal Is the Watchword" our titular heroine is saved by a hallucination of (or possibly the actual spirit of) her dead best friend Lilly. Lilly had appeared frequently the previous season (as Veronica tried to solve her murder), but it had certainly been implied she was not a literal ghost, just Veronica's way of working through her emotions and thoughts. At least until "Normal Is the Watchword", when Lilly's sudden and unexplained appearance distracted her friend from getting on a doomed bus. It is later implied that Veronica may be suffering from a neurological condition brought on by various traumas.
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How Unscientific! / int_dac2531c	comment	Baywatch was supposed to be a fairly realistic drama about lifeguards, but it quickly began having plots that could have come straight from cheesy action movies, featuring casino heists, international assassins, shootouts with pirates, and oh-so-many jewel thieves. There are also a handful of episodes where supernatural phenomena like ghosts, UFO abductions, and Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Christmas elves appear and then are never mentioned again. The spinoff Baywatch Nights centered around Sgt. Garner Ellerbee and Mitch Buchannon starting a detective agency and was a fairly realistic crime show. Then the low ratings prompted the producers to ditch Ellerbee, turn the show into an X-Files ripoff and have David Hasselhoff fighting aliens and mutants.
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How Unscientific! / int_db88afd0	comment	Likewise, recent episodes of NCIS: New Orleans have shown Pride having visions of a mysterious beautiful woman who is apparently the Angel of Death. Her words have accurately presaged certain events (albeit in cryptic fashion), implying that she really does exist.
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How Unscientific! / int_decd5ac3	comment	Rayman: The first game is a light-hearted platformer where you fight musical instruments and colorful wildlife. The second has you fighting evil robot pirates who have blown up the heart of the world and enslaved all of your friends. Given the ludicrousness of the series in general though, that probably falls under Mood Whiplash more than this trope.
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How Unscientific! / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy has fought robots several times, with a robot decoy of Buffy being significant in the sixth season premiere, despite the show being virtually entirely focused on magic and demons and the like. Angel has as well, though less frequently and in a less important role. Word of God is that they're supposed to represent Magic-Powered Pseudoscience enabled by the warped physics of the Hellmouth.
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How Unscientific! / int_e5fd2cef	comment	Used in the Lensman series. The way the Hell-Hole in Space works, and what happens to someone who goes through it, are nothing like anything else that happens in the series, and do not make sense even in terms of the most far-out reaches of the series's mental or physical science. Up until this point everything that happens is basically a more extreme version of something that has happened before, but the Hell-Hole in Space is on a different track altogether. Even the description of it flounders, and resorts to using words like "binding" and "geas". The literal invocation of The Power of Love as a Deus ex Machina to put right what the Hell-Hole put wrong could also be considered as this; it is presented as an aspect of the series's mental science, but if that segment was read in isolation with the characters' names changed the connection would not be at all obvious.
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How Unscientific! / int_e5feb1e	comment	A lot of Ace Attorney's cases leave the unfortunate protagonist to debunk the wackier things (Levitation, Teleportation, Time Travel, Stock Ness Monsters, people appearing in multiple places at the same time, etc.) that some witnesses see. In one case, the culprit uses an actual magic trick to murder the victim, create an alibi, and pin the blame on the defendant. Also, the Spirit Media and Divination SÃ©ances are legitimate.
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How Unscientific! / int_eb453d98	comment	In Infinite Ryvius, Straw Vulcan Stein Heigar is quite upset when the spaceship Grey Geshpenst suddenly goes One-Winged Angel, transforming from a conventional-appearing vessel to a massive organic sphere, insisting that it violates all logic. (He is unaware that the Grey Geshpenst is a Living Ship).
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How Unscientific! / int_ec24be81	comment	Played for laughs in Bolt when aliens are introduced into the new episode of the show. Rhino is shown looking particularly unimpressed by the changes.
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How Unscientific! / int_f01bf9d8	comment	Mog: In "Mog and the Granny", Mog has Psychic Powers and can use them to know where Debbie is. In "Goodbye, Mog", Mog apparently dies and comes back as a ghost. Even weirder, she comes back again as a flesh-and-blood cat in the next book.
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How Unscientific! / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother parodies this. The entire show is ridiculous, but it focuses almost entirely on the (physically-possible if really unlikely) exploits of a group of mundane, if wacky, modern-day New Yorkers. But every so often they throw in a one-shot gag about time travel, just because. Possibly explained by the show's Framing Device being an Unreliable Narrator.
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How Unscientific! / int_f15f622e	comment	Aliens once appeared in an episode of MacGyver. So did Sasquatch. And a Soviet psychic. Also, Time Travel. To medieval Scotland. To save his ancestor. It was All Just a Dream, Or Was It a Dream?
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How Unscientific! / int_f16adb7	comment	The case in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. On one hand, this was the film which introduced interdimensional alien beings into a series which had firmly rested on the magical side of Magic Versus Science.
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How Unscientific! / int_f43b3a51	comment	Diagnosis: Murder was a light-hearted murder mystery programme which involved a lot of Contrived Coincidences but nothing actually unbelievable. Except that one episode where the murderer was an honest-to-gods vampire. Who died when she telekinetically flew herself into a chair leg. And was never spoken of again. There was also that other episode with a psychic woman, and we never got an explanation for her predictions, so yep, psychic abilities exist in this universe.
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How Unscientific! / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Babylon 5 follow-up The Lost Tales introduces a demon into what had until then been a fairly hard sci-fi universe (apart from souls and reincarnation being implicitly real). The fans were not pleased.
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How Unscientific! / int_f8a7362	comment	Midnight Caller was generally a serious, realistic drama, except for the episode "Do You Believe In Miracles?" in which a statue of baby Jesus starts crying. This is never explained, and is implied to be a genuine miracle.
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How Unscientific! / int_fc612179	comment	The Skylark Series by E. E. "Doc" Smith may get extremely far-fetched with the science, but it was always science, or at least plausibly something like science. Then came the series finale, in which the collective witches of the universe got together with the main heroes to turn their collective magical willpower to overcoming the villains' telepaths and transporting a whole solar system into another galaxy, which is then set on fire to burn for a thousand years. May have some of the details off there, but it was not a little disconcerting, what with the effective Mood Whiplash.
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