I’m embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions… So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?

  • Ogmios
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    4 hours ago

    The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is my personal favourite of Bruce Campbell’s work. Starts off as any ordinary western, before getting very, very weird.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105932/

    Come to think of it, Firefly might count, after watching Serenity at the end of the series.