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An episode which departs dramatically from the show's general formula. Events are played out from the point of view of the family pet, or are presented completely out of order, or it's an A&E biography of one of the characters, etc. May feature a SpecialEditionTitle.

The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where sketches opened with the famous {{Catchphrase}}, "And now for something completely different." A rather fitting trope namer, considering that something completely different happened in every episode and it had no general formula. The phrase was earlier used by Christopher Trace on ''Series/BluePeter'' to transition between segments.

A PoorlyDisguisedPilot can be a subtrope of Something Completely Different. A show's {{Pilot}} and GrandFinale episodes are also this pretty much by definition.

Some flavors of this:

...And genre pages for the broader examples:

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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/AnimeAndManga
** ''SomethingCompletelyDifferent/TisTimeForTorturePrincess''
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/ComicBooks
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/FanWorks
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/{{Film}}
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/{{Literature}}
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/LiveActionTV
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/{{Music}}
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/NewMedia
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/{{Theatre}}
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/VideoGames
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/{{Webcomics}}
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/WebOriginal
** ''SomethingCompletelyDifferent/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory''
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/WesternAnimation
[[/index]]

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* ''Advertising/MetroManners'' usually involves Super Kind having a TransformationSequence, performing a song and dance routine about Metro behavior, and then using her super powers to vanquish the villain. But "Wait your turn to enter" instead features the main characters standing around awkwardly while Creator/DannyTrejo delivers the aesop instead, with some LampshadeHanging:
--> "There was gonna be a whole song and dance routine about how you should wait your turn to enter the train, but they got me, Danny Trejo, to talk to you instead"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Magazines]]
* ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' [[http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor-who-magazine-issue-428/ #428]] is a special issue about connections and similarities between ''Series/DoctorWho'' and {{Soap Opera}}s. It's redesigned to look like an issue of ''[[https://secure.tesco.com/clubcard/boost/Images/GB/en-GB/UK-002664/UK-002664_large.jpg Inside Soap]]'', not just in the cover dress (hidden behind a polybag with a more conventional cover, so fans would recognise it on the shelves) but inside, with the regular columns getting "soapified".
* One issue of ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' had the Fold-In double as the front cover, instead of its usual spot on the inside back cover.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* [[Wrestling/JumpingBombAngels The Jumping Bomb Angels]] were definitely this for Wrestling/{{WWE}} fans in the late Eighties, as demonstrated by commentator [[Wrestling/JesseVentura Jesse "The Body" Ventura]] at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 1987''.
-->''"You know, I'll tell you, I have seen a lot of good tag teams, and The Glamour Girls, I'm gonna go on the record, they're in trouble. Because the Jumping Bomb Angels are something else. I've never seen lady wrestlers with the kind of moves that they got. They're like watching a Wrestling/DynamiteKid or like watching a [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy 'Macho Man' Savage]] or like watching a Wrestling/RickySteamboat with those aerial moves. It was just fantastic, I enjoyed it."''
* Wrestling/{{Sabu}} was so much this in TheNineties, given his emphasis on using [[WeaponOfChoice tables]] in his matches, to the point that he would celebrate winning a match by moonsaulting ''himself'' through a table.
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[[folder:Sports]]
* Due to a player's strike, the 1982 UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague season was shortened to 9 games. Thus, for the 1982-83 playoffs, the divisional standings that would determine which teams would qualify for the postseason were ignored, with the top 8 teams from each conference getting a playoff berth into a bracket similar to the NBA's playoff system. And for the first time in NFL history, teams with losing records made the playoffs (the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions both finished 4-5).
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A PoorlyDisguisedPilot can be a subtrope of Something Completely Different.

[[caption-width-right:320:And now for something completely different--Creator/JohnCleese at a desk [[Administrivia/JustAFaceAndACaption claiming to illustrate this trope]].]]

[[caption-width-right:320:"And now for [[TropeNamers something completely different]]."]]

The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where sketches opened with the famous {{Catchphrase}}, "And now for something completely different." A rather fitting trope namer, considering that something completely different happened in every episode and it had no general formula.

[[folder: Advertising]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/{{Anime}}

[[caption-width-right:320:"And now for [[TropeNamers something completely different."]]]]

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent/{{Magazines}}