The third and final series focused on a different character each week but with the overlaps creating a more complex layering of the plot, more akin to a one-off episode of a situation comedy ( albeit with intertwined plots ) than a traditional sketch show.

* Hill Street Blues ( 1981 – 1987 ) featured a number of intertwined storylines in each episode, and pioneered depiction of the conflicts between the work and private lives of officers and detectives on which the police procedural was centered.

Each episode showcased highly dramatized versions of police cases and activities, often intertwined with the off-duty lives of the officers and their significant others.

" Likewise, The Washington Post critic Tom Shales strongly criticized " Cartman Gets an Anal Probe ", but said the second episode was funny and included " cleverly intertwined " plot-lines.

The book had a symbol of two snakes intertwined with each other added to its cover for the episode.

Although none of the characters from The Beverly Hillbillies ever appeared on Green Acres, an episode of Green Acres was named after The Beverly Hillbillies.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

An unfortunate episode in fanzine history occurred in 1981 when Star Wars director George Lucas threatened to sue fanzine publishers who distributed zines featuring the Star Wars characters in sexually explicit stories or art.

Other characters appeared from time to time, for one episode, often just visiting town.

In Star Trek: The Original Series episode I, Mudd, the Liar paradox is used by the characters of Captain Kirk and Harry Mudd to confuse and ultimately disable an android.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

* Every episode of James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses ( 1922 ) has an assigned theme, technique and correspondences between its characters and those of Homer's Odyssey.

The difference was remarked upon in dialog between characters in " Trials and Tribble-ations ", an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine when modern-era characters travel back in time to the days of Kirk and Spock ( and via then-brand new CGI techniques, appear within the TOS episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", frequently coming into contact with the Enterprise crew ).

In the episode " Day of the Moon ", characters were shown to have had dozens of ( unseen ) encounters with the creatures in the space of a few seconds in viewer's time.

The station's first appearance in Star Trek: The Next Generation was during the sixth season episode " Birthright " and in addition, two Next Generation characters, Miles O ' Brien and ( from Season 4 onwards ) Worf, became regular members of DS9.

The episode featured guest appearances by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis as their Star Trek: The Next Generation characters William Riker and Deanna Troi.

The episodic nature of television generally involves a resolution at the end of the episode, with characters surviving to the next episode ; over time, this lessens the extreme tension required in horror.

Though the movie does explain what a Sampo is, the MST3K characters are talking during the explanation and miss it, and are therefore confused throughout the film as to what exactly a " Sampo " is, and argue about it their own theories throughout the rest of the episode.

Along with the four main characters, some of Seinfelds supporting actors such as Wayne Knight, Estelle Harris and Steve Hytner also appeared in the ninth episode at a table read for the reunion show.

On the Tuesday prior to the Super Bowl, the ABC sitcom Full House aired an episode called " Super Bowl Fun Day " involving two main characters actually at the game.

Not wanting to cut out any of the characters or the already elaborately planned plot lines, the series was instead forced to fit into the shorter length and cover more of the story in each episode than originally planned.

The My Family version was broadcast in 2007, and was essentially portraying all of the main characters on an ordinary episode of the show, except for the fact that it was a ' family special '.

Herzog also lent his voice to the animated television program The Boondocks in the third season premiere episode It's a Black President, Huey Freeman in which he played himself filming a documentary about the series ' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.

* Family Matters: In the 1994 episode " Father of the Bride ", Carl Winslow sleeps for fifteen years and wakes up in the year 2009 where main characters Steve Urkel and Laura Winslow are married with four children.

" of the WB series Charmed, as well as playing an FBI agent in an episode of the short-lived series American Gothic titled " Meet the Beetles ".

Eichenwald, two prosecutors, an FBI agent, and Mark Whitacre ( during his incarceration ) were featured on a September 15, 2000, episode of the radio program This American Life about the ADM case.

Doggett is an FBI special agent who makes his first appearance in the season eight episode " Within ".

* 24 ( 2010 ) In episode 13 of the eighth season of the serial action / drama television series, former FBI special agent Renee Walker is shown to stay in the hotel, in the residential apartment of Jack Bauer, who was living there.

In the eighth-season episode " The Homer They Fall ", the announcer at Homer's boxing match against Drederick Tatum refers to Fat Tony as Anthony D ' Amico, which he is called later as well, for example, by the FBI.

Perhaps the best example of this is the episode " Mother Simpson ", where it is implied that he leads the FBI astray in their search for Mona Simpson, allowing her to escape in gratitude for curing his asthma.

* He appears in the FBI lineup in " The Springfield Files ", an episode of The Simpsons ( wearing purple helmet and skirt, instead of the usual green for both ) in which he utters his famous catchphrase " This makes me very angry "; with other

In the episode from the second season of The West Wing entitled " Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail " ( written by Paul Redford and Aaron Sorkin ), Sam Seaborn, while attempting to gain a pardon for someone whom he believed had been falsely convicted of communist espionage in the 1950s, comments to an FBI agent " Ring Lardner's just died.

In the 2008 USA Network series In Plain Sight, during the episode, Stan by Me, two FBI agents are murdered and a federally protected witness is kidnapped in Northvale.

Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.

Abscam was also mentioned as an insult to an FBI agent on an episode of Simon & Simon.

* In " The Trouble with Trillions ", the twentieth episode of the ninth season of the animated television series The Simpsons, the FBI uses a surveillance van with the words Two Guys From Quantico Pizza on the side.

Carter has made several brief cameo roles as an actor — first appearing in The X-Files " Anasazi " as a FBI agent ; before portraying a member of a film audience in " Hollywood A. D .", a later episode of the same series.

* In the Extreme Ghostbusters episode Grease the Ghostbusters had to capture a gremlin that was damaging New York's machines, while at the same time the FBI believed them to be the cause of the sabotage, and after arresting them, they accidentally released him while on a plane.

Cohn is portrayed by actor David Moreland in the X-Files episode " Travelers ", in which an elderly former FBI agent speaks to Agent Fox Mulder about the early years of the McCarthy era and the beginning of the X-Files.

They later resume their real identities in the episode " Rewitched " with the help of federal agent Murphy ( Brandon Quinn ) in exchange for helping the FBI handle supernatural investigations.

In the fifth episode of season eight, " Rewitched ", Paige and her sisters reclaim their true identities with the help of federal agent Murphy ( Brandon Quinn ) in exchange for helping the FBI handle supernatural investigations.

She has appeared outside The X-Files on numerous occasions, the most notable being in the Millennium ( also created by Chris Carter ) episode " Lamentation ," in which the main character, Frank Black, visits the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and Mulder and Scully are briefly seen descending a stairway.

The story of Polly Klaas's kidnapping and the manhunt for Richard Allen Davis was depicted in episode 1, season 1 of The FBI Files documentary show, titled " Polly Klaas: Kidnapped " ( which premiered October 20, 1998 ).

In the Season 6 episode " The Ride ", Carmela Soprano runs into Adriana's mother, Liz La Cerva, who tells Carmela that she believes Christopher killed Adriana, and that the FBI came to her with questions about her.

He agreed and was assigned FBI Agent Skip Lipari as a handler — he was revealed as an informant in the episode " Do Not Resuscitate.

This is unlikely given that in the episode " Do Not Resuscitate " ( season 2 ), Agent Skip Lapari said to Pussy " you been with us ( the FBI ) since ' 98 ".

The episode story line revolves around a KGB mole ( played by guest star Dixie Carter ) placed into the FBI with the sole purpose of discovering the methods used by agent Bill Maxwell in catching spies and other assorted bad guys.

* During episode # 6. 17 of Fox's television series Bones entitled " The Feet on the Beach ", medical anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan and her partner FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth visit a fictional body farm at the University of Hogansburg, New York.