#in episode bf12 you were battling barbarians while riding a winged appaloosa yet in the very next scene my dear

[marioclash]

one of the most iconic simpsons lines "whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it" being delivered by lucy lawless is wonderful

[winstonta]

Frink: Yes, over here, n'hey, n'hey. In Episode BF12, you were battling barbarians while riding a winged Appaloosa, yet in the very next scene, my dear, you're clearly atop a winged Arabian! Please to explain it!

Lucy Lawless: Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.

Frink: I see, alright, yes, but in episode AG04—

Lawless: Wizard!

— The Simpsons, "Treehouse of Horror X"

I love how Xena: Warrior Princess doesn’t waste any time. Like they have a plotline they wanna do but they have no interest in spending a season or even a whole episode on it. We need Gabrielle to be able to hold her own in a fight. Okay! In like half an episode she becomes a skilled fighter with her stick. We want to resolve the whole Gabrielle marriage thing with that guy from her home town. Cool! They fall back in love, get married, she moves home with him, they share a lovely time, then he gets killed and she’s back with Xena. That took like 20 minutes. (It’s especially fun when they have no time for hetero nonsense and bury their straights - if Xena or Gabrielle show interest in a man guaranteed he’s dead or leaving soon. The only reason Joxer was safe was because neither of them liked that fun dummy romantically). There are definitely crazier examples of this (I think like all the pregnancy and adult child-having plotlines) but these were just the first examples that came to mind. They did not care what silly reasoning they had to use but if they wanted to run a plotline they just did. And then magic, Greek mythology, other religion or mythology (?) explained their way to how they got there.