Weirdly common stock genre show plots:
Time loop
Body swap
Some members of the team get shrunk (and have to go inside someone's body)
All the male members of the team are turned into simpering idiots by pheromones and have to be saved by the female member(s) of the team and I guess this is feminist somehow
Time loop
Everyone on the team is trapped in their individual worst nightmares and the episode is called "Fear Itself"
Someone goes all "Heart of Darkness" on an alien planet
Trapped in a VR simulation (but you can die for real!)
The team is brainwashed into serving in the workforce of some alien planet
Lotus-eater plot (everyone is trapped in an idyllic fantasy world)
Time loop
One or more members of the team "de-evolve" into cavemen
Someone on the team "evolves" to have super-intelligence (and this is bad)
Time loop
Rapid aging
Alternate timeline where the villains have won
Cut to ten or so years in "the future" except it's not real or has to be undone
Ill-tempered child has reality-warping powers
Time loop
Mundane member of the team gets superpowers
Superpowered member of the team becomes mundane
Everyone starts acting like teenagers
An alien does horrifyingly invasive things to team members but it turns out that it's just trying to communicate
Everyone loses their memory
Character wakes up in a asylum and is told it was all a delusion
Wizard of Oz parody
They go back in time and one of the members has a crush on someone only to find out it’s their or someone else’s parent
Two people swap roles to prove that they have it worse than the other
It’s a wonderful life parody
Someone gets split up into their different personality traits
Cute creature is actually a multiplying monster that eats everything
April fools episode. Usually a musical episode
Time loop
Trapped in a board game
Two characters get merged together
"Most Dangerous Game" plot
Character gets replaced by a shapeshifter
Character turns invisible













