| Hint | TV show | Year aired |
| Set in 2281, 19 years after the main series' focus, the finale ended as if the sci-fi series were a documentary about the last such space station. | |
| This series finale had Janeane Garofalo play the NY couple's now-grown daughter, Mabel, as she narrates a documentary about her parents 20 years after the series. | |
| Season 4 opened three months later, with the fanged title character still trapped in a coffin underwater, and Cordelia still 'high above' (heaven?) looking down on everyone else. | |
| Season 3 began with Agent Bristow waking up two years later with amnesia, presumed dead by all the other characters, including the now-married Vaughn. | |
| Joey finally chose her man and Jen succumbed to a fatal heart condition in this teen-centric series finale set five years later. | |
| The series finale skipped ahead several times to show how each of the main characters died, ending with daughter Claire Fisher in 2084. | |
| The latest incarnation of this mighty kids' action show skipped the setting from 2004 to 2025, when the planet-conquering Troobian Empire begins menacing Earth. | |
| In the series finale, the two title characters feud for two years, and then their two kids get married almost 20 years later. In a reversal, Jack is rich and pays for Karen. | |
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| 'Lay Down Your Burdens' in the second season showed Baltar winning the presidential election, then jumped one year to show the fleet settled on New Caprica. | |
| Twenty months after the fifth season, Day 6 opens with Jack tortured by Chinese jailers and then released through President Palmer. | |
| This show's fifth season was set five years after the events of Season 4. Edie suddenly had a husband and Gabrielle had a family, among other changes. | |
| Season 5 opened four years later. Now well past high school, Lucas returned from college, Nathan was now paralyzed and Brooke was a well-known fashion designer. | |
| After Melinda Gordon gave birth to Aiden, the show skipped forward to 2014, showing Aiden as a five-year-old with the same paranormal power as his mother. | |
| This 72-year-old soap ended by skipping forward a year, showing Mindy and Rick engaged, Fletcher and Alexandra touring the world, and Reva and Josh together again. | |
| The series-ending 'Epitaph Two' episode fastforwarded 10 years. Civilization had crumbled, 'Priya' and 'Tony' had a son, Echo rescued Topher, and Alpha had rehabilitated. | |
| Resulting from last season's nuclear explosion, Season 6 followed two realities for the castaways: an alternate 2004; and in the same place, but pushed three years ahead to 2007. | |
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