It is also a very ripe target for parody these days, parodies are probably as common as seeing this trope played straight. Medical dramas will also do these, but for ethical not medical issues. Police Stop!, Police, Camera, Action!, Road Wars) and law enforcement dramas like Criminal Minds and Medium.
However, it's not by any means a Dead Horse Trope yet due to Police Procedurals (i.e. There's a certain variety of shows where essentially every episode has a special message, such as Touched by an Angel, Joan of Arcadia, etc. They've largely fallen out of favor since then for most shows, due in part to the increasing number of shows, particularly dramas, where issues such as drug/alcohol abuse, violence, sex and death are dealt with on an almost weekly basis, and then you have the Dramedy genre that regularly mixes comedy with serious issues. These episodes were far more common in the 1980s, fueled by then- United States president Ronald Reagan's crackdown on drug use in America. Or, in other words: OOC Is Serious Business for television shows. If Status Quo Is God is in effect, there is only a small chance of breaking with this practice, but that's the reason for the common tactic of introducing a new guest character who isn't protected by this consideration, and can therefore have anything bad or good happen to him without changing the status quo.
The tone will typically be much, much more serious than other installments of the series, although with sitcoms, there may still be a comedic subplot or occasional moments where the Laugh Track is needed.
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