Hitler strides around the room naked, and reminds his aides that the goal of the Nazi movement is "to be the greatest plot device the world has ever known".
The greatest plot line of all, however, was one of the most straightforward, a very special episode in which Donna, played by Spelling's daughter Tori with almost winning blankness, fails to graduate after getting drunk at the school prom.
Indeed, these days, I only ever watch EastEnders at this wonderful time of year, tuning back in every December to follow the tortuous, month-long build-up to the great plot unwrapping.
But said sequence has proven instead to be something of a distraction, akin to Iron Man 3 giving away the whole "Pepper Potts in the Iron Man suit" bit to hide one of the great plot twists in popular cinema right under our noses.
The Jean Grey/Phoenix saga was one of the greatest plot lines in the history of X-Men comics.
Surely it is one of the great plots (in both senses) of all time.
It is one of the greatest plots and stories that she wrote and has a larger canvas than many of her other stories, in that it covers the whole of the United Kingdom.
But many people believe in a greater plot.
Obama finally broke with his own tradition of aloofness, begrudgingly honored the media's request, and provided their narrative with the next great plot point they were seeking.
We were going to call it The Great Vegetable Plot, but research showed that vegetables were a negative with American kids, and they didn't know a plot is a place where you plant vegetables.
