History BetterThanItSounds / LiveActionTV

** Alternatively: Some British woman is forced by a puppet and his talking stick to go into a room with twelve people, of which only seven are ever seen and one is a gag character who dies on screen. Among them are a guy who can't pronounce her name, an alcoholic, a hippie, a transgender woman, an old guy with an impractical haircut and a blob. RunningGags ensue.

* [[spoiler:''Series/CuteyHoneyTheLive'']]: An InnocentFanserviceGirl and a bunch of homeless dudes fight crime

*** [[spoiler: The Fourteenth Doctor (2023)]]: Emotional Guy gets an old face back, reunites with his best friend, fights a being of unimaginable power, and retires. All within three hours.

* [[spoiler:''Wolf Like Me'']]: [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Olaf]] finds himself dating a philosophical woman and finds out at the worst time that she's a closeted furry.

** [[spoiler:''DenziSentaiDenziman'']]: A RagtagBunchOfMisfits are recruited by a dog to fight aliens.

** [[spoiler:''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'']]: Angels battle bugs with trading cards.

** [[spoiler:''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'']]: Three friends who run a dry cleaning business deal with their annoying neighbors and a MegaCorp led by transhumanists bent on annihilating the human race.

** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E11StillValley Still Valley"]]: A pro-slavery warlock accidentally selects the cause's TokenGoodTeammate.

** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E22TheMonstersAreDueOnMapleStreet The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street]]"]]: Humans are both Othello and Desdemona. Aliens are Iago.
** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E28ANicePlaceToVisit A Nice Place to Visit]]"]]: A small time crook goes to heaven, or does he?
** [[spoiler:"Nightmare as a Child"]]: A schoolteacher gets a blast from the past.
** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E39NervousManInAFourDollarRoom Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room]]"]]: A frightened man who think's he's facing MortonsFork talks to himself.
** [[spoiler:"Back There"]]: A well-to-do theoretician tries in vain to stop a murder.
** [[spoiler:"The Whole Truth"]]: A crooked car salesman gets rid of a magic car by saving the free world.
** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E65TheObsoleteMan The Obsolete Man]]"]]: In a dystopian future, a doomed man gets his chief persecutor in trouble.
** [[spoiler:"It's a Good Life"]]: [[Series/LostInSpace Will Robinson]] is freaky.
** [[spoiler:"Death's-Head Revisited"]]: A sadistic Nazi refuses his last chance to repent.
** [[spoiler:"Still Valley"]]: A pro-slavery warlock accidentally selects the cause's TokenGoodTeammate.
** [[spoiler:"Once Upon a Time"]]: A grumpy janitor steals a TimeMachine. HilarityEnsues, and the fourth wall is painted.
** [[spoiler:"Showdown With Rance [=McGrew=]"]]: Wild West outlaws put a TV producer through an FanFic/OfficialFanfictionUniversity.
** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E89ToServeMan To Serve Man]]"]]: The Wolf and the Goat with an alien invasion.
** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E126LivingDoll Living Doll]]"]]: A BlandNameProduct version of Chatty Cathy drives a man to his death.
** [[spoiler:"[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]"]]: In a sudden genre change, a defector has to think his way out of a trap.
** [[spoiler: "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough At Last]]"]]: A man proves that one should prepare for the end of the world by getting contact lenses.

* [[spoiler:''Series/GhostsUK'']]: A woman and her Main/{{Manchild}} husband inherit a house from a very, very distant relative. The woman is almost killed by a nasal politician, which allows her to see him. She spends the rest of the first season being tormented by the politician, a failed poet who’s infatuated with her, a homophobic old lady, an army guy who’s mad that his crush got to go to war and he didn’t, a man whose wife didn’t like him because he was too much of a control freak, an idiot caveman, an illiterate woman, a LiteralMinded Georgian and a head. They stop annoying her and decide to be her friend. All but the first two are dead.

** [[soiler:''The Suite Life on Deck'']]: The same kids move to a cruise liner for their studies.

* [[spoiler: ''Series/{{Castle}}'']]: Mystery author stalks hot detective, hitting on her and making cruel jokes about murder scenes. Then he writes about it and gets ''even more'' rich and famous. She loves him for it.

* ''[[spoiler: Series/LivingSingle]]'': A well-known rapper-turned-magazine editor living in New York has the world and her eccentric/arrogant friends bend to her every whim, regardless of how insensitive she may come off across at times.