History ButForMeItWasTuesday / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
** Heroic example: Anton Ivanov's vendetta against Coulson and SHIELD is rooted in the fact that his comrades were executed for failing to stop Coulson in a previous operation many years ago. While Coulson does remember the mission itself, he does not remember the details of ''why'' nor does he care, because for him it was just another day at SHIELD.
--->'''Coulson:''' All of these things that you've done. All of the energy spent, the hatred... and you know what the funny thing about it is? I have no idea who the hell you are. I've been on hundreds of missions in my time. This one you're so upset about? I was sent to retrieve an object. If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what it was. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another {{redshirt}}, like so many others, who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. 'Cause that's what I do. So. Cool origin story, bro. But this means ''nothing'' to me.
** Bonus points for the fact that Coulson was on the mission in question with Melinda May, who is portrayed by Creator/MingNaWen, the recipient of the original ButForMeItWasTuesday -- and she was the one who beat up all the Mooks and allowed Coulson to get away with the object in question. And when May herself meets the man in question in the present, she has no idea who he is either. It was Tuesday for her too.
--->'''May:''' Who the hell is this guy?\\
'''Coulson:''' Well, you missed a fair amount, May, but the quick version is: you can go ahead and shoot him.\\
'''May:''' ''(fires)''

* ''Series/BladeTheSeries'': [[MagnificentBastard Marcus Van Sciver]] has spent decades plotting revenge against the pureblood Damek, who brutally murdered his wife in front of him and then had Van Sciver sent to a bunch of feral [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], who ended up turning him. Eventually, Marcus confronts Damek and starts a fight. Right before Van Sciver kills him, Damek simply laughs, saying he doesn't even remember her; after all, he's a couple thousand years old and likely can't remember a hundredth of the people he's killed.

* In ''Series/Daredevil2015'', when Matt Murdock is put face to face to his father's killer thanks to Elektra, he is surprised when Roscoe Sweeney doesn't even remember who he is, and only does so after he hits Sweeney in the face repeatedly, and outright tells him his father was a boxer.
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' You don't remember me? You killed my father.\\
'''Roscoe Sweeney:''' Well I hate to break it to you son, but I killed a lot of guys' dads.

* ''Series/TheFlash1990'': In the series pilot, Barry Allen's brother is ambushed and killed by the guy he put in prison years before. After becoming the title superhero, Barry confronts the killer and tells him why he's chasing him. The killer asks for clarification as he kills "a lot of brothers".
* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''Fallout'': When Caitlin says the odds of something that just happened are essentially impossible, Barry remarks, "Impossible's just another Tuesday for us." A bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall here: the show airs on Tuesday night.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': When Bruce Wayne [[spoiler:finally comes face-to-face with his parents' killer, the guy doesn't even remember killing them until Bruce jogs his memory by filling in some of the details. (It's possible that this trope doesn't apply, since it was never made entirely clear that he was the actual killer and wasn't just trying to enrage Bruce because he was feeling suicidal and wanted Bruce to kill him.)]]

* A positive example from ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ray Palmer]] tells [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics Professor Martin Stein]] that he used to be one of his students and is shocked to find that Stein doesn't remember him. Stein later explains to Ray that he had so many exceptional students that he could never hope to remember all of them.
** Played more straight when Mick is confronted by Amaya who accuses him of "killing him" which Mick just points out he's killed a lot of people and she'll have to be more specific. Somewhat subverted in that when Amaya does specify (Rex Tyler) Mick does know full well he didn't kill Rex especially since it was someone he had just met a few days prior and obviously would remember killing so soon.

* ''Series/{{Loki 2021}}'':
** Sylvie is a Variant who was captured for her "crime" of deviating from the Sacred Timeline as a child, but managed to escape. Thousands of years later, she tracks down Renslayer, the Hunter who captured her (now a Judge) and demands to know what exactly she did that caused the Nexus Event, the branching timeline that had to be pruned. Renslayer says she can't remember.
** Played with in the case of Mobius and [[spoiler:Alligator Loki]]. He doesn't remember him at all, and says he's pruned so many Lokis that they all blur together... but he's pretty sure he'd remember [[spoiler:an ''alligator'']]. Mobius wonders if he's not a Loki at all, just pretending to be one as part of some long con, then admits that would actually make it more likely that he's a Loki.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''
** A pick-up artist who regularly lectures on how best to bed a woman finds himself falling in love with one for real. When she's kidnapped, he begs Lucifer to save her only to find she set the kidnapping up. It turns out she fell for his lines ''two years'' earlier and gave up her virginity to him but he never called her back. When she heard of his act, she went to see him only to realize that he literally didn't remember her. She thus decided to get him to fall in love with her for some payback and it escalated. Unlike many in this trope, the pick-up artist is deeply shaken to realize he slept with so many women he could forget the one he eventually fell for.
** The title character does this a lot, being the Devil and all. Lampshaded when he's told that Maze is angry with him, Lucifer cheerfully asks if it's Tuesday already.
--->'''Chloe:''' He had a drug problem?\\
'''Lucifer:''' Well, only if you consider it a problem if you habitually stuff your face with millions of dollars of cocaine. For me that's Tuesday, but apparently it's frowned upon.
** Happens a lot with his mother too.
--->'''Lucifer:''' What did you do to her?\\
'''Charlotte:''' You'll have to be more specific. I've done things to a lot of people by now.
** Linda is getting things piled onto her, and when confronted with that Lucifer is letting ''the'' Eve shack up with him...
--->'''Linda:''' I mean, I am carrying an angel-baby, I guess this is just a normal Tuesday for me now.
** Inverted in the fifth season, when Lucifer notes, "I suppose what I call powerlessness is what everyone else calls a Tuesday."
** Double subverted in "A Lot Dirtier Than That". Amenadiel encounters Reiben, the officer (now detective) who pointed a gun at his head in season 4's "Super Bad Boyfriend", and it seems Reiben doesn't remember him. It turns out he does in fact remember Amenadiel and tells him that their encounter was a wake-up call and inspired him to be a better cop and a better person. However, this turns out to be bullshit; it was just a Tuesday that he happened to remember, and he's the same violent, racist cop he always was.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' gives us "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited Death's-Head Revisited]]", in which a Nazi officer revisits a concentration camp seventeen years after the war. He runs across a former inmate, and a battle of wills begins. It's not until the end that the officer remembers that he ''killed'' the inmate in question the night the Allies liberated the camp -- the implication being that he'd killed so many people that he simply ''forgot'' until then.

* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': Played for laughs in the final episode of the second series, which includes a rare example of the BigBad being on the receiving end of this trope. Prince Ludwig seems surprised that Blackadder, Melchett and Queenie do not remember him, and then proceeds to remind them of a time each of them had met him -- examples which vary from obscure to downright ridiculous (/depraved. [[YouDoNotWantToKnow Looking at you, Melchett]]).

* In ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Niles and Frasier clearly remember the Kriezel brothers, who bullied them horrifically throughout elementary school, even though about thirty years have gone by. However, when Niles confronts the younger brother, Danny, he has a hard time remembering any specific incident and has no idea who Niles is.

* ''Series/{{Underground}}'': In the episode "Firefly" John Hawkes says to his wife, "the worst day of that man's life was just another Tuesday in the office for me" (as a lawyer, he oversaw an estate sale where his slave's family was sold off). Subverted in a sense because this isn't a villain being indifferent to his victims' suffering but a cause of shame, guilt and also a motivation to do good for him.