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* ''{{Farscape}}'': In ''The Hidden Memory'', Aeryn confronts Crais, reminding him of how he declared her "irreversibly contaminated," thereby practically ruining her life. He does not remember the incident, and it is not until he sees her face that he recalls who she is, albeit with some difficulty.

** It turns out that Teal'c killed the man's father so that Apophis wouldn't wipe out the tribe. Apparently, this group of people will only try to escape if everyone can; by killing the elderly gentlemen, Teal'c made it possible for the rest to run away and hide as they weren't held back by his slowness. In fact when you see the flashback in its entirety, the man is quite clearing signaling Teal'c to kill him. Teal'c did that kind of thing quite often in a mostly unsuccessful attempt to moderate his master's evil, before being convinced that an open rebellion against the Goa'uld could succeed. Hence his inability to remember this specific instance.
** While Teal'c knows he killed the crippled man to allow the rest of the tribe to escape, Apophis thought Teal'c did it ForTheEvulz and was very pleased.

** The Doctor has a heroic version of this in ''A Good Man Goes To War'' when he speaks to a dying woman who had been trying to find him again after a brief encounter as a child. The Doctor says that he remembers, and that he'd told her to run. After she dies he reveals he has no memory of it - but he does say that to a lot of people, so he guessed. It's entirely possible that it isn't even this trope and he hasn't actually met her yet in his own timeline. He seems to try to explain this to her before she dies, but in the end he simply comforts her.

* ''TheBill'': Commonly inverted, such as a man who was adamant that Dave Quinnan had changed his life. Quinnan had to ask someone to check the archives because he didn't remember him. Turns out that he was once arrested for disorderly behaviour, processed and released. Being on the receiving end was what inspired the man to get on with his life, but to Dave it was a normal Tuesday.

-->'''Annie:''' I saw a man get killed today. I lied to a federal agent. I was shot at.

* In the pilot episode of ''Series/CovertAffairs'' this is Auggie's response to Annie's description of her first day on the job.

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': An episode had Hotch and Reid interviewing a serial killer on death row. When Reid asks the inmate why he killed a woman named Sheila O'Neil, the killer nonchalantly mentions that Reid's going to have to be a lot more specific with details regarding the victims, as he can barely remember them.
-->'''Chester Hardwick:''' Truth is, they meant nothing to me. They were toys, a diversion, and from the moment I decided to kill them, they were dead. They begged, they cried, they bargained, and it didn't matter, because they didn't matter.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Invoked in "The Doctor", a young Regina takes two other people into the vault '''full''' of the hearts her mother has ([[AndShowItToYou literally]]) ripped out. [[hottip:*:Though note that ripping someone's heart doesn't technically kill them, destroying it afterward does]] When asked who they belong to, she replies her mother ripped out too many hearts and destroyed too many lives for anyone to keep track of them all.

* The ''{{Seinfeld}}'' episode ''The Baby Shower'' has a double example, when George tries exorcise an old grudge with a woman who snubbed him, but chickens out; and a unidentified woman carries it to completion with Jerry.
* ''{{Southland}}'': This trope frames the episode "Wednesday", in which the narrator announces at the beginning: "Cops wake up every morning different from the rest of us. Our worst nightmare is just their Wednesday."

** It turns out that Teal'c killed the man's father so that Apophis wouldn't wipe out the tribe. Apparently, this group of people will only try to escape if everyone can; by killing the elderly gentlemen, Teal'c made it possible for the rest to run away and hide as they weren't held back by his slowness. Teal'c did that kind of thing quite often in a mostly unsuccessful attempt to moderate his master's evil, before being convinced that an open rebellion against the Goa'uld could succeed. Hence his inability to remember this specific instance.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': This mentality really gets under the Doctor's skin. In "The Vampires of Venice", he promises to take apart Rosanna's empire piece by piece, not just because she killed one of the Doctor's friends, but because she hadn't even bothered to learn her name.

** The Doctor has a heroic version of this in ''A Good Man Goes To War'' when he speaks to a dying woman who had been trying to find him again after a brief encounter as a child. The Doctor says that he remembers, and that he'd told her to run. After she dies he reveals he has no memory of it - but he does say that to a lot of people, so he guessed. It's entirely possible that it isn't even this trope and he hasn't actually met her yet however.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': The episode "Duet" has Kira confronting the Cardassian war criminal Gul Darhe'el about his brutal actions during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. At one point, Darhe'el simply says "What you call genocide, I call a day's work.". [[spoiler:Though it turns out he's actually Aamin Marritza, Darhe'el's assistant, since the real Darhe'el died years earlier, and is posing as him and flamboyantly invoking this trope in an attempt to make Cardassia own up to their brutality and appease his own conscience.]]

** The Doctor has a heroic version of this in ''A Good Man Goes To War'' when he speaks to a dying woman who had been trying to find him again after a brief encounter as a child. The Doctor says that he remembers, and that he'd told her to run. After she dies he reveals he has no memory of it - but he does say that to a lot of people, so he guessed.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': Has an episode where [[spoiler:HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Belthazar is being hunted by a good witch because he killed her husband. Because he is currently face, he is helping her hunt down the demon he thinks is responsible.]] After the accusation, he doesn't even know for sure if she is right or not.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Sawyer [[spoiler:finally encounters the man that ruined his life by driving his father to kill Sawyer's mother, and then kill himself (through a routine con), only for the man to say that he ran that con dozens of times and that it was Sawyer's father who took it badly. His callous indifference gets him killed by Sawyer]].
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Sylar's father. [[spoiler:When Sylar says that his father killed his mother, Samson barely remembers.]]

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': An odd example: the demon Sahjahn spends a good chunk of the third season working against Angel, but when the two finally meet Angel has no idea why Sahjahn hates him, driving the latter to disappear in fury. Of course, Angel was a bit justified in this: Sahjahn's beef was a ''future'' event that Sahjahn knew about from a prophecy. [[spoiler:A prophecy that he had even ''rewritten himself'' centuries before, so that it was basically impossible for Angel to know about it.]] Granted, existing outside of time might mess with his perceptions a bit, but really Sahjahn's expectations just seem a little high.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': The beginning of the episode "Cor-Ai" goes like this. A man tries to put Teal'c (the [[HeelFaceTurn recently reformed]] [[TheDragon Dragon]] of [[AGodAmI Apophis]]) on trial for killing his father. It takes Teal'c a while to even remember visiting the planet. In this case, though, ''both'' are portrayed sympathetically, and Teal'c is remorseful even when he doesn't recall what exactly he did.
** It turns out that Teal'c killed the man's father so that Apophis wouldn't wipe out the tribe. Apparently, this group of people will only try to escape if everyone can; by killing the elderly gentlemen, Teal'c made it possible for the rest to run away and hide as they weren't held back by his slowness. Teal'c did that kind of thing quite often in a mostly unsuccessful attempt to moderate his master's evil, before being convinced that an open rebellion against the Goa'uld could succeed. Hence his inability to remember this specific instance.
** While Teal'c knows he killed the crippled man to allow the rest of the tribe to escape, Apophis thought Teal'c did it ForTheEvulz and was very pleased.
* ''Throwdown with Bobby Flay'': More of a RealLife example, in the "Rematch on the Grill" episode, Bobby was having an epic three-course cook-off with three competitors that he had beaten in the past. Near the end, Tobin Ellis, a bartender who Flay had defeated in Las Vegas who had come to Florida to redeem himself, stepped out of the crowd and started talking to the chefs the way Bobby does when he challenges someone. Bobby thought he was just some audience member asking for food until someone explained who he was.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** Ted is talking about the night that he stole the blue French horn for Robin, prompting Barney's revelation, "Oh right, that was you." When a shocked Ted asked how he could forget as it was a big iconic moment in all of their lives, Barney shrugs and replies, "For ''you'' maybe, I got a lot of stuff going on."
** Another example of Barney is the episode, The Bracket, where the group tries to figure out which of Barney's jilted lovers is trying to get revenge on him. When they finally track her down, she isn't even on their newly created Bracket list of his top jilted lovers. Barney is horrified that he doesn't remember a woman he slept with and goes up to her and apologizes both for not remembering her and for whatever he did to her (he once sold a woman; he's done some pretty horrible things). Averted in that they had never slept together and the girl had no idea who Barney was either.
** A comedic example occurs when Marshall sees a contract that Barney's company has with Portugal that if they, "are not executed precisely, we will be at war with Portugal." To which Barney responds, "Please, that's a Tuesday for me." He then grabs the contracts and shreds them.
* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': This Trope is mentioned by name in the DVD commentary for episode 2x11. Alvarr's confrontation with Uther before he is imprisoned is, for him, the culmination of years of fighting against his regime, but to Uther he is just another sorcerer to be executed.

* ''MST3K'': In the episode ''The Brain That Wouldn't Die'', the film opens in an operating room, prompting Mike to snark: "Just a normal Tuesday for Cher".
* ''TheBill'': Commonly inverted, such as a man who was adamant that Dave Quinnan had changed his life. Quinnan had to ask someone to check the archives because he didn't remember him. Turns out that he was once arrested for disorderly behaviour, processed and released. Being on the receiving end was what inspired the man to get on with his life, but to Dave it was a normal Tuesday.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': In the season 8 episode "My Finale", Doctor Cox uses this to express his contempt for JD. JD is leaving Sacred Heart hospital for another job, and wants to get a heartfelt goodbye from his mentor. Instead he is met with this - "Newbie, I know that you want this to be a special day for the both of us [...] I'm real sorry there, Newbie, but this is not a 'special' day for me, it's just...a day." That said, when JD gets a resident to bad mouth him to Cox later, Cox shows his true feeling about the matter.
* ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'': Papa Lazarou has a book entitled ''The Book of Wives'' that catalogues every woman he's ever snatched so he can keep track of them all. He consults it to find out who Brian's wife was: [[spoiler: she was Geoff]]'s.
-->Do you know, I can't even remember if she's alive or dead!
* ''{{Blade}}: The Series'': [[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 laughs and tells him that he can't even remember Marcus's wife or him. Justified in that he is centuries old and, presumably, has been killing people all this time.

* ''{{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]]).
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'': In a season six episode, Alex joins the lacrosse team and is promptly cold-shouldered by one of the other players for what Alex assumes is no reason. Turns out that years earlier, Alex tripped her and broke her leg and nearly blinded her with a laser pointer.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'': Do you know what they call a show-girl fucking a penguin in Las Vegas? [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-19-2011/indecision-2012---fear-and-pandering-in-las-vegas Tuesday.]]
* ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': What does London Tipton call a cruise around the Mediterranean?
-->'''London:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZ8t2RnaRA#t=1m37s Tuesday]].
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': The episode "Duet" has Kira confronting the Cardassian war criminal Gul Darhe'el about his brutal actions during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. At one point, Darhe'el simply says "What you call genocide, I call a day's work.". [[spoiler:Though it turns out he's actually Aamin Marritza, Darhe'el's assistant, since the real Darhe'el died years earlier, and is posing as him and flamboyantly invoking this trope in an attempt to make Cardassia own up to their brutality and appease his own conscience.]]
** The episode "One More Unto The Breach" reveals that Martok was denied an officer's rank by Kor. Martok holds a grudge against Kor for this for years, but Kor doesn't remember the specific incident.
* ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'': In one episode, Marie relates to Debra the origin of the big wooden fork and spoon that had been background props hanging on the kitchen wall for the entire series: they were a wedding present that both she and Frank hated, and which each felt the other should be responsible for returning. The argument grew into their first big fight as husband and wife, and culminated in Frank spitefully nailing the spoon to the wall, and Marie retaliating with the fork. Since then, Marie says, every time she enters the kitchen she sees the fork and spoon and remembers that horrible fight. At the end of the episode, inspired by her own advice to Debra, she pronounces to Frank that she is "[rising] above 45 years of pettiness!" and taking the fork and spoon down... only to discover that they've been up there so long they've left their silhouettes on the wallpaper. She angrily puts them back up and storms out. For his part, Frank stares at the utensils for a moment, then wonders, "When did we get those?"
** In another episode, Raymond and family are attending the wedding of a girl Raymond knew in college. It turns out that Raymond went on a date with her once, and at the end of the night he didn't walk her to her front door, as he was more concerned about keeping an eye on his father's car. Raymond still feels incredibly bad about this, even though everyone else thinks he is just being neurotic. Finally, Raymond gathers his courage and apologises to the girl. Sure enough, she doesn't remember the incident at all.
* ''{{Southland}}'': This trope frames the episode "Wednesday", in which the narrator announces at the beginning: "Cops wake up every morning different from the rest of us. Our worst nightmare is just their Wednesday."
* ''Series/TheWire'': Avon Barksdale, the BigBad of the Barksdale Organization, and his [[TheBrute Brute]] Wee-Bey have a darkly comedic version. At the end of the show's first season, they're both sent to jail. In the second season, a corrupt prison guard named Tilghman spends a great deal of time messing with Wee-Bey. They find out that the guard is related to someone that Wee-Bey killed on Avon's orders, but Avon doesn't even remember it when Wee-Bey brings it up. (By the time Avon and Wee-Bey are in jail, their organization is responsible around twenty murders in the past two years alone. Is it any wonder they can't remember them all?)
-->'''Avon:''' What's up with this motherfucker?\\
'''Wee-Bey:''' You remember [=LaDonte=]? [Avon squints in confusion] Burner from over in the Poe Homes, finally caught him over in the parking lot after school?\\
'''Avon:''' ''We'' did that?\\
'''Wee-Bey:''' Tilghman is [=LaDonte's=] cousin or some such. He found out I ate the charge for killing him, now he busting my chops.\\
'''Avon:''' [=LaDonte=]? [Shakes head in confusion] I can't even remember that one. Need a scorecard to keep up with your lethal ass.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' has an episode where [[spoiler:HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Belthazar is being hunted by a good witch because he killed her husband. Because he is currently face, he is helping her hunt down the demon he thinks is responsible.]] After the accusation, he doesn't even know for sure if she is right or not.
* Sawyer from ''Series/{{Lost}}'' [[spoiler:finally encounters the man that ruined his life by driving his father to kill Sawyer's mother, and then kill himself (through a routine con), only for the man to say that he ran that con dozens of times and that it was Sawyer's father who took it badly. His callous indifference gets him killed by Sawyer]].
* Sylar's father in ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. [[spoiler:When Sylar says that his father killed his mother, Samson barely remembers.]]

* An odd ''Series/{{Angel}}'' example: the demon Sahjahn spends a good chunk of the third season working against Angel, but when the two finally meet Angel has no idea why Sahjahn hates him, driving the latter to disappear in fury. Of course, Angel was a bit justified in this: Sahjahn's beef was a ''future'' event that Sahjahn knew about from a prophecy. [[spoiler:A prophecy that he had even ''rewritten himself'' centuries before, so that it was basically impossible for Angel to know about it.]] Granted, existing outside of time might mess with his perceptions a bit, but really Sahjahn's expectations just seem a little high.
* The beginning of the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Cor-Ai" goes like this. A man tries to put Teal'c (the [[HeelFaceTurn recently reformed]] [[TheDragon Dragon]] of [[AGodAmI Apophis]]) on trial for killing his father. It takes Teal'c a while to even remember visiting the planet. In this case, though, ''both'' are portrayed sympathetically, and Teal'c is remorseful even when he doesn't recall what exactly he did.

* More of a RealLife example, in the "Rematch on the Grill" episode of ''Throwdown with Bobby Flay'', Bobby was having an epic three-course cook-off with three competitors that he had beaten in the past. Near the end, Tobin Ellis, a bartender who Flay had defeated in Las Vegas who had come to Florida to redeem himself, stepped out of the crowd and started talking to the chefs the way Bobby does when he challenges someone. Bobby thought he was just some audience member asking for food until someone explained who he was.

* This Trope is mentioned by name in the DVD commentary for ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' episode 2x11. Alvarr's confrontation with Uther before he is imprisoned is, for him, the culmination of years of fighting against his regime, but to Uther he is just another sorcerer to be executed.
* An episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' had Hotch and Reid interviewing a serial killer on death row. When Reid asks the inmate why he killed a woman named Sheila O'Neil, the killer nonchalantly mentions that Reid's going to have to be a lot more specific with details regarding the victims, as he can barely remember them.

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', this mentality really gets under the Doctor's skin. In "The Vampires of Venice", he promises to take apart Rosanna's empire piece by piece, not just because she killed one of the Doctor's friends, but because she hadn't even bothered to learn her name.
* In the ''MST3K'' episode ''The Brain That Wouldn't Die'', the film opens in an operating room, prompting Mike to snark: "Just a normal Tuesday for Cher".
* Commonly inverted in ''TheBill'', such as a man who was adamant that Dave Quinnan had changed his life. Quinnan had to ask someone to check the archives because he didn't remember him. Turns out that he was once arrested for disorderly behaviour, processed and released. Being on the receiving end was what inspired the man to get on with his life, but to Dave it was a normal Tuesday.
* In the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' season 8 episode "My Finale", Doctor Cox uses this to express his contempt for JD. JD is leaving Sacred Heart hospital for another job, and wants to get a heartfelt goodbye from his mentor. Instead he is met with this - "Newbie, I know that you want this to be a special day for the both of us [...] I'm real sorry there, Newbie, but this is not a 'special' day for me, it's just...a day." That said, when JD gets a resident to bad mouth him to Cox later, Cox shows his true feeling about the matter.
* In ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', Papa Lazarou has a book entitled ''The Book of Wives'' that catalogues every woman he's ever snatched so he can keep track of them all. He consults it to find out who Brian's wife was: [[spoiler: she was Geoff]]'s.

* In ''{{Blade}}: The Series'', [[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 laughs and tells him that he can't even remember Marcus's wife or him. Justified in that he is centuries old and, presumably, has been killing people all this time.
* In ''Series/TheFlash'' series pilot, Barry Allen's brother is ambushed and killed by the guy he put in prison years before. After becoming the titular 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".
* Played for laughs in the final episode of the second series of ''{{Blackadder}}'', 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 a season six episode of ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', Alex joins the lacrosse team and is promptly cold-shouldered by one of the other players for what Alex assumes is no reason. Turns out that years earlier, Alex tripped her and broke her leg and nearly blinded her with a laser pointer.

* What does London Tipton of ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' call a cruise around the Mediterranean?

* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Duet" has Kira confronting the Cardassian war criminal Gul Darhe'el about his brutal actions during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. At one point, Darhe'el simply says "What you call genocide, I call a day's work.". [[spoiler:Though it turns out he's actually Aamin Marritza, Darhe'el's assistant, since the real Darhe'el died years earlier, and is posing as him and flamboyantly invoking this trope in an attempt to make Cardassia own up to their brutality and appease his own conscience.]]

* In an episode of ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'', Marie relates to Debra the origin of the big wooden fork and spoon that had been background props hanging on the kitchen wall for the entire series: they were a wedding present that both she and Frank hated, and which each felt the other should be responsible for returning. The argument grew into their first big fight as husband and wife, and culminated in Frank spitefully nailing the spoon to the wall, and Marie retaliating with the fork. Since then, Marie says, every time she enters the kitchen she sees the fork and spoon and remembers that horrible fight. At the end of the episode, inspired by her own advice to Debra, she pronounces to Frank that she is "[rising] above 45 years of pettiness!" and taking the fork and spoon down... only to discover that they've been up there so long they've left their silhouettes on the wallpaper. She angrily puts them back up and storms out. For his part, Frank stares at the utensils for a moment, then wonders, "When did we get those?"

* This trope frames the ''{{Southland}}'' episode "Wednesday", in which the narrator announces at the beginning: "Cops wake up every morning different from the rest of us. Our worst nightmare is just their Wednesday."
* Avon Barksdale, the BigBad of the Barksdale Organization, and his [[TheBrute Brute]] Wee-Bey have a darkly comedic version in ''Series/TheWire''. At the end of the show's first season, they're both sent to jail. In the second season, a corrupt prison guard named Tilghman spends a great deal of time messing with Wee-Bey. They find out that the guard is related to someone that Wee-Bey killed on Avon's orders, but Avon doesn't even remember it when Wee-Bey brings it up. (By the time Avon and Wee-Bey are in jail, their organization is responsible around twenty murders in the past two years alone. Is it any wonder they can't remember them all?)

* {{Series/House}}, being insane, often invokes this trope by failing to recall actions that any other physician would consider...well, insane.

* Invoked in "The Doctor" from ''Series/OnceUponATime'', a young Regina takes two other people into the vault '''full''' of the hearts her mother has ([[AndShowItToYou literally]]) ripped out. [[hottip:*:Though note that ripping someone's heart doesn't technically kill them, destroying it afterward does]] When asked who they belong to, she replies her mother ripped out too many hearts and destroyed too many lives for anyone to keep track of them all.