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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. A bit more justified than many cases, since he was following standard procedure and it was the same day his brother died and he went rogue to avenge him.
* ''Series/TheFlash'': In the 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".

*** Then, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens in the legend of the Pandorica]], which the Doctor recites [[GenreBlindness without a hint of irony]]:

*** First, "Margaret Blaine" challenges the Doctor's moral authority:

*** Then, in the legend of the Pandorica, which the Doctor recites [[GenreBlindness without a hint of irony]]:

*** And finally, River gives the Doctor the mother of all {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es after he fails to rescue her from Madame Kovarian as an infant (it's complicated):

---->'''River:''' You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the Universe, did you ever think you'd become ''this''? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? "Doctor," the word for "healer" and "wise man" throughout the Universe; we get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior." How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to [[TykeBomb turn her into a weapon]] just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you.

---->'''River:''' You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the Universe, did you ever think you'd become ''this''? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? "Doctor," the word for "healer" and "wise man" throughout the Universe, we get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior." How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to [[TykeBomb turn her into a weapon]] just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you.

*** And finally, River gives the Doctor the mother of all TheReasonYouSuckSpeeches after he fails to rescue her from Madame Kovarian as an infant (it's complicated):
---->'''River:''' You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the Universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name! "Doctor," the word for "healer" and "wise man" throughout the Universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior." How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to [[TykeBomb turn her into a weapon]] just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you.

*** First, by "Margaret Blaine":

---->'''Doctor:''' There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day, it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.

* In ''Series/YoureTheWorst'', Jimmy told Becca (his ex) "We haven't made love for the last time", at her own wedding. It causes her to struggle with her feelings for Jimmy for the entire season, which culminated in [[YourCheatingHeart her going to Jimmy's place to have sex]].
Jimmy's reaction when she reminded him of his words (which he totally forgot):

** In "A Good Man Goes To War" the Doctor has a benevolent version, where he saved someone's life as a child, and she devoted her life to meeting him. [[spoiler: As they don't come face to face until she's been mortally wounded helping him]], he pretends to remember them running together. It was a pretty safe bet.

** Defied by House, himself, in an episode he has reason to doubt his medical judgement and asks Wilson to keep him from doing anything more dangerous than usual to his patients. At one point, runs an idea past Wilson, and is forced to ask him if his plan is "Regular crazy, ''me'' crazy, or me ''out of my mind'' crazy.

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

* In {{Suits}}, Mike Ross goes to confront the lawyer who gave his grandmother a crap deal after his parents died in a car crash. The lawyer has no idea who his parents were even after Ross names them, because he gave so many people the same kind of crap deal over so many years.

** {Lampshaded} by House, himself, in an episode he has reason to doubt his medical judgement and asks Wilson to keep him from doing anything more dangerous than usual to his patients. At one point, runs an idea past Wilson, and is forced to ask him if his plan is "Regular crazy, ''me'' crazy, or me ''out of my mind'' crazy.

* NedAndStacey: In the pilot, Stacey comes to Ned's apartment to confront him about him stealing a speech from her and using it out of context in a commercial.

* ''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?)

* ''Series/{{Saturday Night Live}}'': This used to be a running joke when Norm McDonald did the news. One example: "Tomorrow marks the beginning of Chanukah, or the Festival of Lights, in which Jewish people around the world celebrate the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem...or as non-Jews would call it, Wednesday."