History ButForMeItWasTuesday / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': The bully who beat Will up and got him sent out to Bel-Air in the first place doesn't remember beating Will up when he comes back to Philadelphia. He only remembers when Will bops him on the head with his basketball...which prompts the revelation that he's reformed himself.

* In an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', a fat woman faces Al Bundy for making fun of her. He has a lot trouble remembering her, even as she claims he had called her a giant seal.
-->'''Al:''' Well, let's see, I had four elephants; uh, I had a rhino, wanted some flip-flops; had a manatee...nuh, nuh, don't remember any seals. Could you jog my memory? You know jogging? [[DeadpanSnarker It's that what you do when the ice cream truck is pulling out]].

* ''Series/TheLibrarians''

* ''Series/TheLibrarians

-->'''Baird''' So, Tueday, then?

** 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, he 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."
--->'''Wilson:''' ...It's illegal! People go to jail for that; pay huge fines!
--->'''House:''' Have you ''seen'' me practice medicine?
** Invoked while discussing one of his [[CrazyAwesome typically insane]] plans:
--->'''House:''' Is it still illegal to preform an autopsy on a living person?
--->'''Cuddy:''' Are you high?
--->'''House:''' If it's Tuesday, I'm wasted.
--->'''Cuddy:''' It's ''Wednesday''.

* ''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.]]

* ''Series/HappyDays'': Dwayne Twitchell, a childhood classmate of Fonzie's, has spent years training in martial arts, all to get revenge on Fonzie for some grade-school bullying. His RoaringRampageOfRevenge comes to a sheepish halt when he realizes his grudge is one-sided and Fonzie hasn't thought about him in years.

* ''Series/HappyDays'': Dwayne Twitchell, a childhood classmate of Fonzie's, has spent years training in martial arts, all to get revenge on Fonzie for some grade-school bullying. His RoaringRampageofRevenge comes to a sheepish halt when he realizes his grudge is one-sided and Fonzie hasn't thought about him in years.

** When Arya Stark gets her revenge on Polliver, she starts by repeating the words he said to her friend Lommy when he killed him. Polliver has absolutely no recollection and just looks bewildered at the words spoken by the crazy child standing over him. It's not until she repeats his words about picking his teeth with her sword that he finally figures out who she is.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': When Arya gets her revenge on Polliver, she starts by repeating the words he said to her friend Lommy when he killed him. Polliver has absolutely no recollection and just looks bewildered at the words spoken by the crazy child standing over him. It's not until she repeats his words about picking his teeth with her sword that he finally figures out who she is.

* ''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.

* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] on ''Series/{{The 100}}'': Murphy expects Jaha to have this attitude towards all the people he's executed, and is surprised when Jaha remembers quite a bit about Murphy's executed father. Jaha insists he remembers the names of all the people he's killed.

* ''Series/TheFlash (2014)'': [[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/GameOfThrones'': When Arya gets her revenge on Polliver, she starts by repeating the words he said to her friend Lommy when he killed him. Polliver has absolutely no recollection and just looks bewildered at the words spoken by the crazy child standing over him. It's not until she repeats his words about picking his teeth with Needle that he finally figures out who she is.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': This used to be a running joke when Norm [=MacDonald=] 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 re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem...or as non-Jews would call it, Wednesday."

** It turns out that Teal'c killed the man's father so that Apophis wouldn't wipe out the tribe. The tribe runs and hides when the Goa'uld come, but are slowed down because they take care to help the slower members--the elderly, the crippled, etc.--escape as well. When Apophis ordered Teal'c to execute one, he chose to kill the elderly, one-legged gentlemen, because his death would make it easier for the rest to run away and hide next time. 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, was satisfied, and didn't order any more killings. When you see the flashback in its entirety, the man is quite clearly 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.

*** This happens often with Spike in season 7 of Buffy and season 5 of Angel. He'll be honestly trying to help someone, and the rescuee wants nothing to do with him because he murdered their family -- something Spike has no memory of.
*** In a different subversion Spike is captured and tortured by a crazed Slayer who believes that Spike killed her parents. It is later confirmed that Spike was not responsible but it does not make him feel any better about it since he killed so many people that it's not much of a consolation that he did not kill these particular people.

** When Andrew first appears on the show, he says that the Scoobies stopped him from using flying monkeys to attack a school play. The Scoobies have no memory of this and, in fact, it did not appear on screen.
* ''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.

-->'''Auggie:''' Or as we call it, Thursday at the Agency.

* ''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.]]
** John Oliver, July 25 2013: "In the stock market, that's what's known as insider trading. In the commodities market, it's known as simply Thursday."
* In ''Series/CSIMiami'' one case involved the murder of a man at a highschool reunion. It turned out the killer was a victim of the man's bullying, his entire body was wrapped with duct tape, including his mouth and was stuffed in a locker. The incident left permanent physical scars all over his body, as well as mental, though the killer when meeting up with the bully calmly and politely asked for an apology, assuming he had matured into a nicer person. Not only did the bully refuse to apologize but he admitted he didn't even remember the incident at all, only giving a blunt "Get over it" this threw the killer over the edge and knocked him dead with a wine bottle.
* ''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/{{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/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.

** Another time a sixteen year old girl was stalking Sergeant Cryer for half of the episode. She wanted to know [[spoiler: what he could remember about finding a baby girl sixteen years previously, because she wanted to know who she was.]] He didn't remember much.
* ''{{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]]).
* ''{{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.

---> '''Buffy:''' Wow. I mean, that's... seventeen.

---> '''Riley:''' Buffy. When I saw you stop the world from, you know, ending, I just assumed that was a big week for you. Turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse."

* In CSIMiami one case involved the murder of a man at a highschool reunion. It turned out the killer was a victim of the man's bullying, his entire body was wrapped with duct tape, including his mouth and was stuffed in a locker. The incident left permanent physical scars all over his body, as well as mental, though the killer when meeting up with the bully calmly and politely asked for an apology, assuming he had matured into a nicer person. Not only did the bully refuse to apologize but he admitted he didn't even remember the incident at all, only giving a blunt "Get over it" this threw the killer over the edge and knocked him dead with a wine bottle.

*** And finally, River gives the Doctor the mother of all {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es after he fails to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar 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." [[DeadpanSnarker 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.
** 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. Being a time traveller, it's possible the Doctor has yet to save her.
** According to Gareth Roberts, an early draft of "The Lodger" featured the classic series monster Meglos as the villain - the punchline being that the Doctor had no idea who he was, even when reminded.

-->'''Van Helsing''': You don't recognize me?
-->'''Browning''': Should I?
-->'''Van Helsing''': Abraham Van Helsing. [[YouKilledMyFather You slaughtered my family.]]
-->'''Browning''': [[DeadpanSnarker Well, that hardly narrows it down.]]
* ''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?"

--> '''Wilson''': ...It's illegal! People go to jail for that; pay huge fines!
-->'''House''': Have you ''seen'' me practice medicine?

-->'''House''': Is it still illegal to preform an autopsy on a living person?
-->'''Dr. Cuddy''': Are you high?
-->'''House''': If it's Tuesday, I'm wasted.
-->'''Cuddy''': It's ''Wednesday''.

** 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.

* In an episode of ''MarriedWithChildren'', a fat woman faces Al Bundy for making fun of her. He has a lot trouble remembering her, even as she claims he had called her a giant seal.
---> '''Al:''' ''"Well, let's see, I had four elephants; uh, I had a rhino, wanted some flip-flops; had a manatee... nuh, nuh, don't remember any seals. Could you jog my memory? You know jogging? [[DeadpanSnarker It's that what you do when the ice cream truck is pulling out.]]"''
* ''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!

* ''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".

-->'''Stacey''': Remember me?
-->'''Ned''': I'm not sure.
-->'''Stacey''': Then let me remind you. I'm the person you exploited without a trace of conscience.
-->'''Ned''': You're gonna have to be more specific.
* ''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. [[note]]Though note that ripping someone's heart doesn't technically kill them, destroying it afterward does[[/note]] 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.

** Appears in another episode, as a form of BlackComedy. Rumplestiltskin, who has destroyed more lives than Regina or her mother, is forced to ask other members of the town for help. David is only one willing to help him, and the following (paraphrased) conversation takes place:
-->'''David:''' Do you remember turning a butcher into a pig?
-->'''Rumplestiltskin:''' ''(genuinely taken aback)'' No, I can't say I do.
-->'''David:''' Well that man does, [[YouKilledMyFather it was his father]]. I'm beginning to see why no one wants to help you.
* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Invoked by Charlie in Episode 2, but in this case it's Monday, not Tuesday.
* ''Series/{{Saturday Night Live}}'': This used to be a running joke when Norm [=MacDonald=] 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."
* ''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.

* StudioC: In "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k42VgQ8aK1A Evil Memory Lapse]]," Professor Murdock is confronted by a woman he doesn't recognize, even though he killed her father and they used to have something "special." He also doesn't remember trying to get a tikiman, even though he's killed 10,000 people trying to get it.
* ''TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': The bully who beat Will up and got him sent out to Bel-Air in the first place doesn't remember beating Will up when he comes back to Philadelphia. He only remembers when Will bops him on the head with his basketball...which prompts the revelation that he's reformed himself.
* ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': What does London Tipton call a cruise around the Mediterranean?

* ''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.

'''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:''' [=LaDonte=]? [Shakes head in confusion] I can't even remember that one. Need a scorecard to keep up with your lethal ass.
** Ironically enough, Wee-Bey may not even have been responsible for that crime. When Bey was caught, his lawyer got the prosecutor to agree to take the death penalty off the table in exchange for a full confession... and Bey then tried to take responsibility for ''every'' killing ever committed by anyone in the Barksdale gang. While the cops knew that some of those were committed by others, who knows how many crimes Bey "ate the charge" for that he didn't commit. [=LaDonte's=] murder could have been one of those.
* In the ''Series/WithoutATrace'' episode "Legacy", the events of the episode are set into motion after a family happens to run into the man who broke into their house, tied up the dad and brutally raped the mother ringing their shopping at the store...and he gives absolutely no indication of having recognized them. This coupled with the fact that they tried to ignore the incident to a clearly unhealthy degree results in the father's disappearance [[spoiler:and the mother to kill her son's drug dealer after the latter made an ill timed pass at her. When the father is found, he had just murdered the rapist]].
* 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.
** In a later episode, the lawyer turns this around on Mike by pointing out that Mike is now what the lawyer used to be.
* 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):
-->'''Jimmy''': That was quite the heckle.
* ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'': Cole spends 11 years of his life hunting Dean after he [[spoiler: sees him murder his father]]. When he finally catches up with him, Dean says:
-->'''Dean''': Well hey I'm not saying I didn't [[spoiler: slice and dice your old man]], I'm just saying that he wasn't the first and he wasn't the last and they all just kinda get blended up.