History ButForMeItWasTuesday / LiveActionTv

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': A RunningGag is that A-Train doesn't remember running Robin over or his apology to Hughie, which allows Hughie to completely slip beneath his notice for quite some time. [[spoiler:Homelander also doesn't remember the face of the man whose wife he raped and impregnated.]] Exploited by Hughie [[spoiler: when he pretends to have had sex with Ezekiel in a club.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "Duet", Kira confronts 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:It turns out he's actually invoking this trope intentionally; he's really Darhe'el's assistant, posing as him in an attempt to make Cardassia own up to their brutality and appease his own conscience, and he's intentionally trying to wind up the Bajorans so they won't ask too many questions and discover the ruse.]]
** The episode "One More Unto The Breach" reveals that Martok was denied an officer's rank by Kor because Martok was common-blood. Martok holds a grudge against Kor for this for years, but Kor doesn't remember the specific incident (although it's possible the onset of Klingon Alzheimer's may have something to do with it).

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''. Nandor has this reaction when Nadja finds out that he was the one who burned down her village, and is distraught.

* ''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/BlakesSeven''. Subverted in "Rumors of Death" when Avon interrogates a TortureTechnician whom he thinks killed [[LostLenore Anna Grant]]. When the man denies it, Avon assumes this trope is in play. It turns out the torturer remembers his victims because he's proud of his work [[spoiler:and the reason he doesn't remember Anna Grant is because she's a [[TheMole Security agent]], so was never arrested.]]

* Inverted in a Season 1 sketch. Creator/GarrettMorris goes to the FBI with an FOIA request for their file on him. No matter what outrageous actions he ascribes to himself, the weary bureaucrat (Creator/DanAykroyd) finds them to be so dime-a-dozen as to be useless in locating the file.

* A positive example from ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ray Palmer]] tells [[ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} 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.

* ''Series/{{Dracula}}'': When [[AntiHero Van Helsing]] confronts [[BigBad Lord Browning]] in the finale, we get this exchange:

** Heroic example: Anton Ivanov's vendetta against Coulson and SHIELD is rooted in the fact that the 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.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In "Duet", Kira confronts 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.]]

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** 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.

** 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.
* ''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]]).

*** 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 one case, Spike was ''not'' responsible, but it doesn't make him feel any better about it, since he's killed so many people that it's not much of a consolation that he wasn't responsible for these ''particular'' deaths.

* ''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.

** According to Gareth Roberts, an early draft of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]] featured the classic series monster [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]] as the villain — the punchline being that the Doctor would have no idea who he was, even when reminded.

* ''{{Series/ER}}'': An early season 1 episode has the heroic variety. Dr. Greene encounters a former patient who rushes into the [=ER=] on the one year anniversary of the doctor saving his life from some medical issue. The patient hugs, and lifts Greene off the floor, while loudly and happily proclaiming it to be "Dr. Greene Day" and he was going to reward the doctor with ribs. Greene, for his part, is first shocked and confused, but hides the fact this man was one of easily a dozen or more patients he encounters and whose lives he tries to save ''on a daily basis''.

** 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.
** In the season 9 episdoe "Our Drunk Friend", Lucy bonds with an alcoholic patient and becomes determined to help him get sober, despite Cox writing him off as a lost cause. With JD's help, she finally gets him into rehab, and is convinced that he can turn his life around. However, mere days later, he's back in the hospital from alcohol poisoning. While she expresses her disappointment in him, he doesn't even remember who she is, suggesting that this is a cycle he's gone through many times before.

** 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 because the elderly man was loved by so many, 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 (as Bra'tac did before him), before being convinced that an open rebellion against the Goa'uld could succeed. Hence his inability to remember this specific instance.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' gives us "Death's-Head Revisited", where 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.

* A heroic example happens on ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when a vengeful criminal threatens police officer Carl with a gun:
-->'''Carl''': Wait a minute, wait a minute! Before you shoot me, at least tell me who you are, and why you're doing this!
-->'''Criminal''': You busted my brother, Ralphie!
-->'''Carl''':...Would that be Ralphie the pimp, Ralphie the loan shark or Ralphie the snitch?
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows''. Nandor has this reaction when Nadja finds out that he was the one who burned down her village, and is distraught.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' implies a heroic version of this in [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E21Deadlock "Deadlock"]]. By the end of the episode, Ensign Kim and Naomi Wildman have both died, and have been replaced by ReplacementGoldfish from an alternate universe version of the ''Voyager'' where they were the only survivors of the ship's destruction. Janeway advises Kim not to think too much about it.

* Inverted in the fifth season, when Lucifer notes, "I suppose what I call powerlessness is what everyone else calls a Tuesday."

** In "The Boiler Room Job", an arrogant con artist thinks he sees through the BigStore scam the team have set up with various people in an office setting. As it turns out, the whole thing is just a distraction for the team stealing the guy's money out from under him and setting him up on fraud charges. As the man is dragged off by the FBI, Nate reveals that all the people present aren't actors but rather the con artist's past victims who he honestly didn't recognize (not exactly this trope since he ran his scam over the phone, so there was no reason why he should have remembered his victims' faces).

* ''TheTick2016'': Eventually subverted; while The Terror initially doesn't recognize Arthur (not a surprise, since he was a little kid the last time they met), he eventually remembers him, since a photo of the moment immediately after The Terror killed his father made the cover of ''Time'' magazine.