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* Parodied in the pilot episode of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': one of Buster Bluth several graduate degrees is stated to be in cartography. When the SEC close in on the family while they are on their yacht, we get this exchange:

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* Parodied in the pilot episode of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': one of Buster Bluth Bluth's several graduate degrees is stated to be in cartography. When the SEC close in on the family while they are on their yacht, we get this exchange:
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* In "The Great Game", in Series/{{Sherlock}}, Sherlock showcases his ability to judge fluctuations in weight to the half-pound, by commenting on Molly's three pound weight gain (though she claims it's only two and a half). A similar skill helped him [[spoiler: deduce Irene Adler's exact measurements]] in "The Scandal in Belgravia."

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* In "The Great Game", in Series/{{Sherlock}}, ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', Sherlock showcases his ability to judge fluctuations in weight to the half-pound, by commenting on Molly's three pound weight gain (though she claims it's only two and a half). A similar skill helped him [[spoiler: deduce Irene Adler's exact measurements]] in "The Scandal in Belgravia."
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* ''Series/ {{Capadocia}}'': Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana ODs. She ends up joining the prison's drug operation.

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* ''Series/ {{Capadocia}}'': ''Series/{{Capadocia}}'': Inmate Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana ODs. [=ODs=] and Lorena revives her. She ends up joining the prison's drug operation.operation in exchange for a small amount for her personal use.



** Theon's archery skills, which he rightly boasts about, come in very handy during a particularly tense moment later in the season when he shoots a wildling who was holding Bran at knifepoint.

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** Theon's archery skills, which he rightly boasts about, come in very handy during a particularly tense moment later in the first season when he shoots a wildling who was holding Bran at knifepoint.



** Sansa is established to be good at sewing in the very first episode. Four seasons later, it actually becomes useful when she unveils her EvilCostumeSwitch.

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** Sansa is established to be good at Sansa's sewing skills are admired by Queen Cersei in the very first episode. Four seasons later, it actually becomes useful when she unveils her EvilCostumeSwitch. Later in, she makes a cloak for Jon that resembles their father's.
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* ''Series/ElInternadoLasCumbres'': Amaia is deaf and must wear hearing aids or else resort to ReadingLips. She This talent comes in handy later on when the group finds a video of Patient Zero with no audio.

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* ''Series/ {{Capadocia}}'': Lorena's degree in chemistry comes in handy when La Colombiana ODs. She ends up joining the prison's drug operation.



** Theon's archery skills, which he rightly boasts about, come in very hand during a particularly tense sense later in the season.

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** Theon's archery skills, which he rightly boasts about, come in very hand handy during a particularly tense sense moment later in the season.season when he shoots a wildling who was holding Bran at knifepoint.



** Olly's declaration that he was the best archer in his hamlet in "Oathkeeper" becomes important in "The Watchers on the Wall".

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** Olly's declaration that he was the best archer in his hamlet in "Oathkeeper" becomes important in "The Watchers on the Wall".Wall" [[spoiler:when he shoots and kills Ygritte]].

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** One of the explosive smugglers from "Cop Killer" recently learned how to fix air conditioners in prison. During a JanitorImpersonationInfiltration, he uses this knowledge to correctly answer a CoverIdentityAnomaly test question.* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', newly immortal Richie makes an enemy of an female immortal who was friends with Duncan. Duncan trains him to counter a specific move she likes to use. Naturally, he's able to win the fight using it, but chooses not to take her head.

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** One of the explosive smugglers from "Cop Killer" recently learned how to fix air conditioners in prison. During a JanitorImpersonationInfiltration, he uses this knowledge to correctly answer a CoverIdentityAnomaly test question.question.
* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', newly immortal Richie makes an enemy of an a female immortal who was friends with Duncan. Duncan trains him to counter a specific move she likes to use. Naturally, he's able to win the fight using it, but chooses not to take her head.
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* In ''Series/TheInvisibleMan'' episode "The Other Invisible Man", the Agency learn that the quicksilver gland (the artificial organ that allows Darien Fawkes to turn invisible) can contain RNA from others, which initially results in [[spoiler:Darien being temporarily "possessed" by the memory engrams of Simon Cole, the man who had the gland before him]]. Later on, Darien convinces Claire, the Agency's doctor, to use this quirk of the gland to temporarily bring his dead brother Kevin "back to life" in his body, in the hope that Kevin will devise a means of extracting the gland from Darien, but although Kevin was the lead scientist on the Invisible Man project, the RNA samples used are from a point before Kevin completed the experiment and so he doesn't know how to do it.

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* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', newly immortal Richie makes an enemy of an female immortal who was friends with Duncan. Duncan trains him to counter a specific move she likes to use. Naturally, he's able to win the fight using it, but chooses not to take her head.

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* ''Series/TheGoodGuys'':
** Inverted in "The Whistle-Blower" with the ''lack'' of skill a CorruptCorporateExecutive displays playing golf. His lousy stance also causes him to be a poor shot with a gun in the climax.
** One of the explosive smugglers from "Cop Killer" recently learned how to fix air conditioners in prison. During a JanitorImpersonationInfiltration, he uses this knowledge to correctly answer a CoverIdentityAnomaly test question.
* In ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', newly immortal Richie makes an enemy of an female immortal who was friends with Duncan. Duncan trains him to counter a specific move she likes to use. Naturally, he's able to win the fight using it, but chooses not to take her head.
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* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'' has Robert teach his daughter to shoot to better defend herself from the uncertainties in their AfterTheEnd world. Not only does it bring this estranged father and daughter together, but six episodes later she saves his life.

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* ''Series/{{Jericho}}'' ''Series/Jericho2006'' has Robert teach his daughter to shoot to better defend herself from the uncertainties in their AfterTheEnd world. Not only does it bring this estranged father and daughter together, but six episodes later she saves his life.
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* ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'': The subplot of a Season 2 episode centers around Don and Charlie learning that their mother was a gifted musician, in the course of which it's revealed that Don and Charlie took piano lessons as children and while neither of them stuck with it long-term, Don apparently picked up and retained at least the basics as he's able to play the piano in TheTag. In the Season 3 finale, Don finds a key clue to help Charlie solve a MadBomber's puzzle when he realizes that a particular sequence used by the bomber is based on the G-major scale.

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