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* One common criticism of ''Series/Wandavision'' involves the finale, where Monica Rambeau says, [[spoiler:"They'll never know what you sacrificed." This is widely taken as "proof" that the show's writers wanted to say Wanda was completely right. Except the remark doesn't actually imply Wanda was right to create and maintain the Hex, it just expresses sympathy for her loss. Monica is not entirely objective, because she went through a similar loss to Wanda. Plus there's ''the entire context of that line''. Specifically, everyone in town glares at Wanda for what she did to them, so Wanda hides her face, and right after Monica's line, SWORD pulls up for a chat with Wanda, who flies away and hides somewhere remote.]]

* Everyone knows that ''Series/TedLasso'' is a warm-and-fuzzy feel-good comedy about the power of kindness and positive thinking, to the point that ''Website/TheOnion'' satirically described the show as a series of stock photos of people hugging and numerous thinkpieces have been written about the show's promotion of toxic positivity. Except a central theme of the show is that a positive attitude ''can't'' solve everything and can actually be harmful if used as a band-aid solution for real problems. Ted's constant optimism and determination to help everyone around him causes almost as many problems as it solves,[[note]]Among other examples, Ted begins having panic attacks due to his failure to deal with his negative emotions around his divorce and living far away from his son, Nate undergoes a FaceHeelTurn because Ted's mentorship of him feeds into his need for the external validation he never got from his emotionally neglectful father, and Beard calls out Ted's "winning isn't everything" philosophy as incredibly selfish when so many people's careers depend on the team's performance.[[/note]] and is eventually revealed to be [[StepfordSmiler a coping mechanism for the trauma of his father's suicide]]. The series also generally deals with very heavy topics that belie its feel-good reputation, including divorce, physical and emotional abuse, personal trauma, misogyny, toxic masculinity, homophobia, and mental illness.

** Many will tell you ''Ultraman'' is made on a painfully low budget. In reality, the series was ''one of the most expensive TV shows of all time'' when it debuted (although Japanese shows are made on lower budgets compared to US shows), as it used the exact same kinds of special effects tactics used in ''movies'' of the period (also a strong case of OnceOriginalNowOverdone as many of these were groundbreaking for their time).

* Everybody "knows" that comedy in ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'' is just [[{{Flanderization}} all about]] the titular hero running from an exponentially growing, angry crowd, with mandatory use of {{Undercrank}} and [[ThemeTune Yakety Sax theme]]. This is a reason why many people write off the entire series ([[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch usually without even watching it]]) and repetitive and unimaginative. However, it's only partially true. The show's formula does indeed require that [[OncePerEpisode every episode]] should be concluded with a scene where Benny Hill gets on somebody's bad side and runs away -- often inadvertently aggravating other people who join the chase -- but the rest of the episode consists entirely of multiple sketches that vary wildly in characteristics and thematics. And no -- while undercranking is indeed used, it's definitely not a necessity.

*** The only thing everyone knows about them from ''Star Trek'' (apart from the pointy ears) is that they have no emotions. They in fact have very strong emotions--often described as more powerful than that of humans, to the point that, when combined with their strength and technology, it led to ''anarchy that nearly destroyed them.'' This is why their culture now encourages all Vulcans to suppress emotion and act on logic. Their stoic nature is cultural, not genetic. To see what Vulcans would be like without this cultural aspect, just look to the Romulans, an offshoot of the Vulcans directed their aggression outward and became interstellar conquerors. ''Some'' Vulcans do purge their emotions through the discipline of ''Kohlinar'', but this is very rare. In fact, both [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Spock]] and [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tuvok]] embarked on this path, and both failed.

** It is often claimed that the plot is kicked off by Emma coming to Storybrooke to take her long-lost son Henry away from his adoptive mother Regina and the whole first season is one big custody battle. Except that is not the reason Emma comes to Storybrooke. Henry pays an unexpected visit to his birth mother and convinces her to take him back to Storybrooke in hopes she will break the town's Dark Curse as she is prophesied to do. While Emma's decision to ''stay'' in Storybrooke is motivated by concern Regina is an unfit parent, and there is a lot of drama caused by the latter's understandable fear Emma will take her adopted son away, Emma does not try to regain custody of Henry until near the end of the season, and even that is quickly cut off in a couple episodes and rendered irrelevant in later seasons.

* People who are only casually aware of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' sometimes claim that the series features Elsa from ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' making a LawyerFriendlyCameo. In fact, the character in the show actually ''is'' Elsa. While she's [[AlternateContinuity a slightly different version of the character from the film]], they're very explicitly the same character--and Anna, Kristoff, and Hans are in the series too. ''Once Upon a Time'' is produced and distributed by Creator/{{ABC}}, which is a subsidiary of Creator/TheWaltDisneyCompany, so the showrunners have full rights to use licensed Disney characters.

** Everyone knows that the episode ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E106HesAlive He's Alive]]'' was never rerun or shown in syndication because of its controversial subject matter. While it is true that a lot of people who grew up on the reruns probably never saw it, it's not because it was banned, but because it was part of the fourth season which had hour-long episodes, so couldn't be shown in the usual half-hour timeslot. Despite this, the fourth season (''He's Alive'' included) was included in the syndication and cable packages, but was usually shown in a different timeslot (usually late at night) or burned off all at once in a marathon.
** Everyone knows that ''[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder The Eye of the Beholder]]'' revolves around a woman with a bandaged face waiting to see if her most recent plastic surgery has fixed her hideous deformity, [[spoiler: which is actually conventional beauty, while the other people in her world look like twisted-lipped pigs]]. Except she hasn't had plastic surgery. The doctor explains that her bone structure and other medical factors prevent them from surgically correcting her face, so they've been trying to cure her with medications and shots instead, and are waiting to see if her body responds.

** Many fans have cited how it makes no sense that the Rangers would drop the powers they obtained in ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' in favor for those in ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', since the Zeo powers grow stronger over time and are easily able to scale to any new threats, as was demonstrated by how [[spoiler:Jason]] struggled to control the Gold Ranger powers because they had grown too strong for him to handle without being accustomed to them before. Except the series never said that - the ''Zeo Crystal'' was stated to increase in power over time, but it was never stated that the same would apply to the individual powers of the Rangers empowered by it. For that matter. [[spoiler:Jason]] didn't struggle with the Gold Ranger powers because of their strength, but because he had inherited them from Trey of Triforia, an alien with three bodies, which put three times as much strain on him to maintain them. The Gold Ranger powers didn't even come from the Zeo Crystal at all, which is why the Gold Ranger has a different morphing call and doesn't follow the same naming conventions of the other Zeo Rangers, who are referred to as Zeo Ranger One through Five, rather than by their colors. This myth seems to stem from ''WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers'' making this assumption in their video on ''Zeo'', and the fandom taking it as fact.

*** Non-fans know the Daleks are "The evil robots from ''Doctor Who''". Although the show has often flip-flopped on continuity, it's always been clear from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks their very first appearance]] that the Daleks are actually alien mutants with robotic exoskeletons, and thus {{cyborg}}s, not full robots. Even the Oxford English Dictionary defines "dalek" as "A type of '''robot''' appearing in "Doctor Who", a B.B.C. Television science-fiction programme". This is likely due to their completely robotic-sounding voices, as well as all their organic parts being internal, making them easy to mistake for robots by those with only a passing familiarity with the show. There's even a serial -- credited to Dalek creator Creator/TerryNation himself -- which refers to them as robots: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks "Destiny of the Daleks"]] the Doctor calls the Daleks and Movellans "two races of robots engaged in a stalemated war" -- although the director claims that it was mostly written by script editor Creator/DouglasAdams. Furthermore, the serial shows the Doctor finding a Dalek mutant and has Romana say the Daleks were once humanoid, aligning with the origin stories given in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisofTheDaleks "Genesis of the Daleks"]] (both written predominantly by Nation). The Doctor is probably implying that Daleks think exactly like robots in terms of their military strategy, so for the purpose of that discussion he was correct.