History CreatorBreakdown / LiveActionTV

** Another example: in a particularly [[TearJerker depressing]] episode the TrueCompanions had fallen to incredibly bad terms and were on the verge of [[FeudEpisode splitting up for good]]. FlashForward (but [[DaydreamSurprise not really]]) to the 10 year reunion. The gang had all gone their separate ways, but Eric had taken the split up the hardest. He was shown at first as a hilariously crazy MountainMan dressed like [[TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]], but there was intense MoodWhiplash when he presented the book he wrote about the meaning of life. It was a {{Doorstopper}}, but with writing on only the first page: "Lose one friend. Lose all friends. Lose yourself." When asked why he didn't write anything else, he said "[[TearJerker Nothing else seemed important]]."

** A bit of a meta [=/=] FridgeBrilliance example: in the first season, a RunningGag is that Castle killed off his previous character, Derrick Storm, because he was bored with him. Looking over [[{{Defictionalization}} the (fictional) bibliography]] provided at the character's [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], the blurbs for several of the works featuring this character seem to suggest a number of increasingly unsubtle (and no doubt ignored) hints from Castle that he's a bit bored with this guy and would like to stop writing him now, please,
* Another in-universe example occurs in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "True Night", where the killer, a comic book artist, creates an extremely violent comic starring what appears to be a NinetiesAntiHero, because of the same issues ([[spoiler: watching his pregnant girlfriend die at the hands of street thugs]]) that are making him kill. In fact, his art is ''based'' on his murders.

-->'''Abed:''' The Dean is going insane and taking all of you with him.

--->'''Alexis''': This robbery detective character... he seems to come out of nowhere.
--->'''Castle''': ''[Troubled for reasons obviously beyond writing]'' I can't argue with that...
--->'''Alexis''': He seems like kind of a doofus.
--->'''Castle''': ''[Eagerly]'' Yeah? You think?

* An in-universe example in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''. Eli writes a play after he breaks up with Clare, even naming the character that breaks the main character's heart Clare and naming the guy who stole her from him Jack (after Clare's new boyfriend Jake).

* An in-universe example in ''{{Degrassi}}''. Eli writes a play after he breaks up with Clare, even naming the character that breaks the main character's heart Clare and naming the guy who stole her from him Jack (after Clare's new boyfriend Jake).

* A similar example to the above occurs on ''{{Seinfeld}}'', when Jerry tells a would-be stand-up comic who he finds annoying that she's not funny. So, of course, when she premieres an act that centers ''entirely'' around insulting Jerry (and this isn't even telling jokes about him - this is pretty much just ''actually nakedly insulting him''), she becomes a hit.[[note]]The comic is played by KathyGriffin, whose real-life comedy act consists of making fun of celebrities.[[/note]]

* By her own admission, much of the [[SeasonalRot widely disliked Season 6]] of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is a rehashing of that (and last) season's showrunner Marti Noxon's own personal issues.

* A combination of CreatorBreakdown and ExecutiveMeddling may have contributed to DaveChappelle abandoning ''ChapellesShow'', even after the show had become a massive hit and the comedian was offered a $50 ''million'' contract by the network.

* A similar example to the above occurs on ''{{Seinfeld}}'', when Jerry tells a would-be stand-up comic who he finds annoying that she's not funny. So, of course, when she premieres an act that centers ''entirely'' around insulting Jerry (and this isn't even telling jokes about him - this is pretty much just ''actually nakedly insulting him''), she becomes a hit.[[hottip:*:The comic is played by KathyGriffin, whose real-life comedy act consists of making fun of celebrities.]]

** Which might also explain why San Diego is a nuclear wasteland in the ''{{Babylon 5}}'' 'verse.

* Parodied in ''{{Castle}}''; over the later episodes of season two, Detective Tom Demming appears as a [[RomanticFalseLead rival over Beckett's attentions and affections]] for the eponymous novelist. He's quite successful, displacing Castle in several ways. Not long after, a character called 'Detective Schlemming' makes his way into later drafts of Castle's most recent novel.

* Another in-universe example occurs in the ''CriminalMinds'' episode "True Night", where the killer, a comic book artist, creates an extremely violent comic starring what appears to be a NinetiesAntiHero, because of the same issues ([[spoiler: watching his pregnant girlfriend die at the hands of street thugs]]) that are making him kill. In fact, his art is ''based'' on his murders.

** In ''Documentary Filmaking Redux'' Dean Pelton completely breaks down trying to film a commercial for Greendale, and warps the entire school around, cancelling all classes. Abed decided to document the whole thing because he predicted this would happen. The whole episode is a parody of ''[[ApocalypseNow Hearts of Darkness]]'', which gets lampshaded repeatedly.

* Matt Albie and Harriet Hayes' relationship in the short lived ''{{Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip}}'' was largely thought to have been inspired by Aaron Sorkin's tumultuous real life relationship with Kristen Chenoweth. Also, in the same show Danny Tripp is unable to continue to direct movies for the time being after failing an insurance physical drug test -- Sorkin having had similar drug-related issues in the past.

** A bit of a meta [=/=] FridgeBrilliance example: in the first season, a RunningGag is that Castle killed off his previous character, Derrick Storm, because he was bored with him. Looking over [[{{Defictionalization}} the (fictional) bibliography]] provided at the character's [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], the blurbs for several of the works featuring this character seem to suggest a number of increasingly unsubtle (and no doubt ignored) hints from Castle that he's a bit bored with this guy and would like to stop writing him now, please,

* In {{How I Met Your Mother}}, main character Ted's former love interest's husband writes a romantic comedy directly based upon the events leading up to him winning the woman away from Ted, but in a drastically distorted POV that shows him as a hero and Ted as an obnoxious heel (played by real-life obnoxious heel Chris Kattan). The movie then goes on to be a huge hit.

* In ''{{Babylon 5}}'', Stephen Franklin quits his job and goes wandering around the seedier parts of the station. Eventually he's stabbed and nearly dies. Some time after the episode aired, JMichaelStraczynski was asked if he'd ever done anything similar. He described how he used to wander around the seedier parts of San Diego, late at night, until he was mugged and beaten nearly to death. Until then he hadn't made the connection.

* A combination of CreatorBreakdown and ExecutiveMeddling may have contributed to DaveChapelle abandoning ''ChapellesShow'', even after the show had become a massive hit and the comedian was offered a $50 ''million'' contract by the network.

* A combination of CreatorBreakdown and ExecutiveMeddling may have contributed to DaveChappelle abandoning ''ChappellesShow'', even after the show had become a massive hit and the comedian was offered a $50 ''million'' contract by the network.

* A very literal example, the tone of both the ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]]''-based ''StarTrek'' movies and ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' took a significant (some would say "immensely better") turn in theme and storytelling with the departure of GeneRoddenberry, who was unceremoniously KickedUpstairs from the former, and who proved unequal to the task of producing the latter, due to ill health. He died in 1991.

* Parodied on ''{{Community}}'' when Vaughn breaks up with Britta, he cowrites a song called "Getting Rid of Britta" that consists of the refrain "She's a GDB" sung multiple times.

** In ''Documentary Filmaking Redux'' Dean Pelton completely breaks down trying to film a commercial for Greendale, and warps the entire school around, cancelling all classes. Abed decided to document the whole thing because he predicted this would happen.

* A very literal example, the tone of both the ''[[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]]''-based ''StarTrek'' movies and ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' took a significant (some would say "immensely better") turn in theme and storytelling with the departure of GeneRoddenberry, who proved unequal to the task of producing either due to ill health. The point became moot when he died in 1991.

** A bit of a meta [=/=] FridgeBrilliance example: in the first season, a RunningGag is that Castle killed off his previous character, Derrick Storm, because he was bored with him. Looking over [[{{Defictionalization}} the (fictional) bibliography]] provided at the character's [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], the blurbs for several of the works featuring this character seem to suggest a number of increasingly unsubtle (and no doubt ignored) hints from Castle that he's a bit bored with all this guy and would like to stop writing him now, please,

'''Abed:''' The Dean is going insane and taking all of you with him.

* Parodied in ''{{Castle}}''; over the later episodes of season two, Detective Tom Demming appears as a [[RomanticFalseLead rival over Beckett's affections]] for the eponymous novelist. He's quite successful, displacing Castle in several ways. Not long after, a character called 'Detective Schlemming' makes his way into later drafts of Castle's most recent novel.