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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS4E10 The Wrath of Baron Samdi]]", one witness is aware of the murderer's identity the entire time, having seen the killer running from the scene, but keeps silent due to sympathizing more with the killer than the AssholeVictim, given that the killer was Tommy Sinclair, a seriously neglected and depressed teenage boy with a crush on his abusive father's new trophy wife and the victim was the father himself, Joseph Sinclair. Then, however, he discovers that the culprit also tried to kill Father Brown to keep him quiet and immediately gives him up, as anyone who would kill a holy man to save his own hide is absolutely not worthy of his goodwill.
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* ''Series/SquidGame'':
** While he did join the Squid Games for a chance to win big, Gi-hun can't vote for the games to continue, after so many people died in the first round alone. He tries this again at the very end when he's on the verge of winning against Sang-woo, not wanting his old friend to die for his victory.
** Sang-woo wants the games to continue. He also knows, however, that the guards are threatening to shoot everyone who wants out. When it seems another massacre will occur, he stands and reminds the guards that per their own contract, the third clause states that the players can vote to stay or leave. At the least he wants to give people a fair chance to vote, even if he doesn't agree with the majority.
** In comparison to the rest of his team, Byeong-gi reacts to 278 mocking the team they just killed in Tug-Of-War with a small, forced smile, whereas the others all properly laugh about it.
** Han Mi-nyeo is absolutely disgusted by Deok-su cowardly trying to make someone else go ahead of him in the stepping stone game, and calls him out on damning everyone else to die because he's too much of a selfish wimp to man up before eventually killing him and herself.
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* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'':
** While Rochelle's parenting style is borderline abusive, she doesn't follow through on any of her more outlandish threats, nor does she strike her children on Christmas. Also, the one crime that she can't forgive of her children is selling drugs.
** Apparently, the one thing Risky won't sell to kids is Playboy magazine.
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* ''Series/FatherTed'': Possibly the most unexpected moment in the DVD Commentary is witnessing Linehan and Mathews get hot under the collar about the scene in "Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse" in which Ted blatantly lies about not having kicked the Bishop with his hand on his heart, swearing "on God, on my religion", and ''while standing right next to a crucifix''. Not only they say that the crucifix wasn't part of the scene as they had written it, but also feel that even by Ted's standards that's incredibly barefaced.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Recurring character Harry "The Hat" is a con man who does things like try to stiff Sam on his bar tab or hustle the patrons but only ever for small amounts ($10 at most). When he finds out another con man has scammed Coach out of thousands of dollars he agrees help get Coach's money back (although he does it with a multilayered scam that puts Sam's nerves through the wringer).

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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Recurring character Harry "The Hat" is a con man who does things like try to stiff Sam on his bar tab or hustle the patrons patrons, but only ever for small amounts ($10 at most). When he finds out another con man has scammed Coach out of thousands of dollars dollars, he agrees to help get Coach's money back (although he does it with a multilayered scam that puts Sam's nerves through the wringer).
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* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'':
** After perusing a copy of TV Guide, Peggy declares to Al, "Honey, ''Series/CopRock'''s on tonight, so we're (she and the kids) going to the movies." Note that Peg is well known for her love of awful television, but something as notoriously bad as "''Cop Rock''" is too terrible even for her.
** In "Her Cups Runneth Over", Steve ogles a mannequin dressed in a leather mini-skirt and match pasties, which he then begins to poke at. Al wanders over, and comments to him "Steve, aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
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* ''Series/{{Intimate}}'':
** Bruno becomes interested in a woman he meets by chance and follows her into a sauna, where he meets a guy who is secretly filming everyone. Bruno has no problem with helping him and using his intel to identify the woman, but when the guy offers him videos of children, he calls the police on him.
** Oskar is pulling a TwinSwitch with his brother Emil and runs into Emil's ex-girlfriend, who promptly tries to come onto him. Oskar decides to betray his brother and give in, but at least he does make sure she's aware that he is actually Oskar (turns out that she is).
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS6E3 Painted in Blood]]", the two NIS officers, Noland and Backney, may be DirtyCops and in on DI Gudgeon's scheme to swipe the missing £5 million from the bank robbery, but they're furious when they learn he's the murderer, especially as the victim was one of their own.
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* ''Series/TheWire'' sees Bunk casually asks Omar why he's decided to step up as a witness against Bird in the Gant killing. Omar says that it's because Bird went after someone who wasn't in "the game", or the drug trade of Baltimore. Omar has done some terrible things, and will do more terrible things once this is all over, but [[NeverHurtAnInnocent hurting people outside of the game is out of the question]].
-->'''Omar:'' Bird triflin' basically, kill an everyday workin' man and all. I mean don't get it twisted, I do some dirt too. But I ain't never put my gun on nobody who wasn't in The Game.\\

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* ''Series/TheWire'' sees Bunk casually asks Omar why he's decided to step up as a witness against Bird in the Gant killing. Omar says that it's because Bird went after someone who wasn't in "the game", or the drug trade of Baltimore.Baltimore, and Omar finds that unacceptable. Omar has done some terrible things, and will do more terrible things once this is all over, but [[NeverHurtAnInnocent hurting people outside of the game is out of the question]].
-->'''Omar:'' -->'''Omar:''' Bird triflin' basically, kill an everyday workin' man and all. I mean don't get it twisted, I do some dirt too. But I ain't never put my gun on nobody who wasn't in The Game.the game.\\
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* ''Series/TheWire'' sees Bunk casually asks Omar why he's decided to step up as a witness against Bird in the Gant killing. Omar says that it's because Bird went after someone who wasn't in "the game", or the drug trade of Baltimore. Omar has done some terrible things, and will do more terrible things once this is all over, but [[NeverHurtAnInnocent hurting people outside of the game is out of the question]].
-->'''Omar:'' Bird triflin' basically, kill an everyday workin' man and all. I mean don't get it twisted, I do some dirt too. But I ain't never put my gun on nobody who wasn't in The Game.\\
'''Bunk:''' A man must have a code.\\
'''Omar:''' Oh, no doubt.
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** [[HostilityOnTheSet Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage don't like each other, and they made (and still make) this pretty clear on interviews even long before the show ended.]] But they also believe in being professionals, and absolutely ''refused'' Discovery's proposal of taping the times when they argued with each other on set for the sake of making the show "more real" (a la ''Series/AmericanChopper'' and similar entries on their lineup).

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** [[HostilityOnTheSet Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage don't like each other, and they made (and still make) this pretty clear on interviews even long before the show ended.]] ended. But they also believe in being professionals, and absolutely ''refused'' Discovery's proposal of taping the times when they argued with each other on set for the sake of making the show "more real" (a la ''Series/AmericanChopper'' and similar entries on their lineup).

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* ''Series/Avenue5'': Harrison Acmes is possibly the biggest {{Jerkass}} on the titular ship (and that is saying something, since almost everyone onboard is an EntitledBastard), but even he is visibly disgusted when a couple of other passengers casually reveal they abandoned their comatose son on Earth just because they didn't want to change their travel plans.

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Harrison Acmes is possibly the biggest {{Jerkass}} on the titular ship (and that is saying something, since almost everyone onboard is an EntitledBastard), but even he is visibly disgusted when a couple of other passengers casually reveal they abandoned their comatose son on Earth just because they didn't want to change their travel plans.plans.
** Lucas Sato treats Avenue 5's entire situation with contempt when he takes over MissionControl on behalf of the government, but he's horrified to learn that The Office of the Other President decides to [[spoiler: destroy the ship and everyone in it with a missile]] once they decide the ship is a lost cause.
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* ''Series/Foundation2021'': In Season 2, Brother Dusk (Cleon XVI) is throughly disgusted by Brother Day (Cleon XVII)'s [[RobosexualsAreCreeps sexual relationship with Demerzel]], viewing it as not just borderline incestuous (because Demerzel is a ParentalSubstitute for all the Cleons) but also as an [[SubordinateExcuse abuse of the authority Day has over her]].
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* ''Series/BlarkAndSon'': Blark admittedly gets his son into more than a few dangerous and insane situations with his 'lessons' but they're (usually. Mostly.) done with [[WellIntentionedExtremist good intentions]]. When he sees that Stacey was trying to get Son (a 12-year old) to drink with him however, he immediately raises his fists, ready to beat the snot out of Stacey.
-->'''Blark''': What the f*ck is going on here?

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* In ''Series/AllInTheFamily,'' Archie Bunker is notorious for his casually racist views, but he is mortified to realize that a white supremacist BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats he has joined, thinking it's a social club, is in fact TheKlan. He tells them off and withdraws his membership on the grounds that, since he once [[ContinuityNod had a blood transfusion from a black woman]], he qualifies as black.

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* In ''Series/AllInTheFamily,'' ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' gives us Archie Bunker is who, while notorious for his casually racist racist, sexist, and homophobic views, but ends up being a NobleBigot rather than a bad man for just how many virtues and standards he actually has. To wit:
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is mortified to realize that a white supremacist BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats he has joined, thinking it's a social club, is in fact TheKlan. He tells them off off, denounces all of their behavior, and withdraws his membership on the grounds that, since he once [[ContinuityNod had a blood transfusion from a black woman]], he qualifies as black.


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** When he goes out for a drink with a man who is cheating on his wife, Archie is ''disgusted'' by the notion of the man's adulterous behavior. He tells the man to act his age, reminds him he has a beautiful wife at home waiting for him, and when the man asks if Archie's ever considered "looking for greener pastures" he counters with "Edith is green enough for me!" The episode ends with him holding Edith's hand.
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* ''Series/InJustice2006'': The judge in the fourth episode is kind of a jerk who only cares about finality (he only reverses his verdict after Swain gets himself placed in prison, causing a public outcry that forces the judge to reverse his decision and allow DNA testing). However, after the DA tries to continue pressing Conti even after he's clearly miserable for reciting a rather painful story, he tells the DA to back off.
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* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Recurring character Harry "The Hat" is a con man who does things like try to stiff Sam on his bar tab or hustle the patrons but only ever for small amounts ($10 at most). When he finds out another con man has scammed Coach out of thousands of dollars he agrees help get Coach's money back (although he does it with a multilayered scam that puts Sam's nerves through the wringer).
-->'''Harry:''' I don't like the idea of someone else plucking ''my'' pigeons.
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* ''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'':
** Kimble Hookstraten may be antagonistic at times with President Kirkman but she acts largely in the best interest of the country and is no traitor unlike [[spoiler: [=MacLeish=]]] and does everything in her power to sabotage [[spoiler: [=MacLeish=]]]'s questionable actions when [[spoiler: he is Acting President after Kirkman was shot.]]
*** Senator Bowman's antics over the gun-control bill frustrate Hookstraten as much as it does to Kirkman so she pledges a more bipartisan amendment approach to Kirkman if the Bill manages to get passed to the White House.
** [[spoiler: [=MacLeish=]]] was a treasonous mass murderer but they still cares deeply for [[spoiler: the men on his old team]] and was angry when [[spoiler: his wife]] indicates they should get rid of [[spoiler: a panicking teammate]] who could have exposed them to the FBI.
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* ''Series/Accused2023'': In "Morgan's Story" Flaco, Eric's seedy informant who's a criminal, comments how it's "cold" that Jason is framing Morgan on drug dealing charges with their help.
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* ''Series/BarRescue'': Taffer invites Tracy and Juciano from Piratz Tavern, who were known among other things for overpouring drinks, for his recon in "Getting Freaki at the Tiki". Even they were put off by the alcohol content of Freaky Tiki's drinks.
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** Played literally in the episode ''Sober Companions'', when Sherlock asks the hacker collective who call themselves Everyone for help tracing a serial killer. Everyone waive their usual fee of making him humiliate himself, because they have standards.
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* ''Series/MilfManor'': The "wall of secrets" challenge mostly range from kind-of embarassing (kissing another guy while drunk) to being a bit of a jerk (having sex with a few girls and then ignoring them). However, everyone thinks that Soyoung's secret (having sex with one of her son's friends) crosses a line and they feel very bad for Jimmy.
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* ''Series/MohawkGirls'': Watio supports the band law that bars non-members from living on the reserve, believing those living there in violation should be evicted. He still finds a mob gathering outside where a non-citizen (white woman) is living deplorable, especially with her child in the house, saying police should handle the matter legally, no one else.

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