History GenreSavvy / LiveACtionTV

* In an episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', young Martin Stein unexpectedly notices a parallel between the situation at hand and ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' (he saw it, but didn't like it).

* In the famous ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," Claude Akins' character recognizes the neighborhood is in a Crucible-esque story. He tells his friends and neighbors that if they keep going the way they're going, they'll end up accusing each other of being aliens in a paranoid fit. The Twilight Zone being The Twilight Zone, no one listens.
* In an episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', young Martin Stein unexpectedly notices a parallel between the situation at hand and ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' (he saw it, but didn't like it).

* In an episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow, young Martin Stein unexpectedly notices a parallel between the situation at hand and ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' (he saw it, but didn't like it).

* In an episode of ''Series/LegendsofTomorrow, young Martin Stein unexpectedly notices a parallel between the situation at hand and ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' (he saw it, but didn't like it).

* In the famous ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," Claude Akins' character recognizes the neighborhood is in a Crucible-esque story. He tells his friends and neighbors that if they keep going the way they're going, they'll end up accusing each other of being aliens in a paranoid fit. The Twilight Zone being The Twilight Zone, no one listens.

** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': When trapped in a room with a pregnant woman, Sheppard informs her that she's probably going to go into labor because that's what always happens in movies. Fortunately, it's subverted, which is good since she was only in her second trimester.

* Parodied in Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger with Nobuo Akagi: For how aware he is of all the rules of the Tv show he's in and Franchise/SuperSentai in general, you would think he would have figured out he was in a Tv show [[spoiler: It's because of this he does eventually figure it out.]]

* ''Series/TheAvengers'': In one episode, one character points out that although it seems that they are all trapped in a thriller, the eyes in a painting aren't moving.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': Sam Ander's admission to Starbuck that his resistance team really just lifts tactics out of movies. Which, apparently, Cylons have no real interest in reviewing.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'':

* ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'': On the 11/07/16 show, Creator/DonCheadle answered that he wouldn't want to take a ride on Elon Musk's just announced Interplanetary Transport System and be the first black guy on Mars, [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "because then I'd be the first to go."]]

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]'':
-->'''Doctor''': How do you think? A good wizard trapped it.
-->'''River''': I hate good wizards in fairy tales, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield they always turn out to be him.]]

-->'''Kara'''(''recognizing that the plot expects her and Barry to do a song and dance number''): Do you happen to have anything original?\\
'''Musical!Winn''': As a matter of fact, I've been working on something all day.\\
'''Barry''': Wow. Things really are easier in musicals.

** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Jack O'Neill says when dealing with an Asteroid heading towards earth "I've seen [[Film/{{Armageddon}} this movie]]...It hits Paris." It turns out to be headed for a North Atlantic splashdown, which is [[Film/DeepImpact another movie]].

** ''Series/StargateSG1'': Jack O'Neill says when dealing with an Asteroid heading towards earth "I've seen [[Film/Armageddon this movie]]...It hits Paris." It turns out to be headed for a North Atlantic splashdown, which is [[Film/DeepImpact another movie]].

* ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'': On the 11/07/16 show, Creator/DonCheadle answered that he wouldn't want to take a ride on Elon Musk's latest money pit and be the first black guy on Mars, [[BlackDudeDiesFirst "because then I'd be the first to go."]]

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Jack O'Neill says when dealing with an Asteroid heading towards earth "I've seen this movie...It hits Paris."
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Not just limited to the Milky Way Galaxy: when trapped in a room with a pregnant woman, Sheppard informs her that she's probably going to go into labor because that's what always happens in movies. (Fortunately, it ends up ''not'' happening, though when later trapped on a ship in the next season it does.)
** Similarly, Dr. (Meredith) Rodney [=McKay=] is a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan to the point of Genre Savviness. He even says that Dr. Beckett is their Dr. [=McCoy=], due to his views on Stargate travel (hint: it's [=McCoy's=] view on transporters). After an alien woman falls in love with Lt. Col. Sheppard, he exclaims "Oh God, he ''is'' Kirk!"
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': [[TheEveryman Everyman]] [[IKnowMortalKombat Geek Genius]] [[UnluckyEverydude Eli Wallace]] seems to share this trait, in large part due to his enthusiasm for science fiction. A promo had him comparing an ice planet to Hoth, and in Air, Part 3 has him warning the expedition party that [[LetsSplitUpGang splitting up]] is [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling a verrrrry bad idea]]. Three guesses as to if he's right or not. [[spoiler:He is, though nothing too dramatic happens. Basically half of the team goes through the stargate to an unexplored planet where they have a heavily implied [[OffscreenCrash Offscreen Death]].]]

* ''KamenRiderExAid'': The setting is based on a variety of video games, and Emu and Nico's knowledge of gaming puts them ahead of the others. Emu in particular is always prepared for any UnexpectedGameplayChange, rolling with the changes and adapting to new methods of play while his coworkers struggle. When an opponent attacks with a rhythm game pattern, Emu dances along with it, [[NoSell no selling]] the attack while a confused Hiiro takes damage. When they're beating on Burgermon, Emu saves the day by cooking burgers as that's the kind of game Burgermon was made to represent.

** Similarly, Dr. (Meredith) Rodney [=McKay=] is a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan to the point of {{Genre Savv|y}}iness. He even says that Dr. Beckett is their Dr. [=McCoy=], due to his views on Stargate travel (hint: it's [=McCoy's=] view on transporters). After an alien woman falls in love with Lt. Col. Sheppard, he exclaims "Oh God, he ''is'' Kirk!"

* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': In "And Then There Was Shawn," while the kids are in detention, and things begin looking terrifying, we learn that Shawn is very Genre Savvy when it comes to [[{{Horror}} Horror movies]], quickly pointing out the [[AloneWithThePsycho dangers of splitting up]] and the fact that [[DeathBySex virgins never die]].

* ''{{Moonlighting}}'': The whole reason for Maddy and David not to continue their relationship was because they knew they were in a TV show that depended on the UnresolvedSexualTension of the two leads.

** Sisko isn't the only one either; Dax (or at least ''Jadzia'') occasionally has flashes of this, but usually only enough to [[DeadpanSnarker get a good line in]]. Garak on the other hand seems to know he's trapped in a fictional world, usually using his savvy to poke fun at Dr. Bashir's chronic GenreBlindness. Which is even funnier because Bashir's main hobby for much of the later seasons is playing holographic recreations of not-quite-Bond novels, about which ''he'' is extremely Genre Savvy and Garak knows ''nothing''... there's extra bonus irony from Garak being an ''actual'' former intelligence officer who sardonically observes that all of Bashir's crazy antics in saving the day according to the rules of the fictional spy plot they're enacting is much rosier than the real thing which is exactly why Bashir can solve the programme and Garak can't (Garak thinks like a "real" intelligence agent, Bashir thinks like a "fictional" (re: romanticised) one. At least Garak appreciates the fancy tuxedos that he and Bashir get to wear as part of the game. (Garak also being a tailor and all.)
-->'''Garak:''' "I'm beginning to think I joined the wrong intelligence agency!"
** The Female Changeling shows in this dialogue from "What You Leave Behind" that she isn't inclined to pointlessly prolong the lives of her prisoners, thus giving them more chances to escape, by bringing them in for a final confrontation.
-->'''Broca:''' Shall I have them brought here?
-->'''Female Changeling:''' What for? (to Weyoun) Have them executed immediately.

** Grace grew up watching slasher films with her father so she knows the typical twists and turns, but she turns out to be ''too'' genre savvy because she keeps trying to connect [[spoiler: the Bathtub Baby]] to the murders [[spoiler: thereby making herself a suspect.]] She also briefly distrusts [[LoveInterest Pete]] because [[spoiler: he's the school's mascot so owns a Red Devil costume, the disguise used by the killer]]. She is smart enough to try and convince Zayday that they'll be safer if they quit Kappa though.

** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned]], after two disastrous Christmas's in a row, the ''entire city of London'', wises up and evacuates before the disaster even happens.
** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]'', [[ShakespeareInFiction William Shakespeare]] is also pretty savvy, [[TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples rather unsurprisingly]]. [[spoiler: He even figures out on his own that the Doctor is a time traveller.]]

* In the famous ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," Claude Akins' character recognizes the neighborhood is in a Crucible-esque story. He tells his friends and neighbors that if they keep going the way they're going, they'll end up accusing each other of being aliens in a paranoid fit. The Twilight Zone being The Twilight Zone, no one listens.
-->'''Poirot''': It is better zis way. Some courts, zey do not accept ze evil voice as evidence.

* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': In "And Then There Was Shawn," while the kids are in detention, and things begin looking terrifying, we learn that Shawn is very GenreSavvy when it comes to [[{{Horror}} Horror movies]], quickly pointing out the [[AloneWithThePsycho dangers of splitting up]] and the fact that [[DeathBySex virgins never die]].

** Hiro Nakamura. "You're telling us your plan? What kind of overconfident nemesis are you?" Though not GenreSavvy enough to just listen to the plan. Given that he's read lots of superhero comics...

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Some (but not all) of the characters are GenreSavvy. Boone suspects he is a RedShirt. Hurley and Charlie often question the wisdom of traipsing into a monster-inhabited jungle.

* ''Series/TheMiddleman'': The Middleman himself and his SideKick Wendy are both GenreSavvy, as is potential {{Love Interest|s}} Tyler. Their knowledge of comic book tropes is part and parcel of the job they do.

** Being in a town full of amnesiac storybook characters, and armed with a book of fairy tales allows Henry to augment his already considerable GuileHero skills. Between this and the LivingLieDetector ability he inherited from his mother, his GenreSavvy borders on superhuman.

* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Streetwise con-artist clone Sarah Manning has a GenreSavvy moment when she first meets corporate "ProClone" Rachel Duncan and quips "Is this the part when 20 more of you robot bitches walk in for effect?"

** Sisko isn't the only one either; Dax (or at least ''Jadzia'') occasionally has flashes of this, but usually only enough to [[DeadpanSnarker get a good line in]]. Garak on the other hand seems to know he's trapped in a fictional world, usually using his savvy to poke fun at Dr. Bashir's chronic GenreBlindness. Which is even funnier because Bashir's main hobby for much of the later seasons is playing holographic recreations of not-quite-Bond novels, about which ''he'' is extremely GenreSavvy and Garak knows ''nothing''... there's extra bonus irony from Garak being an ''actual'' former intelligence officer who sardonically observes that all of Bashir's crazy antics in saving the day according to the rules of the fictional spy plot they're enacting is much rosier than the real thing which is exactly why Bashir can solve the programme and Garak can't (Garak thinks like a "real" intelligence agent, Bashir thinks like a "fictional" (re: romanticised) one. At least Garak appreciates the fancy tuxedos that he and Bashir get to wear as part of the game. (Garak also being a tailor and all.)

** The episode "Elementary, My Dear Data" has its major conflict come up because of Data, in the role of Sherlock Holmes in a holodeck story, veering past GenreSavvy straight into [[spoiler:cutting straight to the ending by telling the first policeman he sees who the villain is and the crime because he already knew the story without doing any sleuthing]]; the resultant discussion over how Data could "enjoy" the exercise leads to the self-inflicted, ship-endangering mishap of the week.