History Main / DayInTheLife

* For a Creator/MutantEnemy example, go to the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E09HarmsWay Harm's Wa]]". If you see the secondary character Harmony get up in the morning, work, go to Happy Hour, then wake up the next day with a hangover and a dead stranger, you have a Day In The Life. The episode is also ADayInTheLimelight.

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E15TheLowerDecks The Lower Decks]]", the day of four junior crewmen and their interaction with the senior crew is highlighted. One of the crewmen is one of the former Academy cadets that was involved with Wesley's squadron covering up losing a man to an illegal flight maneuver.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' did it in "Data's Day".
** In the episode "Lower Decks," the day of four junior crewmen and their interaction with the senior crew is highlighted. One of the crewmen is one of the former Academy cadets that was involved with Wesley's squadron covering up losing a man to an illegal flight maneuver.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

* For a Creator/MutantEnemy example, go to the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Harm's Way''. If you see the secondary character Harmony get up in the morning, work, go to Happy Hour, then wake up the next day with a hangover and a dead stranger, you have a Day In The Life. The episode is also ADayInTheLimelight.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q&ob=av2n It Was a Good Day]]" by Music/IceCube describes a good day for a gangster.

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* The "Diamond and Vindicator Adopt a Baby" (in which the superheroine Diamond and her partner, the superheroine Vindicator, both feeling their biological clock ticking, adopt a baby girl), "Rebound and the Nosy Reporter" (in which Rebound romances a reporter who at first seems only interested in digging up dirt about him and his teammates), "Achilles Has a Heart-to-Heart With His Dad" (in which heroic Achilles has an emotional discussion about life with his father, the EvilOverlord known as Lord Doom over a game of chess) and "Ultra-Man Builds a House" (in which Ultra-Man [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin returns to his home town to do just that]]) storylines from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''.
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* Episode 9 of ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. It's so much a Day In The Life that there are long, silent sections of a character reading a book. Apparently, it was intentionally written as such in order to contrast with the traditional GrandFinale episodes in anime. Note that this episode is chronologically the last in the series.
** This is also the only episode where Kyon does not narrate, and he spends significant portions out doing errands with no view from his perspective.

* Issue 8 of ''[[ComicBook/TeenTitans The New Teen Titans]]'' featured a story titled "A Day in the Lives" (as shown in the page pic) which followed all the Titans except Robin during a normal day. It's widely agreed that it was this issue which helped launch ''The New Teen Titans'' to the best-seller list (where it would remain for ''sixteen years'').

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* Episode 9 of ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. It's so much a Day In The Life that there are long, silent sections of a character reading a book. Apparently, it was intentionally written as such in order to contrast with the traditional GrandFinale episodes in anime. Note that this episode is chronologically the last in the series.

Some stories place a DayInTheLife at the very beginning to establish TheProtagonist as one of the NormalPeople the audience can relate to, before things go downhill fast. In such cases, a Day In The Life can be seen as an action-free BatmanColdOpen.

-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand A]] [[TropeNamer Day in the Life]]"

* In the ''Series/KungFu: The Legend Continues'' episode "May I Ride With You?" Caine tries to get to know his son Peter better by spending a day accompanying him on his rounds as a cop. Peter returns the favor a season later in "May I Walk With You?"

* It's a good way to spotlight a minor character, as in the episode of ''Series/TheTick'' where they follow Sewer Urchin around on his underground routine (which is far more fraught and dangerous than they thought). This provides a bit of RetCon and BackStory for the Sewer Urchin. Plus, very funny. This episode is also ADayInTheLimelight.

* TheResidents album ''Music/{{Eskimo}}'' is a Day in the Life of an Inuit Clan.

* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E04WeekendAtBobbys "Weekend at Bobby's" (S06, E04)]] revolves around Bobby's general routine [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin over a couple of days]]. Given the general weirdness of happenings on the show and Bobby's prominent role in the hunter community, this involves [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer answering phones and pretending to be various government officers]], [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique hiding bodies from the police]], [[ChunkySalsaRule shoving an okami into a woodchipper]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking doling out well-researched advice to hunters in the field]]. Bobby's overarching goal of getting his soul back from [[DealWithTheDevil Crowley]] is practically a side-plot.

* Episode 10 of ''LightNovel/{{Akikan}}!'' showed a day in the life of the three Akikan girls at home. Melon tried to deal with the heat, Yell cleaned up the apartment and Budoko played make-believe. No wacky harem antics, no school scenes, final destination.

* ''Series/{{House}}'' episode 6x14 "5 to 9" follows a day in the life of Lisa Cuddy. Arguably, 6x10 "Wilson" does so for Wilson as well.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s parking lot episode is probably the best example of taking observational humor into a dramatic format. ''{{Seinfeld}}'' specialized in taking the logic of a Day In The Life episode to its logical extreme.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': The 1973-1974 season opener, particularly the opening segment which shows just about everyone in the cast for the coming season. Gordon (the second one, played by Hal Miller) ends this first segment by saying, "Just another day on Sesame Street!"

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' did it in "Data's Day."

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' has an episode ''entitled'' "A Day in the Life," although the events taking place in it are something less than typical; a better example might be the episode "Final Cut" (which is also ADayInTheLimelight for a few characters).

* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q&ob=av2n It Was A Good Day]]'' by Music/IceCube describes a good day for a gangster.

* TheResidents album Music/{{Eskimo}} is a Day in the Life of an Inuit Clan.