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* One of the famous stunts by special forces commander [[MilitaryMaverick Larry Dring]] during the Vietnam War was organizing a private 'invasion' of a beach where some VC would take [[DisproportionateRetribution occasional pot-shots at a passing Navy vessel]]. When hauled up before his CO to explain, Dring could only reply, "Well sir, I once saw a movie about World War 2." You can [[http://vietnamveteransmemoral.homestead.com/dringlarry.html read the story here]] (Story #1, pages 6-8).
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* The second ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, Arthur Joseph Curry, lived in a tank for most of his life and learned about the world via TV.

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* The second ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} featured in ''ComicBook/AquamanSwordOfAtlantis'', Arthur Joseph Curry, lived in a tank for most of his life and learned about the world via TV.

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* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' parodies the trope, and its spinoff ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' repeats and reinforces the parody; lead character [[http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-sdb/oprah_never_lies Dillon gets some of his ideas about straight men and gay sex third-hand]] from [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah.]] Misquoted Oprah, to be fair to her.

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* ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' parodies the trope, and its spinoff ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' repeats and reinforces the parody; lead character [[http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-sdb/oprah_never_lies [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/sticky-dilly-buns/oprah-never-lies Dillon gets some of his ideas about straight men and gay sex third-hand]] from [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah.]] Misquoted Oprah, to be fair to her.
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* Taylor from the ''Literature/WildOrchid'' series has learned some of her social skills from the plays of Creator/HaroldPinter, like answering a question with another question when she isn't sure how to answer.
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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' explains he can speak Chinese because of a [[Series/{{Firefly}} TV show]] [[ActorAllusion he used]] [[ShoutOut to love.]]

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' explains he can speak Chinese because of a [[Series/{{Firefly}} TV show]] [[ActorAllusion he used]] [[ShoutOut to love.]]
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* ''Series/ForensicFiles'': In “Grave Danger”, the perpetrators of a FakingTheDead scheme said that their plan was inspired by watching crime shows such as ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/CSI''. As pointed out by an investigator in the episode, [[GenreBlindness they failed to realize that criminals on crime shows get caught by the end]].

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* ''Series/ForensicFiles'': In “Grave Danger”, the perpetrators of a FakingTheDead scheme said that their plan was inspired by watching crime shows such as ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/CSI''.''Series/{{CSI}}''. As pointed out by an investigator in the episode, [[GenreBlindness they failed to realize that criminals on crime shows get caught by the end]].
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* ''Series/ForensicFiles'': In “Grave Danger”, the perpetrators of a FakingTheDead scheme said that their plan was inspired by watching crime shows such as ''Series/LawAndOrder'' and ''Series/CSI''. As pointed out by an investigator in the episode, [[GenreBlindness they failed to realize that criminals on crime shows get caught by the end]].

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