History NonIndicativeName / LiveActionTV

* ''{{Supernatural}}''. PlayedForLaughs in "Free To Be You And Me" when Dean sets up Castiel with a prostitute called Chastity. The CelibateHero's response to hearing this is entirely inappropriate name is to [[INeedAFreakingDrink down half a glass of beer]].

* TheNakedBrothersBand spends the entirely of every episode at least partially clothed.

** ''TheIndestructibleMan'': Got destroyed.

** For a superhero called ''{{Pumaman}}'', the guy seemed to have a large number of powers that didn't seem all that relevant to pumas.

** ''HighSchoolBigShot'': Far from being a big shot, the kid at the center of the story is a complete loser. However, in this case, the title was probably meant to be ironic.
** ''The Indestructible Man'': Got destroyed.
** [[SantaClausConquersTheMartians Santa Claus does not conquer the Martians.]] He foils the evil plan of a few of them though.
** ''It Conquered The World'': It couldn't even conquer a small town.
** ''BeginningOfTheEnd'': The grasshoppers do not, in fact, bring about the apocalypse.
** ''VillageOfTheGiants'': The giants are from out of town.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' itself, but that's really more of a WordSaladTitle. They did, however, do a serious investigative news show called ''Ethel the Frog'' in one sketch, perhaps as a nod to TheBBC's habit of using nonindicative titles.

* The eponymous hotel in ''FawltyTowers'' was not in any way even a single tower.

** ''TeenageCrimewave'': For starters, the people in the movie are clearly not teenagers. Even if we assume an extreme case of DawsonCasting, there isn't really a crime wave either; just a mugging followed by the crooks busting out of prison.

** ''TeenageCaveman'': Ditto.

* TheRealHousewives series features several divorced people and one could argue that since the show is a source of revenue, they are no longer housewives

** The term ranger comes from the japanese series ''SuperSentai'' in which ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' uses stock footage and costumes from. Many of these series' have the word "Ranger" in the title or some combination of the word "Ranger".

* SuperSentai have had a few.
** SeijuuSentaiGingaman Ginga could be translated as Galaxy, but the show has nothing to do with galaxies and is just a meaningless proper name.

** The eponymous aliens of ''PodPeople'' don't look like people and don't spend any time in pods. To quote Dr. Forrester:

** ''TeenagersFromOuterSpace'': See ''TeenageCrimewave'' above. The title only fits if one assumes an ''extreme'' case of DawsonCasting.
** ''Teenage Caveman'': Ditto.
** ''Teenage Strangler'' does have a strangler, but neither he nor all of his victims are teenagers.

* The title characters in Series/CrashAndBernstein are a puppet named Crash and Wyatt Bernstein, who is almost never referred by his last name.

* Two-thirds of ''SaturdayNightLive'' airs on Sunday morning in the Eastern and Pacific Time Zones - in fact, in the Pacific, what's shown is a feed of the episode that finished filming 90 minutes before, making the ''entire'' title a misnomer. Also, NBC's ''LateNight'' airs completely during the early morning, except in the Central, Mountain, Alaska and Hawaii time zones where it begins at 11:30.

* Two-thirds of ''SaturdayNightLive'' airs on Sunday morning in the Eastern and Pacific Time Zones - in fact, in the Pacific, what's shown is a feed of the episode that finished filming 90 minutes before, making the ''entire'' title a misnomer. Also, NBC's ''LateNight'' airs completely during the early morning.

** The B-movie ''TheBrainThatWouldntDie''. A more fitting title would be ''The Brain That Desperately Wanted To Die, But Wasn't Allowed To''.

** ''TheUndead'' did not feature any ghosts, mummies, zombies, vampires, or undead creatures of any sort.

** ''[[BoggyCreek2TheLegendContinues Boggy Creek 2]]'' was actually the ''third'' Boggy Creek movie. Of course, the second film was made by different people, so this could be CanonDiscontinuity on the part of the crew who made the third movie.

* ''Crash and Bernstein'' title characters are a puppet named Crash and Wyatt Bernstein, who is almost never referred by his last name.

* [[Crash and Bernstein]] title characters are a puppet named Crash and Wyatt Bernstein, who is almost never referred by his last name.

* When Jamie Lynn Sigler (aka [[Series/TheSopranos Meadow Soprano]]) was attempting to kick start a pop music career (([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=golt9BQUmcE no, seriously,]])) she said that one of the reasons she auditioned for the part of Meadow was because when she saw the title ''The Sopranos,'' she honestly thought it would involve music somehow.

** The episode ''The Name of the Doctor'' [[spoiler:does not reveal the Doctor's name]]

* Similarly, ''CougarTown'' stopped being about middle-aged women chasing younger men (with the exception of one minor recurring character) after the first few episodes. The makers seriously considered retitling it, but in the end stayed with the ArtifactTitle. They do, however, [[IncrediblyLamePun mock the title]] in the [[CouchGag title card]] every week.

* Many of the scenes in ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' take place at night.

*** Averted somewhat with it's Power Rangers counterpart, Lost Galaxy it is set in space, though as stated above the show has very little to do with "The Lost Galaxy:

*** For that matter, Sisko is called Emissary, which isn't really accurate. An "emissary" is a person who is sent somewhere to represent the interests of someone else. Emissaries are trusted to use their own judgement to achieve said mission. Sisko is told several times that he is meant to act as a mouthpiece and nothing else. His attempts at initiative in Bajoran religious matters backfire. Every time.