History RightForTheWrongReasons / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S2E1WhatCanTheDamnedReallySayToThe What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned]]", Morgan Ward (the British journalist in Romania) correctly deduces that Louis de Pointe du Lac is not who he presents himself to be (i.e. a man searching for his wife in war-torn Europe), but doesn't guess that he's a vampire and instead thinks he's either a deserter or a Bolshevik.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S2E1WhatCanTheDamnedReallySayToThe What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned]]", Morgan Ward (the British journalist in Romania) correctly deduces that Louis de Pointe du Lac is not who he presents himself to be (i.e. a man searching for his wife in Europe), but doesn't guess that he's a vampire and instead thinks he's either a deserter or a Bolshevik.

* Crops up often enough on ''Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader'':

** On a celebrity edition, Kellie Pickler was given a question regarding which of the Founding Fathers went on to be a president. Of the choices given, she reasoned it had to be Franklin Pierce because... [[InsaneTrollLogic all the letters in his last name were in HER last name!]] [[NonSequitur How that was supposed to be relevant,]] [[DumbBlonde we'll never know.]] The most common theory is that Pickler is a lot smarter than she seems and has gone the Music/JessicaSimpson route of playing dumber than she is because it gets people talking about her and is good for business.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': ADA Southerlyn was fired [[MemeticMutation not because she was a lesbian]], but for becoming convinced a defendant was innocent essentially due to white guilt, and spending most of the episode [[IncrediblyLamePun playing for the other team]]. In fact, her boss is very noticeably surprised when she asks if she's being fired because she's gay -- he'd honestly had no idea.

* During the pilot miniseries of ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'', the surviving humans find a Cylon device on the bridge, they realize there must be an infiltrator. Baltar, who had been manipulated by said Cylons and is desperate to make sure no one launches an investigation that might uncover his past actions, announces he's determined Doral, a civilian that no one likes, was a Cylon. Baltar picked him based on the fact the no one liked him and thus was unlikely to have anyone come to his defense, and he happened to be present. After they leave Doral behind on an old space station while the fleet jumps away, it's revealed Doral is in fact a human-replica Cylon.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E5 Murder on St. Malley's Day]]". ConspiracyTheorist Dudley Carew is right in that there really is a secret and sinister purpose to the Pudding Club...just not the one he thinks; it's art-smuggling under a guise of diplomatic immunity.

*** In "Armageddon Game", Miles O'Brien's wife Keiko thinks footage showing his death is fake because he does not drink coffee in the afternoon, which he is doing in the video. When he gets back safely, one of the first things he does is ask for a cup of coffee. In the afternoon.

** Poor Jon Snow just can't catch a break from this.

** In Season 7, when Jaime kills Lady Olenna Tyrell by offering her poisoned wine as an alternative to a painful and degrading public execution, her last words are a confession that she was the one who murdered King Joffrey. When Jaime relays this fact to Joffrey's scheming mother Cersei, she doesn't believe him at first. He explains that Joffrey's [[SpareToTheThrone timid brother Tommen]] would have been much easier for Olenna's granddaughter Margaery to control, and through Margaery, Olenna would have become the most powerful person in Westeros. This convinces Cersei and she's obviously pissed, but the truth is much less complicated: Olenna killed Joffrey because he was an unstable, sadistic psycho who would have inevitably turned his sadistic tendencies on Margaery. In the end Olenna took part in the poisoning simply to protect her granddaughter, nothing more, nothing less.
** Joff actually gets this about once a season:

* In ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding'', Oliver takes a disliking to Charles' new girlfriend Jan, and when she tries to help with the murder investigation, she keeps referring back to cat-lover Howard even though they had already ruled him out as a suspect. Eventually Oliver gets so agitated that he kicks her out of his apartment and the investigation. At the time he simply thought she was an idiot who had no idea what she was talking about, [[spoiler: but it's later revealed that she was deliberately trying to throw off the investigation because she herself was the killer]].

* ''Series/ThePillarsOfTheEarth'': Tom confides Jack that he's aware he won't live long enough to see his cathedral finished, given the long times involved in the construction of such a project. [[spoiler:He dies even earlier at the hands of William.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', a late-night talk show host tells Castle that someone wants him dead and winds up dead the next day... of a heart attack. Based on the man's suspicions, Castle presses Beckett to investigate, and it turns out he was murdered. It comes out that the studio had been trying to force him out, with a threatening-sounding mention of his bad heart. The studio had nothing to do with it [[spoiler: it was actually a friend, who killed the victim for firing him from the show... in order to please the studio]]. Thus the victim was right about his upcoming death for the wrong reason, causing Castle to be right about murder for the wrong reason.

*** In "Armageddon Game", Miles O'Brien's wife Keiko thinks some footage of him is fake because he does not drink coffee in the afternoon, which he is doing in the video. The footage is fake, but when he gets back safely, one of the first things he does is ask for a cup of coffee. In the afternoon.

** In "Rogue Air," Oliver [[spoiler: crosses over to ''Series/TheFlash2014'' to join the fight against the [[BigBad Reverse-Flash]]. While the Flash and Firestorm are distracted, Oliver gets the upper hand with a [[PowerNullifier nanite arrow]]. When the Reverse-Flash gets his speed back, he tells Oliver "The history books say you live to be 86 years old," presumably of old age. Then he claims "Well, [[PreMortemOneLiner I guess the history books...are wrong]]," and gets ready to [[VibroWeapon phase his hand into Oliver's heart]]. Barry saves Oliver, but after the timeline is [[TimeyWimeyBall changed, broken down, put back together again, restored and then changed some more about 500 times]], Oliver does wind up dying ''[[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths twice]]'' at about the age of 34, both times to [[HeroicSacrifice wounds inflicted while fighting]] the [[BigBad Anti-Monitor]]. And he [[DeathIsCheap continues to exist as the Spectre]].]]

** In "Rogue Air," Oliver [[spoiler: crosses over to ''Series/TheFlash2014'' to join the fight against the [[BigBad Reverse-Flash]]. While the Flash and Firestorm are distracted, Oliver gets the upper hand with a [[PowerNullifier nanite arrow]]. When the Reverse-Flash gets his speed back, he tells Oliver "The history books say you live to be 86 years old," presumably of old age. Then he claims "Well, [[PreMortemOneLiner I guess the history books...are wrong]]," and gets ready to [[Vibroweapon phase his hand into Oliver's heart]]. Barry saves Oliver, but after the timeline is [[TimeyWhimeyBall changed, broken down, put back together again, restored and then changed some more about 500 times]], Oliver does wind up dying ''[[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths twice]]'' at about the age of 34, both times to [[HeroicSacrifice wounds inflicted while fighting]] the [[BigBad Anti-Monitor]]. And he [[DeathIsCheap continues to exist as the Spectre]].]]

** In "Rogue Air," Oliver [[spoiler: crosses over to ''Series/TheFlash2014'' to join the fight against the [[BigBad Reverse-Flash]]. While the Flash and Firestorm are distracted, Oliver gets the upper hand with a [[PowerNullifier nanite arrow]]. When the Reverse-Flash gets his speed back, he tells Oliver "The history books say you live to be 86 years old," presumably of old age. Then he claims "Well, [[PreMortemOneLiner I guess the history books...are wrong," and gets ready to [[Vibroweapon phase his hand into Oliver's heart]]. Barry saves Oliver, but after the timeline is [[TimeyWhimeyBall changed, broken down, put back together again, restored and then changed some more about 500 times]], Oliver does wind up dying ''[[Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths twice]]'' at about the age of 34, both times to [[HeroicSacrifice wounds inflicted while fighting]] the [[BigBad Anti-Monitor]]. And he [[DeathIsCheap continues to exist as the Spectre]].]]