History SeriousBusiness / LiveACtionTV

*** In ''iFight Shelby Marx'', Carly makes some joking comments about being able to "take down" an MMA fighter. Said fighter appears ''at her doorstep'' the next day, proposes an exhibition match for charity that is apparently so popular, it fills a stadium and is sold on pay-per-view. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the MMA announcer introduces her as "Carly Shay, who... has a web show."

** And then there was the time when Freddie was downright ostracized because he made an offhand comment about not liking the work of Website/YouTube sensation Fred, to the point where [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong Freddie was physically assaulted in an effort to...get him to change his mind.]]
* The competitive cooking series ''Series/IronChef'' plays this up as hard as it possibly can. Particularly in the American version.

** The Ohta faction turned it UpToEleven.
* In one episode of ''Series/KenanAndKel'', Ron Harper shows in Rigby's and everyone is excited to see him, especially the titular characters. However, he ended up slipping on a puddle of orange soda, injuring his knee. Thanks to that, ''all'' of Chicago are after Kenan and Kel.

* ''Series/TheDailyShow'': [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-1-2011/me-lover-s-pizza-with-crazy-broad Jon Stewart takes pizza very seriously.]]

** Averted by one contestant, who dared to have a sense of perspective when she was kicked off ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'' by not breaking into tears like she was meant to; as punishment for this, Creator/TyraBanks subsequently [[http://cnettv.cnet.com/tyra-banks-freaks-out-america-next-top-model/9742-1_53-10663.html went medieval]] on her ass.

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** The episode with ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E15WildWorldOfBatwoman The Wild World of Batwoman]]'' also features the educational short film "Film/{{Cheating}}", which leads to a series of host segments where Crow is caught [[HypocriticalHumor plagiarizing Gypsy's essay about cheating]]. The rest of the crew react with overblown rage at Crow's academic dishonesty; Tom Servo in particular [[DisproportionateRetribution wants him dead.]]

* ''Series/ICarly'' The webcast seems to have only slightly less cultural impact than [[WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklok]]. Sneaker manufacturers beg Carly to endorse their product. Television producers ransack the show for ideas in two separate episodes. It's watercooler discussion material, even amongst adults.

*** And then there was the time when Freddie was downright ostracized because he made an offhand comment about not liking the work of Website/YouTube sensation Fred, to the point where [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong Freddie was physically assaulted in an effort to...get him to change his mind.]]
** In ''iFight Shelby Marx'', Carly makes some joking comments about being able to "take down" an MMA fighter. Said fighter appears ''at her doorstep'' the next day, proposes an exhibition match for charity that is apparently so popular, it fills a stadium and is sold on pay-per-view. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the MMA announcer introduces her as "Carly Shay, who... has a web show."

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** Hitchcock and Scully have a tendency to suddenly become hyperactive and attentive detectives the moment that food is involved, often treating food being spoilt as more important than a police case happening around them.

* Lampshaded on a regular basis in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', where everything from comic conventions to couch seats are immensely important to Sheldon.

* Karate is this to ''Film/TheKarateKid'' franchise as a whole, but nowhere more so than in ''Series/CobraKai''. Daniel is still a local celebrity because of having won an under-eighteen tournament over thirty years earlier, and a simple dojo rivalry over OpposingCombatPhilisophies quickly escalates into a thinly-veiled gang war. The show's creators have stated that the conceit that karate in the San Fernando Valley is "like football in Texas" is a vital part of the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief necessary to make the series work. Lampshaded in Season 3, when a member of the city council admits to having never understood the Valley's "fascination with karate."

* Everything about the local agricultural fair in ''Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall'' is SeriousBusiness, right down to the children's pet show. There's some rather nasty rumors of favoritism when James gives the blue ribbon to a goldfish.

* [[{{Yandere}} Relationships]] in ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration''. To the point that because Emma likes Sean, Peter frames him for possession of marijuana. This leads to Sean challenging Peter to ''more'' SeriousBusiness, street racing. [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin Sean goes to jail.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', {{Spelling Bee}}s are SeriousBusiness, complete with a ShellShockedVeteran Spell Master and a Young Cub trying to reach the top... of Spelling! The episode was devoid of the usual hijinks and focused the humor on the absurdity of the subject. One of the series' better episodes.

** UsefulNotes/DanQuayle felt the full brunt of this SeriousBusiness himself a few decades back.
** Much of the comedy in ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' stems from the main character and those around him blowing relatively minor things into full-blown SeriousBusiness, but another notable trope-relevant example comes when we learn that Frasier has been keeping a collection of taped recordings of his show. When he learns that one of them is missing and is unlikely to be able to be replaced, he enters a depression which sends him into his bed for like a week. He later gets over it when he meets his 'biggest fan', who happens to have a copy of the missing show, and finds him an obsessive nut who's isolated everything from his life apart from Frasier's show.

* When Dick Clark hosted ''Series/{{Pyramid}}'', he made sure it was SeriousBusiness. "I remind the audience once again, we need absolute silence, please. GO!" In one episode the contestant was awarded partial credit in the BonusRound because there ''wasn't'' absolute silence; an audience member started a loud Countdown when the clock hit 10 seconds.

* In ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' most things were SeriousBusiness with many episodes focusing on one or two bits of this.

** In "[[BaseballEpisode Take Me Out to the Holosuite]]", Sisko's private little war against Solok turns baseball into SeriousBusiness until Sisko finally sees [[{{Aesop}} the light]] and decides to just have fun, since [[StrawVulcan Solok]] can't fathom the concept of enjoying a game you know you're going to ''[[GracefulLoser lose]]''.

** In that episode, though, some real SeriousBusiness comes about because nearly everyone on the ship gets obsessed with a video game-ish contraption... that rewards wins directly at the pleasure center of the brain, creating an addiction.

** Paintball is such serious business to the students that both times the college tries to have a friendly game it ends up causing thousands of dollars in property damage.

* Conspiracies for Hodgins. Although his obsession did save the team in the finale when Angela said she backed up her software because she’s married to a paranoid guy who talks about such things a lot.

** Business doesn't get more serious than the right to donate a stained glass window to Father Lewandowski's church. Because of a beef over that window, lives are destroyed, careers are made, a union is brought low, and the MCU is formed.

** Much of the comedy in ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' stems from the main character and those around him blowing relatively minor things into full-blown SeriousBusiness, but another notable trope-relevant example comes when we learn that Frasier has been keeping a collection of taped recordings of his show. When he learns that one of them is missing and is unlikely to be able to be replaced, he enters a depression which sends him into his bed for like a week. He later gets over it when he meets his 'biggest fan' who happens to have a copy of the missing show and finds him an obsessive nut who's isolated everything from his life.