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** Aaron Sorkin can be summed up by a quote from Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Sorkin's characters are those people.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' - It is usually easy to tell who wrote a given sketch. Any sketch featuring characters being verbally abusive to each other was written by John Cleese & Graham Chapman. Any sketch featuring large amounts of location filming was written by Terry Jones & Michael Palin. Any sketch featuring extensive word play or long monologues was written by Eric Idle

** Creator/MerrillHeatter-Bob Quigley: Variations on popular games (for instance, ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' is based on tic-tac-toe; ''Series/{{Gambit}}'' was blackjack; and ''Series/HighRollers'' was Shut the Box). Always with brassy Stan Worth theme tunes and Kenny Williams as announcer. After Quigley left, Heatter rehashed ''Squares'' twice: first in ''Series/{{Battlestars}}'' (''Squares'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]]]), then in ''Series/AllStarBlitz'' (''Squares'' meets ''Series/WheelOfFortune''). Also, Kenny Williams was no longer alive, so these had different announcers.

* Creator/YasukoKobayashi, known for writing multiple Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series, has a very unique style of writing. She almost never plays tropes straight, depends on ShowDontTell and does not shy away from introducing new tropes to the Tokusatsu genre. Wiki/TVTropes even has an analysis on her signature style, which can be found [[Analysis/YasukoKobayashi here]].

* Another ''Doctor Who'' writer and Show-Runner, Creator/StevenMoffat, definitely has one. Expect MoodWhiplash UpToEleven, light humour, horrors untold, a hint of romance and sexuality and extensive use of the TimeyWimeyBall. He also writes like ''Who'' is a dark fairytale.

** A lot of the dialogue he writes, especially when it gets into the TechnoBabble and BuffySpeak, tends to have a LOT of pauses and MotorMouth moments. See: the Tenth Doctor and Tintin & Haddock in the film version of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTinTin'' (especially [[spoiler: when Haddock is telling the story of the Unicorn]]).

* Another ''Doctor Who'' writer and current Show-Runner, Creator/StevenMoffat, definitely has one. Expect MoodWhiplash UpToEleven, light humour, horrors untold, a hint of romance and sexuality and extensive use of the TimeyWimeyBall. He also writes like ''Who'' is a dark fairytale.

*** In ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', it's ''extremely'' obvious which lines Whedon wrote. A sample Whedonesque line:

** Even some Trek staff writers developed one. Is it leaning heavily towards military sci-fi and riding the lines between WarIsGlorious and WarIsHell? Does [[CreatorsPet Worf]] end up with several [=CMOAs=]? Is the morality leaning towards GrayAndGrayMorality or BlackandGrayMorality? The episode was penned by Ron Moore. Is it a relatively low-key episode where the conflict and drama is more character-based, with BlackAndWhiteMorality or WhiteAndGrayMorality? You've likely hit a Jeri Taylor script. Is the damn thing a first-rate MindScrew where you ''might'' figure out what's going on by Act 5? Yup, Brannon Braga wrote it.

** Creator/ChuckBarris: Incredibly campy, simplistic shows that are clearly not even close to taking themselves seriously and have very little in the way of "game" (e.g. ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'', ''Series/TheDatingGame'', ''Series/TheGongShow'', ''[[TreasureHuntUS Treasure Hunt]]''). Often with brassy, extremely 70s music written by Barris himself. Always announced by Johnny Jacobs until he died.

* Kevin Williamson is quite fond of showing the lives of [[ContemplateOurNavels highly introspective]] [[TeenDrama teenagers]] living in a [[CloseKnitCommunity small suburban town.]] (''Series/DawsonsCreek'') Then he puts those teenagers in mortal peril. (''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'', ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'', ''TheSecretCircle'')

** MerrillHeatter-Bob Quigley: Variations on popular games (for instance, ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' is based on tic-tac-toe; ''Series/{{Gambit}}'' was blackjack; and ''Series/HighRollers'' was Shut the Box). Always with brassy Stan Worth theme tunes and Kenny Williams as announcer. After Quigley left, Heatter rehashed ''Squares'' twice: first in ''Series/{{Battlestars}}'' (''Squares'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]]]), then in ''Series/AllStarBlitz'' (''Squares'' meets ''Series/WheelOfFortune''). Also, Kenny Williams was no longer alive, so these had different announcers.

* Kevin Williamson is quite fond of showing the lives of [[ContemplateOurNavels highly introspective]] [[TeenDrama teenagers]] living in a [[CloseKnitCommunity small suburban town.]] (''Series/DawsonsCreek'') Then he puts those teenagers in mortal peril. (''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'', ''TheVampireDiaries'', ''TheSecretCircle'')

** His penchant for snappy dialogue, snarkasm, and BuffySpeak is very distinctive. He did some ScriptDoctor work on the script of the first ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' movie, but only two exchanges of dialogue made it to the final cut, and one of them has his fingerprints all over it:

** Look out also for his tendency to make up for his total aversion to TechnoBabble by adding the word 'space' to existing nouns. Someone will be a doctor of 'space medicine'; an alien race's headquarters is referred to as being 'in Space' by space-travellers, and so on.

* Creator/ToshikiInoue, a prominent Tokusatsu writer known for his work on ''KamenRider'', is really known for his use of the ConflictBall and PoorCommunicationKills. Sometimes, the plot of the show could be solved if the characters would just sit down and talk to each other for just a few minutes, but due to often contrived circumstances, they just keep fighting one and another. Also, if there is a romance in the show, you can count on it that the female involved in the romance will die to give the male character motivation to fight the villains.