History TemptingFate / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS3E3 Judgement Day]]", Barnaby and Troy are searching the farm where Peter Drinkwater is staying for stolen property and promptly find a ton of evidence, at which point Barnaby comments "I wish they were all this easy". Not five minutes later, they find Drinkwater with a pitchfork through his chest and the case becomes vastly more complicated.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast". Near-sighted book-lover Henry Bemis survives a nuclear attack on the city he's in. He discovers a library that somehow survived the blast and cheerfully says that he now has "time enough at last" to read all of the books he wants. [[TwilightZoneTwist A few seconds later he accidentally breaks his glasses, which will prevent him from reading ever again]].

-->'''Jim''': Well, try to wipe it off.
-->'''Cate''': (beat) [[ManChild C.J.]]'s moving back in the basement with you.
-->'''Jim''': You're bluffing.
-->(Cue C.J. walking into the room, glomping Jim, and annoying Jim with his happy statements about spending time with him)

** Skip's death. Guns have been largely useless in combating the forces of evil throughout the Buffyverse's entire run, and Skip snarks at Wesley "Do those things ever work?" Wesley sees a spot where Angelus tore off a horn, and puts a shot right in his brain.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is pretty guilty of this, usually in combination with GilliganCut. Find us someone in the series who actually ''hasn't'' done this, and we'll be impressed. Xander seemed to tend to get the worse of it though.

** Even the [[VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayer video game]] gets in on it.

** Mike further tempts fate by declaring the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E03DeathstalkerAndTheWarriors episode]] ''Film/DeathstalkerAndTheWarriorsFromHell'' and stating the movie was the most "ambitiously bad movie" the SOL inhabitants had ever screened. You [[Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion sure]] about that, Mike?

* ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'': In [[Recap/Daredevil2015S3E12OneLastShot "One Last Shot"]], Foggy Nelson notes (much to his own surprise) that their plan to get FBI Agent Ray Nadeem to testify against Wilson Fisk actually seems to have worked. Matt Murdock cuts him off mid-sentence and asks him not to test their luck. Seconds after Nadeem walks out of the courtroom Matt [[SuperSenses overhears]] one of Fisk's accomplices threatening the jury into rejecting the case.

* ''The Dick Cavett Show'': In one episode, 72-year-old publisher Jerome Irving Rodale, an advocate of organic farming, [[FatalMethodActing died of a heart attack on stage]]. Earlier, Rodale had made some boastful comments on his supposedly good health, and bragged, "I'm going to live to be 100, unless I'm run down by some sugar-crazed taxi driver." Unsurprisingly, [[MissingEpisode the episode was never aired]].

* ''Series/QueerAsFolk'': AvertedTrope in the American version. A gay teenager is found dead in a dumpster, and everyone starts speculating that he was killed by a one-night stand. Brian deliberately tempts fate by picking up a random guy at the club that night, declaring that, "There's never been a hotter time to fuck a stranger." When Justin calls him on it, he even backs slowly away while wiggling his fingers dramatically and saying, "I'll be fine!" He's right, and nothing bad happens.

** Perhaps the most famous example came during the Hypno-Disc v Splinter battle in the Series 4 semi-finals. When Splinter's scoop proved capable of deflecting Hypno-Disc's initial attacks, even allowing it to push Hypno-Disc around, Jonathan Pearce remarked, "Could this be one of the biggest shocks ever in ''Robot Wars''?". The ''exact instant'' he began to float the possibiltiy of Splinter winning, Hypno-Disc [[OhCrap tore Splinter's scoop clean off]] and what followed was one of the most brutal and spectacular {{Curb-Stomp Battle}}s in the history of the show.

*** After Blanche and Rose complain to Dorothy about Sophia's nurse interrupting [[NoodleIncident their nighttime activities]], Dorothy insists that, as much as she dislikes Sophia's nurse, she doesn't see enough reasons to have said nurse fired. Cue the nurse entering the kitchen and telling Dorothy that a man called for Dorothy but she forgot to get his number before hanging up. After the nurse leaves the kitchen, [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] decides that she's had enough.

--> ''Marty'': It's not like it's gonna kill me.

'''Ross''':"It's okay. I think we've already had all the bad luck we're going to have.