History WhamEpisode / LiveACtionTV

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" - Emma's kiss helps Graham remember his fairy tale life. It's also revealed that Regina fully remembers who she is, and crushes Graham's heart [[KilledOffForReal to kill him for good]].
** "A Land Without Magic" - Emma finally believes in magic, has to battle Maleficent's dragon form in the mines and uses TrueLovesKiss to save Henry's life. This breaks the Dark Curse, and Rumpelstiltskin then brings magic to Storybrooke.
** "The Miller's Daughter" - Snow White uses the candle Cora gave her to save Rumple's life by transferring the Dreamshade poison to Cora herself! And she tricks Regina into murdering Cora!
** "Going Home" - Rumple sacrifices himself to kill Peter Pan. Regina is forced to reverse the curse that created Storybrooke, sending everyone back to the Enchanted Forest. She also gives Emma and Henry new memories so they can live their lives in the normal world as if nothing had happened.
** "Quiet Minds" - Neal is revealed to have been tricked into sacrificing his own life to revive Rumple. He dies for real at the end of the episode.
** "The Snow Queen" is this for the backstory of the ''Frozen'' arc. Ingrid is revealed to have accidentally ''killed'' her own sister Helga with her powers, and a terrified Gerda sealed her in the urn - then having the trolls erase the entire kingdom's memories of her sisters.
** "Operation Mongoose" - a two-parter set in an alternate reality where the hero/villain roles are reversed (Snow White is now a tyrannical queen who controls Charming as a BackUpTwin, Regina is the forest bandit who is running from Snow, Rumpelstiltskin is an AllLovingHero called 'The Light One'). The episode ends with the darkness being pulled out of Rumple, and Emma willingly becoming the next Dark One to save everyone.
** "Birth" - Zelena is enchanted to [[ExpressDelivery rapidly give birth to her baby]], so Emma can use her as a vessel for her true plan. Back in Camelot, Hook was dying, so Emma made him a second Dark One.
** "Swan Song" - Emma kills Hook in order to destroy the darkness forever, but Rumple sneakily gets the powers back, and Emma leads a trip to the Underworld to rescue Hook's soul.
** "Sisters" - it's revealed that Zelena and Regina previously met as children, and actually became friends. But their mother forced them apart and wiped their memories of the event. She decides to restore them, resulting in Zelena's true HeelFaceTurn. Cora is also finally redeemed - getting to cross into {{Heaven}}.
** "Last Rites" - Robin Hood is KilledOffForReal to save Regina, Zelena completes her HeelFaceTurn to kill Hades, and Zeus grants Hook an official resurrection. Arthur likewise is redeemed and becomes the new king of the Underworld.
** "The Final Battle" looks like it'll be the GrandFinale but it turns out to be a SeriesFauxnale - as it ends with a little girl arriving on an adult Henry's door, claiming to be his daughter just like he did to Emma in the pilot.
** "Beauty" - Belle dies of old age!

* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': The latest Wham is in Season Four when Timothy Dalton's character reveals himself as the BigBad of the season, Alexei Volkov.
** When Jill is revealed as a baddie in "Chuck vs. the Gravitron," though as she is the ex-girlfriend, some people may have seen this coming.
** The episode when Morgan finally finds out about Chuck. Or when you find out that Casey has a daughter. Or when his father is killed while Ellie is watching from the shadows. Or hey, the first big wham when you find out Chuck's father is Orion, and after that when Chuck downloads the intersect 2.0 and takes down a group of bad guys with his new powers.
** "Chuck vs The Ring Pt 1". Daniel Shaw really is alive! And there are so many Ring operatives inside the CIA that he is literally able to march into the middle of a debriefing, after having been revealed as a traitor, and everyone accepts what he says as truth. He shuts down the Intersect Operation, including having Sarah, Casey and ''General Beckman'' arrested, and chuck and his father have to go on the run. Even better because the line that really shows how screwed they are doubles as a WhamLine, when Shaw enters the debriefing.
** But probably the biggest wham came in "Chuck vs The Push Mix", in which:
*** [[spoiler:Ellie gives birth.]]
*** [[spoiler:Sarah's undercover assignment ends.]]
*** [[spoiler:Chuck's mum]] finally escapes Volkoff's organisation...
*** [[spoiler:Orion]] is still alive...
*** But wait! [[spoiler:It was Chuck himself all along!]] A [[ThePlan plan]] which resulted in [[spoiler:Volkoff]] playing right into his hands!
*** [[spoiler:And then Chuck proposes to Sarah, who appears to accept.]]
*** In short, pretty much every ongoing plot thread in the whole frickin' show is tied up in 42 minutes flat, as no-one expected NBC to renew the show for Season 5, or green light any further episodes for Season 4. NBC gave them another ''eleven'' episodes halfway through the season.
** The ''actual'' Season 4 finale, "Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger", has its own share of wham-tastic moments, including:
*** [[spoiler: Chuck quitting from the CIA's employment in order to save Sarah, who had been poisoned.]]
*** [[spoiler: In relation to the above, the CIA's representative has the Intersect removed from Chuck.]]
*** [[spoiler: Chuck and Sarah get married...]]
*** [[spoiler: ...and start up their own spy business.]]
*** [[spoiler: But apparently, there's a larger conspiracy at play, as Chuck learns from the CIA representative.]]
*** [[spoiler: Did we mention that Morgan now has the Intersect in his head by episode's end?]]
** In Season 5, the 2nd episode, "Chuck Versus the Bearded Bandit", we get one hell of a Wham in the form of [[spoiler: the Intersect not functioning appropriately in Morgan's head, causing the guy to lose sight of who he is]].

* In "The Ties That Bind", the Cylons break off into two separate factions and start an EnemyCivilWar, and Tory executes [[spoiler:Cally]] by throwing her out the airlock.

* ''WhamEpisode/Manifest''

** The season 9 finale "Till Death Do Us Part" takes this UpToEleven: [[spoiler: the ''fucking Navy Yard'' is blown up, with Gibbs, Abby, Tony, Ziva, and Tim caught in the blast, and Ducky has a heart attack at the news]]. ''Damn''.

** 8x22 and 8x23, "Clip Show" and "Sacrifice" were back-to-back Wham Episodes (though this is to be expected, as they were the two final episodes of the season). In "Clip Show" Crowley [[spoiler: begins killing off everyone the Winchesters have ever saved--supporting characters such as Sarah Blake are killed while Crowley gives them an ultimatum: Make a deal with him to stop working to shut down Hell, or everyone they've ever met dies]]. "Sacrifice" ups it even further with [[spoiler: Sam using Crowley for the third trial, and the revelation that he doesn't care at all if he dies in the process]]. Then it goes UpToEleven with [[spoiler: Metatron betraying Castiel, killing Naomi, and using Castiel's grace (rendering him human) to ''forcibly evict all the angels from Heaven and make them fall'']].

** You want a wham episode, "Won't be fooled again" would qualify. Complete with {{Gaslighting}}, MindRape, DrivenToMadness, and plunging the entire show into DarkerAndEdgier with the speed of a freight train, changing the whole dynamic between our John and Scorpius, introducing our lovely ChaoticEvil Scarrans, and setting the stage for many a JourneyToTheCentreOfTheMind to come.

** "Turn, Turn, Turn": '''''The WhamEpisode to end all wham episodes.''''' In addition to integrating the big twists from ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' (namely, that [[spoiler:S.H.I.E.L.D. has been infiltrated by HYDRA since it’s inception, events at the Triskelion have effectively destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D., and Nick Fury is apparently dead]], all massive on their own) into the series, the episode has its own: [[spoiler:May was reporting to Fury, and picked out the team to deal with Coulson should his resurrection have side effects. Victoria Hand is a loyal agent whose actions at the end of the previous episode are motivated by mistrust of Coulson. Garrett is the Clairvoyant and is working for HYDRA. But the biggest twist? Grant Ward, a ''main character'' on the show, set up to be TheHero, was a HYDRA mole the whole time, and kills everyone on board the plane escorting Garrett to the Fridge so that he can free him. This episode uproots the entire premise of the show, and [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore nothing in the show was ever the same again]]]].

** The 1996 episode ''Driven to Distraction'' featuring new fonts in the graphics (no more Zurich {{Expy}} font!) and an even more serious tone than before.

* ''Series/Survivor'' has several of these per season by virtue of its contestant elimination, but arguably none was more shocking or important than ''Survivor: Borneo'' 7th episode, "The Merger", when Gretchen, the beloved leader of the fan favorite Pagongs, was voted out by the Tagi alliance. Gretchen was arguably the first contestant voted out for strategic gamesmanship rather than social/survival reasons, and was the first elimination that *no one* saw coming.

* ''WhamEpisode/TheWalkingDeadTVShow''

* ''Series/{{Dracula}}'': "Come To Die" sees the various tensions built up over the first season come to a head: Lord Davenport tries to get RevengeByProxy on Grayson for his son's death by having [[LoveInterests Mina]] attacked. Grayson retaliates by manipulating Harker into [[spoiler: killing Davenport]]; stricken by guilt and the knowledge of how much Grayson has been [[UnwittingPawn using him]], Harker sleeps with Lucy. Meanwhile, [[TheDragon Lady Jayne]] breaks off her affair with Grayson to focus on [[LovesMyAlterEgo hunting down Dracula]], who the [[AncientConspiracy Order of the Dragon]] now knows for a fact is in London. And as the cherry on top, Van Helsing finally takes steps to avenge his family's murder by [[spoiler: kidnapping [[BigBad Lord Browning's]] children]].

** "Turn, Turn, Turn": '''''The WhamEpisode to end all wham episodes.''''' In addition to integrating the big twists from ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' (namely, that [[spoiler:S.H.I.E.L.D. has been infiltrated by HYDRA, events at the Triskelion have effectively destroyed S.H.I.E.L.D., and Nick Fury is apparently dead]], all massive on their own) into the series, the episode has its own: [[spoiler:May was reporting to Fury, and picked out the team to deal with Coulson should his resurrection have side effects. Victoria Hand is a loyal agent whose actions at the end of the previous episode are motivated by mistrust of Coulson. Garrett is the Clairvoyant and is working for HYDRA. But the biggest twist? Grant Ward, a ''main character'' on the show, set up to be TheHero, was a HYDRA mole the whole time, and kills everyone on board the plane escorting Garrett to the Fridge so that he can free him. This episode uproots the entire premise of the show, and [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore nothing in the show was ever the same again]]]].

** In ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', they actually [[spoiler: kill off one of the team members, Galaxy Pink: Kendrix]]! Though they got better in the finale.

** In ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' which is really dark on its own but Episode 11 titled "Doctor K" takes the cake and rest of the food. [[spoiler: Viewers are forced to watch the drama of killing little girls personality by US Government, origin of (second) biggest genocide in the series and showing young girl crying because she blames herself for the destruction of the majority of life on Earth. And she is correct!!!]]

** The season 2 episodes “Grand Murder in Central Station” and “Heroes,” with Aiden getting fired/quitting and later being found StuffedInTheFridge.

* ''Series/SexLife'': "This Must Be the Place"; Trina tells Billie that due to Cooper and Devon patching things up after the "party" at their place, she laments that she'll have a little less freedom. This apparently inspired her to run to Devon's apartment. However, Cooper is seen looking at a tracker app to see where Billie was going.

** "iSaved your Life" in Season 3 has Freddie and Carly embark on a romantic advanture life and be seriously injured, Carly becomes attracted to Freddie, only for Sam to poison the relationship by making Freddie believe that Carly only liked him because of hero worship, which causes him to break up with Carly.
** "iOMG", which was a CliffHanger, flips the romantic agenda on its head by having Sam kissing Freddie. When the show comes back they enter a 4-episode StoryArc, but break up in "iLove You".
** "iOpen A Restaurant" shows that Freddie still has feelings for Carly, then the finale "iGoodbye" finally ends the speculation when Carly comes up to Freddie and initiates a LastMinuteHookup.

* ''Series/ICarly'' has had several, usually involving the relationships between the characters.
** In "iKiss" Sam and Freddie don't ''really'' hate each other then in "iThink they Kissed", Carly finds out what happened in "iKiss" and acts jealous.

** "iSaved your Life" has Freddie save Carly's life and be seriously injured, Carly becomes attracted to Freddie, only for Sam to poison the relationship by making Freddie believe that Carly only liked him because of hero worship, which causes him to break up with Carly.

** "Phil's Visit": The ultimate one. A photographer comes to the store, becomes friends with Muffy Mouse... and turns out to be a rage-prone alcoholic. It was obviously made to teach kids how to cope with [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped alcoholic adults in their lives]], but still, it earns a spot on the CluelessAesop trope page for a reason.

* When Dan gets drunk and goes gunning for his father after his mother is institutionalized, ''Roseanne'' reveals a deep secret...his mom has a lifetime of mental illness & had been committed several times throughout his childhood, with dad providing a cover story to explain her absences. After years of hating his father for, in his POV, driving his mother insane, Dan realizes he's been wrong. With Roseanne offering her support, he collapses into tears and immediately seeks forgiveness from his father. A superb and moving episode.

* ''Series/BlueMountainState'' is a comedy series built firmly upon the RuleOfFunny. The acts committed by the team shown in the show would get a real NCAA team in serious trouble with the NCAA but hey, it's a comedy, so that kind of talk is brushed aside. [[spoiler: Then comes the end of season 3. [[RealityEnsues It turns out that the NCAA has been investigating BMS and the Goats are in serious trouble.]]]]

* ''Series/TheWestWing'':
** The reveal of [[spoiler: Bartlet's MS]] in Season 1.
** The Season 1 finale ends on a cliffhanger, and the Season 2 premiere "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I/II" is a wham episode. Who's been hit? [[spoiler: The President]], who's mostly fine, and [[spoiler: Josh]], who is ''very not''.
** Also dealing with the Rosslyn arc, "Noël" is a wham episode if there ever was one, dealing with [[spoiler: Josh's PTSD in the aftermath of the shooting]].
** And how could we forget "18th and Potomac", with [[spoiler: the death of Mrs. Landingham]].
** The season 4 episode "Commencement" is the second-to-last episode written by Creator/AaronSorkin before he left the show: Amy asks Donna straight-out if [[spoiler: she's in love with Josh]], Toby [[spoiler: proposes to Andy (and she says no!) before her water breaks and she goes into labor]], and then Zoey [[spoiler: is drugged and kidnapped]].
*** However, no one can say they weren't warned, as it's [[{{Foreshadowing}} explicitly foreshadowed]] [[spoiler: by Bartlett with his description of the "nightmare scenario" way back in the first season episode "Mr. Willis of Ohio."]]
** Pretty much every episode in the Gaza arc ("Gaza", "Memorial Day", and "NSF Thurmont").
*** First you have [[spoiler: the Gaza bombing]], which [[spoiler: kills Admiral Fitzwallace and several congressmen and critically injures Donna]]. Then you have the senior staff - and an increasingly antagonistic Leo and Bartlet - dealing with the fallout while [[spoiler: Josh flies to Germany to see Donna, who then develops a pulmonary embolism - ''the same thing Josh's father died of'' - when he leaves for a very short time]]. And that's the end of Season 5.
*** Remarkably, it gets even worse: in "NSF Thurmont", the Season 6 premiere, Josh discovers that [[spoiler: Donna may have sustained irreversible brain damage while without oxygen]] and [[spoiler: ''Leo has a heart attack'' after being fired by Bartlet]]. [[spoiler: Both survive]], but it's one of the pivotal points of the series and things drastically change in the following seasons.
** The second episode of Season 6 began with the immediate aftermath of [[spoiler: Leo's heart-attack]] and ended with the big surprise of [[spoiler: Bartlet asking C.J. to be the new Chief-of-Staff]], both of which led to significant changes in the relationships among the senior staff, and indirectly to [[spoiler: Josh Lyman's resignation at the midseason break. If he'd been the one promoted he wouldn't have left to work for a new presidential hopeful, which might have been part of Leo's plan all along when he recommended C.J. instead of Josh]].