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'''Instead:''' He tells Jade to wait because the cheerleader will be back shortly to pick up the dog. After he and Tori are the only ones left in their video chat, the cheerleader comes in, and she turns out to be a 9-year old girl named Allie. After she leaves with her dog, Jade refuses to apologize because Beck didn't tell her that Allie was 9. Beck claims she never gave her a chance (even though she DID when she first entered the RV), which leads to them getting all high and mighty. While Tori tries to stop their fighting, if you listen closely, you can hear Jade say, "You could've told me she was nine, I wouldn't have been upset". Out of rage, Jade signs Beck off, leaving Tori with the project herself.

* ''{{iCarly}}'': In "iEnrage Gibby", while Spencer is shredding newspapers after seeing one with a negative review of his artwork, Sam picks one up and sees an article claiming that Spencer died of natural causes. This annoys Spencer at first glance.\\
'''You'd expect:''' That Carly and Spencer would go to the press and tell them that Spencer is alive and well so they could report that the previous issue was a false.\\
'''Instead:''' Spencer ignores it because he thinks noone reads newspapers anymore. Unfortunately, that ends up not being the case. Since everyone thinks Spencer's dead, they offer Carly their condolences, but that's not the real kicker-that comes in when Carly is offered lots of money for Spencer's sculptures due to the fact that they think he's dead making them worth more. As mentioned on the show's Just Bugs Me page, that's fraud, though in a show where AdultsAreUseless is very common, what can you expect?\\
'''Also:''' When the phone rings at one point in the episode, they recieve a call, and Spencer answers it in plain voice, saying, "No, i'm sorry, Spencer is dead". Don't you think the caller would have recognized it?

* {{Victorious}}: At the very end of ''Freak the Freak Out'', when Tori and Trina's father walks in after returning from Santa-Barbera, he watches Trina (who, need I remind you, just had her WISDOM TEETH taken out) being ganged up on by Hayley and Terra and that Tori is nowhere to be seen. While not really relevant to the plot since it's two minutes from the end of the episode and it's the last scene Trina is seen in, I had to mention it. Anyway...\\
'''You'd expect:''' That he would try to hold them back from Trina and ask what's going on.\\
'''Instead:''' He calls out to his wife, tells her to get back in the car, takes his suitcase and leaves. Yeah, your daughter just had her wisdom teeth cut and she should be getting rest and proper treatment. Instead, she has gone crazy and is pushing around with two mean girls. What would YOU do in that situation? I thought so.\\
'''To be fair:''' This is a kids show, [[DanSchneider let alone one in a world where]] AdultsAreUseless is common.
** In another episode, "Wi-Fi In The Sky", while Tori, Andre, Cat and Beck are video chatting, Jade signs on, angry at Beck because she left him a voicemail that he hasn't answered. After Jade's typical overreaction, she discovers that Beck has a dog, which is a cheerleader's. Without giving him a chance to explain, she goes to his RV, where she arrives and demands him to tell her about the cheerleader.\\

'''Instead:''' He tells Jade to wait because the cheerleader will be back shortly to pick up the dog. After he and Tori are the only ones left in their video chat, the cheerleader comes in, and she turns out to be a 9-year old girl named Allie. After she leaves with her dog, Jade refuses to apologize because Beck didn't tell her that Allie was 9. Beck claims she never gave her a chance, which leads to them getting all high and mighty. While Tori tries to stop their fighting, if you listen closely, you can hear Jade say, "You could've told me she was nine, I wouldn't have been upset". Jade, out of rage, signs Beck off, leaving Tori with the project herself.

* ''PowerRangers SPD'' "Recognition": The rangers have seized Wootox, an alien criminal who wiped out [[InformedAbility ninety planets off-screen]], and additionally can swipe bodies with others. The rangers would normally digitize their caught criminals after every battle, but this time, big dog Kreuger also wants the villain, who can only speak English with a neck-worn translator, brought in for question. So...\\

** Also in ''Power Rangers'': An episode of ''Jungle Fury'' has the Rangers trapped in a TV game show. Unfortunately, the show is being run by the bad guys who are saying ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem, with half the Rangers being eliminated from the game for petty rules violations (and of course, if they lose, the villains will have free reign to eliminate mankind). The host offers the Rangers the chance to give up some of their winnings for a trip to Hawaii.\\

'''Instead:''' Since everyone thinks Spencer's dead, they offer Carly their condolences, but that's not the real kicker-that comes in when Carly is offered lots of money for Spencer's sculptures due to the fact that they think he's dead making them worth more. As mentioned on the show's Just Bugs Me page, that's fraud, though in a show where AdultsAreUseless is very common, what can you expect?\\

'''However''': Wolf * does* consider killing him, but gets voted down.

'''Instead:''' He calls out to his wife, tells her to get back in the car, takes his suitcase and leaves. Yeah, your daughter just had her wisdom teeth cut and she should be getting rest and proper treatment. Instead, she has gone crazy and is pushing around with two mean girls. What would YOU do in that situation? I thought so.

'''Instead:''' He calls out to his wife, tells her to get back in the car, takes his suitcase and leaves. I would be able to excuse this since it's a kids show, [[DanSchneider let alone one in a world where]] AdultsAreUseless is common, if it weren't for the situation: your daughter just had her wisdom teeth cut and she should be getting rest and proper treatment. Instead, she has gone crazy and is pushing around with two mean girls. What would YOU do in that situation? Yeah, I thought so. But for the record, that just shows how brutal Trina can be.

* BigTimeRush: The 2-part special, ''Big Time Concert''. While preparing to hit the stage, the boys are taken as hostages in a warehouse by Hawk and his assistant Rebecca, planning to keep them from showing up at their first concert, which will end their music career and put Rocque Records out of business. They have also stripped the boys of their phones, so they cannot call for help. So Gustavo and Kelly are at the music box, and can't find the boys anywhere. Kelly tells Gustavo to stay calm, because they still have 20 minutes before the concert starts and they have "never let him down".\\
'''You'd expect''': That Gustavo and Kelly would call the police and have them look for the boys.\\
'''Instead''': They attempt to stall the crowd by leaving the curtain down, only to have Hawk and Rebecca lift it and cause the crowd to start boo'ing. Gustavo realizes this was indeed Hawk's doing, so why didn't he say anything to the crowd to convince them that it wasn't the boys' fault?\\
'''Also''': Look at the part where the truck takes off (before we see the boys hostaged). You can notice a red curtain in place of where the dressing room was. It's obvious to the viewers that Hawk set up the dressing room and awaited the boys' arrival into it. If Kelly had noticed the dressing room was gone, don't you think she would have known something was up?\\
'''To be fair''': We all knew that the boys would make it to the concert in the end. Not to mention how hectic a city L.A. is (as shown in one of the scenes), and how little time they had. Maybe the writers thought it would be a bit cliche if they just called the police? But either way, they'd still have a hard time against Hawk, Rebecca and the crowd. Plus, this ''is'' a kids show, after all.

'''You'd expect''': That he would try to hold them back from Trina and ask what's going on.\\
'''Instead''': He calls out to his wife, tells her to get back in the car, takes his suitcase and leaves.\\
'''However''': It's a kids show, let alone a DanSchneider sitcom, where AdultsAreUseless is common.

* {{iCarly}}: In ''iStart a Fan War'', Carly, Sam and Freddie tell the crowd that iCarly is about comedy, not so much as it is romantic relationships. Carly adds that she's not dating anyone, and Adam is the only guy she wants to be with. Unfortunately, one of the Creddie shippers assumes that because of this, Adam took Carly away from Freddie, deeming him a "Creddie killer". The Creddie shippers all gang up on Adam because of this.\\
'''You'd expect:''' That Carly would try to get the crowd's attention again by doing something Sam did before, like firing the flare shooter again, or bash the microphones.\\
'''Instead:''' She shrugs it off, despite feeling bad about being forced to leave Adam to get ganged up on by the Creddiers. Sam and Freddie both act as if they don't care about it.
** In the same episode, Gibby's grandfather is supposed to drive him and Guppy to Webicon, even though Carly recalls his license being revoked two years ago. At first we see them in a parking lot, and they're an hour late. The grandpa keeps thinking Gibby is saying "corn" when he says "Webicon", and he can't eat corn.\\
'''You'd expect:''' That Gibby would name the place where Webicon is being held (I forget the name of it, but it's the same building where the Pop Music Awards were held in another episode) and tell him to go there. Or at the very least, contact someone like his parents, or Carly, Sam or Freddie and tell them the reason for the hold-up.\\
'''Instead:''' This leads to the grandfather going to Inside Out Burger, where he keeps trying to get some soup, even after being told MANY times that they don't sell soup. So to get him to advance, Gibby has to disguise his voice as the drive-thru guy and pretend they have soup. Which leads to the drive thru guy yelling at him, and eventually the grandfather drives off and ''takes the drive thru guy with him''. It's not until the end of the episode where the three arrive at Webicon (after Carly, Sam, Freddie and Spencer have left), where he says that he was told by Gibby that there'd be soup, but Gibby lied.

'''You'd expect:''' That Carly would fire the flare shooter again, or bash the microphones like Sam did to get the crowd's attention.\\

'''However''': It's a kids show, where AdultsAreUseless runs amok.

'''You'd expect''': That Gustavo and Kelly (or Mrs. Knight for that matter) would call the police and have them look for the boys.\\

'''To be fair''': We all knew that the boys would make it to the concert in the end. Not to mention how hectic a city L.A. is (as shown in one of the scenes), and how little time they had. But either way, they'd still have a hard time against Hawk, Rebecca and the crowd. Plus, this ''is'' a kids show, after all.

'''To be fair''': We all knew that the boys weren't going to make it to the concert in the end. Not to mention how hectic a city L.A. is (as shown in one of the scenes), and how little time they had. But either way, they'd still have a hard time against Hawk, Rebecca and the crowd. Plus, this ''is'' a kids show, after all.

'''To be fair''': It's not like any of the viewers thought beforehand that the boys weren't going to make it to the concert in the end. Not to mention how hectic a city L.A. is (as shown in one of the scenes), and how little time they had. But either way, they'd still have a hard time against Hawk, Rebecca and the crowd.

* {{Glee}}: In 'Preggers', Finn's strongly Christian girlfriend, the president of the school's Celibacy Club, informs him that she's pregnant thanks to an incident involving his little problem with extremely premature ejaculation and a hot tub (while they were both fully clothed).
'''You'd expect''': That he'd do a little research and find out that that's not physically possible, and ask Quinn what she's so afraid of that she feels the need to tell such a huge lie.
'''Instead''': He [[BookDumb believes her without question]].
'''ItGotsWorse''': By the time 'Ballads' rolls around, he decides that the best thing to do is to tell Quinn's even more conservatively Christian parents about her pregnancy. By singing 'You're Having My Baby' to her. At their dinner table. The first time he has been formally introduced to them. The scene ends with Quinn's father giving her thirty minutes - by the microwave timer - to pack her clothes and get out of the house.

'''On Top Of That:''' The nurse had just told him, "Okay Mister Burns, you've got 2 minutes, don't do anything stupid."\\

(Ever notice how there's a disproportionately high number of What An Idiot moments for this Star Trek series?)

'''However''': Lois was shocked that her in-laws had gone to such lengths to keep her out of the picture, after she had spent the whole episode being nice to them, which they were pretending to reciprocate. She goes off to cry when, after the picture, the sisters-in-law come over to Lois and cruelly mock her. \\

'''However''': Lois was shocked that her in-laws had gone to such lengths to keep her out of the picture, after she had spent the whole episode being nice to them, which they were pretending to reciprocate. She goes off to cry when, after the picture, the sisters-in-law come over to Lois and cruelly mock her.
** In the series finale, Lois reveals that she specifically wants him to be miserable for his whole life, working his way up from a dead-end janitor job to becoming the President of the United States. His brothers, father, and grandmother had all been aware of this, and assumed that he himself also knew, even though no one ever told him.
'''You'd expect''': That Malcolm would give his whole family a big, fat "NO!" when they revealed their plans for his life.

** Lois reveals that she specifically wants him to be miserable for his whole life, working his way up from a dead-end janitor job to becoming the President of the United States. His brothers, father, and grandmother had all been aware of this, and assumed that he himself also knew, even though no one ever told him.

'''You'd Think:''' The BBC executives would take into account viewer feedback and act accordingly.
'''Instead:''' The BBC [[ExecutiveMeddling do nothing about it]], despite viewer protests.
'''ItGotWorse:''' Still, the viewers complain.

'''You'd Think:''' The BBC executives would take into account viewer feedback and act accordingly.\\