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'''Instead''': The Master is apparently left [[WallBanger by himself with one sailor to guard him]] ''on a small hovercraft.'' He somehow has time to hypnotize the salor, place a PerfectLatexDisguise on him and palm him off as The Master's own corpse. Then, as The Doctor and the Royal Navy troops are gawking at the reveal, The Master makes off with the hovercraft. ''This was the serial that the Royal Navy chose, out of all ''Doctor Who'', to endorse and lend the BBC resources for.''\\

** In ''The Sea Devils'', the Royal Navy has rescued both The Doctor and The Master from their watery prison just in time, and have The Master under guard in a hovercraft.
'''You'd Expect''': The Royal Navy to keep a massive armed guard on The Master, ready to fill him full of lead whether The Doctor likes it or not. And, The Doctor might warn them about his [[IncrediblyLamePun mastery]] of disguise. Oh, and you think the crew of the hovercraft might keep an accurate count of their own members. ''AND'', if that weren't enough, that they would always make sure more than one person is guarding a piece of military equipment ont he order of a hovercraft.
'''Instead''': The Master is apparently left [[WallBanger by himself with one sailor to guard him]] ''on a small hovercraft.'' He somehow has time to hypnotize the salor, place a PerfectLatexDisguise on him and palm him off as The Master's own corpse. Then, as The Doctor and the Royal Navy troops are gawking at the reveal, The Master makes off with the hovercraft. ''This was the serial that the Royal Navy chose, out of all ''Doctor Who'', to endorse and lend the BBC resources for.''

* ''TwoAndAHalfMen'': Judith, who is an absolute bitch to Alan and an abusive harpy in general, kicks her husband, Herb, out of her house because he stood up against her abuse. Alan hears it from Charlie and is sadistically happy about her ex-wife's trouble. Then he goes to her house as soon as he heard about it.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Considering that Judith, up to this point, stole everything from Alan in the divorce, including his house, meddled in his relationship with Kandi out of petty vengeance, gave Kandi the divorce lawyer she used to screw him even further and uses the child support money that's supposed to pay Jake's expenses for herself, you'd expect Alan to finally get back at her.\\
'''Instead''': [[RuleOfFunny It's a sitcom, so he doesn't]].Instead,he starts [[TurnTheOtherCheek comforting her]], despite laughing at her suffering from the inside.However, it ends up with Alan ''getting back with her'',[[IdiotBall like if he forgot ]][[KickTheDog all the crap she put him through]] ForTheEvulz. As expected,it ends with Judith deciding to break it up again because of how annoying Alan is, instead of Alan having the balls to reject her in the first place, and next time we know, she's back into abusing him and [[HenpeckedHusband Herb]] again.\\

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

'''You'd Expect:''' That they would make a beeline for the wormhole, or at least grab the Ferengi first and then hightail it back to the Alpha Quadrant, letting 5 or 6 generations of the bronze-age people undo all the damage that was done.

* {{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).\\

'''ItGotWorse''': 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, and is it any wonder?
* In another {{Glee}} episode, 'Born This Way', Santana Lopez accuses David Karofsky of being gay, her proof being that she saw him check out the bottom of Sam Evans, a boy who was getting a drink of water from a fountain.\\

'''Instead:''' The head cadet, having been made acting captain before the last senior officer died, refuses to come home. Instead, he starts running missions against the Dominion, getting the orders from people who think the qualified officers are still running the show. To his credit, he manages to live a while, but eventually gets almost all of them killed in a DavidVsGoliath scenario.
** The above leads into a smaller WhatAnIdiot moment for Nog, who finds himself aboard this very ship. Nog joined Starfleet. Unlike these idiot cadets, he's actually made it through the academy and outranks them all. Moreover, he's got a civilian dependent (his best friend Jake) to look after.\\

'''Instead:''' He gets drafted, more or less, and ends up a part of said mission which sees everyone else killed. Jake was even imprisoned during the whole affair. Nog barely makes it out with Jake and a random cadet. Hindsight is 20/20 as he acknowledges that the lead cadet was a bad captain, which he had already seen signs of well before putting himself in the situation.
* ''StarTrekVoyager:'' An earlier episode of The Next Generation had a wormhole with a stable entry point on one side, and a constantly jumping exit point on the other. Voyager finds this wormhole during the second season. They also find the Ferengi that were stranded in the Delta Quadrant, who have set themselves up as gods among a bronze-age people.
** '''You'd Expect:''' That they would make a beeline for the wormhole, or at least grab the Ferengi first and then hightail it back to the Alpha Quadrant, letting 5 or 6 generations of the bronze-age people undo all the damage that was done.
** '''Instead:''' They try to fix all the meddling of the Ferengi, who escape and even destroy the Wormhole.
** '''Corollary:''' Future Janeway plans to negate her own timeline by helping Voyager get back much earlier than intended. She'll have to break a lot of rules to accomplish her plan, though.
*** '''You'd Expect:''' That any of the people who indirectly/directly help her mission (Barclay, Miral Paris, Harry Kim) would have gotten some sense and realized that Janeway would erase the past twenty-plus years of their lives if they allowed her to continue through with her plan.
*** '''Instead:''' Barclay and Miral unquestionably go along with the plan (Miral even tests the device to make sure it works!), and even Harry Kim is somehow swayed after Janeway talks to him. Basically, everyone in the future has to act like an idiot in order for Janeway's plan to work.
** Weighing Janeway's need to get back home ASAP with the lives Voyager could have potentially saved over the next several years makes her choices seem more suspect. Janeway is told point blank by her future counterpart that, over the next two decades, she'll only lose 26 crew members (which is an average of about 1 per year), but that Voyager will have met and helped countless races all the way to the Alpha Quadrant. Either way, though, Tuvok will still end up going insane - no one can do anything about that.
*** '''You'd Expect:''' That, knowing this information, Janeway could have come back home as a legend and still kept Chakotay and Seven alive by not assigning them to away missions. Plus, the ship now has advanced Borg armor that would repel any ship-to-ship attack.
*** '''Instead:''' She (with the help of her counterpart) destroys a Transwarp Hub and sails right on home, content in the knowledge that she's saved a few more crewmembers at the cost of thousands - if not tens of thousands - of people who would potentially benefit from Voyager's assistance. Not to mention all the technology and information they would pick up along the way.
** In the episode "Timeless", Harry Kim and Tom Paris come up with a transwarping method of travel that will carry them right to Earth's front door - but they have to make constant course corrections. A future version of Harry Kim rewrites the past so that the ship drops out of transwarp after two or three minutes in its trial run, so that it doesn't crash and kill the crew.
*** '''You'd Expect:''' Harry to realize the technology works (but in short intervals), and use transwarp to "puddle-jump" the ship all the way to Earth. After all, it worked while being sustained for 2-3 minutes every time. The crew (including Harry) know this fact for certain, and discuss it at length.
*** '''Instead:''' Janeway decides the technology is too dangerous and orders it dismantled, while being disappointed that their experiment didn't work. ''But it did work! You just cut ten years off your journey, and were seconds away from making it back home!!!''

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

* Santana Lopez accuses David Karofsky of being gay, her proof being that she saw him check out the bottom of Sam Evans, a boy who was getting a drink of water from a fountain.\\

'''Instead''': He claims he was just looking to see what type of jeans Sam had on. Ironically, if Kurt Hummel, an openly gay teenager, had said that he was checking out the clothes another boy was wearing rather than the boy himself, it would've likely been true and many people would've had no trouble believing him. However, when a macho athlete who has never shown any sort of interest in fashion tries to use such an excuse, then, yeah, it's going to ring some bells. Or to quote Santana, "[[UnfortunateImplications Like that's any less gay]]." \\

* Santana Lopez accuses David Karofsky of being gay, her proof being that she saw him check out the bottom of Sam Evans, a boy who was getting a drink of water from a fountain.
'''You'd expect''': He'd either deny any memory of it, or he'd claim that he was thirsty and looked to see who was at the fountain. All she really had was that she saw him look at a person who was getting a drink.
'''Instead''': He claims he was just looking to see what type of jeans Sam had on. Ironically, if Kurt Hummel, an openly gay teenager, had said that he was checking out the clothes another boy was wearing rather than the boy himself, it would've likely been true and many people would've had no trouble believing him. However, when a macho athlete who has never shown any sort of interest in fashion tries to use such an excuse, then, yeah, it's going to ring some bells. Or to quote Santana, "[[UnfortunateImplications Like that's any less gay]]."

** Santana Lopez accuses David Karofsky of being gay, her proof being that she saw him check out the bottom of Sam Evans, a boy who was getting a drink of water from a fountain.

'''Instead''': [[RuleOfFunny It's a sitcom, so he doesn't]].Instead,he starts [[TurnTheOtherCheek comforting her instead]], despite laughing at her suffering from the inside.However, it ends up with Alan ''getting back with her'',[[IdiotBall like if he forgot ]][[KickTheDog all the crap she put him through]] ForTheEvulz. As expected,it ends with Judith deciding to break it up again because of how annoying Alan is, instead of Alan having the balls to reject her in the first place, and next time we know, she's back into abusing him and [[HenpeckedHusband Herb]] again.\\

'''Instead''': [[RuleOfFunny It's a sitcom, so he doesn't]]and he starts [[TurnTheOtherCheek comforting her instead]], despite laughing at her suffering from the inside.However, it ends up with Alan ''getting back with her'',[[IdiotBall like if he forgot ]][[KickTheDog all the crap she put him through]] ForTheEvulz. As expected,it ends with Judith deciding to break it up again because of how annoying Alan is, instead of Alan having the balls to reject her in the first place, and next time we know, she's back into abusing him and [[HenpeckedHusband Herb]] again.\\

'''Instead''': It ends up with Alan ''getting back with her'',[[IdiotBall like if he forgot ]][[KickTheDog all the crap she put him through]] ForTheEvulz. As expected,it ends with Judith deciding to break it up again because of how annoying Alan is, instead of Alan having the balls to reject her in the first place.\\
'''However:''' Alan is the local ChewToy. Him being abused by Judith is Status Quo.\\
'''But''': Even the ChewToy has moments where [[ThrowTheDogABone fate smiles upon him]]. What could possibly have been one of [[MomentOfAwesome Alan's greatests moments in the show]] [[YankTheDogsChain was]] [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome denied]] if favor of [[StatusQuoIsGod Status Quo]].

* ''LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'', by nature of being a GameShow, has its' share of bad player choices. The most [[TVTropesDrinkingGame egregious]] examples are seen in the climactic Temple run. In this series of rooms, the players are met with various challenges such as assembling a 3-piece statue, pressing an actuator, or finding a hidden key to move on to the next room, and three random rooms have Temple Guards that take away their pendant of life or remove them from the temple. Once a contestant reaches the episodes' [[MacGuffin Artifact]], all the doors are unlocked and the guards vanish. \\

'''Instead:''' Upon seeing Nora with her evil mask and [[strike:fake chainsaw]] real axe, they scream in horror and run back into the sound booth, only to have her immediately lock it again. Despite that, she claims to be unable to stay mad at them.

'''However:''' The show is all scripted anyway.

* ''Operation Repo:'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPDj9dgyLng You are driving a hook-and-chain tow truck that has an expensive BMW on the back with a cameraman inside]]. You have to pee badly, and drive faster than usual. Your partner suggests you slow down to prevent an overturn. You nearly have an accident when you run a stop sign. Your partner repeats his suggestion more vehemently.\\

'''Instead:''' You keep going too fast. The car flips going round a corner, is totaled, the cameraman narrowly avoids death, and you get fired. [[UltimateJobSecurity Temporarily]].

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

'''Instead''': Chloe loudly blabs to Jimmy that she didn't go off with Davis for him at all, and it was all "to protect Clark". Jim--er, Henry's HeroicSacrifice is the only thing that stops Chloe from being shish-kebabed by an angry, jealous Davis.