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6->''"Marcus. Do you know how many men I've killed over the years? How many women I've taken? All these years, burning with hatred for me. And I don't even remember you! Or whoever this whore was you say I killed!"''
7-->-- '''Damek''', ''Series/BladeTheSeries''
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9* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] on ''Series/{{The 100}}'': Murphy expects Jaha to have this attitude towards the people he's executed, and is surprised when Jaha remembers quite a bit about Murphy's executed father, Alex. Jaha insists he [[TheDeadHaveNames remembers the names]] of all the people whose executions he oversaw as Chancellor.
10* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
11** Heroic example: Anton Ivanov's vendetta against Coulson and SHIELD is rooted in the fact that his comrades were executed for failing to stop Coulson in a previous operation many years ago. While Coulson does remember the mission itself, he does not remember the details of ''why'' nor does he care, because for him it was just another day at SHIELD.
12--->'''Coulson:''' All of these things that you've done. All of the energy spent, the hatred... and you know what the funny thing about it is? I have no idea who the hell you are. I've been on hundreds of missions in my time. This one you're so upset about? I was sent to retrieve an object. If I'm being honest, I don't even remember what it was. As far as I'm concerned, you're just another {{redshirt}}, like so many others, who tried unsuccessfully to stop me from saving the world. 'Cause that's what I do. So. Cool origin story, bro. But this means ''nothing'' to me.
13** Bonus points for the fact that Coulson was on the mission in question with Melinda May, who is portrayed by Creator/MingNaWen, the recipient of the original ButForMeItWasTuesday -- and she was the one who beat up all the Mooks and allowed Coulson to get away with the object in question. And when May herself meets the man in question in the present, she has no idea who he is either. It was Tuesday for her too.
14--->'''May:''' Who the hell is this guy?\
15'''Coulson:''' Well, you missed a fair amount, May, but the quick version is: you can go ahead and shoot him.\
16'''May:''' ''(fires)''
17* ''Series/{{Andor}}'' has an ongoing theme about how the Galactic Empire from ''Franchise/StarWars'' has a tendency to fall into this.
18** One episode is titled "The Axe Forgets" after the proverb "The axe forgets but the tree remembers". The episode is about how individuals' resentment at the Empire's torrent of abuse and exploitation led to the formation of rebel cells, and [[ForegoneConclusion will eventually give rise to the Rebel Alliance.]]
19** Nemik posits that the Empire finds it easier to hide behind a flood of non-stop small tyrannies and outrages as opposed to one big atrocity that would massively inflame people galaxy-wide into resisting it. However, many of those incidents result in one or two people (and sometimes more), who become willing to stand up to the Empire afterward, often without the Empire knowing that they've created a new enemy. For example, the Empire building a massive prison complex over water fouls most of the local water, depriving local fishermen of their living. Later, when a couple of those fishermen encounter escapees from said prison, they're happy to aid the prisoners and get the men off world just to stick it to a clueless Empire. [[spoiler:One of those escapees in none other than Cassian Andor himself, who just a few years later in-universe will play a key role in stealing the intelligence on the Death Star's secret weakness, leading to the destruction of the weapon that the Empire thought would allow it to dominate the galaxy.]]
20** Even Imperials aren't immune to getting this treatment from the Empire. Of the seven participants in the Aldhani heist, one is an ex-Stormtrooper and another is a current Imperial officer. When Lieutenant Gorn's participation in the heist is revealed to his commanding officer, the Commandant, it's clear that the Commandant has no idea what motivated Gorn to take part in the heist, or that the Commandant was pushing Gorn's BerserkButton multiple times a day by constantly being racist to the locals.
21** Cassian says on several occasions that the Empire is too arrogant and self-satisfied to bother paying attention to anyone other than themselves, to remember the people they hurt, or to learn from their mistakes. He's repeatedly proven right. He himself is a case, as several times throughout the first season various Imperials mention his past file, and they quote the part about him assaulting some Imperial officers at age 13, absolutely clueless as to ''why'' he did so. His [[ParentalSubstitute adopted father]] was wrongly shot by Imperials who mistook him for a protesting rabble rouser and then was left hanging in the town square [[MakeAnExampleOfThem so he'd be an example to others]]. Filled with grief and rage, Cassian attempted to charge and attack a group of stormtroopers, was arrested, and then conscripted out of jail into serving/supplementing Imperial troops and other conscripts who were putting down a rebellion against the Empire's tyranny. Cassian became one of the few conscripts there not to perish in the fighting, mostly because he ran away and deserted before a nearly inevitable death. It's clear that either none of this is recorded in his file or, if it is, that the Imperials who review it don't bother to learn about it.
22* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
23** An odd example: the demon Sahjhan spends a good chunk of the third season working against Angel, but when the two finally meet, Angel has no idea why Sahjhan hates him, driving the latter to disappear in fury. Of course, Angel was a bit justified in this: Sahjhan's beef was a ''future'' event that Sahjhan knew about from a prophecy. [[spoiler:A prophecy that he had even ''rewritten himself'' centuries before, so it was basically impossible for Angel to know about it.]] Granted, existing outside of time might mess with his perceptions a bit, but, really, Sahjhan's expectations just seem a little high.
24** Subverted with Angelus (and thus Angel), who generally ''does'' remember his victims, but if anything this is used to highlight his evil. At one point Angel and Spike contrast their approaches as evil vampires. Spike loved the act of fighting and killing and never thought twice about the victims, so he's forgotten a lot of them, while Angelus was interested in the suffering and destruction of a human being on a personal level. It helps that he and Angel share a photographic memory.
25** Outright confirmed in a flashback to shortly after Angel's re-ensouling. Darla finds him [[CornerOfWoe huddled in a corner]], overwhelmed by the scale of the horror in his head.
26-->'''Angel:''' Funny. You would think, with all the people I've...maimed and killed, I wouldn't be able to remember ''every single one.''
27* ''Series/{{Barry}}'': As Gene experiences a comeback as an actor and attempts to atone for being a massive {{Jerkass}} earlier in his career, he finds himself hindered by the fact he's done so many terrible things he can't remember all of them.
28-->'''Producer''': I was a P.A. on ''Series/MurderSheWrote''? You attacked me?\
29'''Gene''': I need more.\
30'''Producer''': You threw hot tea in my face because your omelette had chives.\
31'''Gene''': Was I playing a priest?
32* ''Series/TheBill'': Commonly inverted, such as a man who was adamant that Dave Quinnan had changed his life. Quinnan had to ask someone to check the archives because he didn't remember him. Turns out that he was once arrested for disorderly behavior, processed and released. Being on the receiving end was what inspired the man to get on with his life, but to Dave, it was a normal Tuesday.
33** Another time a 16-year-old girl was stalking Sergeant Cryer for half of the episode. She wanted to know [[spoiler:what he could remember about finding a baby girl sixteen years previously, because she wanted to know who she was]]. He didn't remember much.
34* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'': Played for laughs in the final episode of the second series, which includes a rare example of the BigBad being on the receiving end of this trope. Prince Ludwig seems surprised that Blackadder, Melchett and Queenie do not remember him, and then proceeds to remind them of a time each of them had met him -- examples which vary from obscure to downright ridiculous/depraved. ([[YouDoNotWantToKnow Looking at you, Melchett]]).
35* ''Series/BladeTheSeries'': [[MagnificentBastard Marcus Van Sciver]] has spent decades plotting revenge against the pureblood Damek, who brutally murdered his wife in front of him and then had Van Sciver sent to a bunch of feral [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], who ended up turning him. Eventually, Marcus confronts Damek and starts a fight. Right before Van Sciver kills him, Damek simply laughs, saying he doesn't even remember her; after all, he's a couple thousand years old and likely can't remember a hundredth of the people he's killed.
36* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Subverted in "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS3E8RumoursOfDeath Rumours of Death]]" when Avon interrogates a TortureTechnician whom he thinks killed [[LostLenore Anna Grant]]. When the man denies it, Avon assumes this trope is in play. However the torturer denies this, saying he's proud of his work and so remembers all of his victims. [[spoiler:The reason he doesn't remember Anna Grant is because she's a [[TheMole Security agent]], so was never arrested.]]
37* ''Series/BlueBloods'': When Mayor-Elect Carter Poole tells Frank Reagan that he's keeping him on as Police Commissioner, he relates a story about how there was this certain white Irish beat cop who coached his basketball team. Naturally, Frank was said cop, and he only vaguely remembers doing this.[[note]]This is TruthInTelevision for both cops and firefighters. They see and do so many things that civilians think are extraordinary on such a regular basis that everything tends to blur together.[[/note]]
38* On ''Series/BodyOfProof'', Megan finds something oddly familiar on the body of a young woman. She realizes it's a patient of hers as she recognizes the surgical cuts. Megan is thrown by how she can remember every moment of the operation but no recollection of the woman herself. When a man at the hospital embraces her, he gushes on how wonderful it is to see Megan while Megan has to read his nametag to realize it's the woman's father. He talks about how the woman was inspired to learn medicine herself after Megan saved her, even showing a photo of the two together that Megan doesn't remember posing for. Megan is struck by how she could become such an inspiration to a woman she has absolutely no memory of and wonders how many other past patients feel the same.
39* ''Series/TheBoys2019'':
40** A RunningGag is that A-Train doesn't remember running Robin over or his apology to Hughie, which allows Hughie to completely slip beneath his notice for quite some time, until [[spoiler:Season 1 finale]]. [[spoiler:Homelander also doesn't remember the face of the man whose wife he raped and impregnated.]] Exploited by Hughie [[spoiler: when he pretends to have had sex with Ezekiel in a club.]]
41** When Mother's Milk confronts FakeUltimateHero Soldier Boy for his [[DestructiveSavior role in his family's death]], his only response is "Which one?"
42* ''Series/BreakingBad'' and ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': In the former, Walt and Jesse kidnap Saul Goodman and threaten to shoot him into a shallow desert grave. It's played for laughs and they don't think much of it after the fact. The latter show reveals that Jimmy [=McGill=] (Saul's real name) is deeply traumatised from his desert experiences and being held captive by Lalo, and getting kidnapped by those two reawakened all the PTSD he'd tried to keep buried. They also [[OnceMoreWithClarity replay]] said scene from Saul's point of view, and it's shot like a horror movie.
43* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
44** During Anya and Xander's wedding in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E16HellsBells Hell's Bells]]", a demon shows up [[spoiler:disguised as Xander from the future]] to destroy everything, most horribly making it seem like Xander doesn't love Anya. It turns out this demon was actually once an adulterous human whom Anya punished back in her days as a vengeance demon. Anya, who had probably done horrible things to ''thousands'' of them (or more) in her life time, has no memory of this. This is an unusual case, since Anya comes out as sympathetic rather than the demon.
45** A subversion occurs in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E17LiesMyParentsToldMe}} Lies My Parents Told Me]]", where the murdered family member actually ''isn't'' just another victim.
46--->'''Robin Wood:''' Oh, I know more about you than you think, Spike. See, I've been searching for you for a very, very long time. Ever since you killed my mother.\
47'''Spike:''' I've killed a lot of people's mothers.\
48'''Robin Wood:''' Yeah. You'd remember mine. She was a Slayer.
49*** This happens often with Spike in Season 7 of ''Buffy'' and Season 5 of ''Angel''. He'll be honestly trying to help someone, and the rescuee wants nothing to do with him because he murdered their family -- something Spike has no memory of. In one case, Spike was ''not'' responsible, but it doesn't make him feel any better about it, since he's killed so many people that it's not much of a consolation that he wasn't responsible for these ''particular'' deaths.
50** Buffy herself is a heroic example of that trope: in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E12ANewMan A New Man]]", Riley is proud of himself for single-handedly catching 17 creatures.
51--->'''Buffy:''' Wow. I mean, that's...seventeen.
52** And later:
53--->'''Riley:''' Buffy. When I saw you stop the world from, you know, ending, I just assumed that was a big week for you. Turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse".
54** She makes the remark about herself in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More With Feeling]] stating out loud "Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday."
55** When Andrew first appears on the show, he says that the Scoobies stopped him from using flying monkeys to attack a school play. The Scoobies have no memory of this and, in fact, [[NoodleIncident it did not appear on screen]].
56* ''Series/ChannelZero'': In the ''Butcher's Block'' season, [[TheBrute Robert]] doesn't bother to remember the names of the people he's killed, saying that they "don't matter". He seems to have picked this up from his father [[BigBad Joseph]], whose response when asked if he remembers Louise's brother is a mocking "What did he [[ImAHumanitarian taste]] like?"
57* ''Series/Charmed1998'': Has an episode where [[spoiler:HeelFaceRevolvingDoor Belthazar is being hunted by a good witch because he killed her husband. Because he is currently face, he is helping her hunt down the demon he thinks is responsible]]. After the accusation, he doesn't even know for sure if she is right or not.
58* In ''Series/CobraKai'', Johnny Lawrence (and, to a certain extent, Daniel [=LaRusso=]) beatify Ali Mills (Schwarber), the woman they fought over in the original film three decades earlier. Johnny even reminisces about her at one point to one of his students, clearly indicating that he never got over her... then subsequent dialogue makes it abundantly clear that Ali moved on from the Encino Valley karate bubble a long time ago, and has likely never thought about either of them since, as her Facebook profile shows her to be happily married on the other side of the country. [[spoiler:That is, until the ending shot of Season 2, which reveals that she sent Johnny a friend request on Facebook...]]
59* In the pilot episode of ''Series/CovertAffairs'', this is Auggie's response to Annie's description of her first day on the job.
60-->'''Annie:''' I saw a man get killed today, I lied to a federal agent, I was shot at...\
61'''Auggie:''' Or, as we call it, Thursday at the Agency.
62* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
63** An episode had Hotch and Reid interviewing a serial killer on death row. When Reid asks the inmate why he killed a woman named Sheila O'Neil, the killer nonchalantly mentions that Reid's going to have to be a lot more specific with details regarding the victims, as he can barely remember them.
64--->'''Chester Hardwick:''' Truth is, they meant nothing to me. They were toys, a diversion, and from the moment I decided to kill them, they were dead. They begged, they cried, they bargained, and it didn't matter, because they didn't matter.
65** "Ghost" has a villain to hero example. The [=UnSub=] has abducted Luke and Matt, and greets them with "You don't remember me do you?" Luke does not appear to, but Matt does. The next time we see them Luke is referring to the [=UnSub=] by name, so either he then remembered, was informed, or was pretending to not recognize him.
66* ''Series/TheDailyShow'': Do you know what they call a show-girl fucking a penguin in Las Vegas? [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-19-2011/indecision-2012---fear-and-pandering-in-las-vegas Tuesday]].
67** John Oliver, July 25, 2013: "In the stock market, that's what's known as 'insider trading.' In the commodities market, it's known as simply 'Thursday'."
68** Trevor Noah, November 30, 2015: "Ah, Black Friday. Or, as we call it back in Africa, Friday."
69** Referenced almost directly by Trevor on November 17, 2019 when noting that it would be difficult to determine if President Trump had a stroke, because "the symptoms of a stroke are slurred speech, confusion, and erratic behavior. For Trump, that's a Tuesday."
70* In ''Series/CSIMiami'' one case involved the murder of a man at a high-school reunion. It turned out the killer was a victim of the man's bullying; his entire body, including his mouth, was wrapped with duct tape and was stuffed in a locker. The incident left him with permanent physical scars all over his body, as well as mental ones. The killer, when meeting up with the bully, calmly and politely asked for an apology, assuming he had matured into a nicer person. The bully not only refused to apologize but also admitted he didn't even remember the incident at all, only giving a blunt "get over it." This threw the killer over the edge and he [[GrievousBottleyHarm knocked the bully dead with a wine bottle.]]
71* In ''Series/Daredevil2015'', when Matt Murdock is put face to face to his father's killer thanks to Elektra, he is surprised when Roscoe Sweeney doesn't even remember who he is, and only does so after he hits Sweeney in the face repeatedly, and outright tells him his father was a boxer.
72-->'''Matt Murdock:''' You don't remember me? You killed my father.\
73'''Roscoe Sweeney:''' Well I hate to break it to you son, but I killed a lot of guys' dads.
74* ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'': In a Season 6 episode, Alex joins the lacrosse team and is promptly cold-shouldered by one of the other players for what Alex assumes is no reason. Turns out that, years earlier, Alex tripped her and broke her leg and nearly blinded her with a laser pointer.
75-->'''Alex''': It wasn't personal. It could have been anyone.
76-->'''Sirina''': But it was me. A real person. You made my life hell and the worst part is, you don't even remember doing it.
77* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
78** This mentality really gets under the Doctor's skin. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], Eleven promises to take apart Rosanna's empire piece by piece, not just because she killed one of the Doctor's friends, but because she hadn't even bothered to learn her name. Note that Rosanna probably remembers killing that person, she just never knew the girl's name to begin with.
79** The new series has characterized the Doctor's adventures as being this trope from the perspective of their foes.
80*** First, the Slitheen posing as "Margaret Blaine" [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown challenges the Doctor's moral authority]]:
81---->'''"Margaret":''' From what I've seen, your funny little happy-go-lucky life leaves devastation in its wake. Always moving on 'cause you dare not look back. Playing with so many peoples' lives, you might as well be a god.
82*** Then, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens in the legend of the Pandorica]], which the Doctor recites [[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription without a hint of irony]]:
83---->'''The Doctor:''' There was a goblin, or a trickster, or [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor a warrior]]. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it. One day, it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.
84*** And finally, River gives the Doctor the mother of all [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speeches]] after he fails to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar rescue her from Madame Kovarian as an infant]] (it's complicated):
85---->'''River:''' You make them so afraid. When you began all those years ago, sailing off to see the Universe, did you ever think you'd become ''this''? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? "Doctor", the word for "healer" and "wise man" throughout the Universe; we get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior". [[DeadpanSnarker How far you've come]]. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to [[TykeBomb turn her into a weapon]] just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you.
86** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]]: The Doctor swears to tear down the House of Calvierri brick by brick because Rosanna doesn't know the name of a woman she had killed.
87** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar "A Good Man Goes to War"]], the Doctor has a benevolent version, where he saved someone's life as a child and she devoted her life to meeting him. [[spoiler:As they don't come face-to-face until she's been mortally wounded helping him]], he pretends to remember them running together. It was a pretty safe bet. Being a time traveller, it's entirely possible the Doctor has yet to save her.
88** According to Gareth Roberts, an early draft of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]] featured the classic series monster [[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]] as the villain -- the punchline being that the Doctor would have no idea who he was, even when reminded.
89** In the 2012 Christmas Special, [[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen "The Snowmen"]], the villain is revealed to be the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen Great]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear Intelligence]]. The Doctor knows he should remember that name from somewhere, but he can't put his finger on it. It was also a meta reference to most of the original story being lost (it was recovered the next year). Unusually, the other party has no memory of the Doctor either, due to [[TimeyWimeyBall not having met him yet.]]
90** [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by the War, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, when the Eleventh tries, [[BadLiar badly]] to invoke this trope to calm his guilt over the destruction of Gallifrey:
91--->'''War:''' Did you ever count?\
92'''Eleven:''' Count what?\
93'''War:''' How many children there were on Gallifrey that day.\
94'''Eleven:''' ''[stops his task, blindsided]'' I've absolutely no idea.\
95'''War:''' How old are you now?\
96''[cut to a shot of Ten looking disapprovingly]''\
97'''Eleven:''' Oh, I don't know, I lose track. Twelve-hundred-and something, unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age -- that's how old I am.\
98'''War:''' Four hundred years older than me, and in all that time, you never even wondered how many there were? You never once counted?\
99'''Eleven:''' ''[angrily stopping what he's doing]'' Tell me, what would be the point? \
100'''Ten:''' 2.47 billion.\
101'''War:''' You ''did'' count!\
102''[Eleven shakes his head ruefully and continues his work]''\
103'''Ten:''' ''[to Eleven]'' You ''forgot''! Four hundred years, is that all it takes!?\
104'''Eleven:''' I moved on.\
105'''Ten:''' WHERE!? Where can you be now that you can forget something like ''that''!?
106** And another variant in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath "Deep Breath"]]. The Doctor meets a group of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace organ-harvesting clockwork automatons]], and finds the whole situation horribly familiar, but he can't quite connect the dots even after finding that the automatons' base is the S.S. ''Marie Antoinette'', a starship from the distant future named for a French noblewoman. In this case, it serves more to highlight how old he has become: His adventure aboard the S.S. ''Madame de Pompadour'' took place over a thousand years earlier from his perspective. Also, in the earlier episode, the Doctor never actually found out the ''Pompadour''[='=]s name in the first place.
107** This is averted with the Master/Missy during her HeelFaceTurn in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand "Lie of the Land"]]. She realizes that actually she ''does'' remember the names of the many people she's murdered over the centuries, and tearfully admits this to the Doctor.
108--->'''Missy:''' You remember all the people I've killed?...I didn't know I even knew their names. You didn't tell me about this bit.
109** Occurs to Ashildr, aka Me, an immortal girl with [[TheFogOfAges a mortal sized memory]]. From [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]]:
110--->'''The Doctor:''' How many people have you killed?\
111'''Ashildr:''' You'll have to check my diaries.
112** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]]:
113--->'''[[spoiler:Lone Cyberman]]:''' You appear courageous, but your vital signs betray a heightened state of anxiety.\
114'''The Doctor:''' Or as I like to call it, "Tuesday"!
115** The spin-off [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] audio "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho6DAS4E1BroadwayBelongsToMe Broadway Belongs to Me!]]" features a somewhat humorous variation on this when the Sixth Doctor and Mel fall into a trap set by a group who call themselves "the Alliance of Retribution", consisting of people who have been thwarted by the Doctor in the past. However, when pressed the Doctor can't remember most of them (the leader of the Alliance claims to be the Doctor's arch-enemy and after asking if he's the Master or the Rani the Doctor concedes he has no idea who this man even is), musing that they must be some of his more forgettable adversaries as he's been doing this for a very long time and can't be expected to remember everybody.
116* ''Series/Dracula2013'': When [[AntiHero Van Helsing]] confronts [[BigBad Lord Browning]] in the finale, we get this exchange:
117-->'''Van Helsing:''' You don't recognize me?\
118'''Browning:''' Should I?\
119'''Van Helsing:''' Abraham Van Helsing. [[YouKilledMyFather You slaughtered my family]].\
120'''Browning:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Well, that hardly narrows it down]].
121* In one episode of the final season of ''Series/DueSouth'', Ray Kowalski stakes out a funeral so he can confront the deceased's son, a bank robber who once robbed a bank while Ray was present as a child. When he finally shows up, the man admits that he's robbed a lot of banks over the years, and has no memory of the details of one specific robbery that he did more than twenty years ago.
122* ''{{Series/ER}}'': An early Season 1 episode has the heroic variety. Dr. Greene encounters a former patient who rushes into the [=ER=] on the one year anniversary of the doctor saving his life from some medical issue. The patient hugs, and lifts Greene off the floor, while loudly and happily proclaiming it to be "Dr. Greene Day" and he was going to reward the doctor with ribs. Greene, for his part, is first shocked and confused, but hides the fact this man was one of easily a dozen or more patients he encounters and whose lives he tries to save ''on a daily basis''.
123* ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'': In one episode, Marie relates to Debra the origin of the big wooden fork and spoon that had been background props hanging on the kitchen wall for the entire series: they were a wedding present that both she and Frank hated, and which each felt the other should be responsible for returning. The argument grew into their first big fight as husband and wife, and culminated in Frank spitefully nailing the spoon to the wall, and Marie retaliating with the fork. Since then, Marie says, every time she enters the kitchen she sees the fork and spoon and remembers that horrible fight. At the end of the episode, inspired by her own advice to Debra, she pronounces to Frank that she is "[rising] above 45 years of pettiness!" and taking the fork and spoon down...only to discover that they've been up there so long they've left their silhouettes on the wallpaper. She angrily puts them back up and storms out. For his part, Frank stares at the utensils for a moment, then wonders, "When did we get those?"
124** In another episode, Raymond and family are attending the wedding of a girl Raymond knew in college. It turns out that Raymond went on a date with her once, and at the end of the night he didn't walk her to her front door, as he was more concerned about keeping an eye on his father's car. Raymond still feels incredibly bad about this, even though everyone else thinks he is just being neurotic. Finally, Raymond gathers his courage and apologises to the girl. Sure enough, she doesn't remember the incident at all.
125* A heroic example happens on ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when a vengeful criminal threatens police officer Carl with a gun:
126-->'''Carl''': Wait a minute, wait a minute! Before you shoot me, at least tell me who you are, and why you're doing this!
127-->'''Criminal''': You busted my brother, Ralphie!
128-->'''Carl''':...Would that be Ralphie the pimp, Ralphie the loan shark or Ralphie the snitch?
129* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In ''The Hidden Memory'', Aeryn confronts Crais, reminding him of how he declared her "irreversibly contaminated," thereby practically ruining her life. He does not remember the incident, and it is not until he sees her face that he recalls who she is, albeit with some difficulty. A bit more justified than many cases, since he was following standard procedure and it was the same day his brother died and he went rogue to avenge him, and on this current day, Aeryn found him in a chair after being tortured by a device which draws out memories more painfully the more a person resists.
130* ''Series/TheFlash1990'': In the series pilot, Barry Allen's brother is ambushed and killed by the guy he put in prison years before. After becoming the title superhero, Barry confronts the killer and tells him why he's chasing him. The killer asks for clarification as he kills "a lot of brothers".
131* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''Fallout'': When Caitlin says the odds of something that just happened are essentially impossible, Barry remarks, "Impossible's just another Tuesday for us." A bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall here: the show airs on Tuesday night.
132* In ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', in the episode "Day Game", almost everything ex-cop Gil did was because [[ItsPersonal he felt Parker ruined his life]] after Parker had declined his application to join SRU twice, leading to his divorce and him being kicked off the force due to insubordination. In reality, Parker declined several applications to SRU every year and never even realized that Gil had submitted a grievance against him.
133* In ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', Niles and Frasier clearly remember the Kriezel brothers, who bullied them horrifically throughout elementary school, even though about thirty years have gone by. However, when Niles confronts the younger brother, Danny, he has a hard time remembering any specific incident and has no idea who Niles is at first.
134--> Danny: You carried your gym clothes in a briefcase.
135--> Niles: It was an ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint attache case]]''!
136* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': The bully who beat Will up and got him sent out to Bel-Air in the first place doesn't remember beating Will up when he comes back to Philadelphia. He only remembers when Will bops him on the head with his basketball...which prompts the revelation that he's reformed himself.
137* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In "TOW the Rumor" Rachel's old high-school classmate Will (played by Creator/BradPitt) reveals that she was so mean to him in school that he founded the "I Hate Rachel Green Club". Rachel doesn't even remember him.
138* ''Series/GameOfThrones''
139** When Arya Stark meets Polliver again, he doesn't recognize her as the prisoner he threatened before Tywin stopped him. He even gets several long, good looks at her but it still doesn't dawn on him. When she gets her revenge on Polliver, she starts by repeating the words he said to her friend Lommy when he killed him. Polliver has absolutely no recollection and just looks bewildered at the words spoken by the crazy child standing over him. It's not until she repeats his words about picking his teeth with her sword that he finally figures out who she is (because Polliver remembers stealing the CoolSword from Arya, not the murder).
140** Lampshaded when Arya tells Meryn Trant [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya she's killing him to avenge Syrio Forel]], but then adds that he probably doesn't remember that incident anyway.
141** In "Walk of Punishment", Arya asks the Hound, "Do you remember what happened the last time you were here?" outside the inn near where he rode down her friend Mycah twenty-one episodes before in "The Kingsroad", but he has no idea what she's talking about.
142* A RunningGag in ''Series/GoodOmens'' Season 2 is Crowley meeting both demons and angels who talk of their past together but Crowley honestly has no memory of them whatsoever.
143* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': When Bruce Wayne [[spoiler:finally comes face-to-face with his parents' killer, the guy doesn't even remember killing them until Bruce jogs his memory by filling in some of the details. (It's possible that this trope doesn't apply, since it was never made entirely clear that he was the actual killer and wasn't just trying to enrage Bruce because he was feeling suicidal and wanted Bruce to kill him.)]]
144* ''Series/GraceAndFrankie'': Robert attends the funeral of Reggie, a man he has no memory of serving with in the navy, and comes to believe he has been mistaken for a man who saved his life. It turns out instead that a small act of kindness by Robert enabled Reggie to meet his future wife, for which the couple were eternally grateful.
145* On ''Series/GrandHotel'', Ingrid becomes pregnant by manager Mateo but he'd rather she get an abortion than support a child. Ingrid thus goes to Javi, the son of hotel owner Santiago, and makes him think he's the father despite not having been with him. Just as Ingrid figured, Javi has slept with so many women that he honestly believes there's a chance he was with Ingrid, forgot her name totally and truly is the father.
146* On ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', Meredith is before a panel to decide whether she should be allowed to keep her medical license. She's stunned to see one doctor is the man who refused to run a CT scan on Meredith's husband, Derek, which cost him his life. Meredith is further stunned to realize the doctor obviously doesn't remember Meredith despite being the one to tell her about Derek dying. When the man brings up Meredith's capability as a mother, Meredith stands up to rattle off a series of names then says they're the "spouse or partner of every patient I couldn't save." The guy ''still'' doesn't get it until Meredith point blank brings up Derek's name and the night and "you killed my husband and you don't even remember it!" The man's shock contributes to a stroke that ends up killing him..with Meredith ironically being the one to immediately suggest "give him a CT scan."
147* ''Series/HappyDays'': [[Creator/TomHanks Dwayne Twitchell]], a childhood classmate of Fonzie's, has spent years training in martial arts, all to get revenge on Fonzie for some grade-school bullying. His RoaringRampageOfRevenge comes to a sheepish halt when he realizes his grudge is one-sided and Fonzie hasn't thought about him in years.
148* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'': In "Judgment Day", Hercules has lost his strength and has been framed for murder, so a angry mob goes after him. A man named Veklos gives Hercules shelter and says he's paying him back for a time Hercules saved him. Hercules doesn't recognize him, and Veklos says he's probably saved so many people he can't remember them all. [[spoiler:However, since Veklos turns out to be Zeus in disguise, he was probably making that story up.]]
149* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Sylar's father. [[spoiler:When Sylar says that his father killed his mother, Samson barely remembers.]]
150* ''Series/{{House}}'': The title character, being insane, often invokes this trope by failing to recall actions that any other physician would consider...well, insane.
151* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
152** Ted is talking about the night that he stole the blue French horn for Robin, prompting Barney's revelation, "Oh right, that was you." When a shocked Ted asked how he could forget as it was a big iconic moment in all of their lives, Barney shrugs and replies, "For ''you'' maybe. I got a lot of stuff going on."
153** Another example of Barney is the episode "The Bracket", where the group tries to figure out which of Barney's jilted lovers is trying to get revenge on him. When they finally track her down, she isn't even on their newly-created Bracket list of his top jilted lovers. Barney is horrified that he doesn't remember a woman he slept with and goes up to her and apologizes both for not remembering her and for whatever he did to her (he once sold a woman; he's done some pretty horrible things). Averted in that they had never slept together and the girl had no idea who Barney was either.
154** In episode [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS5E11LastCigaretteEver "Last Cigarette Ever"]] Marshall reunites with his former boss Arthur last seen in [[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS3E15TheChainOfScreaming "The Chain of Screaming"]] and former recall the moment when he quit his job while giving the latter a good yelling. Arthur then says that he experied similar incidents with 95% of his employees and everyone in his family.
155** A comedic example occurs when Marshall sees a contract that Barney's company has with Portugal that if they, "are not executed precisely, we will be at war with Portugal." To which Barney responds, "Dude, forget that, that's a Tuesday for me." He then grabs the contracts and shreds them.
156* ''Series/InspectorMorse''. In "The Day of the Devil", a serial rapist escapes from prison by hiding in the trunk of his female psychiatrist, then tracks down several former associates and murders them [[spoiler:before being shot by police. By that point Morse has discovered the psychiatrist has engineered the whole thing. She was one of the women raped by his gang, but as he had no empathy for his victims he never bothered to remember her. She used her position to convince him the other members of his gang had been responsible for his capture by police.]]
157* Something of a RunningGag in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' is someone from a prior episode showing up as a ContinuityNod, acknowledging that the gang did horrible things to them, and then the gang saying something along the lines of "Hm... no, could you narrow that down?"
158* ''Literature/JoePickett'': When [[spoiler:Shenandoah]] describes how she first began killing her former rapists after ten years (during which time they raped many other girls), one thing that upsets her is how Dan Garrett, the first one she killed, didn't see the danger coming because he didn't recognize her.
159* The Netflix docudrama ''The Last Czars'' has a protagonist version of this when Czar Nicholas II and his family are the Ural Bolsheviks' prisoners in [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The House of Special Purpose]]. Nicholas tells the Bolshevik prison commander, Yakov Yarovsky, "I've never met people like you, and I hope I never do again." Yarovsky then tells him that they have technically met before, back when Nicholas was making his progress through the Russian Empire in 1891, back when he was a Grand Duke. Yarovsky was ten then, and he was excited when then-Grand Duke Nicholas passed through his village because he got the day off from school to watch the procession. He waved a flag as Nicholas's carriage passed by. Nicholas says nothing as Yarovsky recounts this, but he clearly has no memory of this moment, and Yarovsky acknowledges that:
160-->'''Yarovsky:''' Of course you don't remember. There were millions of us, and only one of you.
161* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''
162** Discussed in the very first episode "Payback". The victim of the week turns out to be a war criminal who raped over fifty women, and was ultimately killed by two of his former victims. As he was making a living as a cab driver, Stabler theorizes that one of the killers got into the cab and recognized him, but he didn't recognize her. This is never confirmed, but seems likely.
163** "Quarry" features a creepy inversion. Lucas Biggs is a serial molester of children, and kept baseball caps from each child as a [[CreepySouvenir souvenirs]]. He is able to identify who each cap belonged to, and even knows the date he molested them.
164** "Name", based on the "Boy in the Box case". By the end of the episode, they have the killer but still don't know the name of one of young boys he killed. When they demand the killer tell them the boy's name, the killer claims he doesn't remember. They don't believe him, insisting he'd remember, but he insists that he genuinely has forgotten. Whether that's a lie or not is ambiguous, but in any case they never learn the child's name.
165** Invoked in one episode, when Fin is confronted by a man who snaps Fin put him in jail for 23 years. Fin replies, "I put a lot of guys away for a lot longer. You're gonna have to be more specific." The man presses on it being in a Queens neighborhood in 1999, with Fin replying, "you know how many collars I made there?" and claiming his memory is bad. It's when the man shares his street name of "Dutch" that Fin puts it together. At first, Dutch doesn't believe him until Fin rattles off details of the arrest.
166* Quite often, the marks on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' are totally unaware of the amount of lives they've destroyed. In some cases, the team will use either the names or even the actual people who have been ripped off and lost most everything as part of their revenge con and the crooks honestly have no idea who all these names are.
167** In "The Snow Job", Nate uses a list of names as supposedly dead people he uses in cons as part of the scam to take down a family of corrupt developers. When the marks go down, Nate calls up the son who handles the business and asks if he even bothered to read the names on the list... which were all the people the family had ripped off.
168** In "The Boiler Room Job", an arrogant con artist thinks he sees through the scam the team have set up with various people in an office setting. As it turns out, the whole thing is just a distraction for the team stealing the guy's money out from under him and setting him up on fraud charges. As the man is dragged off by the FBI, Nate reveals that all the people present aren't actors but rather the con artist's past victims who he honestly didn't recognize (not exactly this trope since he ran his scam over the phone, so there was no reason why he should have remembered his victims' faces).
169* ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'': Papa Lazarou has a book entitled ''The Book of Wives'' that catalogs every woman he's ever snatched so he can keep track of them all. He consults it to find out who Brian's wife was: she was [[spoiler:Geoff]]'s.
170-->"Do you know, I can't even remember if she's alive or dead!"
171* A positive example from ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ray Palmer]] tells [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics Professor Martin Stein]] that he used to be one of his students and is shocked to find that Stein doesn't remember him. Stein later explains to Ray that he had so many exceptional students that he could never hope to remember all of them.
172** Played more straight when Mick is confronted by Amaya who accuses him of "killing him" which Mick just points out he's killed a lot of people and she'll have to be more specific. Somewhat subverted in that when Amaya does specify (Rex Tyler) Mick does know full well he didn't kill Rex especially since it was someone he had just met a few days prior and obviously would remember killing so soon.
173* ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'': From the episode "[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4447420/?ref_=tt_eps_cu_n And The Drowned Book]]"
174-->'''Flynn:''' An immortal magician from Shakespeare's plays has teamed up with a super villan genius that he's pulled from literature to take advantage of the fact that magic has returned to the world to restore his power and [[TakeOverTheWorld to accomplish some sort of unknowable and yet terrifying plot for world domination]].\
175'''Baird:''' So, Tuesday, then?
176* ''Series/{{Loki 2021}}'':
177** Sylvie is a Variant who was captured for her "crime" of deviating from the Sacred Timeline as a child, but managed to escape. Thousands of years later, she tracks down Renslayer, the Hunter who captured her (now a Judge) and demands to know what exactly she did that caused the Nexus Event, the branching timeline that had to be pruned. Renslayer says she can't remember.
178** Played with in the case of Mobius and [[spoiler:Alligator Loki]]. He doesn't remember him at all, and says he's pruned so many Lokis that they all blur together... but he's pretty sure he'd remember [[spoiler:an ''alligator'']]. Mobius wonders if he's not a Loki at all, just pretending to be one as part of some long con, then admits that would actually make it more likely that he's a Loki.
179* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Halbrand has a major grudge against Adar for unspecified reasons, only narrowly being dissuaded from giving him an ImpromptuTracheotomy by Galadriel reminding him that VengeanceFeelsEmpty. Adar, however, has no clue who Halbrand is and tries to goad him by speculating what he could've done to make Halbrand hate him so much. [[spoiler: Adar destroyed his previous physical form and absolutely remembers killing Sauron, he simply doesn't recognize his new body.]]
180* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Sawyer [[spoiler:finally encounters the man that ruined his life by driving his father to kill Sawyer's mother, and then kill himself (through a routine con), only for the man to say that he ran that con dozens of times and that it was Sawyer's father who took it badly. His callous indifference gets him killed by Sawyer]].
181* ''Series/LostGirl'': In the episode ''The Girl Who Fae'd With Fire'' Kenzi has just met Hale's family, while pretending to be his girlfriend.
182-->'''Kenzi:''' Were we in the same room yesterday? That was crazytown.\
183'''Hale:''' That was Thursday, the estate is always kind of intense.
184* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''
185** A pick-up artist who regularly lectures on how best to bed a woman finds himself falling in love with one for real. When she's kidnapped, he begs Lucifer to save her only to find she set the kidnapping up. It turns out she fell for his lines ''two years'' earlier and gave up her virginity to him but he never called her back. When she heard of his act, she went to see him only to realize that he literally didn't remember her. She thus decided to get him to fall in love with her for some payback and it escalated. Unlike many in this trope, the pick-up artist is deeply shaken to realize he slept with so many women he could forget the one he eventually fell for.
186** The title character does this a lot, being the Devil and all. Lampshaded when he's told that Maze is angry with him, Lucifer cheerfully asks if it's Tuesday already.
187--->'''Chloe:''' He had a drug problem?\
188'''Lucifer:''' Well, only if you consider it a problem if you habitually stuff your face with millions of dollars of cocaine. For me that's Tuesday, but apparently it's frowned upon.
189** Happens a lot with his mother too.
190--->'''Lucifer:''' What did you do to her?\
191'''Charlotte:''' You'll have to be more specific. I've done things to a lot of people by now.
192** Linda is getting things piled onto her, and when confronted with that Lucifer is letting ''the'' Eve shack up with him...
193--->'''Linda:''' I mean, I am carrying an angel-baby, I guess this is just a normal Tuesday for me now.
194** Inverted in the fifth season, when Lucifer notes, "I suppose what I call powerlessness is what everyone else calls a Tuesday."
195** Double subverted in "A Lot Dirtier Than That". Amenadiel encounters Reiben, the officer (now detective) who pointed a gun at his head in season 4's "Super Bad Boyfriend", and it seems Reiben doesn't remember him. It turns out he does in fact remember Amenadiel and tells him that their encounter was a wake-up call and inspired him to be a better cop and a better person. However, this turns out to be bullshit; it was just a Tuesday that he happened to remember, and he's the same violent, racist cop he always was.
196* ''Series/{{Mad Men}}'': Following an ad pitch where Don Draper chooses to show off his own idea over Ginsberg's:
197-->'''Ginsberg:''' What do I care? I got a million of them. A million.\
198'''Draper:''' Good, I guess I’m lucky you work for me.\
199'''Ginsberg:''' I feel bad for you.\
200'''Draper:''' I don’t think about you at all.
201* In an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', a fat woman faces Al Bundy for making fun of her. He has a lot trouble remembering her, even as she claims he had called her a giant seal.
202-->'''Al:''' Well, let's see: I had four elephants. I had a rhino who wanted some flip-flops. I had a manatee...No, no, don't remember any seals. Could you jog my memory? You know what jog is. [[DeadpanSnarker That's what you do when the ice cream truck is pulling out]].
203* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': This Trope is mentioned by name in the DVD commentary for episode 2x11. Alvarr's confrontation with Uther before he is imprisoned is, for him, the culmination of years of fighting against his regime, but to Uther he is just another sorcerer to be executed.
204* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the episode "The Brain That Wouldn't Die", the film opens in an operating room, prompting Mike to snark: "Just a normal Tuesday for Cher''
205* ''Series/NedAndStacey'': In the pilot, Stacey comes to Ned's apartment to confront him about him stealing an impassioned speech she made about inner beauty and using it out of context in an underwear commercial.
206-->'''Stacey:''' Remember me?\
207'''Ned:''' I'm not sure.\
208'''Stacey:''' Then let me remind you. I'm the person you exploited without a trace of conscience.\
209'''Ned:''' You're gonna have to be more specific.
210* ''Series/OddSquad'':
211** A heroic variant occurs in "Haunt Squad". When Olympia comes across a broken gadget on the floor of the lab, she concludes that the ghost roaming Headquarters must have scared Oona as well. Otis responds aptly by saying that it's more likely that it's just a regular day where Oona drops a gadget, leaves it on the floor, and doesn't even bother to pick it up.
212** Another heroic variant occurs in "It's Not Easy Being Chill". The Mobile Unit has apparently been in enough battles with odd creatures, villains and other assorted threats that it's routine to Opal and Orla specifically, who comment in unison that "I love Tuesdays!" before heading out with Oswald to defeat their latest threat: a giant robot.
213* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': The episode "Drug Testing" has an example of a subversion. At one point Dwight is chatting with the urine tester, and asks if she remembers one time when he was tested. She starts to invoke this trope, but then Dwight points out that his was ''green''. She immediately remembers him.
214* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Invoked in "The Doctor": a young Regina takes two other people into the vault '''full''' of the hearts her mother has ([[AndShowItToYou literally]]) ripped out[[note]]Ripping someone's heart out doesn't technically kill them, destroying it afterward does[[/note]]. When asked who they belong to, she replies her mother ripped out too many hearts and destroyed too many lives for anyone to keep track of them all.
215** Later in the same episode, someone breaks into a vault of Regina's, and takes a heart from it. Regina admits that she does not know who it belonged to, [[IronicEcho as she has taken too many]]. To her credit, she recognizes the irony and appears appropriately disgusted with herself.
216** Appears in another episode, as a form of BlackComedy. Rumplestiltskin, who has destroyed more lives than Regina or her mother, is forced to ask other members of the town for help. David is the only one willing to help him, and the following (paraphrased) conversation takes place:
217--->'''David:''' Do you remember turning a butcher into a pig?\
218'''Rumplestiltskin:''' ''[genuinely taken aback]'' No, I can't say I do.\
219'''David:''' Well, that man does. [[YouKilledMyFather It was his father]]. I'm beginning to see why no one wants to help you.
220** In the fourth season premiere, Regina takes another trip through the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor and plans to kill Maid Marian in the past so she can be with Robin Hood. The problem is that Marian happens to be one of her many victims.
221--->'''Regina:''' Can you blame me? She's awfully vanilla!
222** In the fifth season, Regina is posing as the Savior while in Camelot but one knight remembers her as his entire village and family were wiped out by Regina's troops long ago. While she's thrown, Regina obviously doesn't remember the incident at all.
223** Averted with Hook as he remembers every one of his victims (mostly because he has fewer then Regina, Rumple, and Cora). Also a refreshing change for this trope, he feels very guilty for those he has killed.
224*** That is played with when Hook sees a drawing of David's father and realizes that he killed the man years before. It's indicated Hook does remember but it takes seeing the guy's face to piece together David's story and realize it's the same man.
225* In ''Series/TheOrville'' episode "Deflectors", new security chief Talla Keyali assumes that the current situation of a Moclan visitor being murdered is the strangest thing to have happened on the ''Orville'', prompting other main characters to reflect on some of the other things the crew have gone through since the series started to confirm that this isn't that big a deal.
226* On the pilot of ''Series/TheOutpost'', Talon is on the hunt for the pack of mercenaries who wiped out her entire village years earlier. She finds one in an alley, the man sounding almost bored as he hears her threat and "ah, sounds like vengeance." He openly asks Talon "so who was it?" although he does remember when she mentions her village's name.
227* ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': In "Stranger Ranger", the civilian pretending to be a ranger describes an epic battle and asks his audience what he usually calls the days he fights battles like that. He calls them Tuesdays.
228* ''Series/ThePurge'': In season 2, Marcus is being targeted for death because he once failed to save a patient and then [[spoiler:failed to recognize her husband after moving next door to him a few years later]].
229%%* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Invoked by Charlie in Episode 2, but it's Monday, not Tuesday.
230* In ''Series/TheRookie2018'', recurring character Oscar Hutchinson is a notorious criminal who has spent basically his whole life betraying everyone he ever met in some way. During one episode, when he's attacked by two different people trying to get revenge for past acts, he doesn't know who they are even when one person provides such specific details as Hutchinson betraying his brother to rebels in another country, as he’s betrayed so many people in so many ways it’s hard to narrow down the incident they’re talking about.
231* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
232** This used to be a running joke when Norm [=MacDonald=] did the news. One example: "Tomorrow marks the beginning of Chanukah, or the Festival of Lights, in which Jewish people around the world celebrate the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem... or as non-Jews would call it, Wednesday."
233** The black hosts of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI0ib11evdU "How's He Doing?"]] have this reaction to white people's unabashed love of ''Series/TheWire''. You know, [[PeripheryDemographic that show about lower-class black people struggling to survive the inner city?]]
234** The ColdOpen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp8kFqycfFM sketch of Season 44, Episode 14]] parodied the testimony of Michael Cohen [[HauledBeforeASenateSubcommittee before the House Oversight Committee]], and started off with Rep. Elijah Cummings (Creator/KenanThompson) stating “For any other president, this hearing would be the most damning and humiliating moment of their lives, but for Trump, it’s just Wednesday."
235** Inverted in a Season 1 sketch. Creator/GarrettMorris goes to the FBI with an FOIA request for their file on him. No matter what outrageous actions he ascribes to himself, the weary bureaucrat (Creator/DanAykroyd) finds them to be so dime-a-dozen as to be useless in locating the file.
236* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
237** In the Season 8 episode "My Finale", Doctor Cox uses this to express his contempt for JD. JD is leaving Sacred Heart hospital for another job, and wants to get a heartfelt goodbye from his mentor. Instead he is met with this--"Newbie, I know that you want this to be a special day for the both of us [...] I'm real sorry there, Newbie, but this is not a 'special' day for me, it's just...a day." That said, when JD gets a resident to bad-mouth him to Cox later, Cox shows his true feeling about the matter.
238** In the Season 9 episode "Our Drunk Friend", Lucy bonds with an alcoholic patient and becomes determined to help him get sober, despite Cox writing him off as a lost cause. With JD's help, she finally gets him into rehab, and is convinced that he can turn his life around. However, mere days later, he's back in the hospital from alcohol poisoning. While she expresses her disappointment in him, he doesn't even remember who she is, suggesting that this is a cycle he's gone through many times before.
239** In another episode Turk is given a HardTruthAesop. He has to take this attitude towards patients dying because it's the only way to stay sane as a Doctor. Patients die no matter what you do, and it's the worst day of their life for the family involved. But for the Doctor? They have rounds they have to do and other patients they have to see.
240* The ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode ''The Baby Shower'' has a double example, when George tries to exorcise an old grudge with a woman who snubbed him, but chickens out; and a unidentified woman carries it to completion with Jerry.
241* Inverted in ''Series/{{Slasher}}''. When [[BigBad the Executioner]] reveals to Sarah that [[spoiler:he's been obsessed with her ever since they first met when she was a teenager]], Sarah replies that she has no memory of it and for her it was just a Saturday. She does, however, remember [[AndThisIsFor all the people murdered by the Executioner]].
242* ''Series/{{Southland}}'': This trope frames the episode "Wednesday", in which the narrator announces at the beginning: "Cops wake up every morning different from the rest of us. Our worst nightmare is just their Wednesday."
243* ''Series/StargateSG1'': The beginning of the episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S1E15CorAi Cor-ai]]" goes like this. A man tries to put Teal'c (the [[HeelFaceTurn recently reformed]] [[TheDragon Dragon]] of [[AGodAmI Apophis]]) on trial for killing his father. It takes Teal'c a while to even remember visiting the planet. In this case, though, ''both'' are portrayed sympathetically, and Teal'c is remorseful even when he doesn't recall what exactly he did.
244** It turns out that Teal'c killed the man's father so that Apophis wouldn't wipe out the tribe. The tribe runs and hides when the Goa'uld come, but are slowed down because they take care to help the slower members -- the elderly, the crippled, etc. -- escape as well. When Apophis ordered Teal'c to execute one, he chose to kill the elderly, one-legged gentlemen, because his death would make it easier for the rest to run away and hide next time. While Teal'c knows he killed the crippled man to allow the rest of the tribe to escape, Apophis thought Teal'c did it ForTheEvulz because the elderly man was loved by so many, was satisfied, and didn't order any more killings. When you see the flashback in its entirety, the man is quite clearly signaling Teal'c to kill him. Teal'c did that kind of thing quite often in a mostly unsuccessful attempt to moderate his master's evil (as Bra'tac did before him), before being convinced that an open rebellion against the Goa'uld could succeed. Hence his inability to remember this specific instance.
245* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
246** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]", Kira confronts the Cardassian war criminal Gul Darhe'el about his brutal actions during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. At one point, Darhe'el simply says "What you call genocide, I call a day's work." [[spoiler:It turns out he's actually invoking this trope intentionally; he's really Darhe'el's assistant, posing as him in an attempt to make Cardassia own up to their brutality and appease his own conscience, and he's intentionally trying to wind up the Bajorans so they won't ask too many questions and discover the ruse -- but given the way many Cardassian officers talk about the Bajorans, it's entirely possible he's conveying the real Darhe'el's sentiments.]]
247** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E07OnceMoreUntoTheBreach One More Unto the Breach]]" reveals that Martok was denied an officer's rank by Kor because Martok was common-blood. Martok holds a grudge against Kor for this for years, but Kor doesn't remember the specific incident. He does admit that it sounds like something he would do, and later revelations in the episode imply that the onset of Klingon Alzheimer's may have something to do with his forgetfullness.
248* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' season 1 episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E8TheBattle The Battle]]", we learn of a confrontation between a younger Jean-Luc Picard and the Ferengi back when he was captain of the USS ''Stargazer'' where Picard used a desperate tactic to confuse his attackers and then destroy them. While Picard himself hasn't forgotten it -- this incident cost him his ship, after all -- he knows it's barely a footnote in larger Federation history, and as such expresses surprise to find out that the Ferengi refer to this event as the "Battle of Maxia" as if it were a grand battle.
249* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' implies a heroic version of this in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E21Deadlock Deadlock]]". By the end of the episode, Ensign Kim and Naomi Wildman have both died, and have been replaced by ReplacementGoldfish from an alternate universe version of the ''Voyager'' schismed from the "real" ''Voyager'' mere hours before where they were the only survivors of the alternate ship's destruction. Janeway advises Kim not to think too much about it.
250-->'''Janeway:''' We're Starfleet officers, Harry. Weird is part of the job.
251* ''Series/StudioC'': In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k42VgQ8aK1A Evil Memory Lapse]]", Professor Murdock is confronted by a woman he doesn't recognize, even though he killed her father and they used to have something "special". He also doesn't remember trying to get a tikiman, even though he's killed 10,000 people trying to get it.
252* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': What does London Tipton call a cruise around the Mediterranean?
253-->'''London:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZ8t2RnaRA#t=1m37s Tuesday]].
254* In ''Series/{{Suits}}'', Mike Ross goes to confront the lawyer who gave his grandmother a crap deal after his parents died in a car crash. The lawyer has no idea who his parents were even after Ross names them, because he gave so many people the same kind of crap deal over so many years.
255** In a later episode, the lawyer turns this around on Mike by pointing out that Mike is now what the lawyer used to be.
256* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Cole spends more than 12 years of his life hunting Dean after he [[spoiler:sees Dean murder his father]]. When he finally catches up with him in "Reichenbach", Dean [[spoiler:(who isn't [[GuiltComplex himself]] at the moment, being a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] and all)]] says:
257-->'''Dean:''' Well, hey, I'm not saying I didn't [[spoiler:slice-and-dice your old man]], I'm just saying that he wasn't the first, and he wasn't the last, and they all just kinda get blended up.
258** It later turns out that Dean does remember the incident, though it's not clear whether he had to think about it or if he was pretending to have forgotten to make Cole feel worse.
259* ''Throwdown with Bobby Flay'': More of a RealLife example: in the "Rematch on the Grill" episode, Bobby was having an epic three-course cook-off with three competitors that he had beaten in the past. Near the end, Tobin Ellis, a bartender who Flay had defeated in Las Vegas who had come to Florida to redeem himself, stepped out of the crowd and started talking to the chefs the way Bobby does when he challenges someone. Bobby thought he was just some audience member asking for food until someone explained who he was.
260* ''Series/TheTick2016'': Eventually subverted; while The Terror initially doesn't recognize Arthur (not a surprise, since he was a little kid the last time they met), he eventually remembers him, since a photo of the moment immediately after The Terror killed his father made the cover of ''Time'' magazine.
261* ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'' has a heroic example: one episode opens with Todd and the gang [[InMediasRes in the middle]] of dealing with another [[TomeOfEldritchLore Book]]-related situation. In the process, they completely trash the AV Club's equipment, causing the club's leader to swear revenge, using the Book to edit reality around Todd like a movie, making it look like he's going evil. When Curtis and Hannah figure out what's going on, they confront the club leader, who is shocked to realize that neither of them remember him or the situation in question.
262* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' gives us "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E9DeathsHeadRevisited Death's-Head Revisited]]", in which a Nazi officer revisits a concentration camp seventeen years after the war. He runs across a former inmate, and a battle of wills begins. It's not until the end that the officer remembers that he ''killed'' the inmate in question the night the Allies liberated the camp -- the implication being that he'd killed so many people that he simply ''forgot'' until then.
263* ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'': Ignis utterly hates the Dark Giant Hudram for [[spoiler:committing genocide on his people one hundred years before the series started and deliberately spared Ignis out of CruelMercy]], but Hudram did not remember the incident until Ignis himself reminded it to his face.
264* ''[[Series/UndergroundWGN Underground]]'': In the episode "Firefly" John Hawkes says to his wife Elizabeth--regarding a slave that attacked them--"the worst day of that man's life was just another Tuesday in the office for me." He's referring to when, as a lawyer, he oversaw an estate sale where the slave's family was sold off. Subverted in a sense because this isn't a villain being indifferent to his victims' suffering but a cause of shame, guilt and a motivation to do good for him and Elizabeth.
265* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019''. Nandor has a very nonplussed reaction when Nadja finds out that he was the one who burned down her village, and is distraught.
266* ''Series/TheWire'': Avon Barksdale, head of the Barksdale Organization, and his [[TheBrute enforcer]] Wee-Bey Brice have a darkly comedic version. While in jail in "[[Recap/TheWireS02E02CollateralDamage Collateral Damage]]", a corrupt prison guard named Dwight Tilghman spends a great deal of time harassing Wee-Bey, and then brusquely refuses Avon's attempt to make a deal, which ''no one'' does to Avon. Eventually Wee-Bey hears the reason why Tilghman won't let up on him: Tilghman is related to someone that Wee-Bey killed on Avon's orders. Avon doesn't remember a thing about it, not even when Wee-Bey starts trying to supply details to jog his memory. (By the time Avon and Wee-Bey are in jail, their organization is responsible for around twenty murders in the past two years alone. Is it any wonder Avon can't remember them all?)
267-->'''Avon Barksdale:''' What's up with this motherfucker?\
268'''Wee-Bey Brice:''' You remember [=LaDonte=]? ''[Avon squints in confusion]'' Burner from over in the Poe Homes, finally caught him over in the parking lot after school?\
269'''Avon Barksdale:''' ''We'' did that?\
270'''Wee-Bey Brice:''' Tilghman is [=LaDonte's=] cousin or some such. He found out I ate the charge for killing him, now he busting my chops.\
271'''Avon Barksdale:''' [=LaDonte=]? ''[shakes head in confusion]'' I can't even remember that one. Need a scorecard to keep up with your lethal ass.
272** Ironically enough, Wee-Bey may not even have been responsible for that crime. When Wee-Bey was caught, his lawyer got the prosecutor to agree to take the death penalty off the table in exchange for a full confession...and Wee-Bey then tried to take responsibility for ''every'' killing ever committed by anyone in the Barksdale gang. While the cops definitely know that some of those were carried out by others, it's never made clear how many murders Wee-Bey took the fall for that he didn't commit. [=LaDonte's=] murder could have been one of those.
273* ''Series/WithoutATrace'': In the episode "Legacy", the events of the episode are set into motion after a family happens to run into the man who broke into their house, tied up the dad and brutally raped the mother working as a cashier at a grocery store...and he gives absolutely no indication of having recognized them. This, coupled with the fact that they tried to ignore the incident to a clearly-unhealthy degree, results in the father's disappearance [[spoiler:and the mother killing her son's drug dealer after the latter made an ill-timed pass at her. When the father is found, he had just murdered the rapist]].
274* In ''Series/WolfHall'', Thomas Cromwell needs men to convict as lovers of Anne Boleyn, so he picks men who (among other, more personal reasons) are "guilty, though not necessarily as charged." One of them is Will Brereton, who flouts the law on his Welsh holdings. When Cromwell brings up an incident in which Brereton blocked efforts to prosecute a member of his household who killed a man over lawn bowling, Brereton blithely says "the game can get very heated." Cromwell alludes to this when he continues onto a later incident.
275-->"You think no one remembers, but ''I'' remember."
276* Delightfully subverted by the evil warlord Negatus in ''Series/{{Yonderland}}'', when the young woman he is flirting with remembers where she knows him from.
277-->"You killed my parents!"\
278"No I..." *Snaps fingers* "The revolt of Motson Marsh. You're Ken and Avril's daughter!" *Seductively* "Where were you hiding?"
279* In ''Series/YoureTheWorst'', Jimmy told Becca (his ex) "we haven't made love for the last time" at her wedding. It causes her to struggle with her feelings for Jimmy for the entire season, which culminated in her going to Jimmy's place to have sex. Jimmy's reaction when she reminded him of his words (which he totally forgot):
280-->'''Jimmy:''' That was quite the heckle.
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