Times where characters are left questioning Dude, Where's My Respect? in Live-Action TV series.
- American Vandal Season 1 ends with Dylan returning to school after being found innocent. Ms. Shapiro refuses to apologize for fabricating evidence against him and says he still deserved to be expelled. This drives Dylan over the edge and he vandalizes her driveway, deciding he would become the vandal everyone thinks he was.
- Michael Bluth from Arrested Development gets this in spades from his own family. This is probably to be expected given how immature and self-absorbed they are. You can hardly blame him for taking his son and abandoning them in the series finale.
- In Arrow Season 3, Laurel decides she wants to be a vigilante and asks Oliver to train her. He refuses making it clear he doesn't think she's capable of doing it. So she does it anyway, and while Oliver is missing and presumed dead works with the rest of his team. When he comes back, he kicks her off the team once again indicating he doesn't believe she's capable of this life. Fed up, she finally calls him on it.Laurel: I know what you're going to say, but I risked my life for this city while you were gone. That should earn me some respect.
- This causes something of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy by the next season, as despite having nearly a year's worth of experience in the field, Oliver still treats her like crap compared to the others, particularly with his enforcing of a Double Standard where he gets to keep whatever secrets he deems but demands absolute full disclosure from others, to the point that he never even told her about the Lazarus Pit that could have revived her sister (he believed that she couldn't be trusted with this information because she'd revive Sara, consequences be damned... the exact thing he did for his sister, Thea). As a result, she ends up choosing to not involve him with her plan to have her sister revived, only to end up completely in over her head. Had she gone to Oliver, she might have been able to have Sara revived with some understanding of what she'd need to do after... but its also pretty obvious that had she gone to him, he'd have shut her down and refused because he didn't trust her. In a sense, she proved him right, but only because he gave her no other choice but to do things alone. Fortunately, Oliver recognises this after he's called on it and eventually relents on helping her, and promises to treat her more like an equal (at least until her death later in the season).
- Deputy Brook from Banshee is the longest serving member of the Banshee police department and everyone assumed that he would be promoted to sheriff when the old sheriff died of cancer. When he finds out that the town council hired an outsider instead, he is not happy.Brock: You're making me look like a fool.
- Porsche in 2011's Big Brother 13. The first week, they look for someone to get rid of so the veterans (A minority alliance) can take a majority. They offer Porsche a golden key if she votes with them. And she takes it, knowing that people will assume she's not a threat and she's likely the last person to be targeted. And she is. When the time comes in the final two, what do the Entitled Bastard veterans who make up the majority of the Jury do? Deride Porsche's game of being a "Floater" and using the twist that THEY OFFERED HER to get further, acting like her giving the Veterans an early majority never happened.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- No matter how many times Buffy saved Sunnydale High from not just vampires, but bug people, evil robots, invisible people, fish monsters, nightmares come alive, ghosts, reanimated corpses, werewolves, and ancient evil abominations, most of the school populace treated her as a loser. However, this was subverted toward the end of the third season at the prom, where the entire graduating class gave their thanks to Buffy for saving them multiple times. And this was right after saving them from some hellhounds, too.
- Seems to be a major factor in Faith's decision to turn evil. Despite being a Slayer just like Buffy, Faith often felt like she was the backup and that she didn't matter as much as the other slayer. This, coupled with her low self-esteem and the fact she was blamed for a lot of mistakes (which in retrospect where just as much Buffy's mistakes as they were her own) caused her to snap and join the Mayor's side. In contrast, the Mayor often treated her with respect, gave her a nice apartment and shiny new toys, and often praised her abilities as being better than Buffy's. Despite the fact that the Scoobies probably didn't intentionally snub her, their relationship wasn't nearly as strong with her as it was with Buffy, which does make it understandable why she would feel this way.
Faith: [while holding the Scythe] It's old, strong, and it feels like it's mine. [pause] I guess that means it's yours. - Charite had this as a pretty important secondary plot: Nurse Edith, a woman of a social-democratic mind, complains about the terrible working conditions of the nurses in her hospital, and gets politically active to get them more rights, better their working situation, and achieve some recognition for the hard work they do in sixteen-hours shifts and with low hygienic standards.
- Criminal Minds has a combination of this and The Greatest Story Never Told as the motivation of the UnSub in "Painless". Held hostage by a mad gunman, he was the only one who looked him in the eye and survived... but got knocked out by an explosion. When he woke up, he discovered another one of the others had stolen their story and found fame. This, combined with the formation of a clique of media-darling survivors, fuels his transformation From Nobody to Nightmare.
- The original Doctor Who series has this to the point of nausea. No matter how many times the Doctor would save planets, galaxies, and even the very fabric of reality, no-one thought of him as anything other than a meddling madman, if they had even heard of him at all (to be fair, between changing bodies periodically and wandering through time and space, it could have been centuries or millennia since the last time he visited the world he's currently on, if he'd ever been there before at all, and he may have looked totally different then). Even UNIT, who have extensive knowledge of the dozens of times the Doctor has pulled their butts from the metaphorical fire, treat him like a walking hazard (which he is, but still), while his fellow Time Lords consider him to be just as dangerous as renegades like the Master. One of the major ways the new series departs from the original is going in the precise opposite direction, with the Doctor regarded throughout time and space as a Shrouded in Myth Person of Mass Destruction who can make a sapient, carnivorous swarm retreat simply by telling it who he is. And even then the Time Lords still firmly embrace this trope, with the Time Lord General treating the Doctor and all his past selves' arrival during the Daleks' siege of Gallifrey with equal parts disdain and contempt.
- The positive side of the new series' subversion is made most explicit in The Wedding of River Song, in which the gang is trying to find a way around the Doctor's death, something his friends had already witnessed in his future and was considered unchangeable. As a last ditch effort, River sends out a call for help to the universe on his behalf, and the simple evocation of his name results in them being absolutely inundated with responses.
- Eureka's Sheriff Carter has to solve dozens of life-threatening, town-threatening, and/or world-threatening scenarios before people start taking him seriously. And he once he gets blamed for the frequent near-disasters.
- In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, John Walker finds himself struck with this. Despite being the new Captain America and adored by the public, the superhero community and the villains do not, especially since they still remember Steve Rogers.
- Crichton of Farscape fame gets this quite a bit early on, even though he saves the day at least Once an Episode. Eventually, though, the members of Moya's crew become close friends and respect each other more. Even after the crew have become True Companions by the end of the first season, Crichton still gets this treatment. A lot of this is due to being a Fish out of Water. Another good chunk is his tendency to spout off pop culture references to a group of aliens who'd never even heard of his species, so that a lot of what he said to them was incomprehensible babble. A good example occurs mid-Season 2 when Aeryn is giving John a flying lesson:Aeryn: (mildly annoyed) Would you like to learn how to do this, or are you content to continually display your ineptitude?
John: (mildly annoyed back) My ineptitude? You mean my improvisation — the kind that bails your sorry military— - Game of Thrones:
- This is essentially Stannis Baratheon's fate and tragedy:
- Stannis, commander of the terrible siege of Storm's End and conqueror of Dragonstone, resents Robert for giving their ancestral home and sub-kingdom to their kid brother Renly, who was too young to take part in the fighting. Stannis did his duty, but Robert's call embittered him. Renly, whose life Stannis saved as a young boy, ends up repaying his gratitude by rebelling against him because he has "a personality of a lobster".
- He even gets this posthumously, despite fighting the Boltons and dying to liberate Winterfell, Sansa dismisses him as a loser who got what was coming to him. The wildlings resent him for executing their leader, Mance Rayder, though Stannis wanted to integrate them into the Seven Kingdoms and make them part of his kingdom. The Northern lords who Stannis appealed to repeatedly snubbed him and left the North to the Boltons and end up Easily Forgiven by Jon and Sansa after they too are snubbed by most of these lords when Jon and Sansa seek to take back their home, Winterfell, from the Boltons. Jon, aside from housing Stannis and his troops for a time at Castle Black, doesn't show much gratitude to Stannis for saving the Night's Watch from Mance.
- Almost everything Stannis did, bring the Wildlings into the Seven Kingdoms, rally the Seven Kingdoms to better protect and defend the North, encourage Samwell Tarly's studies was more or less proven correct in its wisdom. Jon Snow, as King in the North, struggles to get Daenerys to prepare for the Long Night, a cause which Stannis more or less immediately believed in, becoming the first and only Southern Kingdom to answer Maester Aemon's summons. Samwell Tarly belatedly chides himself for not believing in Stannis when he mentioned the dragonglass on Dragonstone, and more or less the cause to rally and prepare the divided Seven Kingdoms to prepare for the Long Night could have gone smoothly had people backed and supported Stannis from the very beginning.
- After a brief stint as The Good Chancellor who did his best to hold the fort for his family, Tyrion's request for some recognition is rewarded with a devastating "The Reason You Suck" Speech from his father. He brings this up again in his own vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the entire court in "The Laws of Gods and Men".
- Theon expects a thank you for saving Bran, but gets a What the Hell, Hero? speech instead. Later, he expects a welcome homecoming but is greeted with scorn, neglect, and cruel pranks. Still later, he expects at least grudging respect from the people he conquered with 20 men and a Batman Gambit, but nope, everyone from old men to crippled children give him scorn and snark. He's a Butt-Monkey, though and through.
- The Night's Watch has defended the realm for generations, but are frequently dismissed as a gang of outcasts guarding against make-believe monsters.
- Almost no one at Castle Black believes Sam's story about killing a White Walker because the only witness was a wildling girl.
- Sansa after the Battle of the Bastards, where, as Jon acknowledges later, she was the one who saved the day, leaving her the legitimate heir to Winterfell, she is completely ignored by the Northern lords at the council, and Jon is praised as the avenger of the Red Wedding and then crowned King in the North. Sansa is unhappy at this turn of events.
- Tommen might be a child king but he is still supposed to be the king. Yet no one consults him about his new decrees and he doesn't even have the power to let his mother attend Myrcella's funeral. There is a difference between surrounding yourself with wise councilors and surrounding yourself with assholes, and Tommen has not learnt it.
- This is essentially Stannis Baratheon's fate and tragedy:
- Gen V: Jordan resents Marie for taking the credit for stopping Golden Boy's rampage, when Jordan is the one that does all the fighting. They also tend to be ignored and overlooked by Vought's marketing team and talent scouts due to the fact their being bigender making them unviable in more conservative areas despite having an actually useful powerset.
- Homicide: Life on the Street:
- Bayliss and Kellerman each feel this way when they're the new detective in the homicide unit. Bayliss especially feels this way in regards to his partner, Pembleton, in the first couple of seasons.
- Brodie, the videographer who joins the unit early into Season 4, feels the same way, especially in the Season 5 episode "Valentine's Day", when he helps Howard and Munch solve a murder, but Munch still acts dismissively towards him. Brodie brings this up to Giardello, who tells Brodie he has to earn the respect of the rest of the unit.
- Lieutenants Giardello and Russert have to deal with Obstructive Bureaucrats and Pointy Haired Bosses of superiors who constantly interfere with police work while disregarding their hard work and never rewarding them for having to put up with their constant grandstanding. Russert has it worse, since while Giardello at least has the respect of his detectives, Russert's detectives are all misogynistic assholes who mock her behind her back.
- In "Nearer to My God Than Thee", Colonel Granger whines to Giardello about how his office is painted the wrong color in spite of all his years of service. Giardello subtly points out that Granger shows a similar disregard for his own hard work and notes that he had called Giardello in after he pulled an all-nighter to give him an extra workload. True to from, Granger ignores this.
- Fabian from House of Anubis. Despite the fact that he does much of the research and saved most of this friends from danger on numerous occasions, he has been continuously pushed around by everyone, most notably his own crush and (ex) girlfriend, Nina Martin. It gets to the point where he struggles to be more assertive and demand his respect for the things he does for the others, resulting in this one line:Nina: [looking at the formally lost artifact/cube Fabian brought back] Where did you find it?
Fabian: Jasper said he found it at the school. Good thing as well, other wise we might have lost it for good.
Nina: But how did it get from here to there?
Fabian: I... I don't know. [pauses] Why don't you ask the cube? Maybe it speaks and answers questions since you have so many!
Nina: [glares at Fabian]
Fabian: I... I'm sorry. It's back now... that's the important thing. You could have said thank you, at least. - House of the Dragon: Queen Alicent Hightower. She endures over a decade of marriage to a man she does not love (and who is old enough to be her father), bearing children after children for the sake of the realm, while maintaining a facade of happiness behind fake smiles. All the while, her former friend turned stepdaughter, Rhaenyra, is indulging the fantasy of a medieval princess, including affairs. Alicent slowly develops a grudge against Rhaenyra not only because she is doing her proclivities in full knowledge (and indifference) of the realm but also because she personally sees them as being rubbed to her face, as Alicent is a queen and therefore must remain faithful to her king husband, no matter the cost. When she explodes in anger after Rhaenyra successfully persuades Viserys to forgive her son Lucerys for blinding Alicent's son Aemond in one eye, it really encapsulates how miserable she is with her life, and how envious she is of Rhaenyra.Alicent: What have I done but what was expected of me? Forever upholding the kingdom, the family, the law. While you flout all to do as you please! Where is duty?! Where is sacrifice?! It's trampled under your pretty foot again!
- On Intimate, Bruno and Oskar are two young actors starring in a crime drama on a public broadcasting channel. After Jonas, a fellow actor, tells them how many perks his new role on a show made for a streaming service comes with, they arrive on set demanding special treatment only to be blown off by everyone, and when they phone their agent requesting her getting them better jobs, she claims to be busy and hangs up on them. On top of that, Oskar finds out the actress he was supposed to be shooting a sex scene with has pulled out and is being replaced with a former extra, much to his annoyance.
- Captain Rip Hunter from Legends of Tomorrow. He's the only one experienced in time travel, responsible for recruiting the team, directing their missions, treating their wounds and giving them their time-appropriate clothing/weapons. While often played for hilarity, the other characters tend to argue with him and dismiss his concerns.
- It's what motivates Jimmy Ford in Leverage.
- Luke Cage (2016): Shades during Season 2. While in theory he's supposed to be Mariah's partner as far as running the Stokes gang is concerned, in practice, Mariah looks at him as someone who answers to her. Shades chastises her several times for giving him orders, saying that she's in no position to do that.
- This comes up a lot in Merlin, where the eponymous character is a powerful warlock who has saved Camelot more than once and saved Arthur more times than we can count, but since magic is banned on pain of death, he has to keep it a secret. He's Arthur's manservant, and the two share a very vitriolic friendship, so he gets plenty of humiliating tasks on a regular basis. Though it's usually Played for Laughs, it can be surprisingly poignant at times.Merlin: I just want Arthur to trust me. And to see me for who I really am.
Gaius: One day, he will.
Merlin: When? Everything I do is for him, and he just thinks I'm an idiot. - Gets a little frustrating in NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS, JAG and NCIS: New Orleans. Nerds like Eric, early season McGee, 2nd/3rd season Bud, and Sebastian get teased a lot by the Action Hero main characters. All very funny, but they seem to forget the nerds showing loyalty and sacrifices for the other characters. In LA, Sam calls Eric and asks him to show up in the middle of the night to analyze a dead body, no questions asked — and proceeds to mock his pajamas.
- Additionally, whenever NCIS helps a fellow law enforcement agency on a case, they will typically receive zero credit for it. Either the agency they helped will take all the credit for themselves, or NCIS will simply be referred to as "federal agents." Tony in particular gets annoyed by this.
- Oz:
- After Em City is reinstated, Hill gets angry that he's filed as an implicitly harmless 'Other' when he's a lifer who killed a cop. Not helping is the fact that his fellow Others are all crazy, and he has to room with Beecher.
- Adebisi and O'Reily were already intending to turn on Schibetta, but what gets them to act on it so quickly is his total lack of respect for them in spite of the fact they are supposedly his partners.
- Leslie Knope of Parks and Recreation works harder than one might find humanly possible to ensure maximum effectiveness in any plan she conceives to improve the city and government of Pawnee, Indiana. While she's gained unadulterated respect from her co-workers (even RON respects her for her efforts), her eventual position as a city councilwoman is spent improving the town in ways that the citizens dislike (taxing sodas, teaching sex education to seniors, etc.). This ultimately ends with her getting recalled. This is because most of Pawnee’s citizens are ungrateful, selfish idiots who constantly cause problems for themselves, demand help, and then get angry about whatever help they get because of their selfishness and idiocy.
- Psych: Every week Shawn solves, or helps the police solve, seemingly intractable cases using strange methods. And every week, he gets identical hostility from Lassiter, firm skepticism from Da Chief, and complete reluctance from Jules. It gets better in later seasons, at least.
- This is especially bad coming from Lassiter. Yes, he and Shawn constantly needle each other, but every time Lassiter offhandedly dismisses Shawn's methods in favor of "real police work," somebody should remind him how Shawn got him off the hook for a murder charge (exposing a Corrupt Cop in the process). Though it's been shown that this also extends to Lassiter in general (his sister notes he does not like sharing credit.)
- Gus points this out in the Season 4 finale after Da Chief is reluctant to believe Shawn's theory of Mary Lightly being Mr. Yin, saying their track record speaks for itself. Chief Vick, though still skeptical, concedes the point.
- In Rome: when Titus Pullo leaves the XIIIth legion, and come back to participate in Caesar's triumph, he is rejected because he's no longer in active service, and they start calling him "citizen" in order to show him that he is not part of their military brotherhood anymore. For a man who participated in the war of the Gauls and saved Caesar's ambitions a couple of times, that is, to say the least, a little rude. Averted later when Mark Antony, who becomes the de facto ruler of Rome, treats Pullo with respect when he meets him.
- Played for laughs, but in one episode of Sam & Cat, Dice complains he's not being respected enough. And he's not wrong, considering he is usually the reason the titular characters are even successful in their plans but rarely gets recognition for it.
- In Sherlock, while Sherlock is something of a celebrity to the general public, most of the police don't exactly like him, since his successes are literally incredible. That, coupled with his abrasive and condescending personality. Watson strongly implies that he would have more success with them if he chose to be a bit less of a bellend.
- The Sopranos:
- In season 1, Christopher Moltisanti is a young Mafia associate who pulls his weight and is often trusted with important tasks, but that doesn't stop him from being treated like an errand boy by the bigshots because he isn't a made guy. Chris deeply resents this and often takes it out on those around him, which gives him a reputation for immaturity that isn't helping his disrespected status. Also, Chris is pretty skinny and short for a Mafia thug, so a lot of civilians don't believe he's a mob guy and openly disrespect him. By Season 2, this problem improves somewhat since he's running his own joint and has his own crew, though that comes with its own set of issues since his crew only obeys him due to the reputation of his boss, not him.
- Corrado "Junior" Soprano is the most senior member of the DiMeo family, but he constantly gets passed over for the position of acting boss in favor of men decades his junior, including his own nephew Tony. Though respected by the Mafia back in New York, the Mafia in New Jersey dislikes him and all of its captains declare for Tony in case Junior tries to contest his bid for leadership. Even after Tony relents and allows Junior to be the boss without a fight, the captains still consider Tony the real leader and try to give him the final say on everything, while merely paying lip service to Junior. In fact, Junior only has any authority at all because Tony backs him out of love; on one occasion, the captains ignore Junior's order and look to Tony instead, to which Tony responds by reiterating his uncle's order to save his face.
- Spartacus: Blood and Sand:
- Batiatus, despite being very cunning and having some of the best gladiators around, is still looked down upon by people of higher standing because he's not a blue blood and his work involves cooperation with unsavory characters. At one point, he goes to great lengths to win over Magistrate Calavius, but when he finally asks Calavius to support his run for political office the Magistrate politely but patronizingly advises him to stick with the job appropriate to his standing. Thirsting for revenge, he kills two birds with one stone by murdering Calavius and then framing his archrival Salonius for the crime. Eventually, when Glaber also refuses to sponsor his political ambitions, Batiatus blackmails him using the fact that Illythia committed murder in Batiatus's house.
- Ashur faithfully serves Batiatus' ludus outside the arena, particularly through cloak-and-dagger intrigue, but is treated with contempt by the gladiators because he's a weak fighter and the gladiators only respect skill in honorable combat. Ashur's response to the gladiators is Then Let Me Be Evil, throwing fellow gladiators under the bus in order to rise through Batiatus's favor.
- Glaber learns that despite being a Preator with a powerful army, he is not liked or respected by anyone (but he's a dick, so it's understandable).
- Crixus, who used to be the celebrated champion of Capua and once beat the upstart Spartacus in a Curb-Stomp Battle, gets hit with this after his and Spartacus's two-versus-one match against The Dreaded Theokles. Crixus is struck down with a life-threatening wound, but before losing consciousness he uses his helmet to reflect the sun into Theokles's eyes, saving Spartacus's hide at the critical moment and enabling him to kill Theokles. From this point onward their roles are reversed, as the public cheers Spartacus's subsequent rise to the top while forgetting about Crixus during the long months he spends healing his wounds. By the time he's able to return to the ludus, Crixus has lost a lot of strength and Spartacus is able to humiliate him and rub it in his face, showing ingratitude for Crixus's unacknowledged role in his ascent. This is especially painful for Crixus, who has always devoted his life to the ludus and upheld the gladiators' code of honor which Spartacus so frequently rebels against. It's not until Crixus saves Spartacus from an attempted murder and makes a comeback in the arena that people start respecting him again.
- On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Gul Dukat becomes head of the Cardassian government and expects that Sisko will show him the respect appropriate to a head of state. Sisko refuses to recognize his government and tells him to shove it.
- And before that, Kira is very annoyed that the Cardassian files on Bajoran terrorists refers to her as little more than an errand-girl.
- As his actor laments on the quotes page, Star Trek: Voyager's Harry Kim. During Voyager's journey through the Delta Quadrant he is repeatedly captured, beaten, tortured, diseased, killed, and otherwise traumatized in the line of duty, yet remains one of the ship's biggest champions of Starfleet protocol; he co-designs the Astrometrics Lab with Seven of Nine, which becomes a focal point of important sciencey stuff on the ship; and personally saves the lives of multiple crew members as well as newborn Naomi Wildman (whom he manages to protect from angry Vidiians swarming the ship). For all that, is he ever promoted above Ensign? Nope. Instead, he gets a formal reprimand for... having sex with an alien.
- In Veronica Mars, Veronica overcomes or utterly humiliates the Rich Bitch, Jerk Jock, or local idiot sheriff every single episode, but they're right back to acting completely dismissive of her the next day, often reaching the point of Bullying a Dragon. It's like they want her to dig up their deep personal secrets. Lampshaded by Veronica in the series finale: "After all these years, do you not instinctively fear me? Maybe you should write yourself a note."
- The Wire:
- Herc and Carver get a case of this in Season 2. Carver gets promoted to Sergeant at the end of Season 1. When he gets recruited to the Sobotka detail at Herc's request, Cedric Daniels' only condition for Carver is that he won't be treated as a sergeant in the detail, as he feels that Carver had only earned his promotion as a result of spying on the detail for Burrell during the Barksdale investigation, and instead reports to Kima Greggs. Like with the Barksdale investigation, Herc and Carver again are relied upon to do the leg work for the detail, and while they are instrumental in planting trackers on many of the smuggling ring's vehicles, they're the ones stuck with menial jobs like installing an air conditioner in the home of a judge approving the detail's wiretaps. The final straw for Herc and Carver is when they're left out in the rain waiting for Nick Sobotka to return home, despite his having already turned himself in. Daniels attempts to convince them to stay, pointing out that surveillance is part of the job, but Herc and Carver aren't having it. Seeing that Major Colvin is looking for a DEU Sergeant posting in the Western District, Carver jumps at it, feeling that Colvin will at the very least recognize his rank. Herc goes with him, not wanting to do the menial work with Daniels either.
- In "Refugees", Marlo Stanfield, having a bad day after losing at poker, deliberately shoplifts lollipops in front of a convenience store security guard, who confronts him about his blatant lack of disrespect. It ends badly for the guard, as Marlo dispatches Chris and Snoop to kill him and put his body in a vacant.
Security Guard: The fuck! You think I dream of comin' to work up in this shit on a Sunday morning? Tell all my friends what a good job I got? I'm workin' to support a family, man. Pretend I ain't talking to you. Pretend like I ain't even on this Earth. I know what you are, and I ain't steppin' to, but I am a man, and you just clip that shit and act like you don't even know I'm there.
Marlo Stanfield: I don't.
Security Guard: I'm here. [Marlo moves closer] Look, I told you I wasn't steppin' to. I ain't disrespectin' you, son.
Marlo Stanfield: You want it to be one way.
Security Guard: What?
Marlo Stanfield: You want it to be one way.
Security Guard: Man, I don't...
Marlo Stanfield: You want it to be one way.
Security Guard: Man, STOP! Stop, sayin' that.
Marlo Stanfield: But it's the other way. - The 90's television adaption of The Worst Witch often involves the titular character messing things up before saving the day, only for it to be forgotten by the next episode where she is still regarded as "the worst witch" and continually suffers from low self-esteem. Her actress even acknowledges this routine in an interview.
- On The X-Files, every time Mulder presented Scully with his theory for what was going on in their current case, she would automatically dismiss it, even after he'd been proven right nearly every time. Most of the time Mulder was OK with this, saying that Scully's skepticism kept him on his toes. Sometimes, however, he'd get fed up with it and say something like "How often have I been wrong?" To which Scully just gives him a look and implied "Do I have to remind you?" question, because he would be wrong at times or it wasn't all that clear what had happened.
