Green-Eyed Epiphanies in Live-Action TV series.
- Subverted on the 2 Broke Girls second-season episode "And the Pearl Necklace." At the end, Sophie, who had early rejected Oleg's gift of a toothbrush for him, and denied to Caroline that she was "exclusive" with Oleg, suddenly excludes his date for the evening from going back to the kitchen to see him. When Caroline confronts her about it, she still denies she's "exclusive" with Oleg.Where I come from, you never throw anything away.
- Pat from Bad Buddy realizes he has feelings for Pran after getting jealous while watching Pran perform a song they wrote and originally performed together, but this time without Pat in the band.
- Subverted in Better Off Ted. Linda tried to induce this by introducing Ted to her ex-boyfriend... but he and Ted hit it off and become friends. Then Ted pretends to hate him when he realizes Linda was only trying to make him jealous.
- Brennan in Bones after Booth returned from Afghanistan with a girlfriend and Brennan ingratiated the death of a doctor who was very similar to her. She fears she missed her chance although she eventually did get with Booth.
- Castle: This trope is the bread and butter of the show.
- Community:
- Although Britta constantly insists she has no feelings for Jeff, she ends up coming to terms with her feelings when Slater attempts to renew her relationship with him.
- This is subverted when Annie attempts to get Rich to join their study group. Jeff is seemingly jealous because of his feelings for Annie, but it's later revealed that he was being apprehensive simply because he hates how perfect Rich is, and wants to learn how to manipulate others with similar perfection.
- Dear White People: Reggie, to Joelle, who confesses that Joelle was the "girl of his dreams" and he didn't realize it until he saw her with someone else.
- In the series Eva & Adam, about middle-schoolers in love in Stockholm, Eva only realises she likes the new boy Adam when her best friend seems to say she may be interested in Adam.
- In Fawlty Towers, Basil and Sybil appear to have nothing but contempt for each other; however, Sybil gets very upset, when she thinks that Basil is pursuing a guest in "The Psychiatrist", and Basil frantically tries to prove that he isn't.
- Forever: At the end of "Punk Is Dead" the gang are out together for karaoke, and when Henry sees Jo kissing Isaac enthusiastically, his smile fades and he looks distinctly unhappy, although he pastes on a smile when Jo looks over at him so as not to disturb her happiness.Henry: Yes, some memories are precious, and we need to hang on to them. But Emily Dickinson wrote, 'Forever is composed of nows,' and she's right. If we root ourselves too deeply in the past, we'll miss what's right in front of us.
- Friends: In a unique example, Chandler and Monica are already sleeping together but Chandler is crushed when he hears that Rachel set her up on a date with a male nurse, and he realizes they're about more than sex. Played With in that he clearly felt more from the beginning but it took jealousy to vocalize it. (And Monica never wanted to go out with anyone else.)
- In General Hospital, for geeky Spinelli and fashionista Maxie, it took the arrival of similarly geeky Winifred for Maxie to realize her feelings for Spinelli. And then she slept with Johnny. Hey, it's a Soap Opera.
- How I Met Your Mother:
- Robin has a lot of these during the show, due to her Commitment Issues and tendency to want what she can't have. In "Drumroll, Please" she witnesses Ted having a romantic moment with Victoria. The jealousy Robin feels forces her to admit to herself that she has feelings for Ted. Later, seeing Nora with Barney makes her realize her feeling for him. Barney actively exploits this in his last play "the Robin" by pretending to be in a relationship with her Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Patrice. And then in the Grand Finale, she openly admits to being jealous of the Mother and regrets not settling down with Ted despite having many chances to do so.
- Happens to Barney in a "Definitions" when he and Robin seem to have a no-strings-attached Friends with Benefits relationship. He claims to be fine with it, but when Barney witnesses another man ask Robin out on a date he becomes visibly distressed and later attempts to fight the man who asked Robin out.
- iCarly: Sam, if her actions at the end of "iSpeed Date" were meant to indicate her feelings for Freddie. Carly might end up doing the same in a future episode.
- In Leverage, Parker is hinted to be interested in Hardison, but nothing serious had happened between the two of them beyond casual Ship Tease. That changes when Hardison is shown getting flirty with one of the clients, and Parker reacts negatively to say the least. She breaks a bottle with her bare hands.
Parker: Jealous? I'm not jealous. I just see them together, and I ... don't like it. - Lucifer almost has one before he decides his situation with Chloe and Dan is nothing like the episode's murderer's situation with the victim and the victim's wife.
- NCIS: In the oft teased Tony and Ziva relationship, the two will usually deny any romantic feelings for each other but will frequently show jealousy when the other person is in a relationship, i.e. when Ziva was with Michael, Ray, etc. or when Tony became involved with E.J. and Jeanne.
- The O.C.: Anna induces this with Summer when she makes out with Seth. It doesn't go well for Anna as she eventually develops a crush on Seth herself.
- Off the Map: Tommy and Mina have an awkward complicated relationship after they have a drunken one-night stand, but he realizes he has real feelings for Mina once he catches her having a Shower of Love with one of her patients.
- Parks and Recreation
- In "Galentine's Day", Ann becomes jealous at how April has gotten the attention of her ex-boyfriend Andy, although it's not so much that Ann still harbors romantic feelings for him as much as it stems more from You Never Did That for Me due to how Andy's much more considerate towards April (who he isn't even dating by this point) and finally matured a bit after she broke up with him while she's slowly starting to realize her relationship with Mark isn't really satisfying her.
- The minor recurring character Shauna Malwae-Tweep, an Intrepid Reporter for The Pawnee Journal, causes this three times with the main relationships of the series.
- In "The Master Plan", while Andy is torn between wanting to date April and being uncomfortable with their age gap (he's eight years older than her), he shuffles between his ex-girlfriend Ann and Shauna herself at the bar. When April sees this, she immediately becomes angry and tries to initiate Operation: Jealousy by latching onto and getting flirty with Tom's obnoxious rich friend Jean-Ralphio.
- In "End of the World", Leslie immediately realizes that she's still in love with Ben when she becomes angry at seeing him hitting it off and getting friendly with Shauna.
- Shauna also causes this for Ann during her brief romance with Chris in Season 6.
- In Raising the Bar, Bobbi gets jealous when Jerry is attracted to a professor he has brought in as an expert witness. He calls her out, and she finally wises up and acts on her feelings for him after pushing him away a few times.
- Star Trek: Enterprise. T'Pol denies her attraction to Trip Tucker until she notices that MACO Corporal Amanda Cole has an interest in him. She sleeps with Trip, then quickly backs off from the relationship (it helps that Cole never appears in any future episode) saying it was just her experimenting. Likewise, Trip only realises he is in love with T'Pol (as opposed to merely being attracted) when she enters an Arranged Marriage.
- In Suits, Rachel kisses Mike after finding out he has started a relationship with Jenny.
- That '70s Show:
- Played straight and then averted when Hyde realizes he has feelings for Jackie, who has been pursuing him and trying to make him jealous. They then go on a date and realize there's not actually any chemistry between them. (...Then later they hook up out of boredom and become a couple for a time until Hyde runs off to Vegas and drunkenly marries a stripper.)
- Jackie has such a moment with Kelso when she sees him with his new girlfriend and yells at her to "Get off my boyfriend!" She and Hyde have an argument about this later, in which she explains she probably does have some feelings left for him, as he was her first boyfriend, but she loves Hyde. They stay together.
- Caroline has one in the 3rd season premiere of The Vampire Diaries after seeing Tyler with a date during Elena's birthday party. Being what she is, she mind controls the girl to go away and makes her feelings for Tyler pretty clear. Cue Relationship Upgrade.
- Teased a few times with Josh and Donna on The West Wing, but hammered home on Donna's part when Josh starts dating Amy Gardner.
- Wings. Several years after an ugly breakup after which they've genuinely managed to be friends, Joe realizes he still loves Helen after she gets engaged to someone else.
