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* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E18AuthorAuthor Author, Author]]", Neelix tries to invoke this when giving advice to the Doctor about the conflict of the episode, mentioning a Talaxian saying that went "When the road before you splits in two, take the third path."
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'';
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E3Drive Drive]]", the spirit of this is invoked when ''Voyager'' signs up for the Antarian Trans-Stellar Rally, a race between various alien races being held to celebrate the end of a long-standing period of hostilities. When the race organiser observes that he's having trouble choosing a vessel to host the pre-race celebrations as the long tensions between the various species means that any concession to one race can be seen as an insult to another, Captain Janeway volunteers for ''Voyager'' to be the hosting vessel, as they're completely new to the area and so have no ties to any previous side that might cause offence.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E18AuthorAuthor Author, Author]]", Neelix tries to invoke this when giving advice to the Doctor about the conflict of the episode (the Doctor has written a holonovel about holograms facing prosecution but the crew are offended as he basically used their likenesses in the narrative), mentioning a Talaxian saying that went "When the road before you splits in two, take the third path", encouraging the Doctor to request time to make some rewrites and change the fine details so that the characters won't resemble his shipmates.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E3Drive Drive]]", the spirit of this is invoked when ''Voyager'' signs up for the Antarian Trans-Stellar Rally, a race between various alien races being held to celebrate the end of a long-standing period of hostilities. When the race organiser observes that he's having trouble choosing a vessel to host the pre-race celebrations as the long tensions between the various species means that any concession to one race can be seen as an insult to another, Captain Janeway volunteers for ''Voyager'' to be the hosting vessel, as they're completely new to the area and so have no ties to any previous side that might cause offence.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E18AuthorAuthor Author, Author]]", Neelix tries to invoke this when giving advice to the Doctor about the conflict of the episode (the Doctor has written a holonovel about holograms facing prosecution but the crew are offended as he basically used their likenesses in the narrative), mentioning a Talaxian saying that went "When the road before you splits in two, take the third path", encouraging the Doctor to request time to make some rewrites and change the fine details so that the characters won't resemble his shipmates.
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** In one episode, Big Bird and Alan are making birdseed cookies for Granny Bird; before they start baking, Baby Bear shows up for a bowl of porridge. Porridge happens to be one of the ingredients for the cookies, but there is only one box left; so the two are left with the decision to leave Baby Bear with no porridge or let him have the porridge, but risk having the cookies turn out not as expected. To their surprise, Baby Bear decides to take a third option and instead orders a fruit salad, which in turn allows Big Bird and Alan to bake the cookies perfectly.
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** In one episode, Big Bird and Alan are making birdseed cookies for Granny Bird; before they start baking, Baby Bear shows up for a bowl of porridge. Porridge happens to be one of the ingredients for the cookies, but there is only one box left; so the two are left with the decision to leave Baby Bear with no porridge or let him have the porridge, but risk having the cookies turn out not as expected. To their surprise, When they ask Baby Bear decides what other foods he likes, he brings up Papa Bear's favorite food is fruit salad; this leads to them deciding to take a third option and instead orders have Baby Bear order a fruit salad, salad himself, which in turn allows Big Bird and Alan to keep the porridge and bake the cookies perfectly.
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* In ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'', Moroboshi forces Himura to play a DeadlyGame with her. She sets out glasses of wine, blindfolds Himura, and then deposits a lethal dose of aconite into one of the glasses. Either Himura takes a poisoned glass, killing himself, or he takes a non-poisoned glass and Moroboshi takes the other, killing her. Not wanting to die or to give in to his murderous impulses, Himura finds a third way out: [[spoiler:when Moroboshi isn't looking he pours all of the wine together and then redistributes it. That way, they both take a non-lethal dose, and Himura has enough time to call for an ambulance before they both lose consciousness.]]
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* ''Series/Numb3rs'': In the series's penultimate episode, Charlie and Amita get offers for visiting professorships in Cambridge, [[spoiler:in the middle of their wedding preparations]], leaving them stuck between either forgoing the professorship, [[spoiler:getting married in England with major travel difficulties for their family and friends, or postponing their wedding to even later]]. In the end, they decide to take the fourth choice: [[spoiler:get Larry to marry them ''[[AltarTheSpeed tomorrow]]''.
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** "Beauty is As Beauty Does" involved the castaways holding a beauty pageant and Gilligan ends up being the deciding vote between the three girls with some strong-arming from their supporting men. At the end, Gilligan grabs the SmartBall and takes the fourth option by having the winner being an island chimp, pointing out that beauty pageant contestants can only be natives of the place they were born, which the chimp was and none of them were.
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** "Beauty "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS2E2BeautyIsAsBeautyDoes Beauty is As Beauty Does" Does]]" involved the castaways holding a beauty pageant and Gilligan ends up being the deciding vote between the three girls with some strong-arming from their supporting men. At the end, Gilligan grabs the SmartBall and takes the fourth option by having the winner being an island chimp, pointing out that beauty pageant contestants can only be natives of the place they were born, which the chimp was and none of them were.
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** One episode with a focus on backstory shows how House got his leg in the shape it is: an aneurysm in his thigh caused the muscles in his leg to become necrotic. An amputation would save his life, but House stubbornly refused to have his leg removed, even though he was in agony after the initial procedure to remove the clot. His boss, Lisa Cuddy, and his girlfriend at the time and medical proxy, Stacey Warner, took a third option: an operation that would only remove the necrotic tissue and restore blood flow to his thigh. Arguably, it backfired, as he ended up with the worst of both worlds -- a permanent disability ''and'' chronic pain.
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** One episode with a focus on backstory shows how House got his leg in the shape it is: an aneurysm a clot in his thigh caused cut off blood to the muscles in muscle. Faced with the choice between having his leg removed and risking death due to become necrotic. An amputation would save his life, but the dead tissue, House stubbornly refused amputation, and asked to have his leg removed, even though be put into a coma until he was in agony after the initial procedure to remove the clot. His boss, Lisa Cuddy, and either dead or healed. Stacey, being his girlfriend at the time and medical proxy, Stacey Warner, proxy at the time, took a third advantage of him being incapacited to approve another option: an operation that would removing only remove the necrotic tissue and restore blood flow to his thigh. Arguably, it backfired, as he ended up tissue. This kept him alive, but left him with the worst of both worlds -- a permanent disability ''and'' chronic pain.pain and limited use of his leg (and caused him to leave her). The question of whether the third option was the right one is left as an open question.
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** In "Shibboleth", a cargo container full of Christian refugees from China arrives in San Diego, and President Bartlet is faced with a choice between offering them asylum or sending them back to China. If he offers them asylum, he risks offending China (which claims that Christians are not persecuted), putting several trade deals at risk and increasing tensions. If he sends them back, he's sending them straight back to Chinese persecution and will get pilloried by the Christian right and anti-Chinese lobby. In the end, he chooses to order the guards posted at the immigration facility where they're being housed to stand down, allowing the refugees to escape; that way, the refugees can build a new life in America and China gets to save face by mocking the "inadequacies" of the American authorities.
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** In "Shibboleth", a cargo container full group of Christian refugees from China Chinese Christians arrives in San Diego, and President the US, requesting religious asylum. Bartlet is faced with a choice between offering them asylum or doesn't want to refuse them, as it would risk sending them back to China. If he offers them asylum, he risks offending prison or worse, but granting asylum would antagonize China (which claims denies that Christians are not persecuted), putting several trade deals at risk and increasing tensions. If he sends threaten some important treaties. The ultimate solution is to "accidentally" allow them back, he's sending to escape into the United States, denying them straight back legal status or recognition, but keeping them safe from retribution. Since this solution embarrasses the US rather than China (since the US is admitting to inadequate security), the Chinese persecution are mollified and will get pilloried by play along with the Christian right and anti-Chinese lobby. In the end, he chooses to order the guards posted at the immigration facility where they're being housed to stand down, allowing the refugees to escape; that way, the refugees can build a new life in America and China gets to save face by mocking the "inadequacies" of the American authorities.story.
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** "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS1E17PlantYouNowDigYouLater]]", Gilligan digs up a chest while working on a barbeque pit for the Howells. Faced with deciding whether Mr. Howell or Gilligan owns the treasure chest, the Professor decides to treat the chest like all the island resources they've found so far — belonging to everyone.
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** "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS1E17PlantYouNowDigYouLater]]", "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS1E17PlantYouNowDigYouLater Plant You Now, Dig You Later]]", Gilligan digs up a chest while working on a barbeque pit for the Howells. Faced with deciding whether Mr. Howell or Gilligan owns the treasure chest, the Professor decides to treat the chest like all the island resources they've found so far — belonging to everyone.
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* One plot of ''Series/GilligansIsland'' involved the castaways holding a beauty pageant and Gilligan ends up being the deciding vote between the three girls with some strong-arming from their supporting men. At the end, Gilligan grabs the SmartBall and takes the fourth option by having the winner being an island chimp, pointing out that beauty pageant contestants can only be natives of the place they were born, which the chimp was and none of them were.
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* One plot of ''Series/GilligansIsland'' ''Series/GilligansIsland'':
** "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS1E17PlantYouNowDigYouLater]]", Gilligan digs up a chest while working on a barbeque pit for the Howells. Faced with deciding whether Mr. Howell or Gilligan owns the treasure chest, the Professor decides to treat the chest like all the island resources they've found so far — belonging to everyone.
** "Beauty is As Beauty Does" involved the castaways holding a beauty pageant and Gilligan ends up being the deciding vote between the three girls with some strong-arming from their supporting men. At the end, Gilligan grabs the SmartBall and takes the fourth option by having the winner being an island chimp, pointing out that beauty pageant contestants can only be natives of the place they were born, which the chimp was and none of them were.
** "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS1E17PlantYouNowDigYouLater]]", Gilligan digs up a chest while working on a barbeque pit for the Howells. Faced with deciding whether Mr. Howell or Gilligan owns the treasure chest, the Professor decides to treat the chest like all the island resources they've found so far — belonging to everyone.
** "Beauty is As Beauty Does" involved the castaways holding a beauty pageant and Gilligan ends up being the deciding vote between the three girls with some strong-arming from their supporting men. At the end, Gilligan grabs the SmartBall and takes the fourth option by having the winner being an island chimp, pointing out that beauty pageant contestants can only be natives of the place they were born, which the chimp was and none of them were.
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* ''Series/SideHustle'': The episode "Altoonisburg Al" has the trio attend the "Possum Day" celebration where the eponymous possum is to predict the length of summer vacation. If he eats strawberries, then there will be six more weeks of vacation; if he eats blueberries, school will start next week. Lex votes for the latter option because her birthday is around the time school generally starts and wants to celebrate it with her classmates. After the possum escapes until lured back by Munchy's possum juice recipe, it has drank so much that it ends up choosing neither option, so the mayor decides to call it even and levels it down to three more weeks of vacation so Lex can have her birthday as she hoped.
