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openCounterfeit wine Live Action TV
A winery sells what proports to be wine from the 1930's. However, lab results prove it couldn't possibly be from any earlier than 1957. (It's probably much more recsnt than 1957, but no more precise evidence is ever told to the audience.)
Edited by Someone1981openMisreport the cause of disappearance Live Action TV
A woman is missing, and is suspected to have been murdered. A news reporter claims the woman is still alive, and is at an undisclosed mental hospital. It eventually turns out that she was, in fact, murdered; the reporter is suspected to be involved with the murder.
Edited by Someone1981openChild causes one parent to kill the other Live Action TV
A child finds a cassette tape at home. Confused about its contents, she leaves it for her mother. The mother listens to it, and believes that it's evidence that her psychologist husband is having an affair with a teenage patient (and this is the same way the relationship between her husband and her began). She kills him to protect the teenager in question. It's later revealed that she misunderstood the tape and there is no such teenager.
openHard Girlfriend Soft Boyfriend Live Action TV
Examples of couples: Beck + Jade - Victorious Max + Kyle - Living Single
the trope where the girlfriend is rough around the edges, and the man still loves her and finds a way to put up with it. the girl doesn't necassarily push him around, but she can confidently voice her opinion and he respects it and goes with it
openConvince him using his kid Live Action TV
A critical witness refuses to testify because of self-incrimination (including authorities other than the one who wants his testimony, and they refuse to grant him immunity). So the DA explains the situation to the witness's daughter (who had been kidnapped by the culpriys along with her mother, and the mother had been murdered), and she convinces her father to testify.
Edited by Someone1981openFake attack wounds Live Action TV
A person is caught comitting a murder. He immediately stabs himself a few times, as a Self-Defense Ruse, and claims self-defense in his trial.
openWhile one buys for someone, an other murders him Live Action TV
An adult who is de-facto responsible for a kid goes to buy him something. While the adult is away, the kid is murdered by someone else.
open"meet me at midnight" Live Action TV
You're a detective. You've made some progress, and angered some potential suspects, but you're still basically stuck on actually solving the case. Then you get an anonymous phone call, and a gruff, unknown voice says they have some information they're sure you'll be interested in, and all you have to do is meet them alone, late at night, down on the docks or in some utterly deserted part of town where there'll be no one to see when you get struck over the head from behind in the dark. But of *course* you go, and of *course* this is exactly what happens.
I'm sure this is a well-known trope and on the site somewhere, but I can't figure out how to search for it.
openReally abuse, claimed to he accidental Live Action TV
A chikd suffers injuries from an Abusive Parent. The other parent claims these injuries are results of accidents.
openFake religious defense Live Action TV
A person committed a murder, and claims in his defense that he was trying to protect his daughter from being led astray by the victim, which he claims would cause her to be killed by God. However, of he really believed this, he would never burn down a church—which he did in order to hide his crime.
openMurder the wrong person Live Action TV
A person discovers that his teenage daughter had sex with a member of the school staff. He murders the person he believes to be the culprit, but he got the wrong person. This is not Murder by Mistake; his mistake is choosing the wrong person, not killing a person he had no intention of killing.
resolved When someone can help, but doesn't Live Action TV
Someone is in trouble, and a friend has the ability or means to help, yet doesn't do so.
Example: I need to get my finances in order but can't. A friend with a financial background could offer his advice or outright help in the matter, but stands by and watches me struggle.
openA lawyer chosen to prove a point Live Action TV
A person is arrested for an anti-Semitic-motivated murder. His lawyer is a Jew. To emphasize this, the lawyer wears a yarmulke (a Jewish head-covering) for the trial.
Edited by Someone1981openIt's not me, it's the medication I take Live Action TV
A person says that something he did or said in the past isn't his fault, it's the fault of some medication he was taking at the time.
openRhyming nickname Live Action TV
2 examples from the same episode:
- The episode calls the obvious antagonist "Dale the Whale". (Dale is his actual first name and he is extremely fat.)
- Dale calls the protagonist "defective detective".
resolved When someone suddenly looks more attractive Live Action TV
A woman removes her glasses and suddenly becoming gorgeous in the eyes of her love interest.
openDerogatory nickname Live Action TV
An extremely fat person named Dale has the nickname "Dale the Whale"
Edited by Someone1981
A claim of something being from the 1930's is proven to be incorrect by the presence of a Cesium isotope not present in the environment until 1957.