History ButForMeItWasTuesday / LiveActionTv

** Subverted with Angelus, 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.

* [[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. Jaha insists he remembers the names of all the people he's killed.

* ''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 season 2, 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?)

* 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 [[YourCheatingHeart her going to Jimmy's place to have sex]]. Jimmy's reaction when she reminded him of his words (which he totally forgot):

* ''Series/{{Underground}}'': In the episode "Firefly", John Macon says this about Josey, a runaway slave: "the worst day of that man's life was just another Tuesday in the office for me." Subverted in a sense because this isn't a villain being indifferent to his victims' suffering but a cause of shame, guilt and motivation to do good for him.

** Linda is getting things piled on to her, and when confronted with that Lucifer is letting the(!) Eve shack up with him...
--->'''Linda:''' I mean, I am carrying an angel-baby, I guess this is just a normal Tuesday for me now.

** Appears in another episode, as a form of BlackComedy. Rumpelstiltskin, 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:

'''Rumpelstiltskin:''' ''[genuinely taken aback]'' No, I can't say I do.\\

** In the fourth season premier, 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.

** Averted with Hook as he remembers every one of his victims (mostly because he has fewer then Regina, Rumble and Cora). Also a refreshing change for this trope, he feels very guilty for those he has killed.

** Heroic example: A villain's vendetta against Coulson and SHIELD is rooted in the fact that the villain's 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.

** During Anya and Xander's wedding, 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.

'''Baird''' So, Tuesday, then?

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' implies a heroic version of this in ''Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E21Deadlock''. 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'' where they were the only survivors of the ship's destruction. Janeway advises Kim not to think too much about it.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' gives us "Death's-Head Revisited", where a Nazi officer revisits a concentration camp seventeen years after the war. He runs across a former inmate, and a battle of wills begins. At the end, the officer remembers killing the inmate the night the Allies raided the camp - the implication being that he'd killed so many people that he simply ''forgot'' until then.

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': 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.
* The ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode ''The Baby Shower'' has a double example, when George tries exorcise an old grudge with a woman who snubbed him, but chickens out; and a unidentified woman carries it to completion with Jerry.

** 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'."

* 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 was wrapped with duct tape, including his mouth and was stuffed in a locker. The incident left permanent physical scars all over his body, as well as mental, though the killer, when meeting up with the bully, calmly and politely asked for an apology, assuming he had matured into a nicer person. Not only did the bully refuse to apologize but he 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 knocked him dead with a wine bottle.

* ''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.

** 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.

--->'''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 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.

** Heroic example: A villain explains the origin of his vendetta as being one of the Mooks who went up against S.H.I.E.L.D. in one of Phil Coulson's previous operations. While Coulson does remember the mission itself, he does not remember the details of why he did it nor does he care because for him it was just another day of saving the world.

* ''Series/{{The Flash|1990}}'': 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".

** 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, "Please, that's a Tuesday for me." He then grabs the contracts and shreds them.

** This mentality really gets under the Doctor's skin. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], he 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.
** The new series has characterized the Doctor's adventures as being this trope from the perspective of his foes.

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': 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. [[spoiler:Homelander also doesn't remember the face of the man whose wife he raped and impregnated.]]

-->'''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]].\\