History CrazyPrepared / LiveActionTV

** The Eleventh Doctor is seen to pull out of his pockets a pair of specs that can detect body heat (or a lack of, in the cause of the Silurians) and a large UV lamp, as if the chances he'd be dealing with Fish-People masquerading as vampires happens frequently.

* Gibbs in ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. He seems to have a Rule for any contingency and has an emergency kit under his desk in case the team has to pursue a case during a blackout. fDuring the actual blackout episode he walked around carrying several polaroid cameras and canned food, which baffled his team to no end.

* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'', Zack confronts his brother about a supposed fear og bananas he has after finding a paragraph about it in a report he stole from him to pass of as his own. Cody reveals that he always add's a weird paragraph to his homework before he atchives it just in case anyone (Zack) tries to plagarize him.

** Nate reveals he had thought of 13 ways for the team to pull their first job, one of which involves Hardison dying. Parker says she spends her free time thinking how to rob stuff, and proves it when she steals a highly guarded statue with common stuff, like an cone made of aluminum foil filled with ice. Hardison has a black light in his bag for times when a black light is needed. And Sophie can speak fluently in a ton of languages, and fake several others. Elliot, on the other hand is more of a well-prepared GeniusBruiser, than CrazyPrepared, as seen by his knowledge of neurosurgery, flight attendant protocol (Flight attendants always have a spare uniform) and the fact that he has a Flight Marshall badge with him at all times. Nate and Sophie have a bunch of fake passports with them at all times. The whole team makes a living through Nate's XanatosSpeedChess, so they'll have to be CrazyPrepared to pull it off.

** Once to allow the trasition from Commander Sinclair to Captain Sheridan (after JMS realized that Sinclair's character arc had been played out too fast; at least, that was the official reason until after Michael O'Hare's death, at which point JMS revealed that the real reason was the actor's sickness).

** River carries handcuffs at all times ("Silence in the Library").

*** Justified because Jack was ''trained'' for this during his time as a Temporal Agent. Maybe not the AssShove gun, but the rest definitely. Unfortunately, all his training flies out the window, as he still sounds like a typical American no matter which time or part of Britain he's in (with a few "oi"'s thrown in) and keeps wearing his WorldWarTwo-era greatcoat.

* An episode of ''WillAndGrace'' has Karen pull out a bottle of champagne and glasses from her purse at request. While this is somewhat in-character, she soon after pulls out a ''video camera''.

* During a Halloween [[AllJustADream dream episode]] of ''SilverSpoons'', [[TheHero Ricky]], [[TheLancer Alphonse]], and some [[TheSmartGuy nerdy kid they hung around with]] were in a haunted house. They get locked in a room and the only door has no doorknob. The nerd walks up to the door, reaches in his backpack and pulls out a spare one, remarking, "And you guys always make fun of me for carrying around a spare doorknob!"

** Aeryn Sun's BadAss but evil mother used [[FemmeFatalons her own fingernail]] to cut open her arm to reveal a knife that she apparently had stashed there, just in case.

* ''Series/{{Mash}}'''s Col. Flagg is prepared for anything. However his methods are somewhat... unorthodox. In case he is captured by the enemy:

'''Ronin:''' '' How many do you need?\\

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Ron Swanson, in keeping with his rugged individualist ideology, plans in advance for any eventuality, which includes keeping all his money in gold, in case the economy collapses, keeping hunting weapons everyone, in case he has to kill his own food, and keeping a detonator in the office in case he needs to blast his way out. One example, from when his ex-wife locates his gold stash.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', Captain Blackadder is in prison, having been sentenced to death for disobeying orders. Baldrick smuggles in an escape kit so that Captain can use them to break out. Rather than a chisel and a hammer which would be needed to commit the break out, Baldrick packs a wooden duck (as a disguise in case of being caught near a lake), a pencil (to drop Baldrick a postcard), a small trumpet (in case he has to win the favor of a small child) and a Robin Hood costume (in case he arrives at a French peasant village having a costume party).

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'': A somewhat mild case, but one wonders why exactly Admiral Bill Adama stores the interrogation drug from hell on the ''Galactica'' and seems quite familiar with its use... you know, just in case you recapture and need to intimidate and torture Gaius Baltar in the most imaginative and surreal way possible. Similarly, the survival of the people who would eventually form Sam Anders' resistance on post-nuclear Caprica was hand-waved by stating that the resistance was largely Sam's team mates- athletes conducting high altitude training in the mountains- plus a bunch of survivalist types, whom you'd expect to be CrazyPrepared.

** In the episode "The Doctor's Daughter" the Doctor uses a clockwork mouse to distract a guard. Or the stethoscope, which he always carries with him.
*** The stethoscope makes sense (he is a Doctor, after all). After some very sad FridgeLogic, so does the mouse. The Doctor is frequently shown to carry small toys and candy in his pockets. Keep in mind, he was a grandfather.

** Captain Jack always has a gun tucked away somewhere, as revealed in the episode "Bad Wolf" when he is stripped naked. Where does he store it? "YouDontWantToKnow".

* The administration of the city ''Series/{{Eureka}}''.

--->'''Ben:''' No, John, we don't have a code for "there's a man in the closet with a knife to my daughter's throat." Although, obviously, we should.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''. Specifically the first six seasons, comprised of (In Order): MightyMorphinPowerRangers, Series/PowerRangersZeo, Series/PowerRangersTurbo, and Series/PowerRangersInSpace. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]], in that being trapped in a time warp for thousands of years has given Zordon a ''stupidly'' '''''spectacular''''' amount of free time in which to prepare [[spoiler: extra zords, potential backup power sources, huge Macross-esque transforming spacecraft,]] whose [[spoiler: [[TheChessmaster key component was a space shuttle that would be built by a modern space agency on Earth millennia later]] called [[CallARabbitASmeerp NASADA]].]] It still wasn't enough to save his life but he never really planned anything for ''that''.
** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'' reveals that while he didn't have plans for saving his own life, he ''did'' have plans for what would happen after, training a replacement mentor-and-armory-figure to recruit rangers and develop zords and equipment to respond to otherwise-unsolvable threats emerging from situations not yet developed enough for him to make more specific plans.
*** And he would take it ever further by setting up equipment and Zords in the emergency that ''those'' powers failed.
*** Then went one step further in backing up/replicating the powers of every ranger... and then some.

* In ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', Nate reveals he had thought of 13 ways for the team to pull their first job, one of which involves Hardison dying. Parker says she spends her free time thinking how to rob stuff, and proves it when she steals a highly guarded statue with common stuff, like an cone made of aluminum foil filled with ice. Hardison has a black light in his bag for times when a black light is needed. And Sophie can speak fluently in a ton of languages, and fake several others. Elliot, on the other hand is more of a well-prepared GeniusBruiser, than CrazyPrepared, as seen by his knowledge of neurosurgery, flight attendant protocol (Flight attendants always have a spare uniform) and the fact that he has a Flight Marshall badge with him at all times. Nate and Sophie have a bunch of fake passports with them at all times. The whole team makes a living through Nate's XanatosSpeedChess, so they'll have to be CrazyPrepared to pull it off.

* In an episode of ''Series/TheMentalist'', Jane figures out that a man is faking needing a wheelchair because the soles of his shoes are scuffed. Jane remarks that he's been automatically checking the shoes of wheelchair-bound people for years, just in case, and this is the first time it's paid off.
** [[ConvictionByCounterfactualClue Only problem is]] that paraplegia is not the only reason one might need a wheelchair. For example, people who are prone to fainting will often make use of a wheelchair despite being able to walk.

* Sheldon's 'roommate agreement' in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has subclauses that cover a huge variety of contingencies, including obligations in case one of the roommates ''turns into a robot''.
** Also for if Leonard becomes a superhero (Sheldon gets to be his sidekick) or how to deal with a zombie attack ("he's not allowed to kill me, even if I turn"). On a more practical front, when Leonard is invited to tour the Large Hadron Collider, the agreement has a clause for ''that specific event''.

* Apparently in ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', the [=BuyMore=] has a policy against 'lewd use of a musical montage.' Just in case one would need such a policy in your official rules.
** Any business that employs Jeff and Lester would indeed need such a policy.
* An episode of Polish sitcom ''Swiat wedlug Kiepskich'' revolves around the main character having temporary job as a bureaucrat [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything whose sole task is finding excuses to reject every single client]]. While usually all it takes is absence of some irrelevant document, it finally backfires when one particularly obnoxious client brings along whole luggage full of all kinds of documents ([[UpToEleven like permission from his grandparents which he got them to sign thirty years earlier while they were still alive]]), in all possible languages, each in multiple copies (and then gets rejected in the end anyway [[ShaggyDogStory for not bringing black pen]])
** Hilarously enough, by the end of the episode when the aforementioned main hero is about to get his long awaited salary for his [[BlatantLies hard work]], a neighbour, who happens to work as a bureaucrat too, brings him money, but pulls the very same tactic the hero was using for the whole episode to make sure he won't get any money at all.

* [[ParksAndRecreation Ron Swanson]], in keeping with his rugged individualist ideology, plans in advance for any eventuality, which includes keeping all his money in gold, in case the economy collapses, keeping hunting weapons everyone, in case he has to kill his own food, and keeping a detonator in the office in case he needs to blast his way out. One example, from when his ex-wife locates his gold stash.
-->"That was decoy gold. You really think I'd leave my gold sitting in a locked safe, buried underground, where anyone could find it? You don't know me at all."

* Bill's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ateyIFito "The Real Deal with Bill McNeil"]] in ''Series/{{Newsradio}}''. In it, he has pre-recorded statements on tape, ranging from announcing the title to "Hey, don't mention it", to "Well screw you too!", and more in his pcoket for when the producer takes away the ones that are already loaded. A later episode reveals he has another tape which says "Sorry!"

* Though already mentioned in "Film", Burt Gummer of the ((Tremors)) franchise is such a CrazyPrepared CrazySurvivalist that he deserves another mention. By the time of the t.v. series, Burt has become THE go-to guy for dealing with monsters. He even starts teaching a class on being Crazy Prepared to supplement his income after the events of the third film left him missing the above ground portions of his home.

* [[ParksAndRecreation Ron Swanson]], in keeping with his rugged individualist ideology, plans in advance for any eventuality. One example is when his ex-wife locates his gold stash and steals half of it.
-->"That was decoy gold. You really think I'd leave my gold in a locked safe, buried underground where anyone could find it? You don't know me at all."

* ''NewsRadio''

** ''NewsRadio'' was crazy into this trope in general. Another notable example would be the episode "Security Door" where Dave answers questions by showing incredibly well drawn slides. Dave has a hilarious slide for every question, even as the questions themselves get progressively more insane.

* ''PowerRangers''. Specifically the first six seasons, comprised of (In Order): MightyMorphinPowerRangers, Series/PowerRangersZeo, Series/PowerRangersTurbo, and Series/PowerRangersInSpace. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]], in that being trapped in a time warp for thousands of years has given Zordon a ''stupidly'' '''''spectacular''''' amount of free time in which to prepare [[spoiler: extra zords, potential backup power sources, huge Macross-esque transforming spacecraft,]] whose [[spoiler: [[TheChessmaster key component was a space shuttle that would be built by a modern space agency on Earth millennia later]] called [[CallARabbitASmeerp NASADA]].]] It still wasn't enough to save his life but he never really planned anything for ''that''.

* A subtle version of this appears in ''Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles'', where Sarah and John have just moved into a new house and are still painting the walls when Cromartie busts down the door. Sarah rips down the wallpaper to reveal a hidden shotgun, and when Cromartie shoots back, she takes cover behind a chair ''filled with Kevlar''. Slightly less subtle in that the Connors had a storage unit full of extra firearms and explosives. And if T3 is anything to go by, Sarah has no issue putting weapons caches in odd places, like coffins.

* The premise of ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' is the title character collecting lots of info on every possible facet of school life. According to some viewers, the tips given actually work in real life. There is also Cookie, who combines this with DoAnythingRobot. There seems to be no end to all the weird (and completely useless) things he's made a helmet or pair of glasses for.

* In an opening sketch of KenanAndKel, Kel's sick and asks Kenan if he has any mouthwash.

* In [[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life On Deck]] Zack confronts his brother about a supposed fear og bananas he has after finding a paragraph about it in a report he stole from him to pass of as his own. Cody reveals that he always add's a weird paragraph to his homework before he atchives it just in case anyone (Zack) tries to plagarize him.

* Sheldon's 'roommate agreement' in the show TheBigBangTheory has subclauses that cover a huge variety of contingencies, including obligations in case one of the roommates ''turns into a robot''.

* In ''BlackBooks'', Bernard Black is forced to take shelter in an adult video store after being locked out of his shop at night. In order to stay warm and dry as long as he can, he resorts to inventing a series of increasingly unlikely fetishes. "Nurses. But, ah, in administration, y'know ... actually I should have said, sorry, ''Senior'' Administrative Nurses -- that's the only thing I'm interested in." [[RuleThirtyFour The shop owner is able to fulfil this request instantly]]. In the final episode, Fran is trying to convince Bernard that his old girlfriend faked her death and is still living in London. She pulls out her phone and shows the entry, then a photo of her last birthday, her dental records, and her birth certificate along with a photo of her reading today's newspaper and wearing a t-shirt that says "I love life"
* In ''{{Cheers}}'', {{cloudcuckoolander}} Woody loses a dollar bill. Cliff finds it, but balks at returning it. Instead, he demands that Woody prove that the bill in question is actually the one that he lost, by identifying the serial number on the bill. Without missing a beat, Woody recites the serial number. After Cliff, visibly shaken, returns the bill, Woody is asked how he did that. He replies that he memorizes the serial numbers on all his currency. When asked why, he says "for just this sort of situation".

* In an episode of ''TheMentalist'', Jane figures out that a man is faking needing a wheelchair because the soles of his shoes are scuffed. Jane remarks that he's been automatically checking the shoes of wheelchair-bound people for years, just in case, and this is the first time it's paid off.

* In one episode of the brilliant British comedy, TheMightyBoosh, Howard and Vince become stranded on a desert island. Howard then pulls out an array of items from his pockets that are incredibly helpful, albeit incredibly bizarre to have on one's person in any other circumstance. Vince is less than prepared.

* Played for laughs in ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' with Hugh Laurie's greetings card shop selling cards with highly specific messages ("Sorry to hear your teeth fell out near the Arndale centre") including a card describing Stephen Fry's specific situation (His wife is going to have a jealous spasm on her step-daughters birthday).

* In an episode of ''{{Blackadder}}'', Captain Blackadder is in prison, having been sentenced to death for disobeying orders. Baldrick smuggles in an escape kit so that Captain can use them to break out. Rather than a chisel and a hammer which would be needed to commit the break out, Baldrick packs a wooden duck (as a disguise in case of being caught near a lake), a pencil (to drop Baldrick a postcard), a small trumpet (in case he has to win the favor of a small child) and a Robin Hood costume (in case he arrives at a French peasant village having a costume party).