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- The A-Team
- The Adventures of Superboy
- The Afterparty
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- The Americans
- America's Next Top Model
- And Then There Were None
- Arrested Development
- Arrow
- Ashes to Ashes (2008)
- Babylon
- Babylon 5
- Balala the Fairies
- Bates Motel
- Battlestar Galactica (2003)
- Bear in the Big Blue House
- Being Human (UK)
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
- The Big Bang Theory
- Big Brother
- Blackadder
- Blossom
- The Borgias
- Brass Eye
- Breaking Bad
- The Brittas Empire
- Buffyverse
- Burn Notice
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- The Cape
- Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum
- Castle
- The Catherine Tate Show
- Charmed:
- Class
- Cobra Kai
- The Colbert Report
- Columbo
- Community
- Cougar Town
- Criminal Minds
- The Daily Show
- Dallas
- Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Desperate Housewives
- Dexter
- Doctor Who
- Dollhouse
- Emerald City
- Eureka
- The Famous Jett Jackson
- Farscape
- Fate: The Winx Saga
- Father Ted
- Firefly
- Forever
- Frasier
- Friends
- Fringe
- Generation Kill
- Gen V
- Ghosts (UK)
- Ghosts (US)
- Girl Meets World
- Glee
- The Good Guys
- The Good Place
- Gotham
- Gossip Girl
- The Greatest American Hero
- Grey's Anatomy
- Hannah Montana
- Heroes
- Highlander
- Holy Flying Circus
- Homeland
- Horrible Histories
- House
- How I Met Your Mother
- iCarly
- Incredible Crew
- Jonathan Creek
- Kamen Rider:
- Kamen Rider Kuuga
- Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Kamen Rider Faiz
- Kamen Rider Blade
- Kamen Rider Kabuto
- Kamen Rider Den-O
- Kamen Rider Kiva
- Kamen Rider Decade
- Kamen Rider Double
- Kamen Rider OOO
- Kamen Rider Fourze
- Kamen Rider Wizard
- Kamen Rider Gaim
- Kamen Rider Drive
- Kamen Rider Ghost
- Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
- Kamen Rider Zi-O
- The Latest Buzz
- Law & Order
- Leverage
- Locke & Key (2020)
- Life on Mars
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
- Lost
- Mad Men
- Malcolm in the Middle
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- M*A*S*H
- Masters of Horror
- The Mentalist
- Merlin
- Midnight Mass (2021)
- Monk
- Murdoch Mysteries
- NCIS
- NCIS: Los Angeles
- The Nanny
- Noob
- NUMB3RS
- The Office (US)
- The Office UK
- One Piece (2023)
- The Orville
- Parks and Recreation
- Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
- Persons Unknown
- The Player
- Power Rangers
- The Prisoner (1967)
- Pushing Daisies
- Quantum Leap
- Al Rawabi School For Girls
- Red Dwarf
- The Sarah Jane Adventures
- Saturday Night Live
- Scrubs
- Seinfeld
- Sesame Street
- Shameless (US)
- Sherlock
- Shoebox Zoo
- Sirens (US)
- Skins
- Smallville
- The Sopranos
- Spaced
- Spartacus: Blood and Sand
- Sports Night
- Stargate
- Star Trek
- The Steve Harvey Show
- Super Sentai
- Battle Fever J
- Choujuu Sentai Liveman
- Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger
- Gosei Sentai Dairanger
- Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV
- Mirai Sentai Timeranger
- Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
- Mahou Sentai Magiranger
- Samurai Sentai Shinkenger
- Tensou Sentai Goseiger
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
- Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
- Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger
- Ressha Sentai ToQger
- Shuriken Sentai Ninninger
- Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger
- Uchu Sentai Kyuranger
- Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger
- Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger
- Mashin Sentai Kiramager
- Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger
- Avataro Sentai Donbrothers
- Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger
- Supernatural
- Takin' Over the Asylum
- Teen Wolf
- The 10th Kingdom
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Titans (2018)
- This Is Us
- Three's Company
- Thumb Wrestling Federation
- The Twilight Zone (1959)
- Top Gear (UK)
- Torchwood
- True Blood
- True Detective
- Twin Peaks
Unsorted
- In Episode 2 of Charlie Brooker's How TV Ruined Your Life, a lot of viewers were fooled by a fake sitcom created for it. The interesting part is that it proves another reason how TV ruins our lives; we are trained to ignore the production captions in tiny boxes during these types of shows, so people missed the dead giveaway 'Shitpeas Production' credit. As in Barry Shitpeas from Screenwipe and Newswipe.
- "Too Many Cooks". a minute segment aired on the [adult swim] program Infomercials, is an 11 minute sitcom title sequence that gets increasingly convoluted and bizarre as it goes on. But aside from some of the real Mind Screw elements, it can be seen as a parody of how a long-running show can go through constant retools, Breakout Characters, and general Executive Meddling until it's barely recognizable.
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Keiko's extremely distressed and emotional reaction to the U.S. military attempting to kill Godzilla with an atom bomb can seem a little... over the top to say the least, considering that she lacks the Serizawas' history with Godzilla and has no way of knowing whether Godzilla is a protector or a hostile Titan. Until you remember that Keiko is a Japanese woman living in 1954, which means that she lived through her country being devastated by the use of atomic weapons, which occurred less than a decade prior.
- Sheena (2000): In its Deconstruction of National Geographic Nudity. One episode starts with Sheena getting dressed in western-style clothes. When she puts on the bra, she doesn't know how to latch it shut, so she ties it up in back instead. This makes sense since she would have grown up around NGN being played straight, meaning she would have had no fully-dressed female role models to teach her how to correctly put on a bra.