Tropes primarily found on the medium of live action TV. For works featuring live action, see TV Series.
See also Formats and Show Genres. Not to be confused with Series Tropes.
Tropes:
Categories:
- Bottle Episode: An episode that saves budget money by limiting the number of characters, backgrounds, etc. that can be used.
- Bowling for Ratings
- The Boxing Episode
- Candid Camera Prank
- Coconut Superpowers: The television series' budget can't afford to show a character's super powers to their true potential, so they resort to doing limited demonstrations of the power using cheap special effects.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: An episode ends with everyone laughing.
- Finale Production Upgrade: When a live-action series increases its overall production value for its season or series finale.
- Five Year Plan: A series is planned to last at least 100 episodes so that it can be sold in syndication.
- From Special to Series: A one-off television special ends up being picked up for a full-fledged series.
- Guest Host
- The Host
- Limited Social Circle
- Not Named in Opening Credits
- Painting the Medium: Font, interface changes, or camera or editing tricks convey things about the story.
- Prop: Something an actor holds or physically interacts with in a production.
- Pro Wrestling Episode
- Recycled Set
- Required Spinoff Crossover: When a show gets a spinoff, it is mandatory for the spinoff and the show it spun off from to do at least one crossover.
- Screw the Electric Bill
- Season Finale: The final episode of the show's season.
- Spiking the Camera
- Studio Audience
- Three-Wall Set
- Title, Please!: None of the television show's episodes have the episode title visible on-screen.
- Trash the Set
- Truncated Theme Tune
- Turn Off the Camera
