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A
Arrowverse
- The Ascent of Man
B
- Babylon 5
- Arc Words
- Burial in Space
- Character Development
- Chicken-and-Egg Paradox
- City of Spies
- Draw Sword, Draw Blood
- Facial Dialogue
- Fantastic Caste System
- Fictional United Nations
- Heroism Won't Pay the Bills
- Humans Are Diplomats
- Mind Rape
- Moment of Weakness
- Non-Humans Lack Attributes
- No-Paper Future
- The Older Immortal
- Perp Sweating
- Rash Promise
- Royal Inbreeding
- Self-Immolation
- Sitting Duck
- The Social Darwinist
- Something That Begins with "Boring"
- Standard Human Spaceship
- Threshold Guardians
- Time Abyss
- Touched by Vorlons
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness
- Translation: "Yes"
- Warts and All
- The Big Bang Theory
- Aloof Ally
- Alternate Universe
- Appeal to Novelty
- Author Vocabulary Calendar
- Best Friend Manual
- Blanket Fort
- Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
- Can't Hold His Liquor
- Competition Freak
- Defcon 5
- Embarrassing Tattoo
- Fuzz Therapy
- Henpecked Husband
- Impossible Pickle Jar
- It's What I Do
- Like an Old Married Couple
- Lysistrata Gambit
- Moonburn
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
- Naked People Are Funny
- Nerd Nanny
- "No Peeking!" Request
- No "Police" Option
- Not Even Bothering with an Excuse
- Not the Fall That Kills You…
- Outhumbling Each Other
- Photographic Memory
- Platonic Declaration of Love
- Sarcasm-Blind
- Seasonal Rot
- Serial Numbers Filed Off
- She Is Not My Girlfriend
- Thanks for the Mammary
- This Is My Chair
- Wimp Fight
- Blackadder
- Armchair Military
- Bumbling Sidekick
- Captain Morgan Pose
- The Chain of Harm
- Comeback Tomorrow
- Crew of One
- Cunning Like a Fox
- The Ditz
- Dynamic Akimbo
- First-Name Basis
- Foreign Ruling Class
- Germanic Depressives
- Hint Dropping
- Inside Job
- Only Useful as Toilet Paper
- Pepper Sneeze
- Regency England
- School of Hard Knocks
- Seadog Beard
- Staff of Authority
- Straw Loser
- Swapped Roles
- Teen Genius
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Almost Famous Name
- Back-to-Back Poster
- Decade-Themed Party
- Fake Texting
- Found Family via Work
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog
- Lying to the Perp
- Mystery Episode
- Not the First Victim
- Once a Season
- Plain Palate
- Pocket Dial
- Production Posse
- Psycho Psychologist
- Rivalry as Courtship
- Suspicious Missed Messages
- Burn Notice
- And Some Other Stuff
- Bait-and-Switch Accusation
- Betrayal by Inaction
- Black Site
- Bluff the Eavesdropper
- Bluff Worked Too Well
- Booby Trap
- Bully Hunter
- Car Chase Shoot-Out
- Car Meets House
- The Can Kicked Him
- Clipboard of Authority
- Close to Home
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
- The Conspiracy
- Control Freak
- Cry into Chest
- Dead Animal Warning
- Diagnosis: Knowing Too Much
- Dirty Business
- Distract and Disarm
- Double Agent
- Dress-Coded for Your Convenience
- Electric Torture
- Fast-Roping
- Faux Yay
- Filching Food for Fun
- Gory Discretion Shot
- Hairpin Lockpick
- Hero Stole My Bike
- Hidden Supplies
- Hired Guns
- Home Field Advantage
- Honor Among Thieves
- Hostage Situation
- I Lied
- Instant Emergency Response
- Investigator Impersonation
- Kidnapper's KFC
- Knowledge Broker
- No Backwards Compatibility in the Future
- Only Sane by Comparison
- Out-Gambitted
- Paranoia Gambit
- Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
- Reminiscing About Your Victims
- Safecracking
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
- Shoot Your Mate
- So Much for Stealth
- The Stakeout
- Torture Is Ineffective
- Trojan Prisoner
- Try and Follow
- Under the Truck
- We Win, Because You Didn't
- You Just Told Me
C
- The Camomile Lawn
- Community
- Action Mom
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head
- Apathetic Teacher
- Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity
- Bottle Episode
- Broken Treasure
- Camping a Crapper
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
- Cast Incest
- Confirm Before Reveal
- Cop Hater
- Creator Standpoint Index
- Cue the Billiard Shot
- Da Chief
- Documentary
- Female Feline, Male Mutt
- Final Season Casting
- Fourth-Wall Observer
- Freudian Couch
- The Friends Who Never Hang
- Graffiti of the Resistance
- The Ground Is Lava
- Happier Home Movie
- Have You Told Anyone Else?
- I Am Spartacus
- Left for Dead
- Love Doodles
- Malt Shop
- Matrix Raining Code
- Medical Drama
- Meta Guy
- Monumental Battle
- Portmanteau
- Professional Sex Ed
- RPG Episode
- Rule of Empathy
- Scantron Picture
- Strangely Arousing
- Somalia
- Surreal Theme Tune
- Teacher's Pet
- Team Power Walk
- Unified Naming System
- Verber Creature
- You Must Be Cold
- CPO Sharkey
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
- UsefulNotes.Bisexual
- Bromantic Foil
- BSoD Song
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
- The Eleven O'Clock Number
- Hot for Preacher
- Karaoke Bonding Scene
- Love Dodecahedron
- Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number
- Musical World Hypotheses
- Old Man Conversation Song
- Previously Overlooked Paramour
- Soccer-Hating Americans
- Spirit Advisor
- Stopped Caring
D
E
F
- Firefly
- Accidental Marriage
- The Ace
- Arbitrary Skepticism
- Awesome.The Bible
- Badass Preacher
- Betrayal Tropes
- Big Damn Heroes
- Chain Pain
- The Cutie
- Disrupting the Theater
- Earned Stripes
- Emergency Cargo Dump
- FaceHeelTurn.Live Action TV
- Faux Symbolism
- Field Promotion
- Fumbling the Gauntlet
- Harmless Lady Disguise
- Human Shield
- I Call It "Vera"
- ...In That Order
- Kidnapped Doctor
- Knee-capping
- Opposing Combat Philosophies
- Psychic Powers
- Psycho for Hire
- Ready for Lovemaking
- Sarcastic Devotee
- Shoot Everything That Moves
- Short-Distance Phone Call
- Shot to the Heart
- Space Cossacks
- Thrown Out the Airlock
- True Companions
- Undercover as Lovers
- Used Future
- Virgin-Shaming
- Wrench Wench
- Friends
- Ambiguous Criminal History
- But We Used a Condom!
- Candlelit Bath
- Caretaking Is Feminine
- Cat Fight
- Crappy Holidays
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
- Do Wrong, Right
- Dog Got Sent to a Farm
- Fascinating Eyebrow
- Fanservice Faux Fight
- "Fawlty Towers" Plot
- First World Problems
- Foreign Cuss Word
- Friendship Moment
- Gender Bender
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple
- Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
- Happily Married
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
- I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!
- Incompatible Orientation
- Inherently Attractive Profession
- Jiggle Show
- LGBT Fanbase
- Lost the TV Remote
- Love Father, Love Son
- Miserable Massage
- Mistaken for Index
- Mistaken for Pedophile
- My Sister Is Off-Limits
- The Netherlands
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue
- On Three
- Picked Flowers Are Dead
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
- Rebuke Tropes
- Recurring Character
- Right Through the Wall
- Self-Applied Nickname
- Soap Opera
- Spell My Name with a "The"
- Wedding Deadline
- With a Foot on the Bus
G
- Game of Thrones
- Animal Eye Spy
- Anyone Can Die
- Barbarian Longhair
- Bastard Angst
- Be All My Sins Remembered
- The Caretaker
- Depraved Dwarf
- Dragon-in-Chief
- Elemental Rivalry
- Endless Winter
- Eunuchs Are Evil
- Everyone Has Standards
- Faster Than They Look
- Fertility God
- Five-Finger Fillet
- Got Over Rape Instantly
- He Knows Too Much
- Heroic Bastard
- Hidden Agenda Villain
- Inbred and Evil
- Immune to Fire
- Interrupted Intimacy
- Lady and Knight
- Large Ham Title
- Maternal Death? Blame the Child!
- Monster.A Song Of Ice And Fire
- Myopic Conqueror
- Nasty Party
- Nighttime Transformation
- Not Like Other Girls
- Not-So-Harmless Villain
- Parental Favoritism
- The Power of Hate
- Pretty Boy
- Sex–Face Turn
- The Social Expert
- The Stormbringer
- Tear Up the Contract
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth
- Trial by Combat
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card
- Twincest
- Venturous Smuggler
- The Good Place
- Disappointed in You
- Divine Misfile
- "Friends" Rent Control
- Home Nudist
- Judicial Wig
- Magical Profanity Filter
- Molotov Cocktail
- Must State If You're a Cop
- Not Helping Your Case
- The Omniscient
- Portal Crossroad World
- Poster-Gallery Bedroom
- Successful Sibling Syndrome
- Weaker in the Real World
- Wrote the Book
H
- Happy Days
- Con Men Hate Guns
- Cool Bike
- Ratings Stunt (30th reunion)
- The Tonsillitis Episode
- How I Met Your Mother
- Awesome Mc Cool Name
- Bathroom Control
- The Bro Code
- Brooklyn Rage
- Bros Before Hoes
- Canada, Eh?
- Crowd Chant
- Differing Priorities Breakup
- Drinking Game
- Fallback Marriage Pact
- Flexibility Equals Sex Ability
- Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
- Hiding from Embarrassment
- The "I Love You" Stigma
- Insult of Endearment
- Internal Deconstruction
- The Jailbait Wait
- Ladykiller in Love
- Meet Cute
- Neologizer
- Nested Story Reveal
- Place Worse Than Death
- Platonic Co-Parenting
- Power Dynamics Kink
- Protagonist Title Fallacy
- Self-Imposed Challenge
- Sensei for Scoundrels
- Sex Equals Love
- Shooting Lessons From Your Parents
- True Love Is Boring
- Twice Shy
- Undisclosed Funds
- Wanted a Son Instead
- Wrong Genre Savvy
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J
K
Kamen Rider
- Kamen Rider Stronger
- Kamen Rider Decade
- Kamen Rider Gaim
- Kamen Rider Ghost
- Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
- Kamen Rider Revice
- Kamen Rider Geats
L
Law & Order
M
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Does Not Like Spam
- Felony Misdemeanor
- Freudian Slippery Slope
- Hurricane of Euphemisms
- I Just Like Saying the Word
- Inadvertent Entrance Cue
- Just the Introduction to the Opposites
- Lampshaded Double Entendre
- Money Fetish
- Nonverbal Miscommunication
- Sketch Comedy
- Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness
- Society Is to Blame
- Video Inside, Film Outside
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Acting for Two
- All Up to You
- Backup Twin
- Bamboo Technology
- Bizarro Universe
- Bloodless Carnage
- Cast the Expert
- Chroma Key
- Cliffhanger Copout
- College Is "High School, Part 2"
- Computers Speak Binary
- Roger Corman
- Cousin Oliver
- CrapsackWorld.Live Action Films
- Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Nixon
- A Date With Your Family
- Design for Dreaming
- Down L.A. Drain
- Driving a Desk
- Establishing Shot
- Eye Awaken
- Fashion-Victim Villain
- Flaming Devil
- Flexing Those Non-Biceps
- Forklift Fu
- Found Footage Films
- Coleman Francis
- The Freelance Shame Squad
- Fugitive Alien
- Gamera
- Ghost Extras
- The Giant Spider Invasion
- Gift of the Magi Plot
- Girl in Gold Boots
- Hikikomori
- Hired!
- Hobgoblins
- In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
- Informal Eulogy
- Informed Wrongness
- Invisible Monsters
- It Lives by Night
- It's Snowing Cocaine
- Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
- Jump Cut
- Leitmotif
- Living in a Furniture Store
- Lisa Loeb
- Low-Speed Chase
- Magic is Evil
- Manos: The Hands of Fate
- Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
- Monochrome Casting
- Morozko
- The Mountains of Illinois
- MST3K Mantra
- Oculothorax
- Once Upon a Honeymoon
- Padding
- Panty Thief
- Rack Focus
- Rat Pack
- Really Dead Montage
- Santa Claus (1959)
- Scare Chord
- Science-Related Memetic Disorder
- Shaky P.O.V. Cam
- Shoot the Money
- Slo-Mo Big Air
- Space Friction
- Space Is Slow Motion
- Special Effect Failure
- Spy Speak
- Standardized Space Views
- Take Our Word for It
- T.J. Hooker
- Vader Breath
- We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
- Wondrous Ladies Room
- What The Hell, Costuming Department?
- Wunza Plot
- Yongary: Monster from the Deep
N
O
- The Office (US)
- 13 Is Unlucky
- The Art of Bra Removal
- Benevolent Boss
- Bodily Fluid Blacklight Reveal
- Depression
- Documentary Episode
- Giant Novelty Check
- Go for the Eye
- Jury Duty
- The Killer in Me
- Lady in a Power Suit
- My Own Private "I Do"
- Rapid-Fire "Yes!"
- Relationship Chart
- The Roast
- Screamer Prank
- Soul-Crushing Desk Job
- Verbal Business Card
- What Were They Selling Again?
- The One Show
P
- Parks and Recreation
- Apple of Discord
- Aubrey Plaza
- Bested at Bowling
- Birthday Hater
- Character Title
- Formerly Fat
- Fitness Nut
- The Food Poisoning Incident
- Gilligan Cut
- Heartwarming.Live Action TV
- I Regret Nothing
- Julia Roberts
- Living Emotional Crutch
- Moby Schtick
- Native American Casino
- Sarcastic Confession
- Spicy Latina
- Staged Pedestrian Accident
- Sudden Death
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame
- Portlandia
- {[Useful Notes/Portland}}
Power Rangers
Q
R
- Red Dwarf
- Alternative Character Interpretation
- Borrowed Biometric Bypass
- Bring My Brown Pants
- Couldn't Find a Pen
- Deflector Shields
- Dinner and a Show
- Dramatic Space Drifting
- Easter Egg
- Embarrassing Middle Name
- Escape Pod
- Everybody Did It
- Everybody's Dead, Dave
- Fictional Document
- Hangover Sensitivity
- Hates Their Parent
- Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?
- I Am Not Shazam
- Microts
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family
- Naughty Nurse Outfit
- No Seat Belts
- Object-Shaped Landmass
- Perverse Sexual Lust
- Refugee from TV Land
- Ridiculous Future Sequelisation
- Silly Reason for War
- Something for Everyone
- Stating the Simple Solution
- Time and Relative Dimensions in Space
- Time-Travel Tense Trouble
- Tongue-Tied
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
- Touch Telepathy
- Villainy Discretion Shot
- Wangst
- Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma
- We Need a Distraction
S
- Saturday Night Live
- Ambiguously Brown
- Ambiguously Gay
- "Balls" Gag
- Bedroom Pop
- Tom Brady
- The Chris Carter Effect
- Completely Different Title
- Deep South
- Dump Months
- "El Niño" Is Spanish for "The Niño"
- Every Year They Fizzle Out
- Happy Fun Ball
- I Read That As
- Like a Duck Takes to Water
- Live Episode
- Lives in a Van
- Loony Fan
- Minority Show Ghetto
- No Bisexuals
- No Fame, No Wealth, No Service
- Old-Timey Bathing Suit
- Politician Guest-Star
- The Power of Acting
- Ruling Couple
- Sequel Non-Entity
- Stock Aesops
- Token Minority
- Two First Names
- Tyler Perry
- Unintelligible Accent
- USA Network
- Vacation Episode
- Vindicated by Cable
- Weird Sun
- Scrubs
- Alone in a Crowd
- Calling Your Orgasms
- Coin Walk Flexing
- Evil Virtues
- Get a Room!
- Girl of the Week
- Hentai
- Hey, You!
- Imagine Spot
- Insult to Rocks
- The Internet Is for Porn
- Lopsided Dichotomy
- Lower-Deck Episode
- Lying on a Hillside
- Mediation Backfire
- No Guy Wants to Be Chased
- Non Standard Prescription
- Patient of the Week
- Person as Verb
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
- Sentimental Music Cue
- Seriously Scruffy
- Sex Changes Everything
- Sitcom Homage Episode
- Thinking Tic
- Urgent Medical Alert
- Seinfeld
- Believing Their Own Lies
- Bird-Poop Gag
- Car Cushion
- Dining in the Buff
- Faux Interracial Relationship
- Fiction Business Savvy
- Girl on Girl Is Hot
- Girly Run
- The Ghost
- Hero Insurance
- Incompetence, Inc.
- Inflation Negation
- Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
- It's Cuban
- The Jeeves
- Kay E. Kuter
- Mistook the Dominant Lifeform
- Most Writers Are Male
- Myanmar
- My Eyes Are Leaking
- One of the Boys
- Pig Man
- Shiksa Goddess
- Sucks at Dancing
- There Is Only One Bed
- Sesame Street
- All or Nothing
- Animal Sweet on Object
- Christmas Episode
- Gleeful and Grumpy Pairing
- Hunger Causes Lethargy
- Jump Rope Blunders
- Jumping-to-Conclusions Diagnosis
- The Killjoy
- Missed Meal Aesop
- New Baby Episode
- Number Obsession
- Ode to Food
- Platonic Valentine
- Prison Episode
- Prone to Tears
- The Simple Gesture Wins
- Singing in the Shower
- Song of Many Emotions
- Wearing It All Wrong
Stargate-verse
- Stargate SG-1
- Archive Binge
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
- Big Creepy-Crawlies
- The Brigadier
- Character Name Alias
- Combo Platter Powers
- The Face
- Failsafe Failure
- Food Interrogation
- I Should Write a Book About This
- Made of Explodium
- Military Maverick
- Over-the-Top Secret
- Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
- Sealed Evil in a Duel
- Spectacular Spinning
- Star Killing
- Story-Breaker Power
- Subspace or Hyperspace
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute
- Tastes Like Chicken
- Time Dilation
- Title-Only Opening
- Transplanted Humans
- Up the Real Rabbit Hole
- Viewers Are Geniuses
- "Yes"/"No" Answer Interpretation
- Your Days Are Numbered
- You're Not My Type
- Stargate Atlantis
- Stargate Universe
- Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
- Supernatural
- All Therapists Are Muggles
- Big Blackout
- Brown Note Being
- Car Radio Dispute
- Conspicuously Light Patch
- Continuity Creep
- Dagwood Sandwich
- Demon of Human Origin
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
- Don't Come A-Knockin'
- Electromagnetic Ghosts
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory
- God Is Neutral
- Hijacked by Jesus
- "Holy Shit!" Quotient
- Humans Are Flawed
- I Just Want to Be Loved
- Metallicar Syndrome
- Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!
- Our Angels Are Different
- Outgrowing the Childish Name
- Patrick Swayze
- Real-World Episode
- Sacrificial Revival Spell
- Self-Surgery
- Sewer Gator
- Son of an Ape
- Soul Power
- There Is No Cure
- Third Wheel
- Villain Pedigree
- You Watch Too Much X
T
- That Mitchell and Webb Look
- Big "SHUT UP!"
- Heel Realization
- Just Think of the Potential!
- The Klan
- Magic Music
- Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus
- Mood Dissonance
- Namesake Gag
- Near-Villain Victory
- Promoted to Scapegoat
- Scandalgate
- Silent Credits
- Skeleton Motif
- This Ain't Rocket Surgery
- Unproblematic Prostitution
- Younger and Hipper
U
V
- Series/V1983
- La verdad oculta
W
- The Wedding Band
- The Women of Brewster Place
X
- The X-Files
- Adrenaline Makeover
- Agent Mulder
- Aliens Steal Cattle
- Banned Episode (newspaper advert)
- Cassandra Truth
- Criminal Mind Games
- Dresses the Same
- Eat the Summoner
- Eye Remember
- From Nobody to Nightmare
- The Gambler
- Mocking Music
- Mr. Fanservice
- Not of This Earth
- Only in Florida
- Poker
- Replacement Scrappy
- Right-Wing Militia Fanatic
- Sibling Triangle
- Suicide Pact
- Tragic Villain
Y
Z