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openDoes a PlotTriggeringDeath need to be covered up in spoilers if it happened before the story? Live Action TV
I'm editing the work page for Never Have I Ever when I notice that Mohan's death is covered up in spoilers, even though it's given exposition in the first episode and is a major reason for Devi's trauma. I decided to edit the characters page like Andi Mack's, where there's a spoiler warning at the top about The Reveal in the pilot, but I'm not 100% sure what to do on the work page, since it's a major cause of Mood Whiplash in Never Have I Ever.
openActor-Shared Background question Live Action TV
Would Actor-Shared Background apply to characters whose pasts seem coincidentally similar to their actors?
If not, what would they go under instead?
open Link To Video Examplee Live Action TV
An ad for an Australian hotel chain has tennis player Pat Rafter being reminded that he is supposed to be at a particular hotel tomorrow. Thinking he is there for a break, he turns up in singlet, shorts, and thongs, only to discover that he is supposed to be addressing a business council lunch. The ad then shows the lengths the hotel will go to for its guests by having the concierge loan Pat his suit and shoes, with him later being shown standing behind the desk in Pat's casual clothes. I would like to see the video of this as I looked for hours but have not found this ad.
open Horror/Scary show? help! Live Action TV
For the life of me, I can't find this show please help me. I remember very distinctly being scared out of my mind in the mid to late 2000s by this show that told scary stories. I can't remember if these were separate episodes or if they told multiple stories in one episode. The two stories I remember are as follows. A girl goes to a thrift store or some kind of second-hand store and buys a dress, that night she goes out with her boyfriend and wears the dress. She goes onto the dancefloor and starts dancing, then she starts to feel sick, she sits down, and eventually passes out. you then get a glimpse of the girl on an autopsy table and we're told that the dress was given to the store because the last girl to wear it had died. The second story is that of a man who gets on an airplane. As he's sitting in his seat he begins to hear a noise. He calls the flight attendant who leans over to inspect the window where he thinks the noise is coming from and suddenly the window breaks and the flight attendant is sucked through the window and ripped apart. The man is left there covered in blood spatter and we the audience get a shot of outside the plane while a leg clad in a heel falls to towards the earth. Thanks so much for your help I'd really appreciate if we figured this out!
open Regis Philbin‘s Lifestyles Live Action TV
Good afternoon. I know this might be a long-shot, but I’m hoping to track down a specific episode of a TV show that I can’t seem to find much information about. It doesn't seem to be available commercially.
Specifically, the TV show is called Regis Philbin‘s Lifestyles. The specific episode would be from 1984 or 1985 and feature Robert Goulet.
I’m trying to find this episode because my mother was one of the women who showcased some clothing on that episode. She would be overjoyed to be able to watch it again. Thank you for any assistance you can provide!
open Where this show come from Live Action TV
girl with blonde wig Starts dancing with sunglasses and three of her friends are amazed
Edited by Skieddkdosk3030open Trying to figure what show Live Action TV
I am trying to figure out what show this is from and what episode this is from. I flipped to a channel about halfway through this episode. The episode is about a rich woman that I believe is a bill collector. She is punished by an angel or Entity of some sort that gradually strips away all of her wealth until she is forced into the life of a Spanish women that has cancer that I think took her own life because of the harassment from the bill collecting calls. The angel gives her cancer and leaves her in the life of this woman. Based on. The clothing I would say that this is set in the eighties or early 90s. Also due to the quality of filming. Thank you.
open (Fredina) I love Lucy episode Live Action TV
Okay so Fred and Ricky are trying to hide from the girls and, Fred put a scarf over his head and was doing a crazy female voice. Ricky taps him on the shoulder and says okay Fredina. The girls had caught them. Ethel gave Fred one of her classic looks. That’s all I remember. What episode was that?
Edited by Nikkipbella424open 90's kid show/movie about zombies Live Action TV
I am trying to remember the name of a tv show, or possibly movie, that I remember seeing as a kid, in the '90s.
The basic premise is a bunch of young children running from zombies, or possibly some sort of possessed, brain parasite type creature.
they hide in their school cafeteria, and then make mannequins to fool the monster out of the mashed potatoes, and/or tater tots.
I originally thought it was an episode from Goosebumps/Are you Afraid of the Dark?/ Tales from the Crypt, but can't seem to ever find the episode in question.
any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance for your time.
openArrowverse posters Live Action TV
With this normally being the point where we'd get the posters for the new seasons, is it okay to use the recently released ones as placeholders until the officials ones are released?
openWord of Saint Paul status Live Action TV
What happens when a Word of Saint Paul entry becomes canon? I asked this question on the discussion page for The Umbrella Academy in reference to the entry about Klaus's sexuality, but I'm also curious as to the general protocol.
openDirect-to-video works question? Live Action TV
What namespace does a direct-to-video work go under, as the work I'm trying to write about is How Would You Like It?, a video on animal cruelty produced by the RSPCA in the 1990s.
open Alex Trebek on the Disney Channel in the 80s Live Action TV
Looked everywhere, couldn't find any mention of this, but I have very vivid memories of this.
Between programs on the Disney Channel in the 80's, I remember Alex Trebek reading short stories, usually submitted by kids.
My wife says she used to watch the Disney Channel all the time in the 80's and she has absolutely no recollection of this happening. Am I crazy?
openZCE uncertainty/Acquired Error at the Printer Live Action TV
I just noticed this commented out example on Acquired Error at the Printer:
What kind of context would it be helpful to add? This is brief, but it seems fairly complete.
To reiterate in case it's not clear, I'm not the editor who added the example, so this isn't a case of wounded pride. I'm just curious.
openSeries/TheInvisibleMan Live Action TV
The name has been edited to display the year the live-action show was made (2000), but this is a problem because that title also appears for the article on the 1897 novel by H.G. Wells, so that work's title is also presently being displayed as "The Invisible Man (2000)".
I'm sorry if I'm wasting anyone's time by discussing this issue in an Ask The Tropers ticket, but I didn't want to cause any problems by acting on this problem without confusing the heck out of whoever made the WikiWord change in the first place.
open U.S series Live Action TV
It was a comical series I caught 20 minutes of about four years ago and the plot of the episode from what I could gather was an artsy white couple move to a new city in America and befriend a black drug dealer who they’ve been sceptical of. The next scene was them taking acid (the husband/boyfriend and the drug dealer) and having a fun time in what I think was an art gallery, the woman may have been pregnant in the episode- what is this series called?
openThis Show Provides Examples Of... Live Action TV
For some reason, the page for Amen has two trope lists on it. One says "This show provides examples of" (which I assume are for general tropes relating to the show) and another says "Episodes of this series provide examples of" (which looks like tropes used in specific episodes). No other work that I've seen has this split. Should I just merge the sections together?

Ok so the show was i believe made in the 90s. I believe the young girl was ill and she thought she was an alien but her family pretended she wasnt? i remember seeing inside the spaceship and i think it was powered by gold. she ended up leaving on the spaceship.