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TV show or movie Live Action TV

Hi! I don't know if it's a movie or a tv show (my guess is a tv show, anyway) but one of the characters is a gay actor in the closet and there's one specific scene where he decides to not take his axiety medication, and when his agent comes home he is FREAKING OUT and wants to tell everybody he's gay and he is very excited (because he's off his medication).

does anybody know the name of this show/movie?

Episode where spring breaker goes missing Live Action TV

I'm fairly certain this was an episode of a show just not sure which. Main character is investigating a missing spring break vacationer, the girl was with a group of friends that when they don't hear from her get super worried. It turns out she was talking to her boyfriend that night and drives a few hours away to a motel. The main character finds her body in a field near the motel...lots of red herrings indeed. Ultimately it turns out the boyfriend did it even though he had a pretty good alibi, some how he is able to fake it and drives the few hours to the motel and kills her and gets back in time.

Asian girl detective TV Show 80s or 90s Live Action TV

Hi,

I am looking for this TV Show name;

young High school Asian girl detective, i think it was from 80s or 90s and all i can remmember from trailer is she answering the phone at a police station, there is old monitor in front of her, that was trailer.

Disposable Love Interest example in Danny Pink character page Live Action TV

On the Danny Pink character page there was an example of {{ Disposable Love Interest}} the original example was:

• Disposable Love Interest: In the context of Clara and the Doctor's later romance, his ultimate purpose is to mix thing up and then disappear.

I removed it as his purpose was not just to mix it up and disappear. But get into a serious relationship with Clara. With her choosing him and him dying seriously affecting her. By no means “” disposable”” Also I did not find reference in canon or expanded materials explicitly detailing that 12 and Clara were in a relationship. Even if they were at a later date did not change the character did not fit the parameters regarding being disposable. It was re-added by {{https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/goldenroad}} with the example :

• Disposable Love Interest: Played with. While in the context of Clara and the Doctor's later romance, his ultimate purpose would normally be to mix things up and then disappear; however the early part of Series 9 does show Clara still rightfully affected by his death.

With the reasoning Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, and Steven Mofatt themselves said the Doctor and Clara were in a romance. However this doesn’t make the example invalid. As the textbook example of {{ Disposable Love Interest}} is:

The mysterious vanishing of a hero's established love interest between the first movie and the sequel. Related to the Cartwright Curse, but this is where what happened to her isn't mentioned, and is never referenced again. They can't have the hero settle down because Status Quo Is God. On the other hand, they can't make the hero look like a heel by spelling out why their relationships always fail, so the situation becomes the Elephant in the Living Room.

Basically, the girls aren't put into the movies to be characters or interesting, but merely so that the main character can go through the motions of a fresh Token Romance in every single sequel.

Related to Girl of the Week. Compare the Temporary Love Interest, who is taken far more seriously and gets the dignity of being written out, but again because adding a lasting romance would upset the status quo. See also Disposable Woman, Disposable Fiancé, and Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. Very common in a Sequel Reset. Written-In Absence and Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome are similarly related.

This does not apply because the character is referenced again. We do know what happened to him ( died twice devastating Clara leading her to almost chose death over letting him go). Weather or not she the Doctor ended up in a romantic relationship later on ( could someone confirm she and 12 were in a romantic relationship, the most I got while searching was that she and 12 loved each other in a way greater then romantic love , which could be platonic or an interview where Capaldi advised a Clara and 12 relationship would be creepy) it doesn’t change that Danny’s character did not met the criteria of disposable . Created a discussion and Pm’d # Golden Rod. Been about a week and nothing. Checking if the example is valid for removal

Edited by Tuvok

Any Lesbian Hacker trope? Live Action TV

Well i noticed since "the girl with the dragon tatoo" several lesbians caracters in tv shows are hackers, i was wondering if someone have a list? i was watching "Origin" from Youtube and later i watched "Nightflyers" from Syfy and then i remembered the hacker in "The Strain", i don't think is enought for a trope, but i'm really curious if i can get a list. Thanks in advance any Help.

Edited by SickoniusB

Names the same question. Live Action TV

When two works of the same medium have the same name what do i do. im going to make a page for the fox news show The Five, but there is already a series called The Five. what am i supposed to do, these are both live action tv shows.

EditWar over a Complete Monster entry Live Action TV

Alright the troper Damolisher has been Edit Warring over an unapproved Complete Monster entry they added on Shortland Street. It was removed since it hadn't been brought to and vetted by the thread. Only for him to add it back with the weird edit reason of asking to prove it hadn't come to the thread....when people from the thread were the people who deleted it for being unapproved in the first place(??).

Edit history.

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late 90s or early 2000s tv show Live Action TV

I cant remember too much about it but it had the word Color in the title. It was about this guy who was traveling across the flat earth with another guy who is being followed by death. And the earth was on a giant turtle. I know that sounds weird but its been bugging me, if you have any idea what it is called please let me know

Troper's edit history Live Action TV

How often is it updated? Is it possible to not display edits made in the last 24 hours?

I'm asking because a troper made a pretty large edit in Recap.Brooklyn Nine Nine S 6 E 03 The Tattler, deleting almost all examples listed there. However, when I went to check whether this was a mistake or an act of vandalism I couldn't find this particular edit instance in their log.

I have no idea?? Live Action TV

I’ve been trying to find this show, but I can only remember parts of it. It’s set in this like dystopia world, where the government or council makes everyone in the town marry who they say they should and it’s illegal for anyone to not be with anyone. Then it’s sets on this girl I think she’s 16 and she’s just getting her results with other people her age, then she meets this like police officer or something (he turns out not to be a police officer but he’s working with this group that is trying to take down the government). Then I can’t remember what else happens, but the girl I think she lives with her sister and her ‘arranged’ husband and apparently her parents ran away or were taken as they didn’t follow the government rules. Then the police officer meets up with the girl again and they run away to join that group that is trying to take down the government. And that’s all I can remember. It’s American and I’m pretty sure it came out around 2012-2015 ish Sorry if that didn’t make any sense, it’s been really annoying trying to find this show. Thanks

Athlete's career suffers as soon as he joins the cast Live Action TV

Is there a trope for when an fictional or even real athlete's career suffers as soon as he joins the cast of a show, especially if the characters are somehow counting on his success to elevate their station?

I'm reminded primarily of "Good Times" Keith Anderson suffering a career-ending (or so they thought) knee injury on the day he married into the Evans family. But there's also Eddie Le Bec from Cheers who went from successful NHL goalie, to Icecapades penguin to dead (after Eddie's actor Jay Thomas insulted Rhea Pearlman on his radio show). An exception is Merle "The Pearl" Stockwell on Eight Is Enough. He married into the Bradford family and went from minor league superstar to pitching for the Mets. It can even happen in one episode. On Cheers, Boston Celtics star Kevin Mc Hale comes to the bar and someone asks him how many screws are in the floor he plays on. He can't get it out of his head so he starts playing poorly. The episode ends with Sam, Norm, and Cliff at Boston Garden counting the screws in the floor for Kevin.

Anyway, is this a trope? Are there other examples?

Does this count as troping real life? Live Action TV

Since Series.Dateline is a news broadcast, doesn't virtually this entire page, and all its subpages, violate the rule of "no troping real life"?

There's also the issue that the YMMV page comes across as a little apologetic towards real-life predators, which is a little repulsive, to put it lightly. I removed one example that listed one of them as an "Ensemble Dark Horse".

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No Title Live Action TV

(Sorry for my english) Ok so this was probbly a soep opra ro samthig. I dont remember much but i do rememder it was about teens in hischool.ther was like 2 rivel grups or somthing.Probobly late 90s or 2000. I do remember ther was one guy in a wheelchaie. Ir was called maby somthing with scool subjects... phisics and history or somthing but im probobly wrong... I think the teens wore forst to go but i dond remember the reason... I know its vage but...

Disagreement/Slight Edit War over DesignatedHero Live Action TV

So Troper Desert Dragon put up a Designated Hero entry on the YMMV page of Marvel'´s runaways. I deleted it because I don't really think that applies. Not just because of my own opinion (what he thinks), but because pretty much every Runaway in that season has done their own share of morally ambiguous things that the rest of the group disagreed with (heck, Nico even killed several people) and is called out in-universe, respectively. Alex is not singled out as in any way particularly bad.

The troper however put it back up. How should we proceed?

(Ironically, a similar topic was started over myself recently^^)

Edited by Forenperser

Rude reply on Headscratchers Live Action TV

On the headscratchers discussion page for The Big Bang Theory, a guy called "Dray" has left a reply just calling another troper "so stupid". Is there anyway to search edits on discussions pages by tropers? Their regular edits are here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Dray

Why is this link red? Live Action TV

In the Character page for the series Black Mirror, the recently added link for the first episode "The National Anthem" is red, but it's written exactly like the others and even clicking on it leads to the right page. So, why is it red?

I don't know the title Live Action TV

There is a really good show that was about a boy who had powers and his parents where not together. His mother was with a black man with a teenage daughter that later in the show moved in with them. Also, i believe the mother and her boyfriend had a baby together and he was having problems with his mom and moms boyfriend. The boy and the boyfriends daughter began to connect with each other. I remember the boy getting jealous because his friend liked the daughter and he accidently used his powers to get the boy hurt. (The boy was on a motorcylce and the daughter saw the whole thing). I don't know what this tv show is called be i remember watching it and i really want to know what it's called so i can rematch it.

1960's sci fi Live Action TV

I have a vague memory of a sci fi or scary TV show from the 1960's. A man repeatedly remembered something in his past. In a church or cathedral, as I recall It may have been the same show where people were put into individual bubbles for some reason.

a name of a funny stonners british/australian tv show Live Action TV

there was a bizarre and hilarious tv show, not sure if british or australian. it had a fat man with a very unique purple bong, he had a hot girlfriend. the show had a few seasons and the plot for each episode was weird funny and had a lot of drugs included in it. i remember in a few episode that there was a band of two people and one time one of them got stuck in a boiler for several episodes. please halp me find the name again!!

Splitting apart a shared character ppage Live Action TV

So this page is shared by the movie and the TV show Constantine. Is there any way to link the character button on the movie page directly to this page, so I can rework the first one? I want to rearrange it in the vein of the other ArrowVerse show character pages, like here.

Kingdom Live Action TV

I'm happy to create it myself (with some trepidation as a fairly newbie troper admittedly) but wanted to check first;

Is there a specific reason there's no page for Kingdom (the mma tv series?)

Nerd Action Hero Picture Live Action TV

What's the name of the TV show/film of the picture on the "nerd action hero" page? It drives me crazy!

Discovery Channel Survival Series Live Action TV

15 or 20 years ago, the Discovery Channel ran a survival series regarding survival stories in different climates/conditions. One was about Alan Cooper, who tried to drive his Morris car from Kenya north through the Sahara desert and died with some of his companions. The 2nd was a couple and their baby that got stuck in a snowstorm (after Hot-tubing) and left their car to find a ranger station and the wife died from eating snow in order to produce breast-milk. The 3rd was a woman who survived a plane crash in the jungle and was rescued by a canoe. Another nights episode told the story of a family driving in an African desert and got a flat tire and got stranded. The husband was picked up by someone with a car but when he finally got back, his whole family was dead from the heat. How can I view this series again?

Mc Name in Creator Page Live Action TV

I recently made a Creator page for Katharine McPhee and noticed it's showing up as Katharine Mc Phee

Katharine McPhee

I checked other creator pages and Mc seems to show up as intended. Did I screw up somehow? I know you use [ = Mc Name = ] but not sure how this applies with created links.

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Young Sheldon character page Live Action TV

Is there a reason why Young Sheldon The Cooper Family exists as a separate page? It is literally 6 links to go to The Big Bang Theory Family Members.