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What happened to the page on ''The Mandalorian''? Live Action TV
The page for the upcoming Star Wars live action TV show Star Wars The Mandalorian has been cut. Would anyone happen to know why?
Edited by AzureOwl
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.
WMG on recap page Live Action TV
I noticed M*A*S*H S3 E21: Big Mac. Are WMG pages allowed on recaps?
The only entry is also just a link to a discussion about who played a character.
Funny Tv Live Action TV
This Tv show was on a few years ago, it was asking different groups of people their point of view on the weekly events that had gone on. it had two nail techinians from Liverpool in it as well as a husband/wife butcher, two market traders selling cloths and tree older ladies doing exercies. these were real people not acts. it was on about lunch time
Star Trek TNG: Religion Is Wrong edit Live Action TV
Today Alf Cat Cuisine made this long edit to the Religion Is Wrong page:
- The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Who Watches the Watchers" is easily most egregious example of this trope in the whole of the Star Trek franchise. In it, the Enterprise crew accidentally injures a member of a primitive society and take him back to the ship for treatment (by the by, both of these actions are in direct violation of the Prime Directive). When he recovers consciousness and sees Picard, he decides the captain is God and manages to convince the rest of his people to worship him - at which point they promptly become destructive. Cue Picard and co. sitting in the observation lounge going "Religion is bad. Don't follow a religion. 'Cos religion is bad." Gene Roddenberry expected the episode to be controversial, but it had so little relevance to real world religion that no one cared. The attitudes in that episode have also never been repeated since in any other Star Trek work.
While I won't get into the poor bulleting the troper uses when adding this in, this whole rant seems to be more a review. He includes references to other series in his example that add nothing to the value.
On the merit of the topic, I don't agree with it at all. In this episode, the local native, Liko, in an injured state sees Picard giving orders and others following. Then he wakes up uninjured. That is a logical stepping point for the assumption that Picard is some sort of powerful being. Second, the meeting room is not represented well. What isn't said is that no one actually says all religions are wrong. Picard refuses to allow a religion to be based around him and any commandments he might give to try and push them into a certain path. His opinion that they outgrew some superstitions and would now be putting them back onto the path of ignorance is wrong is just his own view.
My question and request is asking how to handle this edit without it becoming an edit war on the Religion Is Wrong page.
Has anyone noticed this anywhere else? Live Action TV
I know of an Andy Griffith show episode called "Andy the Marriage Counselor" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0512412/
) where there are parents who yell at each other constantly and cause a public disturbance and Andy explains this to Opie by saying basically that "some people show their love for each other by fighting." I feel like I've seen this in other sitcoms but can only remember this example. Has anyone else seen any other examples?
I Don't Recall Live Action TV
This was from the early 2000s and was on a TV show (Possibly movie). The scene was taking place in a courtroom, and the girl is on the stand being interrogated. Her response to multiple questions is either "I don't recall" or "I do not recall." Regardless, she says it in a flat tone because she clearly doesn't give af.
Please help, Tropers. My best friend since first grade and I need to find this out because it comes up in literally every conversation.
Page for 1985's Lime Street Live Action TV
Hi I'm created a page for the 1985 action-adventure series Lime Street that is mostly remembered for being a Non-Actor Vehicle for child peace activist Samantha Reed Smith who played the elder daughter. By the way, the younger daughter character is "Margaret Ann" rather than just Margaret. Is that meant to demonstrate that they live in Virginia?
Can't create episode recap page Live Action TV
Every time I click the edit page button in order to create the S6 E10 recap of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the page goes to the TLP instead of opening the edit window.
I've tried "creating" other pages by inserting a random namespace and hitting edit, but they all lead to TLP.
Is this a new bug?
80s 0r 90s show in Australia Live Action TV
This is a question annoying a friend. Her whole family remember a show in the early 90s/late 80s about a rock that swallows people. The show was in Australia. I don't know if it was one episode of a show. Or a show all by itself. They said it was pretty scary but a kids show. Are they making this up? I can't find any reference to this
Mistaken Identity/Dressed to Heal Live Action TV
When a character is dressed as a doctor, and is assumed to be one, but the dress is in fact a disguise and now the character has to perform a difficult form of treatment, usually an operation. I've found tropes listed on here that are adjacent to this, but I was wondering if this specific one had its own name.
Shipping Live Action TV
Can someone explain the point of this page?
It's a list of a few different tropes about shipping and it's not indexed anywhere.
Old TV Series Live Action TV
Hello, I'm trying to find some old TV series that I watched like 16 years ago.
- Launch Year: somewhere between 1980 and 2003 definitely
- I think there were 4 main characters with 4 special weapons, a sword, a trident, not sure about the others
- The intro showcased the characters and their weapons
- The movie set was middle age / medieval time
Edited by Nightfan123
90 Sci-fi space TV show on Saturday mornings with kids/teenagers Live Action TV
This show is NOT Hypernauts. There were more than three kids, but they did have gray and colored uniforms similar to the Hypernauts cast. No mechs though. Diverse cast made up of black, white and Asian, I think.
The episode I remember is one where these creatures like whales were being hunted because they contained a gas that people harvested to make their ships fly (they kind of stole this idea for an episode of Star Wars Rebels a few years ago). The kids compared the creatures to whales and remembered how people on earth used to think that whales weren’t intelligent. One of them remarks how that changed later on and how one of them’s dad (I think?) once had a whale lawyer.
At the end of the episode, the kids manage to save the creatures from being poached by showing that the gas that is inside of them is something they breathe in from steam vents on the surface of the planet. They tell the people of the planet they can harvest it the same way and not need to hunt the creatures anymore.
Also, at the beginning there was a necklace that one of the girl characters liked but couldn’t afford to buy from a shop on this planet. The boy she was with secretly bought the necklace for her and gave it her later in the episode.
The show was on Saturday mornings, maybe around 11 am circa 1995-97 I think. This was live-action mixed with crude CGI, but it was typical of the time period.
Can anyone tell me what this show is called? I have searched and searched and can’t find it!
I need to know the show name! Live Action TV
a series that in one episode I remembered the boy was trying to find how the socks disappear in the laundry and in another episode he go back in time and took his father baseball with him and the guy was in the high or middle school that all I remember.
Edited by Redmin
Spoilers and character pages Live Action TV
Just checking regarding a general rule, regarding Character pages is there a rule when the show enters a certain time limit its okay to remove spoilers for a character. Lets say a character exists from season five then leaves. Do we remove the spoilers listed in their page come season seven as enough time has past. Or does the character page have to say outright that spoilers are part of the character page in order for all spoilers for the character to be removed.
Background noise giveaway Live Action TV
Seems to be most often in live-action shows, may be in others.
So our princess or whoever is in the role has been kidnapped and is being held somewhere the heroes can't locate her. Fortunately, the villain has sent a gloating message or allowed her to send a cry for help that's recorded, and that's when the hero realizes there's an oddly specific background noise in the recording that he recognizes ('why, that sound is the wheels of the train going by, they must be at that abandoned station!') and spurs the rescue. Couldn't quite find anything that fit, is it a trope?
Edit warring on Main.AbsoluteClevage. Live Action TV
On December 25th, troper darkemyst added an example about Wonder Woman (1975) to Absolute Cleavage.
I removed it as Not an Example on Jan 1st, since (AFAIK) Lynda Carter's cleavage, while impressive, wasn't deep enough to qualify for the trope.
On Feb 23rd, darkemyst added back the same example, but worded differently.
I suppose this counts as edit warring, even though the example was worded differently?
Character Sheet Question Live Action TV
For TV series character sheets, what's the policy for one-shot guest characters or characters that have brief guest arcs?
Should they be included or, in order to avoid clutter, should they be left off if their impact is minimal to the show as whole?
Look down the sights trope Live Action TV
When a character is handed a gun or picks one up they will often hold it up and look down the sights. Does this trope have a name?
Hate the actor? Live Action TV
What trope would describe the fandom or the audience disliking seeing an actor or actress in a particular show? Not just the character they play, but the actors themselves. Example: Sarah Paulson in American Horror Story. Some love her. Others hate the actress with such a passion that they've dropped the show because she is always very prominent in it regardless of the character she plays.
I found 'X-Pac Heat' but it seems to only apply to wrestling for... some reason?