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open 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?
openFunny 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
openWMG 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.
openSegment Live Action TV
Do we need a full page on a segment of a larger show?
openWhat 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 AzureOwlopenHate 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?
open Penn and Teller: Fool Us Live Action TV
In one episode of the show, where other stage magicians try and fool the old masters of Penn and Teller, one guy did an appearing from behind a screen trick with a story of getting rich. See here
. Well, at the end, Penn and Teller admit that they got so engrossed in the story and the humor of it, they missed a key part of the act.
Question: What distraction trope would be best for this? Failed a Spot Check?
open Cowboys bury villains under rosebush Live Action TV
In a town of the old West, two retired outlaws move in. Despite their reputations, they are allowed to stay if they keep the town rosebush alive (the appalling climate of the dry town kills any rosebush brought in). Thus having a home and livelihood, they do their job successfully - by carefully noting no good fellows coming in town, slyly offing them and burying them UNDER said rosebush. Did I imagine this show? I remember seeing it as a kid.
open Tv show? Or movie of time travel Live Action TV
I think it was a Tv show of time travel. This organization has a timemachine and send 3 people to the past in the 1930's. It's a white male, a white female, and a black man. I think they are in NY or NJ. They look for a car and *borrow* one from a worker that worked in a hotel. The black guy drives as a driver because it would be weird for a white man to drive a black man. They are on the mission to kill this guy because he will do something very bad [something about some terrorist attack or something like that]. They can still communicate with the people in the present with the ear piece they have. Before they had like 5-6 hours to make it back to the place they are brought to the time machine but then they have less time if not they will stay in that time and have to take poison to not alter the past. They find the guy but don't kill him because he has a little sister. The white man tells him to take care of her,[they find out that in a few years the sister will die, from the present people that are helping them] the white tells him that he is an angel and if he wants to live he will need to change his life. In the end, the guy accepts. They barley make it on-time for the spot of the timemachine ripple. They comeback and it seems that they are able to change the past and present. One of the guys on the organization seems to steal or go into the time machine and causes chaos.... After that it was the end. It seemed like a season finale. Looked like the 2000's 2010's
openQuestion about trying to polish the Recap.Lucifer2016 page Live Action TV
Two questions about the Recap page of Lucifer (2016) (the 2016 TV-series, not to be confused with other Similarly-Named Works, hence the (2016) in the URL/page name).
1. I'd like to give each Recap page a custom Wiki Word title, but should the (2016) be included in each Recap page custom title? I.e., should a Recap page that now is titled "Lucifer 2016 S 01 E 01 Pilot" (which looks ugly) be renamed to:
- Lucifer S01E01 "Pilot"
- Lucifer (2016) S01E01 "Pilot"
2. The Recap overview page lists each episode in italics, instead of between quotes. My understanding was that within TvTropes, individual episodes of series are to be written within quotes ("Pilot") and not in italics (Pilot). So is it o.k. if I change the episodes listed on this Recap page from Italics to within double quotation marks?
Edited by LB7979openDetective with a Twist? Live Action TV
I've seen a lot of shows & movies where the main character is a cop/detective/'helps the police' who is a ghost, vampire, zombie, android, dog, dinosaur, immortal, Satan, and many, many more. How would you classify this trope? I think it isn't quite the same as "Wunza Plot" or "They Fight Crime!" since it's specifically regarding the character herself as a sort of "detective with a twist" type rather than her relationship with another different, possibly more normal character (although that does often play a role).
Edit: I stumbled onto the page for "The Exotic Detective" which I think is the answer I was looking for.
Edited by kedarguruopen New Trope? - Empty Coffee Live Action TV
I couldn't find this. Maybe it's a new trope. Maybe it's nothing.
Watch carefully on almost any TV show or movie you'll notice that when characters handle cups of coffee with lids (e.g. Starbucks) they carelessly manipulate them in ways that reveal those cups are actually empty.
FWIW
openThey Wasted A Perfectly Good Character / Game of Thrones Live Action TV
According to the definition of the trope They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: "this trope is about ignored characters with good potential who never receive the spotlight (or do so just once and then get removed or forgotten). It is not about leading characters who are not used the way you would like; there are infinite alternative ways any given character could have been used. It is not either about characters who have a limited or supporting role in one work but have leading roles elsewhere in the franchise, that's a Hero of Another Story."
In this case, I suppose that several characters on the Game of Thrones page don't fit here, as several of them were main characters or had their moment to shine throughout the series: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter/GameOfThrones
I did a post on the same subject on "They Wasted A Perfectly Good Character Cleanup" page (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14984871570A03290400&page=7)
, but no one has responded so far, so I decided to clear this doubt here.
openUnusual format on Recap/StargateSG1 Live Action TV
About a dozen recap pages for the first episodes of Stargate SG-1 have a text box not seen elsewhere, giving the episode title, series, next and previous episodes, and most puzzling of all, the recapper. The last of these seems unneeded, and the rest is already on the page (though I think we could a better job of it). Should we remove these text boxes? Or maybe standardise them for all recaps?
open Definition of the Early-90s "Loveable Urchin (Orphan)" Live Action TV
So, I recently discovered that the Golden Girls had a one-season spin-off, The Golden Palace. So, I watched an episode and it was as terrible as I expected. But the worst part was the little kid conveniently introduced as Don Cheadle's foster son, or whatever. Anyway, it got me thinking about all the early-90s child actors that were some kind of mix of Oliver Twist and Bart Simpson—Leo De Caprio in Growing Pains, "the Kid" in Dick Tracy, the Olsen Twins in Full House, "Richie" in Family Matters—even Raven Simone's character on the Cosby Show. It's interesting because a lot of these kids were either orphans or from single parents—which I kind of feel related to the Disney "dead queen" trope a little. Also, I feel like it became such a schtick, that when a show brought in a young punk for the audience to adore, it was a sign the series was about to end.
Anyway, what do you call this trope on your website? And what kind of insights have you gleaned from examining it?
openHome Movie: The Princess Bride Live Action TV
Home Movie: The Princess Bride was a Quibi series, and it was the only one that wasn't picked up by another distributor, and so it hasn't been viewable through any legal means since December of 2020. There are several unauthorized reuploads floating around YouTube, and these keep getting linked on the trope page. Just to make sure I'm understanding policy correctly, any links to these reuploads should be removed on sight, correct?
openLive action/animation hybrid Live Action TV
Yumi's Cells is half live-action and half CGI, and those scenes are usually distinct from each other. Do examples on trope pages go strictly in the "Live Action TV" folder, or is there some other arrangement for the CGI scenes?

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.