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openNeither pilot has enough experience Live Action TV
One of the issues causing the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 1713 is that it was a case of "green-on-green" crewing—that is neither pilot had much experience with the type of plane they were flying.
openLaw-abiding tv show Live Action TV
I'm not talking about "law abiding citizen", where it's limited to single people. I'm talking about portraying the law as an effective way to deal with police procedurals. The cops follow the law, they don't let the suspect make a false confession without evidence, they don't enter the house of a suspect without a search warrant, something along those lines.
If it was the trope mentioned above, it would be just an exception to the "behavior" of the tv series. I'm talking about the general structure of the tv series. I'm talking of the fact that the tv series itself is what makes its characters behave that way, and I'm looking for a series that doesn't have this. At least mostly.
resolved Romance out of nowhere Live Action TV
Is there any particular trope - might be YMMV, I don't care - for situation where out of the blue Alice and Bob decide that yep, they are suddenly a thing, despite spending past 15 years of a Long Runner as Friendly Enemy at best, just enemies on average? There is no build up, no chemistry, no nothing, the characters just suddenly fall for each other in the middle of the final season. For added bonus, it's not even the creators bending down to fandom demands or similar, it just happens, because.
Edited by TropiarzopenUnknown Live Action TV
A wealthy but clueless black family a kind of upstairs downstairs thing
openMilitary shoot down civilian aircraft Live Action TV
When TWA Flight 800
exploded in mid-air, one explanation which was looked into was that it was shot down. While the explanation was debunked, there are conspiracy theories which accept it. Note that both the mere asking of the question, and the conspiracy theories, are both mentioned in the episode and each would be justification to list this trope for the episode.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Generally in your average High School tv show, where one member of the protagonist group suddenly finds themselves insanely popular for some reason. They ditch their old friends for most of the episode, only to eventually realize that "Wait a minute, being popular sucks!" They then return to their real friends, who forgive them.
I would think it'd be called Popularity is Lame, but I can't find anything like that.
The main example I can think of is one episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, where Moze found herself on the list of popular kids for no real reason.
openBlind sided during a chase Live Action TV
2 people are chasing someone (Generally police chasing a suspect) Person 2 splits off from the chase (Sometimes shown, Sometimes not) while person 1 continues chasing the suspect. After several minutes of chasing person two comes out of the blue having taken another route and tackles/clotheslines/hits with a car the suspect and they are captured.
openInvented folksy metaphors Live Action TV
In NCIS Hawaii S 01 E 11 The Game, Malik, pretending to be a Texan, says he'll wire Tara some money faster than a "chicken caught in a coyote parade."
That's gotta be a trope listed on this website. But what is it called? In The Simpsons S13 E2 "The Parent Rap", Judge Harm tells Bart "don't spit on my cupcake and call it frosting." Or maybe that's more a parody of Judge Judy rather than someone trying to come up with an unusual metaphor as part of a cover...
openNothing Good Ever Happens Late Live Action TV
Is this a trope, or is this an example of "people sit on chairs"?
You wake up late at night to someone pounding on your door, or to your phone ringing, or to something similar. But given the hour, you know that whatever it is can't be good.
For example, the episode "Nothing Good Ever Happens After 2 AM" in How I Met Your Mother.
For example, in the episode "Clean, Part 2" of The Chosen, where a doctor and his wife are woken up by pounding on the door, and the doctor tells his wife, "It's never good in the third watch of the night."
openHinting at unnatural event in the series Live Action TV
Mitch to Jamie in Zoo (drama, not documentary), surveying the large HQ plane's interior after a wild fight with intruders:
"Don't worry about this. I don't know if you've noticed, but our messes seem to get magically cleaned up despite the lack of a crew on this plane. Drink?"
What would you call this unusual insight?
openDouble Standard Live Action TV
I'm having trouble about which type of double standard I should be putting. A woman gets interest in a boy that its 16 or 17 years old and sexually harasses him but they never have sex. Which type of double standard applies in this situation: rape or abuse?
openAnachronistic Currency Live Action TV
Yesterday's episode of Coronation Street had a character find a stash of money that had been hidden by someone who'd been murdered in June 2019. That money is in the form of £20 notes - of a design that was first issued in February 2020. Is this a minor case of Anachronism Stew or is there a more appropriate trope for this mistake?
resolved Characters name is in the closed captions Live Action TV
So I was watching Twisted Metal (2023) and a character is only named via subtitle/closed caption. Which trope is this?
resolved Killer found by saying something only the killer would know Live Action TV
Ok so imagine crime drama where a woman is killed and they are interviewing the husband, the husband says something like "please detectives, find the man who stabbed my wife 12 times" but the cops never revealed to the husband that she was stabbed, or that it was 12 times, so how does he know? Obv it means he is the killer
openVideo Game TV shows Live Action TV
Is there an index for television shows based off Video Games? Not The Anime of the Game though this could be a super trope. Stuff like the Halo or the old Mario cartoons?
openA guy who desperately wants to be seen as a jack of all trades Live Action TV
On Modern Family, Phil Dunphy is a real-estate developer but really wants to be seen by his peers as a guy who's good at magic or a gadget man.
Ditto, Cam with football coaching, theater and the choir.
I guess Michael Scott of The Office.
Something like obsessed with their hobbies?
openAudience equivalent for "Could Have Avoided This" Live Action TV
If I'm understanding "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot correctly, it's required that the characters realize at the end of the episode that they could have avoided the whole ordeal they just went through if they had made a different choice earlier in the episode.
But what if they don't realize that? What if it's the viewers who realize that? Is there like a trope, maybe YMMV, for this?
openQuery continuity Live Action TV
A scene finishes with a verbalised or presumed question which is answered immediately at the beginning of the next scene in an unrelated context. E.g. 1st scene ends with: "Who would have killed this guy?", next scene: shows killer (known to audience), playing D&D and explaining their character, saying "A wicked, merciless troll (...)". Seen in iZombie. Another example is when a question is asked like the one above and the immediate next scene starts with a shot of killer.

Is there a trope for this concept, rather than than just citing it specifically as part of As the Good Book Says...? Like, characters discovering the truth or making the truth more widely known has some sort of liberating effect on their situation. There may or may not be some turmoil involved.