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openParenting/work conflict Live Action TV
The mother wants to go to her daughter's recital, but work constraints prevent her from doing this. She does show up at her son's big game, but is called away in the middle of the game to work.
openSequel Episodes Live Action TV
It's not uncommon for shows to have overarching storylines that span the course of several episodes, or sometimes even over an entire season, but is there a trope for when a show has a singular stand-alone episode that may later (sometimes in the same season, sometimes several seasons) receive a direct follow-up to the events on that episode in a sequel of sorts? I see this in both live-action TV and even animated series quite a bit.
openShared wardrobe Live Action TV
In sitcoms made by the same company or who use the same costume agency, the very same clothing item is worn across several series, and worn by different, completely unrelated, characters. An example might be exactly the same dressing gown worn by Carrie Heffernan on The King of Queens, by Debra Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond and by Daphne Moon in Frasier. It's as if the costume department only has one garment to fit the description "Dressing gown, robe or housecoat suitable for a woman character of 25-40 years old." I'm wondering if there's a trope that defines this, and if not, if there are other examples of instantly recognisable garments doing crossovers between shows, enough to justify a TLP? Thanks!
Edited by AgProvopenExpensive grocery staples Live Action TV
Is there a trope that covers stores that sell staple items at high prices and justify it by claiming the goods are "artisanal", "organic", etc.?
EDIT: Thanks for the replies. What if the situation is something like in Carpool, where Tom Arnold's character asks how many apples he can buy for a dollar only to be told he can afford two peanuts?
Edited by civetcatcoffeeopenEpisode pulled from former production slot for continuity reasons Live Action TV
I’ve asked about this before to no response, but we have more information now than we did before, so I’ll ask it here.
This is when a TV series has an episode listed in a specific production slot, but the episode gets pulled from there (whether it be scrapped or moved to later in the season) due to the directors feeling like it would present continuity issues.
Example: The Really Loud House had an episode in its second season titled “Tennessee-you-later: A Very Loud Road Trip” that originally occupied the fifth production slot. However, it was later removed from said production slot and eventually scrapped; to compensate for the empty production slot, the first episode of the season, “A Musical to Remember”, was split to occupy two production slots, thus pushing what were originally episodes 2-4 to occupy slots 3-5. It is widely believed that the reason the episode was scrapped is because another episode in the season, “The Tennessee Surprise: Love Is in the Air” (ninth in production order, second in broadcast order) would have presented continuity errors involving it. In said episode, Lincoln mentions that he has not seen his girlfriend, Charlie, in over a year. To some viewers (especially those who are familiar with the franchise’s tendency to keep the continuity well-tied to the production order), this may lead them to believe that had “Tennessee-you-later: A Very Loud Road Trip” (which had the premise of Lincoln going on a road trip to surprise Charlie on Thanksgiving) remained in its former production slot, they would have had a plot twist about Lincoln not seeing Charlie on Thanksgiving after all inadvertently spoiled to them. This also could not have been resolved by pushing the episode to later in the season because by then, it would not work because Lincoln and Charlie break up by the end of “The Tennessee Surprise: Love Is in the Air”.
openDifferent labels on map and in area Live Action TV
ATC tells a plane go on taxiway R5; since there's no sign or marking at the taxiway, the plane ends up going on R6. The plane subsequently reports going past a marking of S4, but ATC has no idea where that is.
I certainly could use Poor Communication Kills (an other plane crashing into this one in the fog results in over 100 dead), but I want to know if there's anything better for this situation.
Edited by Someone1981openAvoiding potentially inappropriate scenes Live Action TV
What would be a good trope to describe this scene?
In A Loud House Christmas Holiday Party, Jahzir Bruno asks Wolfgang Schaeffer if he knows his favorite holiday activity, and Schaeffer answers that it’s making fruitcake in the bathtub. A noticeably alarmed and/or disgusted Bruno then tells him that he only said that in confidence; his real favorite holiday activity is making Christmas sweaters.
I imagine they included the scene where Bruno refuses to make fruitcake in the bathtub because if they filmed scenes of them making fruitcake in the bathtub, the network would not want to air them because of pedophilia concerns (e.g. we would see the actors, who were both kids at the time, naked) or other inappropriateness issues.
openHard Girlfriend Soft Boyfriend Live Action TV
Examples of couples: Beck + Jade - Victorious Max + Kyle - Living Single
the trope where the girlfriend is rough around the edges, and the man still loves her and finds a way to put up with it. the girl doesn't necassarily push him around, but she can confidently voice her opinion and he respects it and goes with it
openYou're firing me for cause? I'll commot suicide+mass murder Live Action TV
A pilot flying international flights has been sexually harassing hotel employees (when sleeping abroad) and flight attendants. When told, while abroad, that his return flight will be his last, he intentionally crashes the plane in the middle of the ocean, killing everyone on board (including himself). Note that this represents the portrayal of a real life incident on a TV series, and doesn't represent this site's analysis of the real incident.
Edited by Someone1981openThe recording is too short to be useful Live Action TV
One of the critical means of investigating airplane accidents and incidents is the cockpit voice recorder, which has everything said, and every noise heard, in the cockpit. Unfortunately, it's too short; in several investigations, the relevant part of the flight is too long (over half an hour for the time of the accidents/incidents covered by the TV series) before the flight ends, making the recorder effectively useless.
Edited by Someone1981openPeople who are well versed in games Live Action TV
I don't mean Rules Lawyer or Metagame, but something like where people know darn well how games and game shows work and demonstrate this?
I think some LetsPlayers demonstrate this too.
openCeltic Second Sight Live Action TV
Is there a trope for characters getting premotions or visions of the future being particularly associated with Celtic culture e.g. a work set in Oireland featuring a wise old crone who claims to have "the second sight"?
openStealing the boyfriend Live Action TV
Haddie has been going out with a boy named Steve. After one major fight between them, her cousin and close friend Amber convinces her to break up with him—and then Amber herself starts going out with Steve.
openPrefers not to know about his employees' private lives Live Action TV
To quote the boss:
In hindsight from next season, it likely has to do with this boss having Asperger Syndrome, although no one in the series even suspects he has it at this point.
openGoes crazy if a promise is broken Live Action TV
Max has several tantrums throughout the series, but most of them are over broken promises (or perceived promises). In addition, one day he had been promised to go to the museum (he lives in Berkeley and the museum in question is in San Francisco) and no one could take him, he ran away on his own with the intention of going to the museum (given the point in the season, this would have been close to his 11th birthday).
openEmployed, but not for the expected job Live Action TV
A person applies to a photographer for a job, but on the first task it turns out the potential employee gave a Very Fake Résumé. However, the employer has No Social Skills (and it will turn out he probably has Asperger Syndrome, though at this point no one suspects it; the seriesin question does have a regular who is known from the beginning of the seriesto have Asperger) and the clients enjoyed the interaction with the employee, so she got the job of the social aspect of the business.
openPlease Don't Tell Me Live Action TV
When a character asks this question and the answer is not what he wants to hear.
Q: Please don't tell me you wrecked the car.
A: I wrecked the car.
openRomantic interest in boss Live Action TV
A female employee shows romantic interest in male boss. This is completely one-way—the boss is Happily Married and has no romantic interest in the employee.
Edited by Someone1981openLie to potential employer Live Action TV
Sarah is looking for a job. She goes to a photographer to deal with the arrangements for the family photo, notices they're looking for a new worker, and claims—falsely—that she has experience.

Is there an Inverted Trope of Crazy Survivalist, i.e. the survivalist is sane and he's actually useful and not seen as craxy? Sort of like the survivalist being a Chekhov's Gunman.
Do we have this one?