When you find yourself trying to remember a show (or any works) that's on the tip of your tongue but just out of reach, come here - the collective brain of the TVTropes community can probably help. Post all the details you can remember (examples help). If you're looking for a trope, head over to Trope Finder. Have general questions about tropes? Visit Ask The Tropers!
Find a Show:
openGirls in a car with a dead mom Live Action TV
I think this is what happened: Our main character - a girl - is driving in the car with another girl and her mom. The other girl is new to the show. Everyone is down and the mom says something like, "Say something funny." The new girl says, "My mom is dead" - and then everyone laughs.
New girl is staying with the family - maybe for a holiday? And everyone is extra nice to her because her mom *is* dead, but our main character is chafing at all of the attention the new girl is getting.
It sticks out in my head because the audience had never met this girl before and it was such a clumsy way to establish who she was. Pretty sure life action tv show. Please help!
openSci fi type tv show Live Action TV
Show is a television series with a (maybe not quite mad scientist) but certainly very eccentric older genius who is working with his son, I believe, solving mysteries/crimes/?? using his intelligence and knowledge of sci fi like solutions that are presented as real.
One scene I remember is not very sci fit but it is of the scientist and another main character (man I believe is his son) in his lab which I remember to look much like a large loft. The younger man is being given some drug (LSD I think) and placed in a sensory deprivation tank to recall some memory/images/vision. The scientist/dad is older, not completely grey hair I think, and not skinny but also not obese.
Have extensively looked for this show several times over the last few years even looking up lists of every genre related show ever. Hopefully this site can help restore my sanity that this great show is actually real lol.
openBritish tv series Live Action TV
There was a tv series around 2013 or 2014. The lead character was Betty or Becky who was running away from someone or something along with a few other people. There was a villain who murdered people and even a small kid inside a school ruthlessly. This person turned to be Becky's (or Betty's) brother who became like this because of some experiment of his scientist father. The father had given him a rabbit when he was a small child and he had killed it. Some virus or bug was supposed to be released to mass infect people and the girl had the antidote inside her blood. I can't remember the name of the show...
openMan infiltrates hospital in control of evil alien doctors masquerading as humans Live Action TV
Could also be a movie: The main male character stands in line at a bakery or cafe. He collapses, an ambulance is called and (I think) the other customers notice his medical bracelet for diabetes. In the ambulance he seems to covertly eat sugar cubes which suggests he is at least partially faking. Next he is in a large ER exam room with multiple gurneys. The doctors are surprised that his levels are not getting better. He is placed on IV. He wakes up in a patient room, I think he has a blue plastic bag with more sugar (which a friend brought?),he sneaks out and discovers hospital staff are aliens. I think he overhears them talking in an alien language, they were small green creatures inside the human chest/stomach or their eyes looked different when they talk to each other in their native tongue. Also, their plan may have been to use patients as hosts for more aliens.
openRain Man Parody? Live Action TV
There was a TV Show episode or film I saw where the main character was (possibly dreaming about being) in prison or locked in a mental asylum, with a bunch of guys who all have quirks that help him escape in some way. I distinctly remember one of those guys was played by Steve Little and the whole time he'd be mumbling and counting on his hands. "Blah blah blah 2, 3, 4. Yaddah yaddah 4, 5, 6." Or something to that effect. Almost like a parody of Rain Man. I think at one point he lost it and yelled: "Oh, f**k you, f**kyooouu," to someone who insulted him. The show/film was quite comedic i think?
Does this ring a bell for anyone. Have been trying to recall the name of the show or movie or episode for a while and just can't remember what it's from.
Edited by burnsieeopenChildren's Puppet Show Live Action TV
Really sketchy memory here. I recall a show that starred a bunch of puppets, and probably had real actors too. I have this image of a set which seems to be in a general store of some kind because it has this big wooden counter with shelves behind it. Two characters are throwing a ball or something up into the air, explaining that "What goes up, must come down," except one time they throw the ball into the air and it doesn't come back down. Probably on the air in the late 80s or early 90s.
openChisene TV series Live Action TV
I just have a chance to watch one episode of this show and found it very interesting,but i can't recall it name. It main character is a single mother with a son. The main love interest is a president of a computer tech company. He kinda hate the MC at first due to bad first impression and constant run in with her bring his a lots of misfortune.( the episode i watched have her accidentally dirty his expensive vest so she bring the vest home to wash instead of paying for dry-clear, but accidentally tore out a piece of the vest. She then sew it back with an old cover, but in the end the guy get embarrassed at a fancy party with his girlfriend).
openNo Title Live Action TV
I'm new here, please be nice reply edit herring short codeposted 24 minutes ago O.P. Not sure where to post this. Looking for tv series where main character has enhanced abilities and is in hiding from his "makers". Lives with best friend who is scientist trying to cure him. He goes out at night to help victims in distress. Falls in love. Meets with her on her rooftop outside her window.
openCrime Show Babysitter Live Action TV
Crime show episode (I really thought criminal minds) that opens on a young babysitter putting the baby in the crib while texting/ talking on the phone to her boyfriend. She sends him a selfie and the killer is in the background. He texts her a bunch being like “who’s that in the background? Are you okay” but she doesn’t answer.
Edited by Rebekah1231open"The original series" Live Action TV
I remember my uncle watching what he called "the original series" a few years ago, but the original series of what? I know he's both a Trekkie and a Whovian but so am I and I didn't recognise anyone, however I only saw a few moments of an action scene and I'm a relatively new Whovian and haven't seen the classic-era episodes yet. I only remember that it appeared to be a fight seen and someone appeared out of nowhere.
open90s Kids Show Live Action TV
There was a show that I watched as a kid with I think 4 kids as the main characters. They were each from a different country. One of them / the girl was definitely from Russia and she did ballet as a hobby, then a guy from Japan (I think his name was Zack and he did karate), and I believe the other 2 guys were from the US and Britain. Somehow they all got a way to teleport to a different dimension/world where they had fighting suits and fought bad guys. This other world they teleported to was populated by alien-looking creatures.
If you can help me find the name of this show, that'd be amazing.
openCan’t remember show Live Action TV
I have this scene stuck in my head and I can’t remember what show it was from...
I can’t remember exact details but the exchange went something like this:
It’s two young women that are either trying to find someone or find out something about someone. The one then says something like “I’ll call my dad, he’s a cop and can run a background check on him.”
The other woman says “isn’t that illegal?”
First woman: “He plays by his own rules, he’ll do it for me.” Calls her dad and asks and then hangs up shortly after and says “yeah totally illegal. He won’t do it.”
Second woman says: “what happened to playing by his own rules?”
First woman says: “oh he does. It just turns out his rules are a lot like the actual rules.”
That’s all I can remember and it’s driving me crazy that I can’t remember what it’s from or who it is that is in the scene!!!! Please if anyone else knows this scene help me out!!!
Edited by Bananagram92openAnthology series with a fake troubled/haunted episode broadcast Live Action TV
I remember watching a Youtube video discussing this, but don't know how to find it. The topic was an episode of some TV show which I believe was said to be a British anthology series, with this episode being planned to appear like a paranormal incident interfering with the broadcast. It might have been horror-related before the interruptions or shown on Halloween, but the main gimmick was that it looked like the broadcast was being interrupted and production was thrown for a loop due to some scary forces. I don't remember if the Youtube video was documenting the success or failure of the episode, but I was reminded of watching that after learning about Ghostwatch, which is similar and which that video was not about. I believe the TV episode is more recent and a pair of creators was discussed as the minds behind it, but I'm afraid I can't get more specific than that.
Edited by 8BrickMarioopenNo Title Live Action TV
A group of British kids are on a quest to bring their parents back after all of the adults in the world disappear. One of them has supernatural abilities. The show is called “The _ project”. I can’t remember what word goes into the blank!!!!!
openEveryone is Hugh Laurie Live Action TV
The other day my friend mentioned a video she watched weeks ago where all of the male characters are played by Hugh Laurie. She said it had a medical setting. I don't know what it is but it sounds awesome. Could it be an episode of House?
openA gay couple Live Action TV
It’s a brutish show with many character but the two I removed most are the two gay ones that fell in love. One is a student still and no one knows he’s gay (same for the older one) the older one has a girlfriend/wife with a child or two (don’t remember) one scene I remember in particular is the older one fed the younger one with a spoon and he looked up at him sensing a attraction. They also had to live in a shed like place once I believe. The younger ones name might have been Ben? I need to know the name of the tv shows pls help 😁
Edited by Makayla-03openisland Live Action TV
I remember this tv series about a dicoversy group going into an island and getting stuck in there. A lady was only trying to get the treasure so thats why she joined there. Also in some episode there was a huge man eating plant and in an other episode there were giant bees and they were trying to make the lady their queen. I also remember them finding a blonde girl in the island. She was daughter of the previous discovers. I believe her name was clementine or something. Can anyone help me?
openLive-action comedy, man lives with mother Live Action TV
So it's a live-action show with a Laugh Track and there's this short guy with dark hair and glasses who lives with his mother and that's played as a joke as in "Ha ha, he's a grown man but hasn't moved out!". I don't think his dad lived with them, though. Pretty sure it was American as they sounded American and used the word "mom" although maybe it was only set in America. Saw it broadcast on TV circa 2009-2012.
The guy asked this woman out and when she wanted to go to his house and he said, "I'm sure my mom won't mind". At one point he was dressed up as a police officer and saying, "Did anyone call for the long arm of the law?!" while holding his arms outstretched.
At another point, he designs this play about how he's lived with his mother his whole life, at one point wearing a propeller hat and saying, "How was school today? How did you think it was, Mom?!". Then, when his date wanted to be in the play, he said, "Great! You can be Mom!".
openTv series about a woman who moves to a small town (solved) Live Action TV
I watched a series probably 10 years ago, and it was about a blond woman moving to a small town. She moves into this old cabin and tries to fix it up.
I can’t remember what she works with, maybe it was at an inn or something.
She gets involved with a man in the town, but the first seasons ends without us knowing what happens with them. Also I think it was just the one season.
Edited by MiaTN

I remember seeing these weird commercials when I was a kid that, in retrospect, may have been for a creationist video or book series. They each would say “Great lie # whatever” and feature an old professor talking in a very slow, slurred way. In one he held a picture of a chimp and said “People... are... An-i-Mals.” and in another held up a model brain and said “Behold... the source of sentience...DA Brain!” or something like that, before holding it up while the students bowed. I remember it had titles scrolling up the screen like music commercials of the day.
Has anyone seen those before or know where I could see them online?
Thanks.