Trope Namers/Live-Action TV

You've Seen It a Million Times on television, so it likely was started here or named from one of these shows.

0-9, A-E

 * 24
 * Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
 * Trapped by Mountain Lions


 * The A-Team
 * A-Team Firing
 * A-Team Montage


 * AfterMASH
 * After Show


 * The Amazing Race
 * Eliminated From the Race


 * Angel
 * Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate
 * Emergency Impersonation
 * Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
 * Screw Destiny
 * We Help the Helpless


 * Babylon 5
 * All Love Is Unrequited
 * Nothing Is the Same Anymore
 * Traveling At the Speed of Plot (via a question posed to series creator J. Michael Straczynski)
 * Touched by Vorlons
 * Voice of the Resistance


 * Batman
 * To the Bat Noun
 * To the Batpole


 * Battlestar Galactica Classic
 * The Battlestar
 * Coming in Hot


 * Battlestar Galactica Reimagined
 * They Look Like Us Now


 * Bewitched
 * My Name Is Not Durwood
 * The Other Darrin


 * The Bionic Woman
 * FemBot


 * Bonanza
 * Cartwright Curse


 * The Brady Bunch
 * Cousin Oliver
 * Hair of Gold


 * Brothers and Sisters
 * Dinner and a Show


 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 * Applied Phlebotinum
 * Big Bad
 * Breakaway Pop Hit
 * Buffy-Speak
 * Butt Monkey
 * Came Back Wrong
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment
 * Insane Troll Logic


 * Burn Notice
 * And Some Other Stuff


 * Candid Camera
 * Candid Camera Prank


 * Charlie's Angels
 * Angels Pose
 * Asskicking Pose


 * The Cisco Kid
 * Oh, Cisco!


 * The Colbert Report
 * Black Best Friend
 * Colbert Bump
 * I Need a Freaking Drink


 * Community
 * Camping a Crapper


 * CSI
 * The CSI Effect
 * Fingerprinting Air


 * Dawson's Creek
 * Dawson Casting


 * Doctor Who
 * Alan Fridge
 * Aliens of London
 * Bigger on the Inside
 * Bow Ties Are Cool
 * The Brigadier
 * Changed My Jumper
 * Everybody Lives
 * Five Rounds Rapid
 * Immune to Bullets
 * Mind Probe
 * The Missus and the Ex
 * The Nth Doctor
 * Perception Filter
 * Reverse the Polarity - popularizer, not namer; Forbidden Planet is older than Doctor Who
 * The Slow Path
 * Spooky Silent Library
 * The Stars Are Going Out - popularizer, not namer; "The Nine Billion Names of God" is older than Doctor Who
 * Time and Relative Dimensions In Space (or simply TARDIS)
 * Timey-Wimey Ball


 * Dollhouse
 * I Am Very British


 * Doogie Howser, M.D.
 * A Man Is Not a Virgin


 * Everybody Loves Raymond
 * Fee Fi Faux Pas
 * Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond

F-J

 * The Facts of Life
 * Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts


 * Farscape
 * E=MC Hammer
 * Microts
 * Translator Microbes
 * Universal Translator


 * Fawlty Towers
 * Fawlty Towers Plot


 * Firefly
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Earth-That-Was
 * The Firefly Effect
 * I Call It Vera
 * I'll Be in My Bunk
 * Train Job


 * Frasier
 * Formerly The Niles, now Replacement Flat Character


 * Freaks and Geeks
 * Saw Star Wars 27 Times


 * Friends
 * Friends Rent Control
 * It Tastes Like Feet


 * Full House
 * Full House Music


 * Get Smart
 * Missed Him by That Much
 * Shoe Phone


 * Gilligan's Island
 * And the Rest
 * Gilligan Cut
 * Just Eat Gilligan


 * Gunsmoke
 * Miss Kitty


 * Happy Days
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
 * Jumping the Shark


 * Herman's Head
 * Idiot Ball (coined by actor Hank Azaria)


 * Heroes
 * Future Me Scares Me
 * From Nobody to Nightmare
 * Good Thing You Can Heal
 * Heel Face Mind Screw (fandom term)
 * Save This Person Save the World


 * Home Improvement
 * Tim Taylor Technology


 * House
 * Finding Judas


 * How I Met Your Mother
 * The Bro Code


 * Jam
 * Dead Baby Comedy


 * Joan of Arcadia
 * A Form You Are Comfortable With

K-O

 * Kung Fu
 * When You Snatch the Pebble


 * Lassie
 * Timmy in a Well


 * Law and Order
 * Ripped from the Headlines
 * Schiff One-Liner


 * Life On Mars
 * Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique
 * Gene Hunting


 * The Lone Ranger
 * Who Was That Masked Index?


 * Lost
 * The Constant
 * Epileptic Trees


 * Lost in Space
 * Crush! Kill! Destroy!


 * MacGyver
 * Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
 * MacGyvering


 * Married... with Children
 * Whoa, Bundy!


 * The Mary Tyler Moore Show
 * Ted Baxter


 * M*A*S*H
 * After Show (from AfterMASH)
 * McLeaned
 * Gung-Holier Than Thou


 * Max Headroom
 * Blipvert
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future


 * Mission: Impossible
 * Impossible Mission
 * This Page Will Self-Destruct


 * Monty Python's Flying Circus
 * And Now for Someone Completely Different
 * Does Not Like Spam
 * Drop the Cow
 * Extra Ore Dinary
 * My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
 * Silly Walk
 * Something Completely Different
 * There Is No Rule Six
 * Upper Class Twit


 * Mork and Mindy
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar


 * The Muppet Show
 * Groupie Brigade
 * Statler and Waldorf
 * Taken for Granite
 * Tropes in Space!


 * Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * Dull Surprise
 * And His Eyes Open (from Space Mutiny)
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes
 * Kung Foley
 * The Load (from the episode The Mole People)
 * Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
 * The Mountains of Illinois (from The Beginning of the End)
 * MST
 * MST3K Mantra
 * Next Sunday A.D.
 * Nightmare Fuel (comes from Santa Claus)
 * Railing Kill (from Space Mutiny)
 * Robot Roll Call
 * They Just Didn't Care (from Attack of the (the) Eye Creatures)


 * MythBusters
 * I Reject Your Reality


 * The Office (UK)
 * Bad News, Irrelevant News


 * The Office (US)
 * Mistaken for Pedophile (formerly Little Kid Lover)


 * Only Fools and Horses
 * During the War

P-T

 * Perry Mason
 * The Perry Mason Method


 * Power Rangers
 * Make My Monster Grow
 * The Psycho Rangers
 * Recruit Teenagers with Attitude
 * Rookie Red Ranger
 * Sealed Evil in a Can
 * Sixth Ranger (shared with Super Sentai)
 * Eleventh-Hour Ranger


 * The Prisoner
 * You Are Number Six


 * Pushing Daisies
 * Bad Habits
 * The Fun in Funeral


 * Quantum Leap
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong


 * Red Dwarf
 * Everybody's Dead, Dave
 * Hard Light
 * More Teeth Than the Osmond Family


 * Remington Steele
 * The Real Remington Steele


 * Saturday Night Live
 * Common Knowledge
 * Every Year They Fizzle Out
 * Happy Fun Ball
 * The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
 * White Like Me (parodies Black Like Me)


 * Saved by the Bell
 * The Game Never Stopped


 * Scrubs
 * Insult to Rocks
 * Moment Killer


 * Seinfeld
 * Kavorka Man
 * Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
 * Seinfeldian Conversation
 * Seinfeld Is Unfunny
 * Sein Language


 * Sesame Street
 * Brought to You by The Letter "S"
 * Forgetful Jones
 * One of These Doors Is Not Like the Other
 * Sesame Street Cred


 * Six Feet Under
 * Narm


 * The Six Million Dollar Man
 * We Can Rebuild Him


 * Smallville
 * Green Rocks


 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * Good Troi Episode
 * Growing the Beard
 * Lower Deck Episode
 * Whoopi Epiphany Speech
 * The Worf Effect
 * The Worf Barrage
 * Worf Had the Flu
 * You Will Be Assimilated


 * Star Trek: The Original Series
 * Beam Me Up, Scotty
 * Captain's Log
 * Chekov's Gun (not to be confused with Chekhov's Gun)
 * Deflector Shields
 * The Federation
 * He's Dead, Jim
 * I Am Not Spock
 * I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
 * Inertial Dampening
 * The Kirk
 * Kirk's Rock
 * Kirk Summation
 * Mary Sue (via a 1973 Star Trek Fanfic that parodied the trend of making these.)
 * The McCoy
 * Mirror Universe
 * Pardon My Klingon
 * Planet of Hats
 * Red Shirt
 * The Roddenberry Line
 * Scotty Time
 * Slash Fic (From Kirk/Spock)
 * The Spock
 * Spock Speak
 * Star Trek Shake
 * Theiss Titillation Theory
 * Trekkie
 * Vulcan Has No Moon
 * Wagon Train to the Stars
 * We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill (From "Star Trekkin'")


 * Stargate SG-1
 * Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
 * Open the Iris
 * Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
 * Stargate City


 * Super Sentai
 * Sixth Ranger (shared with Power Rangers)
 * Eleventh-Hour Ranger
 * Super Sentai Stance


 * Survivor
 * Voted Off the Island


 * Torchwood
 * Aliens in Cardiff


 * The Twilight Zone
 * To Serve Man

U-Z

 * The Vicar of Dibley
 * Cordon Bleugh Chef


 * The West Wing
 * Blonde Republican Sex Kitten
 * I Want My Jetpack


 * White Collar
 * The Be Careful Speech


 * The X-Files
 * Agent Mulder
 * Agent Scully
 * The Chris Carter Effect
 * Mulder Moment
 * Myth Arc
 * Scully Box (production lingo; named for the boxes on which actress Gillian Anderson had to stand during scenes with David Duchovny)
 * Scully Syndrome
 * Shipping
 * UST - At least according to The Other Wiki, which claims that the term was invented on X-Files internet forums in the the nineties.

Game Shows

 * Jeopardy!
 * Jeopardy Intelligence Test
 * Jeopardy Thinking Music


 * Let's Make a Deal
 * Monty Hall Problem
 * Monty Haul
 * Zonk


 * Press Your Luck
 * Whammy


 * Whose Line Is It Anyway?
 * African Chant
 * The Points Mean Nothing (U.S. version)


 * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
 * Lifelines
 * Who Wants to Be Who Wants to Be a Millionaire??

Professional Wrestling
(only those with non-wrestling examples)


 * Sean "X-Pac" Waltman
 * X-Pac Heat


 * Charlie Brown From Outta Town
 * Face Heel Turn
 * Finger-Poke of Doom
 * Gorgeous George
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Hope Spot
 * The Jimmy Hart Version
 * Won't Work On Me
 * Shocking Swerve
 * Worked Shoot
 * World's Strongest Man


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