Actually, I Am Him: Difference between revisions
Content added Content deleted
(update links) |
(→Live Action TV: "Shada" has been completed...) |
||
| Line 108: | Line 108: | ||
== Live |
== Live-Action TV == |
||
* People looking for ''[[The A-Team]]'' usually found Hannibal in disguise when they met with the person who was supposed to get them in contact. |
* People looking for ''[[The A-Team]]'' usually found Hannibal in disguise when they met with the person who was supposed to get them in contact. |
||
* Doctor Franklin from ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has a reputation for taking his oath of confidentiality very seriously, so when he arrives with an offer to set up a meeting between Captain Sheridan and the man in charge of smuggling fugitive telepaths through the station, nobody is surprised. You already know who the meeting turns out to be with. |
* Doctor Franklin from ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has a reputation for taking his oath of confidentiality very seriously, so when he arrives with an offer to set up a meeting between Captain Sheridan and the man in charge of smuggling fugitive telepaths through the station, nobody is surprised. You already know who the meeting turns out to be with. |
||
| Line 117: | Line 117: | ||
* Used hilariously on [[Neighbours]] when Steph is annoyed with her mother for wanting her to talk to the new local priest, and starts complaining about her, and the priesthood in general, to a stranger she meets outside the church. The man then joins in complaining, leading Steph to figure it out quickly. |
* Used hilariously on [[Neighbours]] when Steph is annoyed with her mother for wanting her to talk to the new local priest, and starts complaining about her, and the priesthood in general, to a stranger she meets outside the church. The man then joins in complaining, leading Steph to figure it out quickly. |
||
* The latter part of the second season of ''[[Dollhouse]]'' features the search for the head of Rossum, a mysterious person who hasn't been seen in public and may be to blame for everything in the show. {{spoiler|Boyd is the head of Rossum.}} |
* The latter part of the second season of ''[[Dollhouse]]'' features the search for the head of Rossum, a mysterious person who hasn't been seen in public and may be to blame for everything in the show. {{spoiler|Boyd is the head of Rossum.}} |
||
* Happens in the |
* Happens in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''Shada'' when the somewhat doddery old {{spoiler|Professor Chronotis turns out to be the notorious Time Lord renegade Salyavin}}. |
||
* On the first episode of ''[[News Radio]]'', Dave Nelson turns up at the wrong building for his first day of work as news director of WNYX. When he shows up late at the correct building, he is looking for his new boss, billionaire Jimmy James, whom he has never met in person. He runs into him immediately, and asks him where Mr. James' office is. Mr. James gives him directions before telling him that he's not in there right now. Dave asks where he is, and in response Mr. James just stares at him, leading a nervous Dave to ask, "...Mr. James?" |
* On the first episode of ''[[News Radio]]'', Dave Nelson turns up at the wrong building for his first day of work as news director of WNYX. When he shows up late at the correct building, he is looking for his new boss, billionaire Jimmy James, whom he has never met in person. He runs into him immediately, and asks him where Mr. James' office is. Mr. James gives him directions before telling him that he's not in there right now. Dave asks where he is, and in response Mr. James just stares at him, leading a nervous Dave to ask, "...Mr. James?" |
||
* Done by proxy in ''[[Happy Days]]'' when a man tracks down Fonzie to give him a letter from his estranged father. The letter begins "If you're reading this I didn't have the guts to tell you it was me who gave it to you." |
* Done by proxy in ''[[Happy Days]]'' when a man tracks down Fonzie to give him a letter from his estranged father. The letter begins "If you're reading this I didn't have the guts to tell you it was me who gave it to you." |
||
== Religion and Mythology == |
== Religion and Mythology == |
||