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:[[Joss Whedon]] brought us a little show called ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.

;July 2004

:[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] reads a blog entry about [[TV Tropes]] and decides it might be a fun way to spend a slow afternoon.

;October 26, 2010

:[[The Google Incident]], aka [[The Situation]]. Google suddenly and without notice shuts off all advertising to [[TV Tropes]], in response to a determination that TVT was not compliant with their AdSense guidelines. TVT responds by implementing various low-impact methods such as requiring registration to see "non-compliant" pages (without ads).

;April 2012

:[[The Second Google Incident]]. Responding to another threat to TVT's advertising revenue due to Google being informed of "inappropriate" content, Fast Eddied responds with a previously-unseen alacrity. Hundreds of pages addressing topics suitable to persons over the age of ten are culled and a censorship regime is imposed on the entire wiki. The [[Censorship Bureau|P5]] is established and populated by a hand-picked team of bigots, prudes and [[Lickspittle]]s, whose advice Fast Eddie ignores when it conflicts with his own prejudices.