Amnesia Loop: Difference between revisions

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Beast Below", there's a secret at the heart of the kingdom, and Liz X is determined to uncover the truth. Part of the truth she uncovers is that she's uncovered the truth many times before, but always agreed to undergo [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] to allow it to remain secret.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 5: whenever a human learns that [[Big Bad]] Glory is {{spoiler|hidden/trapped inside the body of Ben}} they forget very shortly afterwards; as a result the scooby gang learns this secret on multiple occasions.

Spike: ''*Sigh*'' }}

* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', the Doctor has to choose between two patients to operate on because he can only save one. He chooses the main character rather than the Redshirt, then has a [[Heroic BSOD]] over what he thinks was a [[Sadistic Choice]]. To cure him of this, the crew secretly erase his memories of the operation -- except the Doctor keeps stumbling upon the evidence, and going into [[Heroic BSOD]] all over again. Eventually the crew realizes that they'll just have to leave his memories alone and let him sort it out, even if it's risking a permanent crash.

* On ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', in the fourth season, Hank and Dean keep discovering that SPHINX's secret base is in an annex of the Venture compound, and Brock keeps having to erase their memories. After a while, Brock gives up because it isn't worth the effort.

* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' has an episode with Private finding a bottle of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtu8_l-SEQ4 Amnesia Spray]".

'''Private:''' Oh, what's this? Amnesia spray! Fantastic! ''(Hesitates and holds the bottle away)'' }}

* Kronk on ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'' does this in order to keep Mudka's Meat Mugs recipe a secret, even from himself despite being the chef, by dropping a grand piano on himself. Hilarious in that the only ingredients in the recipe is {{spoiler|salt and pepper}}.