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* [[Jerkass|Randal]]'s suddenly dramatic and heartfelt monologue at the climax of ''[[Clerks II]]''.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==
* Almost every episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]''.
* ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', '"Put Up Or Shut Up": Bailey convinces Jennifer to accept a date with Herb in the hope that he'll get scared and back down.
** Lampshaded in the "Real Families" episode, where Herb signs his family up for the eponymous [[Show Within a Show]], and completely fails to make them look good.
* This happened every once in a while with Alex on ''[[Family Ties]]''.
* Dan Fielding on ''[[Night Court]]'' got the treatment a couple times.
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** Also, he's actually a phenomenal salesman... it's just that these skills don't translate well into his managerial position.
* The earlier Sawyer-centric ''[[Lost]]'' episodes fit, before [[Character Development]] made them moot.
* Ted Baxter on ''The [[The Mary Tyler Moore]] Show]]''. Also a [[Renamed Tropes|former]] [[Trope Namer]]. ([[Ted Baxter Close Up]]) This came about a couple of years after ''MTM'' became a success, and Ted Knight became concerned about Baxter becoming a one-dimensional buffoon. As such, the Ted Baxter character soon gained morals, got married and had a family ... all while his on-air buffoonery and over-the-top delivery was de-emphasized and his desire to be the best newscaster (despite his inherent lack of skill) was shown to be driven by more than his inflated ego.
* The episode of ''[[Taxi]]'' in which Louie loses his job after peeking at Elaine through a hole in the lady's room.
* Happens often on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', and usually results in the character talking himself out of it: "Snap out of it, Colber'''t'''!"
* The Sixth Doctor's run on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', although it didn't go as long or as far as [[Colin Baker]] had hoped.
* Charles on [[M*A*S*H (television)|MashM*A*S*H]] is usually the character that gets this treatment. Examples range from secretly giving candy to the orphanage on Christmas to sitting up with Hawkeye when his father is undergoing surgery back in the states to having an emotional meltdown when the Chinese POWs he was teaching Mozart to got killed.
 
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