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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' exception: The Fifth and Tenth Doctors both have only minor vision problems. David Tennant admitted in an interview that he had the Doctor wear glasses to give children with glasses a hero.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' exception: The Fifth and Tenth Doctors both have only minor vision problems. David Tennant admitted in an interview that he had the Doctor wear glasses to give children with glasses a hero.
** In the crossover short ''Time Crash'', the 10th Doctor explicitly states that neither he nor the 5th Doctor need glasses to correct their vision -- [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses|they only wear them to look clever]]. The 1st Doctor occasionally did wear proper glasses to improve his ailing vision.
** In the crossover short ''Time Crash'', the 10th Doctor explicitly states that neither he nor the 5th Doctor need glasses to correct their vision -- [[Purely Aesthetic Glasses|they only wear them to look clever]]. The 1st Doctor occasionally did wear proper glasses to improve his ailing vision.
* Exemplified in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' by Geordi LaForge, who actually ''is'' blind without his VISOR.
* Exemplified in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' by Geordi LaForge, who actually ''is'' blind without his VISOR. Technically, even with them he is physically blind, but the visor lets him perceive his surroundings in ways most humans cannot.
* Without this trope, the famous ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Time Enough at Last" would have lost some of its zing. It's almost reverse [[Fridge Horror]], though, because you realize that eventually he'll think to stumble his way into an optometrist's and find a pair that works reasonably well. He could also have just found himself a magnifying glass.
* Without this trope, the famous ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Time Enough at Last" would have lost some of its zing. It's almost reverse [[Fridge Horror]], though, because you realize that eventually he'll think to stumble his way into an optometrist's and find a pair that works reasonably well. He could also have just found himself a magnifying glass.
** Parodied on ''[[Futurama]]'' with ''The Scary Door'', where the last man on Earth has just lost his glasses.
** Parodied on ''[[Futurama]]'' with ''The Scary Door'', where the last man on Earth has just lost his glasses.
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* Averted in ''[[New Girl]]''. Jess often wears Glasses but can see just fine without Them too. She even goes entire episodes without needing to use Them.
* Averted in ''[[New Girl]]''. Jess often wears Glasses but can see just fine without Them too. She even goes entire episodes without needing to use Them.
* ''[[Good Eats]]'': Alton Brown, at least within the mildly-fictionalized confines of the episodes that have plots. In one episode, he loses his glasses in a shipwreck, then washes up on a [[Desert Island]] where he spends several days living off foraged island vegetation, completely unaware that just beyond the trees where he's getting his coconuts one of the major cities of the Hawaiian islands lies within walking distance.
* ''[[Good Eats]]'': Alton Brown, at least within the mildly-fictionalized confines of the episodes that have plots. In one episode, he loses his glasses in a shipwreck, then washes up on a [[Desert Island]] where he spends several days living off foraged island vegetation, completely unaware that just beyond the trees where he's getting his coconuts one of the major cities of the Hawaiian islands lies within walking distance.



== Music ==
== Music ==
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