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* Happens roughly [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' - House sends the young guns to investigate the [[Patient of the Week]]'s home, where they find some detail which is either the cause of the disease or evidence that leads House to figure out what's wrong.
** He once solves a case based on the fact that the patient had ''Tic-Tacs''. It's not so much Chekhov's Gun as it is Chekhov's Secret Satellite Beam Weapon, in that it can ''really'' come out of nowhere.
* Since a single episode of the ''[[
* A holiday episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' started with Tim and Al practically blinding the ''Tool Time'' audience with some sort of halogen setup. It seemed like a basic opening gag and so I was surprised when Tim's sons activation of the house's Christmas lights (itself a subplot) ''allowed the airliner he was on to land in previously paralyzing fog''.
* ''[[Lost]]'' subverts this concept by introducing roughly two million potential Chekhov's Guns and then only making use of about one million of them. [[Tropes That Will Never Happen|You Fail The Law Of Conservation Of Detail Forever]].
** Recently used while {{spoiler|travelling back in time to 1954,}} Daniel Faraday is called upon to {{spoiler|disarm an undetonated H-bomb,}} but instead suggests it {{spoiler|be sealed with lead and buried under the logic that, fifty years in the future, it hadn't gone off and destroyed the island, so why worry?}} Anyone who doesn't think it'll come back into play by the end of the season [[Viewers are Morons|doesn't read this wiki]].
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* In one episode of ''Zoey101'', Zoey's key (which she always wears on a chain around her neck) turns out to be way useful - it is used to stop the reactors in the school's new electric generators from blowing up the entire school. This is a more extreme example, though, as it was something that she did in one of the first few episodes, and this episode wasn't until season 3.
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