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* In the ''[[Farscape]]'' episode "Twice Shy", Crichton and D'Argo take it for granted that the [[Damsel in Distress]] they've rescued will turn out to be a villain, and resolve to dump her on the first habitable planet they come to. However this turns out to be not so easy {{spoiler|as she's actually a giant shapeshifting spider that feeds on emotions.}}

* In ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', characters occasionally realize where they are in the script. Thus, Wilson sometimes points out that he's just provided House with his routine epiphany, while, in one episode, House complains that the epiphany went to somebody else.

{{quote|'''Ziva''': "Tony, your dying words would be 'I've seen this film.'"}}

{{quote|'''Bomb instructor''': "Way to go, MacGyver! If that bomb were real, we'd be washing you off the streets of Baghdad right now! ''Never'' assume that a bomb timer is accurate! Bad guys watch movies, too."}}

* In one episode of ''[[Psych]]'' the characters realize they're surrounded by slasher movie cliches but then {{spoiler|even more Genre Savvy Shawn figures out all the cliches are a set up}}, but then {{spoiler|people do start dying}}.

* ''[[Eureka]]'':

** [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Sheriff Andy]] was apparently programmed for [[Genre Savvy]]. Faced with a situation where only a main character could succeed he refused to go (because he was programmed to follow the town charter, which says the sheriff cannot take unreasonable risks). Once [[The Hero|Carter]] went in Andy was able to follow and help because he knew that Carter being there increased the odds of success dramatically.

* ''[[Firefly]]'':

** Instead of lecturing a henchman who has promised to [[We Will Meet Again|hunt Mal down]] and [[The Last Thing You Ever See|kill him]], Mal simply shrugs, takes him at his word, and kicks the guy into an engine intake.

* The whole reason for Maddy and David on ''[[Moonlighting]]'' not to continue their relationship was because they knew they were in a TV show that depended on the [[UST]] of the two leads.

* One episode of ''[[Ultraman|Ultraman Tiga]]'' had the leader of the human military grumbling about the fact that he ''realizes'' that no matter how much artillery they throw at any given attacking monster, it's always Tiga who ends up saving the day (normally, military leaders in [[Kaiju]] shows, and ''[[Ultraman]]'' in particular, just ''don't'' acknowledge this kind of thing). But, by the end of the episode, he's reconciled himself to it, and is happy to have Tiga around.

* From the ''[[Golden Girls]]'' episode, "That Old Feeling," which focused on Blanche's feelings upon reuniting with the brother of her late husband:

{{quote|'''Rose:''' Dorothy Zbornak, you might show a little compassion!

 

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