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* On ''Chuck'' Morgan becomes Genre Saavy when he realizes he's a supporting character in a spy series. He even recognized the choreographic fight sequence Shaw engaged in and realized the failure to find Shaw's body meant he wasn't dead. He shifts to [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] when he gets the Intersect and believes he's now the main character.
* By the last few episodes of ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'', Darken Rahl has grown genre savvy about the hero, Richard, and, as the world's nearing an end, is content to sit back in a hot-tub and relax, comfortable in the certainty that Richard will solve everything in short order.
* Having already been through two seasons of ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]'' each, Rob & Amber were smart enough to prepare berforebefore appearing on ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' (Something none of the other ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]'' or ''[[Big Brother]]'' teams seem to have done). They studied the top teams from the first 5 seasons (Season 6 had not aired yet) and copied their tactics. This is common now, at least if you want to be successful, but back then they were the first team to prepare so thoroughly.
** The teams on the Season 14 finale spent their final plane ride reviewing the previous legs to prepare for the [[Final Exam Boss]] puzzle that had been used in the previous two seasons. From that point on, taking notes on every leg became a common strategy.
** Jordan played a textbook perfect final leg on Season 16, using strategies and knowledge he got from watching the previous seasons, to upset the much stronger Jet & Cord.
** On leg 5 of Season 19, when given a clue to disassemble a spirit house and take it with them, five of the eight teams took notes on the positioning of the pieces of the house in case they have to put it back together later, and the other three had team members who at least suggested it (unfortunately, in one of those cases, the team just decided to take mental notes, and in the other two the team member making the suggestion was rebuffed, and all three doing the Road Block had to go back and look at another spirit house).
* The series ''[[It's Always Sunny in PhilidelphiaPhiladelphia]]'' is a humorous inversion. Throughout the series the characters seem to constantly try and be Genre Savvy and invoke tropes intentionally for their benefits, apparentllyapparently believeingbelieving that everything will work out like a movie or tv show. However it rarely ever works out for them as [[Reality Ensues]]. For example in one episode, Mac and Charlie try to fake their deaths by blowing up a car. They make numerous attempts to make the car blow up like in an action movie by crashing it, shooting the gas tank, and even throwing a grenade inside. The most they end up succedingsucceeding in is injuring ''themselves''.
* Being in a town full of amnesiac storybook characters, and armed with a book of fairy tales allows Henry of ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' to augment his already considerable [[Guile Hero]] skills. Between this and the [[Living Lie Detector]] ability he inherited from his mother, his [[Genre Savvy]] borders on superhuman.
* Being a resident of [[One Tree Hill|Tree Hill]], by Season 8, Skills has become [[Genre Savvy]] about wedding days in Tree Hill & proceeds to prepare for every possibility that could go wrong, and actually already ''had'' at some point, even threatening the congregation when the priest tells everyone present to [[Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace]].
 
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