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The Great Big Book of Everything: The one-stop shop for all your plot needs. [[How Do I Shot Web|Need information]] about the [[New Super Power|super-power you've just been given]]? On the first page. Want to find the only way to kill the [[Big Bad]]? It has a detailed entry. |
The Great Big Book of Everything: The one-stop shop for all your plot needs. [[How Do I Shot Web?|Need information]] about the [[New Super Power|super-power you've just been given]]? On the first page. Want to find the only way to kill the [[Big Bad]]? It has a detailed entry. |
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Whoever wrote this book must have damn-near infinite knowledge. It has all the facts you need and has them at the moment you need them! In fact, it seems like new information just appears in the book all the time, [[Deus Ex Machina|as the plot requires]]. |
Whoever wrote this book must have damn-near infinite knowledge. It has all the facts you need and has them at the moment you need them! In fact, it seems like new information just appears in the book all the time, [[Deus Ex Machina|as the plot requires]]. |
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* The Professor from ''[[Gilligans Island|Gilligan's Island]]'' has one, but instead of a single book, it's a [[Bag of Holding]] backpack that always had the right book on top. |
* The Professor from ''[[Gilligans Island|Gilligan's Island]]'' has one, but instead of a single book, it's a [[Bag of Holding]] backpack that always had the right book on top. |
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* The Book of Changes in ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', well, ''changes'' every so often to include the latest vague supernatural prophesy. It's also a last-minute [[MacGuffin]] at the end of season four. |
* The Book of Changes in ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', well, ''changes'' every so often to include the latest vague supernatural prophesy. It's also a last-minute [[MacGuffin]] at the end of season four. |
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* During their "shopping" episode (showing where they get all their stuff), the ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth Busters]]'' have a book of knowledge filled with the usual things like conversion tables but also a lot of obscure information that would be important for their show. [ |
* During their "shopping" episode (showing where they get all their stuff), the ''[[Myth Busters (TV)|Myth Busters]]'' have a book of knowledge filled with the usual things like conversion tables but also a lot of obscure information that would be important for their show. [[wikipedia:Pocket Ref|The Pocket Ref]]. |
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* The archaeologist River Song's diary in ''[[ |
* The archaeologist River Song's diary in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', a diary of her adventures recorded on her own, combined with eyewitness accounts of the Doctor through the ages, as seen in "Closing Time". |
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* One of many, many tropes the Intersect in ''[[Chuck]]'' embodies at one time or another. The Intersect is a massive database of secrets and information vital to national security, uploaded to the protagonist's head in the first episode, and accessed involuntarily whenever he needed to know something related to that week's plot. Later upgrades included such things as combat skills, all of which went to whoever had the Intersect at the time via [[Neural Implanting]]. |
* One of many, many tropes the Intersect in ''[[Chuck]]'' embodies at one time or another. The Intersect is a massive database of secrets and information vital to national security, uploaded to the protagonist's head in the first episode, and accessed involuntarily whenever he needed to know something related to that week's plot. Later upgrades included such things as combat skills, all of which went to whoever had the Intersect at the time via [[Neural Implanting]]. |
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