Mundane Made Awesome/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

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* In one of the episodes of the original ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' comes the most badass line in all of live action television. The scenario; A package, upon delivery to an influential government office exploded violently, killing one person and maiming his secretary. McGarett needs to know if the package was tampered with at any point during the journey. So he asks the courier if he fell asleep at any point, or went to the bathroom, or let the package out of his sight. After a while, the courier holds up his hand and McGarett stops asking questions. He then delivers his line; [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|"Sir. With respect. I take my duties as a courier Very. Seriously."]] You can hear the capital letters in his words. [[Badass|Bad. Ass.]] [[Mundane Made Awesome|Courier.]]

* News Promos. ''[[The Daily Show]]'' and ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' parody this mercilessly.

** And then ''The Daily Show'' brought us us ''[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=178209&title=the-news-better-run this]''.

** The orchestra playing dramatic music ascending into Kitchen Stadium with Masahiko Kobe in every battle he's in.

** When boxing commentator and self-admitted non-cook Kenji Fukui was first asked to commentate, he couldn't understand why they'd need him for a cooking show, or what he'd say. "The knife goes up! The knife goes down!" However, once on set he quickly realized that the frenetic action together with his frequent need to ask Yukio Hattori what the chefs were doing gave him the material he needed to keep the show going.

* Most reality TV in general. It's actually about people cooking, or living an even more empty and meaningless life than most in a house, or whose aspiration is to get to wear clothes for a living. Just putting many of those concepts on television in the first place constitutes this trope, and they don't shy away from more traditional forms of it either.

* Parodied in the ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' game "Improbable Mission," which puts an everyday task to ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' drama standards and plays it for laughs.

* Two Words: [[CSI: Miami|Horatio...]][[Glasses Pull|</Glasses>]][[CSI: Miami|...Caine.]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!]

** [[Jim Carrey]] parodies this beautifully [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJSqkwyL1Zo here].

*** As well as the [[Supernatural (TV series)|Winchester Brothers]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K4yioL2ngI here].

** Self-parodied by [[CSI|the original series]] in "Fight Night" -- Grissom delivers his one-liner at the end of the teaser ("And a death during a felony? ... That's murder"), and the theme music revs up, but it's cut off by Grissom's beeper. Grissom looks really annoyed, and has to look into a second case before the credits roll.

* An off-air example: In ''[[Dirty Sexy Money]]'', it was decided that they would discover that one of the Darling children was actually the illegitimate child of Letitia and Dutch. Dutch's legitimate son, Nick, had been romantically involved with Karen Darling. The production meeting on this one addressed the [[Brother-Sister Incest|gorilla in the room]] by writing the word "INCEST" on the board in huge letters and then dramatically X-ing it out. {{spoiler|Brian turned out to be the illegitimate one, perhaps hinted at by the fact that he himself has an illegitimate son.}}

* When the first self-righting mechanism was accidentally discovered on ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'', it was subject to no fewer than ''six instant replays, each from a different angle''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=QuHnNXpWld0 Observe].

** I love that sequence! There's just something about it that I love to replay on the DVD. In fact, that series had several very good visual/musical sequences.

* On ''[[Undeclared]]'', the [[Chase Scene]] between Eric and Steven. A high-speed scooter chase is bad enough, but what propels it squarely into this trope (and [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]) is the background music. [[Mortal Kombat|MORTAL KOMBAAAAT!]]

** '''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S6/E07 Once More, With Feeling|THEY GOT... THE MUSTARD... OUUUUUUUT!]]'''

* ''[[Angel]]'' has Fred cleaning stuff

* ''[[Victorious]]'': At the very end of "Freak the Freak Out", Sikowitz sings Number One by Ginger Fox. And then proceeds to pay homage to ''[[Flashdance]]'' by banging on a chair while wet. His portrayer, Eric Lange, said that this has been his favorite scene on the show to shoot yet.

* ''[[The Late Late Show]]'' has no less than 4 (and counting) elaborate jingles, featuring flaming robot skeletons, lasers, a triceratops, etc. This is all for a segment where Craig reads emails and tweets.

* Some of the characters in ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' played paintball in one episode. Dennis had a temporary falling out with Jack (who was on his team) after accidentally shooting him, only to redeem himself later by saving Jack from the blast of shaken up soda can as if it were a grenade, ruining his shirt and making him unable to attend a party. The scene played out as if Dennis were a soldier dying in Jack's arms.