Never Trust a Trailer/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

* ''Glee'' does this a lot by leaking songs for the upcoming episodes...reading too much into the lyrics and what they may or may not indicate about your favorite couple is not advised.

* ''[[Pawn Stars]]'' and ''[[American Restoration (TV)|American Restoration]]'' both History Channel Shows, do this for their opening previews. They mix and match scenes and voice overs to make up events that never happen in the show. For example making something seem to be a fake in [[Pawn Stars]] or breaking something in [[American Restoration (TV)|American Restoration]].

* ''[[Mad Men]]'''s main character Don Draper [[Dead Person Impersonation|changed identities with a dead guy during the Korean War]] and has been hiding it ever since. A promo for the season two episode "A Night to Remember" had Joan Holloway announcing, "Someone people think is dead is not dead," in a context intended to make it look like she was going to find out his secret and out him (or threaten to, or something). In fact, she'd spent the episode reading TV scripts for work and was talking about an upcoming storyline on a soap opera.

* It is pretty much a guarantee on the HGTV reality show ''Design Star'' that whoever looks like they are in trouble at the end of the episode is fine, and vice versa. For example, in a recent episode, the judges say, "This is not your best work" and it cuts to a dismayed-looking {{spoiler|Karl}}. In the actual episode, {{spoiler|the criticism is directed at Kellie, who ends up going home, and Karl's look is his stunned relief in having been declared "safe" for the next week}}.

* Late in the run of ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' the trailers practically guaranteed that a particular episode was the finale of the series. Turns out Hercules ''did'' retire...for about five seconds.