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** One of the USA Network’s standard promo for the show has what appears to be Elliot casually asking Fin what his favorite form of torture is while the two are relaxing and playing cards. However this seen never appeared on the show. The clip of the card game is from the episode Class while the torture question was from Uncle and asked to a suspect Elliot was trying to get to confess.
* Those infamous official Korean [[Sherlock]] trailers that make it appear Sherlock and John's relationship is the focus of the series. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFR_Z30d5nQ Any] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN4xBm44KH0 of] them.
* Nowadays, "[["On the Next..."]]" TV trailers will often include footage and plot points that don't actually appear for several weeks yet. This is [[Egregious]] in ''[[Prison Break]]''-style shows with heavy continuity, as it can give the impression of the story progressing more quickly than it really does. ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' is a major offender here; for example, it incorporated material from the entire first season into the trailer for the second episode.
** [[Smallville]] is a worse offender. There have been several trailers that have cut one line of dialog into clips from several seasons past. The trailer for the seventh season finale was entirely a clip of Lex Luthor looking at the Fortress of Solitude. Not only was this teased two weeks previous, it was cut entirely from the episode it was shot for. Ironically, when a recent episode decided to reveal the adaptation of the Superman Suite, many fans believed they were being played (due to the show's "No Tights, No Flights" rule which is the whole reason why it took eight seasons to make something remotely close to Superman's tights) no one believed it. But the footage was used in the episode being teased.
** Nearly every show nowadays does this after the season premiere and the voiceover usually explicitly says "This season on..." whichever show you happen to be watching.
* In the middle of the Jasmine arc of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', an [["On the Next..."]] centered around Angel and Fred kissing, with the announcer going on about how the crisis will drive them together... in the actual episode, the kiss turns out to be a [[Fake
* A trailer for the 2007 ''[[
** The BBC One trailer for "The Waters Of Mars" ends with the [[Blatant Lies|Blatant Lie]] of someone knocking four times just like [[The Prophecy]] said, in the actual episode however, {{spoiler|it was [[Lampshade Hanging]] and the Doctor stopped the villain from knocking a fourth time.}} The trailer repeated the fist knock.
** The ad for "The Doctor's Daughter" put way too much emphasis on a blonde girl performing handsprings through a row of lasers. The scene was actually just {{spoiler|a three-second filler with no importance to the plot whatsoever (except to further showcase the amazing talents of the Doctor's genetic daughter.)}}
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** The trailers for "The Almost People" kept making out that {{spoiler|Ganger!Doctor}} was a villain, when in reality {{spoiler|he was generally good and helpful throughout the entire episode, even pulling a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] at the end}}.
* ABC Family's trailer of the [[Pretty Little Liars]] season final switched out which characters were in a car accident.
* The episode previews for ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' are usually either uninformative or edit the footage together in a very misleading way. For example, there were numerous previews hinting that [[Fan
* ''[[Survivor]]'' has done this. Especially in ''Samoa'', they tried to edit it so that people were thinking about eliminating Russell..except for some incredibly odd reason, seeing the episode brought out ''no'' talks about actually ''doing'' it.
** One of the early seasons of ''Survivor'' featured an episode trailer that vaguely described some kind of horrific accident occurring, while flashing footage of ''crocodiles''. An accident did actually occur (a contestant passed out due to smoke inhalation, was burned by their campfire, and had to be evacuated), but involved no attack by a wild animal of any kind.
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*** For the final scene, only that one 5 second part was done live.
** Sadly, this trope may have led to the show's cancellation. The original TV-spots didn't quite present the show as they should have.
* ''[[I Carly]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFTsGQFtM1U Done exceptionally badly for the episode ''iStart A Fan War'']. After months of fandom speculation that this episode would be a [[Shipping|ship-centric]] episode that would involve shipping development, the first trailer appeared to confirm that not only would it involve the ships (using both popular ships by their [[Portmanteau Couple Name]]), but that it would actually end the [[Ship
** The [[Word of God]] released a blog post later that made it appear to be a miscalculation by the marketing department of Nickelodeon, who either didn't realize that the episode didn't actually do anything they claimed, or [[They Just Didn't Care]], and release the trailer like that to hype up the episode.
** Inverted with a [[Word of God]] confirmation that the trailer for 'iOMG' ''isn't'' the same as the iSAFW debacle and something major ''does'' happen.
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** The ad for the sixth season, showed Cuddy with House's voice saying that ''she had said yes, but he heard no'' which could be seen as that House had proposed to Cuddy and she had said yes. {{spoiler|Turns out that he was talking to Wilson about how Cuddy had given him permission for an insane treatment on his patient and House was having second thoughts about it}}.
* Season 5 of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations was bloated with this. Every episode pointed out that he was going to have a bad time at his destination but on the actual show, it was always just a minor moment of discomfort that took place in the first half of the episode, surrounded by Tony loving the place.
* A [["On the Next..."]] trailer for ''[[Being Human (TV)|Being Human]]'' showed (in order): A woman looking into her hand mirror and realizing that [[Our Vampires Are Different|Mitchell has no reflection]], A [[Torches and Pitchforks]] mob of neighbors shouting and throwing things at the outside of the main characters house, and George saying "We were kidding ourselves to believe we could fit in here. We.. are MONSTERS!". The not so subtle implication was that the Vampire, Werewolf and Ghost would all be outed and they'd have to deal with the ramifications of that. In the episode itself Mitchell was accused of pedophilia because the woman's son accidentally borrowed a vampire porn/snuff film from him. [[The Masquerade]] remaines unbroken, except for the boy and his mum finding out about Mitchell at the end [[Status Quo Is God|before promptly leaving and telling the neighbors that they made a mistake]].
* In the network promo for the Season 4 episode of [[The West Wing]] "Election Night," there is a shot of Democratic strategist Will Bailey standing outside the campaign office in a thunderous rainstorm, shouting "NOOO" to the high heavens. In the actual episode, he is in fact shouting "NOW" in an attempt, however serious, to predict (and possibly cause?) the torrential rain that begins seconds later, thus leading to depressed voter turnout and increasing the chances that his liberal candidate, who is dead, might actually win in conservative Orange County.
* A trailer for an episode of the New Zealand TV show [[Go Girls]] has a main character being told by her boyfriend that she's fat, ugly, and that he's gay. In actuality, this was a daydream of what she was expecting him to say-- what he actually does is ask her to marry him.
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