Oh Crap/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

** It's easy to deflect the ultimate weapon when you've just committed [[Mind Rape]] on one of the people responsible for its conception, as Locutus reminds Riker just after the failure.

* In the equally brilliant ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode ''In the Pale Moonlight'' Captain Sisko gets a man out of a Klingon prison to create for him a forgery of a holographic record. When he learns that [[Magnificent Bastard|Garak]] will explain to him what is expected of him, his reaction speaks volumes:

'''Tolar:''' ''"Oh... OH... Well... that's different."'' }}

* And in the [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Original Series]] episode ''Arena'' Kirk has just crept up on the Gorn and with some difficulty lobs a rock the size of his own head at it. The Gorn is too slow to dodge, and the rock scores a direct hit, with no visible effect whatsoever. Then the Gorn responds by picking up a ''four-foot diameter'' boulder of his own...

** Also, the look on Jayne's face when River offhandedly reminds him that "I can kill you with my brain."

** Also also, the legendary line from [[Psycho for Hire|Jubal Early]], and that priceless look on his face:

*** Memorably averted by the same character when he is {{spoiler|floating away in his spacesuit to probably die}}.

** [[Sword Fight|"Use of a sw-what?"]]

** River herself adopts this look in "Ariel" when she realizes the [[Those Two Bad Guys|Hands of Blue]] are coming.

** In the episode "Innocence", Drusilla and Angelus are standing in a mall near the recently resurrected Judge, a demon who "Cannot be killed by a weapon forged". Buffy shoots him with a crossbow, which catches the Judge's attention. He delivers the "Cannot be killed" line (again), and Buffy pulls out a [[BFG|rocket launcher]]. "Oh Crap!" covers Angelus and Drusilla's faces, and they run for cover. The Judge, however, looks at the launcher curiously, and asks "What does that do?" Buffy demonstrates: *BOOM*

** In ''Checkpoint'', at the very end of the episode, after Buffy's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|speech of awesome]] against the Watcher's Council, she demands to know what Glory is.

'''Buffy:''' ''(eyes widening, lips quivering)'' Oh. ''(cut to credits)'' }}

** Faith has one in "Enemies" when she realizes how thoroughly Buffy and Angel have played her.

*** Buffy gets one herself not long before that, when Adam turns his arm into a [[Gatling Good|machine gun]].

** Caleb in "End of Days":

'''Caleb:''' [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|Darn.]] }}

** Buffy herself has one in Chosen, when she leads the potentials into the Hellmouth.

'''Buffy''': -- see us. }}

*** From the same episode, as Spike so eloquently puts it {{spoiler|before a pillar of lethal sunlight burts through the ceiling onto his head-}}

** [[Stiff Upper Lip]] Giles delivers one with classic British understatement when he realises they're facing [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Again.

** Andrew gets one in the season seven episode "Never Leave Me" when he runs into Willow in the butcher shop. His subsequent reaction indicates that she's probably had a recurring role in his nightmares.

* George in the first episode of ''[[Dead Like Me]]''. "They say your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the moment before you die? That might be true if you're terminally ill, or your parachute doesn't open... but if death sneaks up on you, the only thing you have time to think is: Aw, ''shit''!"

* "Oh Crap" is the exact line spoken by three [[Monster of the Week]] demons on ''[[Charmed]]'' when they find themselves suddenly minaturized, trapped in a dollhouse, and about to be blown up by the Charmed Ones. Seconds earlier they had planned to [[Hoist by His Own Petard|do the same to the Charmed Ones]].

** Piper has a moment in "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father" that is an example of a mental "oh crap" when she finds out that she's pregnant with Chris.

* At the end of the ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' episode #40, titled "Can You Eat Human Flesh with Wooden Teeth?", Alan Harper says "Oh Crap" when he forgets to pick up his ex-wife Judith at the airport. To make matters worse, {{spoiler|it was raining outside.}}

* On ''[[The Office]]'' (USA), Jim gives a phenomenal "Oh Crap" face when he realizes that Michael has tricked him into attending his dinner party. Dwight has another when he sees Michael about to eat wild mushrooms.

** Played well with Cordelia when she finds herself transported to Pylea, a hell dimension. Looking around at the primeval forest, she loudly enunciates "Oh. Crap."

**** Also occurs after the rest of the gang arrives,when the mooks show up while Lorne is singing.

** A particularly good example has Wolfram & Hart, the evil corporation that has been trying to make Angel's life Hell and profits on people's misery, being trapped by Darla and Drusilla. Angel enters in an expected [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, only to subvert it by saying he won't save them. The look on Holland Manners' face is brilliant. He pleads "People are going to die!", only for Angel to [[Ironic Echo|echo]] his earlier comments: "And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care." It's the first major sign of Angel's descent, but it's hard not to cheer for the [[Laser-Guided Karma]] the lawyers received.

* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode "Six of One", Cavil experiences this when newfound rebel leader Natalie reveals she's given some Centurions free will -- and they're not pleased about what Cavil is doing.

** After seeing [[The Mutiny]] spiral out of hand, with corridor to corridor fighting for its entirety, {{spoiler|Gaeta and Zarek}} both experience this moment, one behind the other, when the jump drive is broken. {{spoiler|Gaeta}} in particular practically goes into a fugue state for a few seconds while {{spoiler|Zarek}} gets very worried and angry until both become resigned to the fact they have lost.

* [[Classy Cat Burglar|Parker]], from ''[[Leverage]]'', has one while rescuing a bunch of Serbian orphans and opens the door to one of the bad guys who specifically recognizes her.

** In Volume 3, The look on Bennet's face {{spoiler|after he realizes that Peter is no longer possessing Jesse.}}

** Similarly, in the end of Volume 4, {{spoiler|Sylar makes it clear he's no longer interested in humoring [[Big Bad]] Danko's orders. Danko casually stabs him in his weak spot, seemingly killing him. When Danko turns to walk away, Sylar rises up from the ground and looms over Danko, clearly very, very much annoyed. The look on Danko's face is ''priceless''}}.

** And "again" in said finale, {{spoiler|when it looks like Sylar's plan to get close to the President so that he can shapeshift into him is about to succeed, we find out that he can't because it's actually Peter, who stole his ability earlier and in turn stabs Sylar with a tranquilizer. The look on Sylar's face shows that he's finally been owned after 3 seasons of fighting him with no clear winner, followed by a [[Badass]] quote from Peter:}}

** {{spoiler|Sylar gets another one, when he realizes that Peter took the Haitians power, meaning that hes going to have a fist fight with the guy who wants to kill him the most.}}

*** After {{spoiler|Sylar is brainwashed and shapeshifted into a copy of Nathan Petrelli}}, we see a scene where Nathan's mom Angela (the whole thing was her idea) meeting up with him at his office to take him to lunch. On their way out, {{spoiler|Sylar/Nathan}} spots a clock ticking one second off-time and it annoys him (this was always one of {{spoiler|Sylar's}} known quirks. He stops to fix the clock. In the background, Angela Petrelli watches, and as she realizes that her "perfect" creation is starting to show signs of his true self again, her expression can truly only be described as [[Oh Crap]].

* This happens in the various ''[[Law and Order]]'' series quite often, considering how many [[Smug Snake|Smug Snakes]] swear they can beat the rap, and are then proven incorrect. The best was the closing statement scene in the episode "Life Choice" in which a fundamentalist nutjub got served by ADA Ben Stone rather magnificently.

** [[Law and Order SVU|ADA Casey Novak]] gets her CMOA in "Svengali", where a serial killer who thrives on his many fans has a fan who has been copying his work. He brokers a deal with Casey that if he testifies, she'll transfer him to a federal prison, which have much better accomodations than state prisons. After he testifies and his fan goes down, he's smirking at Casey, clearly thinking he's got the best of her, when she whips out this gem of a line:

* There are times when it seems the ''[[Torchwood]]'' team has perfected these. A great example is the penultimate season two episode "Fragments" when {{spoiler|All the team members except Gwen all encounter bombs set to go off in mere moments}}. Cue facials.

** Owen Harper's response tops all the others, though:

** In the series 1 finale almost every character has visions of lost loved-ones telling them to open the Rift. Jack is unconvinced, but the rest of the team overpower him. They go outside and find the oh-so-helpful Bilis, {{spoiler|who informs them that they have released Abaddon, son of the [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S2 E9 The Satan Pit|Beast]]. They slowly turn around to see [http://images.wikia.com/tardis/images/a/a3/5jhchx.jpg this] towering over the city.}} Oh Crap indeed.

* In an early episode of ''[[Farscape]]'', Aeryn accidentally detonates a weaponized black hole on board Moya. Crichton, who was trying to stop her, just has enough time to whimper "Oh God!" before Moya implodes. [[Groundhog Day Loop|Thankfully, it's not permanent.]]

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'': The climax of the episode ''Bodyswap'' featured Rimmer [[Grand Theft Me|hijacking]] Lister's body and making a getaway in Starbug. Pursuing Rimmer across the rocky terrain of a barren planet, Lister tells the others to back off and let him go because it's too dangerous. Victoriously taunting the others as they retreat, Rimmer fails to notice that his vessel is about to crash into a cliff-face. As he turns his head, his grin then gives way to our favourite expression.

** Kryten gets off an amusing variation in the episode ''DNA:''

** Rimmer has this reaction in the "Inquisitor" episode. Rimmer thinks he's found a way out of being judged by the Inquisitor because of the legitimate point that he might not get a fair hearing. The Inquisitor then explains that to make the hearing as fair as possible, every person's judge will be...

'''Rimmer!Inquisitor:''' "Oh smeg!" indeed, matey. }}

* The seventh season premiere of ''[[NCIS]]'' has a beautiful one.

* Season 2 of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' has one, when Keith tells Woody: "Most adults {{spoiler|keep their hands off other people's children}}." Steven Guttenberg makes the BEST "Oh crap" face.

* ''[[Scrubs]]'': Doctor Cox in the Season 8 finale. He {{spoiler|delivers a long speech on how not only is J.D. the best doctor to ever come through Sacred Heart, but is also Doctor Cox's personal friend.}} This is the moment J.D. reveals {{spoiler|he has been standing behind him the whole time.}} The look on his face is utterly priceless.

** Colonel Hogan gets one when he realizes that the fake bomb he's pretending to disarm is actually a real, live bomb--and that since it's right on top of Carter's portion of the tunnel, he has to go ahead and really disarm it.

* In the ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "A Leap for Lisa", Sam leaps into a young Al, who's been charged with a capital crime. After the witness who cleared him in the original timeline gets killed...

'''[[Ret-Gone|Edward St. John V]]:''' 100.<br />

'''Sam:''' ''[[Oh Crap|(turns)]]''<br />

* In the sixth ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode, Ivanova goes off and chases after a raider scout ship. She blows it up and smiles...only to have her viewscreen light up with at least a dozen more raider ships.

** Later in the series, Londo is trying to convince Lord Refa to [[Heel Face Turn|join him]] against the [[Big Bad]]. Refa smirks disdainfully as Londo lists some high-minded reasons ... and then comes:

** Sheridan gets more than a few. In fact, the entire third act of the second season finale is one [[Oh Crap]] topped by another in five minute intervals.

* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' usually avoids this, since they very carefully plan out their dangerous testing to ensure that nothing goes wrong. However, there ''are'' a few particularly spectacular results that they didn't expect, leading to genuine [[Oh Crap]] expressions on the crew.

** But in the final episode of season five, when [[Archangel Lucifer]] tells Sam and Dean he knows they have the one thing that can trap him, in such a confident way as to explain that's not a problem, Dean can't even ''try'' to mask this face.

** [[Oh Crap]] reactions all around at the end of season six. Raphael gets a quiet and terrified one when {{spoiler|she realizes that Castiel has absorbed the souls of Purgatory, [[A God Am I|becoming a new god.]]}} Ditto for the brothers and Bobby, who saw the entire thing, and were then told to {{spoiler|bow down or be killed}}.

* Niles Crane gives off an Oh Crap expression when, while driving home from work, is hearing [[Frasier]] having sex with Kate on the radio (due to Kate accidentally switching on the the microphone).

* ''[[Bones]]'' has several [[Oh Crap]] moments:

** In that same episode, August pretends to be Mr Gold's estranged son, Baelfire, who {{spoiler|disappeared after being drawn int a portal. He and Rumplestitlskin were to go together, but Rumple chickened out}}. However, when Mr Gold figures it out confronts August and turns the tables on August. August knows he's messed up. Gold's face when August tried to control him clearly said "[[What an Idiot!]], this dagger doesn't work here!" because August is really {{spoiler|Pinocchio}} he knows who Mr Gold really is and what happens to those who anger! Mr Gold tells him "The chances of you surviving this encounter are pretty slim" and tells him he has to work for him if he wants to live. August clearly looks like "I've done it now!" at the end.

* The season 2 finale of ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' has a doozy at the end. Two words: [[Zombie Apocalypse|THREE Blasts]].

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