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 * A beautiful, intellectually unremarkable young woman befriends and comes to rely on a group of brilliant-but-awkward geniuses who work at a university, one of which develops a crush on her. ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', right? Wrong -- it's a movie called ''[[Ball of Fire]]'', released in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.
 * Much has been made of how innovative the format of ''[[Law and Order]]'' was when it first debuted, but there were two obscure earlier shows that had essentially the same structure: ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_Trial Arrest and Trial]'' (1963-64) and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_D.A._(1971_TV_series) The D.A.]'' (1970-71).
-* The middle section of ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' -- the part with Nightwatch and the [[Nineteen Eighty Four|Ministry of Truth]] -- has been accused of being an [[Author Tract]] against the War on Terror and the Bush Administration in general. The last episode aired in fall 1998, almost three years before 9/11.
+* The middle section of ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' -- the part with Nightwatch and the [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|Ministry of Truth]] -- has been accused of being an [[Author Tract]] against the War on Terror and the Bush Administration in general. The last episode aired in fall 1998, almost three years before 9/11.
-* One forum poster on ''[[Television Without Pity]]'' compared the ''[[Dollhouse (TV)|Dollhouse]]'' episode "Echoes" to the ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode "The Naked Now". That show was itself a [[Whole Plot Reference]] to the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "The Naked Time".
+* One forum poster on ''[[Television Without Pity]]'' compared the ''[[Dollhouse (TV)|Dollhouse]]'' episode "Echoes" to the ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode "The Naked Now". That show was itself a [[Whole-Plot Reference]] to the ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "The Naked Time".
 * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFH4PIhxz8 Oh my God], ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFH4PIhxz8 they]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFH4PIhxz8 killed Kenny!] Of course, it could just be a coincidence...
 ** One of the catchphrases of ''[[The Goon Show]]'' was "You dirty rotten swine you! You deaded me!".
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 ** It's also common for fans of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' to later discover ''[[Voltron]]'' and mistake it for an animated ripoff of the former.
 ** Similarly, some Power Rangers fans who later discover Super Sentai accuse the latter of being ripoffs of the former.
-** Similarly, if you saw ''[[Masked Rider]]'' and thought it was a ''[[Power Rangers]]'' ripoff, you should know that ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' is about two or three years older than ''[[Super Sentai]]''. Undoubtedly its debut was met with the usual cynicism: "Oh, so they took ''[[Kamen Rider]],'' made some stupid ripoff where there's [[Five Man Band|five of them]] in [[Colour Coded for Your Convenience|silly rainbow colors]] so they can [[Merchandise Driven|sell more toys]], then made it [[Lighter and Softer]] so kids will watch? [[Toku]] is [[Ruined FOREVER]]! [[It Will Never Catch On]]!"
+** Similarly, if you saw ''[[Masked Rider]]'' and thought it was a ''[[Power Rangers]]'' ripoff, you should know that ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' is about two or three years older than ''[[Super Sentai]]''. Undoubtedly its debut was met with the usual cynicism: "Oh, so they took ''[[Kamen Rider]],'' made some stupid ripoff where there's [[Five-Man Band|five of them]] in [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience|silly rainbow colors]] so they can [[Merchandise-Driven|sell more toys]], then made it [[Lighter and Softer]] so kids will watch? [[Toku]] is [[Ruined FOREVER]]! [[It Will Never Catch On]]!"
 ** Similarly, calling ''any'' [[Henshin Hero]] related property a ripoff of PR, as if the [[Toku]] genre wasn't, well, a genre (and as if we haven't been hearing [[Captain Marvel|the word "Shazam!"]] since [[The Forties]].)
 * With the ''[[Vampire Diaries]]'' TV adaptation airing in the midst of the ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]''-craze, many [[Fan Dumb|twitards]] believed ''Vampire Diaries'' stole most of its elements from ''Twilight''. The ''Vampire Diaries'' books were made in the nineties.