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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
** In Spike's very first appearance (and his [[Establishing Character Moment]]) he relates how he was at Woodstock and fed on a drugged up hippie - not something he remembers fondly.
** Buffy suffers this once while she's working at the [[Burger Fool|Double Meat Palace]]. Standard vampire fight happens, except the vampire gets the upper hand ({{spoiler|Buffy was quite depressed this season and verged on suicidal at more than one point. She almost let a singing demon kill her once.}})...but when the vamp almost bites her, he finds he 'can't stand the smell' and tries to leave; [[Too Dumb to Live|turning his back on the Slayer]] proves a fatal mistake.
** In another episode, Angelus bites a jock, but spits out his blood in disgust. The jock was taking steroids {{spoiler|and was mutating into a fish-monster.}}
* An early episode of ''[[Power Rangers]]''
** An early episode
** A very literal example was with the Invenusable Flytrap. He ''literally swallowed'' Jason, Kimberly, Zach, and Billy, but they escaped later by blasting their way out. This was actually a sort of [[Achilles' Heel]] for this [[Man-Eating Plant]]; as his name implied he was armored and very hard to hurt, but his insides weren't so well-protected.
* The cannibal featured in the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Lucky" originally ate prostitutes, but eventually switched to a different demographic of women since most of the prostitutes in the area used drugs, which makes them "taste funny".
* In an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', a demonic tree drains people's body-fluids with its vines, but it becomes poisoned when it tries this on Angel, who is a vampire.
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* An episode of ''[[Charmed]]'' had an [[Emotion Eater]] defeated when Leo's [[Unstoppable Rage]] caused him to explode.
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'', {{spoiler|the near omnipotent Utopia Dopant draws power from [[Emotion Eater|the hope and resolve of people]]. He meets his end when he faces Double during Philip's [[Last Dance]]. Philip's [[Heroic Resolve]] to save his sister with his final act overloads Utopia, allowing Double to defeat him.}}
* ''[[Star Trek]]'':
** In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Obsession", the gaseous monster attacks Spock, only to find his copper-based Vulcan blood inedible, and flees. McCoy wryly jokes that Spock "must have left a bad taste in its mouth" which Spock says is figuratively true.
** Presumably an in-joke reference to how audiences found the Kazon to be at best entirely uninteresting and at worst a reason to not bother watching, leading to them getting dropped from the show after barely a couple of seasons.▼
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
** Also the aliens known only by the Borg designation Species 8472, whose biology makes the Borg's nanoprobes useless, and actually makes them desperate enough that Janeway is able to cut a deal with them to team up against the threat.▼
▲*** One episode introduced the Kazon, whom the Borg found so utterly unremarkable that assimilating them would add nothing to the Collective. Presumably an in-joke reference to how audiences found the Kazon to be at best entirely uninteresting and at worst a reason to not bother watching, leading to them getting dropped from the show after barely a couple of seasons.
▲*** Also the aliens known only by the Borg designation Species 8472, whose biology makes the Borg's nanoprobes useless, and actually makes them desperate enough that Janeway is able to cut a deal with them to team up against the threat.
* ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'':
{{quote|'''Patsy Stone''': The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic.}}
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