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You've Seen It a Million Times on television, so it likely was started here or named from one of these shows.

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Series

0-9, A-E

• 24
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
  • Trapped by Mountain Lions

• The A-Team
  • A-Team Firing
  • A-Team Montage

• AfterMASH
  • After Show

• The Amazing Race
  • Eliminated From the Race

• Angel
  • Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate
  • Emergency Impersonation
  • Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
  • Screw Destiny
  • We Help the Helpless

• Babylon 5
  • All Love Is Unrequited
  • Nothing Is the Same Anymore
  • Traveling At the Speed of Plot (via a question posed to series creator J. Michael Straczynski)
  • Touched by Vorlons
  • Voice of the Resistance

• Batman
  • To the Bat Noun
  • To the Batpole

• Battlestar Galactica (original)
  • The Battlestar
  • Coming in Hot

• Battlestar Galactica (reboot)
  • They Look Like Us Now

• Bewitched
  • My Name Is Not Durwood
  • The Other Darrin

• The Bionic Woman
  • FemBot

• Bonanza
  • Cartwright Curse

• The Brady Bunch
  • Cousin Oliver
  • Hair of Gold

• Brothers and Sisters
  • Dinner and a Show

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Applied Phlebotinum
  • Big Bad
  • Breakaway Pop Hit
  • Buffy-Speak
  • Butt Monkey
  • Came Back Wrong
  • Funny Aneurysm Moment
  • Insane Troll Logic

• Burn Notice
  • And Some Other Stuff

• Candid Camera
  • Candid Camera Prank

• Charlie's Angels
  • Angels Pose
  • Asskicking Pose

• The Cisco Kid
  • Oh, Cisco!

• The Colbert Report
  • Black Best Friend
  • Colbert Bump
  • I Need a Freaking Drink

• Community
  • Camping a Crapper

• CSI
  • The CSI Effect
  • Fingerprinting Air

• Dawson's Creek
  • Dawson Casting

• Doctor Who
  • Alan Fridge
  • Aliens of London
  • Bigger on the Inside
  • Bow Ties Are Cool
  • The Brigadier
  • Changed My Jumper
  • Everybody Lives
  • Five Rounds Rapid
  • Immune to Bullets
  • Mind Probe
  • The Missus and the Ex
  • The Nth Doctor
  • Perception Filter
  • Reverse the Polarity - popularizer, not namer; Forbidden Planet is older than Doctor Who
  • The Slow Path
  • Spooky Silent Library
  • The Stars Are Going Out - popularizer, not namer; "The Nine Billion Names of God" is older than Doctor Who
  • Time and Relative Dimensions In Space (or simply TARDIS)
  • Timey-Wimey Ball

• Dollhouse
  • I Am Very British

• Doogie Howser, M.D.
  • A Man Is Not a Virgin

• Everybody Loves Raymond
  • Fee Fi Faux Pas
  • Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond

F-J

• The Facts of Life
  • Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts

• Farscape
  • E=MC Hammer
  • Microts
  • Translator Microbes
    • Universal Translator

• Fawlty Towers
  • Fawlty Towers Plot

• Firefly
  • Big Damn Heroes
  • Earth-That-Was
  • The Firefly Effect
  • I Call It Vera
  • I'll Be in My Bunk
  • Train Job

• Frasier
  • Formerly The Niles, now Replacement Flat Character

• Freaks and Geeks
  • Saw Star Wars 27 Times

• Friends
  • Friends Rent Control
  • It Tastes Like Feet

• Full House
  • Full House Music

• Get Smart
  • Missed Him by That Much
  • Shoe Phone

• Gilligan's Island
  • And the Rest
  • Gilligan Cut
  • Just Eat Gilligan

• Gunsmoke
  • Miss Kitty

• Happy Days
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
  • Jumping the Shark

• Herman's Head
  • Idiot Ball (coined by actor Hank Azaria)

• Heroes
  • Future Me Scares Me
  • From Nobody to Nightmare
  • Good Thing You Can Heal
  • Heel Face Mind Screw (fandom term)
  • Save This Person Save the World

• Home Improvement
  • Tim Taylor Technology

• House
  • Finding Judas

• How I Met Your Mother
  • The Bro Code

• Jam
  • Dead Baby Comedy

• Joan of Arcadia
  • A Form You Are Comfortable With

K-O

• Kung Fu
  • When You Snatch the Pebble

• Lassie
  • Timmy in a Well

• Law and Order
  • Ripped from the Headlines
  • Schiff One-Liner

• Life On Mars
  • Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique
  • Gene Hunting

• The Lone Ranger
  • Who Was That Masked Index?

• Lost
  • The Constant
  • Epileptic Trees

• Lost in Space
  • Crush! Kill! Destroy!

• MacGyver
  • Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
  • MacGyvering

• Married... with Children
  • Whoa, Bundy!

• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  • Ted Baxter

• M*A*S*H
  • After Show (from AfterMASH)
  • McLeaned
  • Gung-Holier Than Thou

• Max Headroom
  • Blipvert
  • Twenty Minutes Into the Future

• Mission: Impossible
  • Impossible Mission
  • This Page Will Self-Destruct

• Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • And Now for Someone Completely Different
  • Does Not Like Spam
  • Drop the Cow
  • Extra Ore Dinary
  • My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
  • Silly Walk
  • Something Completely Different
  • There Is No Rule Six
  • Upper Class Twit

• Mork and Mindy
  • Getting Crap Past the Radar

• The Muppet Show
  • Groupie Brigade
  • Statler and Waldorf
  • Taken for Granite
  • Tropes in Space!

• Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • Dull Surprise
  • And His Eyes Open (from Space Mutiny)
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes
  • Kung Foley
  • The Load (from the episode The Mole People)
  • Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds
  • The Mountains of Illinois (from The Beginning of the End)
  • MST
  • MST3K Mantra
  • Next Sunday A.D.
  • Nightmare Fuel (comes from Santa Claus)
  • Railing Kill (from Space Mutiny)
  • Robot Roll Call
  • They Just Didn't Care (from Attack of the (the) Eye Creatures)

• MythBusters
  • I Reject Your Reality

• The Office (UK)
  • Bad News, Irrelevant News

• The Office (US)
  • Mistaken for Pedophile (formerly Little Kid Lover)

• Only Fools and Horses
  • During the War

P-T

• Perry Mason
  • The Perry Mason Method

• Power Rangers
  • Make My Monster Grow
  • The Psycho Rangers
  • Recruit Teenagers with Attitude
  • Rookie Red Ranger
  • Sealed Evil in a Can
  • Sixth Ranger (shared with Super Sentai)
    • Eleventh-Hour Ranger

• The Prisoner
  • You Are Number Six

• Pushing Daisies
  • Bad Habits
  • The Fun in Funeral

• Quantum Leap
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong

• Red Dwarf
  • Everybody's Dead, Dave
  • Hard Light
  • More Teeth Than the Osmond Family

• Remington Steele
  • The Real Remington Steele

• Saturday Night Live
  • Common Knowledge
  • Every Year They Fizzle Out
  • Happy Fun Ball
  • The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
  • White Like Me (parodies Black Like Me)

• Saved by the Bell
  • The Game Never Stopped

• Scrubs
  • Insult to Rocks
  • Moment Killer

• Seinfeld
  • Kavorka Man
  • Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
  • Seinfeldian Conversation
  • Seinfeld Is Unfunny
  • Sein Language

• Sesame Street
  • Brought to You by The Letter "S"
  • Forgetful Jones
  • One of These Doors Is Not Like the Other
  • Sesame Street Cred

• Six Feet Under
  • Narm

• The Six Million Dollar Man
  • We Can Rebuild Him

• Smallville
  • Green Rocks

• Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • "Good Troi Episode", the former name for A Day in the Limelight
  • Growing the Beard
  • Lower Deck Episode
  • Whoopi Epiphany Speech
  • The Worf Effect
    • The Worf Barrage
    • Worf Had the Flu
  • You Will Be Assimilated

• Star Trek: The Original Series
  • Beam Me Up, Scotty
  • Captain's Log
  • Chekov's Gun (not to be confused with Chekhov's Gun)
  • Deflector Shields
  • The Federation
  • He's Dead, Jim
  • I Am Not Spock
  • I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder
  • Inertial Dampening
  • The Kirk
  • Kirk's Rock
  • Kirk Summation
  • Mary Sue (via a 1973 Star Trek Fanfic that parodied the trend of making these.)
  • The McCoy
  • Mirror Universe
  • Pardon My Klingon
  • Planet of Hats
  • Red Shirt
  • The Roddenberry Line
  • Scotty Time
  • Slash Fic (From Kirk/Spock)
  • The Spock
  • Spock Speak
  • Star Trek Shake
  • Theiss Titillation Theory
  • Trekkie
  • Vulcan Has No Moon
  • Wagon Train to the Stars
  • We Come in Peace, Shoot to Kill (From "Star Trekkin'")

• Stargate SG-1
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
  • Open the Iris
  • Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
  • Stargate City

• Super Sentai
  • Sixth Ranger (shared with Power Rangers)
    • Eleventh-Hour Ranger
  • Super Sentai Stance

• Survivor
  • Voted Off the Island

• Torchwood
  • Aliens in Cardiff

• The Twilight Zone
  • To Serve Man

U-Z

• The Vicar of Dibley
  • Cordon Bleugh Chef

• The West Wing
  • Blonde Republican Sex Kitten
  • I Want My Jetpack

• White Collar
  • The "Be Careful" Speech

• The X-Files
  • Agent Mulder
  • Agent Scully
  • The Chris Carter Effect
  • Mulder Moment
  • Myth Arc
  • Scully Box (production lingo; named for the boxes on which actress Gillian Anderson had to stand during scenes with David Duchovny)
  • Scully Syndrome
  • Shipping
  • UST - At least according to The Other Wiki, which claims that the term was invented on X-Files internet forums in the the nineties.

Game Shows

• Jeopardy!
  • Jeopardy Intelligence Test
  • Jeopardy Thinking Music

• Let's Make a Deal
  • Monty Hall Problem
  • Monty Haul
  • Zonk

• Press Your Luck
  • Whammy

• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
  • African Chant
  • The Points Mean Nothing (U.S. version)

• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
  • Lifelines
  • Who Wants to Be Who Wants to Be a Millionaire??

Professional Wrestling

(only those with non-wrestling examples)

• Sean "X-Pac" Waltman
  • X-Pac Heat

• Charlie Brown From Outta Town
• Face Heel Turn
• Finger-Poke of Doom
• Gorgeous George
• Heel Face Turn
• Hope Spot
• The Jimmy Hart Version
• Won't Work On Me
• Shocking Swerve
• Worked Shoot
• World's Strongest Man

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