Trope Namers/Live-Action TV
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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.
Series
0-9, A-E
- 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
- Candid Camera
- 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
F-J
- Frasier
- Formerly The Niles, now Replacement Flat Character
- Herman's Head
- Idiot Ball (coined by actor Hank Azaria)
K-O
- 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)
- The Office (US)
- Mistaken for Pedophile (formerly Little Kid Lover)
P-T
- 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
- 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'")
U-Z
- 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
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- African Chant
- The Points Mean Nothing (U.S. version)
Professional Wrestling
(only those with non-wrestling examples)
- Sean "X-Pac" Waltman
- 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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