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Which ones actually come to mind? All I can think if is....

 

 

God's Shoe

Al's lucky streak (Where he doesn't want to actually admit he is on one.)

Kelly going on the sports trivia game show.

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Capt. Kirk is gonna make out with the alien chick.

Actually thats more urban legend that got a rise on the fan boy circut and pretty soon even Shatner and the Trek Powers That Be bought into it through the years

 

Hence Will Riker on TNG was the one that really made out with everything that moved

 

Steve

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Any time their Is a "Contract Signing" In The Ring on a Pro Wrestling Event, someone gets their ass kicked.

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Any time their Is a "Contract Signing" In The Ring on a Pro Wrestling Event, someone gets their ass kicked.

And if there's a table at the contract signing, it WILL be used.

 

The refs always see what the faces are doing and are conveniently knocked out/chiding the face when a heel is doing something.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm is the most formulaic show in history. Larry David always does some little thing that he shouldn't, and 17 different coincidences come together to make sure that he gets nailed for it in the most awkward way possible.

 

The degree of the schmucky deed varies (occasionally it's actually not this fault), but he inevitably gets punished for it to a disproportionate level due to bad luck.

 

Oh, and Cops is pretty damn formulaic too. The bad guy always gets caught. Always! Why can't the police department just swallow their pride a little bit and realize that they would have the most popular show on television if they'd mix in some car chases where the bad guy escaped every now and then.

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Protagonist male who has the hots for attractive female will always wind up caught in a huge lie that starts from a small lie.

Protagonist male repeatedly pursues hot female who hates him while ignoring the "less attractive" female who likes him

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Scooby Doo- the monster is always some guy in a suit that they just met.....

And instead of running as far away from the monster as possible or setting a trap to begin with, Scooby and Shaggy will dress up to fool the monster. Which never works. The amount of 'monsters' they go after, you wonder why they're even scared anymore. Surely they'd just think 'Oh, another monster, let's just set up a trap for them like we always do...only this time, we won't wait until the end of the episode to do it.'

 

Also, the running through the corridors gag.

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