History IJustWantToBeNormal / LiveActionTV

* Series/{{Dexter}} sometimes expresses the desire to be able to feel like a normal person, free of his drive to kill, at times when he is able to distinguish whether or not he feels anything at all.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E42TheEyeOfTheBeholder Eye of the Beholder]]", Janet Tyler has had ten previous reconstructive surgeries to correct her deformity over the years and is awaiting the results of her eleventh. She tells the nurse that she never wanted to be beautiful, only for people not to scream when they looked at her.

* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a key witness in a mob case is a former teen sitcom star. He initially balks when she suggests witness protection, horrified at the idea of no longer being a celebrity, but Wheeler convinces him by connecting with the deep-down part of him that's sick of the burden of constantly being in the spotlight.

** Then, later, after he makes the identification.

** Another mundane one is Booth and Brennan in season 10, who spend time thinking it would be better to retire and find quieter jobs where they weren’t constantly targeted by psychotic criminals. They move to Kansas, but it ends up as TenMinuteRwrirement.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' has a mundane example in Jack Hodgins. Jack came from an incredibly wealthy family but really didn’t like everything that came with it. He just wanted to be like everyone else and very few people knew the truth. Not even his coworkers knew at first. When he married Angela they sold his huge estate and bought a more modest place. When Jack lost everything to a psychotic hacker in Season 8, he really didn’t grieve it that much. When Angela later finds where the money is, Jack tells her to donate it all (even though in an earlier episode they were having money trouble), since he's happy with their life and doesn't want money to change it. He has another variant as well in season 11 after getting paralyzed in an explosion. He spends several episodes hating his disability and wanting to do anything to walk again before finally coming to terms with it.

* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' has a mundane example in Jack Hodgins. Jack came from an incredibly wealthy family but really didn’t like everything that came with it. He just wanted to be like everyone else and very few people knew the truth. Not even his coworkers knew at first. When he married Angela they sold his huge estate and bought a more modest place. When Jack lost everything to a psychotic hacker in Season 8, he really didn’t grieve it that much. When Angela later finds where the money is, Jack tells her to donate it all (even though in an earlier episode they were having money trouble), since he's happy with their life and doesn't want money to change it.

* In ''Series/ShadowAndBone'', Aleksandr Kerrigan claims that when he found out he was a descendant of the [[MonsterProgenitor Black]] [[SatanicArchetype Heretic]], he would go to a small fountain often and pray to be anybody else, to not be related to the creator of the Shadow Fold. [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed that ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld he's]]'' [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the Black Heretic]].]]

* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a key witness in a mob case is a former teen sitcom star. He initially balks when she suggests witness protection, horrified at the idea of no longer being a celebrity, but Wheeler convinces him by connecting with the not-insignificant part of him that's sick of the burden of constantly being in the spotlight.

* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a key witness in a mob case is a former teen sitcom star. He initially balks when she suggests witness protection, horrified at the idea of no longer being a celebrity, but Wheeler convinces him after deducing that there's a not-insignificant part of him that's sick of the burden of constantly being in the spotlight.

* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a key witness in a mob case is a former teen sitcom star. He initially balks when she suggests witness protection, horrified at the idea of no longer being a celebrity, but Wheeler figures out that underneath all of that, there's a not-insignificant part of him that's had enough of constantly being in the spotlight.

* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a key witness in a mob case is a former teen sitcom star. He initially balks when she suggests witness protection, horrified at the idea of no longer being a celebrity, but Wheeler manages to convince him after realizing that deep down, there's a part of him that's had enough of constantly being in the spotlight.

* In one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a key witness in a mob case is a former teen sitcom star. He initially balks when she suggests witness protection, horrified at the idea of no longer being a celebrity, but Wheeler manages to convince him by connecting with the part of him that's sick of constantly being in the spotlight.