History Narm / LiveActionTV

-->-- ''Website/TelevisionWithoutPity'''s [[http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/lost/the_little_prince_1.php?page=15 recap]] of ''Series/{{Lost}}'', "The Little Prince"

* Mexican telenovela ''Series/LaRosaDeGuadalupe'' may be the best example of this trope. The series features a single-episode story dealing with contemporary teen issues (and a few episodes dealing with an AdultFear every now and then), ranging from drugs usage to "''My mother uses Facebook''". The point of it is being a "modern take" of old telenovelas similar to this one, as at the plots of the episodes are always resolved due to the characters' commitment to the ''Holy Virgin of Guadalupe''. Needless to say, in a typical telenovela-fashion, incredibly cheesy acting is to be expected, unrealistic portrayals of a lot of groups are shown, scriptwriting seems to be nonexistent, and the moral manipulation is just ''freaking'' evident. It has unfortunately achieved a quite strong following for the series ''per se'', but still for half the audience it's their favorite ''comedy'' show (there was an episode addressing cosplay and the anime subculture, with... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCOfA13Qi6w disastrous results]]). [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150225150258/http://www.anatoleserial.net/blog/archives/238 This blog entry sums it up nicely]].

* ''Series/FullHouse'' has incredible amounts of Narm. [[TastesLikeDiabetes If there has ever been a moment in it that moved you, you must have a strong stomach. Danny Tanner would aggravate any normal child for his patronizing (and slightly creepy) 1-minute speeches that seem to solve everything, but somehow the Tanner children flew into his arms every time.]]

* So does ''Series/{{Victorious}}''. An example being "Beck's Big Break", when the obnoxious lead star of a movie, Melinda Murray, is quarreling with Tori who is trying to convince her to let Beck back on the film, she yells "GET OUT!", which was the cue of one of the cast members, who then shoots a crossbow that ''goes through Melinda's hand''. It shouldn't ''be'' funny, but given how much the rest of the cast hated her, it turns out to be.

** With its abundance of MoralDissonance and the utterly straight portrayal of Cordell "GodModeSue" Walker, the series is a veritable ''goldmine'' of pure, unrefined Narm.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** Fans just love to mock the scene in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E12ProphecyGirl}} Prophecy Girl]]" when Angel tells Xander that he can't perform CPR on Buffy because, being a vampire, he has no breath. Except that they had been running down a tunnel for a while, and David Boreanez is audibly winded as he says the line.
** Dark!Willow's "bored now". It was supposed to be horrifying and a reminder of the awesome creepiness that was Vampire Willow. With Miss Hannigan playing Dark!Willow like she was sleepwalking, it didn't really have the intended effect.
** There is a scene in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish}} The Wish]]" after Vampire Willow and Xander die, and the Master and Buffy are literally pushing people from one side to the other in an effort to get to each other. Dramatic to the point of funny, the scene probably defines narm.
** The occasional instance of FightSceneFailure in the early seasons.
** And the SpecialEffectFailure with the Mayor's Ascension in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2 Graduation Day Part 2]]".
** Any time the show did giant snakes, like Lurconis or the Spawn of Sobek.
** The utterly ridiculous ease with which some Mooks and [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] are killed.
** Watch as one of the vampires in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E3SchoolHard}} School Hard]]" seems to purposely swerve into the path of a cart kicked in his general direction.
** In season 7, after Buffy and Xander get back from their dates and people start joking about Xander's penchant for hooking up with demon women, Giles gets angry at everybody and chides them quite loudly about their lack of seriousness. Then he uses the flash cards he made for Chao-Ahn to make his point.
** Dark magic gets you high, as in you literally float up to the ceiling. Fantastic.
** Buffy and Riley's scene at the end of "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E16WhoAreYou}} Who Are You?]]", mostly due to Riley's dialogue.
** Spike's [[DullSurprise non-reaction]] to Dru siring him in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E7FoolForLove}} Fool For Love]]".
** "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane}} I Robot, You Jane]]"
---> [[MemeticMutation "There's a demon in the Internet."]]
** The attempt at a MadnessMantra for computer nerds from the same episode:
---> "I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in."
** The way Willow [[GangstaStyle brandishes the gun]] in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E13TheKillerInMe}} The Killer In Me]]" is distracting.
** For Canadian viewers only, Spike's trigger in Season 7, since it's the same tune as the old kids' show ''The Friendly Giant''. Imagine if the First turned Spike evil by singing "It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood" or "Sunny Days, Sweeping the Clouds Away..." and you'll have an idea of how Canadians saw that scene.
** In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E9ThePuppetShow}} The Puppet Show]]" it looked like the enemy would be a ''talking puppet''. (It turned out [[spoiler:not to be the enemy]], but there was still a talking puppet! And it was horny!)
** There's the scene in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E7Angel}} Angel]]" right after Buffy finds out that Angel is a vampire, in which Buffy throws Angel out her living room window. While her mom was home.
** From Season 7's "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E11Showtime}} Showtime]]" there's Andrew saying "[[Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome two men enter, one man leaves]]" as Buffy begins to fight the Turok-Han. ItMakesSenseInContext but Andrew says it right in the middle of a big dramatic confrontation and it comes across as genuinely serious, rather than the frequent nerdy references Andrew is known for. It seems like the show is trying to play it straight rather than using it for parody.
** Most Buffy and Angel-centric episodes are bound to have cheesy dialogue, with optional FauxlosophicNarration.
---> "It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy. IT'S THE MAN!"
** Season Six: [[spoiler:Dawn is an attention-seeking kleptomaniac, Giles walks out, Xander leaves Anya at the altar because he's afraid they'll end up like his parents, Anya sleeps with Spike after she returns to being a demon, Spike takes off after trying to rape Buffy, Buffy is near-fatally shot, and Tara is killed immediately after reuniting with Willow, who had just kicked her addiction to dark magic]]. All of these twists and drama bombs occur in such rapid succession that looking back, it's almost hilarious, in the same way an overwrought soap opera is. By the time the season six finale rolls around, the angst levels have gotten so ridiculous that [[spoiler:Giles]] bursts out laughing after he's filled in on everything he missed that year, and Buffy promptly follows suit.
** When Buffy is turned invisible, she tries to talk to Dawn, who shrieks out the quite inexplicable line "How am I supposed to talk to you when I can't see you?" One wonders how this girl handles talking on the phone.

* ''[[Narm/TheWalkingDeadTVShow The Walking Dead]]''

* ''Series/DoctorPhil'': "What gives you the right to imprison your wife in the basement?!" It doesn't sound all that hilarious; but Phil delivered it rather melodramatically, and the ads for that particular episode ''repeated it endlessly''.

** The season 3 finale has lead actor James Van Der Beek making what can only be called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLgI-qbrWVo&fmt=18 the most hilarious face in the history of television drama]] while ''crying.'' (The embarrassing part is that it was not acting: Van Der Beek was [[ThrowItIn actually that overcome by emotion]]. Whether that's embarrassing for ''him'' or for laughing viewers is [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment something best contemplated privately]].)

* Any of the scenes from ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' that were chosen for ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien'''s "Walker Texas Ranger Lever." The one that comes most prominently to mind is the scene in which a child is standing on a ladder and the father of the child urges him to jump down to "overcome his fear," and the father ''[[CriticalResearchFailure steps out of the way and lets the child fall to the ground]]''. Cue Conan feigning horrible shock and lying down on the guest couch.

** The Season 1 episode "The Lord Is My Shepherd," which – in addition to some panning the over-the-top emotional acting of Michael Landon and Karen Grassle as their characters, Charles and Caroline Ingalls, mourn the death of little Charles Frederick Ingalls – some also consider laughable because Laura decided to climb a mountain to "get closer to God" and to persuade Him to exchange her for her late brother… in [[TelevisionGeography southern Minnesota]] (where there's not a mountain in sight).

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Rick's reaction to [[spoiler:Lori's death]] was impossible to take seriously due to his incredibly ridiculous BigNo, even by BigNo standards.
** The dramatic drop to the ground; sad only in the first viewing.

** The "there's a rose... in my heart... for youuuuuuu." Didn't happen quite like this in the book. The moment was so filled with narm (slowmo spinning rose!) that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdNitiDM9GE when French and Saunders parodied it they barely had to change anything.]]

** The episode "Ex Libris" has a subplot about a father trying to get justice for his daughter's murder. Only problem is the actor playing the father shows absolutely no emotion whatever throughout the entire episode and at the end [[spoiler: when the murderer confesses]] he says his lines like he couldn't care less.

** One episode has the Villain of the week throw a random passenger off a plane, so Walker puts on a parachute, jumps off and manages to catch the guy and save his life. The [[Awesome/LiveActionTV genuine stupid awesomeness]] of the scene and the coolness of it being a practical stunt filmed mid air are then completely obliterated when the plane blows up with such an amateurishly superimposed explosion it looks like it was made in an early version of Windows Movie Maker - as Conan O'Brien pretty accurately described it, "They just took footage of a plane and had someone hold a match in front of it."

** In [[Recap/FarscapeS02E07HomeOnTheRemains One Episode]], Zhaan dramatically yells [[CaptainObvious "I must have food... or I'll die!"]]. Sure, it makes a bit more sense in context, but still...

* There is no doubt Creator/{{Gackt}} was having ''a lot'' of fun playing the role of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dwJaSDcYI cannibalistic serial killer]] in the TV series ''Mr. Brain''.

** One episode has the Villain of the week throw a random passenger off a plane, so Walker puts on a parachute, jumps off and manages to catch the guy and save his life. The [[Awesome/LiveActionTV genuine stupid awesomeness]] of the scene and the coolness of it being an actual stunt filmed mid air are then completely obliterated when the plane blows up with such an amateurishly superimposed explosion it looks like it was made in an early version of Windows Movie Maker - as Conan O'Brien pretty accurately described it, "They just took footage of a plane and had someone hold a match in front of it."

** The opening statement in "Talking Points", in which the defense attempts to make his case by tossing out random racial epithets and saying that the jury "probably wants to beat the crap out of him".

** One episode has the Villain of the week throw a random passenger off a plane, so Walker puts on a parachute, jumps off and manages to catch the guy and save his life. The [[Awesome/LiveActionTV genuine stupid awesomeness]] of the scene, and the coolness of it being an actual stunt filmed mid air, are then completely obliterated when the plane blows up with such an amateurish superimposed explosion it looks like it was made in an early version of Windows Movie Maker. As Conan O'Brien described it: "They just took footage of a plane and had someone hold a match in front of it."

* The Creator/PatrickStewart TV movie ''Safe House,'' when his ex-DIA character Mace meets his live-in maid/caretaker Andi (played by Kimberly Williams-Paisley), this conversation takes place:

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has a couple. There's the destruction of the Thunderzords (complete with a clearly low budget and an over-the-top [[BigNo NOOOO]]). There's the death of Alex in the first episode of ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'', during which Erin Cahill desperately overacts Jen's emotional reaction; her slo-mo noooooo is funny every time it's shown, and it's shown a lot in flashbacks.

* While not too specific, Indian soap operas are often poked fun of due to the excessive use of special effects, sound effects, and awkward camera angles. This is especially prominent in scenes that are supposed to be dramatic or serious. However, these scenes come off as a bunch of flickering lights, distortion of the image, zooming, swooshes, change of color, etc. Many people in comment sections have compared these effects to someone's first attempt at using Powerpoint or Windows Movie Maker. A prime example is this from an unknown Indian tv show which has gained over 2 million views [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHcYegE6ns]]

* The telemovie ''Legend of the Rangers'' (a pilot for a spin-off that never came to pass) features a starship with an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWtuKm6C1Sw infamously-goofy "karate-powered" weapons system]], represented by a member of the crew floating in a holographic simulation of space and then punching and kicking to fire the ship's lasers (accompanied, at the film's climax, by screaming).