History AsYouKnow / LiveActionTV

* GameShows: Pilot episodes will often have the host use the "As You Know" phrase (or similar wording), to explain the rules. This is to give potential TV station executives a sense that this was actually not the first episode but an ongoing series.

* Parodied in the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Swan Song", where the title character is followed by documentary film producers. Castle prompts Beckett to "As You Know" to explain who Lanie is, for the benefit of the audience.

* Lampshaded in ''Series/Watchmen2019''. The overeager NewMeat FBI agent calls his supervisor after making a big discovery and begins the call with "Do you remember when you told me..." and proceeds to remind her of his entire assignment including the rationale for pursuing it. She wearily replies,

* Played with in ''Series/YesMinister''. Not having read the papers, Jim Hacker often seems to know as much as the audience, but tries to hide it from his officials. In "A Victory For Democracy", notably, neither Hacker nor Sir Humphrey nor Bernard nor, indeed, the Foreign Secretary seem to precisely know what is happening on St. George's Island (or even where it is). The trope's name is invoked during a conversation between Humphrey and the Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs (the one person who knows anything about it), with Humphrey mainly making educated guesses and agreeing with whatever is said. The Foreign Secretary, despite clearly picking up on Humphrey's ignorance, humours him because Sir Humphrey is very on the ball in most cases, and there really has been no reason for Humphrey to know about the globally irrelevant island until now.

* Subverted in ''[[Series/YesMinister Yes, Prime Minister]]''. Whenever one character says to another "As you know", it means that the second character does ''not'' know and needs to be told, and the first character is intentionally allowing the second character to "save face".

* Lampshaded in ''Series/{{Watchmen}}''; the overeager NewMeat FBI agent calls his supervisor after making a big discovery and begins the call with "Do you remember when you told me..." and proceeds to remind her of his entire assignment including the rationale for pursuing it. She wearily replies,

-->'''Anne''': Take care you do not cut the Neville affinity away from yourself. I am the Kingmaker's Daughter, and many in the North only follow you for love of me. They'll turn against you if they think you shame me.\\
'''Richard''': I know that.

--> '''Falken:''' If we capture Elora Danan, do you know what this would mean for us?
--> '''Sarris:''' I do.
--> '''Falken:''' The Crone would reward us with whatever we desire. Cashmere, Galladoorn, Tir Asleen even.
--> '''Sarris:''' Yeah, 'cause when I said "I do", what I really meant was "Explain it to me like I'm an imbecile."

* ''Series/YesPrimeMinister'': Subverted. Whenever one character says to another "As you know", it means that the second character does ''not'' know and needs to be told, and the first character is intentionally allowing the second character to "save face".

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'':
** The pilot episode ""A Shadow of the Past" has a few:
*** In order for the audience to understand why the pilot starts with Galadriel and other Elves randomly climbing some mountain in the middle of a blizzard, Thondir, Galadriel's second in command, questions her in the name of the audience if it's still worth to continue their quest to find Sauron's whereabouts when the enemy hasn't been seen in centuries, offering an insight about the plot of season 1.
*** The Harfoots are introduced discussing about how seeing hunters in Rhovanion this yearly in the year is a bad omen because last time when they traveled this far, it was during a bad meteorological event called the Great Frost, which made humans to migrate aimlessly. Their worries are actually a foreshadowing for something far worse.
*** Elrond and Galadriel playfully discuss about Galadriel's monikers as the Commander of the Northern Armies and Warrior of Wasterlands.
*** Medhor reminds Arondir that in the both occasions an Elf and a Human fell in love, it ended only in death and tragedy, as a warning for his secret affair with Bronwyn. Later, Arondir discusses with his warden about how they have been stationed in the Southlands for 79 years.
** "Adrift":
*** Disa recounts to Elrond how she and Durin fell in love.
*** Durin explains to his father that he would sense if Elrond had an ulterior reason for his sudden visit in Moria after 2 decades, because they've known each other for half a century.
** "Adar":
*** In a dispute with his son, Eledil casually mentions Anárion being a bad influence on Isildur, to assure the viewers he is not AdaptedOut despite his complete lack of screen time.
*** Sadoc keeps a speech honoring all the Harfoots who perished during migrations.
** "The Great Wave":
*** Valandil taunts Isildur about the death of his mother while having a fight with his friend.
*** In prison, Halbrand lists all the things Galadriel did since she arrived in Numenor, which includes acting entitled, demanding ships, insulting the Numenorians, defying the Queen's orders. He wonders how none of those things quickened her pulse. Galadriel remembers that only after demanding to talk to the King of Numenor, Miriel sent her in prison for sedition.

** In prison, Halbrand lists all the things Galadriel did since she arrived in Numenor, which includes acting entitled, demanding ships, insulting the Numenorians, defying the Queen's orders. He wonders how none of those things quickened her pulse. Galadriel remembers that only after demanding to talk to the King of Numenor, Miriel sent her in prison for sedition.

** In order for the audience to understand why the plot of the show starts with Galadriel and other Elves randomly climbing some mountain in the middle of a blizzard, Thondir, Galadriel's second in command, reminds her what their mission is about before questioning her if it's really worth to continue when the enemy hasn't been seen in centuries.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': In order to make Galadriel think a little what she did that she pissed off suddenly a very calm and patient person like Queen Miriel, Halbrand lists all the things Galadriel did since she arrived in Numenor, which includes acting entitled, demanding ships, insulting the Numenorians, defying the Queen's orders. None of those things quickened her pulse, but Galadriel remembers that only after demanding to talk to the King of Numenor, Miriel sent her in prison for sedition.

** PlayedForLaughs in an early episode which starts off with Weisel reading out a negative news story to Hacker while ignoring his repeated protests that he's already read it and knows what it says. Humphrey then tries the same thing when he comes in, promoting Hacker into a rant.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' tended to use this frequently throughout the series ("Supplies have been hard to come by since we declared independence from Earth.") due to a lack of PreviouslyOn segments. In Babylon-Squared there was literally "As you know, Garibaldi, all Earth Force ships are equipped with a transponder..."
** Perhaps the example with the clumsiest dialogue is in [[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E08MessagesFromEarth Messages From Earth]], when G'Kar tells Garibaldi "[I have] two weeks down, six to go before I've repaid my debt to society for attacking Mollari". He's explaining this to Babylon 5's ''head of security''. Who was ''sat next to him in court as he was sentenced just two episodes prior''.
*** JMS does at least admit in the DVD commentaries that yes, these lines have to be there because people might not watch every week, and yes, it's very clunky and not naturalistic dialogue at all, and he knows that, and he knows that we know that, but it's a TV show and that's one of the limitations of the medium.

** This tendency was parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHrVySUQa4 this]] fourth wall-breaking parody on the Australian sketch comedy show ''The Big Bite''.