History FaintInShock / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/{{Temps de chien|2023}}'': While helping Antoine heal a cow, Kim ends up fainting when he's using a sewing needle on the animal. By doing so, [[ToiletHumour she lands her head on a big cowpat]].

* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': An episode centers around Patty giving kisses to Quico and El Chavo and causing them to faint, and whenever it happens, they're "revived" [[PlayedForLaughs with buckets of water.]] At the end of the episode, Don Ramón ends up getting one from Patty's aunt Gloria and faints too. Chavo then calls dibs on him, but instead of a bucket of water, he grabs one full of bricks...

* ''Series/{{Temps de chien|2023}}'': While helping Antoine heal a cow, Kim ends up fainting when he's using a sewing needle on the animal. By doing so, [[ToiletHumor she lands her head on a big cowpat]].

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'': Watson faints [[spoiler:when Holmes reveals himself alive and well]]

* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': An episode centers around Patty giving kisses to Quico and El Chavo and causing them to faint, and whenever it happens, they're "revived" [[HilarityEnsues with buckets of water.]] At the end of the episode, Don Ramón ends up getting one from Patty's aunt Gloria and faints too. Chavo then calls dibs on him, but instead of a bucket of water, he grabs one full of bricks...

* ''Series/{{The Outer Limits|1963}}'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E12KeeperOfThePurpleTwilight Keeper of the Purple Twilight]]", Janet faints when Ikar shows her his true alien form.

** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E12Nightshifter Nightshifter]]" Sheri faints when Sam and Dean confront her with [[spoiler:what appears to be her own corpse]].

* ''Series/{{Tarzan|1991}}'' has Jane fainting in Tarzan's arms from the relief of being saved from certain death after falling out of a tree.
* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E95HocusPocusAndFrisby Hocus Pocus And Frisby]]". When Frisby punches one of the aliens in the face, the alien's human head is revealed to be a mask covering his true alien head. When he sees this, Frisby collapses. He wakes up five minutes before the aliens are scheduled to leave.

** Roger in "The Richest Astronaut in the World", upon seeing Jeannie emerge from her bottle for the first time. He then faints ''again'' after being revived by Jeannie.

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'': Watson faints [[spoiler: when Holmes reveals himself alive and well]]

* ''Series/AndThenThereWereNone2015'' has Ethel Rogers wail and faint right after hearing herself accused of a murder she'd hoped to hide. Later on, Vera Claythorne faints from the increasing stress and terror of the situation she finds herself in. Finally, after [[spoiler:shooting Philip Lombard (whom she presumed was the murderous mastermind of the story) dead and finding herself the apparent sole survivor]], the intensity of her emotions and relief cause Vera to faint once again. The show uses Vera's two faints as narrative framing devices, showing the viewers flashbacks to her past (that reveal progressively more details about her backstory) while she's out cold.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Though he claims it's due to a fever, it's pretty obvious that Curtis passes out because he's having a {{Fangirl}} moment over his favorite masked vigilantes in "Recap/ArrowS4E17BeaconOfHope".

* ''{{Series/Bunkd}}'': In "Zuri Had A Little Lamb", Emma first faints when Lou's sheep is in labor. She wakes up right after the lamb is born, but faints again at the sight of the afterbirth.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In "Recap/CommunityS2E24ForAFewPaintballsMore", the Dean has spent the entire episode trying to ensure that he won't have to pay out the paintball prize. He faints when Pierce announces that the award money should go to Greendale.

* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': An episode centers around Patty giving kisses to Quico and El Chavo and causing them to faint, and whenever it happens, they're "revived" [[HilarityEnsues with buckets of water.]] At the end of the episode, Don Ramón ends up getting one from Patty's aunt Gloria and faints too. Chavo then calls dibs on him, but instead of a bucket of water, he grabs one full of bricks...

--> ''[Father Stone]'' Oh, I don't know. A few weeks, maybe.
--> ''[Dougal hits the floor]''

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Mick drops like a sack of potatoes in "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E6MrParkersCulDeSac Mr Parker's Cul-De-Sac]]" when he finds out that he has a teenage daughter.

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': In "[[Recap/LegionS3E3Chapter22 Chapter 22]]", Gabrielle Xavier is so terrified by a "phantom" that abruptly materializes next to her son's crib that she faints.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In the episode ''Something Blue'', Timothy Mcgee finds out from a doctor that his wife Delilah is pregnant - something she apparently wasn’t aware of, either. His body freezes up, his eye twitches, and he faints flat on his back. Far from being surprised at his reaction, however, Delilah dryly comments:
--> '''Delilah''': "That’s exactly how I imagined it."

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E12KeeperOfThePurpleTwilight Keeper of the PurpleTwilight]]", Janet faints when Ikar shows her his true alien form.

* In ''Series/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1990'' MiniSeries, Christine faints at the sight of Erik's unmasked face, much to his devastation (she'd promised to love him enough to overlook what he looked like, but to no avail).

* In an early episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Rodney learns that the city is in danger and responds by promptly keeling over. After a brief moment of panic, his teammates are only too happy to inform him that he pulled one of these.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In "[[Recap/StargateAtlantisS02E13CriticalMass Critical Mass]]", Kavanaugh faints at the prospect of his impending torture.

* In ''Series/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' MiniSeries, Christine faints at the sight of Erik's unmasked face, much to his devastation (she'd promised to love him enough to overlook what he looked like, but to no avail).

* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'': In "Time On Our Hands", an antiques expert finds a pocket watch in the Trotter brothers' garage which was made by a legendary watchmaker and he estimates it's worth around £40,000. At auction the ''starting bid'' is £150,000 which causes Del Boy to faint in surprise. Rodney drags him outside to recover, and when they return to the auction they learn the bidding was reached £3.5 ''million''. Cue Rodney fainting.

** Lois faints the second time the titular wolf shows up in [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS1E23GhostWolf "Ghost Wolf"]], and doesn't come around until the guys come on the scene.
** The MonsterOfTheWeek Swami's female assistant Lura passes out when Superman barges in on the villains at the end of [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS2E3TheManWhoCouldReadMinds "The Man Who Could Read Minds'']]. Hey, it means Superman gets to [[WouldntHitAGirl avoid punching a woman]].
** in the Episode [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfSupermanS2E21TheGoldenVulture "The Golden Vulture"]] [=McBain=] keels over when his sword bends against Superman's chest.

** Sheldon faints due to his fear of heights while rock climbing with Kripke in [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS2E13TheFriendshipAlgorithm "The Friendship Algorithm"]]. He's left hanging unconscious on the harness.
** Sheldon faints in [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E7TheGoodGuyFluctuation "The Good Guy Fluctuation"]] when he's scared by Leonard in a mask. The guys apparently were making bets on whether he would.

** In [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS5E21TheHawkingExcitation "The Hawking Excitation"]] Sheldon faints when he realizes the paper he gave Hawking had a mistake. Judging from Hawking's reaction, this happens quite often.

** Carole passes out in [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS2E1BackFromTheDead "Back From the Dead"]] when she realizes that Brittas has apparently come back from the dead.
** In [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS3E6TheStuffOfDreams "The Stuff of Dreams"]] Colin can't comprehend the fact that Brittas was Mr. Didcot the whole time and faints because of it.
** In [[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS6E1BackWithABang "Back with a Bang"]]Brittas falls unconscious after learning of his death in the previous episode, "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS5E8TheLastDay The Last Day]]".

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': Phyllis, prone to hysterics, tends to faint often in [[Recap/ColumboS06E02 "Old Fashioned Murder"]]. Ruth sarcastically predicts Phyllis will faint when she hears Columbo say the word "homicide", and sure enough she does.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Throughout the episode [[Recap/FriendsS9E8TheOneWithRachelsOtherSister "The one with Rachel's Other Sister"]], Monica is very nervous that the good china might get damaged. When Rachel and Amy break a plate in their fight, Monica collapses into Ross' arms.

** Sansa Stark faints on [[spoiler:seeing her father decapitated]] in [[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E10FireAndBlood "Fire and Blood"]].

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Mick drops like a sack of potatoes in [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS5E6MrParkersCulDeSac "Mr Parker's Cul-De-Sac"]] when he finds out that he has a teenage daughter.

* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': In [[Recap/TheMagicians2016S05E06OopsIDidItAgain "Oops!...I did it again"]] Alice passes out when Penny tries to travel to the moon and ends up {{TeleFrag}}ing himself.

** Recap/MashS1E20TheArmyNavyGame: Frank Burns faints when he draws the short straw to go check out the bomb.
** Recap/MashS3E20LoveAndMarriage: On a bus, when a wounded Mrs. Kwang goes into labor, Radar practically has a HeroicBSOD.

** Kimberly faints when she first sees who the White Ranger is in [[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS2EP18WhiteLightPart2 "White Light, Part 2"]]. She manageds to stay fainted until he helps her sit up.
** In [[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS1EP14FoulPlayInTheSky "Foul Play in the Sky"]], Bulk and Skull faint when they see that their pilot, Steve, has fallen asleep in the cockpit. They faint again when they come to and realize that ''Kimberly'' is flying the plane! It takes smelling salts to wake them up at the end of the episode.

* ''Series/MuppetsTonight'': Clifford faints early in the first episode when he's told he's going to get the job of hosting a show and he has to be ready in 30 seconds.

** In the episode [[Recap/OddSquadS1E21SixOClockToSixOFive "6:00 to 6:05"]], Octavia faints when she realizes that she forgot to feed the dinosaurs... four-and-a-half hours too late. Luckily, Otto manages to catch her before she can get a concussion as well from hitting the hard floor.
** Implied in [[Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]] when Olympia has a FreakOut. She wakes up in Dr. O's office in confusion, asking what happened.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In [[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E12KeeperOfThePurpleTwilight "Keeper of the PurpleTwilight"]] Janet faints when Ikar shows her his true alien form.

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': In [[Recap/ParksAndRecreationS07E11 "Two Funerals"]], Ron passes out when he finds out his personal barber died. Apparently, the man had been the one constant left in his life.

** Rimmer faints while watching an ApocalypticLog found aboard a derelict ship in [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens "Psirens"]]. The comes when a crewman backs off-screen away from a hideous alien... and then red stuff spurts across the screen.
** In [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIEpideme "Epideme"]], the Cat reacts to Kochanski cutting off her own arm by fainting. He points incredulously then keels over, and is left lying on the floor still frozen in that position.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS02E13CriticalMass "Critical Mass"]], Kavanaugh faints at the prospect of his impending torture.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': The episode [[Recap/StargateUniverseS2E3Awakening "Awakening"]] has an amusing reversal of the classic 1950s cinema "Monster Faint". When one of the aliens runs into a human, it's the ''alien'' that faints. To make it even funnier, the alien faints in front of Volker, probably the least combative character on the show.

** In [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E12Nightshifter "Nightshifter"]] Sheri faints when Sam and Dean confront her with [[spoiler:what appears to be her own corpse]].
** Sam faints after he sees the "angel" in [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E13HousesOfTheHoly "Houses of the Holy"]].
* ''Series/Tarzan1991'' has Jane fainting in Tarzan's arms from the relief of being saved from certain death after falling out of a tree.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E95HocusPocusAndFrisby Hocus Pocus And Frisby]]". When Frisby punches one of the aliens in the face, the alien's human head is revealed to be a mask covering his true alien head. When he sees this, Frisby collapses. He wakes up five minutes before the aliens are scheduled to leave.

** Implied in ''Recap/OddSquadS2E7OlympiasDayOtissDay "Olympia's Day"]] when Olympia has a FreakOut. She wakes up in Dr. O's office in confusion, asking what happened.

* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'': In "Time On Our Hands", an antiques expert finds a pocket watch in the Trotter brothers' garage which was made by a legendary watchmaker and he estimates it will make around £40,000. At auction the ''starting bid'' is £150,000 which causes Del Boy to faint in surprise. Rodney drags him outside to recover, and when they return to the auction they learn the bidding was reached £3.5 ''million''. Cue Rodney fainting.

** In [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIEpideme "Epideme"]] the Cat reacts to Kochanski cutting off her own arm by fainting. He points incredulously then keels over, and is left lying on the floor still frozen in that position.

* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': Episode [[Recap/StargateUniverseS2E3Awakening "Awakening"]] has an amusing reversal of the classic 50's cinema "Monster Faint." When one of the aliens runs into a human, it's the ''alien'' that faints. To make it even funnier, the alien faints in front of Volker, probably the least combative character on the show.
* In Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration, Season 1, Episode 25 ''[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E25TheNeutralZone The Neutral Zone]]'' Claire passes out when she sees Worf, because he's an alien and she's never seen one of his species before. Justified, since she's recently been in [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic stasis]], which has made her a bit weak.

** In [[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIEpideme "Epideme"]] the Cat reacts to Kochanski cutting off her own arm by fainting. He points incredulously then keels over, and is left lying on the floor still frozen in that

* ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'': Dorien expects Mrs. McCarthy to cut off her fingers in "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherCS2FallingInLoveAgain Falling in Love Again]]", but then she sees she ruined her nails, which makes her faint.

* ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'': Dorien expects Mrs. McCarthy to cut off her fingers in "Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherCS2FallingInLoveAgain", but then she sees she ruined her nails, which makes her faint.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E4BeautyAndTheBeasts Beauty and the Beasts]]" When her werewolf boyfriend Oz is suspected of having killed someone, Willow goes to the mortuary at night to get samples from the victim. As Xander and Cordelia retch and express their disgust at what's been done to the body, Willow is completely focused on the task, but on finishing, faints in their arms.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame The Long Game]]": Adam Mitchell faints when he sees a view of the future Earth. The Doctor and Rose don't bother to look back and see what happened.
--->'''The Doctor:''' He's your ''boyfriend''.\\
'''Rose:''' Not anymore.

** Sansa Stark's reaction to [[spoiler: seeing her father, Lord Eddard, beheaded.]]