History StuffBlowingUp / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' blew up Kate's apartment. [[spoiler: She survives.]]

*** No, let's talk about this TARDIS team for a moment. Seven and Ace were the only team to ''actively seek out bad guys in order to blow them up''. And in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' expanded universe, it gets better. The Doctor basically just sighs and decides that scolding Ace for bringing along the explosives basically isn't worth the effort. ''Okay Ace, you can go blow up that evil from the dawn of Time if you want to. Just don't forget to wear your jacket, it's cold out there!''

** Despite having a single series of only thirteen episodes, the Ninth Doctor caused a ''lot'' of explosions in his short run. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Blows up a department store]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld causes the last pure human to combust]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree bombs Downing Street]] (well, okay, that last one was Mickey, but the Doctor gave him the code to do so), [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead allows a medium to blow up a house on top of the Rift]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame overheats the Mighty Jagrafess]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances destroyed the weapons factory at Villengard]] ([[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome offscreen]]) and visited Krakatoa ([[NoodleIncident offscreen]]). As Rose so accurately lampshades in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]], one of the Ninth Doctor's defining traits is that he ''really'' loves to blow things up.

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* The series finale of ''{{Series/Bones}}'' has the lab blowing up. Booth thinks it’s averted after disarming the bomb he finds, but sees a repeater a second later and realizes there are more bombs. He,Brennan, Angela and Hodgins are trapped and injured but no one dies. Brennan has a temporary brain injury though.

** It goes UpToEleven during the Kalish years (though it seems Koichi Sakamoto is the one who was really fond of them: evidently, ''someone'' was reining him in for the first 13-ish years of the franchise.) At one point in [[Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive "Operation Overdrive"]], Mack and Moltor ''pointing'' their weapons at each other caused enormous explosions (they clearly didn't fire, and don't react to the explosions, which were well in the background.) It got to the point where it was ''less'' epic because when the background's never ''not'' on fire, you never say "whoa, that attack was powerful" or something.

* From ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' TV Series: "[Disaster Area's] songs are, on the whole, very simple and usually follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath a silvery moon which then explodes for no adequately explored reason."

* ''Series/{{Reno 911}}'' is known to feature gratuitous explosions in unlikely circumstances. For example, in one episode, Deputy Junior gingerly disposed of the feces of a police dog that had accidentally consumed a large amount of C4 explosive. Lieutenant Dangle then unknowingly tossed something into the garbage can, causing a [[ImpressivePyrotechnics massive, fiery explosion]].

* In the ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' recurring sketch "Farm Film Report", its hick critics preferred films with this trope ([[CatchPhrase "Blowed up real good!"]]). They '''loved''' ''Film/{{Scanners}}'' and were awfully disappointed ''Film/{{Blowup}}'' for not actually having stuff blowing up in it (they did like ''Film/ZabriskiePoint'' though). They also had every celebrity interview end with the celebrity essentially willing themselves to blow up, and would end their show with the catchphrase "May the Good Lord take a likin' to ya and blow ya up real soon!" And they would themselves explode.

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' blew lots of things up just for the fun of it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP8Kah6vXsQ "The Exploding Version of the 'Blue Danube'"]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin speaks for itself]]. No less explosive is the ever-popular "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekiZYSVdeQ How Not To Be Seen]]" sketch, which ends in an orgy of StockFootage explosions. Episode 16 has a RunningGag of random exploding animals, including ThatPoorCat (offscreen). Other exploding things in the series include a penguin on a television set and [[UnfortunateNames Mrs. Niggerbaiter]], whose friend's son says after she spontaneously explodes, "Don't be so sentimental. Things explode every day."

* In the ''Series/GameOfThrones'' episode "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E9Blackwater Blackwater]]", [[TheChessmaster Tyrion Lannister]] has around 8000 jars worth of Wildfire (essentially GreekFire with magic mixed in) dumped into a river where the enemy is attacking his side's city from with around a hundred ships. After enough ships are close to it, he signals his mercenary, Bronn, to shoot a flaming arrow into the wildfire. The result is about half of the fleet destroyed almost instantly.

** Car bombs also went off near Adam, Don, and Mac at various times.

* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' has more than one, justifiably. Black powder was deadly stuff and there were a number of safety measures enforced on the men whose job was to work with it (it's noted in the books that they wore slippers because a spark from nailed shoes could destroy the ship). The first is a French corvette that gets an unlucky shot to the magazine, then there's a supply ship blown up by a fire ship, and an exploded bridge. In the second series, Horatio, Bush, and Kennedy destroy a fort most impressively. The third, however, takes it to implausible levels thanks to ConspicuousCGI and some serious PlotArmor enforced on the villain.

--->'''The Doctor:''' ''[disappointed]'' [[WheresTheKaboom Is that it?]]

* The ability to blow things up is actually Piper's second power in ''Series/{{Charmed}}''. It's explained as the natural progression of her first power [[TimeStandsStill to stop time]]: at first she halted molecular movement, and now she can accelerate it.