History YouAreWhatYouHate / LiveActionTV

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', when after years of enduring his taunts surrounding her heritage, [[CanadaEh Robin]] finds out that Barney is one-quarter Canadian.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': A member of a high school clique of white supremacists touts himself as being of "pure white Christian blood", but Rey Curtis, who is himself Hispanic, smugly informs him that no matter what he says, him being of Spanish heritage means that he's Latino and therefore one of the very people that such groups denounce.

* The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Killer Of The Week]] on an episode of ''Series/ColdCase'' turned out to be a Jewish (or at least half-Jewish) member of a neo-Nazi group. Another member of that same group touts himself as being of "pure white Christian blood", but Scotty, who is himself Hispanic, smugly informs him that no matter what he says, him being of Spanish heritage means that he's Latino and therefore one of the very people that such groups denounce.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In episode 6, Lestat de Lioncourt complains that "[Claudia is] an affected, self-absorbed, nasty little creature who's fooled herself into thinking she's smarter than she is," which is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Later, when Claudia purposefully leaves their chess game without finishing, Lestat launches into an angry rant, calling her "Spoiled, selfish, thankless. Heedless, disagreeable, obnoxious, repellent, unkind, spoiled to the core!" All of these adjectives could easily be used to describe Lestat himself.

* An episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' ends with TheReveal that [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] was actually a member of one of the "Untermenschen" races he hated so much. The original baby Adolf was killed by his time-traveling nanny, but the other nanny grabbed the nearest available baby (that of a homeless Roma) and passed him off to Alois Hitler as his son. [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct He bought it.]]]]

** In the episode "Bloodlines" the killer is [[spoiler: a Niagra police officer. Appearing to be one of the most racist of a whole station house of [[BigotWithABadge Bigots With Badges]], he turns out to have killed the victim for having evidence his grandmother was black. Confronted with this, he still insists "''I'm'' not black" with total disgust, appearing to be more ashamed of this possibility than of the murder]].

* The ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode ''"The Waldo Moment"'' sees a British comedian run his cartoon bear character Waldo as a by-election candidate as a protest vote against corrupt and clueless politicians; as far he is concerned, politicians are all just made-up characters with nothing to say, and so is he but [[AtLeastIAdmitIt at least he admits it]]. [[spoiler:[[FullCircleRevolution He ends up becoming the figurehead of a global movement which sees the old democratic institutions torn down and replaced by a new internet-based direct democracy]], [[DemocracyIsBad where the darkest impulses of human nature and mob rule are made into law]].]]

* The image above is from ''Series/ChappellesShow'', which contains an extremely literal example; in the sketch "Clayton Bigsby, White Supremacist", about a BlindBlackGuy who grew up not knowing that he's black and became a prominent white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan leader. His friends make sure that their fellow Klansmen never see him in public out of his robes, and don't tell him that he's black because they are afraid that if he ever found out, he'd kill himself just so there'd be one less black person in the world, and he's too important to the Klan for them to lose. This fear turns out to be unfounded, as when he does find out, he simply becomes a BoomerangBigot and resumes business as usual.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In episode 6, when Claudia purposefully leaves their chess game without finishing, Lestat de Lioncourt launches into an angry rant, calling her "spoiled, selfish, thankless. Heedless, disagreeable, obnoxious, repellent, unkind, spoiled to the core!" All of these adjectives could easily be used to describe Lestat himself.

* The Season 2 finale has a mild example. A visiting Mountie starts upstaging Murdoch in the areas where he usually excels which leads Murdoch to declare "I don't know how anyone could put up with it." As Murdoch walks off his superior says to a third character [[LampshadeHanging "Yet somehow I manage."]] Of course it also later turns out that [[spoiler:Murdoch and the Mountie are half-brothers.]]

* It's probably not "hate", but in the Dizzy Gillespie episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Scooter says that Kermit doesn't allow puppets in the studio. (This rule wasn't always in effect; Edgar Bergen was a previous guest, and they had no objections then, given how ''all of them'' took part in the "Consider Yourself" musical number.)
* The Season 2 finale of ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' has a mild example. A visiting Mountie starts upstaging Murdoch in the areas where he usually excels which leads Murdoch to declare "I don't know how anyone could put up with it." As Murdoch walks off his superior says to a third character [[LampshadeHanging "Yet somehow I manage."]] Of course it also later turns out that [[spoiler:Murdoch and the Mountie are half-brothers.]]

* ''Series/MrsAmerica'': The STOP ERA movement is made up of women who [[FemaleMisogynist oppose women's liberation]] and think women should StayInTheKitchen. They frequently state that they're proud to be homemakers and disdainfully say they don't want to be "working girls." Except, as Bella points out, in order to promote their cause, they have to organize protests and rallies, spend hours making phone calls and writing letters to politicians, balance budgets, write and give speeches, deal with the media, and, in the cases of the movement's leaders, keep everyone else on-track.
-->'''Bella:''' Congratulations. You're working girls.

** Dr. House harbors a simmering rage at stupid doctors and clueless patients. He's both; when doctors misdiagnosed his leg clot, House insisted on waiting it out instead of amputating. He ended up with 1½ legs and double the pain.

* In the first season finale of ''Series/FirstKill'', [[spoiler: Juliette transforms Theo into a vampire to save his life, an action that nobody approves of. As Cal states, she turned him into the thing he hates the most because it attacked and killed his mother in front of him.]].