The gang goes to some cool tourist attraction and find that it’s closed down. the owner sadly tells them he’s going out of business , due to a monster or ghost that’s scaring away all his customers
Two old, grouchy employees warn the kids that they’d better flee before the monster/ghost gets them
The monster/ghost chases the gan garound.
Fred comes up with a Rube Goldberg-style plan to catch the monster/ghost.
Fred’s plan fails miserably, but Scooby accidentally traps the monster/ghost.
The monster/ghost is one of the grouchy old men in step 2 (the OTHER grouhcy old man is an undercover cop), who was planning to buy up the land cheap after driving property values into the ground.
The phony spook growls that he’d have gotten away with it, if not for those meddling kids.
The tourist attraction is packed with people again.
You left out the part where Fred says, “Shaggy, you and Scooby go that way. Daphne, Velma, and I will go this way.”
And the part where Velma loses her glasses and gropes around for them, inadvertently stumbling upon the monster.
And the part where Scooby (and/or Shaggy) is induced to do something dangerous by the promise of one or more Scooby Snacks.
“Looks like danger-prone Daphne’s done it again!”
Once in a while, Fred’s plan actually does work. Hint: If he explains ahead of time how it’s supposed to work, it won’t.
As revealed when they capture the monster, pull off the rubber face he’s wearing, and gasp incredulously at his true identity
Shaggy and Scooby celebrate the successful completion of the adventure by feeding their faces.
Show the victim’s dead body. If Season 1, set slow pans over the body to music. If Season 2, an innocent bystander happens across the body and screams.
Scene showing some aspect of Castle’s home life, usually involving his daughter doing something involved with growing up and becoming more independent and freaking Castle out.
Castle gets distracted by a call on his phone.
Castle perues the body with Beckett and the other two detectives at the scene of the crime. Witty low-key banter, including semi-flirtatious talk between Castle and Beckett, is tossed about while they discuss the facts of the case.
Find clues that point to a highly likely suspect with an excellent motive.
Suspect wanted victim dead, but has airtight alibi.
Suspect points Beckett and Castle in a new direction.
The killer is on screen in a speaking role.
B plot involving Castle’s home life progresses, with Castle getting a little less freaked out.
Repeat steps 5-7 and 9 three more times.
About 15 minutes before the end of the show, the investigation hits a dead end. Beckett mulls about it at the whiteboard in the station while Castle mulls about it at home.
A flippant comment by Castle’s daughter or mother causes the penny to drop.
Castle rushes back into the station and he and Beckett discuss the clue they originally missed.
Cut to the interrogation of the real murderer, where foolproof evidence that was discovered off camera is brought out, forcing a confession.
Castle and Beckett flirt some more.
B plot is resolved, usually with Castle’s daughter giving up the thing Castle freaked about. They bond some more.
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and a red-shirted security man beam down to a planet
They encounter a threatening alien, and the security man dies
The alien gains control of the Enterprise (or, at least, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy)
The Enterprise crew regains control of the situation through use of at least two of the following:
— Kirk’s ability to think outside the rules
— Kirk’s ability to seduce any female of any species
— Spock’s logic and scientific knowledge
— McCoy’s humanity
— Scotty’s ingenuity
As the Enterprise breaks orbit, the bridge crew either:
— Reflects on what just happened
— Shares a laugh about what just happened (often at Spock’s expense)
Wealthy man or woman has a conflict with a personal acquaintance.
Said person is in a position to ruin the life of wealthy person.
Wealthy person decides other party has to go.
Devises elaborate plan to bump them off while covering their own tracks.
Columbo arrives at crime scene discovers an anomaly with stated facts.
Columbo meets killer and apologizes for asking questions.
Columbo never has any other suspects.
Columbo keeps following suspect asking questions.
Suspect gets annoyed tells Columbo to leave them alone.
Final confrontation Columbo presents evidence that suspect screwed up alibi.
Suspect confesses to crime.
End
At 23 minutes in, the detectives will talk to some no-faced nobody about something that has no bearing on the case, and the scene will do nothing to move the plot along.
This goes all the way back to Perry Mason – at least – and has passed for the deus ex machina device for most procedurals since then.
If folks really wanted to cut back on their TV time and yet still get “a feel” for what their favorite shows are doing, they could select the approximate point in the show when this reveal takes place and TiVo (or DVR) five minutes either side of that and dump the irrelevant parts of the show.
Would that pump up the ad space around that slot or what?
A poor boy from an ethnic minoroty will be found standing over the body, and will get arrested. He’s innocent, of course.
During the autopsy, Quincy will discover the victim actually died of _______ (fill in trendy liberal cause of the week: pollution, nuclear waste, toxic food additives, whatever).
Quincy will find that a Fortune 500 CEO is really responsible for the victim’s death.
Quincy will lead Lieutenant Monahan to the office of the Fortune 500 CEO, and give a 5 minute, impassioned, melodramatic speech about the Cause of the Week, before Monahan arrests the CEO for murder.
5b) Said CEO may or may not pull a gun out of his desk drawer and threaten to kill Quincy or himself, before he’s finally taken away.
Raymond says/does something stupid.
Deb gets mad.
Parents barge in, put in their two cents worth, take sides.
Robert feels rejected.
Kids sit quietly at their little table, coloring, never getting up or uttering a peep through whole show.
Problem is resolved, Ray and Deb make up. May or may not have sex in badly decorated bedroom.
everyone is on the bus, Ty presents the family with the sob story. This is a very special family. Whichever blonde they have that day and possibly Paul cry because the family is SO BRAVE and have been through SO MUCH.
“GOOD MORNING DOE FAMILY!” the team shows up in their bus outside the house, hotel, or hospital. The family, who we’re reminded has NO IDEA that anyone is coming, comes out all together- it’s 7 in the morning and everyone is home and awake and either dressed cutely or wearing t-shirts related to their charity (Dream-Bikers!) or their disease (Cancer Sucks!).
Everyone screams and cheers and then the music changes and we cut to whichever family member is crying the most. Ty asks what’s wrong and they’re JUST SO HAPPY. Ty is going to take care of them. While they spend the week in… DISNEY WORLD! The kids go nuts.
Ty takes a tour of the house led by the mom and comments on how hideously disgusting it is and how sad it is for them to live in such absolute squalor. Mom points out mold, sinking foundations, and doorways too small for a wheelchair.
The other people play and talk to the kids. They pick out one thing the kid mentions (or agrees when they ask “do you like x?” and tell the camera that little Johnny is completely obsessed with chalkboards.
The family leaves and a burly contractor shows up with facial hair and a hard hat and cries about how special it is to be able to help such a special family. A huge crowd of people in t-shirts and hard hats gather around.
We see the family in Disney World sitting in front of a screen as Ty and his handheld camera spaz out over the old house being demolished. The family looks thrilled.
they build. They like Sears.
Oh no, don’t go into Ty’s secret room! It’s a secret!
A celebrity that the family likes shows up and has a benefit concert right at the family’s house while the family is not there. It’s almost always a country singer
Oh no, we’re not going to get the house done in time! It rained! This never happens!
A group of kids makes the family some kind of arts and crafts project to go in the house
the family comes home. There’s a screaming crowd. The contractor tells them it’s been an honor to build them a house.
MOVE! THAT! BUS!
The family cries and hyperventilates and falls on the ground and jumps around. Ty’s all “are you okay?” and mom’s all “it’s so beautiful!”
CHECK OUT YOUR NEW HOUSE! they go in and look around and cry some more and comment on the arts and crafts project that the kids made and the wide doorways
The kids’ rooms are kind of awesome, but ridiculously specifically-themed. The kid who played with a chalkboard earlier has a bed with posts that look like chalk and chalkboards for walls and really nothing but a lot of chalk and chalk-shaped items in his room.
The parents outside their room- Ty tells them in a very serious tone that he made this room his special project because they’re so special, and do they want to see it? They do, and they go in. They gasp and ooh and aah. Then they go into the bathroom and hug each other and cry a lot.
There is a backyard thing, a new car, or a music or play room or something. There’s also a scholarship for the kids or the medical bills have been paid off. Everyone is happy and sure everything is going to be okay.
