You Saved My Life
Someone saves a character's life, and the character is so grateful that they insist on waiting on the lifesaver hand and foot to the point that the lifesaver is annoyed.
The Odd Couple
Appearances
- Gilligan's Island: Season 3, episode 26, "Slave Girl" (1967). Gilligan rescues a native woman from drowning, and according to the customs of her people, she must become his slave, but her servitude just annoys Gilligan, so he tries to get out of it.
- The Odd Couple: Season 2, episode 17, "You Saved My Life" (1972). When Felix tries to clean the outside of a window and ends up hanging from it, Oscar saves his life, and Felix worships the ground he walks on so much that Felix gets annoyed.
- Mork & Mindy: Season 1, episode 6, "Mork Goes Public" (1978). When Fred saves Mork from getting hit by a truck, Mork follows him around, thanking him and trying to fix things for him. When Mork "fixes" Fred's trombone by stopping it from sliding, Fred kicks him out of his house.
- Barney Miller: Season 5, episode 21, "Identity" (1979). Just as a suspect is about to shoot Harris, Deitrich knocks the gun out of his hand, saving Harris's life, and Harris is irritated by the debt he feels he owes Deitrich. Harris pesters Deitrich throughout the day, trying to give him something to pay him back, but Deitrich doesn't want anything and insists he was just doing his job.
- Newhart: Season 4, episode 13, "Larry's Dead, Long Live Larry" (1986). While talking on the phone with Dick, Larry accidentally gets electrocuted and passes out. He hears Dick's voice on the phone as he's coming to, so he believes Dick brought him back to life to do a very important thing for him, and he starts hanging around Dick 24/7 waiting to find out what the thing is.