Suddenly Psychic

A character believes they have psychic powers. By the end of the episode, either the character loses the powers or discovers they never had them.

Cheers

Appearances

• The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Season 2, episode 5, "The Mystic Powers of Maynard G. Krebs" (1960). Maynard suddenly has psychic powers and is asked to predict the winner of the presidential election. At the end of the episode, he loses his powers as suddenly as he gained them.
• Gilligan's Island: Season 2, episode 19, "Seer Gilligan" (1966). Gilligan eats some sunflower seeds that give him the ability to read minds.
• The Odd Couple: Season 2, episode 23, "Psychic, Shmychic" (1972). Felix starts making predictions that come true, and Oscar convinces him he's psychic.
• Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: Season 2, episode 170 (1977). Before she passed away, Standing Cow told Martha she had a premonition that something terrible would happen to Martha and her family if she stayed with Mac, and Martha starts having premonitions of her own. She predicts that the ironing board will fall, the radio will ring, and then the terrible thing will happen. The ironing board falls, and the radio turns out just as Mac is proposing to her, and Martha is so frightened that she turns him down.
• Cheers: Season 10, episode 3, "Madame LaCarla" (1991). Carla's psychic is retiring, and she has decided to make Carla her successor. Carla starts to think she can read the minds of the people in the bar, but her former psychic reveals to her that it's all BS.
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Season 2, episode 13, "ESP" (1996). When Ben correctly guesses who called Dr. Katz one morning, he starts to believe he has ESP, and he spends the day lecturing Laura and Dr. Katz about his so-called "powers."
• Home Movies: Season 4, episode 12, "Temporary Blindness" (2004). McGuirk gets shoddy laser eye surgery, and it temporarily blinds him. While stumbling around, he tells Brendon not to drink the chocolate milk, and the next day, there's an announcement at school that the chocolate milk went bad, so Brendon thinks McGuirk is psychic. McGuirk takes advantage of it by charging people $20 for psychic readings. When his vision comes back, McGuirk confesses that he knew about the chocolate milk in advance and was never psychic.
• The Goldbergs: Season 4, episode 2, "I Heart Video Dating" (2016). When Barry announces that he's going to be a gym teacher, Murray panics and buys him a "crystal ball" (plasma ball) to distract him. Barry uses it to pose as an "oracle" and tell people's fortunes, but the futures he sees are actually just the plots of movies he forgot he watched.