You Know You're Doomed When:

1. You've compromised safety on this building/vessel etc. in order to save money
2. You're smoking a cigarette on Buffy
3. There's a killer on the loose & someone says "let's split up"
4. Your evil supervillain boss says "Do not fail me again"
5. James T Kirk or Michael Knight falls in love with you
6. You're a promiscuous teenager in a town with a serial killer
7. In a town threatened by volcano/avalanche/insect invasion you've been nasty to the kid with the small dog
8. Bruce Willis joins your squad
9. You're in the pre-titles sequence on the X-Files
10. Someone in your conversation says "but from a quantum point of view..."