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* ''Series/CornerGas'', episode "Hair Loss": Lacey tries to make Brent feel better about losing his hair by listing attractive bald celebrities. She manages to think of three before resorting to Elmer Fudd of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
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* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', "The Slump": When sarge and detectives from 99 discuss their favourite cop movies and try to find the best one, Rosa lists things she likes about ''Robocop'': Gratuitous violence.
-->'''Rosa Diaz:''' No. ''Robocop''. It's got everything I like: Gratuitous violence ''[the intonation signifies she will list more; long pause ensues]''\\
'''Jake Peralta:''' Oh, I thought you were listing things.\\
'''Rosa Diaz:''' I was. I'm done.
* ''Series/CornerGas'', episode "Hair Loss": Lacey tries to make Brent feel better about losing his hair by listing attractive bald celebrities. She manages to think of three before resorting to Elmer Fudd of''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]].
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-->'''Rosa Diaz:''' No. ''Robocop''. It's got everything I like: Gratuitous violence ''[the intonation signifies she will list more; long pause ensues]''\\
'''Jake Peralta:''' Oh, I thought you were listing things.\\
'''Rosa Diaz:''' I was. I'm done.
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'''Chandler:''' Me! On my computer.
'''Ross:''' Well you sure used a large font.\\
'''Chandler:''' Yeah, well... waitress at a coffee shop and cheer squad co-captain only took up so much room.
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'''Chandler:''' Me! On my computer.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ChristmasEpisode, [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] discovers that she is one of ''two'' names on SantaClaus' naughty list. The only other person is [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler someone named Adolf]].
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*** "Gaming the System": Buford's video game, ''Jump n' Duck'', only allows the player to, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, guess]]. Cue the [[TrappedInTVLand immersive video game experience]].
*** "The Secret of Success": The boys see an ad on TV promoting an all-terrain vehicle that goes on '''[[LargeHam ROAD AND MUD!!!]]''' They decide to build an ATV that actually can drive on literally all terrains.
*** "Doof Side of the Moon": After watching a tourism ad for their city that lists "grass, milk, and smiles" as selling points, they and their friends set out to build the ultimate tourist attraction.
*** "Gaming the System": Buford's video game, ''Jump n' Duck'', only allows the player to, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well, guess]]. Cue the [[TrappedInTVLand immersive video game experience]].
*** "The Secret of Success": The boys see an ad on TV promoting an all-terrain vehicle that goes on '''[[LargeHam ROAD AND MUD!!!]]''' They decide to build an ATV that actually can drive on literally all terrains.
*** "Doof Side of the Moon": After watching a tourism ad for their city that lists "grass, milk, and smiles" as selling points, they and their friends set out to build the ultimate tourist attraction.
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What qualifies an Amusingly Short List as such and not just one or a few items that naturally form as part of dialogue is that it has to be presented as a list. The character should build up expectation of a list—by announcing they have a list, through BodyLanguage such as counting on fingers, via a pause after an item, and so on—and then not deliver on that expectation because the list is unexpectedly, comically short.
What qualifies an Amusingly Short List as such and not just one or a few items that naturally form as part of dialogue is that it has to be presented as a list. The character should build up expectation of a list—by announcing they have a list, through BodyLanguage such as counting on fingers, via a pause after an item, and so on—and then not deliver on that expectation because the list is unexpectedly, comically short.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', [[MadScientist Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] has invented a [[MirrorMoralityMachine Turn-Everything-Evil-Inator]]. We see the device fire all over the place in a series of failed attempts to hit [[AnimalEspionage Perry the Platypus]]. He eventually reasons he should just summon the things he ''has'' hit to be his minions, only to wind up with three items - a toothbrush, a bar of soap, and a [[ItMakesSenseInContext sentient mass of grape and curry flavored gelatin]].
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** [[MadScientist Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] has invented a [[MirrorMoralityMachine Turn-Everything-Evil-Inator]]. We see the device fire all over the place in a series of failed attempts to hit [[AnimalEspionage Perry the Platypus]]. He eventually reasons he should just summon the things he ''has'' hit to be his minions, only to wind up with three items - a toothbrush, a bar of soap, and a [[ItMakesSenseInContext sentient mass of grape and curry flavored gelatin]].
** [[MadScientist Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] has invented a [[MirrorMoralityMachine Turn-Everything-Evil-Inator]]. We see the device fire all over the place in a series of failed attempts to hit [[AnimalEspionage Perry the Platypus]]. He eventually reasons he should just summon the things he ''has'' hit to be his minions, only to wind up with three items - a toothbrush, a bar of soap, and a [[ItMakesSenseInContext sentient mass of grape and curry flavored gelatin]].
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** In "The Chronicles of Meap", the space criminal who has [[AlienAbduction abducted]] Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella tries and fails to be intimidating:
--->[[IHaveManyNames I am known by many names throughout the universe]]... Well, actually, two: [[TomTheDarkLord Mitch]], and uh, ''(laughing a little)'' some of the guys, they like to call me "Big Mitch".
** PlayedForDrama in the [[ExtraLongEpisode 44-minute special]] "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSummerBelongsToYou Summer Belongs to You]]", where the kids are stranded on a desert island. Phineas [[HeroicBSOD temporarily descends to madness]] trying to come up with a solution with their limited materials.
-->'''Phineas:''' We've got the seats! We've still got one rubber band! And we've got... We've got sand!
** In "The Chronicles of Meap", the space criminal who has [[AlienAbduction abducted]] Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella tries and fails to be intimidating:
--->[[IHaveManyNames I am known by many names throughout the universe]]... Well, actually, two: [[TomTheDarkLord Mitch]], and uh, ''(laughing a little)'' some of the guys, they like to call me "Big Mitch".
** PlayedForDrama in the [[ExtraLongEpisode 44-minute special]] "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSummerBelongsToYou Summer Belongs to You]]", where the kids are stranded on a desert island. Phineas [[HeroicBSOD temporarily descends to madness]] trying to come up with a solution with their limited materials.
-->'''Phineas:''' We've got the seats! We've still got one rubber band! And we've got... We've got sand!
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': A Power plant announcement in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E11BurnsVerkaufenDerKraftwerk Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk]]":
-->''Attention, workers: we have completed our evaluation of the plant. We regret to announce the following layoffs, which I will read in alphabetical order: Simpson, Homer. That is all.''
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** A Power plant announcement in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E11BurnsVerkaufenDerKraftwerk Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk]]":
-->''Attention, --->''Attention, workers: we have completed our evaluation of the plant. We regret to announce the following layoffs, which I will read in alphabetical order: Simpson, Homer. That is all.''''
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman "Homer Badman"]], Homer goes to a candy vendor convention and encounters someone trying to advertise [[StockYuck wax lips]]:
--->'''Sales rep:''' Hey, sir. Try our wax lips. It's the candy of 1000 uses.\\
'''Homer:''' Like what?\\
'''Sales rep:''' One, a humorous substitute for your own lips.\\
'''Homer:''' Keep going.\\
'''Sales rep:''' Two... [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog I'm needed in the basement.]]
** A Power plant announcement in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E11BurnsVerkaufenDerKraftwerk Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk]]":
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E9HomerBadman "Homer Badman"]], Homer goes to a candy vendor convention and encounters someone trying to advertise [[StockYuck wax lips]]:
--->'''Sales rep:''' Hey, sir. Try our wax lips. It's the candy of 1000 uses.\\
'''Homer:''' Like what?\\
'''Sales rep:''' One, a humorous substitute for your own lips.\\
'''Homer:''' Keep going.\\
'''Sales rep:''' Two... [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog I'm needed in the basement.]]
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-->''Attention, workers: we have completed our evaluation of the plant. We regret to announce the following layoffs, which I will read in alphabetical order: Simpson, Homer. That is all."''
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* In ''ComicBook/DarkReign: The List'', ComicBook/NormanOsborn shows ComicBook/NickFury a list he keeps by his bedside, essentially the list of superheroes he's going to kill someday, including Fury. Fury in turn shows Osborn his own list, which consists of "Save the world", "Punch Norman in the face", and "Have a beer".
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* A RunningGag in Magazine/PrivateEye, which blatantly pads the lists by making the last two entries "Er..." and "That's it".
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic:'' In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 "The Cutie Map - Part 1"]], Sugar Belle--the baker who's [[CreativeSterility sacrificed her talent for baking]]--lists off everything she has to offer at her bakery:
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* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': After Mikkel disobeys Sigrun's orders, she puts him on her mutinist risk list. Mikkel is surprised she has such a list, so she produces it, revealing it to be literally a scrap of paper with Mikkel's name on it.
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-->'''Mikkel:''' Most people tend to include more than one item when they make lists.\\
'''Sigrun:''' Sounds to me like most people need to start making more focused and less stupid lists.
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'''Sigrun:''' Sounds to me like most people need to start making more focused and less stupid lists.
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The opposite of the LongList.
An Amusingly Short List is funny because it's barely a list at all. The main joke of the short list is often the fact that someone ''has'' gone to the effort of writing out the list or started listing things out loud, despite there being only one or two entries.
Sometimes the humour comes from the fact that the character enthusiastically claims or implies there are many, many potential items that belong on the list... only to remember only very few. Or only one. Or none at all.
May be combined with DamnedByFaintPraise, if it's a list of someone's good qualities. RuleNumberOne can be related: It's common to list only one or two rules.
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* In one of the ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' comics, Bender says that all he needs is "[[HookersAndBlow booze and floozies]]".
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* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the title characters have a game called "Calvinball" (which [[{{Calvinball}} named a trope]]) that only has two permanent rules: you can't play the same way twice, and everyone has to wear a mask.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', the secret "bean club" devoted to looking for magic beans has only one rule, not to talk about it, which is [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment stated twice]].
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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book, ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', Death asks his library for a list of all the non-dangerous creatures on [[LandDownunder Fourecks]]. He gets a single sheet of paper with "Some of the sheep" written on it.
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* In ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'', after Blackadder comments that being Lord Executioner is itself a death sentence, Melchett says he has a list of candidates. He announces "Candidates for the position of Lord High Executioner", unrolls a scroll, says "Lord Blackadder", and then rolls the scroll up again.
* ''Series/CornerGas'', episode "Hair Loss": Lacey tries to make Brent feel better about losing his hair by listing attractive bald celebrities. She manages to think of three before resorting to Elmer Fudd of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
-->'''Brent:''' [[LampshadeHanging Big dropoff between three and four, there.]]
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** Pheobe says Ross is "on my list", before adding "Has anyone ''seen'' my list? It's a piece of paper and it says 'Ross'."
** Ross has Chandler type out a pro-con list to help him decide between Rachel and Julie. The only thing in Julie's con list is "She's not Rachel". Rachel is upset when she finds the list, and is not reassured when she finds the Julie's con list, as Chandler has typed it as "She's not Rachem".
** The guy who works a SoulCrushingDeskJob and to whom Phoebe tries to sells toner over the phone has a hilarious and utterly sad short task list on his white board. It reads: Today's tasks: KILL SELF. No one in his office notices.
* On ''Series/GreatNews'', Portia reports on the latest celebrity caught in a sex scandal, ending with her listing the only good men left in Hollywood: "Creator/TomHanks; end of list."
* Implied on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Al wants to list all his worldly possessions, so Peg gives him a small piece of paper. He reiterates that it's "all" his worldly possessions, so she rips off an even smaller piece.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Barney Stinson bounces back and forth between {{Long List}}s and short lists. If his list isn't hundreds of people long (they're usually people he's had sex with), then it's just one or two items long (usually a reason to have sex or not to have sex).
* ''Series/RedDwarf'', "Nanarchy": Dave Lister deals with [[AnArmAndALeg a loss of his arm]] and Kryten and Kochanski try to comfort him, saying that there are ''countless'' people who have lost an arm, and then gone on to lead a perfectly normal life. Thousands. More than thousands. Millions. They have trouble naming them, but the gang collaboratively manage to find five. Five could be a decently long list, but considering the names... You be the judge of that: Lord Nelson, the Venus de Milo, the one-armed man from ''The Fugitive'', van Gogh [[note]]according to Cat, that dude managed to cut off his own ear with just one arm[[/note]] and Dave Lister.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had a RunningGag on the Colin Jost/Michael Che era of Weekend Update where they would present a list that's implied to be lengthy, only to have a small number of items on it. We then cut back to them to find them in the middle of something that should have been finished before the list was supposed to end.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Bad Blood": Agent Scully starts listing agent Mulder's problems with first of all... but the first and only thing is so huge that she doesn't even need "a second of all".
-->'''Scully:''' First of all, if the family of Ronnie Strickland does indeed decide to sue the FBI for -- I think the figure is $446 million -- then you and I both will most certainly be co-defendants and second of all... I don't even have a second of all, Mulder. $446 million.
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[[folder: Magazines]]
* A RunningGag in Magazine/PrivateEye, which blatantly pads the lists by making the last two entries "Er..." and "That's it".
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In [[http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=40 this]] ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'', [[UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi Musashi's]] opponent has a list of things necessary for a duel: that list being "Dudes" and "Swords".
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/{{Benzaie}}'': His InNameOnly Top 5 lists at one point only had two entries.
* WebVideo/SmoshGames has a ''[[WebVideo/HonestTrailers Honest Game Trailer]]'' for ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886'' where at one point it's discussed what the "Extras" menu option has available when unlocked.
--> '''Narrator:''' And unlocking extras like... [[ClosingCredits the credits]]. That's it.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Zoidberg is the only being on all of planet Earth on Robot Santa's "nice" list.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic:'' In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 "The Cutie Map - Part 1"]], Sugar Belle--the baker who's [[CreativeSterility sacrificed her talent for baking]]--lists off everything she has to offer at her bakery:
-->'''Sugar Belle:''' We have: muffins...
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Power plant announcement: "Attention, workers: we have completed our evaluation of the plant. We regret to announce the following layoffs, which I will read in alphabetical order: Simpson, Homer."
* In the episode "Something Smells" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] takes out a long list of things to do, in which all the items are "go to work". He realizes that he needed the list for Sunday, an index card that says "say 'hi' to everyone in Bikini Bottom."
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[[caption-width-right:161:This list has to be: 1. '''Amusing'''. 2. '''Short'''. [[note]] 3. '''[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Amusingly short]]''' [[/note]]]]
The opposite of the LongList.
An Amusingly Short List is funny because it's barely a list at all. The main joke of the short list is often the fact that someone ''has'' gone to the effort of writing out the list or started listing things out loud, despite there being only one or two entries.
Sometimes the humour comes from the fact that the character enthusiastically claims or implies there are many, many potential items that belong on the list... only to remember only very few. Or only one. Or none at all.
May be combined with DamnedByFaintPraise, if it's a list of someone's good qualities. RuleNumberOne can be related: It's common to list only one or two rules.
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[[folder: Comic Books]]
* In one of the ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' comics, Bender says that all he needs is "[[HookersAndBlow booze and floozies]]".
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[[folder: Comic Strips]]
* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the title characters have a game called "Calvinball" (which [[{{Calvinball}} named a trope]]) that only has two permanent rules: you can't play the same way twice, and everyone has to wear a mask.
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[[folder: Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', the secret "bean club" devoted to looking for magic beans has only one rule, not to talk about it, which is [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment stated twice]].
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[[folder: Literature]]
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book, ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', Death asks his library for a list of all the non-dangerous creatures on [[LandDownunder Fourecks]]. He gets a single sheet of paper with "Some of the sheep" written on it.
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[[folder: Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'', after Blackadder comments that being Lord Executioner is itself a death sentence, Melchett says he has a list of candidates. He announces "Candidates for the position of Lord High Executioner", unrolls a scroll, says "Lord Blackadder", and then rolls the scroll up again.
* ''Series/CornerGas'', episode "Hair Loss": Lacey tries to make Brent feel better about losing his hair by listing attractive bald celebrities. She manages to think of three before resorting to Elmer Fudd of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
-->'''Brent:''' [[LampshadeHanging Big dropoff between three and four, there.]]
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** Pheobe says Ross is "on my list", before adding "Has anyone ''seen'' my list? It's a piece of paper and it says 'Ross'."
** Ross has Chandler type out a pro-con list to help him decide between Rachel and Julie. The only thing in Julie's con list is "She's not Rachel". Rachel is upset when she finds the list, and is not reassured when she finds the Julie's con list, as Chandler has typed it as "She's not Rachem".
** The guy who works a SoulCrushingDeskJob and to whom Phoebe tries to sells toner over the phone has a hilarious and utterly sad short task list on his white board. It reads: Today's tasks: KILL SELF. No one in his office notices.
* On ''Series/GreatNews'', Portia reports on the latest celebrity caught in a sex scandal, ending with her listing the only good men left in Hollywood: "Creator/TomHanks; end of list."
* Implied on ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Al wants to list all his worldly possessions, so Peg gives him a small piece of paper. He reiterates that it's "all" his worldly possessions, so she rips off an even smaller piece.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': Barney Stinson bounces back and forth between {{Long List}}s and short lists. If his list isn't hundreds of people long (they're usually people he's had sex with), then it's just one or two items long (usually a reason to have sex or not to have sex).
* ''Series/RedDwarf'', "Nanarchy": Dave Lister deals with [[AnArmAndALeg a loss of his arm]] and Kryten and Kochanski try to comfort him, saying that there are ''countless'' people who have lost an arm, and then gone on to lead a perfectly normal life. Thousands. More than thousands. Millions. They have trouble naming them, but the gang collaboratively manage to find five. Five could be a decently long list, but considering the names... You be the judge of that: Lord Nelson, the Venus de Milo, the one-armed man from ''The Fugitive'', van Gogh [[note]]according to Cat, that dude managed to cut off his own ear with just one arm[[/note]] and Dave Lister.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had a RunningGag on the Colin Jost/Michael Che era of Weekend Update where they would present a list that's implied to be lengthy, only to have a small number of items on it. We then cut back to them to find them in the middle of something that should have been finished before the list was supposed to end.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Bad Blood": Agent Scully starts listing agent Mulder's problems with first of all... but the first and only thing is so huge that she doesn't even need "a second of all".
-->'''Scully:''' First of all, if the family of Ronnie Strickland does indeed decide to sue the FBI for -- I think the figure is $446 million -- then you and I both will most certainly be co-defendants and second of all... I don't even have a second of all, Mulder. $446 million.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Magazines]]
* A RunningGag in Magazine/PrivateEye, which blatantly pads the lists by making the last two entries "Er..." and "That's it".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In [[http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=40 this]] ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'', [[UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi Musashi's]] opponent has a list of things necessary for a duel: that list being "Dudes" and "Swords".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Videos]]
* ''WebVideo/{{Benzaie}}'': His InNameOnly Top 5 lists at one point only had two entries.
* WebVideo/SmoshGames has a ''[[WebVideo/HonestTrailers Honest Game Trailer]]'' for ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886'' where at one point it's discussed what the "Extras" menu option has available when unlocked.
--> '''Narrator:''' And unlocking extras like... [[ClosingCredits the credits]]. That's it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Zoidberg is the only being on all of planet Earth on Robot Santa's "nice" list.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic:'' In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 "The Cutie Map - Part 1"]], Sugar Belle--the baker who's [[CreativeSterility sacrificed her talent for baking]]--lists off everything she has to offer at her bakery:
-->'''Sugar Belle:''' We have: muffins...
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Power plant announcement: "Attention, workers: we have completed our evaluation of the plant. We regret to announce the following layoffs, which I will read in alphabetical order: Simpson, Homer."
* In the episode "Something Smells" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [=SpongeBob=] takes out a long list of things to do, in which all the items are "go to work". He realizes that he needed the list for Sunday, an index card that says "say 'hi' to everyone in Bikini Bottom."
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