History Main / BadNewsIrrelevantNews

* IrregularWebcomic does it [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1221.html here]] with good news and bad news in an order that makes the good news irrelevant news.

* From ''{{Dragon Ball Abridged}}'', the end of "Bardock: Father of Goku" has Nappa telling young Vegeta that their home planet has been destroyed. "But the good news is, we're going to DAIRY QUEEN!!"

* ''IceAge: The Meltdown'', has the vulture that tells everyone that the flood is coming soon and they need to move fast if they are to survive. But there is good news, the more of them that die the better he eats. He never said it was good news for them.

Maybe the messenger was just fulfilling his role as the comic relief, maybe he's a {{Jerkass}} with a really mean-spirited sense of humor, or maybe he's TheDitz and was thoroughly convinced that his piece of good news was every bit well placed. Whatever the case, the receiver is usually anything but amused.

* From {{Dragon Ball Abridged}}, the end of "Bardock: Father of Goku" has Nappa telling young Vegeta that their home planet has been destroyed. "But the good news is, we're going to DAIRY QUEEN!!"

* [[ChappellesShow Dave Chappelle]] does this in his spoof of P. Diddy's ''Making the Band.''

* From an episode of {{Hustle}}: the bad news is, the castle the team is pretending to have for sale is open to the public until 7, and TheMark is coming at 6 to look at it. The good news: if they buy a 6 month pass to said castle, they get a free ice cream.

* An episode of ''SledgeHammer'' has a newscast announcing that the police precinct has been contaminated by a weapons-grade virus.

* A {{GEICO}}[[note]]The largest car insurance company in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.[[/note]] campaign (the [[SwitchingToGEICO former]] TropeNamer, as it happens) used this trope. This type of spot goes like this: A guy talks to someone else, saying "I've got bad news. ''[insert story here]''...but I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO!" which of course is of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.
** That depends, is [[Anime/SpeedRacer Speed-about-to-fall-off-a-bridge]] on Trixie's insurance plan?

A related trope is BadNewsInAGoodWay. Also compare NoSympathy and TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou.

* A GEICO[[note]]The largest car insurance company in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.[[/note]] campaign (the [[SwitchingToGEICO former]] TropeNamer, as it happens) used this trope. This type of spot goes like this: A guy talks to someone else, saying "I've got bad news. ''[insert story here]''...but I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO!" which of course is of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

* Used by Danny and Jackie in ''BlueBloods''. They explain to the Criminal of the Week that they found his gun and he's headed for death row. The good news? "We decided to drop the credit fraud charges."

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* Being something of a {{Jerkass}} with a grudge, FBI agent Victor decides to deliver news of Firo's sentence this way at the beginning of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'''s Alice In Jails arc. The Bad News: Firo's going to Alcatraz. The Good News: with [[{{Bishonen}} his]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]], he's probably going to be [[PrisonRape very popular]] there.

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* A GEICO[[note]]The largest car insurance company in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.[[/note]] campaign (the [[SwitchingToGEICO former]] TropeNamer, as it happens) used this trope. Spots usually start with a character breaking bad news to someone else (like a baseball manager replacing a struggling pitcher with a reliever),"but I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO!" which of course was of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

* A GEICO[[note]]The largest car insurance company in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.[[/note]] campaign (the [[SwitchingToGEICO former]] TropeNamer, as it happens) used this trope. Spots usually start with a character breaking bad news to someone else (like a baseball manager replacing a struggling pitcher with a reliever), then saying "I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO!" which of course was of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

* A GEICO[[note]]The largest car insurance company in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.[[/note]] campaign (the former TropeNamer, as it happens) used this trope. Spots usually start with a character breaking bad news to someone else (like a baseball manager replacing a struggling pitcher with a reliever), then saying "I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO!" which of course was of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

* A GEICO[[hottip:Note:The largest car insurance in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.]] campaign (the former trope namer, as it happens) used this trope. Spots usually start with a character breaking bad news to someone else (like a baseball manager replacing a struggling pitcher with a reliever), then saying "I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO!" which of course was of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

* A GEICO[[hottip:Note:The largest car insurance in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.]] campaign (the former trope namer, as it happens) from a few years back used this trope. Spots usually start with a character breaking bad news to someone else (like a baseball manager replacing a struggling pitcher with a reliever), then saying "I've got good news: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO!" which of course was of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

->'''Wanda:''' Uh Timmy, we've got some good news, and some bad news.\\

'''Cosmo:''' The good news is the alien we got you is actually the prince of the dreaded war planet Yugopotamia.\\
'''Wanda:''' And his parents are on their way here to destroy the Earth and rescue their son.\\

* A GEICO[[hottip:Note:The largest car insurance in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.]] campaign (the former trope namer, as it happens) from a few years back used this trope. Spots would feature a person in a rather difficult situation becoming hopeful upon being told that there is good news. However, the good news in question was always "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO", which of course was of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

** This was his thing from his introduction, however, and he did avoid flanderization; just everyone else who got hit with it hard.

* The trope namer comes from the last episode of Season One of ''TheOffice'':

* Being something of a {{Jerkass}} with a grudge, FBI agent Victor decides to deliver news of Firo's sentence this way at the beginning of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'''s Alice In Jails arc. The Bad News: Firo's going to Alcatraz. The Good News: with [[{{Bishonen}} his]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady looks]], he's probably going to be [[PrisonRape very popular]] there.

* A GEICO[[hottip:Note:The largest car insurance in the US. For non-Americans, it's easier to note that it's the company that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got the money to do all the investments.]] to campaign (the former trope namer, as it happens) from a few years back used this trope. Spots would feature a person in a rather difficult situation becoming hopeful upon being told that there is good news. However, the good news in question was always "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO", which of course was of no use whatsoever to the person hearing those words.

* {{Seltzer and Friedberg}}'s ''Epic Movie'' does this too, in a GagSub, but without the setup. [[{{NOHAMOTYO}} Although given their modus operandi, we shouldn't be surprised.]]

* Somewhat cruelly subverted in the first chapter of ''{{Mother 3}}'' by telling the good news first in a horribly misguided attempt to soften the blow. After a search to find a family lost in the woods after a storm, Bronson comes back from a search and declares something to the effect of "[[spoiler:The good news is I've just found a fang that would make a great weapon -- the bad news is that it was pierced through your wife's heart]]". He is quite rightly walloped for this. This is all PlayedForDrama.