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** BreadEggsMilkSquick/SoutPark

* ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}:'' When the hunters start singing in the Grand Finale.

* The end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}''.
-->'''Zee''': "There you have it. Your average boy meets girl, boy likes girl, ''boy changes underlying social order'' story."

** Similarly, the image on Creator/YukioMishima's page is captioned "Author, actor, stud, failed coup leader."

** Music/RKelly is described as "an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and convicted sex offender." His Wikipedia page displays it in that order too.

''({{beat}})''\\

* ''Comicbook/ScottPilgrim'': Ramona listing off all the teas in her pantry in the first book. [[labelnote:*]]Incidentally, according to WordOfGod, these are ''all'' real teas.[[/labelnote]]

* Inverted in the first issue of ''{{Comicbook/Squee}}''. Pepito (the Antichrist) goes into a long speech about evil and damnation when asked to introduce himself to Squee's class and abruptly drops, "My dog's name is Woofles" before continuing with his monologue.

* Not as squicky to the original audience, but in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' Sir Andrew says: "I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but followed the arts!", making this [[OlderThanSteam Older Than Steam]].

* "{{Blah blah|Blah}} [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Command Seal]] Blah blah Caster blah blah magic blah blah and then I took all his clothes off." Thanks Shirou for your lovely [[InsaneTrollLogic demonstration]] of how to subtly check for Command Seals without raising suspicions. Tohsaka just stops and stares at him.

* Played for laughs at one point in ''VisualNovel/KaraNoShoujo.'' The notebook used for the game is an actual notebook kept by Reiji with a fairly professional attitude and style to it. However, under Yaginuma's character info there's a quiet little '[[{{Jerkass}} Still an asshole]]' there.

-->'''Yahtzee''': The ''P4G'' intro is breezy and colourful and kicks things off with just the right setting of tone. Here's some happy music, some dancing anime kids, several corpses strung up from telegraph poles, and oh look! Now everyone's riding scooters! WHAT FUN!

* ''WebComic/ForestHill'': "Oh, Daddy! I had such a great day! We learned about volcanoes, and we had pizza for lunch, and Kaleb had a seizure..."

-->'''AVGN:''' This might be a good time to bring up that most of these old consoles have a connector that looks like this. You have to plug them into a box, and then screw the box into your TV. But I say, get yourself one of these, plug them into the coaxial input on your TV, plug the game in, and tell that box to go fuck itself! ''[[[FlippingTheBird flips the bird at the connector]] while he says this]''

-->'''AVGN:''' Telekinesis, time travel, treasure hunting, [[NonMammalMammaries bat tits]] ''[quick cut to a close-up of Rouge's cleavage]'', [[InterspeciesRomance human princess and hedgehog romance]]...

[[folder:Music]]
* "Nothing But Sunshine" by Atmosphere starts out discussing the narrator's troubled childhood and how he has developed into a well-adjusted adult nonetheless, until he mentions that he enjoys recreationally murdering cows with his bare hands. The song then becomes a brief skit in which we hear him do just that.
* Music/TheAxisOfAwesome has a song called "How To Numbers 1-3", which tells you how to bake a scone, how to catch a duck, and how to kill a hooker.
* Music/JonathanCoulton:
** "The Future Soon" starts as a slice-of-life love story where the nerdy narrator fails to attract the girl he loves. It ends with him fantasizing about returning home as a cyborg MadScientist and turning her into his robot bride.
%%** Coulton loves this trope. "Better", "Betty and Me", and "I Crush Everything" all turn creepy partway through.
** "Re: Your Brains" starts with this simple conversation:
-->Heya Tom, it's Bob from the office down the hall.\\
Good to see you, buddy. How've you been?\\
Things have been okay for me, except that I'm a zombie now\\
I really wish you'd let us in.
* The tone of Music/TheDecemberists' "July, July!" abruptly changes in the first verse:
-->"There is a road that meets the road that goes to my house\\
And how the green grows there\\
And we've got special boots to beat the path to my house\\
And it's careful and it's careful when I'm there\\
And I say your uncle was a crooked French Canadian\\
And he was gut-shot running gin\\
And how his guts were all suspended in his fingers\\
And how he held 'em, how he held 'em, held 'em in"
** Also "The Chimbley Sweep", which starts as a tragic song about the hard life of, well, a chimney sweep, and suddenly veers into paedophile-esque BawdySong territory in the final verse:
--->"O lonely urchin," the widow cried\\
"I've not [[UnusualEuphemism been swept]] since the day my husband died!"\\
Her cheeks a-blushin', her legs laid bare,\\
And shipwrecked there I'll shake you from your sleep
** And "Yankee Bayonet":
--->"Heart-carved tree-trunk, Yankee bayonet, a sweetheart left behind"\\
"Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas, that's where my true love lies"\\
"Look for me when the sun-bright swallow sings upon the birch-bough high"\\
"But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils all a-chew on your bones so dry"
** "Los Angeles, I'm Yours" starts out being about how wonderful Los Angeles is, and then starts talking about "the smell of burnt cocaine, the dolour and decay". Also, in the second verse:
-->"You ladies pleasant and demure\\
Sallow-cheeked and sure\\
[[ComedicUnderwearExposure I can see your undies]]"
** The Decemberists are the kings of squick in their songs in GENERAL. May I direct you to The Rake's Song.
-->"Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove\\
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath\\
Isaiah fought but was easily bested\\
Burned his body for incurring my wrath"
** In the last verse of the same song, the narrator insisted that killing his three children doesn't really bother him at all.
* "Weinerschnitzel", by Descendents, consists of a 13-second fast food order. The order seems normal enough, until the counter guy asks if the purchaser wants sperm with that.
* 2D, the [[TheDitz slightly dim]] singer/keyboardist of Music/{{Gorillaz}}, once introduced himself in a radio interview with "Hi, my name is 2D, and I'm the singer, and I need the toilet..." Murdoc calmly announcing during an interview that "I hit puberty at eight and lost my virginity to a dinner lady at nine and I've been in a bad mood ever since" possibly also falls under this heading, whether or not he was telling the truth.
* The song "Diane" by Music/HuskerDu surely qualifies. The first verse:
-->Hey little girl, wanna go for a ride?
-->There's room and my wagon is parked right outside
-->We can cruise down Robert Street all night long
-->But I think I'll just rape you and kill you instead
* Music/JethroTull: Before a live performance of "A Christmas Song", Ian Anderson does one of these:
--> "[Christmas] is '''not''' a time for heavy drinking, over-eating, and [[BestialityIsDepraved casual sex with farm animals]], that's out of the question!"
* Music/TomLehrer enjoys this:
** "My Home Town" begins with idyllic reminiscences of his home town and quickly slides into recalling "the man who took a knife/and monogrammed his wife".
** "Be Prepared" exhorts Boy Scouts to be prepared for all situations...such as smoking dope and pimping out their own sisters.
** "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" sounds romantic, up to the lyrics "My joy would be complete, dear/If only you were here/But still I keep your hand/As a precious souvenir." And: "I hold your hand in mine, dear/I press it to my lips/I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips".
** His song "The Old Dope Peddler" sings admirably of the cornerstone of any neighborhood, the Heroin Dealer.
** "I Wanna Go Back To Dixie" does this as well. It's mostly an almost sweet, happy song about wanting to go back home...but it's after he includes the line "Ol' times there are not forgotten/Whuppin' slaves and selling cotton" that it gets dark.
** "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" starts off like a lovely ode to springtime and young love, but when he suddenly starts the chorus, the song takes a major left turn into this trope, along with some SoundtrackDissonance because of the song ''still'' being sung the same way, despite the lyrics.
* The Music/LemonDemon song "Ode to Crayola" begins as a cute tribute song to goofily-named Crayola crayons. Then it turns weird:
--> I'm gonna rise at dawn, with no clothes on, and color on my skin
--> Colors of life and love, from Heaven above, absolve me of my sin
* Music/LilDicky's ''Professional Rapper'' ends with Music/SnoopDogg's receptionist offering him "coffee, tea, head, bottled water?" (After asking what kinds of tea she has, he changes his mind and goes with head.)
* Music/TheLonelyIsland:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c "Like a Boss"]] is a list of events in the eponymous boss's average day at work. The events start out mundane ("talk to corporate, approve memos...") but grow increasingly disturbing and improbable as the song goes on, eventually ending with him turning into a jet, bombing the Russians, and flying into the sun. The person reviewing the boss correctly [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that he "chops [his] balls and die[s]" every day.
** "After Party" is sort of a SpiritualSuccessor to the above, where the narrator describes being caught in a cycle of living a lifestyle of debauchery, giving it up, then falling back into his old habits again - habits that start out with mundane things like drinking and partying but eventually involve drinking snake blood and slithering in the dirt or losing his hand in a game of craps. They even lampshade the similarities, since both songs refer to having sex with giant fish in sewers.
* Music/{{Lonestar}}'s "No News" does this when listing off possible outcomes for a departed lover:
-->She missed her bus, missed her plane\\
Surely, this can be explained\\
Lost her car at the mall\\
Got locked in a bathroom stall\\
Joined a cult, joined the Klan...
* Stephen Lynch's "Best Friend's Song" starts off as friendly telling of the differences among friends, and descends into a confession of wanting to take part in violent sex with the other friend's pubescent sister. His whole career is built on this trope.
* Music/TimMinchin's song "If I Didn't Have You" features a claim that love grows with time, "like a flower, or a mushroom, or a guinea pig, or a vine, or a sponge, or bigotry...or a banana."
** Minchin has an entire song devoted to this trope: "If You Really Loved Me", which follows its title line with "you'd let me video you while you wee" and also includes this pearler:
--->We go together like crackers and Brie\\
Like racism and ignorance\\
Like [[HypocriticalHumor niggers and RnB]]
** Minchin's poem "Angry (Feet)" quickly descends into this as the somewhat shy narrative becomes marked with shouted expletives and Freudian slips, revealing that the narrator is a recovering mental patient with a hair-trigger temper, a much-despised family, and a love of guns and porn. The whole thing concludes with the point of the poem... this:
--->And my (QUACK!) Doctor would be proud\\
Because I feel a lot less angry\\
And I'm saying stuff out loud\\
And I'm letting anger out\\
Like today in our last session\\
When I taught the quack a lesson\\
'Cause he said I'm not progressin'\\
Said I wasn't moving forward\\
So I said "Let's see how you move without your fuckin' legs"\\
And I tied him to his chair\\
And I pulled out my machete\\
And I listened to him beg\\
[[AxCrazy And then I cut his fuckin' feet off]]\\
While he laid there bleeding\\
[[GrievousHarmWithABody I used his feet to kick him in the head]]
* Music/OingoBoingo had a couple of songs like this
** In "Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me:"
--->''Have you heard about the Joneses, my, my, my\\
It happened so quick and no one knows why\\
Their teenage son, he seemed O.K.\\
But his suicide ruined everyone's day.''
** And their song "Whole Day Off:"
--->''Have you seen my garden?\\
It is most peculiar\\
Have you seen my garden?\\
Nothing there that grows looks anything at all like plants\\
I hear their voices--let's take the whole day off.''
** No Spill Blood mentions that if you break the rules, you get ridicule, laughter, and '''a trip to the house of pain'''. (Well, it ''is'' a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''...)
* The first verse of "Jeremy" by Music/PearlJam seems to describe a pretty normal kid, right up to the last line:
-->"At home\\
Drawing pictures\\
Of mountain tops\\
With him on top\\
Lemon yellow sun\\
Arms raised in a V\\
The dead lay in pools of maroon below"
* Psychostick's song ''We Ran Out of CD Space'' includes this, as well as ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in the previous verse.
--> ''What if guitars could shoot out sour cream/and nacho cheese/and pure sulfuric acid?''
** Psychostick's song "Grocery Escape Plan" also includes one of these. The singer's grocery list includes, "Chips, peas, corn, cheese...Porn... and Spaghetti-o's".
* In "Sounds Like War" by Music/{{POD}}:
-->''Sounds like it's war to me:''\\
''Peace, love and casualties.''
* It's hard to tell what Music/{{REM}} was singing about in "I Remember California", especially at the time, but one song's narrator reminisces thusly:
-->I remember redwood trees\\
Bumper cars and wolverines.\\
The ocean's Trident submarines
* [[https://rapplepi.bandcamp.com/music Rapple Pi's]] album ''Money, Women, Poptarts, Goldfish'' is an example of this.
* The song "Prayer to God" by Shellac:
-->To the one true God above, here is my prayer.\\
Not the first you've heard, but the first I wrote\\
(Not the first, but the others were a long time ago)\\
There are two people here, '''''and I want you to kill them.'''''
* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sun is Burning", which, for the first three verses is describing a nice day out in suburbia, but then...
-->''Now the sun as come to earth/Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death...''
** [[LyricalDissonance And the singing is still very calm and peaceful.]]
* The theme song of ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' contains this verse:
--> [=McDonald=]'s! (fuck yeah!)\\
Walmart! (fuck yeah!)\\
The Gap! (fuck yeah!)\\
Baseball! (fuck yeah!)\\
The [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]]! (fuck yeah!)\\
RockAndRoll! (fuck yeah!)\\
TheInternet! (fuck yeah!)\\
''Slavery!'' (fuck yeah!)
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants: The bridge section of "They'll Need a Crane"
-->Don't call me at work again, I know the boss still hates me\\
I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore\\
And there's a restaurant we should check out\\
Where the other nightmare people like to go\\
[[VerbalBackspace I mean nice people]], Baby, wait\\
[[ComicallyMissingThePoint I didn't mean to say "nightmare"]]
* Australian band Music/{{Tripod}} loves this trope. Examples include:
** ''In the Countryside'', a touching tale of freedom and finding yourself [[spoiler: and stockpiling weaponry]].
** ''Let's Take a Walk'' starts with the lines:
--> Let's take a walk, my love,\\
Down by the river, my baby.\\
Down where we used to go,\\
Until the day when we found that body.
* This one's not exactly "squick", but it's still ending a list on a more dramatic note: the line in the traditional "The Unicorn Song" "Rats and cats and ''elephants'', just as sure as you're born." Then again, seeing an elephant ([[GoingToSeeTheElephant not like that]]) is ''still'' more likely than seeing a unicorn.
* The Vandals' song "The New You", a story of how a guy's love has changed, does this quite horribly:
-->Well now you say that you like me\\
but you don't "like" like me.\\
And you say that you love me but\\
you're not "in love" with me\\
And we should just be friends\\
...but friends shouldn't treat other friends like that\\
you're not too friendly when you act like that.\\
Should I smash your fucking head with a baseball bat?\\
And dig around the brains and goo\\
for something that looks like old you?
* In Music/{{Voltaire}}'s ''When You're Evil'', the {{Card Carrying|Villain}} VillainProtagonist starts with a bunch of PokeThePoodle grade minor "evils", like being a fly in someone's soup or a pebble in their shoe, then out of nowhere talks about tripping elderly people down staircases.
* Logan Whitehurst's song "The Ice Cream Man" starts off innocently enough, with Logan walking down Main Street and looking for some ice cream. It just so happens that the eponymous ice cream man is there. Then this happens:
-->Then I hear the voices in my head\\
Whispering to me, "Kill, kill, kill the ice cream man"...
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic
** "Hardware Store" includes a long list of items that can be found at the eponymous establishment -- including, apparently, "automatic circumcisers."
** "Good Old Days". Presented as the sentimental nostalgic ramblings of the singer about his Creator/NormanRockwell-style childhood, every verse ends with psychopathic assault against some innocent.
** "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?", when Al talks about disturbing things happening around him without those things being the concern of the verse.
** "I Remember Larry" recounts several pranks made upon the singer and the people of his town, which start out innocuous enough (okay, so the Ben-Gay in the jock-strap is kind of mean), and descends into somewhat less harmless ideas ("You know I couldn't help but laugh/Even though he treated me like slime/Remember when he cut my car in half?/Well, he really got me good that time!") and ends with the singer reminiscing cheerfully about how he broke into Larry's house, bound and gagged him, dragged him into the woods, stuffed him in a plastic bag, and left him for dead. Funny song, mostly.
** Al's parody of "Complicated," which ends with the singer describing all of the problems that came after he decapitated himself on a roller coaster. (It was "quite a drag.")
** From "Albuquerque"'s plane flight part:
---> I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor,\\
And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time,\\
The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts,\\
And the in-flight movie was [[TakeThat Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore]]!\\
And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out\\
And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside\\
And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died... except for me!
** "Do I Creep You Out?" Which opens up as a sweet love song and keeps to the sweet tune while the singer confesses all the creepy, stalkerish things he has done to the subject of his affections (Taking her gum out of the garbage, following her home from work).
** And of course "One More Minute", a nice swinging doo-wop number..."So I pulled your name out of my rolodex/and tore all of our pictures in two/and I burned down the malt-shop where we used to go/just because it reminds me of youuuuu"
** During the bridge of "Livin' in the Fridge", the singer suggests carbon-dating the mysterious fridge-dweller, then offers fumigation as an alternative and finally wonders if he should just burn it and scatter the ashes at sea.
** "One of Those Days" is a constant back-and-forth between mundane inconveniences and increasingly serious problems. And increasingly frequent, to the point where the song evolves from this trope into ArsonMurderAndJaywalking by the end.
** ''Tacky'' is all about doing tacky things like threatening to leave a bad Yelp review at a restaurant or printing your resume in Comic Sans, then switches to "[[ZombieInfectee if I'm bit by a zombie, probably not telling you]]."
** Following a bunch of goofy, remarkably specific horoscopes ("Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your explosive flatulence!") in "Your Horoscope For Today", the horoscope for Sagittarius unexpectedly has:
-->All your friends are laughing behind your back.\\
''[[AC:[[VoiceOfTheLegion Kill them.]]]]''
* [=YouTube=] lists the gender and age of the 3 biggest audiences for each video under video statistics. Pretty much every music video by any female teen star will list the following 1: Female (13-17), 2: Female (18-25), 3: Male (35-44).
** Maybe more FridgeHorror, if you consider that the guys in category 3 are about the age that their daughters (and their friends) will belong in category 1.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* [[Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse Maddox]]'s ''Literature/TheAlphabetOfManliness'' features this charming gem:
-->(On documenting situations where having an erection makes you gay)\\
''Shopping for a gun'': '''STRAIGHT'''\\
''Shopping for a gun with your buddy'': '''STRAIGHT'''\\
''Shopping for a gun with your buddy while you hold each others' cocks'': '''GAY'''
* Appears in ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' by Creator/BretEastonEllis numerous times, to great comedic and disturbing effect. A fine example:
--> '''Bateman:''' I've heard of post-California cuisine. In fact, I've eaten it. No baby vegetables? Scallops in burritos? Wasabi crackers? Am I on the right track? And by the way did anyone ever tell you that you look exactly like ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} but run over and skinned and then someone threw an ugly Ferragamo sweater over you before they rushed you to the vet? Fusilli? Olive oil on Brie?
* In ''[[Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents The Austere Academy]]'' Klaus's teacher makes her students measure various "ordinary objects: a frying pan, a picture frame, the skeleton of a cat."
** Of Cafe Salmonella (a restaurant that serves only salmon dishes), the narrator has this to say: "There's nothing particularly wrong with salmon of course, but, like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, and liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it, you are not going to enjoy your meal."
* In ''Literature/CiaphasCain: Duty Calls'', Cain has to lay out the situation for a panicky civilian quickly and concisely:
--> "Ciaphas Cain, regimental commissar, Valhallan 597th. My aide, Jurgen. Terrorist attack."
* In ''Catalyst,'' Kate lists her younger brother's hobbies as trombone, soccer and masturbation.
* The ''Literature/TheCattleRaidOfCooley'' takes a moment to rattle off Cu Chulainn's [[TheAce many talents]], topping [[LongList the quite extensive list]] off with [[RapePillageAndBurn "laying waste to and plundering the neighbors' border."]]
* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': While the (giant monstrous) ants are on the move through the countryside, Anthony has to field endless questions from Vibrant, who wants him to explain "what a farm is, why they're necessary, the basic understanding of the human digestive tract, gut bacteria, bacteria in general and what a screaming mob of people running for their lives is."
* In Jeramey Kraatz's ''Literature/TheCloakSociety'', the small children's quarters are furnished with beanbags, puzzles, lock-picking kits, and heavy duty tranquilizers in case any of them start to manifest dangerous superpowers.
* ''Literature/CountAndCountess'' provides this gem:
--> ''The bailey was exquisitely decorated: I had lights all over the brush and lutenists sitting up on the palisades, I had the best of the sweet soups served there on the clothed table, I had my pageboys, five of them, hoisted up on pikes, and yet I was abandoned by all of my companions, even Istvan!''
* In ''Literature/{{Desperation}}'', a state trooper (who turns out to be [[spoiler:possessed by [[BigBad Tak]]]]) casually inserts the words "I'm going to kill you" into the middle of the Miranda rights he recites to a couple he arrested. [[spoiler:And he does just that to the husband several minutes later.]]
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'':
** "I can name at least half a dozen jobs I can never have if I can't grow a beard or a mustache or at least some decent stubble." The jobs Greg lists? Magician, pirate, lumberjack, artist, cop, and... criminal.
** In one of the books, Rowley brings some home videos and suggests that he and Greg watch some. They're titled "Rowley's 5th Grade Play", "TRIP TO [obscured by the DVD]LIA", and... "Rowley's Birth".
* The special nature-bending libraries of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' mean that "the three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality."
** In ''Literature/TheTruth'', Sacharissa tells William "There's a man who's lost his watch, there's a troll who wants a job, there's a zombie who wants... well, I can't make out what he wants, and there's a man who doesn't like what you wrote and wants to behead you."
** ''Nanny Ogg's Cookbook'' has an example in the recipe for Peppermint Humbugs from Lord Downey. The last ingredient listed is arsenic. This is followed by a Publisher's Note reminding you [[MurderInc which Guild Lord Downey is head of]] and instructing you to not actually add it. And a RunningGag in the rest of the recipe continuing to remind you, like "Stir quickly, before any arsenic is added" and "Now would be a good time to ''not'' add any arsenic."
* ''Literature/EarlyRiser'': The perks of joining the Winter Consul, as listed off by senior Consulate officer Jack Logan during protagonist Charlie's interview for the position of Novice:
-->'''Jack Logan:''' I need a new Novice with a good memory to train up. Good career path. Exciting too. Lots of challenges. Bit of cash, extra pudding. Medium to high risk of death.\\
'''Charlie Worthing:''' What was the last bit again?\\
'''Jack Logan:''' Extra pudding.\\
'''Charlie Worthing:''' And ''after'' that?\\
'''Jack Logan:''' Coffee and mints?\\
'''Charlie Worthing:''' I meant on your list.\\
'''Jack Logan:''' Oh -- medium to high risk of death.
* In one chapter of his [[DiedDuringProduction incomplete autobiography]] ''The First Third'', Neal Cassady casually relates three episodes from his childhood and the lessons he learned from them. One was about thawing frozen hands with cold water rather than hot, the second was about using the bathroom, and the third was about how he just barely escaped being raped by a strange man on the way home from school by attacking him and running for his life. Much of the book reads like this, actually, with casual unexamined inserts about poverty and abuse slipped in between detailed descriptions of places and people he knew.
* ''Literature/FrannyKStein'':
** From the book ''The Fran With Four Brains''.
-->''Some days she was just in the mood to hang around her lab doing regular-kid things, like playing with her toys, or reading books, or bringing a monster to life through the application of a jillion volts of electricity.''
** It is mentioned in ''The Frandidate'' that Franny's favorite subjects aside from electric power are chemistry, nuclear power and brain removal.
* Jamaica Kinkaid's poem[[note]]Or whatever. It's one of those.[[/note]] "Girl" has a mother advising her daughter:
-->"''This is how to make a bread pudding; this is how to make doukona; this is how to make pepper pot; this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child''"
* In ''Literature/TheGirlIn6E'', the title character Deanna Madden fills the reader in on the similarities between herself and her mother: "I inherited a lot from my mother, including [[IdenticalGrandson delicate features, long legs, and dark hair]], but the biggest genetic inheritance has been her [[InTheBlood homicidal tendencies]]."
* In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura]] complains about how Haruhi Suzumiya is not doing anything interesting and talks to Kyon about whether or not it is alright to enact a change to get a result even if it is dangerous right before [[spoiler:trying to murder Kyon with a knife just to see how Haruhi would react]], all without changing the pitch in her voice.
* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'':
** ''[[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' starts like so:
--->''At eight o' clock on Thursday morning [[UnfazedEveryman Arthur]] didn't feel very good. He woke up blearily, got up, wandered blearily round his room, opened a window, saw a bulldozer, found his slippers, and stomped off to the bathroom to wash.''
** In ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse'', Zaphod says that if the brain-scans had revealed ''why'' he wanted to be Galactic President, the Council would have kicked him out with "nothing but a fat pension, a secretarial staff, a fleet of ships, and a couple of slit throats!"
** From ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'':
--->''On the way back (the people of Krikkit) sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.''
** In ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' [[ButtMonkey Arthur Dent]] comes home to find piles of junk mail, invitations, letters from friends saying he was never around much anymore, and a dead tabby kitten.
* In Hundreds of Heads's ''How to Survive Your Freshman Year'', a teen self-help guide consisting of words of wisdom from current college students, one piece of advice (likely not condoned by the publisher) reads: "Bring extra lighting for your dorm room, a mattress in case a friend comes over, and a fake I.D."
* The ''Literature/InDeath'' series: ''Purity in Death'' artfully describes AssholeVictim Chadwick Fitzhugh like this..."His hobbies were travel, fashion, gambling, and seducing young boys."
* ''Literature/LivInTheFuture'' has a list of rules at a swimming pool Liv visits:
## No running
## No diving
## No breathing
## No introducing live sea creatures to the swimming pool ecosystem
## No devouring live birds in the deep end (shallow end OK)
## No calling your grandmother (I'm sorry, but she doesn't love you as much as you thought she did)
## [[MoodWhiplash Above all, HAVE FUN! ☺]]
* From ''Literature/TheMeaningOfLiff:''
-->'''Naction:''' The 'n' with which cheap advertising copywriters replace the word 'and' (as in 'fish 'n' chips', 'mix 'n' match', 'assault 'n' battery') [....]
* [[EstablishingCharacterMoment One of the first things]] we hear about Lisbeth Salander, AntiHero of the ''Literature/MillenniumSeries'', is that she was once asked by her boss at the security and investigation company she was working for to prepare a standard report on a researcher for a pharmaceutical company. The report was supposed to take about a week but dragged on for over a month, with her ignoring repeated reminders. She then silently and without warning handed him a report that, without changing tone at all, segued from the usual information about the subject's life and background to the fact that he had visited a child prostitute. She had pictures. And an interview with the girl. According to her boss this wasn't the only case where something similar happened. He really doesn't like the fact that Lisbeth doesn't give warning about what the reports might contain since he sometimes reviews them over dinner.
* In ''Literature/MyNameIsRed'', an artist [[PurpleProse rapturously]] describes the beautiful horse he is drawing and finishes by comparing its rump to ''"the gentle butt of a boy I was about to violate."''
* Near the end of ''Literature/{{Neogicia}}'', Saly finds two luxury dresses for herself and her roommate/best friend Loreley in her dresser, along with a note from Emperor Keynn Lucans. Saly asks Loreley, who's still lying in bed at that point and can't see the note, to guess who got them the dresses. Loreley's guesses are Saly's mentor, her own mentor and Nox Lucans, Keynn's brother and PsychoSidekick who has become a HateSink by this point of the story. Loreley's logic was that it would be Nox's way to apologize for the act that got him hated by them and audience.
* This trope is the crux of the short story [[spoiler:''The Man Who Loved Flowers'']] (published in the anthology ''Literature/NightShift'').
* ''Oh, the Humanity: A Gentle Guide to Social Interaction for the Feeble Young Introvert'' gets a lot of mileage out of this trope. For example, it lists good places to meet new friends: adult education courses, volunteering, pub crawls, and cults.
* ''Only Forward'' by Creator/MichaelMarshallSmith: "On the balcony stood a man. He was a big man, wearing tired jeans and nothing on his feet. His torso was naked except for tiny whorls of hair, and he didn't have a head."
* In ''Literature/OracleOfTao'', the Aiken Monastery is known for its tight security, using not only a lie detector but also a fortuneteller to detect whether new visitors will cause trouble. However, one day their main guard is sick:
--> ''The guards simply stamped our fingerprints, checked our passports, and harvested stem cells from our bone marrow before letting us through. I swear, without her running things, the whole system was pretty lax!''
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': In ''The Battle of the Labyrinth'', a classroom full of young telkhines (human/dog/sea lion-hybrid monsters) is treated to an educational movie about telkhine puberty.
-->'''Narrator''': As a young sea demon matures, changes happen to the monster's body. You may notice your fangs getting longer and you may have a sudden desire to devour human beings. These changes are perfectly normal and happen to all young monsters.
* The infamous "children's" book ''Sam and Lucy'', starring the two titular dogs:
-->''Sam and Lucy liked each other a lot. They played tag... they danced... they rolled in the dirt... and they mated.''
* ''Literature/SixOfCrows'': Jan Van Eck's litany of everything he tried to [[spoiler:teach his severely dyslexic son Wylan to read]] ranges from the expected, to the creative, to the horrifying.
-->'''Van Eck:''' I have hired the best tutors from every corner of the world. I've tried specialists, tonics, beatings, hypnotism.
* In the final novel of the ''Literature/StarTrekVanguard'' series, Cerventes Quinn has been banned from most of Vanguard station's drinking establishments for such offenses as picking fights, failing to pay his tab...and urinating over the bar.
* ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'' contains a really creepy example. [[TheWatson Our protagonist]] describes the three plays that make up The Strand Players' performance: a wacky MistakenIdentity comedy, a melodrama about a starving urchin who's TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth, and a historical epic about the Old Ones awakening and conquering humanity, with the human hero welcoming them and beating to death the one man who tries to resist. And the entire audience, including our protagonists, loudly applauds all three. It's this exact moment when you realize how completely alien this AlternateHistory is.
** Also by the same author, ''Only the End of the World Again'' features an overtly long example. Albeit it's more Bread, Squick, Eggs, Squick, Milk:
--->''There was a note under the door from my landlady. It said that I owed her for two week's rent. It said that all the answers were in the '' Book of Revelation''. It said that I made a lot of noise coming home in the early hours of this morning, and she'd thank me to be quieter in future. It said that when the Elder Gods rose up from the ocean, all the scum of the Earth, all the non-believers, all the human garbage and the wastrels and deadbeats would be swept away, and the world would be cleansed by ice and deep water. It said that she felt she ought to remind me that she had assigned me a shelf in the refrigerator when I arrived and she'd thank me if in the future I'd keep to it.''
* ''[[Literature/ThisIsTheTitleOfThisStory This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself]]'' by David Moser:
-->''This sentence is telling you that Billy is blond and blue-eyed and American and twelve years old and strangling his mother.''
* In ''Literature/{{Unique}}'' Jan's introduction has him waking up, reading a note from his grandmother about taking a ride with her friend needing to be picked up, and getting dressed and making certain he has everything he might need: "Clothes? Check. Good work boots with steel toes? Check. Wallet? Check. Cell phone? Check. Teargas grenade? Check. Silver rings? Check. Knife. Check. Pistol? Check. Keys? Check. That ought to do it."
* In Creator/MarkTwain's ''The War Prayer'', the prayer itself starts out like a standard, pious prayer, but quickly goes wrong when the petitioner prays to "help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds". A bit of an inversion, though; although the beginning and end of the prayer are normal, the bulk of it is completely twisted.
* From ''Literature/WillGraysonWillGrayson'':
--> ''anyway, i really need this job, which means i can't do things like yell or pin my stupid name tag upside down or wear jeans that have rips in them or sacrifice puppies in the toy aisle.''

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Kenneth tries to convince Jack not to shut down the NBC page program:
-->'''Kenneth:''' Think of all the famous people who started as pages: Steve Allen, Regis Philbin, [[SerialKiller Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, John Wayne Gacy]]...
* ''Series/TheATeam'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS4E15MembersOnly Members Only]]", Murdock starts giving Hannibal a tour of a country club (Murdock goes there often as his psychiatrist's guest) and then discovers a plot point that is (somewhat) nastier than the other normal things:
--->'''Murdock''' ''(sounding posh)'': The tennis courts are night-lit, there's an extra putting green there, that's the front nine, and that's Faceman chasing someone into the rough.
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS4E22TheLittleTownWithAnAccent The Little Town With an Accent]]", Face and Murdock trail the antagonist of the week back to his home base, where they find gangster Sonny Marlini. Face describes Marlini to Hannibal as tanned, healthy, and homicidal.
* ''Series/{{ALF}}'': Alf's list of what to bring for an extended camp-out in the back yard included chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, chocolate pudding and... [[RiseOfZitBoy acne pads]].
* ''Series/AllAussieAdventures'': An episode of the 2018 series introduces Russell's 23-year-old niece Chrissie, whose list of credits includes "numerous corporate training videos, community TV presenter and her breakthrough role as Prostitute #4 in ''Series/{{Underbelly}}'' 3". This detail becomes a lot squickier if you know that ''Underbelly'''s third season, ''The Golden Mile'', which does indeed focus partially on prostitution, would have been filmed when she was about ''15''.
* On an episode of ''America's Dumbest Criminals'', a man's house has been robbed and he calls the police. He lists the various things that have been stolen: his wife's jewelry, his computer terminal, his TV, his VCR, his bag of dope.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Doyle's ex-wife Harriet prepares to marry into a family of apparently humanized, peaceful demons who nonetheless make, um, unusual wedding preparations. Harriet's prospective father-in-law reads from the to-do list: "First we greet the man of the hour. Then we drink. We bring out the food. Then we drink. Then comes the stripper, darts, and then we have the ritual eating of the first husband's brains, and then charades." The demon family, of course, objects to the charades.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** In the episode "Messages from Earth", Marcus Cole is beginning a fairly standard status report but when he notices that Ivanova is [[NotListeningToMeAreYou not paying attention to it]] he starts to derail it: "There's always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon. The kind that eats the sun once every 30 days. It's a nuisance, but what can you expect from reptiles? Did I mention that my nose is on fire? And that I have 15 wild badgers living in my trousers?" (Ivanova glares at him) "I'm sorry would you prefer ferrets?"
** Invoked by Ambassador Mollari when talking with [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Reefa]], when the former gives the latter reasons to break up with the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Shadows]]:
--->"Because I have asked you. And because your loyalty to our people should be greater than your ambition. And because I have poisoned your drink."
*** This seems to be his preferred way of convincing people. As a true diplomat, he would give his counterpart a couple innocuous reasons to do what he asks of them, but should they display the unfortunate obstinance, he unsheathes the ''reason # 3''. Another time he uses a particularly vicious variant on his aid Vir, to coerce him into helping him with a very underhanded scheme:
--->"You will do it because I asked you. Because it will help our people. Because if you do not, I will reveal everything you have done on Minbar. I will humiliate you, your family and your house. I will drive them from honor and bankrupt them. I will have them stripped naked whipped through the streets of the capital at midday and in the end, I will destroy them."
* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Sheldon Cooper's answers to the standard Rorschach inkblot test are "A) A bat, B) A bat, C) A bat, and D) My father killing my mother with a hypodermic needle."
** Sheldon explains to Penny why he is taking it ''extremely'' slow with Amy Farrah-Fowler.
--->'''Sheldon:''' All my life, I have been uncomfortable with the sort of physical contact that comes easily to others: handshaking, hugging, prostate exams...
** At the end of the Season 12 episode "The Maternal Conclusion", Stuart and Denise try to convince Denise's roommate to move out, arguing that they're deeply in love enough to commit to each other together in the same room. Denise's roommate asks Stuart to tell Denise that he loves her -- he does -- and then asks Denise to say it back to Stuart (she does), before asking Stuart and Denise to say it to HIM. Cue Stuart and Denise staring back at him in awkward silence.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'',
** At one point, [[BigBad Mayor Richard Wilkins III]] is shown holding a checklist containing several mundane tasks for a mayor (meet with PTA, etc.) with "Become Invincible" thrown in.
** At the start of Season 3, Larry is excited about Sunnydale High football's prospects.
--->"This is our year, I'm telling you. Best football season ever. I'm so in shape, I'm a rock. It's all about egg whites. If we can focus, keep discipline, and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Sunnydale is gonna *rule!*"
** And of course Principal Snyder. Downplayed, as the first two items are still disturbing, just not in the same way.
--->This place has ''quite'' a reputation. Suicide, missing persons, [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion spontaneous cheerleader combustion]]. [[AndThatsTerrible You can't put up with that]].
** In "Restless", Willow dreams that Giles is a director of a production of ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'' (or her idea of it). He motivates the actors by telling them to "Stay in focus, keep our heads and ''if Willow can stop stepping on everyone's cues...''
** Season 7: Nerd-turned-villain Andrew fails to stab a pig for his ritual and has to buy the blood instead, so he tries to disguise the "squick" item by tacking on a regular non-sequitur:
--->'''Andrew:''' I'd like 12 pork chops, two pounds of sausage, eight quarts of pig's blood, three steaks, um... halibut, and, uh, some toothpaste...\\
'''Butcher:''' This is a butcher's shop, Neo. We don't sell toothpaste.
* In ''Series/BurnNotice'' when Michael explains to his mother how Fiona is doing in jail. "She's tired, she's scared, and she's not eating enough... and somebody's trying to kill her."
** The ''first line'' in the first episode of Burn Notice "Covert intelligence involves a lot of waiting around. Know what it's like being a spy? Like sitting at your dentist's reception area 24 hours a day. You read magazines, sip coffee, and every so often, someone tries to kill you."
* ''Series/{{Community}}'':
-->'''Jeff:''' Yes, and I'm hoping that our friendship will yield certain advantages: academic guidance, moral support, every answer to every test for every one of the classes I'm taking...
** Also, "Jesus loves marijuana and drinking human blood".
** Troy and Jeff are shocked to discover the Zen-master gardener/trampoline keeper is a racist, then recall what should have been signs (we only saw the first two): he calls the garden "a place free from darkness" and tells Troy "and some are just natural jumpers". Finally, he has a big ''swastika'' tattoo on his chest! "It's going to be a maze."
** In "Paradigms of Human Memory", Abed remembers all the times that Jeff and Britta had sex in secret. He saw them sneak into the bathroom together during the Halloween party, hear Jeff proposition Britta during the claymation ChristmasEpisode, and literally ''walked in on them in their underwear'' during the Saint Patrick's Day rafting expedition.
** In "Curriculum Unavailable", there is a course called "Can I Fry That?". The professor tells the students about things that can be fried such as bananas, toast, bubble gum, pancakes and ''car keys''. [[BerserkButton BUT NOT FRIES]].
* The ''Series/CrankYankers'' intro. A shopping list on a refrigerator reads: milk--eggs--drugs. {{Trope Namer|s}}. Sorta. This is pretty much the formula for every call they make; start earnestly well-intentioned and then gradually (or abruptly) take the call OffTheRails.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The First Doctor serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]":
--->'''Vicki:''' Oh something else I forgot to tell you: I think I've poisoned Nero.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Really. ''WHAT?''
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet The Impossible Planet]]": A food-serving alien under the control of a demonic figure is listing the menu of a space-station canteen when it casually mentions "The Beast and his armies will rise from the pit to make war against God... apologies. I meant I hope you enjoy your meal."
** The anti-bodies from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler Let's Kill Hitler]]".
--->'''Anti-body:''' You may experience a tingling sensation and then death.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime Closing Time]]": Regarding Craig's infant son:
--->'''The Doctor:''' Yes, he likes that... Alfie. Though personally, he likes to be called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Stormageddon]], Dark Lord of All. ''[cue ominous musical sting, then the soundtrack continues normally]''
* Becky Sharpe, a.k.a. Hazard of the "Luck Be a Lady" episode ''Series/TheFlash2014'' had a really unlucky life. In the span of a single flashback, in no particular order (which implies that it all happened in the course of a single day): the drink she orders from Jitters is not soy but milk (she has severe lactose intolerance), walks into her apartment to find her boyfriend cheating on her, causes a customer who tried to flirt with her to spill his drink which loses her job at the casino, and has her car repossessed. The bad luck seems to have stopped (Becky even lampshades it, although it becomes TemptingFate in the long run instead) when moving out of her apartment because of her now-ex, she manages to hitch a ride on a bus, except [[spoiler:the bus is in the path of the Flash as he busts out of the Speed Force. The passengers of the bus (Becky included) are bathed in antimatter because of their close proximity to the opened Speed Force portal, transforming them into metahumans]].
* Daphne Moon in ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' has a tendency to recall traumatic or unsettling details about her childhood and family life in [[StepfordSmiler a cheery, persistently upbeat tone]] at the climax of long, rambling stories. One excellent example--she decides to impart a lesson about generosity to the brothers Crane by telling them about an encounter with a poor old man on the street. Long story short, she helpfully tells him, "that's not how you spell 'fellatio'."
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** Phoebe Buffay's back story speech in the first episode of .
--->'''Phoebe:''' You're welcome. I remember when I first came to this city. I was fourteen. My mom had just killed herself and my step-dad was back in prison, and I got here, and I didn't know anybody. And I ended up living with this albino guy who was, like, cleaning windshields outside port authority, and then he killed himself, and then I found aromatherapy. So believe me, I know exactly how you feel.
** Phoebe uses this one fairly often.
--->'''Phoebe:''' I also have to find a new video store, a new bank, new adult book store, a new grocery store...\\
'''Monica:''' What?!\\
'''Phoebe:''' ''[slowly]'' A new g-r-o-c-e-r-y store.
* In ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', Walter's lists of required materials for his various experiments are either this trope, ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, or some other comic mixture of the variously esoteric and the incongruously mundane.
** The opening credits for each episode flash the names of speculative "fringe technologies" (like "psychokinesis, teleportation, nanotechnology"). In one episode set a generation in the future, the fringe technologies include "dual maternity, chaos structure, clonal transplantation, water, biosuspension, hope".
* The trope appears in a sketch in ''Full Frontal'' in which a priest is totally unfazed by something you'd think would count as squick to him. The mild-mannered priest is reading the Lotto numbers and making a Bible reference appropriate for each. "The first number is 10. There were 10 Commandments. 10. The second number is 3. There were 3 wise men. 3. The third number is 12. There were 12 Apostles. 12. The fourth number is 69. Two people having oral sex. 69."
* In season 7 of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Jon Snow meets Daenerys for the first time. Their negotiations begin to break down because she does not believe in the White Walkers. Cue Davos Seaworth hyping Jon up.
-->"All those things you don't believe in? He faced those things. He fought those things for the good of his people. He risked his life for his people. ''He took a knife in the heart for his people. He gave up (his life)''..."
* In ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', the episode about Spring Break had the following exchange between Rory (the daughter) and Lorelai (the mom):
-->'''Rory:''' It was interesting, you know. We sat on the beach, went to a club, watched the ''Power of Myths'', Paris and I kissed...\\
'''Lorelai:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. You watched the ''Power of Myths''? I hid that from you.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'':
-->'''Finn:''' Kids are busier than when you went here. We've got homework, football, teen pregnancy, lunch...
* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': [[MonsterClown Jerome Valeska]], [[DecompositeCharacter one of]] the Batman prequel show's [[CaptainErsatz main takes]] on [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]], at one point says that his twin brother was their mother's favorite because he cleaned his room, did his homework, and didn't try to kill everyone.
* ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'': The showstopper in the biscuits episode of series 7 requires the contestants to make a gingerbread scene that contains at least eight different things. Louise decides to depict her wedding, so she explains that her scene will have a church, a gingerbread groom, bride, and vicar, and some gravestones.
* ''Series/HangTime'':
** In "Not a D'Amata", Vince, Michael, Teddy and Danny discuss taking Vince's little brother Nicky out camping to get him in touch with his "inner D'Amata" when he comes back more cultured. Michael talks about to doing guy stuff: "we'll build a fire! get dirty! eat bugs!" He loses the other guys with that last one, then suggests they'll bring pizzas instead.
** A variant in "Goodnight Vince", when Julie, Teddy, Danny and Michael talk about the prospect of traveling to the state championships in Bloomington:
--->'''Michael:''' It'll be so cool. Living in the college dorms.\\
'''Julie, Teddy, Danny and Michael:''' Yeah!\\
'''Teddy:''' Chilling with the college ladies.\\
'''Teddy, Danny and Michael:''' Oh, yeah!\\
'''Julie:''' Checking out those cute college guys.\\
'''Teddy, Danny and Michael:''' Yeah! (beat) No! No-no-no-no!
* In an episode of ''Series/HappyEndings'', a man whose birthday is on Christmas (just like Jane) is rallying others like him in a bar as to all they feel they are owed for.
-->"All the late Birthday cards." *cheer* "The combo-gifts." *cheer* "The impotence!" *crickets*
** In season one's "Bo Fight":
-->'''Penny:''' In the last week you have dragged me to a karate pilates class, made me test-drive a Yaris, and talked me into seeing a children's production of ''Hair'', which thankfully, got shut down before the second act.
** In "Your Couples Friends & Neighbors":
--->'''Jane:''' Your voice always gets so high when you don't wanna do something.\\
'''Brad:''' What?\\
'''Jane:''' ''(high voice)'' "I love tofu spareribs." "Sure, I'll go to wine country with your parents." "I'll totally take care of you after you finish with me."
** In "Secrets and Limos", while Penny is making a "vision board" she reveals that she wants:
--->'''Penny:''' A romantic old-fashioned gentleman. The kind of guy who'll buy you flowers and dinner and look at you during sex.
** In "The Butterfly Effect Effect", aka "Spring Smackdown":
--->'''Penny:''' Oh, you know, standard, just cleaning up from a slumber party. Some light dusting, dishes, ''chipping my unmentionables out of the freezer''.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** Ted recounts his attempt to get his upstairs neighbors to stop "[[UnusualEuphemism playing the bagpipes]]," and then losing his nerve when he finds out they're an old couple: "I didn't have the heart to tell them to stop, so I talked with them for a while, had a hard candy, [[ValuesDissonance nodded politely at some racist comments]], and then I left." A bit of an inversion since Ted, not the neighbors, is the one uncomfortable with the squick part.
** In the episode "Chain of Screaming", each character is giving Marshall advice on how to deal with his boss, who screams at him when angry. Lilly's advice starts off as a kind, kindergarten teacher approach to things, then ends with [[spoiler:Marshall (actually Lilly pretending to be Marshall in a fantasy scene) and his boss talking about nailing his wife]].
** In the episode "Homewreckers" where Ted buys a house that needs a lot of fixing, his contractor mentions the expected: Mold, vermin, and water damage, before mentioning a hobo.
* In ''Series/HowToGetAwayWithMurder'', Wes opens up to Rebecca using this.
--> Wes: I'm allergic to peanuts, I have a really bad sense of direction, my mom killed herself when I was twelve...
* In ''Film/HowToIrritatePeople'', Creator/JohnCleese criticizes the Pepperpots for their lack of subtlety. "It's like, for example, going to a football game and cheering for a team that isn't playing, or wearing fancy dress at a funeral, or setting fire to Creator/JulieAndrews. It's irritating, but it's obvious."
* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': Happens towards the end of the episode where Mrs. Kipling imagines everyone switching bodies. Ironically, Luke was actually ''right'' about the last thing.
-->'''Luke:''' I bet all Mrs. Kipling thinks about is ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movies, eating cockroaches, imagining what would happen if we all switched bodies.\\
'''Ravi:''' [[LampshadeHanging Luke, do not be ridiculous]]. [[BaitAndSwitch Mrs. Kipling HATES cockroaches]].
* Mastery of the form is frequently demonstrated by ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall''.
** "To good friends!" "To good times!" "And to ritualistic murder..." ''all:''"TO [[spoiler:REG]]!"
** "Whole lotta milk-a. Bell Biv [=DeVoe=]. Your mother's cheatin' on me."
** There's also a sketch in which an actress accepting an award actually does thank Hitler.
* One ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode had JustForFun/JohnMunch give a ''strange'' set of statements, "Yeah, and I want the troops home, the Kyoto Protocol signed, and a Tijuana oil job from Miss February." to a high school girl. He might have been playing up some ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne to the "old" part of being called a DirtyOldMan.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'':
** Parker's less than stellar attempt at calming down a passenger when she's pretending to be a flight attendant in "The Mile High Job".
--->'''Parker:''' When you think of it, there are many ways to die besides on a plane. Car crash, electrocution, drowning, auto-erotic asphyxiation.
** Hardison running through all of the political candidates they can't work with in "The San Lorenzo Job".
--->'''Hardison:''' Drug dealer, drug dealer, drug addict, embezzler, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs embezzler-drug-dealer-AND-drug-addict]], and my personal favorite...\\
''[Hardison puts a video of flames on screen that somehow turns into porn]''\\
'''Sophie:''' EW! Ew--what is that??\\
'''Hardison:''' There's no secrets on the Internet. When will people learn this?
* A ''Series/LittleBritain'' sketch has a tour guide of a rural area enliven his stories of the place by pointing out where he and his wife had their first kiss and go on to tell where they first had oral and anal sex as well.
* In the first part of "Last Whiff of Summer", the two-part fourth-season premiere of ''Series/TheMiddle'', the Hecks go to a drive-in where the triple feature is ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof'', and ''Film/{{Serpico}}''.
* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': Tom reminisces on an unpleasant country club in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS12E1 The Dogleg Murders]]":
-->"Apart from the [[UpperClassTwit snobbery]] and the [[CrackIsCheaper extortionate fees]], there was the matter of me arresting the treasurer for murdering his mistress!"
* Bob Fossil's frequent examples of this in ''Series/TheMightyBoosh''. One of the best: The Hitcher's massive thumb's backstory, related while driving through the dark and ominous Forest of Death. His long and cheery reminiscence culminates with him smashing in the head of the shaman that helped him, just to get out of the bill.
** To be fair, it was 5 Euros. And you won't see penny one from me, boy!
* Zoe Lyons on the "Scenes We'd Like to See" segment of ''Series/MockTheWeek'', in the category "Unlikely Small Ads": "Respectable middle-aged lady would like to meet gentleman for cozy nights in, country walks, theater visits, and occasional eye-popping anal."
* In ''Series/ModernFamily'' episode 4, after a speech by Haley's boyfriend revealing his HiddenDepths, her family encourages him to play one of the songs he's written. The innocently titled "In the Moonlight", which he says he wrote for Haley, draws them in with an innocuous first verse before becoming blatant IntercourseWithYou.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
** The "Lumberjack Song" devolves from a celebration of outdoorsy pursuits to cross-dressing, to the dismay of the chorus.
** Mr. Figgis's list of immortal composers:
--->"Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Panties... I'm sorry... Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Bach."
** One sketch had a "Summarize [[Creator/MarcelProust Proust]]" show contestant list his hobbies as "Strangling small animals, golf and masturbating."
*** The Creator/{{BBC}} cut out the word "masturbating" and crudely edited the line to say "golf and strangling animals". Apparently, masturbation is far worse than strangling animals.
* In one scene from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Statler asks Waldorf what he takes in his tea. He answers "Milk, two sugars, one mouse".
* In ''Series/MuppetsTonight'', while Clifford watches a sketch; "Look at those lobsters out there. Aren't they cute? With their little lobster outfits, their little lobster guitars, and their little lobster semiautomatic weapons."
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''
** From the closing host segment of "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E03PodPeople Pod People]]":
--->'''Joel:''' Y'know, guys, it always hurts to close it all up, strike the set, wipe off the greasepaint, napkin up the blood and entrails, and move on to another town.
** This riff from "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E21SantaClausConquersTheMartians Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]", when the kids start [[HumiliationConga assaulting Volmar with toys]].
--->'''Tom Servo:''' [[SarcasmMode Hilarity, guys.]] Not since the pie fight scene in ''The Great Race''!\\
'''Crow:''' Not since the mudslide scene in ''[=McLintock=]!''!\\
'''Joel:''' Not since the wagon race scene in ''The Hallelujah Trail''!\\
'''Crow:''' Not since the chess-playing scene in ''The Seventh Seal''!\\
'''Tom:''' Not since the orgy scene in ''Calig...u...la''.
* ''Series/NightCourt'', in the Season 3 episode "Walk Away, Renee", Mac is out in the hall talking to a supplier:
-->'''Mac:''' We're gonna need a gross of pencils, three dozen typewriter ribbons...\\
''[From offscreen, Dan is heard screaming and crashing into something, courtesy of ticking off Bull in the scene prior]''\\
'''Mac:''' ...six pints of whole blood...
* In ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Dwight says that his family believes in a five-finger intervention which at first seems to be a euphemism for getting punched. The steps are composed of awareness, education, control, acceptance and ''punching''.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Rumpelstiltskin uses this with Belle.
-->'''Rumpelstiltskin:''' You will serve me my meals and you will clean the Dark Castle... You will dust my collection and launder my clothing... You will fetch me fresh straw when I'm spinning at the wheel... OH! And you will skin the children I hunt. For their pelts.\\
''[Belle drops a tea cup]''\\
'''Rumpelstiltskin:''' ... That one was a quip. Not serious! ''[giggles]''
* ''Series/{{Porridge}}'': According to Fletcher, the prison football team boasts a mixture of "youth, experience, flair and brutality."
* The ''Series/{{Psych}}'' episode "[[CriminalMindGames An Evening With Mr. Yang]]" does this with [[spoiler: the pictures in the Psych office. Picture of Gus, picture of Shawn, picture of Gus and Shawn, TERRIFIED GAGGED VICTIM]].
* The "Timeslides" episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'' has this lovely excerpt from the diary of one Adolf Hitler:
-->'''Kryten:''' I'll switch to translation mode... Stop milk, pay papers, invade Czechoslovakia!
* ''Series/{{Rome}}''
** Season 1 has a scene where Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Posca are reading Pompey's peace terms.
--->'''Antony''': The Senate will ratify your status. You get your Triumph. Stand for Consul. Pompey shall withdraw to Spain. ''He'll suck Posca's cock if asked nicely''.
** In the season 2 premiere, Mark Antony offers a truce to the conspirators who murdered Caesar. They will not condemn each other and appear as friends in public. Antony will serve out his term as Consul and then retire back to his estates where he can plough his fields and ''fuck his slaves''. [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade Like Cincinattus]].
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** One series features four men in a bar (or, on occasion, a car) who tell gradually more disturbing tales (all of them treating the stories as perfectly normal events) about where they were when they heard a popular song (such as "Danny's Song," "Garden Party," "To Be With You," and "Breakfast At Tiffany's"), culminating in them committing some unsettling atrocity in whatever setting they occupy.
** The Bill Brasky sketches utilize this as well, with a group of drunkards telling outlandish stories about Bill, while each of them takes turns interjecting with something uncomfortable and completely unrelated, like "I'm wearing a diaper!" or "My uncle Hal molested me!"
** Another sketch featured a company asking their employees what they could do to make more money. The employees who answer their questions get increasingly goofier, like a mounted tiger head and a gigantic turkey sub.
** The theme song of ''The Ambiguously Gay Duo''. "They are taking on evil come what may, they are fighting all crimes to save the day, [[AmbiguouslyGay they're extremely close in an ambiguous way]]."
** The "Under Underground Records" commercial sketch series features DJ Supersoak and Lil Blaster hyping up a music festival thrown by their label. The special guests from just the first one include Mark Fuhrman (from the OJ Simpson trial), actor Justin Long, The Snapple Lady, Turtle from ''Series/{{Entourage}}'', ''Ms. Screw Magazine 1997'' and NBA legend Dirk Nowitzki.
* In ''Series/ScarecrowAndMrsKing'', a brainwashed Lee begins making daily to-do lists. One of these lists contains, amongst mundane items, the entry "Shoot Billy".
* ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}'' on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-KafkxEz-4#t=0h0m35s the relentlessly horrible nature of the news]]:
--> '''Charlie Brooker:''' Which isn't to say the world itself is horrible. It's still full of sunshine and flowers and cuddly [[spoiler: creatures you'd like to have sex with, like this rabbit. Cor, look at this rabbit...]]
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
** JD's "AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle" daydream:
---> '''JD:''' You've had a tough day at the office, so you come home, make yourself some dinner, smother your kids, pop in a movie, maybe have a drink. It's fun, right? Wrong. Don't smother your kids.'
** Elliot is pretty prone to this. "Maybe we can do something a little less girly, like bowling or paint ball or ''Literature/FightClub''..."
** Many of her stories of friends and relatives seem normal enough, but then end with the subject abruptly hanging themselves. Her friends have come to expect this.
** "Possible side effects of kittens may include sneezing, tiny scratches, and erectile dysfunction."
** [[UnreliableNarrator The Janitor]] describing his trip to China and doing the "normal" touristic things: "Visited the Great Wall, ate the food, and had a baby with a local."
** The Todd giving his reference to Dr. Cox:
---> "Dr. Turk should be chief because he's skilled technically, super efficient, he's got an awesome dong, he's great with laparoscopic procedures, patients love him..."
--->"What was that middle one?"
--->"Laparoscopic?"
** Elliot advocating for her patient to get a donor heart valve
--->'''Dr. Molly Clock:''' He a good candidate for surgery?
--->'''Elliot:''' Definitely. Thirty-five, married, good job, cute little boy, great dog; can't remember
--->what kind they said, long time recovering heroin addict, bulldog. That's what it was.
* In ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s "The Yada Yada", Jerry's love interest Beth (Debra Messing) appears to agree with him on the superfluity of dentists... only to add that dentists were worse than "the blacks and the Jews". Afterwards, when Elaine asks Jerry where Beth is, he answers "she went to get her head shaven".
** In "The Andrea Doria," [[TheChewToy George]] plays MiseryPoker for an apartment he had planned to move into against a survivor of the ''Andrea Doria'' shipwreck, who was prioritized because the owners felt sorry for him. He reels off [[ContinuityCavalcade a litany of his absurd humiliations from past episodes]] (getting ChainedToABed, successfully charming an attractive woman who turned out to be a Nazi, "[[MemeticMutation shrinkage]]"), concludes his speech and begins to leave an already tearful panel before [[AndAnotherThing turning back and adding]], [[spoiler:"Oh! Also. My fiancée died from licking toxic envelopes that I picked out."]]
** A classic from "The Dealership" when a car dealership employee retrieves and eats a Twix bar that had been stuck in the vending machine after George paid for it:
--->'''George:''' All I want is my 75 cents back, an apology, [[DisproportionateRetribution and for him to be fired]].
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Oliver once described Davis as "tall, dark, and [[spoiler:doomsday]]".
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Little Green Men": baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs.
* ''[[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life on Deck]]'': "I'm tired of you always putting me down, being rude to me, and putting live poisonous animals under my pillow while I sleep."
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In [[Recap/SupernaturalS13E16ScoobyNatural "ScoobyNatural"]], when one of the guests ends up dead, each of the [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Mystery Inc. gang]] reacts with their catchphrase... and then Dean chimes in with something a little less family-friendly.
-->'''Velma:''' Jinkies!\\
'''Daphne:''' Jeepers!\\
'''Shaggy:''' Zoinks!\\
'''Scooby:''' Ruh-roh!\\
'''Dean:''' ...Son of a bitch!
* ''Series/{{Taxi}}'':
-->'''Jim:''' Now come on, Heather, what's in the brownies?\\
'''Heather:''' Sugar, eggs, chocolate, marijuana, flour, and walnuts.\\
'''Gordon:''' ''[outraged]'' You've been feeding us ''WALNUTS?!''
* On the season one episode of ''Series/{{Titus}}'' called "Mom's Not Nuts," Titus names off the three things that will get you out of a mental hospital: "good behavior, a clean psychiatric record, and an axe." (The third of which is what Titus's mom used).
** Titus used this trope a lot, especially when his mother (a bipolar schizophrenic) is referenced. A season one episode has the cast eating a meal prepared by his mother. He lists his favorite dishes prepared by his mother:
--->'''Christopher:''' ''[obviously under the influence of drugs]'' Nobody makes turkey dinner like my mom. Those little pilgrim cookies with the little chocolate suits, homemade candy, candied yams, yam covered ham, cranberry jam in the shape of a can... (takes a bite of food and then spits something into his palm)... spit a pill into my hand.
* ''Series/That70sShow'': The episode "Eric's Hot Cousin" has an example that's somewhere between this trope downplayed and ArsonMurderAndJaywalking. In the beginning, Eric's reminiscing over how his titular cousin [[ShesAllGrownUp Penny]] was a tattletale when they were little kids. "Eric's stealing cookies, Eric's [[PyroManiac playing with fire]], Eric's touching himself."
* When explaining the risks with [[spoiler:meeting yourself]] while time travelling in ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', Five lists off the seven stages of paradox psychosis. In order, the stages are denial, itching, extreme thirst and urination, excessive gas, acute paranoia, uncontrolled perspiration, and homicidal rage.
** In the same episode, Diego watches an [[spoiler:orientation movie at the Comission for new recruits, the mascot character, Mr. Briefcase, explains all the wonderful job options the company provides. He tells the recruits that opportunities are open to them no matter their skill, education or comfort level with moral ambiguity]].
* In ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', Owen asks Geraldine what kind of things he'll teach his goddaughter as she grows up (riding a bike, going on nature walks and teaching her about the flowers, hunting down moles and stoving in their heads).
* In one episode of ''Series/WorldsDumbest'', Chelsea Perretti reveals her New Year's resolutions: "Don't date idiots," "Make new friends," "Recycle more," and "Stop killing hobos."
* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': Shauna [[spoiler: kills the man she's been having an affair with]] She calls her former teammates to help her cover her tracks. The next day at their 25th high school reunion, Shauna hesitate before going in:
-->'''Shauna''': How is it possible that is the most scared I've been all day?\\
'''Taissa''': ''[laughs]'' Right? "Oh, my God! Oh, hey, girl. Hey! It's been forever. What have you been up to? Tell me."\\
'''Shauna''': Um, yeah. You know, gardening, PTA, [[spoiler: dismembering my lover's corpse]].

[[folder:Music]]
* "Nothing But Sunshine" by Atmosphere starts out discussing the narrator's troubled childhood and how he has developed into a well-adjusted adult nonetheless, until he mentions that he enjoys recreationally murdering cows with his bare hands. The song then becomes a brief skit in which we hear him do just that.
* Music/TheAxisOfAwesome has a song called "How To Numbers 1-3", which tells you how to bake a scone, how to catch a duck, and how to kill a hooker.
* Music/JonathanCoulton:
** "The Future Soon" starts as a slice-of-life love story where the nerdy narrator fails to attract the girl he loves. It ends with him fantasizing about returning home as a cyborg MadScientist and turning her into his robot bride.
%%** Coulton loves this trope. "Better", "Betty and Me", and "I Crush Everything" all turn creepy partway through.
** "Re: Your Brains" starts with this simple conversation:
-->Heya Tom, it's Bob from the office down the hall.\\
Good to see you, buddy. How've you been?\\
Things have been okay for me, except that I'm a zombie now\\
I really wish you'd let us in.
* The tone of Music/TheDecemberists' "July, July!" abruptly changes in the first verse:
-->"There is a road that meets the road that goes to my house\\
And how the green grows there\\
And we've got special boots to beat the path to my house\\
And it's careful and it's careful when I'm there\\
And I say your uncle was a crooked French Canadian\\
And he was gut-shot running gin\\
And how his guts were all suspended in his fingers\\
And how he held 'em, how he held 'em, held 'em in"
** Also "The Chimbley Sweep", which starts as a tragic song about the hard life of, well, a chimney sweep, and suddenly veers into paedophile-esque BawdySong territory in the final verse:
--->"O lonely urchin," the widow cried\\
"I've not [[UnusualEuphemism been swept]] since the day my husband died!"\\
Her cheeks a-blushin', her legs laid bare,\\
And shipwrecked there I'll shake you from your sleep
** And "Yankee Bayonet":
--->"Heart-carved tree-trunk, Yankee bayonet, a sweetheart left behind"\\
"Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas, that's where my true love lies"\\
"Look for me when the sun-bright swallow sings upon the birch-bough high"\\
"But you are in the ground with the wolves and the weevils all a-chew on your bones so dry"
** "Los Angeles, I'm Yours" starts out being about how wonderful Los Angeles is, and then starts talking about "the smell of burnt cocaine, the dolour and decay". Also, in the second verse:
-->"You ladies pleasant and demure\\
Sallow-cheeked and sure\\
[[ComedicUnderwearExposure I can see your undies]]"
** The Decemberists are the kings of squick in their songs in GENERAL. May I direct you to The Rake's Song.
-->"Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove\\
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath\\
Isaiah fought but was easily bested\\
Burned his body for incurring my wrath"
** In the last verse of the same song, the narrator insisted that killing his three children doesn't really bother him at all.
* "Weinerschnitzel", by Descendents, consists of a 13-second fast food order. The order seems normal enough, until the counter guy asks if the purchaser wants sperm with that.
* 2D, the [[TheDitz slightly dim]] singer/keyboardist of Music/{{Gorillaz}}, once introduced himself in a radio interview with "Hi, my name is 2D, and I'm the singer, and I need the toilet..." Murdoc calmly announcing during an interview that "I hit puberty at eight and lost my virginity to a dinner lady at nine and I've been in a bad mood ever since" possibly also falls under this heading, whether or not he was telling the truth.
* The song "Diane" by Music/HuskerDu surely qualifies. The first verse:
-->Hey little girl, wanna go for a ride?
-->There's room and my wagon is parked right outside
-->We can cruise down Robert Street all night long
-->But I think I'll just rape you and kill you instead
* Music/JethroTull: Before a live performance of "A Christmas Song", Ian Anderson does one of these:
--> "[Christmas] is '''not''' a time for heavy drinking, over-eating, and [[BestialityIsDepraved casual sex with farm animals]], that's out of the question!"
* Music/TomLehrer enjoys this:
** "My Home Town" begins with idyllic reminiscences of his home town and quickly slides into recalling "the man who took a knife/and monogrammed his wife".
** "Be Prepared" exhorts Boy Scouts to be prepared for all situations...such as smoking dope and pimping out their own sisters.
** "I Hold Your Hand in Mine" sounds romantic, up to the lyrics "My joy would be complete, dear/If only you were here/But still I keep your hand/As a precious souvenir." And: "I hold your hand in mine, dear/I press it to my lips/I take a healthy bite from your dainty fingertips".
** His song "The Old Dope Peddler" sings admirably of the cornerstone of any neighborhood, the Heroin Dealer.
** "I Wanna Go Back To Dixie" does this as well. It's mostly an almost sweet, happy song about wanting to go back home...but it's after he includes the line "Ol' times there are not forgotten/Whuppin' slaves and selling cotton" that it gets dark.
** "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" starts off like a lovely ode to springtime and young love, but when he suddenly starts the chorus, the song takes a major left turn into this trope, along with some SoundtrackDissonance because of the song ''still'' being sung the same way, despite the lyrics.
* The Music/LemonDemon song "Ode to Crayola" begins as a cute tribute song to goofily-named Crayola crayons. Then it turns weird:
--> I'm gonna rise at dawn, with no clothes on, and color on my skin
--> Colors of life and love, from Heaven above, absolve me of my sin
* Music/LilDicky's ''Professional Rapper'' ends with Music/SnoopDogg's receptionist offering him "coffee, tea, head, bottled water?" (After asking what kinds of tea she has, he changes his mind and goes with head.)
* Music/TheLonelyIsland:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c "Like a Boss"]] is a list of events in the eponymous boss's average day at work. The events start out mundane ("talk to corporate, approve memos...") but grow increasingly disturbing and improbable as the song goes on, eventually ending with him turning into a jet, bombing the Russians, and flying into the sun. The person reviewing the boss correctly [[LampshadeHanging points out]] that he "chops [his] balls and die[s]" every day.
** "After Party" is sort of a SpiritualSuccessor to the above, where the narrator describes being caught in a cycle of living a lifestyle of debauchery, giving it up, then falling back into his old habits again - habits that start out with mundane things like drinking and partying but eventually involve drinking snake blood and slithering in the dirt or losing his hand in a game of craps. They even lampshade the similarities, since both songs refer to having sex with giant fish in sewers.
* Music/{{Lonestar}}'s "No News" does this when listing off possible outcomes for a departed lover:
-->She missed her bus, missed her plane\\
Surely, this can be explained\\
Lost her car at the mall\\
Got locked in a bathroom stall\\
Joined a cult, joined the Klan...
* Stephen Lynch's "Best Friend's Song" starts off as friendly telling of the differences among friends, and descends into a confession of wanting to take part in violent sex with the other friend's pubescent sister. His whole career is built on this trope.
* Music/TimMinchin's song "If I Didn't Have You" features a claim that love grows with time, "like a flower, or a mushroom, or a guinea pig, or a vine, or a sponge, or bigotry...or a banana."
** Minchin has an entire song devoted to this trope: "If You Really Loved Me", which follows its title line with "you'd let me video you while you wee" and also includes this pearler:
--->We go together like crackers and Brie\\
Like racism and ignorance\\
Like [[HypocriticalHumor niggers and RnB]]
** Minchin's poem "Angry (Feet)" quickly descends into this as the somewhat shy narrative becomes marked with shouted expletives and Freudian slips, revealing that the narrator is a recovering mental patient with a hair-trigger temper, a much-despised family, and a love of guns and porn. The whole thing concludes with the point of the poem... this:
--->And my (QUACK!) Doctor would be proud\\
Because I feel a lot less angry\\
And I'm saying stuff out loud\\
And I'm letting anger out\\
Like today in our last session\\
When I taught the quack a lesson\\
'Cause he said I'm not progressin'\\
Said I wasn't moving forward\\
So I said "Let's see how you move without your fuckin' legs"\\
And I tied him to his chair\\
And I pulled out my machete\\
And I listened to him beg\\
[[AxCrazy And then I cut his fuckin' feet off]]\\
While he laid there bleeding\\
[[GrievousHarmWithABody I used his feet to kick him in the head]]
* Music/OingoBoingo had a couple of songs like this
** In "Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me:"
--->''Have you heard about the Joneses, my, my, my\\
It happened so quick and no one knows why\\
Their teenage son, he seemed O.K.\\
But his suicide ruined everyone's day.''
** And their song "Whole Day Off:"
--->''Have you seen my garden?\\
It is most peculiar\\
Have you seen my garden?\\
Nothing there that grows looks anything at all like plants\\
I hear their voices--let's take the whole day off.''
** No Spill Blood mentions that if you break the rules, you get ridicule, laughter, and '''a trip to the house of pain'''. (Well, it ''is'' a ShoutOut to ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''...)
* The first verse of "Jeremy" by Music/PearlJam seems to describe a pretty normal kid, right up to the last line:
-->"At home\\
Drawing pictures\\
Of mountain tops\\
With him on top\\
Lemon yellow sun\\
Arms raised in a V\\
The dead lay in pools of maroon below"
* Psychostick's song ''We Ran Out of CD Space'' includes this, as well as ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in the previous verse.
--> ''What if guitars could shoot out sour cream/and nacho cheese/and pure sulfuric acid?''
** Psychostick's song "Grocery Escape Plan" also includes one of these. The singer's grocery list includes, "Chips, peas, corn, cheese...Porn... and Spaghetti-o's".
* In "Sounds Like War" by Music/{{POD}}:
-->''Sounds like it's war to me:''\\
''Peace, love and casualties.''
* It's hard to tell what Music/{{REM}} was singing about in "I Remember California", especially at the time, but one song's narrator reminisces thusly:
-->I remember redwood trees\\
Bumper cars and wolverines.\\
The ocean's Trident submarines
* [[https://rapplepi.bandcamp.com/music Rapple Pi's]] album ''Money, Women, Poptarts, Goldfish'' is an example of this.
* The song "Prayer to God" by Shellac:
-->To the one true God above, here is my prayer.\\
Not the first you've heard, but the first I wrote\\
(Not the first, but the others were a long time ago)\\
There are two people here, '''''and I want you to kill them.'''''
* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sun is Burning", which, for the first three verses is describing a nice day out in suburbia, but then...
-->''Now the sun as come to earth/Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death...''
** [[LyricalDissonance And the singing is still very calm and peaceful.]]
* The theme song of ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' contains this verse:
--> [=McDonald=]'s! (fuck yeah!)\\
Walmart! (fuck yeah!)\\
The Gap! (fuck yeah!)\\
Baseball! (fuck yeah!)\\
The [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]]! (fuck yeah!)\\
RockAndRoll! (fuck yeah!)\\
TheInternet! (fuck yeah!)\\
''Slavery!'' (fuck yeah!)
* Music/TheyMightBeGiants: The bridge section of "They'll Need a Crane"
-->Don't call me at work again, I know the boss still hates me\\
I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore\\
And there's a restaurant we should check out\\
Where the other nightmare people like to go\\
[[VerbalBackspace I mean nice people]], Baby, wait\\
[[ComicallyMissingThePoint I didn't mean to say "nightmare"]]
* Australian band Music/{{Tripod}} loves this trope. Examples include:
** ''In the Countryside'', a touching tale of freedom and finding yourself [[spoiler: and stockpiling weaponry]].
** ''Let's Take a Walk'' starts with the lines:
--> Let's take a walk, my love,\\
Down by the river, my baby.\\
Down where we used to go,\\
Until the day when we found that body.
* This one's not exactly "squick", but it's still ending a list on a more dramatic note: the line in the traditional "The Unicorn Song" "Rats and cats and ''elephants'', just as sure as you're born." Then again, seeing an elephant ([[GoingToSeeTheElephant not like that]]) is ''still'' more likely than seeing a unicorn.
* The Vandals' song "The New You", a story of how a guy's love has changed, does this quite horribly:
-->Well now you say that you like me\\
but you don't "like" like me.\\
And you say that you love me but\\
you're not "in love" with me\\
And we should just be friends\\
...but friends shouldn't treat other friends like that\\
you're not too friendly when you act like that.\\
Should I smash your fucking head with a baseball bat?\\
And dig around the brains and goo\\
for something that looks like old you?
* In Music/{{Voltaire}}'s ''When You're Evil'', the {{Card Carrying|Villain}} VillainProtagonist starts with a bunch of PokeThePoodle grade minor "evils", like being a fly in someone's soup or a pebble in their shoe, then out of nowhere talks about tripping elderly people down staircases.
* Logan Whitehurst's song "The Ice Cream Man" starts off innocently enough, with Logan walking down Main Street and looking for some ice cream. It just so happens that the eponymous ice cream man is there. Then this happens:
-->Then I hear the voices in my head\\
Whispering to me, "Kill, kill, kill the ice cream man"...
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic
** "Hardware Store" includes a long list of items that can be found at the eponymous establishment -- including, apparently, "automatic circumcisers."
** "Good Old Days". Presented as the sentimental nostalgic ramblings of the singer about his Creator/NormanRockwell-style childhood, every verse ends with psychopathic assault against some innocent.
** "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?", when Al talks about disturbing things happening around him without those things being the concern of the verse.
** "I Remember Larry" recounts several pranks made upon the singer and the people of his town, which start out innocuous enough (okay, so the Ben-Gay in the jock-strap is kind of mean), and descends into somewhat less harmless ideas ("You know I couldn't help but laugh/Even though he treated me like slime/Remember when he cut my car in half?/Well, he really got me good that time!") and ends with the singer reminiscing cheerfully about how he broke into Larry's house, bound and gagged him, dragged him into the woods, stuffed him in a plastic bag, and left him for dead. Funny song, mostly.
** Al's parody of "Complicated," which ends with the singer describing all of the problems that came after he decapitated himself on a roller coaster. (It was "quite a drag.")
** From "Albuquerque"'s plane flight part:
---> I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor,\\
And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time,\\
The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts,\\
And the in-flight movie was [[TakeThat Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore]]!\\
And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out\\
And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside\\
And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died... except for me!
** "Do I Creep You Out?" Which opens up as a sweet love song and keeps to the sweet tune while the singer confesses all the creepy, stalkerish things he has done to the subject of his affections (Taking her gum out of the garbage, following her home from work).
** And of course "One More Minute", a nice swinging doo-wop number..."So I pulled your name out of my rolodex/and tore all of our pictures in two/and I burned down the malt-shop where we used to go/just because it reminds me of youuuuu"
** During the bridge of "Livin' in the Fridge", the singer suggests carbon-dating the mysterious fridge-dweller, then offers fumigation as an alternative and finally wonders if he should just burn it and scatter the ashes at sea.
** "One of Those Days" is a constant back-and-forth between mundane inconveniences and increasingly serious problems. And increasingly frequent, to the point where the song evolves from this trope into ArsonMurderAndJaywalking by the end.
** ''Tacky'' is all about doing tacky things like threatening to leave a bad Yelp review at a restaurant or printing your resume in Comic Sans, then switches to "[[ZombieInfectee if I'm bit by a zombie, probably not telling you]]."
** Following a bunch of goofy, remarkably specific horoscopes ("Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your explosive flatulence!") in "Your Horoscope For Today", the horoscope for Sagittarius unexpectedly has:
-->All your friends are laughing behind your back.\\
''[[AC:[[VoiceOfTheLegion Kill them.]]]]''
* [=YouTube=] lists the gender and age of the 3 biggest audiences for each video under video statistics. Pretty much every music video by any female teen star will list the following 1: Female (13-17), 2: Female (18-25), 3: Male (35-44).
** Maybe more FridgeHorror, if you consider that the guys in category 3 are about the age that their daughters (and their friends) will belong in category 1.
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[[folder:Magazines]]
* In one of the ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' "Space-Time Telegraph" spoof news columns, it was reported that World Distributors would be releasing a ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' Annual (a parody of World's ''Series/DoctorWho'' annuals of the seventies; aimed at very young kids, and apparently written by people who'd once had the series described to them). Amongst the features listed were "Where's Owen?"; "Gwen's Spacey Space Quiz"; and "Jack and Ianto's Stopwatch Game".
* In the March 2001 issue of ''Magazine/GameInformer'' (#95), Andrew Reiner wrote in the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090719114918/http://gameinformer.com/Games/Review/200103/R03.0805.1413.03922.htm Second Opinion review]] of the Dreamcast version of ''Wrestling/{{ECW}} Anarchy Rulz'': "NoteToSelf: Eat dinner, call my parents, then assassinate the development team responsible for this wrestling disaster."
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'': As Morticia is doing inventory of the various sacks from a cupboard:
-->'''Morticia:''' Uncle Knick-Knack's winter wardrobe. Uncle Knick-Knack's summer wardrobe. Uncle Knick-Knack...
** Pretty much every time an Addams starts listing something innocuous, they'll end here.
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' uses the ''hell'' out of this trope. To name a few examples:
--> '''Rex Kramer:''' (reading a newspaper headline) Passengers certain to die? (hands off the paper)\\
'''Steve [=McCroskey=]:''' Airline negligent?\\
'''Johnny Hinshaw:''' There's a sale at Penney's?!
** Also, when the Chicago airport prepares for a potential crash-landing, a parade of trucks pour out onto the runway, including a Budweiser truck.
** And when Striker takes over the pilot's seat and asks Elaine to relay his messages to Rex Kramer:
---> '''Kramer:''' What's the weather like?\\
'''Elaine:''' Rain.\\
'''Striker:''' And a little ice.\\
'''Elaine:''' And a little ice.\\
'''Kramer:''' How's she handling now, Striker?\\
'''Striker:''' Sluggish, like a wet sponge.\\
'''Elaine:''' Sluggish, like a wet sponge.\\
'''Kramer:''' Alright Striker, you're doing just fine.\\
'''Striker:''' It's a damn good thing he doesn't know how much I hate his guts.\\
'''Elaine:''' It's a damn good thing you don't know how much he hates your guts.
* ''Film/AmericanPie'': After several mundane (and utterly boring) stories from band camp, we are treated to this:
-->'''Michelle:''' This one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute up my pussy!
* There's a bit in ''Film/TheAristocrats'' ([[TheAristocrats the humor]] is {{Squick}} in its own right) where Creator/SarahSilverman shares her "true story" of working in a theater troupe like the eponymous Aristocrats. Then she shares her account of rehearsing with Joe Franklin, a legendary vaudevillian agent who's been glorified throughout the work...but as the tale goes on, she eventually reveals, [[spoiler:"Joe Franklin raped me."]] Hell, Sarah Silverman's shtick ''in general'' often involves this.
* Played straight ''and'' inverted with Film/AustinPowers' list of things to do before he dies:
-->Become International Man Of Mystery. ''[crossed out]''\\
Save World From Certain Doom. ''[crossed out]''\\
Find True Love. ''[crossed out]''\\
Go To Outer Space. ''[crossed out]''\\
Travel Through Time, Backward and Forward. ''[crossed out]''\\
Be Cryogenically Frozen. ''[crossed out]''\\
Catch Dr. Evil in the First Act. ''[crossed out]''\\
[[TwinThreesomeFantasy Threesome With Japanese Twins.]]\\
[[WellDoneSonGuy Earn Daddy's Respect.]]
* In ''Film/BatmanForever'', Nygma tries to invent a name for his supervillain persona. He comes up with "The Puzzler", "The Gamester" and "''Captain Kill''".
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': Jake's personal effects, handed back to him after three years in prison. "...One hat, black. One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled..."
** There's also the brothers' first meeting with Willie Hall. All the more effectful because it's delivered in exactly the same blandly cheerful tone:
--> So, Jake! You're out! You're rehabilitated! Where are you going to go? What are you going to do? Do you have the money you owe us, motherfucker?
* In ''Film/ABronxTale'', an eight year old boy sees the local [[TheMafia Mafia capo]] he idolizes kill a man in the street and lies about it to the police. Being a Catholic Italian-American, however, he has to talk about it when he goes to confession. He tries to not call attention to that whole "lying about a murder I saw once" thing by confessing it sandwiched in between much more mundane sins like eating meat on Friday and missing Mass. As you can probably guess, [[RepeatWhatYouJustSaid the Priest doesn't go for that routine]], leading to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghq-AOHQBR0 rather hilarious scene]].
* ''{{Film/Clue}}'' features the characters locking a police officer in a room so they can solve the murders before he figures out what's going on (he just came in to use the phone). When he finds the door locked, he uses a creative means of getting them to open up.
-->'''Officer: ''' I'll book you for false arrest, and wrongful imprisonment, and obstructing an officer in the course of his duty...and MURDER!
-->''(The door is instantly opened.)''
-->'''Wadsworth:''' ''(sporting the sickliest OhCrapSmile)'' What do you mean, murder?
-->'''Officer: ''' I just said that so you'd open the door.
* In '' Film/CruelIntentions'', [[TheCasanova Casanova]] Sebastian Valmont is temporarily forced to help out in an old people's home against his will. While sitting in an armchair and chatting idly with Ms. Sugarman, an elderly sufferer of Senile Dementia, he casually tells her that earlier in the day they played backgammon and that she won three times before adding "And I fucked your daughter." Ms. Sugarman says "What?" to which Sebastian answers with a CheshireCatGrin, "I said would you care for some water?"
* ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' has the eponymous hero addressing children with this nugget in its Halloween teaser.
-->'''Deadpool:''' You may be wondering why I brought you here. At some point we must all join forces and become a team. Now, [[HeroicComedicSociopath how many of you have taken a human life?]]
** And the CallBack from Colossus's "four or five moments" speech in the [[Film/Deadpool2 sequel]].
--->'''Deadpool:''' People think you're a hero 24/7. Wake up a hero. Brush your teeth a hero. Ejaculate into the soap dispenser a hero.
--->'''Colossus:''' ([[CrossesTheLineTwice nervously sniffing his hands.]]) Bozhe moy...
* '' Film/DeathRace'' features a subtle example, when the textual introduction to the race itself warns about "Graphic content including but not limited to violence, coarse language, and ''death''."
* In ''Film/TheDisasterArtist'', as Creator/TommyWiseau writes ''Film/TheRoom2003'', he describes the main character: "He has it all. Good look, many friends, and also maybe Johnny is vampire. We'll see."
* In ''Film/DumbAndDumber'', Lloyd persuades Harry why they should return the briefcase to Mary because they have nothing else going for them.
-->'''Lloyd:''' We've got no food! We've got no jobs! [[ItMakesSenseInContext Our pet's heads are falling off!]]
* ''Film/EscanabaInDaMoonlight'': The ingredients list for the potion starts out normally enough, with milk, yeast, and barley, but it also apparently contains roasted earthworms, blackflies, squirrel guts and the dried and powdered left testicle of a fully grown moose.
* Early on in ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'', a magical beast gets loose and bites a non-magical citizen, leaving a former wizard cop to furiously question Newt Scamander, the owner of the beast. Newt tries to reassure her that the bite is mostly harmless and lists off a series of minor symptoms of the bite, until he stutters and tries to avoid the subject before being forced to list the last symptom: shooting fire from the anus.
* In ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', Joker explaining to a reporter the motives why he's in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
-->'''Joker:''' I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block [[BloodKnight to get a confirmed kill]].
* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'', a creepy backwoods tow-truck driver tells our heroes to make themselves at home while he fixes Harold's car:
-->'''Freakshow:''' Gonna take me a while to fix up your car there, so if you boys'd like to go on inside, get yourself something to drink, worship, fuck my wife, watch TV... anything you want. Mi casa es su casa!
* From the DVD commentary on ''Film/KickAss'':
-->"That's the Marc Quinn blood head, that's a Damien Hirst spot painting, that's a kid killing a man..."
* The ventriloquist song in ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist''.
-->"I swing a bit more. I swing a bit less. But we both swing if you know what we mean."
* A somewhat downplayed and quite snarky example shows up in ''Film/LordOfWar''. When the Soviet Union collapses and ArmsDealer Yuri Orlov is first able to access, pilfer, and sell the enormous Soviet arsenal all over the third world, he has a long speech where he waxes poetic about the virtues of the AK-47. At the end of talking about it and its impact on the world, he goes on to note that the AK was Russia's top export after the end of the Cold War, followed by "Vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists."
* In ''Film/LAConfidential'', down and out actor Matt Reynolds gets roped into a blackmail scheme by having sex with the gay DA but instead ends up dead. The record keeper later tells Ed Exley that Matt's stomach contained a Frankfurter, french fries, alcohol and ''sperm''.
* In ''Film/TheMask'', when the eponymous character is being searched by the police. The items: really big sunglasses, Nerf ball, bike horn, small-mouthed bass, bowling pin, mousetrap, rubber chicken, funny eyeball glasses ("I've never seen those before in my life!"), and a bazooka. ((calmly) "I have a permit for that.") The cherry-on-top: a picture of the arresting lieutenant's ''wife'', in lingerie with the words, "Call me lover" hand-written on the bottom.
-->'''The Mask:''' Uh-oh!\\
'''Calloway:''' Margaret! ''You son of a bitch!''\\
'''The Mask:''' Geez, I figured you had a sense of humor. After all -- '''YOU MARRIED HER!'''
* Valentine in ''Film/MirrorMask'': "My mother always said, 'It's a dog-eat-dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Don't embarrass me in front of the neighbors. I think it would be best if you just ''leave'' and ''please never come back again!''' ''(pause)'' She wasn't even my real mother. She bought me from a man..."
* The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.
-->And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chunks...
* Loretta in ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}'', making her weekly confession: "Twice I used the name of the Lord in vain, once I slept with my fiance's brother, and once I bounced a check at the liquor store. But that was an accident really."
* In ''Film/TheNakedGun'', Frank tells a brainwashed Jane that his love for her has made him see things that he had never noticed before like birds singing, leaves glistening with morning dew and [[DrivesLikeCrazy stop lights]].
* In ''Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation'', Clark suggests to Eddie things he could do for him like give him a snack, refill his eggnog "drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead."
* Played straight in ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' because the police chief Mauch (played by Creator/MichaelKeaton) is holding down a second job at Bed Bath N Beyond:
--> "First up: the new bath mats are here. Second: there's a serial rapist at Crown Heights...sorry, that's from my other job, ignore that. [[SeriousBusiness No wait, don't ignore it, especially if you live in Crown Heights.]] [[AnAesop Walk in pairs.]]"
* ''Film/ThePeopleVsLarryFlynt''. According to ''[[AllThereInTheManual The Shooting Script]]'', when the RealLife Larry Flynt found out about the movie, he met with the writers to go over the script as it was at that point. His objections qualified for this.
-->"I would never say 'Jim Dandy'. I never served biscuits and molasses at the Club. The Jackie O issue went to three printings, not four. I never depicted {{Bestiality|IsDepraved}}."
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Prince Humperdinck declines Rugen's invitation to observe [[spoiler:Westley being tortured]]:
-->'''Humperdinck:''' Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, [[spoiler:my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it]]; I'm swamped.
* In ''Film/TheProphecy'', Gabriel tries to get Tommy on his side by telling him of the benefits.
-->'''Gabriel''': No one tells you when to go to bed. You eat all the ice cream you want. You get to kill all day all night, just like an Angel!
* The scene in ''Film/RedEye'' where Jack reveals his occupation counts, not so much in that it's a list of things, but because it comes up in the middle of an until that point very pleasant conversation.
* The song "Chromaggia" in ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' starts as a sad-but-harmless Italian opera song. Then [[spoiler:Mag switches to English, declares "Come take these eyes, I would rather be blind!" and [[EyeScream tears out her own eyes onstage]]]].
* The formulas on the wall of Frank's lab in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' end with a shopping list for flour, eggs, bread sugar and two hypodermic needles.
* ''Film/SchindlersList'': Schindler's description of the things Goeth likes, though not by his intent.
-->'''Schindler:''' He is a wonderful crook. A man who loves good food, good wine, the ladies, making money-\\
'''Stern:''' Killing.
* ''{{Film/Serenity}}'' opens with one of these. "This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode."
* In ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', Shaun comes home and asks his friend Ed if they've had any calls. Ed answers that Shaun's girlfriend Liz phoned to make sure that Shaun had made plans to eat out, before adding "...then your mum phoned to ask if I wanted to eat her out."
* ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' - thawed-out-in-the-future fugitive Miles desperately tries to keep Luna from turning him in: "I'm a good person, I've got good life drives! I don't smoke, I don't drink, I would never force myself sexually on a blind person..."
* In ''Film/{{Society}}'', TokenHeroicOrc Clarissa offers Bill some tea.
-->'''Clarissa:''' How do you like your tea? Cream, sugar, or do you want me to pee in it?
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': At the end of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Bail Organa places R2-D2 and C-3PO in the care of Captain Antilles and tells him to treat them well, clean them up, and "have the protocol droid's mind wiped"... [[ImStandingRightHere while standing right in front of said protocol droid]]. 3PO is understandably alarmed by the last comment, while R2 lets out a series of tittering beeps about his friend's impending misfortune.
* Discussed in ''Film/TakingLives'' when Angelina Jolie's character reads to a murder suspect a list of nouns that goes something like "pants, car, house, cat, rape, incest, murder", explaining that a person's brainwaves react in a certain way to words such as the last three unless they are a sociopath.
* The short film ''[[https://youtu.be/xwIbQg04vkQ Tattoos]]'' has a woman explaining her body art: to remind herself that she can always find her way, of childhood with her father, and the time she killed her boyfriend.
* ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'': Nick's speech to his colleagues at the MOD Squad after his HeroicBSOD
-->'''Nick:''' And right there, looking into Joey's eyes, it all came back in a rush. Why I do what I do. Defending the defenseless. Protecting the disenfranchised corporations that had been abandoned by their very own consumers. [[GaiasLament The logger]]. [[EthnicMenialLabor The sweatshop foreman]]. [[Film/ThereWillbeBlood The oil driller]]. [[LandMineGoesClick The landmine developer]]. The baby seal poacher.
-->'''Polly:''' ''Baby seal poacher.''
-->'''Bobby:''' {{Even|EvilHasStandards}} ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics I]]'' think that's kind of cruel...
* In ''Film/WarGames'', when David unwittingly hacks into NORAD and accesses its MasterComputer, WOPR, it brings up a list of "games", both test games and simulation software designed by the Department of Defense. Unfortunately for David and NORAD, WOPR [[AIIsACrapshoot can't tell the difference]] between a game and [[WorldWarIII real life]].
-->'''WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?\\
FALKEN'S MAZE\\
BLACK JACK\\
GIN RUMMY\\
HEARTS\\
BRIDGE\\
CHECKERS\\
CHESS\\
POKER\\
FIGHTER COMBAT\\
GUERRILLA ENGAGEMENT\\
DESERT WARFARE\\
AIR-TO-GROUND ACTIONS\\
THEATERWIDE TACTICAL WARFARE\\
THEATERWIDE BIOTOXIC AND CHEMICAL WARFARE\\\
GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR'''
* The ''Film/WaynesWorld'' films contain a few examples of this trope. Almost all of Ed O Neill's character Glenn's dialogue in both films, in fact.
** From the second film:
--->'''Glenn:''' So Wayne, I hear you're putting on some kind of concert. That's good. People need to be entertained, they need the distraction. I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die? Why do they come to me to die?"
** Or, also in the second movie, from super-roadie Del:
--->'''Del:''' So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shop owner and his son...that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.
** Also from the second movie, one scene has Wayne chatting with a Swedish secretary. He impresses her with his knowledge of Sweden obtained while writing a report in eighth grade, and then tells her how the next day at school, he had diarrhea on the trampoline in gym class.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture''-"What do you want to drink, Scully? Coke? Pepsi? Saline solution?"
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[[caption-width-right:349:At least it's honest...]]

-->''It’s a source of wry amusement to me that so many people seem to have forgotten that the internet doesn’t actually do very much that’s new. Long before the internet, people were reading the news, publishing essays and stories, navigating through unfamiliar neighborhoods, [[TheInternetIsForCats sharing photos of kittens with their friends,]] ordering products from faraway stores for home delivery, [[TheInternetIsForPorn looking at pictures of people with their clothes off,]] [[InternetJerk sending anonymous hate-filled messages to unsuspecting recipients,]] and doing pretty much everything else that they do on the internet today.''

** This Very Wiki's page on Creator/SylvesterStallone describes him as "an American actor, director, producer, screenwriter and [[OldShame former]] [[BleachedUnderpants porn star]]."

-->"All those things you don't believe in? He faced those things. He fought those things for the good of his people. He risked his life for people. ''He took a knife in the heart for his people''..."

** In ''Paradigms of Human Memory'', Abed remembers all the times that Jeff and Britta had sex in secret. He saw them sneak into the bathroom together during the Halloween party, hear Jeff proposition Britta during the claymation ChristmasEpisode, and literally ''walked in on them in their underwear'' during the Saint Patrick's Day rafting expedition.
** ** In "Curriculum Unavailable'', there is a course called "Can I Fry That?". The professor tells the students about things that can be fried such as bananas, toast, bubble gum, pancakes and ''car keys''. [[BerserkButton BUT NOT FRIES]].

** In "Paaradigms of Human Memory", Abed remembers all the times that Jeff and Britta had sex in secret. He saw them sneak into the bathroom together during the Halloween party, hear Jeff proposition Britta during the claymation ChristmasEpisode, and literally ''walked in on them in their underwear'' during the Saint Patrick's Day rafting expedition.
** ** In "Curriculum Unavailable'', there is a course called "Can I Fry That?. The professor tells the students about things that can be fried such as bananas, toast, bubble gum, pancakes and ''car keys''. [[BerserkButton BUT NOT FRIES]].