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-->'''Homer:''' There's still the little matter of the whereabouts of your wife.\\

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-->'''Homer:''' --->'''Homer:''' There's still the little matter of the whereabouts of your wife.\\



-->'''Homer:''' And maybe I'm talking like this because I can't stop! Help me, Lisa! I have serious mental problems!

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-->'''Homer:''' --->'''Homer:''' And maybe I'm talking like this because I can't stop! Help me, Lisa! I have serious mental problems!



-->'''Teen 1:''' Here comes that cannon ball guy. He's cool.\\

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-->'''Teen --->'''Teen 1:''' Here comes that cannon ball guy. He's cool.\\



'''Teen 1:''' I don't even know anymore.
** And then there's the time when Homer's sarcasm was perfectly clear, but he suddenly worried that he hadn't made himself clear:
-->'''Marge Simpson:''' Well, Homer, maybe you can take some consolation in the fact that something you created is making so many people happy.\\

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'''Teen 1:''' [[LogicBomb I don't even know anymore.
anymore]].
** And then there's the time in "Flaming Moe's", when Homer's sarcasm was perfectly clear, but he suddenly worried that he hadn't made himself clear:
-->'''Marge --->'''Marge Simpson:''' Well, Homer, maybe you can take some consolation in the fact that something you created is making so many people happy.\\

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Digman}}'' has Zane, Rip Digman's friend-turned-rival who speaks with a thick British accent that makes it difficult for Rip to tell when Zane is being genuinely snide. It's used as a plot point at the end of the Pilot episode, when Zane's sarcastic statement to the press that he wouldn't have succeeded without Digman's help is interpreted as genuine by a bunch of people and leads to Digman getting a bunch of new job offers.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Mr. Herriman tries to receive funding from an EccentricMillionaire, and tells Bloo with obvious sarcasm that he and Mac will get race cars from the money. Bloo's glee at this comment reveals to Mac that [[SarcasmBlind he has absolutely no idea what sarcasm is]], and his attempts to teach him run throughout the episode. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the "millionaire" had no money, and thought his baldfaced lying was sarcasm. [[RuleOfThree Additionally]], Mr. Herriman was telling the truth, and gives Mac and Bloo race cars in the end.]]



* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Mr. Herriman tries to receive funding from an EccentricMillionaire, and tells Bloo with obvious sarcasm that he and Mac will get race cars from the money. Bloo's glee at this comment reveals to Mac that [[SarcasmBlind he has absolutely no idea what sarcasm is]], and his attempts to teach him run throughout the episode. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the "millionaire" had no money, and thought his baldfaced lying was sarcasm. [[RuleOfThree Additionally]], Mr. Herriman was telling the truth, and gives Mac and Bloo race cars in the end.]]
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* ''Literature/DeadFamous'': Inspector Colebridge can spend a whole paragraph being "deeply sarcastic" during TheSummation without the ''hundreds of millions'' of people watching the televised event getting it. A good example of this is when he describes a hypothetical scenario where one of the eliminated reality show contestants tunnels back inside to commit a murder out of revenge.
--> ''The studio erupted. All around the world the press lines jammed. So Woggle had done it after all, the evil kicker of teenage girls had surpassed even his previous levels of brutality. "Of course it wasn't Woggle!" said Colebridge impatiently. "Good heavens, if that highly distinctive fellow had popped up through the carpet I think we would have noticed, don't you?"''
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* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Zigzagged with Nano. Her lack of emotions make it difficult to tell if her comments that would come off as sarcastic from someone else are [[DeadpanSnarker actually sarcastic]] or [[LiteralMinded dead serious]].
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FobvIYd0BHU Bowser's reaction]] to Mario and friends forgetting to invite him in ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 7]]''.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FobvIYd0BHU Bowser's reaction]] to Mario and friends forgetting to invite him in ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 7]]''.''VideoGame/MarioParty7''.



* EDI from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. She slowly becomes increasingly capable at humor, although her capability to convey sarcasm through tone of voice takes a bit more work. In between the six months that seperate the second and third games, she seems to have refined her technique, although she tends to avoid sarcasm in favor of [[{{Troll}} messing with her Organic crew members’ minds.]]

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* EDI from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has EDI:
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She slowly becomes increasingly capable at humor, although her capability to convey sarcasm through tone of voice takes a bit more work. In between the six months that seperate the second and third games, she seems to have refined her technique, although she tends to avoid sarcasm in favor of [[{{Troll}} messing with her Organic crew members’ minds.]]

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