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* In ''Take the Money and Run,'' we see an interview with someone who saw something related to to the protagonist, a career criminal. The interview subject mentions he was drinking juice, and gets distracted trying to remember what kind of juice it was.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Phenomenon}}''. Somebody asks Creator/JohnTravolta's character how old a person would be now if they were born on the 5th of March 1987 (or was it the 7th of July 1976? No, it was the 28th of October 1928...) Anyway, he asks a bunch of questions, the last one being "Where was he born?" The exasperated questioner asks what that has to do with it. "Well, if he were born in New York City he'd be..." and gives the age right down to the minute. He never does explain, though, how a person's gender affects their age.

* In ''Videogame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', when the protagonists finally face off against [[spoiler:Clyde]], they try to tell him that the mysterious green goop he's been using isn't Taco Bell green sauce, which eventually leads into a discussion about how Taco Bell now have the green sauce in packets.

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** In the episode "Lisa's First Word", an exhausted Marge is trying to get a young Bart to sleep with a typical prince-and-princess story, and has just ended on HappilyEverAfter. Bart manages to get ''her'' to sleep this way, then causes mischief.
--->'''Bart:''' [[NowWhat And then what happened?]]\\
'''Marge:''' Uh... [[BabiesEverAfter They had 30 sons and 30 daughters.]]\\
'''Bart:''' What were their ''names''?\\
'''Marge:''' ''(nodding off)'' Dennis... Brad... Mavis... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Brad...]] ''(falls asleep)''
** In "Blood Feud", Homer is trying to get Bart to help Mr. Burns unconditionally with his rare blood, as he expects that Burns will give an extravagant gift in return. He tells the "[[Literature/TheBible Bible story]]" of a rich [[AndroclesLion lion who had a thorn stuck in his paw]], and [[Myth/ArthurianLegend nobody could pull it out]] until [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules was hired to help]]. Bart asks how a lion got rich and Homer {{Hand Wave}}s it as something that could happen in the olden days.
** In "Stark Raving Dad", Homer is in a group therapy session and keeps interrupting Dave, who is agoraphobic.

[[LongTitle The Trope Where A Guy Starts Telling A Story-- Wait! It Doesn't Have To Be A Guy, Or A Story Either. Really, It Could Be A Joke, Or A Speech. But Anyway, Where Was I?...]]

* In ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'', a rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.

--->'''Carla:''' If J.D. were drowning and he told you he didn't want you to save him, wouldn't you do it?\\

'''Dara:''' La Table, of course, and [[ThemeTwinNaming Jambon et Fromage, the twins]]. And they used to travel around with [[TemptingFate mosquitoes]], [[TheyFightCrime solving adventures]].\\

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** In "Blood Feud", Homer is trying to get Bart to help Mr. Burns unconditionally with his rare blood, as he expects that Burns will give an extravagant gift in return. He tells the "[[Literature/TheBible Bible story]]" of a rich [[AndroclesLion lion who had a thorn stuck in his paw]], and [[Myth/KingArthur nobody could pull it out]] until [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hercules was hired to help]]. Bart asks how a lion got rich and Homer {{Hand Wave}}s it as something that could happen in the olden days.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' presented a hypothetical about a CorruptCorporateExecutive to his assistants, [[TastesLikeDiabetes Fluffy and Uranus]], who continually object to some of the details.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' presented a hypothetical about a CorruptCorporateExecutive to his assistants, [[TastesLikeDiabetes Fluffy and Uranus]], who continually [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad object to some of the details]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'': When Melman wakes Alex in the middle of the night to tell him that Marty has escapes the zoo.

-->'''Melman:''' Okay, okay. ''(sigh)'' Y-You know how I have that bladder infection and I have to get up every two hours? Well, I got up to pee, um, and I looked over at Marty's pen, which, you know, I usually don't do. I don't know why what I did, and this time, I looked over...

** Also from the Pythons, or at least Michael Palin, John Cleese, and Graham Chapman, comes ''How To Irritate People''. In the show, which is a collection of sketches like ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', a man tries to tell his employer, who is visiting for tea, a joke he heard. Actually his wife wants him to tell it, and she keeps interrupting him to input unimportant details.

* In ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'', a rather basic math problem gets derailed in this way.

-->'''Melman:''' Okay, okay. Y-You know how I have that bladder infection and I have to get up every two hours? Well, I got up to pee, um, and I looked over at Marty's pen, which, you know, I usually don't do. I don't know why what I did, and this time, I looked over...
-->'''Alex:''' ''What'' Melman? What's going on?

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* Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', to show how uptight and unsociable Marlin is.
-->'''Marlin:''' All right, I know ''one'' joke. Um, there's a mollusk, see? And he walks up to a sea,--Well he doesn't ''walk'' up, he ''swims'' up. Well, actually the mollusk isn't moving. He's in one place, and then the sea cucumber, well they...I mixed up. There was a mollusk and a sea cucumber. None of them were walking, so forget that I--\\
'''Bob:''' SHELDON! Get out of Mr. Johansenn's yard, now!
** The film's [[DVDCommentary Visual Commentary]] presents an extended take on the sea cucumber and mollusk story from an Creator/AlbertBrooks recording session dated March 2002:
-->'''Marlin:''' Well, I actually, I do know one that's ''(chuckles)'' pretty good. A mollusk swims up to a... No, no, he doesn't swim up, what is he...? He was already there. And a sea cucumber is-is... standing next to him. They don't stand. They grow in one place, but they do lean. Let me start over. There was a sea mollusk and a sea cucumber. And they were both... They were both... Well, they were-- They were like friends. No, no, they didn't know each other. 'Cause now, one's gonna ask something that a friend wouldn't know. Um... The sea cucumber looks over to the mollusk. Right? And, he doesn't really look, he sort of glances. Actually, he was in the middle of a sneeze. That's sort of the important thing 'cause you gotta imagine the sea cucumber sneezing. So he sneezes, and then you know the way you do when you sneeze, your head sorta turns accidentally somewhere? So he looks over to the right and he sees the mollusk. And so, he looks at the mollusk and he says, "Hey, not during low tide." ''(laughs under his breath)'' Y'know, I didn't get that exactly right. See, let me tell you something: the mark of a ''really'' funny fish, the joke doesn't have to go exactly right. It's ''delivery!''
** And then averted at the end, after the adventure has taught Marlin to lighten up.
-->'''Marlin:''' So just then, the sea cucumber looks over at the mollusk and says "with fronds like these, who needs anemones?"

* A frequent occurrence on the ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}''. Samuel Vimes lampshades it in ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'' by saying that if a god showed up in Ankh-Morpork saying "let there be light," he'd get no further because of all the people saying "what color?" Of course, Vimes is [[HypocriticalHumor frequently guilty of this himself]] in future books.

* In ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Joey tells Ross a story about France which he ''swears'' is a guaranteed pass at getting laid. When Ross tries to repeat the story to a woman, it quickly devolves into this, just because she's genuinely curious about his time in Europe and he's a BadLiar.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' presented a hypothetical about a CorruptCorporateExecutive to his assistants, [[TastesLikeDiabetes Fluffy and Uranus]], who continually object to some of the details, prompting him to amend to a man who sells wholesome apples. His patience ends when one of them asks if they were free-range apples.