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'''Bugs Bunny:''' '''"No, I am not!"''\\

* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}/Elmer Fudd'' crossover comic has a story spoofing the Hunter's Trilogy (see Western Animation below), with Batman taking the place of Daffy Duck, both as Bugs Bunny's opponent ''and'' the repeated victim of Elmer's shotgun. The comic ends with him summoning his sidekicks, at which point he declares it's "ComicBook/{{Robin}} season" and watches Elmer chase them off.

* This was a specialty of obscure [[Franchise/TheDCU DCU]] superhero ''ComicBook/TheHeckler''.

* In the Franchise/StarWars parody web video series Pink Five, a PerspectiveFlip of the original trilogy from the POV of a random female rebel pilot with the call sign Pink 5, Pink (seemingly has this exchange with Luke Skywalker after she ends up crash landing on right after Luke lands there to look for Yoda. Pink is arguing with her own droid about how the crash isn’t her fault when,
--> '''Luke:''' ''R2''? \\

'''Luke:''' ''R2''? \\

** In ''Sam and Max Save the World: Culture Shock'', this is part of the solution to the final confrontation with Brady Culture. [[spoiler:In order to defeat him, you take turns giving orders to his hypnotized minions. If you give the order "Worship me!", this provokes [[AttentionWhore Brady Culture]] into bawling "No, worship ''me!'' You're my minions, ''mine''!". Following this up with "Attack me!" will prompt Culture into yelling "No, attack ''me''!", which leads to the Soda Poppers beating the crap out of him.]]

* In ''[[{{Literature/Nightside}} Nightingale's Lament]]'', Taylor uses this tactic to trick a simulacrum door into telling ''him'' the password it had initially been demanding he give before it'll open.

'''Daffy:''' ''[glares at Bugs while replacing his bill]'' You're despicable.

* Tends to happen in arguments ( especially on the internet) where one or both sides aren't entirely sure what their ''own'' position is; they just know that the other guy's wrong. The point at issue takes second place to the reflexive contradiction until you see someone shift their own argument 180 degrees without even noticing.

* In ''Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'', Bud and Lou are in a restaurant with a pair of hamburgers, one of which has a cursed medallion hidden in it. They repeatedly distract each other and switch the plates. At one point, Lou keeps the medallion and leads Bud to think he moved it. Bud then ends up with the medallion while trying to get rid of it.

* ''Futtock's End'': In this "silent" Ronnie Barker comedy, the house staff is dancing to a record player, yet every time they hear the butler enter behind them they quickly revert to silently polishing the silver. Until the butler comes in twice in quick succession, whereupon they are tricked into dancing when the butler is present and polishing the silver when he leaves.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10322359/1/Black-Ivy Black Ivy]]'' after Harry hires Dobby as his house elf they argue about the daily salary.

* Used in a rather darker fashion in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm'' run as [[ManipulativeBastard Tao]] repeatedly switches positions in a debate with Fuji leading to Fuji's being psychologically crippled.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} did it when talking to Loki (in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe, no less).
* This was a specialty of obscure [[Franchise/TheDCU DCU]] superhero ''ComicBook/TheHeckler''.
* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}/Elmer Fudd'' crossover comic has a story spoofing the Hunter's Trilogy (see Western Animation below), with Batman taking the place of Daffy Duck, both as Bugs Bunny's opponent ''and'' the repeated victim of Elmer's shotgun. The comic ends with him summoning his sidekicks, at which point he declares it's "ComicBook/{{Robin}} season" and watches Elmer chase them off.

* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', with a strip featuring Jason and Peter arguing in a movie rental store:

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''

* In an early ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip, Patty does this when stealing Charlie Brown's tricycle.

* In ''Fanfic/RetroChill'', Retro does this with Calvin when they're arguing over whether the former is Rupert in disguise or the actual Retro.
* In ''FanFic/TheGamesOfTheGods'', Book One, chapter 54, Kari tries this trick and Rachel {{invert|ed trope}}s her. Kari says "No" and Rachel says "Yes". When Kari switches to "Yes", Rachel wins by not switching to "No". An identical example appears in ''FanFic/{{Vortex}}'', chapter 8, when Anne says "No" and Revdur says "Yes". Again, Anne switches to "Yes" and Revdur wins.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9355381/1/Sky Sky]]'' Sky and Dora start a "Was not!"/"Were too!" exchange and Sky switches to "Were too," tricking Dora into saying "Was not!"
* In ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'', GIR pulls this trick on Dib in Episode 4, during an argument over whether the latter has a big head.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10322359/1/Black-Ivy Black Ivy]]'' after Harry hires Dobby as his house elf they argue about the daily salary.
-->'''Harry:''' Two Galleons.\\
'''Dobby:''' One Galleon, sir.\\
'''Harry:''' Three Galleons.\\
'''Dobby:''' One Galleon, sir.\\
'''Harry:''' One Galleon.\\
'''Dobby:''' Two Galleons, sir.\\
'''Harry:''' Deal. You drive a hard bargain, Dobby. You sure you're not related to a goblin?
* ''[[https://fanfiction.net/s/14113885/1/The-Good-the-Bugs-and-the-Daffy The Good, the Bugs, and the Daffy]]'' [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes naturally]] uses this combined with an ImprobableAimingSkills-off between Bugs and Yosemite Sam, though [[NoNonsenseNemesis Marvin]] [[SubvertedTrope sees right through it.]]

--->'''Elmer:''' Rabbit Season!\\

* In ''VideoGame/JimmyNeutronVsJimmyNegatron'', the Herminator and Jimmy Neutron argue who Jimmy's last name is. Jimmy yells "Negatron", while Hermin yells "Neutron" and they switch it so Hermin believes he is talking to Jimmy Negatron.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', Apollo and Athena argue whether a lizard they saw is a gecko or a newt, respectively. Before any tediousness could occur, Athena twists Apollo's logic around and made him assume that it's a newt.

* Mr. Mighty does this to Jane in ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes''. The first time he meets her [[https://eheroes.thecomicseries.com/comics/116 with his mask off]], he tells her that his real name is Marion, and adds, "It's OK, you can laugh." She denies laughing, and he questions her denial... hey, she needs all the laughs she can get [[spoiler: when she's in prison]].

* In ''Webcomic/StrongFemaleProtagonist'', when [[FlyingBrick Allison]] persuades [[{{Telepathy}} Patrick]] to try watching a cartoon (as a workaround for his distaste for visual media in general), Patrick, roaring with laughter, [[ExpospeakGag explains this entire trope]] after viewing the eponymous gag:

* The narrator of ''Blog/TroisiemeDroite'' manages to get Mr K to let him inside his apartment by using this trick. To be fair, Mr. K was under medication then, which made it easier to confuse him.

--> '''Bulbasaur''': "You've always talked like, '[[PokemonSpeak Squirtle, Squirtle]]'."\\
'''Squirtle''': "No, I haven't!"\\
'''Bulbasaur''': "Yes, you have."\\
'''Squirtle''': "No, I haven't!"\\
'''Bulbasaur''': "Yes, you have."\\
'''Squirtle''': "Yes, I have!"\\
'''Bulbasaur''': "Okay, good! You admit it."\\
'''Squirtle''': "Blast, I thought that'd work!"

** Used by Baby Bugs in''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' (in a direct reference to "Rabbit Fire").

--->'''Deadpool:''' Meet...\\

* This is both referenced and used in ''Series/CornerGas''. Hank complains that this trick is unrealistic and wouldn't work in real life, which starts an argument with Brent during which, of course, Hank falls for it.
* Used in an episode of ''Series/MyWifeAndKids'' where Jaye uses this trick to get Michael to agree to let their daughter go to her prom. Realizing what happened a second later, Michael responds "Wait a minute, you [[PersonAsVerb Bugs Bunnied]] me!"
* One episode of ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' uses a simpler version of this trope, skipping right to the switch without arguing. One of the characters even proceeds to [[ConversedTrope compare it to Looney Tunes]].
* "Light Switch" example: In a Halloween episode of ''Series/PerfectStrangers'', Larry challenges Balki into watching horror movies in the dark. Balki refuses. Larry chides him for being afraid of the dark and turns off the light switch. Balki turns it back on and says "No I'm not". The process repeats several times until Larry pretends to switch off the lights by holding his hand near the switch and snapping his finger. Balki inadvertently turns off the light and then starts screaming. After Larry turns on the light, Balki calms down and says "Yes I am."
* [[Series/SonnyWithAChance Sonny and Chad]] engage in a bit of this with him starting with the fact that he doesn't care, and she starting that he does.
* A non-confrontational variation is used in ''Series/ThisHourHas22Minutes''. In the ''Sportsbag'' sketches, Greg Thomey plays an aging sports pundit who clearly had a few (hundred) head injuries during his own sports career, and talks completely in {{Non Sequitur}}s; in one sketch, his co-host plays along by talking in non sequiturs, causing Thomey's character to start making sense.
* Attempted once by Jimmy to Kim in ''Series/YesDear''. Subverted because Kim called him out on it, rendering it ineffective.
* During one of Christopher Hitchens's appearances on ''Series/TheDailyShow'', he got sidetracked in the middle of a conversation about the Iraq War and asked what he'd been talking about beforehand.

* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will uses this trick to make Carlton agree he owes him less money, even saying "Have it your way, Daffy!" [[MoodWhiplash And then immediately afterwards]] [[spoiler: Will gets shot.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/FullHouse'', Joey and Michelle argue over a baseball pitch.

* A similar incident occurs in ''Series/HomeAndAway'' when Shane and Damian offer to assemble a water bed for Alf. Shane offers to do it for fifty bucks, Alf offers twenty-five and demonstrates a unique approach to haggling...

* In ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', episode "Dances with Weezy", Al and Jefferson get into an argument over who was in the first Bud Light beer commercial. Al says Bubba Smith, Jefferson says Billy Martin. In their argument, they even mention two certain cartoon characters.

* ''Series/That70sShow'' doesn't use the trick, but Eric and Hyde jokingly argue "Rabbit Season! Duck Season!" to each other after Red points out that deer hunting season had just begun. Red's DeathGlare immediately afterwards shuts them up.
* In the ''Series/SamAndCat'' episode "[=#BabysittingWar=]", Sam does this to Cat when they fight over Nona's empty bed.

* One of Martin Short's recurring characters on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Nathan Thurm, whose defining traits were ultra-defensiveness, paranoia, and denial.

* Used in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' when Tim blames himself for an accident Mike suffered in their childhood.

* The eponymous anti-hero of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' typically calls [[ButtMonkey Luka]] "[[EmbarrassingNickname Cheshire]]", causing him to irritably remind Bayonetta, "[[Music/SuzanneVega my name is Luka]]!" So on one of the rare occasions she actually calls him Luka...

* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'';

* In the handheld version of ''VideoGame/TheUrbz'' the player uses this against [[BigBad Daddy Bigbucks]] when he's trying to investigate a secret meeting in the graveyard.

* ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'': Used by Baby Bugs (in a direct reference to "Rabbit Fire").
-->'''Baby Daffy:''' Hmm ... I'd better remember that trick [[CallForward in case he tries it on me again someday]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' had the team's leader Ace Bunny (Bugs' 27th century descendant) use this trick twice.
** Ace first does it in the premiere episode "Loonatics on Ice" to trick Gunnar the Conqueror into saying he won't conquer their planet.
** He does it again in "It Came from Outer Space" when he tricks Melvin the Martian into holding onto an explosive he intended to use on Ace.

** The {{revival}} film ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' when Daffy leaves Warner Bros. and Bugs and Elmer are forced to do this routine without him. It doesn't go well for Bugs.
--->'''Elmer:''' Rabbit Season!\\
'''Bugs:''' Duck Season!\\
'''Elmer:''' Rabbit Season!\\
'''Bugs:''' Duck Season!\\
'''Elmer:''' Rabbit Season!\\
'''Bugs:''' Rabbit Season!\\
'''Elmer:''' ''[grabs script]'' Wait a minute ...\\
'''Bugs:''' See? I told you this wouldn't work without Daff-- ''[gets shot by Elmer]''

* Employed by Gendo in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1IJPLmKSsA this]] ''Anime/PetitEva'' short.
* ''Manga/OnePiece''

* The first episode of ''Literature/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' uses this with Kurimu stamping approval forms and Ken saying "UsefulNotes/{{Pettanko}}" (which she is) every time she says "approved." Then he switches.
* A variation was once used between Kagome and ''Manga/InuYasha'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWOu_VZ7o00 right after Inuyasha proves having been able to survive a nasty fall.]] (Note: the example starts at 10:16)
* In the second episode of ''Anime/{{Free}}'' Nagisa pulls this on Gou, getting her to demand he use her real name rather than her preferred nickname.

-->'''Alice''': What can I use to make this duck unique? Something other than duck seasoning. [[LampshadeHanging Rabbit seasoning, duck seasoning, rabbit seasoning...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', being the Trope Namer, has several examples of this:

** Another WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes example is Bugs' argument with the fake umpire in the 1946 cartoon, "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs". This gag predates ''Rabbit Fire'', released in 1951.

** In "Bugs Bunny Rides Again', after Bugs and Yosemite Sam have a chase which leads nowhere, they agree to play cards, with the loser leaving town. Bugs and Sam play gin rummy, with Bugs hinting at which card Sam should play; Bugs takes the card and wins the game and is about to send Sam out of town, until he sees a trainful of women in bikinis headed for Miami, and then Bugs pulls Sam's hat over his eyes and leaves him at the train station, while Bugs takes the train to Miami, saying "So long Sammy, see you in Miami", as the departing train makes a wolf whistle sound.

** "Mutiny on the Bunny" subverts this. Yosemite Sam as the captain of a ship says Bugs is going to be swabbing the deck as his servant. Bugs starts saying "Oh no I'm not!" while Sam says "Oh, yes you are!", and they go back and forth in the fashion of this trope...until a GilliganCut to Bugs swabbing the deck, saying "Yes I am" in defeat, showing that if anything, ''Sam'' successfully switched Bugs' argument around, or that, at the least, the attempt to invoke this trope failed altogether.

* Happens at the end of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/MummiesAlive!'' as an argument over who/what was more important in saving the day:
-->'''[[TheSmartGuy Rath]]:''' Brains!
-->'''[[TheBigGuy Armon]]:''' Brawn!
-->'''Rath:''' Brains!
-->'''Armon:''' Brawn!
-->'''Rath:''' Brawn!
-->'''Armon:''' Brains!
-->'''Rath:''' ''[folds his arms]'' Gotcha.
-->'''Armon:''' I meant brawn!
* [[FunPersonified Pinkie]] [[NoFourthWall Pie]] does this in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Putting Your Hoof Down", when haggling with a tomato vendor who made Fluttershy pay two bits instead of one for her produce. As usual, the vendor doesn't realize that she's inadvertently agreed to one bit per order until it's too late. She does it ''again'' when convincing Iron Will to wait a full day instead of half a day before trying to collect the fees for his assertiveness training from Fluttershy. Meanwhile, Fluttershy's attempt to do this on a cherry vendor [[EpicFail fails so badly]] that she almost paid more than what it was originally priced.
* A discussion between Tigger and Piglet in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' went through one of these reversals on whether a story was taking place at dawn or midnight. (For some reason, it wound up on "Evening" after this reversal.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/PeppermintRose'', when Buddy Bug goes back on his word and tries to eat Rose, she confuses him by mixing up "gonna stay" and "gonna go," making him eject her from the trap.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' episode "Amusement Bark", when the titular characters arrive at a water themed amusement park and argue over what to do first, Pumbaa pulls this on Timon, resulting in a [[DoubleSubvertedTrope Double Subversion]].
--> '''Timon:''' I want to ride the log flume.
--> '''Pumbaa:''' I want to buy a souvenir.
--> '''Timon:''' I want to ride the log flume.
--> '''Pumbaa:''' I want to buy a souvenir.
--> '''Timon:''' I want to ride the log flume.
--> '''Pumbaa:''' I want to ride the log flume.
--> '''Timon:''' I want to buy a souve- ah, ah, ah, Pumbaa. That ol' switcheroo reversal trick won't work on ''moi.''
--> '''Pumbaa:''' What switcheroo reversal trick might that be, Timon?
--> '''Timon:''' Then one where you start saying that ''you'' want to ride the log flume. Well, we're doing what ''I'' want, Mr. Smarty Pig, and we're buying a souvenir.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Gang Busters", this exchange between Buster and Plucky occurs when the former beats the latter at a game of ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}''. Given [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny the Characters on]] [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck whom they're based]], it should come as no surprise:

* WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry episode "WesternAnimation/TheYankeeDoodleMouse" did it silently. It involved a lit firecracker being handed off. Tom and Jerry were both frantically shoving the firecracker to each other before ''[[RefugeInAudacity Jerry grabs the firecracker from Tom]]''. Then they start ''stealing the explosive from each other'' (instead of doing something sensible like [[TakeAThirdOption pinching out the fuse]]), with Tom (naturally) ending up with it.