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->(While on the '''bottom of the ocean'''...)
->'''Zoidberg:''' "Nooo! My Home! It burned down! How did this happen?!"
->'''Hermes:''' "That's a ''very'' good question!"
->'''Bender:''' "Ah, so that's where I left my cigar!"
->*Bender picks up lit cigar from rubble.*
->'''Hermes:''' "That just raises ''further'' questions!"
-->-- ''{{Futurama}}'': "The Deep South".

* From ''StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'':

* ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Spectre of the Gun". When Spock and [=McCoy=] test their KnockoutGas on Scott it doesn't work.

* ''{{Futurama}}'': In one episode, Bender's arms fall off. A moment later we see the arms, in closeup, pick up and reattach each other. Fry is just as baffled as the audience.
** Another ''Futurama'' example was in a scene taking place deep beneath the ocean...
-->'''Zoidberg:''' My home, it burned down! How could this have happened?
-->'''Hermes:''' That's a very good question!
-->'''Bender:''' ''[picking up his still-lit cigar from the underwater ruins]'' So that's where I left my cigar!
-->'''Hermes:''' That just raises further questions!

* In a RoadRunner cartoon, Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff while in pursuit of the Road Runner who, it turns out, is standing just off the edge of the cliff in mid-air. The bedraggled Coyote looks up from the bottom of the canyon at the Road Runner and holds up a sign commenting that what the Road Runner is doing defies the laws of gravity. The Road Runner responds by holding up his own sign saying it doesn't matter because he's never studied law.

** Sarda also invokes this when Ranger '''dual-wields his dual-wield''' [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/27/episode-1087-exalted-feat/]].
*** Followed by a FlatWhat from Sarda.

* In "The PTA Disbands" episode of TheSimpsons, Homer gets upset at Lisa for making a working perpetual motion machine and explains to her that it violates the laws of physics. ("In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!")

* In "The PTA Disbands" episode of TheSimpsons, a bothered Homer explains to Lisa that a working perpetual motion machine she made violates the laws of physics. ("In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!")

A StockPhrase that is commonly used as a LampshadeHanging of [[ToonPhysics those occasions when the laws of physics are blatantly defied]]. This is sometimes caused by AchievementsInIgnorance, when the impossible thing only occurs because the person involved has no idea that what they are doing is supposed to be impossible.

On occasion, this trope will be accompanied by an explanation of exactly how the strange occurrence is impossible. The creators will do use this to avert the DidNotDoTheResearch trope and demonstrate that [[ShownTheirWork they did their homework]].

The creators will sometimes use this to avert the DidNotDoTheResearch trope and demonstrate that, at least on this matter, [[ShownTheirWork they did their homework]].

Often PlayedForLaughs, this phrase can be used to tell the audience that the strange or unusual occurrences going on ''aren't'' the norm for the world in which the story is taking place.

* Sarda invokes this in a strip from 8-Bit Theater when Ranger '''dual-wields his dual-wield''' [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/27/episode-1087-exalted-feat/]].

-->'''King Kai:''' "He hung up on me! ''How did he even do that?''"

-->'''King Kai:''' "He hung up on me! ''How did he even do that?''

-->'''Church:''' Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy's skull right out of his head and beat him to death with it.
-->'''Tucker:''' Wait a second... how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible.
-->'''Church:''' That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming.
-->(cut to Tex, in black armor, beating Jimmy to death with his own skull)
-->'''Jimmy:''' This doesn't seem physically possible!

Often PlayedForLaughs, this phrase can often be used to tell the audience that the strange or unusual occurrences going on ''aren't'' the norm for the world in which the story is taking place.

-->'''Hermes:''' ''THAT JUST RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS!''

-->'''Hermes:''' '''THAT JUST RAISES FURTHER QUESTIONS!'''

* AtomicRobo occasionally has to ask himself: "Why do we even ''have'' a SquareCubeLaw?"

* Subverted in ''EightBitTheatre''. Fighter claims that gravity had been slain (since [[InsaneTrollLogic Black Mage had saved them by cushioning their falling airship with a large explosion as it crash landed]]), which would allow them to fly...and to everyone's amazement, takes off. Then it turns out [[AWizardDidIt Sarda the Sage]] decided the best way to bring them to him would be to fly them in at just that moment.

* From ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'':

* In ''TheMatrix'', this is a beat cop's reaction to not only witnessing Trinity leap over a four-lane street, plus sidewalks, to go from rooftop to rooftop, but seeing Agent Brown follow her.