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* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' the storytelling hobo Idiot Doom Spiral can tell you the UrbanLegend of the Cocaine Skull, which involves an infamous cocaine abusing graphic designer and his untimely death. Doom Spiral claims that when the graphic designer's body was subject to an autopsy, the coroner discovered "nearly a quarter kilo of coke jammed into his nasal cavity." [[TalkingToThemself Your skills are not quite sure what to make of this.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' episode "The (Un)natural", Scratch has convinced Molly to cheat her softball team's way to a championship game through him possessing her ball, glove, and bat. During the last inning, [[InconvenientSummons he gets pulled away by the Ghost Council]] to discuss his scare quota. Despite Scratch only being gone for a few minutes, by the time he gets back Molly [[EpicFail has somehow blown their 18-point lead against the Skylarks]], who are now only a point behind with the bases loaded.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' episode "The (Un)natural", Scratch has convinced Molly to cheat her softball team's way to a championship game through him possessing her ball, glove, and bat. During the last inning, [[InconvenientSUmmons he gets pulled away by the Ghost Council]] to discuss his scare quota. Despite Scratch only being gone for a few minutes, by the time he gets back Molly [[EpicFail has somehow blown their 18-point lead against the Skylarks]], who are now only a point behind with the bases loaded.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' episode "The (Un)naturals", Scratch has convinced Molly to cheat her softball team's way to a championship game through him possessing her ball, glove, and bat. During the last inning, he gets pulled away by the Ghost Council to discuss his scare quota. Despite Scratch only being gone for a few minutes, by the time he gets back Molly [[EpicFail has somehow blown their 18-point lead against the Skylarks]], who are now only a point behind with the bases loaded.
-->'''Scratch:''' You gave up ''seventeen runs'', and the bases are loaded?! How?!''\\
'''Molly:''' (''completely shell-shocked'') I dunno, man, I dunno... It's a blur... of bats, and balls, and humiliation...

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' episode "The (Un)naturals", Scratch has convinced Molly to cheat her softball team's way to a championship game through him possessing her ball, glove, and bat. During the last inning, he gets pulled away by the Ghost Council discuss his scare quota. Despite Scratch only being gone for a few minutes, by the time he gets back Molly [[EpicFail has somehow blown their 18-point lead against the Skylarks]], who are now only a point behind with the bases loaded.
-->'''Scratch:''' You gave up ''seventeen runs'', and the bases are loaded?! ''[[HowIsThatEvenPossible How?!]]''\\

* One sequence in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' is one big homage to ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner''; SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} tries to capture ComicBook/TheFlash on a desert planet with a variety of traps, only to fail due to Flash's SuperSpeed. However, when they do the "Cliff crumbles while the ledge stays floating" bit, this is Lobo's reaction.

** During the Alabasta arc, when Usop and Chopper finds out that the opponents they're fighting are using a ''gun'' which ''ate'' a Devil Fruit, Usop openly asks how can an inanimate object "eat" a Devil Fruit, with the opponent merely replying that there's a reason why. We later learn that WG scientist Doctor Vegapunk managed to find a way to have item absorb the power of Zoan Devil Fruits.

* In ''Anime/OnePiece'', this is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fkUsUbpZk Vivi's reaction]] when Nami is able to predict when a cyclone will hit while navigating the Grand Line, something regarded as impossible by most pirates. She wonders whether Nami does so less from researched skills and more from innate ability.

* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', one of Ellis's stories about his friend [[TheGhost Keith]] involves them making their own fireworks and Keith having 95% of his body covered in third-degree burns as a result. Another involves him trying to deep-fry a turkey and getting 90% of his body covered in burns ''on top'' of the ones he had from the prior incident, and his doctor had to call other doctors because they didn't know that was even possible.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' the storytelling hobo Idiot Doom Spiral can tell you the UrbanLegend of the Cocaine Skull, which involves an infamous cocaine abusing graphic designer and and his untimely death. Doom Spiral claims that when the graphic designer's body was subject to an autopsy, the coroner discovered "nearly a quarter kilo of coke jammed into his nasal cavity." [[TalkingToThemself Your skills are not quite sure what to make of this.]]
-->'''[[TheSmartGuy Logic]]:''' That's... almost certainly anatomically impossible.\\
'''[[TheHedonist Electrochemistry]]:''' WRONG AGAIN, NERD. Where there's a will, there's a way.

* ''WebComic/{{Pupster}}'': Danny asks Pupster how they managed to build an airplane out of wood and leaves so fast in the thirtysecond page of ''Pup, Pup, And Away''.

* ''WEBCOMIC/{{Pupster}}'': Danny asks Pupster how they managed to build an airplane out of wood and leaves so fast in the thirtysecond page of ''Pup, Pup, And Away''.

** In "A Ward Show" Principal Lewis reacts this way when Roger somehow tracks him down after he kidnaps Steve:

* Said almost word for word in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' when the Dread Pirate Roberts reveals to Buttercup that he is in fact her sweetheart, Westley. She wants to now how this is possible, given that the Dread Pirate Roberts has been marauding for twenty years, but Westley only disappeared, presumed dead, five years ago. Westley then explains that the DreadPirateRoberts is a LegacyCharacter -- the original has been "living like a king in Patagonia for quite some time."

-->'''Ellen:''' ''Ahhh!'' How does it even know I was there?! [[EyelessFace It doesn't have eyes]]! It just has [[TooManyMouths mouths]]!

A StockPhrase that is commonly used as a LampshadeHanging of [[ToonPhysics those occasions when the laws of physics (and other scientific laws) 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.

* Played for drama in ''Series/TheExpanse'' when [[spoiler: the infected Eros station zooming away from a crashing ship]] defies all sorts of physics, which signals to everyone in the galaxy that something is ''really wrong''.

* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' the storytelling hobo Idiot Doom Spiral can tell you the UrbanLegend of the Cocaine Skull, which involves an infamous coke smuggler and his untimely death. Doom Spiral claims that when the smuggler's body was subject to an autopsy, the coroner discovered "nearly a quarter kilo of coke jammed into his nasal cavity." [[TalkingToThemself Your skills are not quite sure what to make of this.]]

--->'''Goku:''' "Oh, all right. I promise I will absolutely not ''click-brrrrrrr'' *long inhale* ''rrrrrrrrr''"\\
'''King Kai:''' "He hung up on me! '''How did he even do that?'''"

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

* ''WebComic/KeychainOfCreation'' pokes fun at the ways ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' tend to ignore what we think of as the laws of physics, [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0121.html as below:]]
-->'''Blossom:''' You're blocking my scent with yours!? Th- that doesn't even make sense!
-->'''Marena:''' I'm Exalted! I just smell '''that good'''.

-->'''Grif:''' I MEAN, HOW DO YOU BURN DOWN A WATER PARK, DONUT?!\\

-->'''Goku:''' "Oh, all right. I promise I will absolutely not ''click-brrrrrrr'' *long inhale* ''rrrrrrrrr''"
-->'''King Kai:''' "He hung up on me! '''How did he even do that?'''"