History Main / ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' had Carson Beckett do this in a couple of episodes:

-->-- '''[[VideoGame/HalfLife Dr. Gordon Freeman]]''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

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* Played with in ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' in which Gordon Freeman comes across a corpse for the first time and exclaims, "I'm a doctor, not a... normal doctor!"
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** In the Season 3 blooper reel, Elizabeth Mitchell responds to Matthew Fox's wondering how a flooded hatch can still function by saying, "Dammit, Jack, I'm a doctor, not a marine engineer!"

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheRollingStones'':

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* In the ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'' episode "[[Recap/NoonboryAndTheSuper7S1E6ShipShape Ship Shape]]", Wangury drops this line:
--> '''Wangury''': I am an [[EvilIsHammy EEEEVIL MASTERMIND]], not some...[[BuffySpeak boat fixer]].
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-->'''[[WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet Doppler]]''': Glad to have you with us. I don’t know what I’d have done about this on my own. I’m an astrologer, not a doctor. Well, I have a doctorate, but…

-->'''Kiel:''' Mundy, take Schmidt and deal with the [=O2=]
-->'''Schmidt:''' I'm a physicist!
-->'''Kiel:''' And now you work for Mundy.

--> Skuggs: "I'm a [[MadScientist mad scientist]] pal, not a miracle worker."

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks "Day of the Daleks"]]: The Doctor himself tells the Brigadier that he is "a scientist, not a politician."
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime "The Invasion of Time"]]: The Doctor responds to the suggestion that the TARDIS interior needs redecorating with the words:
--->"Listen! I'm a Time Lord, not a painter and decorator!"
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E10InTheForestOfTheNight "In the Forest of the Night"]]: The Doctor does it again after one of Clara and Danny's students finds her way to the TARDIS:
--->"I'm a Time Lord, not a child minder!"

* In the ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' episode ''Literature/HerculePoirot's {{Christmas|Episode}}'', when Simeon Lee sees that Poirot is not strong or young enough to protect him:

-->I'm a doctor, John, not a miracle worker!

-->"I am an engineer, not a factory manager. [[ReluctantMadScientist And I am not...responsible]] for [[HellHolePrison that production plant]].

* At the end of the ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' episode [[StorybookEpisode "The Princess and the Pea Brain"]], Zuri asks Ravi to try and make the kingdom's jester funnier. Ravi responds with "I am a sorcerer, ''not'' a miracle worker!"

-->'''Earl:''' Hey, let's not get panicky! Our task force technical advisor will know ''exactly'' how to bring back the plants.
-->''(cut to Earl in B. P. Richfield's office)''
-->'''Richfield:''' How the heck should I know?! I'm a captain of industry, not a gardener!

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* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': Click on the Terran Medic enough and she'll go [[StopPokingMe "Dammit, I'm a medic, not a doctor!...Oh."]] Technically speaking this is correct: {{Combat Medic}}s don't need doctorates to be a medic but have nurse/orderly training instead.

'''A:''' (''cuts red'')\\

'''Butt-head:''' Hey Beavis.\\

'''Butt-head:''' Beavis.\\

'''Butt-head:''' Those guys better look out for the Klingons near {{Uranus|IsShowing}}!

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': In "The Uncrashable Hindentanic", Glomgold challenges Scrooge to a bet where the loser will give the winner one million dollars and Scrooge refuses because he's "a businessman, not a gambler". He changes his mind when Glomgold suggests that the loser will invest one million dollars on the winner's company.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[Recap/AmphibiaS2E02FortInTheRoad "Fort on the Road"]] presents a variation. Anne justifies not knowing what a computer disk is by pointing out she's "from another dimension, not the 90's!".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In “The Bet”, the school nurse (upon being asked to fix Bobert), angrily tells Miss Simian and Gumball (on separate occasions) that she’s a nurse and not a mechanic.

* Invoked in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' when Big Bob reads a book Helga borrowed from the library when she believes she was infected with monkey nucleosis: "I'm a beeper salesman, not a scientist!"

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has Tommy transported to a world where dirty boys and a stinky captain are trying to avoid a giant rubber duck (Moby Duck) from giving them squeaky-clean bathes. When Tommy finally convinces them to fight back, their plan involves throwing harpoons at it. When ordered to do so, one of the kids argues, "Darn it, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a ducker!"

* Jim Nye the science guy warned Will White he was not a doctor when Will wanted to know why he heard voices in his head, though he tried to help anyway(hoping to get paid like a doctor).[[/folder]]

--->'''Tom:''' Shephard says he's a spinal surgeon, not an anesthesiologist..

* ''Film/Freaked'':Before mutating Julie and Ernie into a two head freak, He ask Skuggs if he can have a [[GagPenis big Rodney.]] But Skuggs said this:

* ''Series/TheThinBlueLine'': In "Kids Today", when Fowler organises a camping trip for young offenders, he asks Grim if he can be persuaded to come. Grim replies "I'm a policeman, not a bleeding Girl Guide".

-->'''Doctor:'' A doctor, I am. God, I'm not.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': The royal orchestra object to being forced to pose as animals so Prince Derek can practise hunting this way.