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* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''
--> ''''Panama Hat:''' This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.

* From ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':

* From ''IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':

* The Archaeology skill tree of DungeonsOfDredmor, being a running parody of IndianaJones (complete with his iconic [[NiceHat fedora]] as a bonus item), has a skill named after this quote (it grants the player the ability to cash in artifacts in exchange for experience points).

'''Type 1: "Don't touch that MacGuffin."''' Here, the phrase is usually uttered by the resident AdventurerArchaeologist, but can be given by just about any NaiveNewcomer or TheEveryman who happens to stumble on something very old or valuable while exploring The Ruins of the {{Gotterdammerung}}. IndianaJones was most likely either the TropeMaker or the TropeCodifier for this particular type. There are two common variations of this type.

* Homestar Runner - "Strongbad_email.exe: Disc Six"

** The one time that Miles made the mistake of showing the attic and its wide selection of century-plus old junk to Commodore Duv Galeni of [=ImpSec=] Komarran Affairs, the man promptly reverted to Doctor Professor Duv Galeni of the University of Vorbarr Sultana Department of History and insisted that it ''all'' belonged in a museum.

* {{Arthur}} and Buster do this with a dinosaur footprint fossil they find at an archaeological dig.

* Frequently used by Sydney Fox in ''RelicHunter''.

->'''Guybrush Threepwood:''' The Diamond belongs in a museum!
->'''King Andre:''' So do post-impressionist paintings, Mr Threepwood.

** Though when King Andre responded, Guybrush was completely confused and said "What the heck does that even mean?"
** Also, in ''The SecretOfMonkeyIsland'' you can claim that the Idol of Many Hands "belongs in a museum" when you are caught trying to steal it. Note that in neither case Guybrush actually meant it, and was just one of the optional lines of dialog to try to get the item for himself.

The second variation is less straightforward regarding good guys and bad guys. In this scenario, someone finds something old and/or valuable, sometimes in a PersonalEffectsReveal, sometimes in some other scenario, but always already in someone's posession and exclaims this. Another person then goes through an explanation as to why it does not, in fact, belong there. Both characters here are quite capable of being good, and the object will most likely not go to a museum in the end, in contrast to the first one, where the object will, but after a major argument and/or FightScene.

* Came up in ''TheDickVanDykeShow'' of all places. Rob inherited an old-fashioned roll top desk from his IdenticalGrandfather, and searched it for a treasure which the grandfather had implied was hidden in it. The treasure turned out to be a picture of AbrahamLincoln taken by CivilWar photographer Matthew Brady. At first they were going to sell it, then weren't sure, and ended up giving it on permanant loan to a museum.

* A comic example occurs in HarvestMoon Animal Parade during a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DgHaToDuM cutscene]] in which Calvin, the resident Indiana Jones {{Expy}}, angrily declares this line to [[TheFool Luke]] and [[TheBigGuy Owen]], who are trying to smash down a millenium-old wall in order to get to more ore.

** There is also the cat statue that turns anyone who touchs it into a cat. Jackie decides that destroying it is the best thing, this fits more with Type 3 however.

* {{Arthur}} and Buster do this with a dinosaur footprint fossil they find at an archeological dig.

* There's an urban legend about a blue gem that brought misfortune on whoever owned it. This stopped when it was donated to a museum. (Although the curator once took it in his pocket to an exhibition in another country and had an extremely bad trip).

--> Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
--> Indiana Jones: That ''belongs'' in a ''museum''!
--> Panama Hat: So do you!

* Said practically OnceAnEpisode in ''JackieChanAdventures''. Except for the time when Jackie broke ''into'' the museum to steal the MacGuffin back...

* ''The Young IndianaJones Chronicles'', episode "British East Africa, September 1909"

* There's an urban legend about a blue gem that brought misfortune on whoever owned it. This stopped when it was donated to a museum. (Although the curator one took it in his pocket to an exhibition in another country and had an extremely bad trip).

* On ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' Mac and Charlie find a Nazi uniform with medals that belonged to Dennis & Dee's grandfather. They decide they have to get rid of it, but figure a museum will pay good money for it, so yay! The guy running the museum is less than
enthusiastic.

There's an urban legend about a blue gem that brought misfortune on whoever owned it. This stopped when it was donated to a museum. (Although the curator one took it in his pocket to an exhibition in another country and had an extremely bad trip).

* In a season 2 episode of ''{{NCIS}}'', Tony and Kate shows up at [=McGee's=]] apartment early in the morning. When he asks what they are doing there, Kate's says they wanted to observe him in his natural environment, and Tony starts a National Geographic routine about "watch as the [[=McGee=]] moves slowly to the watering hole..." Then Tony walks into the study, where there is an old fashioned desk and a typewriter. Immediately he asks if that's the History channel room.

* On ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' Mac and Charlie find a Nazi uniform with medals that belonged to Dennis & Dee's grandfather. They decide they have to get rid of it, but figure a museum will pay good money for it, so yay! The guy running the museum is less than enthusiastic.

* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Slaver Weapon". Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlfXZrdydG0 here starting at 5:55]].

* {{Arthur}} and Buster did this with an arrowhead they found at an archeological dig.

* In a ''{{Zorro}}'' movie, two Pinkerton agents capture Zorro and claim that the days of vigilantes are over.