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* JeffFoxworthy once addressed the FridgeLogic side of this:

* In ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople Episode 5'', Homestar says that he continues looking even after he's found what he's looking for, "just to make sure".

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], though: She was putting off doing some work, in various ways.

* ''FawltyTowers''. The problem is further exacerbated because the woman is hard of hearing, and doesn't have her hearing aid turned on "because it runs the batteries down." Basil tries to convince her to turn it on, but she can't hear him, so he tries to write down the words "turn it on," but then remembers that she can't read without her reading glasses, which, as per the trope, are on her head.
* On ''JustShootMe'', Dennis and Elliot make bets on how long it takes Jack to discover that his glasses are on his head.

-->-- ''MirrorMask''

* The quote comes from ''MirrorMask'', where Helena's mother is a good finder of things hidden. Helena eventually remembers what her mother told her to find the [=MirrorMask=] [[spoiler:which is ''inside'' a mirror]].

* Brought up in ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' episode "", Kenneth loses a pair of Jack's pants and is looking for them.

* In one episode of TheMuppetShow, Hilda the wardrobe lady asks Fozzie where her glasses are. (They're on her head) Fozzie is too busy practicing his 'Jokes on any subject' to be any help, and Hilda finds her glasses by herself.

-->'''Patrick''': "You know the chance of finding something in the last possible place? It's not very high."

* JeffFoxworthy once addressed the FridgeLogic side of this:

--> "Yes, it was in the last place I looked."
--> "Well, I certainly hope so!"

* In one episode of WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer, Dora and group must travel to the Big Red Chicken's party to help him find his cake... which was balanced on his head. [[RuleOfperception At least the camera angles concealed this fact]].

* Pretty much always, since finding means you stop looking, so where you've found it is the last place you looked.
** Rarely do people actually mean "the last place they looked before they found it". Rather, they mean that they found it in the last place it could have been; imagine that you lost something important and narrowed it down to 10 possible spots. People say this when it turns out to be in the 10th and last spot they checked, not when they find it in the 2nd spot.
* Glasses are a particularly nefarious thing to lose, particularly for very nearsighted people, who often only remove them to sleep or bathe; the very thing they need to see is the thing they cannot find.

-->'''Helena:''' She lost her teeth yesterday. I said "If Mum were here, she'd find them. She's amazing at finding things." She said "If your Mum could find them, she must be a miracle worker."\\

'''Helena:''' They were in the fridge.\\
-- ''MirrorMask''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Lesson Zero," Rarity has lost her purple ribbon and is acting like a complete drama queen while searching for it. When she finds it, she says the trope name.

->'''Patrick''': "You know the chance of finding something in the last possible place? It's not very high."

* In ''[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5]]'', Homestar says that he continues looking even after he's found what he's looking for, "just to make sure".

* Jeff Foxworthy once did a joke on this

BTW, if you think about it, saying "it's always in the last place you look" had to have originated with some long-forgotten CaptainObvious. After all, if you finally find something that you've looked for all day, but there are still more places that you've thought of where you could search for it, would you really keep looking?

May frequently involve being HiddenInPlainSight. The character may also have FailedASpotCheck.

* Brought up in ''[[ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' episode "", Kenneth loses a pair of Jack's pants and is looking for them.

* In the InteractiveFiction game ''{{Shade}}'', there are several possible places your tickets can be (in your coat, in your luggage, among the papers on your desk). The game makes sure that whichever order you search in, they're always in the LastPlaceYouLook.

If someone loses an object, it will always be found in the last place they look. FridgeLogic maintains that this is because once they find it, they aren't looking for it anymore, thus it's ''always'' in the last place they look.

-->'''Kenneth''': And I tried looking in the last place you'd ever expect. And NO, Mr. Donaghy's pants are NOT in the ladies' room of that laser tag place on twelfth avenue.
* Bernard in ''BlackBooks'' is about to go on holiday, naturally he doesn't remember where he put it other than "its in the, house!". He put it somewhere safe so he spends 5 hours putting everything off the walls before walking over to his desk and saying I remember i put it over here but no, I can't find it. Cue "Did you check your desk Bernard?, Yes of cour-oh here it is."

** Rarely do people actually mean "the last place the looked before they found it". Rather, they mean that they found it in the last place it could have been; imagine that you lost something important and narrowed it down to 10 possible spots. People say this when it turns out to be in the 10th and last spot they checked, not when they find it in the 2nd spot.

* On ''TwoStupidDogs'', Little Dog lost a bone by putting it on his head (and spent an entire episode searching the entire world and space for it).

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* In the PoliceProcedural parody chibi episode of ''ThePrinceOfTennis'', Inui misplaces his glasses and just about everybody gets hauled into the "office" as a potential thief... until he remembers that he'd simply forgotten to put them back on when he took them off to wash his face.
* In one chapter of ''KeroroGunsou'', Momoka falls out of a tree and lands on Chiruyo while both are [[StalkerWithACrush trying to take pictures of Fuyuki]]. Chiruyo loses her glasses, and [[BlindWithoutEm fruitlessly looks for them]], apparently unaware that she's still wearing them and they've just been pushed up onto her forehead.

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* In ''[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5]]'', Homestar says that he continues looking even after he's found what he's looking for, "just to make sure".

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* On ''TwoStupidDogs'', Little Dog lost a bone by putting it on his head (and spent an entire episode searching the entire world and space for it).
* From Emmit Otter's ''Jugband Christmas'':

* In comic strip ''Zits'', Jeremy's mom has done this with her car keys on occasion.

* Grandpa from ''TheBoondocks'' does this immediately after delivering a "I've been around a long time, so don't think you can ever pull one over on me kid. I'm too smart for you" talk.
* The Polish poem for children ''Pan Hilary'' is about this.
* Very much TruthInTelevision, too.
* In the PoliceProcedural parody chibi episode of ThePrinceOfTennis, Inui misplaces his glasses and just about everybody gets hauled into the "office" as a potential thief...until he remembers that he'd simply forgotten to put them back on when he took them off to wash his face.
* In the InteractiveFiction game ''Shade'', there are several possible places your tickets can be (in your coat, in your luggage, among the papers on your desk). The game makes sure that whichever order you search in, they're always in the LastPlaceYouLook.

* In ''[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5]]'', Homestar says that he continues looking even after he's found what he's looking for, "just to make sure".
* Brought up in 30 Rock episode "", Kenneth loses a pair of Jack's pants and is looking for them.

* Bernard in BlackBooks is about to go on holiday, naturally he doesn't remember where he put it other than "its in the, house!". He put it somewhere safe so he spends 5 hours putting everything off the walls before walking over to his desk and saying I remember i put it over here but no, I can't find it. Cue "Did you check your desk Bernard?, Yes of cour-oh here it is."
* This line is said in an episode of TwoAndAHalfMen when the son Jake loses his NintendoDS. He spends the entire episode looking for it and finally finds it on his front lawn when he is about to take a whiz.

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