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--> '''Maeby''': We?ve got to get it torn down.

--> Orthopedix' wife: "Exactly. That's why he thinks that we should also reach meat on fish days and the other way round."

* ''WaynesWorld'' manages to combine CrossDresser, FurryFandom, HoYay, and PerverseSexualLust into one sentence:
-->'''Garth:''' Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?
-->'''Wayne:''' No. ''[laughs hysterically]'' No.
-->'''Garth:''' Me neither. I was just asking...

* This exchange from ''TheHammer'':
-->'''Lindsey:''' ''I got a job offer for a a big law firm, and I think I'm gonna take it.''
-->'''Jerry:''' ''Good, get out of that public defender's office! What do you want with all the crackheads?''
-->'''Lindsey:''' ''...It's in Seattle.''
-->'''Jerry:''' ''So you're just gonna turn your back on your clients?''

* A comedic musical example is from TheSmothersBrothers, in one of their renditions of "I Talk to the Trees" from the Broadway musical ''PaintYourWagon''. Tommy interrupts the song, calling it and the musical stupid, saying that anybody who loves a song from a show like that has gotta be a 'stupid dumb weirdo freak.' Dickie agrees with him, then adds that the song is about a young man very much like Tommy, to which Tommy says sheepishly "Maybe I spoke a little hastily there."

* In ''MacHall'', Ian's line:
-->'''Ian''': Have you ever started to make pancakes, then decided you didn't really want pancakes, and then just started drinking the batter to finish it off?
-->'''JM''': No.
-->'''Ian''': Yeah, me neither. Boy, that sure would be weird.
* ''PennyArcade'' manages to [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/23 have one]] between Gabe and Tycho without Tycho even saying anything:
-->'''Gabe''': Have you ever pooped and then smelled the smell of your own poop and thought it kinda smelled good? Like sort of wild and exotic."
-->'''*BeatPanel*'''
-->'''Gabe''': Me either!

** This is also the method by which Brian attracts most of the women he's seen dating. Consider the episode where he pretended to be "down with the struggle" to date a black woman, or where his immediate response to a beautiful woman saying she finds magicians sexy is to blurt out "I'm a magician!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Spike spends a chunk of the episode "Winter Wrap-Up" convincing Twilight to use her magic in the wrap-up. When she finally breaks down and tries to use it surreptitiously, things get out of control, and Applejack calls her out on it. Spike immediately changes his position, chiding her for using magic. Seriously, what the hell Spike?

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* In the first ''{{Film/Spider-Man}}'' movie, Mary Jane comments on how gross the spiders are. Harry tries to agree with her, saying he hates them. She then says that she loves them, and he immediately agrees.

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* Petulia from TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/AHatFullOfSky'' starts out like this. Paraphrased:

* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' employed this trope hilariously in episode six. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdNCEL5JKF8 Twentieth-Century Vole.]] It gets [[CrowningMomentOfFunny even funnier]] when the CEO begins playing games with the gathering of yes-men around the table, leading to exchanges like:

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* In ''LifeOfBrian'', a huge mob has decided that Brian is the Messiah. He tries to convince them otherwise, with less than spectacular results:

-->'''Sam''': [[ThisIsSPARTA I. Love. Jell-O.]]

* ''{{Fraggle Rock}}'''s Wembley, to the point where he'll do this to multiple characters at the same time, even if his statements contradict things he said moments before.
* Sir Humphrey in {{Yes Minister}} frequently does this as part of his latest attempt to flatter Hacker into doing his bidding:

* ''TheTamingOfTheShrew'': As part of the "taming", Petruchio forces Kate to be like this with him. This can appear to be dark and disturbing... [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation or hilarious]].

* ''PennyArcade'' manages to [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/23 have one]] between Gabe and Tycho without Tycho even saying anything:

* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'', Sansa spends the latter part of a chapter telling how much she hates riding horses. When her betrothed shows up and says he likes to ride horses, she immediately says she loves to.

* ''TheFastShow'' had a recurring sketch about three friends, two of whom disagreed about nearly everything, while the third tried to agree with ''both of them at the same time''. This usually resulted in him agreeing with whoever spoke last, and then contradicting himself after the other friend replied.

-->'''Humphrey''': Yes of course, Prime Minister, please, don't misunderstand me, it is quite right of course that you should contemplate all proposals that come from your government, but no sane man would ever support it.

* ''{{xkcd}}'' describes this as "[[http://xkcd.com/185/ WikiFriends]]".

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Spike spends a chunk of the episode "Winter Wrap-Up" convincing Twilight to use her magic in the wrap-up. When she finally breaks down and tries to use it surreptitiously, things get out of control, and Applejack calls her out on it. Spike immediately changes his position, chiding her for using magic.

* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', Clu's right-hand-man Jarvis cowers before Sam Flynn as he walks into the command center to recover the stolen disc, declaring "Long live the Users!" When Clu arrives a bit later and finds the disc missing, Jarvis starts to say "Death to the Users!" but is decapitated mid-sentence.

** It comes up again much later in the movie: [[spoiler:while in the meateroid, Sam and Flint come across a pit lined with shards of peanut brittle. Sam comments that "If either one of us touches it, we'll go into anaphylactic shock." ]].

* OlderThanFeudalism: The second emperor of the Qín Dynasty (299-207 BCE) had something of a TreacherousAdvisor, Zhao Gao, who wanted to amass power for himself. So he had a deer brought before the emperor and claimed it a horse. Anyone who dared tell the truth was soon vacated from his post. From them on ''zhǐ lù wéi mǎ'' ("Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse") became the Chinese equivalent of BlatantLies. (Ancient China, troping for over two thousand years.)

* OlderThanFeudalism: The second emperor of the Qín Dynasty (299-207 BC) had something of a TreacherousAdvisor, Zhao Gao, who wanted to amass power for himself. So he had a deer brought before the emperor and claimed it a horse. Anyone who dared tell the truth was soon vacated from his post. From them on ''zhǐ lù wéi mǎ'' ("Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse") became the Chinese equivalent of BlatantLies. (Ancient China, troping for over two thousand years.)

* OlderThanFeudalism: The second emperor of the Qín Dynasty had something of a TreacherousAdvisor, Zhao Gao, who wanted to amass power for himself. So he had a deer brought before the emperor and claimed it a horse. Anyone who dared tell the truth was soon vacated from his post. From them on ''zhǐ lù wéi mǎ'' ("Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse") became the Chinese equivalent of BlatantLies. (Ancient China, troping for over two thousand years.)

* Despotic rulers have a long, long history of imprisoning, exiling, or outright killing people who don't agree him, but especially {{egregious}} examples:
** The second emperor of Qin had something of a TreacherousAdvisor who wanted to amass power for himself. So he had a deer brought before the emperor and claimed it a horse. Anyone who dared tell the truth was soon vacated from his post. From them on "Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse" became the Chinese equivalent of BlatantLies. (Ancient China, troping for over two thousand years.)

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* Despotic rulers have a long, long history of imprisoning, exiling, or outright killing people who don't agree him, but especially {{egregious}} examples:
** The second emperor of Qin had something of a TreacherousAdvisor who wanted to amass power for himself. So he had a deer brought before the emperor and claimed it a horse. Anyone who dared tell the truth was soon vacated from his post. From them on "Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse" became the Chinese equivalent of BlatantLies. (Ancient China, troping for over two thousand years.)
* There is a story about Nasreddin abruptly changing his mind about some vegetables along with the king. When the king called him on that, Nasreddin merely stated "The vegetables are not the ones paying me a salary."

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* Polonius does this all the time in ''{{Hamlet}}'', especially while attempting to humor the prince, who is pretending to be insane, with the page quote being a standard example. Hamlet shamelessly encourages/[[{{Trolling}} trolls]] him.
* ''TheTamingOfTheShrew'': as part of the "taming", Petruchio forces Kate to be like this with him. This can appear to be dark and disturbing... [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation or hilarious]].

* Inverted and played straight at once on ''ArrestedDevelopment''. Maeby is trying to go against whatever her mother wants, while George Michael is in love with Maeby and agrees with whatever she says. At first Maeby wants to save the tree that Lindsey is trying to get cut down, but then Lindsey decides to save the tree...

* In ''TronLegacy'', Clu's right-hand-man Jarvis cowers before Sam Flynn as he walks into the command center to recover the stolen disc, declaring "Long live the Users!" When Clu arrives a bit later and finds the disc missing, Jarvis starts to say "Death to the Users!" but is decapitated mid-sentence.

* ''FamilyGuy'' parodies this expertly.
-->'''Yes-Man''': Good morning, Mr. Griffin. Nice day.
-->'''Peter''': Eh, it's a little cloudy.
-->'''Yes-Man''': It's absolutely cloudy, one of the worst days I've seen in years! So, good news about the Yankees.
-->'''Peter''': I hate the Yankees.
-->'''Yes-Man''': Pack of cheaters, that's what they are! I love your tie!
-->'''Peter''': I hate this tie.
-->'''Yes-man''': It's awful, it's gaudy, it's gotta go.
-->'''Peter''': ...I hate myself.
-->'''Yes-Man''': I hate you too, you make me sick, you fat sack of crap!
-->'''Peter''': But I'm the president.
-->'''Yes-Man''': The best there is!
-->'''Peter''': But you just said you hated me.
-->'''Yes-Man''': But... not you the... president, the you who said you hated you, you who love hate Yankees, clouds...*[[LogicBomb The Yes-man explodes]]*

-->'''Peter''': ...And I hate myself.

* A comedic musical example is from TheSmothersBrothers, in one of their renditions of "I Talk to the Trees" from the Broadway musical ''PaintYourWagon''. Tommy interrupts the song, calling it and the musical stupid, saying that anybody who loves a song from a shot like that has gotta be a 'stupid dumb weirdo freak.' Dickie agrees with him, then adds that the song is about a young man very much like Tommy, to which Tommy says sheepishly "Maybe I spoke a little hastily there."

* Polonius, in Shakespeare's ''{{Hamlet}}'', being the TropeNamer, which makes this trope OlderThanSteam.

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-->'''Lindsey:''' ''I got a job offer for a a big law firm, and I think I'm gonna take it.''

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* Petulia from TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/AHatFullOfSky'' starts out like this. Paraphrased:

-->'''Tiffany''': We're very proud of our sheep.
-->'''Petulia''': Oh, I don't mean I hate them. I expect some sheep are OK. Obviously we've got to have sheep. They're better than goats, anyway... I like sheep. Sheep are nice.
::Tiffany is tempted to say that the sky is green, just to watch her trying to work her way around to agreement.

* Gaheris, in T.H. White's ''[[TheOnceAndFutureKing The Queen Of Air And Darkness]]'', is described as agreeing with whatever his older brothers Gawaine and Agravaine think. Since they disagree a lot, this is difficult for him.

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* ''TheSalvationWar'''s first book, ''Armageddon?'', gives us this bit of dialogue between GeorgeWBush and [[TricoloursWithRustingRockets Vladimir Putin]], after one of the demonic generals surrenders and requests asylum:

-->'''Bush''': ''“Sorry, Vladimir, you misunderstand, he’s a baldrick, he’s defecting to us.”''

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-->'''Yes-Man''': Good morning, Mr. Griffin. Nice day.
-->'''Peter''': Eh, it's a little cloudy.

-->'''Peter''': I hate the Yankees.

-->'''Peter''': ...And I hate myself.

-->'''Peter''': But I'm the president.
-->'''Yes-Man''': The best there is!
-->'''Peter''': But you just said you hated me.
-->'''Yes-Man''': But... not you the... president, the you who said you hated you, you who love hate Yankees, clouds...*[[LogicBomb The Yes-man explodes]]*

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** The second emperor of Qin had something of a TreacherousAdvisor who wanted to amass power for himself. So he had a deer brought before the emperor and claimed it a horse. Anyone who dared tell the truth was soon vacated from his post. From them on "Pointing at a Deer and Calling it a Horse" became the Chinese equivalent of BlatantLies. (Ancient China, troping for Over two thousand years.)