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[[caption-width-right:289:''You'' move on and find somebody else first.]]

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-->'''Margaret''': Hang up, Frank. \\
'''Frank''': You hang up first. \\
'''Margaret''': Frank, that's so high school. \\
'''Frank''': Well, let's count to three and then we'll hang up together. \\
'''Margaret''': Okay, you start. \\
'''Frank''': One. \\
'''Margaret''': Two. \\
'''Hawkeye and Trapper''': ''[on another line]'' Three! \\
'''Margaret''': Get them Frank!
** Burns then chases Pierce and Trapper out, falls in a hole, then they (Pierce and Trapper) park a Jeep on top of him

-->'''T'Pol:''' Please leave.
-->'''Tucker:''' Exactly where am I supposed to go?
-->'''T'Pol:''' Away.
-->'''Tucker:''' This is my daydream. You go away.

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* A conversation presented by Creator/MiltonJones:
--> ''You'' put it down.
--> No, ''you'' put it down.
--> No, ''you'' put it down.
--> No, ''you'' put it down.
--> No, you're the vet, ''you'' put it down.

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* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' gives us the MMORPG version after Arthéon and Kary get together, with them asking each other to log off the game first.
* ''WebAnimation/TheBedfellows'': Sheen and Fatigue did this in the first episode.

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* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''; after the man tells his girlfriend to hang up first, she says "Okay!" and immediately does so. Naturally, he's shocked and heartbroken.

** Played straight at least once in the series - Grampa is telling the story of why he hates Santa, which of course starts off on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during [[WorldWarTwo World War II]]. In the middle of a dogfight, he yells at his radio operator (Montgomery Burns) to radio a warning to another pilot, but Monty is too busy playing "you sign off first" with his girl on the other end.

->'''Lizzie:''' You hang up first... No, you hang up first... No, you...\\
'''Miranda:''' ''I'll'' hang up first! ''[pulls out the phone line]''
-->-- ''Series/LizzieMcGuire''

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* British Sitcom ''MyFamily'' had Ben Harper's assistant go through this routine with her boyfriend, until he grabbed the phone from her, told the boyfriend "No, I'll hang up first." and promptly did.

* A transcription of a phone conversation between [[BritishRoyalFamily Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles]] shows them doing this for what must have been almost an hour. Less {{Squee}}-inducing with the knowledge that it was solid, irrefutable evidence he was cheating on Princess Diana, not that there wasn't [[RoyallyScrewedUp plenty of infidelity]] to go around there...

* In an episode of ''{{Friends}}'', Ross does this with Julie. Eventually Rachel (who's only recently realised she has feelings for Ross) snaps and hangs up for him... at which point Ross actually ''calls Julie back.'' "Sorry, where were we? No, YOU hang up first!"

* In ''HannahMontana'' episode, "My best friend's boyfriend", Miley's best friend, Lilly is on the phone with her boyfriend, Lucas and tells him to hang up first. "No you! No you!" Eventually Miley gets irritated and grabs the phone out of her hand and says "No, me!"

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* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' gives us the MMORPG version after Arthéon and Kary get together, with them asking each other to log off the game first.

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* [[http://xkcd.com/698/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip.

* ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' inverted this in both common participants and what is argued over - Francis is angrily arguing with his mother, with both them claiming they'll hang up first. As Francis decided to repeat his claim, his mother succeeds which he acknowledges with an angry "Damn it!". Subverted in another episode where Malcolm ''tries'' to start a no-you-hang-up, but his girlfriend interrupts him by actually hanging up.
* ''TheNanny'' had a variation where after a few rounds of "You Hang Up First", another character - annoyed - picked up the receiver and hung up for them.

* ''{{Frasier}}'' has a particularly funny example of this: Niles is doing this with Maris via his cell in Frasier's living room, Frasier gets annoyed and dials a number via the house phone. Niles says "Hang on, I'm getting another call" and it turns out to be Frasier yelling "GET THE HELL OFF THE PHONE!" This, in turn, results in a damn hilarious argument over the phone from two grown men who are literally in the same room. Frasier, for his part, does come to the realization that this is ridiculous and hangs up, leading to Niles's indignant "''How'' '''''dare''''' ''you'' hang up on me!"

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-->'''Lizzie:''' ''You hang up first...No, you hang up first...No, you...''
-->'''Miranda:''' [[DefiedTrope I'll ''hang up first!'' (pulls out the phone line)]]
-->--''LizzieMcGuire''

* Haley does this with her boyfriend on ''ModernFamily''--and then is somewhat hurt when he actually ''does'' hang up.

* Played straight in ''BeingIan''. The older brother does this with his girlfriend.
* Subverted in ''TheSimpsonsMovie''; after the man tells his girlfriend to hang up first, she says "Okay!" and immediately does so. Naturally, he's shocked and heartbroken.

* ''FamilyGuy'' used the classic routine, word for word, in a scene with Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, only, instead of hanging up first, they were arguing over who would take their CyanidePill first.

* ''Series/{{Mash}}'' did one in the episode "There is Nothing Like a Nurse" between (who else?) Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan. This version had a surprise ending:

[[caption-width-right:289:No, YOU stumble past a series of post-breakup hookups in a daze as you slowly realize what you've lost and how unlikely you are to ever get it back first.]]

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* In ''TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Large Hadron Collision", Howard says it to his girlfriend, who promptly does so.

** Played straight at least once in the series - Grampa is telling the story of why he hates Santa, which of course starts off on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during [[WorldWarTwo World War II]]. In the middle of a dogfight, he yells at his radioman/navigator/somethingorother (Montgomery Burns) to radio a warning to another pilot, but Monty is too busy playing "you sign off first" with his girl on the other end.

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* ''[[{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'' did one in the episode "There is Nothing Like a Nurse" between (who else?) Frank Burns and Margaret Houlihan. This version had a surprise ending:

* Used bizarrely in ''{{The 4400}}'' by, of all people [[TheHero Tom Baldwin]] and [[AntiVillain Jordan Collier]].