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** Completely subverted in one episode where Lois gains weight and has to have all the fat liposuctioned out after she has a heart attack. Peter gets caught making out with a bag of Lois' excess body fat and says "It's EXACTLY what it looks like."
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** Of course, the reason Mio was running away in the first place is because Kyousuke was brushing lint off Riki, and she (being a Boys Love fangirl) immediately assumed they were having an intimate moment. Riki is completely clueless to this fact.
** Also in "VisualNovel/Little Busters", on Komari's route, she falls fast asleep on the rooftop, leaving her clothing in a state of general disarray. If Riki tries to straighten her clothes up, she (predictably) wakes up while Riki is liftimg her shirt, and proceeds to go into hilarious freakout mode, while Riki fervently tries to explain himself.
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** Completely subverted in one episode where Lois gains weight and has to have all the fat liposuctioned out after she has a heart attack. Peter gets caught making out with a bag of Lois' excess body fat and says "It's EXACTLY what it looks like."
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** The option to say "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck ''Uh Oh'']]" is also available.

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** The option to say "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck ''Uh Oh'']]" [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Uh Oh!"]] is also available.
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* PlayedForDrama in MassEffect3. [[spoiler: During a terrorist attack orchestrated by a group [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] acknowledged working with in the past, Shepard bursts through a door with his gun raised on Councilor Udina, The human representative for the galactic government. It's actually because Udina is working with Cerberus to orchestrate the attack. If Shepard and the Virmire survivor haven't repaired their relationship to the point Shepard can convince him/her of what's really going on, Shepard or a squadmate will have to kill them.]]

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* PlayedForDrama in MassEffect3.''VideoGame/MassEffect3''. [[spoiler: During a terrorist attack orchestrated by a group [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] acknowledged working with in the past, Shepard bursts through a door with his gun raised on Councilor Udina, The human representative for the galactic government. It's actually because Udina is working with Cerberus to orchestrate the attack. If Shepard and the Virmire survivor haven't repaired their relationship to the point Shepard can convince him/her of what's really going on, Shepard or a squadmate will have to kill them.]]
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* Mirage tells Bob his family survived Syndrome's missiles in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', and Bob is so grateful for the news that he gives Mirage a great big hug — and right at that moment, Helen, who fears Bob was having an affair, walks in to rescue him.

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* * Mirage tells Bob his family survived Syndrome's missiles in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', and Bob is so grateful for the news that he gives Mirage a great big hug — and right at that moment, Helen, who fears Bob was having an affair, walks in to rescue him.

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* When Fiona pulls the arrow out of Shrek's butt in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' film, she ends up on top of him, just in time for Donkey to walk in and take things the wrong way. Cue Shrek jumping up and saying, "Nothing Happened!"[[/folder]]

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* When Fiona pulls the arrow out of Shrek's butt in the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' film, she ends up on top of him, just in time for Donkey to walk in and take things the wrong way. Cue Shrek jumping up and saying, "Nothing Happened!"[[/folder]]
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* Mirage tells Bob his family survived Syndrome's missiles in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', and Bob is so grateful for the news that he gives Mirage a great big hug — and right at that moment, Helen, who fears Bob was having an affair, walks in to rescue him.
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* Played straight in a rather touching ''SisterSister'' episode. As it turns out, Ray was paying respects to his dead wife. In addition to all the evidence stacking up against Ray, who wasn't even aware that Lisa (his current love interest) and their daughters were suspicious, Lisa meets the ''ghost'' of Ray's old wife, who admits to being "the other woman," without realizing that the woman is a ghost.

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* Played straight in a rather touching ''SisterSister'' ''Series/SisterSister'' episode. As it turns out, Ray was paying respects to his dead wife. In addition to all the evidence stacking up against Ray, who wasn't even aware that Lisa (his current love interest) and their daughters were suspicious, Lisa meets the ''ghost'' of Ray's old wife, who admits to being "the other woman," without realizing that the woman is a ghost.
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** Belldandy once defended her K1 from a manufactured compromising situation by saying "It's true! He doesn't have the guts to do that!" She realized how bad that sounded and tried to correct herself, but just made it worse. Specifically, she corrected herself by saying, "My Keiichi...isn't enough of a man to-" This results in the {{non-sound effect}} of "Digging the hole deeper."

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** Belldandy once defended her K1 from a manufactured compromising situation by saying "It's true! He doesn't have the guts to do that!" She realized how bad that sounded and tried to correct herself, but just made it worse. Specifically, she corrected herself by saying, "My Keiichi...isn't enough of a man to-" This results in the {{non-sound {{usound effect}} of "Digging the hole deeper."
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** Belldandy once defended her K1 from a manufactured compromising situation by saying "It's true! He doesn't have the guts to do that!" She realized how bad that sounded and tried to correct herself, but just made it worse.

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** Belldandy once defended her K1 from a manufactured compromising situation by saying "It's true! He doesn't have the guts to do that!" She realized how bad that sounded and tried to correct herself, but just made it worse. Specifically, she corrected herself by saying, "My Keiichi...isn't enough of a man to-" This results in the {{non-sound effect}} of "Digging the hole deeper."
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* MountainTime had a rather... [[http://mountaincomics.com/2012/09/13/mountain-time-390/ odd example]] of this trope. But then, its [[DadaComics Mountain Time]]
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* In ''Film/AmericanPie'', Jim says exactly this during the famous pie scene.
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** Black Panther seems particularly prone to this trope. In an issue of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' when he and {{Storm}} were subbing for Reed and Sue, Ben asked Ororo if her hair was weave. Taking offense, she invited him to lift her by her hair to show that it is indeed real. Cue T'Challa walking in on Ben holding his wife by the hair.
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* Let's be honest, we've all been in this situation, or will be at some point.

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** Poor Harry Dresden. In ''Proven Guilty'', he has the misfortune to have a friend's daughter stopping by the hotel room he was using as a workspace for a shower at ''exactly'' the time her overprotective mother comes in to find him. As he points out, if she'd come ten seconds early, he wouldn't have gotten clobbered. At least the family priest who was present understood.

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** Poor [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden. Dresden.]] In ''Proven Guilty'', he has the misfortune to have a friend's daughter stopping by the hotel room he was using as a workspace for a shower at ''exactly'' the time her overprotective mother comes in to find him. As he points out, if she'd come ten seconds early, he wouldn't have gotten clobbered. At least the family priest who was present understood.



** Happened to him ''again'' in the short story "Day Off". This one was even worse, involving two werewolves mid-coitus, his topless, unconscious apprentice, his basement on fire, smoke and flashing lights, and... Harry giving [[IntimateHealing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation]] to said topless apprentice. His thoroughly amused girlfriend responds with, "I cannot for the life of me imagine what it ''does'' appear to be." and insists to know ''how'' this happened. For those not familiar with the series, Harry's apprentice is the above-mentioned friend's daughter.

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** Happened to him ''again'' in the short story "Day Off". This one was even worse, involving two werewolves mid-coitus, his topless, unconscious apprentice, his basement on fire, smoke and flashing lights, and... Harry giving [[IntimateHealing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation]] to said topless apprentice. His thoroughly amused girlfriend [[UnderstandingBoyfriend girlfriend]] responds with, "I cannot for the life of me imagine what it ''does'' appear to be." and insists to know ''how'' this happened. For those not familiar with the series, Harry's apprentice is the above-mentioned friend's daughter.daughter.
** Even after Molly's apprenticeship ends, their friendship still has a strong air of this. Yes, she's an attractive younger woman who's pledged UndyingLoyalty to Harry, often works with him, and there's the [[InnocentCohabitation apartment-sharing]] thing. All of that has an explanation, but on the outside it looks rather suspicious.
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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu enters Yuyuko's room to leave her own present for her and walks in on Rinnosuke standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). The obvious conclusions are jumped to and swords are drawn, with painful results for Rinnosuke.

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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu enters Yuyuko's room to leave her own present for her and walks in on Rinnosuke standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). The obvious conclusions about Rinnosuke's intentions are jumped to and swords are drawn, with painful results for Rinnosuke.him.
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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu enters Yuyuko's room to leave her own present for her and walks in on Rinnosuke standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). [[HilarityEnsues Rinnosuke is promptly mistaken for a pervert and swords are drawn, with painful results for him]].

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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu enters Yuyuko's room to leave her own present for her and walks in on Rinnosuke standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). [[HilarityEnsues Rinnosuke is promptly mistaken for a pervert The obvious conclusions are jumped to and swords are drawn, with painful results for him]].Rinnosuke.
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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu enters Yuyuko's room to leave her own present for her and walks in on Rinnosuke standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). Youmu promptly [[AccidentalPervert mistakes him for a pervert]] and reaches for her sword, with painful results for him.

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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu enters Yuyuko's room to leave her own present for her and walks in on Rinnosuke standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). Youmu [[HilarityEnsues Rinnosuke is promptly [[AccidentalPervert mistakes him mistaken for a pervert]] pervert and reaches for her sword, swords are drawn, with painful results for him.him]].
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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu walks into Yuyuko's room to leave her own present there and walks in on him standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). Youmu promptly [[AccidentalPervert mistakes Rinnosuke for a pervert]], with painful results for him.

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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu walks into enters Yuyuko's room to leave her own present there for her and walks in on him Rinnosuke standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa). Youmu promptly [[AccidentalPervert mistakes Rinnosuke him for a pervert]], pervert]] and reaches for her sword, with painful results for him.
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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu walks in on him standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa) and promptly mistakes him for a pervert, with painful results for Rinnosuke.

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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu walks into Yuyuko's room to leave her own present there and walks in on him standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa) and Marisa). Youmu promptly [[AccidentalPervert mistakes him Rinnosuke for a pervert, pervert]], with painful results for Rinnosuke.him.
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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu walks in on him standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa), and mistakes him for a pervert, with painful results for Rinnosuke.

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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu walks in on him standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa), Marisa) and promptly mistakes him for a pervert, with painful results for Rinnosuke.
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* In the second ''Webcomic/LifeOfMaid'' Christmas Special, Santa Rinnosuke, after being seen by Marisa, uses a combo of GivingThemTheStrip and NinjaLog in a bid to get the hell away from her so she doesn't steal the presents he's been hired to deliver like she did with Youki. It works, but when he heads to Yuyuko's place to deliver her present, Youmu walks in on him standing over a sleeping Yuyuko in his underwear while breathing hard (due to having just gotten away from Marisa), and mistakes him for a pervert, with painful results for Rinnosuke.
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* Happens to WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest [[RuleOfThree three times]] in episode 'Sleepover at Johnny's' with Jillian Vegan as her evil villain OverprotectiveDad Dark Vegan catches them. In order to hide Jillian from Susan (Who wants to kill Jillian for getting Gil's attention), Johnny pulls Jillian into the closer. Then, when trying to convince Jillian to leave, he spins a bottle as substitute for a coin flip. And finally, after a fall, Jillian ends up smudging her lipstick on Johnny.

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* Happens to WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest [[RuleOfThree three times]] in episode 'Sleepover at Johnny's' with Jillian Vegan as her evil villain OverprotectiveDad Dark Vegan catches them. In order to hide Jillian from Susan (Who wants to kill Jillian for getting Gil's attention), Johnny pulls Jillian into the closer.closet. Then, when trying to convince Jillian to leave, he spins a bottle as substitute for a coin flip. And finally, after a fall, Jillian ends up smudging her lipstick on Johnny.
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'''Zoidberg:''' The caviar is on your neck!

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'''Zoidberg:''' The Her caviar is on your neck!
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* PlayedForDrama in MassEffect3. [[spoiler: During a terrorist attack orchestrated by a group [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] acknowledges working with in the past, Shepard bursts through a door with his gun raised on Councilor Udina, The human representative for the galactic government. It's actually because Udina is working with Cerberus to orchestrate the attack. If Shepard and the human party member who survived the first game haven't repaired their relationship to the point Shepard can convince him/her of what's really going on, Shepard or a squadmate will have to kill them.]]

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* PlayedForDrama in MassEffect3. [[spoiler: During a terrorist attack orchestrated by a group [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] acknowledges working with in the past, Shepard bursts through a door with his gun raised on Councilor Udina, one of the rulers of the galaxy. It's actually because Udina is working with Cerberus to orchestrate the attack. If Shepard and the human party member who survived the first game haven't repaired their relationship to the point Shepard can convince him/her of what's really going on, Shepard or a squadmate will have to kill them.]]

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* PlayedForDrama in MassEffect3. [[spoiler: During a terrorist attack orchestrated by a group [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] acknowledges working with in the past, Shepard bursts through a door with his gun raised on Councilor Udina, one of The human representative for the rulers of the galaxy.galactic government. It's actually because Udina is working with Cerberus to orchestrate the attack. If Shepard and the human party member who survived the first game haven't repaired their relationship to the point Shepard can convince him/her of what's really going on, Shepard or a squadmate will have to kill them.]]

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'''George''': "Lynn and I went to the cafeteria to eat. I told her to wait a minute, I had to use the bathroom. I went in and used the urinal as someone else came into the bathroom. When I turned around I discovered that she was the someone else. She proceeded to make various cooing sounds and I attempted to tell her this was inappropriate. She unzipped my fly, removed my penis from my pants and got on her knees. I put my hands on her shoulders in an attempt to push her away. At that moment the [campus police] officer came into the bathroom." I smiled a little. "I'm sorry, Dr. Sign, I shouldn't be smiling about this. I know this is serious, but I got a mental picture in my head of what he saw and trying to explain to him it wasn't what he thought it was. I looked at what was happening. I said to the officer that I wasn't going to say a word to him, if I was him and I told him what I know, I wouldn't have believed it either."

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'''George''': "Lynn and I went to the cafeteria to eat. I told her to wait a minute, I had to use the bathroom. I went in and used the urinal as someone else came into the bathroom. When I turned around I discovered that she was the someone else. She proceeded to make various cooing sounds and I attempted to tell her this was inappropriate. She unzipped my fly, removed my penis from my pants and got on her knees. I put my hands on her shoulders in an attempt to push her away. At that moment the [campus police] officer came into the bathroom." I smiled a little. "I'm sorry, Dr. Sign, I shouldn't be smiling about this. I know this is serious, but I got a mental picture in my head of what he saw and trying to explain to him it wasn't what he thought it was. I looked at what was happening. I said to the officer that I wasn't going to say a word to him, if I was him and I told him what I know, I wouldn't have believed it either." "
*Not played for laughs in ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'' when Eddard Stark recalled seeing Jaime Lannister sitting the Iron Throne after killing the Mad King. It convinces him that its a Lannister power play. Its not until book 3 that Jaime's side of the story is revealed.
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* In ''Mystic Pizza'', Daisy (a poor Portuguese Catholic girl) sees her love interest Charles (a wealthy WASP guy) talking to a very attractive woman at a party. Consumed with jealousy, she persuades a lobsterman to dump his entire day's catch into Charles's expensive convertible sports car. Daisy then discovers that the woman Charles was talking to was in fact his cousin, leading to a memorable exchange:
-->'''Daisy:''' I fucked up.\\
'''Charles:''' Yeah... but you gave it a 100% effort!
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** "Ill Suited", where Ron is trying to explain why he stole Kim's battlesuit.
--> '''Ron:''' "Wait wait! It's not what you think!"
--> '''Kim:''' "Oh? So you're not a cheater, a liar and a ''thief''?!"
--> '''Ron:''' "... OK, it is what you think."
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* Subverted in a first-season episode of ''Series/NightCourt'' in which court clerk Lana Wagner, flying high on cold remedy drugs, is making passionate romantic advances on Judge Harry Stone in his office. Harry's office door opens to reveal lawyers Dan Fielding and Liz Williams and bailiffs Bull Shannon and Selma Hacker, who take a moment to absorb the scene of an alarmed Harry and an enthusiastic Lana in a torrid embrace.
-->'''Dan:''' ''(sarcastically)'' No. Let me guess. This... isn't what it looks like.\\
'''Lana:''' ''(lustily)'' Yes it is!

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