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* [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZelda I'm an owl!]] [[TheScrappy Would you like me to repeat that?]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'': "Okay, I think I got it, but just in case... tell me again, I wasn't listening."

* [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] in the [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/305/bandwidth_exceeded Bandwidth Exceeded]] video by LoadingReadyRun. Graham walks into his house and is punched in the face by his roommate, Matt. Next scene: Graham and Matt are both standing in the kitchen, and Graham has a bag of frozen peas up to his head.

* [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie "Okay, I think I got it, but just in case... tell me again, I wasn't listening."]]

* In ''TheHairBearBunch'' episode "Bridal Boo Boo," Hair has an idea to get rid of the battleaxe that wants to marry Peevly and take control of the zoo.

* Subverted in the opening to an episode of ''MuseumOfIdiots'':

* [[TheLegoMovie "Okay, I think I got it, but just in case... tell me again, I wasn't listening."]]

* Another place where this trope was used in a good way was in the ''JusticeLeague'' episode where the Flash and Lex Luthor have switched bodies. The Flash is [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain pretending to be in charge of a crew of villains]]. Since he has no idea what their nefarious plot is, he informs them that they are to tell ''him'' how everything goes so he can "be sure they know what they're doing." They're rather annoyed at having to go over a plan that he introduced to them that very morning.

A subcategory of AsYouKnow is TellMeAgain, as in when two characters are driving somewhere in a car, and the passenger says to the driver, "Tell me again why we're going to the pillow factory." The only reason the passenger asks to be told again is so that the audience can know.

This is TruthInTelevision, as many real-life [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarkers]] will employ option two. Compare LetMeGetThisStraight.

* Parodied in this exchange from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
-->'''Sir Bedevere:''' And that, my liege is how we know the earth to be banana shaped."

-->-- ''DMOfTheRings''

* Played straight a couple times in the Cassandra Clare's ''MortalInstruments'' series.

'''Peevly:''' Yes? Yes?
'''Hair:''' Now, if by sheer accident, mind you, she happens to get locked in that truck...

-->'''Hair:''' Of course, sir. As you know, a truck is leaving this afternoon taking some empty cages to the Alaska zoo...now, if the future Mrs. Peevly..\\
-->'''Peevly:''' (''nervously'') Er, don't say that!\\
-->'''Hair:''' As you wish, sir. If she were to hear that some animals were trying to escape in that truck, she'd try to stop them. Right?\\
-->'''Peevly:''' Yes? Yes?
-->'''Hair:''' Now, if by sheer accident, mind you, she happens to get locked in that truck...
-->'''Peevly:''' Say no more. Pull this off and I'll wipe off all your demerits. But if you fail, I'll double them. Even ''triple'' them!\\
-->'''Hair:''' It's a pleasure doing business with a man of your intelligence, sir!

* In ''DestroyAllHumans 2'', all conversations end with the option of Crypto asking for a condensed version of the conversation, which often makes the characters exasperated at Crypto's lack of attention.
* In ''{{Earthbound}}'' the player can invoke this trope pretty much anytime anyone explains anything to Ness, as often as necessary.
* [[TheLegendOfZelda I'm an owl!]] [[TheScrappy Would you like me to repeat that?]]

Can sometimes be justified in two ways. One; there's a GambitRoulette going on and the character giving the explanation originally wasn't very clear. Two: For snarking purposes. The latter is particuarly common when the character knows why they're going there, but doesn't want to.

* Greg Egan's novel ''Diaspora''. "Tell me again professor how wormholes work."

* ''MysteryMen''

* Slightly clunkily done in ''{{Castle}}'' in which Lanie asks the police detectives to remind her who the 'Westies' are. While not ''entirely'' unlikely, you'd kind of expect a city medical examiner to have some passing awareness with TheIrishMob.

Can sometimes be justified in two ways. One; there's a XanatosRoulette going on and the character giving the explanation originally wasn't very clear. Two: For snarking purposes. The latter is particuarly common when the character knows why they're going there, but doesn't want to.

This is TruthInTelevision, as many real-life [[DeadpanSnarker Deadpan Snarkers]] will employ option two.

* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', Pronto requests a recap of the Pantheon's plan in the flashback in chapter two.