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* A ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' story where the title character is chasing after Count Dracula sees the infamous vampire run into a Hall of Horrors tourist museum, prompting the following exchange between Dredd and an employee at the exhibit.

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* A ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': One story where the title character is chasing after Count Dracula sees the infamous vampire run into a Hall of Horrors tourist museum, prompting the following exchange between Dredd and an employee at the exhibit.

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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Holy Crap", after Peter tells Lois that his new Christian fundamentalist boss is turning the break room into a chapel:
-->'''Lois''': Where will you eat lunch?\\

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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Holy Crap", after Peter tells Lois that his new Christian fundamentalist boss father [[ActivistFundamentalistAntics Francis]], who he just got made president of the factory he works at, is turning the break room into a chapel:
-->'''Lois''': Where will you all eat lunch?\\



* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Angelica has a list of things she needs before she can examine Chucky.
-->'''Angelica:''' Lil, I'm going to need a box of cookies, about a hundred Band-Aids, some water, and a helicopter!\\
'''Lil:''' Where am I gonna get a box of cookies?

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** In one episode,
Angelica has a list of things she needs before she can examine Chucky.
-->'''Angelica:''' --->'''Angelica:''' Lil, I'm going to need a box of cookies, about a hundred Band-Aids, some water, and a helicopter!\\
'''Lil:''' Where am I gonna get a box of cookies? cookies?
** The episode "Grandpa's Date" has this well-known example when Grandpa is babysitting Tommy and Chuckie.
--->'''Grandpa:''' I rented you boys some movies. ''Reptar Come Home'', ''Reptar Redux'', and my personal favorite, ''[[DemographicallyInappropriateHumour Lonely Space Vixens]]''. Uh, that's for after you go to bed.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "Holy Crap", after Peter tells Lois that his new Christian fundamentalist boss is turning the break room into a chapel:
-->'''Lois''': Where will you eat lunch?\\
'''Peter''': Lois, lunch is a sin. Taking a break is a sin. [[BestialityIsDepraved Bestiality is a sin.]] [[LampshadeHanging I'm not sure how that came up exactly...]]
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* ''WebVideo/RivalsDirect'' 3 has a few gags of this sort relating to class names:
** Aether University's top-rated classes are Psychology, Cryptozoology, Applied Astrology, and Taxidermy.
** Clairen's classes are Aetherian History, Abyssthrapology, Sylvan Expressionism, Hyperborean Philosophy, and Math 2.

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Subtrope of TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers.
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-->'''Kate:''' I got that, too.
-->'''Luke:''' Gonna hit you with an adrenaline shot. Takes about 30 seconds to kick in.

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-->'''Kate:''' I got that, too.
-->'''Luke:'''
too.\\
'''Luke:'''
Gonna hit you with an adrenaline shot. Takes about 30 seconds to kick in.



* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'':
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** A more serious example is Seven's PunyEarthlings speech that ends with: "You lack [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill harmony]], [[HiveMind cohesion]]... greatness."
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* An understated version takes place in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' in the three main recipients of Aragorn's healing touch following the Battle of Pelenor Fields. Faramir the Steward of Gondor wakes with the words, "My lord, you called me. I come." Eowyn the Shieldmaiden of Rohan awakens with, "Eomer! What joy is this?" And Merry the Hobbit wakes with, "I'm hungry. What's the time?"
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* In the finale of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Dipper and Mabel rally the townspeople with a rousing speech where they claim that they can win if they combine all of their strengths, their smarts, and...whatever it is Toby Determined has.
--> '''Toby''': Various rashes!
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* ''Series/DontHugMeImScared'': During the intro song in "Friends":
-->'''Duck Guy''': And every day's a new surprise!\\
'''Yellow Guy''': When you're learning with us guys!\\
'''Red Guy''': And we live in an actual ''[[SuddenlyShouting NIGHTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE!]]''
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* As seen in the page quote, ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has Drax tack on "''Why'' is Gamora?!" after hearing "Where" and "Who" being asked - which the actor [[ThrowItIn apparently improvised on-set]].

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* As seen in the page quote, ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has Drax tack on "''Why'' is Gamora?!" after hearing "Where" and "Who" being asked - -- which the actor [[ThrowItIn apparently improvised on-set]].
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* In the AfterTheEnd BMovie ''Battletruck'' (a.k.a. ''Warlords of the 21st Century'') the villains have just seized a village.

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* In the AfterTheEnd BMovie ''Battletruck'' ''Film/{{Battletruck}}'' (a.k.a. ''Warlords of the 21st Century'') the villains have just seized a village.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', Manny to Sid: "Is there no one else that you can annoy? Friends? Family? Poisonous Reptiles?"
* A non-verbal version happens in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''. Tai Lung is breaking out of [[TheAlcatraz Chorh-Gom Prison]], only to be confronted by Commander Vachir and his thousand rhino soldiers. A messenger duck called Zeng is also present, [[MinionMaracas clutched in Vachir's fist]] to [[BearerOfBadNews stop him flying away]]. Vachir sees Tai Lung and growls. Tai Lung growls in reply. Zeng just squeaks in terror.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'', Manny to Sid: "Is there no one else that you can annoy? Friends? Family? Poisonous Reptiles?"
* A non-verbal version happens in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''.''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1''. Tai Lung is breaking out of [[TheAlcatraz Chorh-Gom Prison]], only to be confronted by Commander Vachir and his thousand rhino soldiers. A messenger duck called Zeng is also present, [[MinionMaracas clutched in Vachir's fist]] to [[BearerOfBadNews stop him flying away]]. Vachir sees Tai Lung and growls. Tai Lung growls in reply. Zeng just squeaks in terror.
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* ''Series/RedDwarf'' has an example similar to the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' ones, where Rimmer lists some of the classical musicians as Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Music/{{Motorhead}}.
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* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': From the first chapter of ''Wedding March'', the three names of "a great and mountainous formation of ridges and river-carved canyons", when ends on a much less threatening note:
--> Willing visitors to the formation - which was varying known as the Black Defiles, the Obvious Location of Horror and Death to be Shunned by Any Ponies With the Sense the Creator Gave a Stoat (Literal Minded was generally regarded as one of the best pony explorers of the last few centuries, albeit as good with names as polio was with infants), or Home
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', when Spud and Trixie are looking over Lao Shi's store while he and Jake are away, Fu Dog tells them not to touch anything, not to open any drawers, and if [[EvilDebtCollector a big toothless guy named Morty shows up saying "Where's the money?"]], tell him Fu moved to Machu Picchu.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', when Spud and Trixie are looking over Lao Shi's store while he and Jake are away, Fu Dog tells them not to touch anything, not to open any drawers, and if [[EvilDebtCollector a big toothless guy named Morty shows showed up saying "Where's the money?"]], they were to tell him Fu had moved to Machu Picchu.

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-->'''Kate:''' ''(hearing Agent Moore coming up behind her)'' I don't got that.

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-->'''Kate:''' ''(hearing Agent Sophie Moore coming up behind her)'' I don't got that.that.
** And in the following episode when Sophie starts [[DatingCatwoman Dating Batwoman]].
--->'''Batwoman:''' [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife How do you see this playing out]]... dinner, movie, I take you back to my cave?
--->'''Sophie:''' You have a cave?
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* ''Series/Batwoman2019''. Played seriously in "Drink Me". The VillainOfTheWeek injects Batwoman with a drug to immobilize her so she can be captured by the responding Crows Security agents.
-->'''Luke:''' I'm [[RemoteVitalsMonitoring reading your stats]]. She injected you with a paralytic.
-->'''Kate:''' I got that.
-->'''Luke:''' And you have six Crows incoming.
-->'''Kate:''' I got that, too.
-->'''Luke:''' Gonna hit you with an adrenaline shot. Takes about 30 seconds to kick in.
-->'''Kate:''' ''(hearing Agent Moore coming up behind her)'' I don't got that.

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-->"In those days... men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."

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-->"In ** "In those days... men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."" - ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1''
** "The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?" - ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''
*** This may qualify as a meta-Triple, composed of two straight [[RuleofThree Rules of Three]] followed by a Triple.

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* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' has an episode where he yells to a vortigaunt alien:
-->'''Freeman:''' You stay on your side of the line! Your side of the line is where everyone is dead. My side of the line is filled with love, hope, and sub-machine guns!
* ''Webanimation/StupidKids'': Bazsi wants to go inside the kitchen but Boti builds a border there and asks for an ID card, a passport and a red rubber ball from him in ''Ahol a méreg sem segít'' (''Where even poison does not help'').

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* ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' has an episode where he yells to a vortigaunt alien:
-->'''Freeman:''' You stay on your side of the line! Your side of the line is where everyone is dead. My side of the line is filled with love, hope, and sub-machine guns!
* ''Webanimation/StupidKids'':
''WebAnimation/StupidKids'': Bazsi wants to go inside the kitchen but Boti builds a border there and asks for an ID card, a passport and a red rubber ball from him in ''Ahol a méreg sem segít'' (''Where even poison does not help'').


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* ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' has an episode where he yells to a vortigaunt alien:
-->'''Freeman:''' You stay on your side of the line! Your side of the line is where everyone is dead. My side of the line is filled with love, hope, and sub-machine guns!

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* Tracey gets a subtle one on ''Series/ThirtyRock''. The boat in question is not metaphorical.

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* Tracey gets a *''Series/ThirtyRock'':
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subtle one on ''Series/ThirtyRock''. The from Tracy: (The boat in question is not metaphorical.)


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** Liz has a habit of doing these. Lampshaded when she lists some of her good qualities, and the third item is, "I always think of a third thing when I'm listing stuff."

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-->'''Tony:''' What's your secret? Relaxing jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?

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-->'''Tony:''' What's your secret? Relaxing Mellow jazz, bongo drums, huge bag of weed?
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*''Webanimation/StupidKids'': Bazsi wants to go inside the kitchen but Boti builds a border there and asks for an ID card, a passport and a red rubber ball from him in ''Ahol a méreg sem segít'' (''Where even poison does not help'').
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** In "The Arsenal of Freedom", the crew speculate on what might have caused the {{Arms Dealer}}s [[PlanetOfHats populating Minos]] to disappear:
---> '''Worf:''' War?\\
'''Data:''' Disease?\\
'''Geordi:''' A dissatisfied customer?
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* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': In "The Ickis Box", The Gromble scolds Ickis for getting distracted by human TV programs during a scare at an electronics store.
-->'''The Gromble:''' You were snapping your fingers! You were tapping your toes! You were ''[[ShakingTheRump shaking your groove-thing!]]''
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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. Beast Boy demands proof that Impulse comes from the future.
-->'''Beast Boy:''' Tell us something we don't know--yet! When do I become leader of the team? When do I join the Justice League? When do I get my own reality series?

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* ArsonMurderAndAdmirationBreadEggsBreadedEggs
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', when Spud and Trixie are looking over Lao Shi's store while he and Jake are away, Fu Dog tells them not to touch anything, not to open any drawers, and if a big toothless guy named Morty shows up saying "Where's the money?", tell him Fu moved to Machu Picchu.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', when Spud and Trixie are looking over Lao Shi's store while he and Jake are away, Fu Dog tells them not to touch anything, not to open any drawers, and if [[EvilDebtCollector a big toothless guy named Morty shows up saying "Where's the money?", money?"]], tell him Fu moved to Machu Picchu.

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