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* None of the patients in ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'' can remember Janet's surname, and so refer to her as "Janet What's 'Er Name?".
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* ''Film/DadsArmy1971'': Whenever Major-General Fullard sees Captain Mainwaring in the middle of his latest mishap, he remarks, "It's that damned bank clerk".
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* In ''Film/PerfectDays'', young people can't figure how to insert a tape in Hirayama's car tape player.
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** ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': Pretty much everyone and everything is set to arrive and/or be installed on the ''Enterprise''-B next Tuesday when the ship is taken out on a VIP cruise around the solar system.
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* The live-action/animated British film ''Film/DesktopDesperadoes'' might as well be nicknamed "Squashed Flat: The Movie"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZs

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* The live-action/animated British film ''Film/DesktopDesperadoes'' might as well be nicknamed "Squashed Flat: The Movie"! https://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZscom/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZs might as well be nicknamed]] "SquashedFlat: The Movie"!
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* ''Film/WatchYourStern'' has Commander Fanshawe's bicycle being repeatedly thrown overboard and fished back onto the HMS ''Terrier''.
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* ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'' has Wendover turning up for meals in the wrong outfit. First in his pyjamas, then in his finest dinner clothes... at lunch, and finally in nothing but a black tie.
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** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' films ending with a Parker yelling [[CurseCutShort WHAT THE F-?!]]. First Aunt May, then Peter.

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** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' ''Film/SpiderManHomecomingTrilogy'' films ending with a Parker yelling [[CurseCutShort WHAT THE F-?!]]. First Aunt May, then Peter.
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* ''Film/YouAreSoNotInvitedToMyBatMitzvah'': At every Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Ronnie and her friend Zaara are watching a horror movie on her phone, and two boys come up and try to impress them by asking if they've seen some other film. Each time, they lie and say yes, and that it sucked, just to get the boys to go away. At the end, [[spoiler:the four of them are all watching a movie together (still on a tiny phone), and an adult woman fills the role of the pretentious boys]].
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* ''Film/FriendsWithBenefits'':
** Dylan insists that "Closing Time" is by Music/ThirdEyeBlind, until the final scene when he finds out it's actually by Semisonic.
** Jamie blinks when she curses.
** Dylan talks about how modern planes "practically land themselves" every time he is on a plane. (This particularly gets him into trouble with New Yorkers every time he says it in reference to Captain Chesley Sullenberger of the '[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 Miracle on the Hudson]]'.) In a later scene, this is shown to have been picked up from his father.
** Dylan's poor mathemical skills, with him shown struggling to solve even really simple problems.
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* ''I Love You, Man.'' "...Why does everything I say sound like a leprechaun?"

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* ''I Love You, Man.''Film/ILoveYouMan.'' "...Why does everything I say sound like a leprechaun?"
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** " Well, I didn't do it!!!"

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** " Well, "Well, I didn't do it!!!"
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* The flock of pigeons who pop up whenever ''Film/{{Paddington}}'' tries to take a bite of his marmalade sandwich.

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* ''Film/Paddington2014'': The flock of pigeons who pop up whenever ''Film/{{Paddington}}'' Paddington tries to take a bite of his marmalade sandwich.
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* ''Film/TenLittleMistresses'':
** Diva copies nearly everything Helga says and does, and will frequently translate or reword Helga's dialogue to the latter's disdain.
** Whenever Valentin's signature deodorant comes up the characters takes great pains to describe its scent as "fresh peppermint with a hint of ripe cucumbers and juniper berries" in full.
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* ''Film/{{The Freshman|1990}}'':
** Everyone assumes that Clark is from any state other than Vermont, and promptly ignore him when he tries to say otherwise.
** People commenting on Carmine's similarity to [[Film/TheGodfather a certain fictional crime boss]]. In-universe, Carmine is just a Vito Corleone look-alike capitalizing on the resemblance, but he really is played by Creator/MarlonBrando in an AdamWesting role.
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** One running gag that keeps showing up across the franchise, is the fact the everyone seems to think that [[PaperThinDisguise a baseball hat and sunglasses is a good disguise]].

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** One running gag that keeps showing up across the franchise, is the fact the that everyone seems to think that [[PaperThinDisguise a baseball hat and sunglasses is a good disguise]].
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** One running gag that keeps showing up across the franchise, is the fact the everyone seems to think that [[PaperThinDisguise a baseball hat and sunglasses is a good disguise]].
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* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit 2'' has Buford T. Justice's stress-detecting watch which goes off several times throughout the movie in increasingly humorous contexts.
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* ''Film/BloodMachines'': Whenever the crew lands on a new planet or area with an atmosphere, Vascan spontaneously vomits due to the methanethiol in the air.

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