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* In the series 2 finale of ''Got Talent España'' (the Spanish version of ''Series/BritainsGotTalent'', [[CaptainObvious just in case you hadn't figured that out already]]), when seeing that the victory of dancer El Tekila (whom he had rejected on the first audition but went on thanks to the support of the other three judges) was close, judge Risto Mejide chose to leave the studio rather than watch the crowning of a winner he considered unworthy. It has to be noted that El Tekila's win was controversial anyway since he had been dismissed as a silly novelty act right out of the gate, and website Forocoches had announced it was planning a coordinate action to vote massively for El Tekila in order to troll Mejide and the show as a whole.
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** In another Season 6 example, after [[spoiler: Euron becomes King of the Iron Islands]], Theon and Yara gather up their supporters and flee with as much of the Iron Fleet as they can take with them.
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** Loras and Margaery leave the Stormlands after Renly is assassinated.
** Loras and Margaery leave the Stormlands after Renly is assassinated.
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* The panelists on ''Series/MatchGame'' would pull this after a contestant or another panelist would give answers of dubious merit or taste, but it was all part of the show's comedy.
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* The fifth Doctor pulls this at the end of "The Five Doctors" after Chancellor Flavia assigns him as the President of Gallifrey.
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* ''Series/WhiteRabbitProject'': Tory's ultimate response after the "crowdsourced GPS app" lead him through a frustrating drive through the back lanes of Los Angeles in the "GPS" legend of the "Invented Before Its Time?" episode was to forget about the experiment halfway through, hightail it and go AWOL with the supercar he was assigned.
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--->'''Jet Set''': Bitch! My name is Jet motha-fuckin Set! But you can call me Patrick Swayze cause guess what? I'm ghost. Give my goddamn cactus...Have a good day.
--->'''Jet Set''': Bitch! My name is Jet motha-fuckin Set! But you can call me Patrick Swayze cause guess what? I'm ghost. Give my goddamn cactus...Have a good day.
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* Defied in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke''. Once Matt and Shelby saw the supernatural horrors [[spoiler: on the film]] and realised that their house was a former murder house, they immediately tried to bail and sell the house. Unfortunately, they were sold the house under false pretences and in a contract they cannot back out of. The realtor wouldn't buy it back from them and couldn't without paying an absurd amount to the bank; unless they wish to incur a lifetime of debt and misery they'll never get away from.
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* In the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII MiniSeries ''[[Series/UnsereMuetterUnsereVaeter Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter]]'', Wilhelm attempts this, but he is arrested for treason and placed in a unit of would-be deserters who are forced to carry out the riskiest business of the [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Wehrmacht]].
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* ''Series/{{Fargo}}'': Two instances of this occur during the Sioux Falls Massacre in the 2nd season episode "The Castle". The first is from [[TheDragon Ricky G]], who upon realizing that they're ambushing [[spoiler: out-of-uniform South Dakota State Troopers]] instead of the Kansas City Mafia, decides to bail on the ambush and take off. The next instance occurs minutes later, when [[ScaryBlackMan Mike Milligan]] and [[TheDragon Gale Kitchen]] arrive to see the Massacre's bloody aftermath. With one look, they simply get back in their car and drive away before the authorities get there.
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* ''Series/OddSquad'': In "Night Shift", one of the Odd Squad's night shift challenges Olympia to a thumb-wrestling match for her papers, only to back out after realizing Olympia's better at thumb-wrestling than she.
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* ''Series/{{Preacher 2016}}'': In the Season 1 finale, after discovering that [[spoiler: [[HaveYouSeenMyGod God has abandoned Heaven]]]], Jesse up and abandons his flock, simply walking out of the church with Tulip and Cassidy and leaving town without a second glance.
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* In ''[[Series/Roots2016 Roots (2016)'', Kunta Kinte and Carlton desert the battlefield once they realize the British are [[CannonFodder sending slaves to die against heavily-armed American rebels]]. [[spoiler:This ultimately leads to Carlton being shot to death and Kunta Kinte losing half of his right foot]].
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* In ''[[Series/Roots2016 Roots (2016)'', (2016)]]'', Kunta Kinte and Carlton desert the battlefield once they realize the British are [[CannonFodder sending slaves to die against heavily-armed American rebels]]. [[spoiler:This ultimately leads to Carlton being shot to death and Kunta Kinte losing half of his right foot]].
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* In ''[[Series/Roots2016 Roots (2016)'', Kunta Kinte and Carlton desert the battlefield once they realize the British are [[CannonFodder sending slaves to die against heavily-armed American rebels]]. [[spoiler:This ultimately leads to Carlton being shot to death and Kunta Kinte losing half of his right foot]].
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** In another Season 6 example, after [[spoiler: Euron becomes King of the Iron Islands]], Theon and Yara gather up their supporters and flee with as much of the Iron Fleet as they can take with them.
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* In season 6, [[spoiler:the resurrected Jon Snow is ''done'' with the Night's Watch after all of the misery it's brought him (his own murder being the last straw). He leaves his Lord Commander's trappings with Edd, telling him he can burn it or wear it for all he cares, and leaves.]]
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** They did a literal version of this, in a skit that parodied the various ''Time Life'' infomercials, featuring family arguments. Each vignette features the family patriarch getting fed up with all the bickering and angrily declaring, "F*** this! I'm leaving!". One especially funny bit has him getting annoyed at all the ''happy'' chit-chat that's going on and promptly delivering the line.
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** They did a literal version of this, in a skit that parodied the various ''Time Life'' infomercials, featuring family arguments.arguments at Thanksgiving dinner. Each vignette features the family patriarch getting fed up with all the bickering and angrily declaring, "F*** this! I'm leaving!". One especially funny bit has him getting annoyed at all the ''happy'' chit-chat that's going on and promptly delivering the line.line.
** Several months later, a similar skit, only this featured couples arguing on Valentine's Day.
** Several months later, a similar skit, only this featured couples arguing on Valentine's Day.
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* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': "I don't have to take this. I'm going home." [[note]] Funny because what Urkel "doesn't have to take" is annoyed people telling him to "go home", meaning that [[RuleAbidingRebel he defies them by doing what they wanted him to do anyway]].
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* ''Series/DayBreak'': Subverted. The first thing Hopper does when he becomes aware of the temporal loop is not to fight the conspiracy that is trying to frame him but to take his loved ones and just run away from everything. It doesn't work, as he wakes up back at Rita's place when the daytime converges. He ''has'' to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.
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** Also pulled by the [[spoiler: Verger-Bloom family in the series finale after Hannibal escapes.]]
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* A raptor pilot in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' episode "The Hub" does this during battle. As he tries to jump out, a Raider shoots him. He does manage to perform a jump, but by the time his Raptor reaches the Fleet, he is already dead.
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** Stannis' army spends much of Season 5 dwindling as men flee the northern winter. [[spoiler: Fully half of what's left abandon Stannis after he sacrifices his daughter Shireen. Melissandre leaves him as well.]]
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': After being told his part in Angel's take-down-the-Black-Thorns plan, Lorne tells Angel that he would do it for the sake of their friendship, but after that, he was done and they would most likely never see him again.
* In ''Series/AuctionKings'', Paul asks his sports memorabilia expert to appraise a pallet of baseball cards. The expert flat out refuses.
* The episode "Alice Quits" of ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'' has two. First obviously, is Alice, who storms out in a rage, telling her superior in the company to 'eat a dick!'. Then later, after the new boss has altered the office extensively, and forced Jet Set to wash his hair gel out, Jet Set has had enough.
--->'''Travis''': Jessie, calm down.
--->'''Jet Set''': Bitch! My name is Jet motha-fuckin Set! But you can call me Patrick Swayze cause guess what? I'm ghost. Give my goddamn cactus...Have a good day.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': "I don't have to take this. I'm going home."
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In the Season 2 finale, Spike decides to bug out of Angelus' plan to destroy the world because he likes the world (because it has things like dog racing, Manchester United, and millions of people running around like Happy Meals for him). He quickly teams up with Buffy so he can grab his lover, Drusilla, and ditches out the second he has her. He comes back later.
** There's a hilarious instance of this trope in "Crush" (S5x14), when Spike and Buffy bust into a vampire lair. The vamps get up, get ready to fight, and say "Slayer!" Then they run away.
** Spike does it again in the fourth season, volunteering to help Xander get Buffy and Riley out of a haunted house, but realizes he doesn't like any of them and walks off.
** Then there was Angelus and Drusilla, two vampires working for the Judge, a demon who thought he was invincible because "no weapon forged" could kill him. He didn't take into account several centuries of improvement in weapon technology, however. When Buffy pointed a ''rocket launcher'' at him (which was not forged), he didn't even know what it was. However, Angelus and Drusilla certainly did, and ''they'' couldn't run the other way fast enough.
** Used again by him at the end of "Once More, With Feeling", when all of the Scoobies are sequence-dancing their "victory cheer" after Sweet's departure, Spike breaks off exclaiming "Bugger this!" and leaves.
** Anya also decides that leaving town is her best option before the big fight with the Mayor at the end of season 3.
** In "Faith, Hope and Trick", Mr. Trick watches his master Kakistos getting a beatdown from Buffy, knowing that Faith (the other slayer) is there and that Buffy has already taken down many of the henchmen. Before exiting, he says to a female vampire next to him that the Master "could get killed... Well, our prayers are with them. This is why these vengeance crusades are out of style. You see the modern vampire? We get the big picture."
** In the episode "Bad Girls", Faith does this after meeting Wesley.
--->'''Faith:''' New Watcher?\\
'''Buffy and Giles:''' New Watcher.\\
'''Faith:''' Screw that! ''(walks out)''\\
'''Buffy:''' Now why didn't I just say that?
** A newly turned schoolmate named Sheila in the third episode of the second season, "School Hard" wisely does this after seeing Buffy dust a fellow vampire and she turns her gaze to Sheila.
** One of the cold openings sees Buffy and Willow at a graveyard of a recently deceased student knowing from the way he was killed that it was from a vampire. The two get so distracted in their talk that they don't see him rise from the grave. He creeps toward them to attack them, but notices the stakes next to Buffy and deduces she's the slayer. He wisely decides to leave them be and sneaks away with Buffy and Willow unaware of the vampire the whole time.
** During the battle in Sunnydale during the Twilight crisis, Warren and Amy escape Spike's airship and run away. Amy considers going back to help and see if they can fake a HeelFaceTurn, but Warren shoots down the idea since he knew Willow would never allow them to join.
** Clem leaves Sunnydale along with most of its population as the power of the The First grows.
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', this is what Ted does after everyone is punching him all day because of his orange tie.
* This is what Face tries to do in the fifth season of ''Series/TheATeam''. He gets fed up with Stockwell continually using the team and eventually walks out. Twice. And ends up coming back both times. Because as much as he hates Stockwell, he just can't bring himself to leave the team.
* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716911/ "Yellow"]], a prominent general's son tries to do this during a war. Desertion is a death-by-firing-squad offense. Once he is caught, his father promises him he will load all of the firing squad's rifles with blanks and hide supplies so his son can get away, if his son "dies" bravely. The son agrees. The next morning, he is marched in front of the firing squad. He sees the supply cache in a small ditch. He gives brave last words and stands proudly. [[spoiler:But, when his father looks away, he knows he's going to die. He does.]]
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' John Crichton tends to do this on occasions when he's agreed to help [[MagnificentBastard Scorpius.]] It never works:
** Crichton surrenders to Scorpius in "Liars Guns And Money" and tolerates the situation up until one of his {{Happy Place}}s is invaded, whereupon he mutters "screw this," and walks away... only to get a knife to the back of his neck.
** "Into The Lion's Den" has him working for Scorpius to ensure the success of his wormhole project: a few hours later, Crichton attempts to back out, whereupon Scorpius hammers his head against a desk and [[ShameIfSomethingHappened threatens to destroy Earth.]]
** Finally, Crichton teams up with Scorpius to rescue Aeryn, only to abandon him on Katratzi in the getaway. Unfortunately, Scorpius was [[CrazyPrepared expecting something like this to happen sooner or later, and installed a failsafe to ensure that Crichton would return to rescue him.]]
** A minor and non-Scorpius-related variation occurs in "Jeremiah Crichton" when John decides he's had enough of life on Moya and runs off in his module. He is promptly left (though accidentally) and is understandably upset when they finally return for him, since he never intended to leave for real.
* Played with in ''Series/StargateSG1''. Jack and Teal'c are attempting to disable an Asgard ship infested with Replicators, and naturally gravitate to the main deck. Said deck is crawling with Replicators. Jack takes just one look and says, "Well, screw that!"
* Spencer on ''Series/ICarly'' trying to give a brotherly advice talk to Carly.
--> '''Spencer:''' Okay. There's two roads in front of you. Road A, and... the-the... one on the left. (Pauses, then runs out of the room).
* Rachel from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' is constantly storming out of glee club. Almost OncePerEpisode, really.
** Not to mention Finn in 'Sectionals'.
--> '''Finn''': Screw this. I'm done with you. I'm done with all of you! *kicks chair*
* A raptor pilot in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' episode "The Hub" does this during battle. As he tries to jump out, a Raider shoots him. He does manage to perform a jump, but by the time his Raptor reaches the Fleet, he is already dead.
** This is what Adama, Roslin and the whole Fleet did when they made the decision to run. The Colonies were being nuked to hell and what was left of the Fleet was fighting a losing battle by the time ''Galactica'' could even ''arm itself''. As all communication from the Colonies quieted, the surviving Colonials realised they were better off fleeing.
* In ''Series/{{Solitary}}'', this is the only way to lose. When you've had enough of a treatment, you push the red buzzer. If you're first, you go home. If you're not, then you stay. But of course, you have no idea if anyone else has quit, so you can be stuck doing a painful treatment for a long time until VAL says otherwise.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
** The MonsterOfTheWeek usually fights to the death... Usually. The Terror Toad was an early one in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' that [[NightmareFuel/PowerRangers tended to give viewers nightmares]]; he had swallowed every member of the team whole except Kimberly, who managed to plant an arrow in its gullet and make him cough up the others. At that point, he decided to make a run for it, but he didn't get far. In what was truly a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the Pink Ranger, she fired again, the arrow ''flying around the forest like a guided missile'' after the escaping Terror Toad, dodging around trees before striking him and blowing him to pieces.
** Master Vile does this near the end of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', being GenreSavvy enough to realize that his plans weren't going to go anywhere, and he'd be better off sticking to the galaxy where he always wins, instead of that one weird planet where good somehow triumphs. Notably, ''he was the BigBad at the time''.
** In ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', Prince Gasket tried to take over the Machine Empire when Mondo was believed to be dead, but unfortunately for him, Mondo was not. When he came back, Gasket fled rather than face his ''very angry'' father.
** In ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce,'' [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Toxica and Jindrax]], caught between two leaders who couldn't care less about sacrificing them as pawns and sought only personal gain instead of the good of the Org race, walk off into the sunset together just before the series' final battle. One of the series' arcs was about the Orgs' blind loyalty to any higher-ranked Org, and in the end, these two finally realized it wasn't worth it. (It may also be a case of ShooOutTheClowns, as the next episode was part one of the dead-serious season finale.)
** In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce,'' an underling, after getting utterly pummeled by the Rangers' MidSeasonUpgrade, ''tries'' to do this, but his boss [[YouHaveFailedMe is displeased]], and winds up absorbing him into his new mech to power it up.
* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "Mind Over Matter", a doctor hooks a comatose woman to a VR machine so they can communicate with her. He enters the VR world several times and they start getting intimate. One of his colleagues is disgusted, and protests the unethical nature of what he is doing. He refuses to listen, and she gets fed up and leaves, [[spoiler:and in doing so, escapes being involved in the bad ending.]]
* One ''Series/AttackOfTheShow'' sketch has a DumbBlonde TV host who can't pronounce "[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Cataclysm]]" ("Cuh-TACK-a-lism!"), and is handed a speech therapy computer program. After spending several minutes with her completely failing to catch on, the program says "to hell with this" and deletes itself.
* A plot arc in Season 5 of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' involves some characters trying to reunite everyone in order to get back to the island, but when everyone shows up and sees that Ben was involved, they change their minds and go home for a few episodes.
* Essentially the psychic paper's reaction to [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] claiming to be [[BlatantLies universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult]].
** As well as quite a few companions' decision to leave the group, although they usually wait until the fighting's died down. Tegan in particular was increasingly getting fed up with being hunted and captured and dragged around the universe and having to see people getting killed all the time, and ran off. Dodo left without even saying goodbye properly. Steven tried, but changed his mind five minutes later (after allowing the Doctor time to have a {{Soliloquy}} about how lonely he was).
** Rose's AU Dad pulls this on the whole dimension when a Dalek army appears.
** ''The whole of London'' pulls this off during [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]. After several Christmases with alien attacks and invasions, the city packs up and heads for the country until Christmas is over. Ironically, it wouldn't have done any good, as the bad guy of the episode was going to destroy the ''entire planet''.
* Pete Campbell attempted to do this at the end of the third season of ''Series/MadMen''. Only [[spoiler:Roger and Don recruiting him for the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce]] prevented it.
** Cooper does it as well in Season 4 when [[spoiler:Don's ad about SCDP no longer doing cigarette ads]] goes public.
* Vicki Lawrence did this on an episode of ''The $100,000 Series/{{Pyramid}}'' after a particularly rough round. She did it again [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DcZpO7vVo here]] on an episode of ''The $25,000 Pyramid'' after host Creator/DickClark and opponent Nipsey Russell made less than flattering comments on her outfit.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** When Ned refuses to back his [[spoiler:bid for the throne]], Renly gathers up his entourage and flees King's Landing.
** When [[BadassGrandpa Barristan Selmy]] is forcibly retired by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] and [[TheCaligula Joffrey]], he refuses to accept the estate and servants they offer him and walks out.
** During the Battle of Blackwater, the Hound has a FreakOut after seeing people burning alive (triggering his [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes phobia of fire]]) and flees both the battle and the city, despite his position as a member of the Kingsguard.
-->"[[ClusterFBomb Fuck the Kingsguard. Fuck the city.]] (''beat'') [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck the king.]]"
** When surrounded by Winterfell's army, Theon Greyjoy gives an awesome RousingSpeech... then his men knock him out and escape, leaving him to his fate.
-->'''Black Lorren''': Thought he'd never shut up.
-->'''Dagmer Cleftjaw''': It ''was'' a good speech. Didn't want to interrupt.
** In the Season 4 finale, [[spoiler:after Varys helps sneak Tyrion out of the capital and onto a ship heading for the Free Cities, he starts to head back, only to hear the bells announcing that Tywin's murder has been discovered. He promptly turns around and gets onto the ship himself, fleeing Westeros.]]
* In ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' episode "The Cameo Show" (The one that starts with Arsenio Hall ''dying'') technician Nigel finally cracks from all of the usual craziness;
-->'''Nigel:''' All right. That's it, I've had enough. There's nothing on stage, this happens ''[[OncePerEpisode every week]]''. I can't ''take this anymore! You hear what I'm saying? I can't take it anymore! I mean it this time! I'm quitting! I quit, I quit, I quit! Do you hear me? I said I quit! Good riddance and good bye, I quit!'' ''(Leaves)''
-->'''Zipity:''' ...Okay, I'll take over. Get ready to cue the Real World Muppets. And get me a double-chug with a zig-zag.
-->'''Nigel:''' ''(Comes back)'' Hey, what are you doing, this is my job.
* This happened twice on ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks'', although only the second one was broadcast. Lemmy from Music/{{Motorhead}} walked out on an early episode when they were filming retakes, and Preston from The Ordinary Boys walked out after Simon Amstell read extracts from then wife Chantelle's biography.
* Played for laughs on ''Series/RockProfile'', where Music/EltonJohn frequently says "Right, I'm leaving" during the interview.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', when Delenn shows up with a Minbari task force to protect the station in "Severed Dreams", [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she suggests the attackers be somewhere else]]. They quickly accept her advice.
** In "Rumors, Bargains, and Lies" we find out that President Clark's entire cabinet resigned in protest of his bombing of civilian targets.
* Of all people, you'd never think Captain Picard from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' would do this, but... After questioning a planet's treatment of the super-soldiers they'd created when the war ended, he was told by government leaders to butt out, since it wasn't his problem and the PrimeDirective forbade him from interfering. At the end of the episode, he's in the middle of an armed standoff between said government leaders and the soldiers. When the leaders ask him to do something, he [[IronicEcho cheerfully invokes the Prime Directive]] since it forbade him from interfering, and it wasn't ''his'' problem. He transports out and leaves them to settle their dispute. One way or the other.
** In "The Drumhead", when retired Admiral Norah Satie suspected that a single Romulan spy on board the Enterprise was a sign of a much larger conspiracy, she went so far as to call Picard to the stand to accuse him of treason. When Picard quoted her father, a renowned Starfleet judge, to condemn her witch-hunt, Satie flew into a rage, shouting "I've broken better men than you, Picard!" Admiral Henry, whom Satie had invited to observe the proceedings, quietly exited the courtroom in disgust, and the investigation (and likely Satie's career) promptly ended.
* In the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII MiniSeries ''[[Series/UnsereMuetterUnsereVaeter Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter]]'', Wilhelm attempts this, but he is arrested for treason and placed in a unit of would-be deserters who are forced to carry out the riskiest business of the [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Wehrmacht]].
* In the first season of ''Series/IceRoadTruckers'', [[spoiler: Drew and Rick]], plagued by mechanical problems and an unsympathetic boss, bow out mid-season.
* Gordon Ramsay pulled this off in the "Amy's Baking Company" episode of ''Series/KitchenNightmares''. Between being insulted by owners Amy and Samy, watching as said owners blasted both customers and employees, Amy becoming a major DramaQueen, ''[[DisproportionateRetribution firing a waitress for making sure the order was going to the right customer]]'', stealing people's tips (which is '''blatantly illegal'''), and Gordon learning from two former employees how horribly they were treated (one had her waitress duties cut back so far -- she was literally reduced to just serving water -- that she literally begged to be put into the kitchen, and another had to wash Samy's car midway through a dinner service), that Ramsay realized they were beyond hope and walked out. Incidentally, Ramsay was quite upset about it, mostly because he wanted to help and there was no way to break through their SmallNameBigEgo.
** And just for good measure, the show took a second look at the company the following season. Ramsey opted not to come along, and it was for the best. ''They're still as misanthropic as ever.''
* In ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', when Alex laments his streak of troubled relationships:
-->'''Alex:''' I get crazy, I get cancer, and now I got a psychopathic maniac! Screw it, I give up, I'm walking away.
* This was more or less the CatchPhrase of Doug, one of Michael Showalter's characters on the Creator/{{MTV}} SketchComedy series ''Series/TheState''. Doug would repeat it whenever he got exasperated with his father, meaning at the end of ''every. Flipping. Sentence.''
-->'''Doug:''' Forget it, I'm outta here...
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** They did a literal version of this, in a skit that parodied the various ''Time Life'' infomercials, featuring family arguments. Each vignette features the family patriarch getting fed up with all the bickering and angrily declaring, "F*** this! I'm leaving!". One especially funny bit has him getting annoyed at all the ''happy'' chit-chat that's going on and promptly delivering the line.
** Ashlee Simpson's infamous performance where she was caught lip-synching. She tried covering it up by doing a jig before walking off the set.
* In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', [[spoiler:Bedelia Du Maurier]] does this just in time, as [[spoiler:Hannibal breaks into her house to murder her only to find it empty.]]
* One episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has Worf declaring an early one after learning Keiko O'Brien, whom he helped deliver her first child on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', refusing to go through round 2 when it happens.
* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Vorenus decided to desert the 13th Legion after he helped Caesar [[spoiler:march on Rome]]. Of course, Vorenus had always seen Caesar's actions as illegal and only went along with his orders because he was doing his duty.
-->'''Vorenus''': I'm a traitor and a rebel, why not a deserter also?
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
** "T.A.H.I.T.I." reveals that since Coulson's [[DangerTakesABackseat little visit]] in "The Magical Place", Dr. Streiten has gone into hiding.
** In "Providence", Coulson immediately realizes that [[InspectorJavert Colonel Talbot]]'s "peacekeeping" forces are actually on their way to [[spoiler:shut down S.H.I.E.L.D. and arrest or kill them all]], so orders an evacuation of the Hub.
** In "Ragtag", Coulson sneaks aboard the hijacked Bus to rescue Skye and retake the plane from [[spoiler: [[TheMole Ward]]]]... but the second he finds out that [[TheBrute Deathlok]] is onboard, he [[TheDreaded decides to cut losses]], simply grabbing Skye and jumping out in [[FlyingCar Lola]].
** In the Season 1 finale, "Beginning of the End", when Team Coulson [[StormingTheCastle attacks the Cybertek facilities]], both [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ian Quinn]] and [[TheHeavy Raina]] pack up their respective research and get the hell out of there. Though Quinn at least was also motivated by the fact that [[spoiler:[[BigBad Garrett]]]] had by this point clearly [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity been driven into the deep end by his new powers]].
** In the Season 2 premiere, "Shadows", the mission to the military holding facility goes to Hell when [[Creator/LucyLawless Isabelle]] grabs the [[ArtifactOfDoom Obelisk]] only for it to start killing her. Her team proceeds to abandon the rest of the mission and drags her out of there.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], Lily decides to leave the other Special Children and "get the hell out of Dodge". [[spoiler: She gets killed by a demon the second she exits the town limits.]]
* In ''Series/TheWire'' season 5, episode 3. [[spoiler:[=McNulty=] and Freamon decide to connect a string of unrelated deaths to convince the police department a serial killer is at large in Baltimore. Horrified at their plan,]] Bunk leaves the room, saying "I'm out. I'm outta here!"
* ''Series/BarRescue'': The O'Face bar acts as Jon Taffer's equivalent of ''Kitchen Nightmares'' "Amy's Baking Company". [[CordonBleughChef Bad food and drink]]? Check. [[IRejectYourReality Owners completely in denial about their problems]]? Check. [[NeverMyFault Laying the blame of the problems caused by them]] on the [[OnlySaneEmployee Only Sane Employees]] and firing them? Check. ReasonYouSuckSpeech from the show's host? Check. Walk out without rescuing the location? Oh yea.
* ''Series/HungryInvestors'': Taffer manages to one up Ramsay, by not only walking out on yet another location, but doing so during the first initial meeting with the owner of Elements, during the episode Diva Las Vegas. He makes it clear throughout the rest of the episode to the other two investors, John Besh and Tiffany Derry, that he is NOT going to invest in Elements, and then walks out on the investment discussion meeting with Besh and Tiffany when Besh expresses interest in trying to give Elements one more shot.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Emohawk: Polymorph II", in exchange for parts for ''Starbug'', Lister must marry one of the GELF's daughters. Initially intending to flee into the night while the GELF bride is asleep, it turns out that the GELF bride wants to consumate their marriage that night... and won't take no for an answer.
-->"Just gotta slip into something a little bit more comfortable. It's called ''Starbug''."
-->''(As the rest of the crew head back to the shuttle, Lister runs to them.)''
-->"CHANGE OF PLAN! LEG IT!"
-->''(They follow suit)''
* In ''Series/AreYouBeingServed,'' this is the reaction to the "second part of the prize" of the Holiday Girl contest in "Front Page Story."
* In a ColdOpen of ''Series/TheMillers'', Nathan, at a particularly awkward dinner with his mother, sister and brother-in-law, gets up, walks to the door and says, "Let's see what's behind Door Number One. Why, it's an exit! I win!" and leaves.
* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' host Pat Sajak has pretended to pull this a few times when a contestant made a funny remark. Examples include:
** February 2001: Pat asks a Hawaiian contestant, "What was that noise you made earlier?", prompting the contestant to look behind himself curiously as Pat shouts "Good night, everybody" and pretends to walk offstage
** January 2011: A contestant loses the BonusRound and, before Pat can reveal what prize he lost, the contestant blurts out [[AccidentalInnuendo "show me something small"]]. [[spoiler:The contestant takes the envelope after Pat drops it, and reveals that he lost $100,000.]]
** November 2014: one team thought the answer to the puzzle was RIDING A BROWN HORSE, and the next thought it was RIDING A WHITE HORSE early in the round; Pat pretended to walk off-set and shouted, "Who said anything about a horse?!" (the actual answer was [[spoiler:SEEING A BUDDY MOVIE]]).
* On the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode, 'The General Flipped At Dawn', when General Bartford Hamilton Steele The Third finally loses it entirely at Hawkeye's preliminary court-martial hearing (by dancing off to the tune of 'Mississippi Mud'), the presiding legal affairs officer waits a moment, then wordlessly zips up his valise and gets up to walk out.
* One episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' had a contestant scared out of his wits by a [[MookBouncer Temple Guard]], that he ran right ''out'' of the temple!
* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': There's a sketch where an escaped convict invades a home party, only for the residents to creatively interpret his 'demands' (he hadn't even made any yet) as forcing them all to have sex with each other. The confused home invader vehemently protests this, but eventually becomes so disgusted by their antics that he runs off. They decide to keep going anyway just in case he comes back.
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* In ''Series/AuctionKings'', Paul asks his sports memorabilia expert to appraise a pallet of baseball cards. The expert flat out refuses.
* The episode "Alice Quits" of ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'' has two. First obviously, is Alice, who storms out in a rage, telling her superior in the company to 'eat a dick!'. Then later, after the new boss has altered the office extensively, and forced Jet Set to wash his hair gel out, Jet Set has had enough.
--->'''Travis''': Jessie, calm down.
--->'''Jet Set''': Bitch! My name is Jet motha-fuckin Set! But you can call me Patrick Swayze cause guess what? I'm ghost. Give my goddamn cactus...Have a good day.
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'': "I don't have to take this. I'm going home."
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** In the Season 2 finale, Spike decides to bug out of Angelus' plan to destroy the world because he likes the world (because it has things like dog racing, Manchester United, and millions of people running around like Happy Meals for him). He quickly teams up with Buffy so he can grab his lover, Drusilla, and ditches out the second he has her. He comes back later.
** There's a hilarious instance of this trope in "Crush" (S5x14), when Spike and Buffy bust into a vampire lair. The vamps get up, get ready to fight, and say "Slayer!" Then they run away.
** Spike does it again in the fourth season, volunteering to help Xander get Buffy and Riley out of a haunted house, but realizes he doesn't like any of them and walks off.
** Then there was Angelus and Drusilla, two vampires working for the Judge, a demon who thought he was invincible because "no weapon forged" could kill him. He didn't take into account several centuries of improvement in weapon technology, however. When Buffy pointed a ''rocket launcher'' at him (which was not forged), he didn't even know what it was. However, Angelus and Drusilla certainly did, and ''they'' couldn't run the other way fast enough.
** Used again by him at the end of "Once More, With Feeling", when all of the Scoobies are sequence-dancing their "victory cheer" after Sweet's departure, Spike breaks off exclaiming "Bugger this!" and leaves.
** Anya also decides that leaving town is her best option before the big fight with the Mayor at the end of season 3.
** In "Faith, Hope and Trick", Mr. Trick watches his master Kakistos getting a beatdown from Buffy, knowing that Faith (the other slayer) is there and that Buffy has already taken down many of the henchmen. Before exiting, he says to a female vampire next to him that the Master "could get killed... Well, our prayers are with them. This is why these vengeance crusades are out of style. You see the modern vampire? We get the big picture."
** In the episode "Bad Girls", Faith does this after meeting Wesley.
--->'''Faith:''' New Watcher?\\
'''Buffy and Giles:''' New Watcher.\\
'''Faith:''' Screw that! ''(walks out)''\\
'''Buffy:''' Now why didn't I just say that?
** A newly turned schoolmate named Sheila in the third episode of the second season, "School Hard" wisely does this after seeing Buffy dust a fellow vampire and she turns her gaze to Sheila.
** One of the cold openings sees Buffy and Willow at a graveyard of a recently deceased student knowing from the way he was killed that it was from a vampire. The two get so distracted in their talk that they don't see him rise from the grave. He creeps toward them to attack them, but notices the stakes next to Buffy and deduces she's the slayer. He wisely decides to leave them be and sneaks away with Buffy and Willow unaware of the vampire the whole time.
** During the battle in Sunnydale during the Twilight crisis, Warren and Amy escape Spike's airship and run away. Amy considers going back to help and see if they can fake a HeelFaceTurn, but Warren shoots down the idea since he knew Willow would never allow them to join.
** Clem leaves Sunnydale along with most of its population as the power of the The First grows.
* In ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', this is what Ted does after everyone is punching him all day because of his orange tie.
* This is what Face tries to do in the fifth season of ''Series/TheATeam''. He gets fed up with Stockwell continually using the team and eventually walks out. Twice. And ends up coming back both times. Because as much as he hates Stockwell, he just can't bring himself to leave the team.
* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716911/ "Yellow"]], a prominent general's son tries to do this during a war. Desertion is a death-by-firing-squad offense. Once he is caught, his father promises him he will load all of the firing squad's rifles with blanks and hide supplies so his son can get away, if his son "dies" bravely. The son agrees. The next morning, he is marched in front of the firing squad. He sees the supply cache in a small ditch. He gives brave last words and stands proudly. [[spoiler:But, when his father looks away, he knows he's going to die. He does.]]
* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' John Crichton tends to do this on occasions when he's agreed to help [[MagnificentBastard Scorpius.]] It never works:
** Crichton surrenders to Scorpius in "Liars Guns And Money" and tolerates the situation up until one of his {{Happy Place}}s is invaded, whereupon he mutters "screw this," and walks away... only to get a knife to the back of his neck.
** "Into The Lion's Den" has him working for Scorpius to ensure the success of his wormhole project: a few hours later, Crichton attempts to back out, whereupon Scorpius hammers his head against a desk and [[ShameIfSomethingHappened threatens to destroy Earth.]]
** Finally, Crichton teams up with Scorpius to rescue Aeryn, only to abandon him on Katratzi in the getaway. Unfortunately, Scorpius was [[CrazyPrepared expecting something like this to happen sooner or later, and installed a failsafe to ensure that Crichton would return to rescue him.]]
** A minor and non-Scorpius-related variation occurs in "Jeremiah Crichton" when John decides he's had enough of life on Moya and runs off in his module. He is promptly left (though accidentally) and is understandably upset when they finally return for him, since he never intended to leave for real.
* Played with in ''Series/StargateSG1''. Jack and Teal'c are attempting to disable an Asgard ship infested with Replicators, and naturally gravitate to the main deck. Said deck is crawling with Replicators. Jack takes just one look and says, "Well, screw that!"
* Spencer on ''Series/ICarly'' trying to give a brotherly advice talk to Carly.
--> '''Spencer:''' Okay. There's two roads in front of you. Road A, and... the-the... one on the left. (Pauses, then runs out of the room).
* Rachel from ''Series/{{Glee}}'' is constantly storming out of glee club. Almost OncePerEpisode, really.
** Not to mention Finn in 'Sectionals'.
--> '''Finn''': Screw this. I'm done with you. I'm done with all of you! *kicks chair*
* A raptor pilot in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' episode "The Hub" does this during battle. As he tries to jump out, a Raider shoots him. He does manage to perform a jump, but by the time his Raptor reaches the Fleet, he is already dead.
** This is what Adama, Roslin and the whole Fleet did when they made the decision to run. The Colonies were being nuked to hell and what was left of the Fleet was fighting a losing battle by the time ''Galactica'' could even ''arm itself''. As all communication from the Colonies quieted, the surviving Colonials realised they were better off fleeing.
* In ''Series/{{Solitary}}'', this is the only way to lose. When you've had enough of a treatment, you push the red buzzer. If you're first, you go home. If you're not, then you stay. But of course, you have no idea if anyone else has quit, so you can be stuck doing a painful treatment for a long time until VAL says otherwise.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
** The MonsterOfTheWeek usually fights to the death... Usually. The Terror Toad was an early one in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' that [[NightmareFuel/PowerRangers tended to give viewers nightmares]]; he had swallowed every member of the team whole except Kimberly, who managed to plant an arrow in its gullet and make him cough up the others. At that point, he decided to make a run for it, but he didn't get far. In what was truly a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the Pink Ranger, she fired again, the arrow ''flying around the forest like a guided missile'' after the escaping Terror Toad, dodging around trees before striking him and blowing him to pieces.
** Master Vile does this near the end of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', being GenreSavvy enough to realize that his plans weren't going to go anywhere, and he'd be better off sticking to the galaxy where he always wins, instead of that one weird planet where good somehow triumphs. Notably, ''he was the BigBad at the time''.
** In ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', Prince Gasket tried to take over the Machine Empire when Mondo was believed to be dead, but unfortunately for him, Mondo was not. When he came back, Gasket fled rather than face his ''very angry'' father.
** In ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce,'' [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Toxica and Jindrax]], caught between two leaders who couldn't care less about sacrificing them as pawns and sought only personal gain instead of the good of the Org race, walk off into the sunset together just before the series' final battle. One of the series' arcs was about the Orgs' blind loyalty to any higher-ranked Org, and in the end, these two finally realized it wasn't worth it. (It may also be a case of ShooOutTheClowns, as the next episode was part one of the dead-serious season finale.)
** In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce,'' an underling, after getting utterly pummeled by the Rangers' MidSeasonUpgrade, ''tries'' to do this, but his boss [[YouHaveFailedMe is displeased]], and winds up absorbing him into his new mech to power it up.
* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "Mind Over Matter", a doctor hooks a comatose woman to a VR machine so they can communicate with her. He enters the VR world several times and they start getting intimate. One of his colleagues is disgusted, and protests the unethical nature of what he is doing. He refuses to listen, and she gets fed up and leaves, [[spoiler:and in doing so, escapes being involved in the bad ending.]]
* One ''Series/AttackOfTheShow'' sketch has a DumbBlonde TV host who can't pronounce "[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Cataclysm]]" ("Cuh-TACK-a-lism!"), and is handed a speech therapy computer program. After spending several minutes with her completely failing to catch on, the program says "to hell with this" and deletes itself.
* A plot arc in Season 5 of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' involves some characters trying to reunite everyone in order to get back to the island, but when everyone shows up and sees that Ben was involved, they change their minds and go home for a few episodes.
* Essentially the psychic paper's reaction to [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] claiming to be [[BlatantLies universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult]].
** As well as quite a few companions' decision to leave the group, although they usually wait until the fighting's died down. Tegan in particular was increasingly getting fed up with being hunted and captured and dragged around the universe and having to see people getting killed all the time, and ran off. Dodo left without even saying goodbye properly. Steven tried, but changed his mind five minutes later (after allowing the Doctor time to have a {{Soliloquy}} about how lonely he was).
** Rose's AU Dad pulls this on the whole dimension when a Dalek army appears.
** ''The whole of London'' pulls this off during [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]. After several Christmases with alien attacks and invasions, the city packs up and heads for the country until Christmas is over. Ironically, it wouldn't have done any good, as the bad guy of the episode was going to destroy the ''entire planet''.
* Pete Campbell attempted to do this at the end of the third season of ''Series/MadMen''. Only [[spoiler:Roger and Don recruiting him for the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce]] prevented it.
** Cooper does it as well in Season 4 when [[spoiler:Don's ad about SCDP no longer doing cigarette ads]] goes public.
* Vicki Lawrence did this on an episode of ''The $100,000 Series/{{Pyramid}}'' after a particularly rough round. She did it again [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9DcZpO7vVo here]] on an episode of ''The $25,000 Pyramid'' after host Creator/DickClark and opponent Nipsey Russell made less than flattering comments on her outfit.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** When Ned refuses to back his [[spoiler:bid for the throne]], Renly gathers up his entourage and flees King's Landing.
** When [[BadassGrandpa Barristan Selmy]] is forcibly retired by [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] and [[TheCaligula Joffrey]], he refuses to accept the estate and servants they offer him and walks out.
** During the Battle of Blackwater, the Hound has a FreakOut after seeing people burning alive (triggering his [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes phobia of fire]]) and flees both the battle and the city, despite his position as a member of the Kingsguard.
-->"[[ClusterFBomb Fuck the Kingsguard. Fuck the city.]] (''beat'') [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck the king.]]"
** When surrounded by Winterfell's army, Theon Greyjoy gives an awesome RousingSpeech... then his men knock him out and escape, leaving him to his fate.
-->'''Black Lorren''': Thought he'd never shut up.
-->'''Dagmer Cleftjaw''': It ''was'' a good speech. Didn't want to interrupt.
** In the Season 4 finale, [[spoiler:after Varys helps sneak Tyrion out of the capital and onto a ship heading for the Free Cities, he starts to head back, only to hear the bells announcing that Tywin's murder has been discovered. He promptly turns around and gets onto the ship himself, fleeing Westeros.]]
* In ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' episode "The Cameo Show" (The one that starts with Arsenio Hall ''dying'') technician Nigel finally cracks from all of the usual craziness;
-->'''Nigel:''' All right. That's it, I've had enough. There's nothing on stage, this happens ''[[OncePerEpisode every week]]''. I can't ''take this anymore! You hear what I'm saying? I can't take it anymore! I mean it this time! I'm quitting! I quit, I quit, I quit! Do you hear me? I said I quit! Good riddance and good bye, I quit!'' ''(Leaves)''
-->'''Zipity:''' ...Okay, I'll take over. Get ready to cue the Real World Muppets. And get me a double-chug with a zig-zag.
-->'''Nigel:''' ''(Comes back)'' Hey, what are you doing, this is my job.
* This happened twice on ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks'', although only the second one was broadcast. Lemmy from Music/{{Motorhead}} walked out on an early episode when they were filming retakes, and Preston from The Ordinary Boys walked out after Simon Amstell read extracts from then wife Chantelle's biography.
* Played for laughs on ''Series/RockProfile'', where Music/EltonJohn frequently says "Right, I'm leaving" during the interview.
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', when Delenn shows up with a Minbari task force to protect the station in "Severed Dreams", [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she suggests the attackers be somewhere else]]. They quickly accept her advice.
** In "Rumors, Bargains, and Lies" we find out that President Clark's entire cabinet resigned in protest of his bombing of civilian targets.
* Of all people, you'd never think Captain Picard from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' would do this, but... After questioning a planet's treatment of the super-soldiers they'd created when the war ended, he was told by government leaders to butt out, since it wasn't his problem and the PrimeDirective forbade him from interfering. At the end of the episode, he's in the middle of an armed standoff between said government leaders and the soldiers. When the leaders ask him to do something, he [[IronicEcho cheerfully invokes the Prime Directive]] since it forbade him from interfering, and it wasn't ''his'' problem. He transports out and leaves them to settle their dispute. One way or the other.
** In "The Drumhead", when retired Admiral Norah Satie suspected that a single Romulan spy on board the Enterprise was a sign of a much larger conspiracy, she went so far as to call Picard to the stand to accuse him of treason. When Picard quoted her father, a renowned Starfleet judge, to condemn her witch-hunt, Satie flew into a rage, shouting "I've broken better men than you, Picard!" Admiral Henry, whom Satie had invited to observe the proceedings, quietly exited the courtroom in disgust, and the investigation (and likely Satie's career) promptly ended.
* In the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII MiniSeries ''[[Series/UnsereMuetterUnsereVaeter Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter]]'', Wilhelm attempts this, but he is arrested for treason and placed in a unit of would-be deserters who are forced to carry out the riskiest business of the [[NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Wehrmacht]].
* In the first season of ''Series/IceRoadTruckers'', [[spoiler: Drew and Rick]], plagued by mechanical problems and an unsympathetic boss, bow out mid-season.
* Gordon Ramsay pulled this off in the "Amy's Baking Company" episode of ''Series/KitchenNightmares''. Between being insulted by owners Amy and Samy, watching as said owners blasted both customers and employees, Amy becoming a major DramaQueen, ''[[DisproportionateRetribution firing a waitress for making sure the order was going to the right customer]]'', stealing people's tips (which is '''blatantly illegal'''), and Gordon learning from two former employees how horribly they were treated (one had her waitress duties cut back so far -- she was literally reduced to just serving water -- that she literally begged to be put into the kitchen, and another had to wash Samy's car midway through a dinner service), that Ramsay realized they were beyond hope and walked out. Incidentally, Ramsay was quite upset about it, mostly because he wanted to help and there was no way to break through their SmallNameBigEgo.
** And just for good measure, the show took a second look at the company the following season. Ramsey opted not to come along, and it was for the best. ''They're still as misanthropic as ever.''
* In ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', when Alex laments his streak of troubled relationships:
-->'''Alex:''' I get crazy, I get cancer, and now I got a psychopathic maniac! Screw it, I give up, I'm walking away.
* This was more or less the CatchPhrase of Doug, one of Michael Showalter's characters on the Creator/{{MTV}} SketchComedy series ''Series/TheState''. Doug would repeat it whenever he got exasperated with his father, meaning at the end of ''every. Flipping. Sentence.''
-->'''Doug:''' Forget it, I'm outta here...
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** They did a literal version of this, in a skit that parodied the various ''Time Life'' infomercials, featuring family arguments. Each vignette features the family patriarch getting fed up with all the bickering and angrily declaring, "F*** this! I'm leaving!". One especially funny bit has him getting annoyed at all the ''happy'' chit-chat that's going on and promptly delivering the line.
** Ashlee Simpson's infamous performance where she was caught lip-synching. She tried covering it up by doing a jig before walking off the set.
* In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'', [[spoiler:Bedelia Du Maurier]] does this just in time, as [[spoiler:Hannibal breaks into her house to murder her only to find it empty.]]
* One episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has Worf declaring an early one after learning Keiko O'Brien, whom he helped deliver her first child on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', refusing to go through round 2 when it happens.
* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'', Vorenus decided to desert the 13th Legion after he helped Caesar [[spoiler:march on Rome]]. Of course, Vorenus had always seen Caesar's actions as illegal and only went along with his orders because he was doing his duty.
-->'''Vorenus''': I'm a traitor and a rebel, why not a deserter also?
* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'':
** "T.A.H.I.T.I." reveals that since Coulson's [[DangerTakesABackseat little visit]] in "The Magical Place", Dr. Streiten has gone into hiding.
** In "Providence", Coulson immediately realizes that [[InspectorJavert Colonel Talbot]]'s "peacekeeping" forces are actually on their way to [[spoiler:shut down S.H.I.E.L.D. and arrest or kill them all]], so orders an evacuation of the Hub.
** In "Ragtag", Coulson sneaks aboard the hijacked Bus to rescue Skye and retake the plane from [[spoiler: [[TheMole Ward]]]]... but the second he finds out that [[TheBrute Deathlok]] is onboard, he [[TheDreaded decides to cut losses]], simply grabbing Skye and jumping out in [[FlyingCar Lola]].
** In the Season 1 finale, "Beginning of the End", when Team Coulson [[StormingTheCastle attacks the Cybertek facilities]], both [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ian Quinn]] and [[TheHeavy Raina]] pack up their respective research and get the hell out of there. Though Quinn at least was also motivated by the fact that [[spoiler:[[BigBad Garrett]]]] had by this point clearly [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity been driven into the deep end by his new powers]].
** In the Season 2 premiere, "Shadows", the mission to the military holding facility goes to Hell when [[Creator/LucyLawless Isabelle]] grabs the [[ArtifactOfDoom Obelisk]] only for it to start killing her. Her team proceeds to abandon the rest of the mission and drags her out of there.
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One" (S02, Ep21)]], Lily decides to leave the other Special Children and "get the hell out of Dodge". [[spoiler: She gets killed by a demon the second she exits the town limits.]]
* In ''Series/TheWire'' season 5, episode 3. [[spoiler:[=McNulty=] and Freamon decide to connect a string of unrelated deaths to convince the police department a serial killer is at large in Baltimore. Horrified at their plan,]] Bunk leaves the room, saying "I'm out. I'm outta here!"
* ''Series/BarRescue'': The O'Face bar acts as Jon Taffer's equivalent of ''Kitchen Nightmares'' "Amy's Baking Company". [[CordonBleughChef Bad food and drink]]? Check. [[IRejectYourReality Owners completely in denial about their problems]]? Check. [[NeverMyFault Laying the blame of the problems caused by them]] on the [[OnlySaneEmployee Only Sane Employees]] and firing them? Check. ReasonYouSuckSpeech from the show's host? Check. Walk out without rescuing the location? Oh yea.
* ''Series/HungryInvestors'': Taffer manages to one up Ramsay, by not only walking out on yet another location, but doing so during the first initial meeting with the owner of Elements, during the episode Diva Las Vegas. He makes it clear throughout the rest of the episode to the other two investors, John Besh and Tiffany Derry, that he is NOT going to invest in Elements, and then walks out on the investment discussion meeting with Besh and Tiffany when Besh expresses interest in trying to give Elements one more shot.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Emohawk: Polymorph II", in exchange for parts for ''Starbug'', Lister must marry one of the GELF's daughters. Initially intending to flee into the night while the GELF bride is asleep, it turns out that the GELF bride wants to consumate their marriage that night... and won't take no for an answer.
-->"Just gotta slip into something a little bit more comfortable. It's called ''Starbug''."
-->''(As the rest of the crew head back to the shuttle, Lister runs to them.)''
-->"CHANGE OF PLAN! LEG IT!"
-->''(They follow suit)''
* In ''Series/AreYouBeingServed,'' this is the reaction to the "second part of the prize" of the Holiday Girl contest in "Front Page Story."
* In a ColdOpen of ''Series/TheMillers'', Nathan, at a particularly awkward dinner with his mother, sister and brother-in-law, gets up, walks to the door and says, "Let's see what's behind Door Number One. Why, it's an exit! I win!" and leaves.
* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' host Pat Sajak has pretended to pull this a few times when a contestant made a funny remark. Examples include:
** February 2001: Pat asks a Hawaiian contestant, "What was that noise you made earlier?", prompting the contestant to look behind himself curiously as Pat shouts "Good night, everybody" and pretends to walk offstage
** January 2011: A contestant loses the BonusRound and, before Pat can reveal what prize he lost, the contestant blurts out [[AccidentalInnuendo "show me something small"]]. [[spoiler:The contestant takes the envelope after Pat drops it, and reveals that he lost $100,000.]]
** November 2014: one team thought the answer to the puzzle was RIDING A BROWN HORSE, and the next thought it was RIDING A WHITE HORSE early in the round; Pat pretended to walk off-set and shouted, "Who said anything about a horse?!" (the actual answer was [[spoiler:SEEING A BUDDY MOVIE]]).
* On the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode, 'The General Flipped At Dawn', when General Bartford Hamilton Steele The Third finally loses it entirely at Hawkeye's preliminary court-martial hearing (by dancing off to the tune of 'Mississippi Mud'), the presiding legal affairs officer waits a moment, then wordlessly zips up his valise and gets up to walk out.
* One episode of ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' had a contestant scared out of his wits by a [[MookBouncer Temple Guard]], that he ran right ''out'' of the temple!
* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': There's a sketch where an escaped convict invades a home party, only for the residents to creatively interpret his 'demands' (he hadn't even made any yet) as forcing them all to have sex with each other. The confused home invader vehemently protests this, but eventually becomes so disgusted by their antics that he runs off. They decide to keep going anyway just in case he comes back.
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