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| 7 | ->''Southern Nigeria isn't my favorite place in the world. It's unstable, it's corrupt, and the people there eat a lot of terrible-smelling preserved fish.'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''Michael Westen''', ''Series/BurnNotice'' |
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| 10 | ArsonMurderAndJaywalking in [[{{Series}} Live-Action TV]]. |
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| 12 | * A number of shows have used this joke where someone will list the crimes and/or atrocities they've committed, and the last one is (to this extent) retransmitting a televised sporting event without expressed written consent of the sports league (opting instead for implied oral consent) -- a TakeThat on the warning ''every single'' major sports league gives during their game broadcast. |
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| 14 | * ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': Dick tells a psychiatrist his problems: "I don't belong on this planet, I'm an alien from another galaxy, the warranty on my brain just expired, and I'm scared to get married!" |
| 15 | * ''Series/AccordingToJim'': In the Halloween Episode, Jim's three children (Ruby, Gracie, and Kyle) pick up their own Halloween costumes. Ruby goes as a cowgirl, Gracie is Art/LadyLiberty, and Kyle dresses as... Cinderella. |
| 16 | * ''Series/TheAdventuresOfLanoAndWoodley'': |
| 17 | ** The DVD release featured introductions to each episode. One had this gem: |
| 18 | --->'''Frank:''' The following episode "Mother" has all the classic ingredients of a political thriller: a conniving politician, ruthless manipulation of the media, a lobster with a vendetta. |
| 19 | ** For the record, the episode did in fact have all of those. |
| 20 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': |
| 21 | ** In one episode, the team encounters an Asgardian living on Earth and posing as a college professor. Upon learning this, Skye comments: |
| 22 | --->'''Skye:''' This guy has lived through all the scary stuff; the crusades, the black death, disco.... |
| 23 | ** Cal's PsychoSerum includes anabolic-androgenic steroids, a liver enzyme blocker, various metabolic enhancers, methamphetamines, gorilla testosterone, and ''peppermint''. |
| 24 | ** Coulson wondering what was in "The World's Most Conspicuous Briefcase" -- "Could be anything: nuclear launch codes, hush money, girl scout cookies..." |
| 25 | ** The whole team having returned from a BadFuture, now crammed in a van and on their way to investigate an alien light they learned in the future was step one of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, all begin listing off all the previous horrible things they've had to handle with May saying "dancing" with more revulsion than anyone else: |
| 26 | --->'''May:''' Hey, it could be worse.\ |
| 27 | '''Simmons:''' True. We could be enslaved by an alien sociopath in a dystopian future.\ |
| 28 | '''Mack:''' Or we could be trapped inside a virtual reality fascist state.\ |
| 29 | '''Fitz:''' Or stuck at the bottom of the ocean\ |
| 30 | '''Yo Yo:''' Or stopping a crazy robot lady\ |
| 31 | '''Simmons:''' Or falling out of a plane\ |
| 32 | '''Mack:''' Or fighting Daisy's mom.\ |
| 33 | '''Coulson:''' Or fighting Daisy's dad.\ |
| 34 | '''May:''' [[TheComicallySerious Or]] ''[[TheComicallySerious dancing]]''. |
| 35 | * ''Series/AllThat'': |
| 36 | ** In a ColdOpen, the various cast members had ordered food from somewhere called Rogan's, who royally screwed their orders, including spaghetti with golf balls and a human foot. Kenan complained, even though the only change to his order was getting brown mustard instead of yellow mustard. |
| 37 | ** Superdude always lists his various powers as well as his personal attributes. |
| 38 | --->"Of course I can fly! Faster than the speed of light. I can also swim mighty oceans, stop bullets and bend solid steel. I'm a Capricorn. I enjoy backgammon, foreign films and long walks in the rain." |
| 39 | * ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' has one quite unexpected: [[spoiler:when Papa Legba prepares to consign Madame [=LaLaurie=] to Hell, he lists her sins as "crimes of torture, murder, passion, fashion, and being an all-round no-good, miserable bitch".]] |
| 40 | * ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'': Reversed in severity, this show featured Barney, who loves writing jaywalking tickets, doing so for a man who also double parked. Andy comes up and informs him that the man also robbed the bank. |
| 41 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 42 | ** During the fifth season and the episode "Underneath", Illyria recounts all the different worlds she walked through when she was Demon King: she saw worlds of pain and destruction, worlds full of opulent beauty, "...and one world filled with nothing but shrimp. I tired of that one quickly." (This references an episode of the parent show ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' in which Anya mentioned a world with nothing but shrimp and a world without shrimp.) |
| 43 | ** In the next episode ("Origin"), Angel makes Spike figure out what Illyria's powers are. In the middle of the episode, Connor asks if she has any powers, and Spike says, "Glad you asked. So far, I've determined that she can hit like a Mack truck, selectively alter the flow of time... oh, and [[FlightStrengthHeart possibly talk to plants]]." |
| 44 | ** This becomes the subject of a BrickJoke in a later episode where, after having her power level significantly dropped, she muses to herself, while stroking an office plant, "I can no longer hear the song of the green." (Lorne's pretty sure she's not talking about him.) |
| 45 | ** And is revisited in the ''After the Fall'' comics, where the power actually helps her. |
| 46 | ** There's also a dialogue early in Season 2 that features this trope: |
| 47 | --->'''Cordelia:''' "And you know, you didn't just betray me, Angel. You didn't just hurt me. You gave away my clothes."\ |
| 48 | '''Angel:''' "To the needy."\ |
| 49 | '''Cordelia:''' "I ''am'' the needy! |
| 50 | ** Hamilton explaining the damage Illyria had caused while [[spoiler:retrieving Gunn]] from Wolfram and Hart's holding dimension: |
| 51 | --->'''Hamilton:''' "Illyria destroyed 11 torture units before she found your man; two troop carriers, an ice cream truck, and ''eight beautifully maintained lawns.''" |
| 52 | * ''Series/TheATeam'': |
| 53 | ** In the Season 2 premiere, "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E1DiamondsNDust Diamonds 'n Dust]]," Murdock uses this to insult a South African store owner about how hideously un-English the establishment is when he's pretending to be a English officer ("Col. Lexington") as he and Face try to "confiscate" some dynamite: |
| 54 | --->'''Murdock:''' No kippers, no herring-bone tweed, no Rolls Royce tire caps, no original pressings of "Hey Jude!!!"\ |
| 55 | '''Face (mouthing):''' "Hey Jude?" |
| 56 | ** And then [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in the late Season 3 episode "Beverly Hills Assault," when Murdock is posing as an up-and-coming artist: |
| 57 | --->'''Murdock (to the evil art gallery owner):''' Can you guarantee that in a hundred years, after I'm gone, that the name "Murdock" will be on a par with Rembrandt, Picasso, Van Gogh, Willy Mays--\ |
| 58 | '''Face:''' Uh, uh, Willy Mays?\ |
| 59 | '''Murdock:''' Do you deny that Willy Mays was a great artist in centerfield?! |
| 60 | *** And then a few moments later in the same episode: |
| 61 | ---->'''Murdock:''' Murdock does not shake hands. Murdock does not play sports. Murdock does not open canned food. ({{Beat}}) Murdock paints. |
| 62 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'' has an excellent subversion, in Londo's parting speech to Refa. |
| 63 | -->"You've taken from me, that which I loved, Refa. You also took the life of prime minister Malakai, a good and dear friend. You have inconvenienced me, and threatened my position in the Royal Court..." |
| 64 | ** Had Londo stopped there, it would have been a straight example, and Londo's delivery at first indicates it might be (something which wouldn't have been out of character) but he goes on: |
| 65 | --->"... and weakened our defenses by your constant warfare." |
| 66 | * ''Series/{{Baggage}}'': On one episode, the contestants had in their smallest bags, "I have a gill hole in my ear," "I was born with a sixth finger," and... "I'm obsessed with bananas." |
| 67 | * ''Series/TheBarbarianAndTheTroll'': |
| 68 | ** In "Brendar the Barbarian", when prodded by Kyle at the Queen's Goiter, Brendar laments that she was kicked out of the Royal Order, lost her favorite sword, had to fight a band of goblins for a new one, hasn't slept in four nights, and doesn't like a lot of sauces. |
| 69 | ** In "Off to See the Wizard", the path to Castle Gnarlia is through the Dark Forest of Torment, through the Black Mountains of Despair, and across the Light Gray River of Mild Inconveniences. |
| 70 | * ''Series/Batman1966'': |
| 71 | ** The TV series features a classic example in the form of ListOfTransgressions in the episode "The Joke's on Catwoman, part 2". At Joker and Catwoman’s court trial Batman lists their crimes as: “Robbery, attempted murder, assault and battery, mayhem, and overtime parking.” |
| 72 | ** King Tut makes one with "My Queen is disloyal, my maiden is a traitor, and everyone is being mean to me! (starts sobbing)" A royal breakdown indeed. |
| 73 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': |
| 74 | ** When Amy was kicked out of her study of monkeys and cigarette addiction: "Typical bureaucratic nonsense. You can get animals addicted to a harmful substance, you can dissect their brains, but you throw their own feces back at them and suddenly you're unprofessional." |
| 75 | ** An {{inver|tedTrope}}sion occurs when Sheldon wonders whether, in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' game they're going to play, they should be Jedi or Sith. Leonard says, "What are you talking about? We're always the good guys. In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', we're [[invoked]]LawfulGood, in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', we're the heroes, and in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', we pay the prostitutes promptly and never hit them with a bat." |
| 76 | ** Sheldon objects to performing stage magic for children on these grounds: |
| 77 | ---> '''Sheldon:''' If we poison the critical thinking faculties of children by telling them rabbits come out of hats, then we create adults who believe in astrology, homeopathy and that Creator/RyanReynolds was a better Green Lantern than lovable rogue Creator/NathanFillion. |
| 78 | * ''Series/BigTimeRush'': |
| 79 | -->'''Camille:''' ''[acting as a cop]'' This varmint is wanted for robbery, money launderin', and crimes against fashion. |
| 80 | * ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'': |
| 81 | ** Blackadder, after sleeping with someone he suspects of being a spy, asks her whether her boyfriend had been to one of the great universities: Oxford, Cambridge or Hull. (Later, when he points out that "you failed to spot that only two of those are great universities", Melchett remarks: "That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!") |
| 82 | *** Not to mention that Hull University didn't even exist until 1927. |
| 83 | *** And it was a CreatorInJoke: Creator/StephenFry (Melchett) went to Cambridge, Creator/RowanAtkinson (Blackadder) went to Oxford. |
| 84 | ** Squadron Commander Flashheart on why he dislikes WWI: "The blood, the noise, the ''endless'' '''poetry'''!" |
| 85 | * ''Series/BlackBooks'': Does this depending which way you look at it: |
| 86 | -->'''Bernard Black:''' I am cold! I've got chilblains, tinnitus and thrush! |
| 87 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Intern Vincent Nigel-Murray must make amends as part of a 12 step AA process. He apologizes for the following: urinating in Hodgins' tadpole tank, saying he slept with Cam, Angela and Brennan, using Angela's letter opener to clean his nails, and stealing 3 coupons (one for a soda, one for a cheese cracker snack, and one for a fish meal) from Cam. |
| 88 | * ''Series/{{Botched}}'': One of Terry's many jokes about Paul falls under this trope. It went something like "I wonder about several of life's great mysteries: what they keep in Area51, who the [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy man on the grassy knoll]] was, and what the hell is wrong with Paul's thumbs." Bonus points for the second thing concerning an actual murder. |
| 89 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 90 | ** Principal Snyder states that there are things he won't tolerate in his school: students on the grounds after dark, horrible murders with hearts ripped out, and smoking. He also cites the things juvenile delinquents get up to on Halloween: "Tossing eggs, keying cars, bobbing for apples...". |
| 91 | ** Early in Season 3, Principal Snyder's reasons for not letting Buffy back into Sunnydale High are her poor grades, spotty attendance record, and, above all else, "tingling pleasure" that he didn't have to put up with her anymore. |
| 92 | ** While enumerating ex-boyfriends, Faith has had "Ronny, deadbeat; Steve, klepto; Kenny... [[AllDrummersAreAnimals drummer]]."[[note]]Though if the licensed novel ''Go Ask Malice'' is to be believed, it was more serious than that: he had the power to create {{Tulpa}}s, and she broke up with him after catching him in bed with a Tulpa of his ex-girlfriend Andra.[[/note]] |
| 93 | ** When Anya laments her lost demon powers, she complains to D'Hoffryn: "And now I'm stuck at Sunnydale High. Mortal. A child. And I'm flunking math." ([[CharacterDevelopment Though given her apparent facility with numbers in later episodes, this could be a real blow to her pride.]]) |
| 94 | ** During "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm}} The Prom]]" Jonathan discusses the weird things that have occurred at Sunnydale High. The other students mention "Zombies!", Hyena People!", "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Snyder]]!" |
| 95 | ** The show pokes fun at the concept in "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane}} I Robot, You Jane]]", when a demon is unleashed on the internet, the group surmises on the type of damage he can inflict: |
| 96 | --->'''Xander''': "He's in a computer! What can he do?"\ |
| 97 | '''Buffy''': You mean besides convince a perfectly nice kid to try and kill me? I don't know. How 'bout [[EverythingIsOnline mess up all the medical equipment in the world?]]\ |
| 98 | '''Giles''': Randomize traffic signals.\ |
| 99 | '''Buffy''': Access launch codes for our nuclear missiles.\ |
| 100 | '''Giles''': Destroy the world's economy.\ |
| 101 | '''Buffy''': I think I pretty much capped it with that nuclear missile thing.\ |
| 102 | '''Giles''': Right, yours was best. |
| 103 | ** Andrew goes to a butcher shop and orders twelve pork chops, two pounds of sausage, eight quarts of pig's blood (which he needs for an evil magical ritual), three steaks, halibut, and toothpaste. The butcher reacts with a scowl to one of these items, saying, "This is a butcher shop. We don't sell toothpaste." |
| 104 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': In one episode, a reality show star discovers that her dog has been bugged, and someone's been watching her more than she thought. Quoth she, "Oh my ''god''. He could have seen me in the shower, he could have seen me and Reggie in bed together... ({{Beat}}) He could have seen me without my makeup." |
| 105 | * In the ''Series/Charmed1998'' season 4 finale, the Angel of Destiny tells the Charmed Ones how he had changed the destiny of the likes of Mozart, Michaelangelo, Einstein and ''Music/BritneySpears''. |
| 106 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': |
| 107 | -->'''Emmett Milbarge the Buy More Efficiency Expert:''' I'd like to report the following violation of Buy More policy: misappropriation of the home theater room, after-hours consumption of alcohol, and lewd use of a musical montage. |
| 108 | * ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'': |
| 109 | -->'''Clarissa:''' There are lots of things worse than having your mom teach at your school, like flossing with barbed wire, swimming through shark-infested waters, or having Ferguson for a brother. |
| 110 | * ''Series/{{CNNNN}}'': The first episode, aired early in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, has a poll asking viewers to tell them which country needs to be attacked. The "Evil Top 5" consists of UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}, and UsefulNotes/SaintKittsAndNevis. |
| 111 | * ''Series/TheColbertReport'': |
| 112 | ** During the opening sequence, a list of words describing Colbert fly past him ("Courageous", "Exceptional", "Relentless", etc.) but always ends with something like "Grippy", "Lincolnish", "Megamerican", "Purple-Mounted" or "Factose-Intolerant". They even threw in a whole sentence for a while: "President Bush Have A Hotdog With Me". Debuting with the new opening credits animation, his most recent is "Applepious". |
| 113 | ** One episode, in the lead up to the March to Keep Fear Alive, featured a segment about the dangers of robots. This included a montage of dangerous movie robots, including [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-600s,]] [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 Gort,]] [[Franchise/RoboCop the ED-209]], [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} MechaGodzilla]] and WesternAnimation/WallE. |
| 114 | --->'''Stephen''' That's the worst kind of robot: the kind that warms your heart. They don't like to eat them cold. |
| 115 | ** A ''Colbert Report'' list of historical threats to the Jewish people started with Iran, Hitler and King Antiochus, and ended with "Mel Gibson's Dad". |
| 116 | ** Both ''Series/TheColbertReport'' and ''Series/TheDailyShow'' use this trope in their introduction scenes to news segments, showing two or more examples of something serious, then something completely not serious. For example, on Colbert's theoretical doomsday scenario, the intro shows hurricanes, terrorists, atomic bombs and gay couples. |
| 117 | *** There was also the poem read by Sam Waterston at the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear that listed things to fear, such as anthrax, ebola, tornadoes, and getting a pimple on your face before a date. |
| 118 | *** On ''The Daily Show'', where a list of corruption accusations against Charlie Rangel end with a clip from Fox News stating that he had been "illegally storing his Mercedes-Benz in the House parking lot." |
| 119 | *** Creator/JonStewart also says that the main rules of Judaism are not to commit murder, not to commit adultery, and not to eat pork. |
| 120 | *** Jon Stewart lists Italian prime minister Berlusconi's ethical violations as tax fraud, embezzlement, cronyism, ties to organized crime, and using olive oil of questionable moral quality. |
| 121 | *** In an interview on ''The Daily Show'', Creator/LouisCK said that jokes about bad things are good. He then proceeded to list the bad things as rape, the Holocaust, and the Mets. |
| 122 | *** Trevor Noah continues this tradtion, for example by saying about The Netherlands that they were big-time colonizers, invented [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid]] AND [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clog clogs]] |
| 123 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'': |
| 124 | ** "Course Listing Unavailable": In Chang's request for increased security, the dean lists off his demands, with increasing incredulity: "Cool new uniforms, I like that; power to enact martial law, not so much. Indefinite detention, pepper spray, involuntary cavity searches, no soft serve?!" |
| 125 | ** "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps": In Shirley's story, the devil arrives and announces the schedule of tortures: "At 10, you'll be buried neck-deep in scorpions, at 11:15, lava enemas, followed by Pilates!" Quickly subverted when the devil adds, "Pilates is a demon that eats your genitals." |
| 126 | ** In "Remedial Chaos Theory", the darkest alternate timeline determined by the toss of dice has Pierce dead from a gunshot wound, Annie driven to madness, Shirley turned alcoholic, Jeff losing an arm, Troy's larynx destroyed, and Britta with a streak of washable blue tint in her hair (which she regards as bad as the others' conditions.) |
| 127 | ** In "Paranormal Parentage", the group is in Pierce's mansion, that appears to be haunted by his father Cornelius, and they see Pierce's "corpse": |
| 128 | --->'''Britta''': Oh my God, Pierce is dead!\ |
| 129 | '''Shirley''': Cornelius killed him!\ |
| 130 | '''Troy''': I BROKE THE REMOTE! |
| 131 | ** There was the episode where Britta pulled a prank which went wrong. It also had a subplot about Pierce getting pranked that he was rising in the ranks of his cult by having him dress as the Cookie Crisp Wizard. In the climax, Britta confesses to the prank. Pierce then confesses that he knows he was being pranked because his cult held him back. Then Troy confesses that he did not understand the Cookie Crisp Wizard reference. |
| 132 | --->'''Troy''': The Cookie Crisp mascot wasn't a wizard when I was a kid. It was a burglar. I just pretended to understand because I wanted Jeff to think I was smart! |
| 133 | ** In "Paradigms of Human Memory", Troy says that this school year has become DarkerAndEdgier than the previous one. |
| 134 | --->"Pierce got a pill addiction, Shirley is having an unplanned baby and, apparently, Chang is in the group now." |
| 135 | * ''Series/{{Continuum}}'': DiscussedTrope: |
| 136 | -->'''Carlos''': We've got you on inciting a riot, destruction of property, aiding and abetting a kidnapping, obstruction of justice... and I'm pretty sure I saw you jaywalking. |
| 137 | * On ''Series/Cracked2013'' Aiden rattles off a series of charges like this at the end of "The Valley" when they arrest the boys who were running underground GladiatorGames: |
| 138 | -->'''Aiden:''' You're under arrest for conspiracy to commit assault, aiding and abetting, obstruction of justice, outdoor drinking, littering, and dueling.\ |
| 139 | '''Poppy:''' Dueling?\ |
| 140 | '''Aiden:''' It's still on the books. Convincing a person to challenge another person to a duel is a crime. |
| 141 | * In the ''Series/CrisisOnEarthX'' miniseries: |
| 142 | ** The heroes of the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' get together for [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry Allen and Iris West's]] wedding. The special guests arrive in the same place at the same time: the time-travelling [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow Legends]] on their CoolShip the ''Waverider'', ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' and her sister (from [[AlternateUniverse another Earth]]) through a breach/portal, and the [[Series/{{Arrow}} Mayor of Star City]] and Felicity Smoak by motorcycle. |
| 143 | ** The arc's BigBadDuumvirate find themselves in a MexicanStandoff over their bickering. The Reverse-Flash readies a vibrating hand against Dark Arrow, Overgirl threatens to crush Reverse-Flash's own hand, and the Dark Arrow (ostensibly their leader) holds an arrow to Reverse-Flash's neck. |
| 144 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': |
| 145 | ** E20/S14, "Consumed": |
| 146 | --->'''Sarah Sidle:''' A cannibal, a killer...''and'' a thief? |
| 147 | ** Jim Brass on the original ''Series/{{CSI}}'' gets one too, listing the charges and ending his arrest statement to the dirty undersheriff who killed Warrick with "...And violating seven articles of scumbag." |
| 148 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': |
| 149 | ** From "[[Recap/CSINYS05E01 Veritas]]," the Season 5 opener: |
| 150 | --->'''Mac:''' You're under arrest for the murder of Derek James, Lauren Salinas, kidnapping and attempted murder of a crime scene investigator, armed robbery, grand theft auto, assault and battery. But most of all, for pissing me off. |
| 151 | ** Inverted by the boyfriend in "[[Recap/CSINYS09E06 The Lady in the Lake]]" who berates his mother for the reasons she despised his girlfriend so much she ended up killing the young woman: |
| 152 | --->'''Matthew:''' You hated her guts! She didn't like high heels, she wasn't Catholic, she didn't come from money! |
| 153 | * ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'': |
| 154 | -->'''Trevor Noah:''' For decades now, France has been one of the few countries in Europe you didn't have to worry about, right? They didn't make Nazis. They didn't go bankrupt. They didn't hire a wet Teletubby as their prime minister. ''(Last example illustrated with pic of Boris Johnson over Trevor's shoulder)''. |
| 155 | * ''Series/DeadLikeMe'': Roxy visits Daisy on police business, holding a dossier on her [[spoiler: late]] ex-boyfriend Ray. She says, "Quite an impressive guy you were seeing. Fraud, assault, bad haircut." |
| 156 | * ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': Reversed: |
| 157 | -->'''Dave''': I was just trying to prove a point.\ |
| 158 | '''Principal Simpson''': By [[{{Crossdresser}} violating dress code]] and fighting in the hallways? |
| 159 | * ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'': Dharma gives a list of what the title couple and their parents can not discuss at the dinner table as "religion, politics, sports, whether or not Buddy Ebsen is dead, and international breakfast foods.” |
| 160 | * ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'': In one episode, Rob lists off the horrible events of his day which include: getting in trouble with his boss and being unable to complete his work for the day because one of his coworkers arrived late and the other left early, getting a ticket for jaywalking (ironically given the trope name, not the mildest event), getting into a fight with his wife, and “on top of it all, I think I’m getting a cold sore!" |
| 161 | * An episode of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' sees a guest star forced to gather a large sum of money for a mob boss in order to save his con artist ex wife, when he asks how he's supposed to come up with that kind of money the mob boss replies: |
| 162 | -->'''Gavin Cutler:''' Sell your Daughter into white slavery, auction off you wife's organs, get a paper route. |
| 163 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 164 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace "Frontier in Space"]]: The Doctor is accused of assault and battery, taking a spaceship without permission, and flying without insurance. |
| 165 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda "Kinda"]]: A mad military officer scolds young Adric, the Doctor's companion, saying he'll teach him "not to lie. Not to commit treason. And to wash behind the ears." |
| 166 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]]: The Doctor mocks the Dalek Emperor's rant about what the Daleks will achieve when they have the Hand of Omega: "Become all powerful! Crush the lesser races! Conquer the galaxy! Unimaginable power! Unlimited rice pudding! Et cetera! Et cetera!" |
| 167 | ** Inverted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight "Ghost Light"]] (the last story produced, but broadcast third-to-last): "I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations: terrible places, full of lost luggage and lost souls. And then there's unrequited love, and tyranny, and cruelty." From the same episode: "My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." |
| 168 | ** The call to adventure (inserted as a voiceover at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]], the last story of the original series broadcast): "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea is asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold." |
| 169 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] has this brief announcement at the beginning: |
| 170 | --->"Guests are reminded that Platform One forbids the use of weapons, teleportation and religion." |
| 171 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]]: Ricky's resistance group, the Preachers. Despite claiming to be freedom fighters, stockpiling weapons and hacking into various organizations, Ricky is London's most wanted... for ''parking violations''. The Doctor backs him on the "park anywhere" for obvious reasons. |
| 172 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]]: Former police officer Billy says that he couldn't contact Sally earlier because the Doctor explained to him that it would've caused a rupture in time and space, it would destroy two thirds of the universe, and he would lose all his hair. |
| 173 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter "The Doctor's Daughter"]]: Donna describes the Doctor's life in this fashion to Jenny. |
| 174 | --->'''Jenny:''' So what do you do? \ |
| 175 | '''The Doctor:''' I travel. Through time and space. \ |
| 176 | '''Donna:''' He saves planets, rescues civilisations, defeats terrible creatures. ''[{{beat}}]'' And runs a lot. Seriously, there’s an ''outrageous'' amount of running involved. |
| 177 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]]: Amy (who is heavily pregnant) and Rory have just barricaded themselves from the EvilOldFolks in their cottage: |
| 178 | --->'''Amy:''' We just ran away. We abandoned the Doctor. And don't ever call me "Chubs" again. |
| 179 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]]: When the Doctor finds out that [[spoiler:he's survived the "Big Bang two",]] he quickly verifies if he is OK, going through his life priority list, of course. "[[CallBack Legs, yes]]. Bow tie, cool. ''[touches hair]'' … I can buy a fez." Although two of the items are silly, we'd already expect the bow tie, so the fez makes pretty much the same effect. |
| 180 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]]: The Doctor tries to convince Clara out of her date and mentions the places they could go, like the Satanic Nebula, the Lagoon of Lost Stars... or Brighton. |
| 181 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]] the MonsterOfTheWeek kills a lot of humans, tries to TakeOverTheWorld and knocks out the whole of Britain's internet. |
| 182 | --->'''Graham:''' What, on New Year's Day; when everything's shut and everyone's hung over? |
| 183 | --->'''Ryan:''' [[YouMonster What a monster!]] |
| 184 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 "Orphan 55"]]: [[spoiler:Bella's]] rant against [[spoiler:her MissingMom Kane]] mentions that she [[spoiler:never came to Bella's birthday parties, didn't come to her dad's funeral... and she [[EmbarrassingFirstName named her "Trixabelle"]].]] |
| 185 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime "Twice Upon a Time"]]: Peter Capaldi's final speech as the Twelfth Doctor includes this little gem: |
| 186 | --->'''Twelfth Doctor''': Never be cruel, never be cowardly, and never, ever eat pears! |
| 187 | * ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'': Rita's list of examples for why the world is 'garbage': "People lie, and they hurt each other, and they wear these things on their feet called crocs." |
| 188 | * Series/DrPhil reads what a teenager said to his mom in the episode “Explosive Anger”. |
| 189 | -->You’re ugly, you’re disgusting, I’m going to kill you, give me 200 dollars! |
| 190 | * Happens in an episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' when Drake's band is preparing for a gig and he calls them out for not being ready. |
| 191 | -->'''Drake:''' The problem?! ''(to the bassist)'' You were two beats behind the whole song. ''(to the rhythm guitarist)'' You were playing an A minor, not an A7... ''(to Gary, their drummer)'' And you? Dude, you're wearing a woman's shirt! |
| 192 | -->'''Gary:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint It's called a blouse]]. |
| 193 | * ''Series/{{ER}}'' |
| 194 | ** Doug tries to console Mark over his ex-wife's remarriage by admitting that he never liked her and listing all of her negative traits -- "demanding, unsupportive, hypercritical, skinny legs ..." This backfires slightly as Mark mock-angrily demands to know "what are you doing looking at my wife's legs?" |
| 195 | ** Desk clerk Randi reveals that she went to jail for "malicous mischief, assault, battery, carrying a concealed weapon, and aggravated mayhem." |
| 196 | * ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'': Narrator Chris Rock was talking about how his mother felt about drugs: |
| 197 | -->'''Chris, narrating:''' My mother had one goal in life for her kids: don't sell drugs. As long as they weren't doin' that, almost everything else was gonna be OK.\ |
| 198 | '''Police Officer:''' (holding Chris in handcuffs at the front door as his mother answers) Ma'am, your son killed the governor, kidnapped his daughter, robbed the president, and ran a red light.\ |
| 199 | '''Rochelle:''' He ain't sold no drugs, did he?\ |
| 200 | '''Police Officer:''' No, ma'am.\ |
| 201 | '''Rochelle:''' Boy, get in here! |
| 202 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In "[[Recap/FarscapeS04E11UnrealizedReality Unrealized Reality]]", one sequence features a bunch of characters from his past denouncing Crichton for several things, such as being a huge failure or being blasphemous. And then the scene concluded with his ex Caroline saying he was [[LousyLoversAreLosers lousy in the sack]] and has a TeenyWeenie. |
| 203 | * In ''Series/FatherTed'', Mrs. Doyle tells her friend the tragic news about Mrs. Kiernan, who was out shopping when a man came over to her, and ''killed'' her, and ''stole her pen''. |
| 204 | * ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Shepherd Book warns Mal that taking sexual advantage of his wife via AccidentalMarriage will find him a place to a ''special'' hell, usually reserved for "child molesters, and people who talk at the theatre." |
| 205 | * ''Series/FirstKill'': Jack and Talia are about as happy as you'd expect that Cal lied to them and brought a vampire into their home. The thing they focus on when they come to Cal's room to hear her out is that the door is closed while she is with another girl, since she's a lesbian. |
| 206 | * ''Series/TheFlash2014'': In "Harry and the Harrisons", when Caitlin proposes an alliance with the team's old foe Amunet Black, Barry notes that Black has previously kidnapped Caitlin and tried to sell Barry into metahuman slavery, Iris then adding that Amunet also ruined her bachelorette party. |
| 207 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Turns up in places you'd least expect. Sometimes becomes part of the scene-stealing moment. |
| 208 | ** "People of Seattle! Listen to me! We are not barbarians! We are not Neanderthals! AND WE ARE NOT FRENCH!" |
| 209 | ** In one episode, two [=DJs=] try to make a career out of [[BreakTheHaughty publicly humiliating]] Frasier. He refuses to sink to their level and will only counter them by quoting famous authors. After all the ridicule, one of them manages to hit his BerserkButton by [[FelonyMisdemeanor correcting his pronunciation of]] ''Creator/LaRochefoucauld.'' |
| 210 | * ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': |
| 211 | ** "Striptease for Two" ends with Will and Carlton explaining to Uncle Phil everything they did, which was insider trading (federal offense), pawned off Aunt Viv's diamond bracelet (grand larceny), stripped to get the money back (indecent exposure), and then, finally, they didn't even get the latch on the bracelet fixed. |
| 212 | ** In "Robbing the Banks", the Banks get robbed and believe that an ex-con Will hired as a handyman was responsible, only for an officer to come by and tell him that it was really Uncle Phil's law client, who was fed up with Phil treating him like a slave. As he reads from the confession... |
| 213 | --->'''Officer:''' Well, according to him, he's sick and tired of getting you bagels, it's not his job to iron your robes and he said you unfairly accused him of calling 1-900-HORNY.\ |
| 214 | '''Carlton:''' [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial ...The man is obviously a deviant.]] |
| 215 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 216 | ** Ross has asked Rachel to make a list of things that she doesn't like about him (it's a long story). While she's initially reticent, he finally ticks her off enough: |
| 217 | --->'''Rachel:''' OK, you're whiney, you are, you're obsessive, you are insecure, you're, you're gutless, you know, you don't ever, you don't just sort of seize the day, you know. You like me for what, a year, you didn't do anything about it. And, uh, oh, you wear too much of that gel in your hair. |
| 218 | ** In this context, it actually makes sense: she's not going for a dramatic buildup, she's listing them as she thinks of them, and it's reasonable that hair gel ''might'' not be the top one on her mind. |
| 219 | *** Hey, 'still funny. |
| 220 | ** In the episode "The One With George Stephanopoulos", at the beginning of the episode, they're all discussing what they would do if they were omnipotent for a day. Phoebe goes on to use this trope. |
| 221 | --->'''Phoebe:''' Ok, ok. If I were omnipotent for a day, I would want, hum, world peace, no more hunger, good things for the rain forest. And bigger boobs! |
| 222 | ** In the episode "The One After the Super Bowl", Joey gets his stalker to leave him alone by pretending to be his own EvilTwin (well, actually the EvilTwin of his soap opera character, Drake Ramoray, whom the stalker [[YourSecretsSafeWithMeSuperman believes him to be]]). His friends help him out: |
| 223 | --->'''Rachel:''' He pretended to be Drake to, to sleep with me! ''(throws her drink in his face)''\ |
| 224 | '''Monica:''' And then he told me he would run away with me, and he didn't! ''(throws her drink in his face)''\ |
| 225 | '''Chandler:''' And you left the toilet seat up, you bastard! ''(throws his drink in his face)'' |
| 226 | *** From the same episode, when listing what is stolen from the zoo, the list is a monkey, a snowy egret, a two-toed sloth, and three hooded sweatshirts from the gift shop. |
| 227 | ** When Monica gives the manager of a restaurant a terrible review, His gripes with her are that she said the food tasted terrible, the service was inadequate, and she claimed they took the Discover card. |
| 228 | ** Played with in ''The One With Ross' Sandwich'', making it more "Arson, Jaywalking and Murder". |
| 229 | --->'''Rachel''': He takes naked pictures of us, and then he eats chicken, and then he looks at them! |
| 230 | * ''Series/FullHouse'': |
| 231 | ** "Taking The Plunge" has this line: |
| 232 | --->'''Kimmy''': But, Deej, it wouldn't be the same without you. I mean, who am I going to hang out with? Talk to about boys? Copy my homework from? |
| 233 | ** In "Arrest Ye Merry Gentlemen", Mr. Dreghorn locks Uncle Jesse in his store when he refuses to let him exchange Michelle's Christmas present to Danny, and calls the cops on him. Jesse hen tells Mr. Dreghorn to bring the cops on, because he's charging him with fraud, kidnapping, and failure to exchange a cruddy gift. |
| 234 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 235 | -->'''Varys''': [The city bells] ring for horrors... a dead king, a city under siege--\ |
| 236 | '''Tyrion''': A wedding.\ |
| 237 | '''Varys''': Exactly. [[note]]Although given the lethality of weddings in-universe...[[/note]] |
| 238 | * ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'': In "George Goes to Disneyland", George tells Benny that he doesn't want to go to Disneyland because it will remind him of everything else she deprived him of as a child, including birthdays, Christmases, and doctors with offices. |
| 239 | -->'''George:''' I mean, what kind of a dentist works out of a camper? Mom, I had to spit out the window! |
| 240 | * ''Series/GetSmart'': During one episode of the first season of the original series, a variation occurs between Max and a KAOS agent. Max: "Harvey Satan? Wasn't he convicted of arson, insurrection, treason and mass murder?" KAOS agent: "He got time off for good behavior." |
| 241 | * ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': People get an eternity in the Bad Place for murder, arson, sexual harassment... and taking their shoes and socks off on an airplane. |
| 242 | ** Every night in The Bad Place is "classic torture -- flying piranhas, lava monsters, college improv. And there was always jazz music playing." |
| 243 | * ''Series/GossipGirl'': |
| 244 | ** When talking about the letter Chuck's father left for him along with his will: |
| 245 | --->'''Blair''': Your dad wrote you a letter? You have to read it! \ |
| 246 | '''Nate''': Yeah, aren't you curious to know what it says? \ |
| 247 | '''Chuck''': I think I can guess. "You're a disappointment of a son. I'd die of embarrassment if I wasn't already. Why do you wear so much purple?" |
| 248 | ** Doubles as a lampshade hanging as the fans have often commented on how Chuck wears a whole lot of purple. |
| 249 | * ''Series/HangTime'': |
| 250 | ** In "Fake ID-ology:" |
| 251 | -->'''Coach Fuller:''' "You're lucky you didn't get arrested. You're lucky you didn't get killed. And you're very lucky I didn't kick all of you off the team." |
| 252 | ** In "A Whole New Ballgame", Mary Beth (with Kristy's help) tries to find herself a new boyfriend following her break-up with [[PutOnABus Vince]], but no one makes the cut. Her reasons for rejecting Kristy's top 3 choices are: The first guy has a chipped tooth, the second guy smells like ham (Kristy admits that she's bothered about that part as well), and the last guy... has a lame name[[note]]"Merton", in case anyone wonders[[/note]]. Kristy proceeds to call Mary Beth "picky" at this point. |
| 253 | -->'''Mary Beth''': I'm not picky. I just don't think any boy is good enough for me. |
| 254 | * The TV adaptation of ''Series/{{Happy}}'' opens with mock ContentWarnings which warn the views that the show contains "Killer Santas, Drunk A-holes, Sick Jokes, Depraved Lobsters, Flying Horses, Weirdos, Strung-Out Unicorns, Cheap Booze, [and] Questionable Hygiene". |
| 255 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 256 | -->'''Claude''': "I spend a lot of time moving around people's homes, their bedrooms. You get to know people if you see them when they think they're alone. You see them for what they truly are: selfish, deceitful, and gassy." |
| 257 | ** According to Sylar, Angela Petrelli's most heinous crimes are attempting to blow up New York, poisoning her husband, and compulsive lying to Sylar. |
| 258 | * ''Series/HorribleHistories'': |
| 259 | ** The ''Series/HorribleHistories''' "Words we get from the Vikings" skit: "Scare!", "Anger!", "Berserk!", "Die!", "Cake!". |
| 260 | ** In the Magna Carta rap battle, one of the barons tacks on to the important list of rights demanded from King John in the document that “there’s also some stuff about fishing in the rivers.” |
| 261 | ** Joan of Arc is "guilty of heresy, and wearing men's trousers." |
| 262 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': |
| 263 | -->'''Ted:''' ''[to Barney]'' You've dated convicted felons, arms dealers, and pageant moms. |
| 264 | ** In Season 1's Halloween episode, Ted wants to reunite with a girl he hasn't seen in four years. Barney warns him, saying, "She could be engaged, or married, or -- God forbid -- fat." |
| 265 | ** The next episode has Barney have his friends make a "broath" not to infere with his personal life again unless it's a question of his health, national security, or he's about to have sex with a fatty. |
| 266 | ** Robin telling Ted that he always goes after the wrong women: Robin who told him early on that she didn't want marriage or kids, Stella who had a child with Tony, who she still had feelings for, and Zoey who tried to sabotage his career, was married at the time, and ''wore a lot of stupid hats.'' |
| 267 | ** And Barney, commenting on the dangers of New York: |
| 268 | --->"Please. Faulty elevators, exploding manhole covers, jealous husbands. This place is a coroner's paradise." |
| 269 | ** When Barney was planning his revenge on Marshall in Season 6; the board he was working on listed four options: "Poison, cut brakes, frame for treason, and... crank call really late at night." |
| 270 | * ''Series/ICarly'': "Made of a super-soft, thick luxurious fabric of some sort, the Sack comes in: rash red, mucus green, pus yellow, or blue." |
| 271 | * ''Series/TheIncreasinglyPoorDecisionsOfToddMargaret'': Features this approximately OnceAnEpisode -- the intro for each episode shows the title character in a courtroom, where the judge recites a different snippet each week from the ''many'' crimes Margaret is being accused of. For instance, in one episode, the charges include "Insurance fraud, breaking and entering, espionage, forgery, embezzlement, perjury, bribery, rubber checking, unnecessary public nudity", and in another, "antisocial behaviour, disruption of national solemnity, money laundering, lewd sexist behaviour, failure to pay for a cranberry juice". |
| 272 | * ''Series/InPlainSight'': |
| 273 | -->'''Mary''': Actually, I'm in a really good mood, which is kind of weird, considering where I was 48 hours ago. Then I have a witness off herself, and like that's not bad enough, I gotta play second fiddle to a knucklehead like you.\ |
| 274 | '''Marshall''': Thanks for lumping me in with kidnapping, attempted rape, and suicide. |
| 275 | * ''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'': |
| 276 | -->"They hit us with guns, bazookas, tear gas, tanks, [=APV=]s, helicopters, rockets... and I'm pretty sure at least one of them used really harsh language. " |
| 277 | * In the episode of ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' surrounding her old Military Mary doll, after giving a speech about how toys are important and should be treated with care and not just sold for money, Jessie spells out to the crowd what a scumbag Simon Sneed is: he tricked Zuri into trading her doll for a cheap bunny toy that poops chocolate (which is already out of poop) and lied about its real value (it's an old toy worth thousands of dollars). And Ravi adds that he didn't provide a receipt for it. |
| 278 | * A Brazilian version of the Biblical story of Joseph fell into this at one point, on the brothers' second trip to Eygpt. |
| 279 | -->Mitre: You are all invited to (Joseph's) house for dinner. |
| 280 | -->Judah: Is it about the silver we found in our sacks? |
| 281 | -->Dan: He must want to punish us! He'll take us as slaves and keep our donkeys! |
| 282 | * ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OubM8bD9kck the segment about Xi Jinping]], a news clip is played describing China's new social credit score mentioning that one's score might be decreased by negative activities like "fraud, tax evasion, and smoking in non-smoking areas." |
| 283 | * ''Series/LawAndOrder'': In the episode "Turnstile Justice", Lt. Van Buren orders the detectives to arrest two young girls who have been caught on a store surveillance video buying clothes with a credit card stolen from a murder victim. She tells them to add a charge of "felony bad taste" because the girls are wearing white after Labor Day. |
| 284 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': Somewhat literally in the episode "Avatar", the detectives are trying to find something to arrest a man for before he can flee the country. Said man is suspected of kidnapping, rape and murder. At the last possible second, when it seems that the detectives can't get him for anything, the suspect jaywalks at the airport, giving Detective Stabler an excuse to arrest him. The man comments on the absurdity of it, but it lets them hold him long enough to get proof of his worse deeds. |
| 285 | * Creator/DavidLetterman: Rarely does a TopTenList have the top entry as the funniest (the explanation is that the applause/laughter would mute the band). |
| 286 | * ''Series/LifeOnMars2006'': |
| 287 | ** Gene Hunt to Sam Tyler: |
| 288 | --->'''Gene:''' You great, soft, sissy, girly, nancy, French, bender, Man-United-supporting ''poof''! |
| 289 | ** Ray Carling in the same: |
| 290 | --->'''Ray:''' I'm arresting you for the theft of a motor vehicle, resisting arrest... and driving like a div. |
| 291 | * ''Series/LifeOnMars2008'' (the American one): Ray is talking about the counterculture. |
| 292 | -->'''Ray:''' That's the problem with a politicized youth, they do things like blow up national monuments, burn down induction centers... make their own jewelry out of seashells. |
| 293 | * ''Series/LifeOnAStick'': Laz claims his girlfriend has a hatred for old people, a hatred "most people have only for terrorists, serial killers, and [[TheScrappy Jar-Jar Binks]]". |
| 294 | * In Series/LoisAndClark towards the end of the episode "Operation Blackout" when Superman flies alongside the bad guy's jeep as they were attempting to drive away. |
| 295 | -->'''Superman:''' Let's see; satellite hijacking, attempted murder, terrorism and.. oh yes, speeding. |
| 296 | * ''Series/{{Lovejoy}}'': In one episode a Scottish forger living in Italy (in the 1980s) gives his reasons for not wanting to return to the UK as : "Strikes, recession, and Partick Thistle[[note]]:A Scottish soccer team[[/note]] never making the grade". |
| 297 | * ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'': |
| 298 | ** In Season 2, Episode 3, the eponymous character comments on the state of the body of a murder victim: |
| 299 | --->'''Lucifer:''' It's vicious work. I mean I reserve this kind of treatment for the truly terrible in Hell. Pedophiles, Nazis. People who put their seats back on a plane. |
| 300 | ** Season 3 Episode 10 Lucifer and Maze are discussing the torture of their captive. |
| 301 | --->'''Lucifer:''' You tried waterboarding?\ |
| 302 | '''Maze:''' Twice.\ |
| 303 | '''Lucifer:''' Bamboo under the nails?\ |
| 304 | '''Maze:''' Do I look like an amateur?\ |
| 305 | '''Lucifer:''' Nickelback on repeat?\ |
| 306 | '''Maze:''' That's where I started. |
| 307 | ** (S2 E17) Amenadiel comes and warns Lucifer that he might be in danger. |
| 308 | --->'''Lucifer''': Is it the Yakuza? The Nephilim? [[TakeThat One Million Moms]]? [[note]]One Million Moms was an organization trying to get FOX to drop the show before it aired on the assumption that it would be offensive to Christians. Despite their name, they only collected about 38,000 signatures on their petition.[[/note]] |
| 309 | ** MANY other examples in this show. The writers love this trope. |
| 310 | --->'''Lucifer:''' (S4 E3) Normally I'd go straight to punishment -- fire, brimstone, public humiliation via [=YouTube=]. |
| 311 | * ''Series/MacGyver1985'': The title sequence adds a single shot of [=MacGyver=] standing on a street corner enjoying an icecream to a montage otherwise composed of him risking his life performing dangerous action stunts. |
| 312 | * In the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "Out of Gas", the Korean BlackMarket crooks double cross Major Winchester and Father Mulcahy, rob them of their goods (including the wine and gourmet food Winchester donated), their jeep, Winchester's uniform and coat -- humiliating him by making him leave with the Chaplin in his long underwear -- refuse to turn over the much-needed pentothal they came for, ''and'', ticking off Winchester further, they drink the red wine with stuffed caprons! |
| 313 | * In one episode of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', where Bulk, Skull, and Kimberly get trapped in a monster cab: |
| 314 | -->'''Alpha 5:''' Aye-yi-yi! Lord Zedd and Rita have created a Crabby Cabbie! And he's charging double the going fare! |
| 315 | * From the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': |
| 316 | -->'''Alisha:''' My friend Chloe did crystal meth and she nearly shagged her brother. And he's really ugly. |
| 317 | ** Also, from much later in the series: |
| 318 | --->'''Alex:''' And, [[ItMakesSenseInContext I shagged all my powers into her]].\ |
| 319 | '''Finn:''' What do you mean, all your powers?\ |
| 320 | '''Alex:''' I mean ''all'' of them. I mean, the power to cause accidents, turning things inside out, hypnotic tits.... |
| 321 | ** And from Abby "If he grows up to be a pimp, a child molester or a probation worker, I will kick your ass.". Although the last may be her wanting the kid [[HighTurnoverRate to survive]]. |
| 322 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 323 | ** InvertedTrope once in one episode. Randy and Captain Stottlemeyer are discussing why a certain athlete cannot be a suspect and Randy names off one less important reason to remove any motive for the suspect to kill the victim, then says, "Number 2, he's dead," and the third, is that even if he were alive, he had moved to Europe in the late 1980s. The really funny thing about that is, he starts continuing to list them even after that one, but Stottlemeyer stops him. |
| 324 | *** In his defense, it wouldn't be the first time Monk had solved a case with a man believed to be dead. See "Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra," and Sonny Chow, the martial arts guy for that incident. |
| 325 | ** Played straight in the Season 3 episode "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", when Natalie lists the consequences of Monk not staying in the car like she told him to: she, Monk and Captain Stottlemeyer are under WitnessProtection and stuck in a little woodland cabin with Agent Grooms in the middle of nowhere; Natalie's daughter Julie has to stay with Natalie's parents and miss a whole week of school; drug lord Tommy Winn has a price on Monk's head, and... Monk broke someone's car radio antenna trying to straighten it out. |
| 326 | ** In ''Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa'', when doing an inventory on the toys in "Bad Santa" Michael Kenworthy's bag, Randy rattles off each item, which includes a number of stuffed toys, and a walkie-talkie. Subverted when the walkie-talkie turns out to be the most important thing in the bag. |
| 327 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': |
| 328 | ** InvertedTrope, starting on a low note and building up while describing a man's hobbies as: "Golf, strangling animals and masturbating." Sadly, the "masturbating" part was cut by the censors on ABC in the 1970s either by muting out "masturbating" or rearranging the audio so that way the line just names off "Golf and strangling animals." (Apparently, animal abuse is okay, but masturbation isn't -- at the time, at least.) |
| 329 | ** The sketch "Philosophers' Football," though, plays it straight when the German team contests Socrates's goal: "Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside." |
| 330 | ** Also, "Blood, Devastation, Death War And Horror": |
| 331 | --->'''Host:''' And later on we'll be talking to a man who actually ''does'' gardening. |
| 332 | ** Well, there's rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, or strawberry tart (without so much rat in it). |
| 333 | ** Also: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy [[SubvertedTrope and with a fried egg on top and spam]].[[note]]Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam![[/note]][[note]]SHUT UP!![[/note]] |
| 334 | ** And the Ministry of Silly Walks, which is right behind other Ministries for Defense, Social Security, Health, Housing and Education. |
| 335 | * ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': inverted when Dr. Fruitcake lists his latest invention's features: it will cure all known diseases, generate limitless power, and make [[StockYuck bussels sprouts]] taste like [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood cherry cheesecake]]! |
| 336 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': In the series pilot, "Sex And Violence", a subplot includes an upcoming "Seven Deadly Sins Pagent". During the show, hosts Nigel and Sam are asked if another sin can take part... Wearing Funny Pants To A Funeral. |
| 337 | -->'''Nigel''': There's Envy, Rage, Lust, Vanity, Sloth, Avarice, and Gluttony...\ |
| 338 | '''Sam''': ...wearing Funny Pants to a Funeral. |
| 339 | * The Top 5 lists on ''My Great Big Adventure'' had a tendency to go this way during the first series, the the Number One tip being Jaywalking. As an example, in the episode "Happiness", the list provide such gems as being surrounded by people that make you happy, giving yourself praise, and doing things you enjoy. The number one tip: ''tape up your mouth into a smile''. |
| 340 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the final episode of Season 10, "Danger: Diabolk", part of the "To Earth" song has Crow singing about some of the dreadful things on Earth. |
| 341 | -->'''Crow:''' ) ''The Earth's a big and scary place with wars and crime and death!''\ |
| 342 | '''Servo:''' It is?\ |
| 343 | '''Crow:''' ''They listen to [[TakeThat Shawn Mullins and Alanis Morrisette]]!''\ |
| 344 | '''Servo:''' Oh no! |
| 345 | * This is in the theme song as to why Fran Fine became ''Series/TheNanny''. |
| 346 | -->"She had style! She had flare! ''She was there!''" |
| 347 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', when Tony and Ziva talk after her time in Somalia. |
| 348 | -->'''Ziva:'''When you shot Michael, I almost killed you where you stood. \ |
| 349 | '''Tony:''' I wasn't standing.\ |
| 350 | '''Ziva:''' No, you weren't. You were lying on the ground, without adequate backup, completely violating protocol...\ |
| 351 | '''Tony:''' And double-parked.\ |
| 352 | '''Ziva:''' Yes, I noticed. |
| 353 | * ''Neveneffecten'': This Belgian TV show has a polar bear listing his hobbies as being: farting in igloos, hitting baby seals on the head and watching them die a slow and painful death, and crosswords. |
| 354 | * ''Series/NightCourt'': In one episode, Mel Torme is brought before Judge Harry Stone on a speeding violation and several unpaid parking tickets. Torme has a grudge against Harry for wrecking a concert of his, and eventually finds himself in contempt of court. As he's being carried away by Bull and Roz, he starts ranting at Harry: |
| 355 | -->'''Mel Torme:''' "You're a walking disaster! You're a pox on humanity! [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike And your haircut]] ''[[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne stinks]]''!" |
| 356 | * ''Series/OddSquad'': |
| 357 | ** "Dance Like Nobody's Watching" has a DwindlingParty situation where three of the Main 4 agents manage to get themselves caught by the traps Oscar sets up. [[HarmlessFreezing Oprah is trapped in a block of ice and is only able to blink,]] [[TakenForGranite Olive is turned to stone,]] and Oscar...is trapped by Silly String. |
| 358 | ** At the beginning of "Switch Your Partner Round and Round", Olive rattles off a series of cases solved during the week to Otto for him to input into his computer. They include a bike turning into a cantaloupe, a woman with squirrel hair, and a man whose lawnmower ran out of gas -- the latter of which Otto lampshades as he remarks that he doesn't think it's an odd case, but is glad he and Olive helped the man out anyway. |
| 359 | ** In "Behind Enemy Mimes", Oprah attempts to find a clue at the building where the Thrimes were building their Silence Ray: |
| 360 | --> '''Oprah:''' If I know my partner, he likes his orange juice hot, his eggs raw, and he always leaves a clue behind. |
| 361 | --> '''Olympia:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint His breakfast sounds]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint awful!]]'' |
| 362 | ** As revealed in "License to Science", the test for Lab Directors to receive their required licenses is generally made up of three parts: combining gadgets to make new gadgets, combining gadgets with bigger numbers, and dancing. |
| 363 | ** In "Who is Agent Otis?", as Otis is telling his {{Backstory}}, he says that as he got older, [[spoiler:the ducks he grew up with]] were loud, rude, and had no sense of romance. |
| 364 | ** In "Odd Beginnings", as Omar visits a vendor in New York City about her souvenirs, he takes interest in a small replica of the Empire State building and asks what it's made out of, how tall it is, and how high the vendor can jump. |
| 365 | ** In "Villain Networking", The Shadow asks the villains that she plans to gather into her Villain Network what Odd Squad has that they don't, the responses she gets are "ties", "gadgets", and "good breath". |
| 366 | * ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'': |
| 367 | ** Reversed when Michael, trying to scare his employees into respecting the idea of prison with the character "Prison Mike": |
| 368 | --->'''Jim:''' What'd you do, Prison Mike?\ |
| 369 | '''Prison Mike:''' I stole... and I robbed... and I kidnapped the President's son... and held him for ransom.\ |
| 370 | '''Jim:''' That is quite a rap sheet, Prison Mike.\ |
| 371 | '''Prison Mike:''' And I never got caught neither.\ |
| 372 | '''Jim:''' Well, you were in prison, but... |
| 373 | ** For the Creator/SteveMartin episode, it was "Seven-Inch Gangly Wrench." |
| 374 | * In ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingohger'', the second arc begins with Yanma, Kagaragu, Hymeno and Rita all in jail for terrible crimes. Yanma built a supercomputer that monopolized the world's electricity, Hymeno set off 1,000 Megatons of fireworks and caused widespread damage, Kagaragu approved agricultural tools unfit for human use and Rita... voluntarily put themselves in jail so they could have a vacation. |
| 375 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': The ABC site for this show has brief summaries for each character. According to them, Rumplestiltskin is "cruel, vicious, manipulative and calls everyone '[[TermsOfEndangerment dearie]].'" |
| 376 | * An episode of ''Series/OnlyConnect'' (UK quiz) began with Victoria Coren-Mitchell saying this: |
| 377 | -->Everyone loves a beach movie. The Blue Lagoon, Blue Hawaii, Baywatch the Movie, Dunkirk... And speaking of a bunch of nervous British people waiting and gripped by fear, let's meet the teams. |
| 378 | * ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'': In the 1989 ChristmasSpecial "The Jolly Boys' Outing", after the Jolly Boys are stranded in Margate following the destruction of their coach, Boycie complains that he might miss the christening of his son, Mike and Sid complain that they have to run their pub and cafe respectively, Jevon complains that he's going to miss out on a date he had arranged for that night... and then Trigger chimes in and complains that his inflatable dolphin got blown up with their coach. |
| 379 | ** Also while on holiday in Spain, Del and Rodney get a call from Grandad that he has been arrested. They visit him in his cell and he tells them that during the Spanish Civil War he was a mercenary who used to [[ArmsDealer smuggle guns]] for both sides (or in his words '[[WarForFunAndProfit the ones that paid us the most]]'). He believes that they are going to put him on trial for these past crimes so Del bribes the guard to turn a blind eye and let them walk out. After taking Del's money, the guard tells Del that the charges have been dropped and Grandad is free to go. Flabbergasted, Del points out Grandad's past to which the guard replies that Grandad was actually arrested for... jaywalking. |
| 380 | * ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': Piper gives her summary of the first four episodes. |
| 381 | -->'''Piper''': I have been here for less than two weeks. I have been starved out, felt up, teased, stalked, threatened, and called Music/TaylorSwift. |
| 382 | * An episode of ''Series/OtherSpace'' was dedicated to identifying an alien infiltrator. Though it was guilty of sabotaging the ship and attempted execution of half the crew, when identified the crew is mostly angry about its plagiarism. |
| 383 | * ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': In the Season 4 episode "Meet n' Greet," Tom creates a campaign video for Leslie that begins with "The year was 1975. It was a time of trouble: Watergate, Vietnam, Peter Gabriel leaves Genesis." |
| 384 | * ''Plutón B.R.B. Nero'': |
| 385 | ** The opening narration explains: "Year 2530. Situation on planet Earth is hopeless. (...) Unregulated construction of semi-detached houses in the North Pole causes the rise of waters, sinking cities like New York, London and '''[[SuddenlySignificantCity Benidorm.]]''' The human race survives in overpopulated swampy areas, harassed by epidemics, floods and '''real estate agencies.''''' (Admitedly, real estate agencies had became a real problem in Spain when the series debuted). |
| 386 | ** In episode 1x10, several characters explain why Roswell is a dangerous alien, with several characters giving information: "He like to tears out people's intestines, and then he eats them." "And, he tears off their nails." "He also likes to drive infected syringes into their eyes." "And he speaks ill of others when they are not present." The latter was Sgt. Querejeta, who has SkewedPriorities . |
| 387 | * ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'' was considered by most fans nearly a FranchiseKiller and "Trouble by the Slice" was considered by most (the cast included) to be the worst episode, but it did have this gem in it, when the Rangers' Turbine Laser failed against [[MonsterOfTheWeek Mad Mike]]: |
| 388 | -->'''TJ:''' Nuts!\ |
| 389 | ''' Justin:''' Rats!\ |
| 390 | '''Carlos:''' Drat!\ |
| 391 | '''Ashley:''' Curses!\ |
| 392 | '''Cassie:''' Phooey!\ |
| 393 | '''Blue Centurion:''' Uh . . . [[GoshDangItToHeck fiddlesticks!]][[note]]This is even funnier if heard in his distinctive robotic voice.[[/note]] |
| 394 | * In ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'', when Beevil tries to convince Lothor she is truly evil... |
| 395 | -->'''Beevil:''' I'm wanted on twelve planets for theft, forgery, conspiracy, destruction of property, and...\ |
| 396 | '''Marah:''' Don't forget littering!\ |
| 397 | '''Lothor:''' Littering! The most underrated of intergalactic crimes! |
| 398 | * ''Series/{{Psych}}'': |
| 399 | -->'''Gus:''' Some people are just born evil -- the kid from ''The Omen'', ''[[Creator/StephenKing The Children of the Corn]]'', Creator/ChadMichaelMurray. |
| 400 | ** Also, when Shawn tries to convince a dejected and quite thoroughly smashed Lassiter that his life/career is not over: |
| 401 | --->'''Shawn:''' You're a striking man with strong features, eyes that women wanna do cannonballs into, you have great posture and penmanship the likes I've never seen. |
| 402 | ** And from Season 4, Episode 12, when Shawn confronts the killer he lists the following: |
| 403 | --->'''Shawn:''' Murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, unlawful carving of a spruce tree. |
| 404 | ** Someone that Lassiter believes is [[ObfuscatingInsanity faking insanity]] "gave himself all kinds of phobias: fear of loud noises, fear of crowds, fear of saxophones." Then again, the fear of saxophones, which is real, ''does'' play a major role in the climax of the episode. |
| 405 | * In the 1990's French-Canadian sitcom ''Series/RadioEnfer'', at the beginning of a Season 2 episode, Jean-Lou comments to Camille that there are a lot of misfortunes around the world. She agrees by saying the following: |
| 406 | -->'''Camille:''' For sure. There are wars in Africa, there are millions of jobless people in Europe, there are billions of people on the poverty line in the United States, and here Jean Chrétien is still Prime Minister. |
| 407 | * ''Series/{{Reba}}'': During the HalloweenEpisode, Barbra Jean discloses the fact that she hired a private investigator to tail her husband during her separation period from said husband: "He followed you everywhere: to your dental office, to the golf course... to that tanning salon you said you don't go to", leaving her husband looking embarrassed. |
| 408 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'': From "Back to Reality" in Season 5: |
| 409 | -->'''Rimmer''': This is a nightmare! I'm on the run from the fascist police, with a murderer and a mass murderer and a man in a bri-nylon shirt. |
| 410 | * ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'': In one episode, Red advises teens to avoid doing crime: |
| 411 | -->'''Red''': Just say no to assault, break-and-enter, arson, murder, theft, drug trafficking, and... oh yeah, real estate sales. |
| 412 | * ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': In the [[Recap/RevolutionS1E20TheDarkTower first season finale]], Tom Neville gives Sebastian Monroe a good one, by telling him that he's foolish, deranged, and he has a borderline erotic fixation on Miles Matheson. |
| 413 | * ''Road Rampage'': This Discovery Channel show once featured a suspect being charged with: |
| 414 | -->'''Judge''': Three counts of aggravated assault, lying to a police officer, and making an improper left turn. |
| 415 | * ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'': |
| 416 | ** During one episode of this show's final season, Bev rants about how her ex-husbsand was rude to her children, cheated on her, had horrible table manners...''and made her drive an old car with bald tires! The bastard!'' |
| 417 | ** Since bald tires are more prone to blowouts, which can lead to loss of control and a crash, making her drive a car with bald tires was the one thing that actually threatened her life. |
| 418 | * In the ''Series/SamAndCat'' episode #[=MotorcycleMystery=], Sam and Dice find that the whole Pon-Thwang bottle was empty and that Cat drank it all as she though it would keep her focused and alert, but only if you take it with a teaspoon of the stuff in a glass of water. The side effects for not doing that include: extreme loss of memory, followed by unconsciousness and loose stools. |
| 419 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': |
| 420 | ** One episode hosted by Rob Lowe (from the first episode of the 2000-2001 season [Season 26]) inverted this in a news report regarding a lawsuit being filed against the Scooby Doo gang (Lowe played Shaggy and voiced the creepy Scooby Doo puppet used in the sketch, who advocated the "Reath Renalty" for numerous criminals). The attorney representing the plaintiffs noted that the gang had been repeatedly charged with numerous criminal acts, all of which were variants on "meddling". And then he got to the final charge, "sodomy". (He then noted that he was mistaken, and that the actual final charge was "meddling".) |
| 421 | ** In a small short advertising what Republicans think what could happen with the mosque at ground zero, they list "free nationalization for Mexican citizens, state-of-the-art pregnancy termination lab, and an espresso bar." |
| 422 | ** In Film/TheGodfather in group therapy sketch, Vito Corleone talks of all the bad things that have happened to him: MobWar, HauledBeforeASenateSubCommittee, the death of his son Sonny, and the ASPCA is still after him for that horse's head stunt. |
| 423 | ** One of the sketches about the mighty salesman Bill Brasky has the Brasky Buddies all pause when one mentions that, in addition to (most recently) hating Mexicans, being half-Mexican, hating irony, and growing a third arm and keeping it in a vault, he slept eight hours a night. That one adds awkwardly, "Well, he was pretty normal when it came to that." |
| 424 | ** When Jonah Hill played a porn director in the "Were Not Porn Stars Anymore" skit, his list of films are "Bangs of New York", "Raging Boner", "The Departed (Hymen)" and ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet''. |
| 425 | ** Later versions of the "Under Underground Records" sketch included parts where the names of real bands are mixed in with the names of fictitious ones. Here is one example from the 2012 presidential election version. |
| 426 | --->George W's Bush, Vein Crapital, Todd Akin and the Legitimate Rapes, Irritated at the Printer (a Rage Against the Machine cover band) and ''Sixpence None the Richer''. |
| 427 | * ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': |
| 428 | ** In one episode when Slater's girlfriend Jessie discovers he is asking for an old girlfriend's number: |
| 429 | --->'''Slater''': Jessie's going to rip my eyes out, punch my face in, then break up with me. |
| 430 | ** At the end of an episode of ''Saved by the Bell: The College Years'' when asked if she cheated on a test, Alex cracks and wails "I cheated! I cheated and I lied. I cheated and I lied and I left the cap off the toothpaste! I'm a horrible person". |
| 431 | * ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'': |
| 432 | ** In the Season 4 pilot episode "Oh, Brother", what prompts Ryan to plot revenge of humiliation on Nicky while Nicky briefly gains the BigManOnCampus status with the girls: |
| 433 | -->'''Ryan''': This guy [Nicky] is moving into my room, my friends, and now Rachel. |
| 434 | -->*Nicky sits on the trash can* |
| 435 | -->'''Eric''': Don't look now, but he's sitting on your trash can. |
| 436 | -->'''Ryan''': That does it! |
| 437 | ** The Season 4 episode "Campaign Fever" begins with Rachel inside [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Mr. Belding]]'s office regarding her college application prospect. Rachel believes that she should be able to enroll in any college of her choosing because: |
| 438 | -->'''Rachel''': I have good grades, great social skills, and perfect teeth. |
| 439 | ** Late in another Season 4 episode "The Kiss", Maria suggests that Rachel should get back together with Ryan after he kissed Mary-Beth, but not before making him pay: |
| 440 | -->'''Maria''': I'm talking dinners, jewelry, a BMW. |
| 441 | * ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}'': This Creator/CharlieBrooker series did a version of this when reading off people who "will be punished" when Charlie takes over: |
| 442 | -->'''Charlie''': Yes, they're the sort of dribbling unpardonable cretins that use 'party' as a verb. And when I am in charge and establish my Reich, those people are going to be punished. Along with anyone who breaks wind for comic effect, men who wear flat caps, people who consider the Comic Sans typeface acceptable, and Capricorns. [[LampshadeHanging I don't know why I'm picking on them, actually; I think I'm just]] DrunkWithPower. |
| 443 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': |
| 444 | -->'''Janitor''': Now I've been called a great many horrible names in my life: Backstabber, Zebra Poacher...Josh." |
| 445 | ** Also "Their Story II" ends with three of the interns addressing people with; "Hey, jackasses" "Hey, muffin-stein!" and "Hey, Page..." |
| 446 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': "Arrow": |
| 447 | -->'''ComicBook/LoisLane''': Stay away from religion, politics, and bad dye jobs. |
| 448 | * ''Series/{{Series/Seinfeld}}'': In "The Pothole", Elaine is told that the China Panda restaurant will not deliver to her apartment because it is outside of the delivery zone. |
| 449 | -->'''Elaine''': Your guy can't cross to my side [of the street]?\ |
| 450 | '''Owner''': If we deliver to you, then what? Eighty-fifth Street? Wall Street? Mexico? Eighty-fourth Street? |
| 451 | * ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017'': Two instances happen right in the theme song (both differ slightly from the usual pattern): |
| 452 | -->"This show will wreck your evening, your whole life, and your day."\ |
| 453 | "There's nothing but horror and inconvenience on the way." |
| 454 | * ''Series/Sleuth101'': In the episode "Inside Chef", one of the murder suspects is underworld hitman and caterer Harry "The Hatchet" Donelli, currently serving 25 years for murder, grievous bodily harm and aggravated assault with a zucchini. |
| 455 | * ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'': |
| 456 | ** ''Series/StargateSG1'': The episode "Thor's Chariot" has this exchange between Gen. Hammond and SG-1 regarding the NiceJobBreakingItHero situation on Cimmeria. |
| 457 | --->'''Hammond:''' But let me play devil's advocate for a moment here. It's not our world. Is it really any of our concern?\ |
| 458 | '''Teal'c:''' The destruction of the hammer device to save my life may have caused this. If so, I am responsible.\ |
| 459 | '''O'Neill:''' General, I gave the order.\ |
| 460 | '''Daniel:''' And I fired the staff at the machine.\ |
| 461 | '''Carter:''' And I ... was there. |
| 462 | ** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In one first season episode, Rodney is about to receive gene therapy, prompting the following exchange with Dr. Beckett: |
| 463 | --->'''Carson Beckett M. D.:''' ''[sighs]'' We believe ATA or Ancient Technology Activation is caused by a single gene that's always on. Instructing various cells in the body to produce a series of proteins and enzymes that interact with the skin, the nervous system and the brain. In this case we're using a mouse retrovirus to deliver the missing gene to your cells.\ |
| 464 | '''Dr. Rodney [=McKay=]:''' A mouse retrovirus?\ |
| 465 | '''Beckett:''' It's been deactivated.\ |
| 466 | '''[=McKay=]:''' Well, are there any side effects?\ |
| 467 | '''Beckett:''' Dry mouth, headache, the irresistible urge to run in a small wheel... |
| 468 | ** ''Series/StargateUniverse'': In "Hope", when looking at possible consequences of transplants using Ancient technology, one of the characters lists off, "...infection, high blood pressure, erectile dysfunc... tion..." Cue uncontrollable laughter. |
| 469 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': When the character Q appeared, he bemoaned the fact that Earth had been much more "interesting" in the past. "Crusades...Inquisitions...Watergate..." |
| 470 | * ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': According to the inventor of the transporter, "People said it was unsafe, that it caused brain cancer, psychosis, and even sleep disorders." |
| 471 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': |
| 472 | ** Q appears again in a variation of this from the last episode: |
| 473 | --->'''Picard''': Are you saying that it worked? We collapsed the anomaly?\ |
| 474 | '''Q''': Well, you're here, aren't you? You're talking to me, aren't you?\ |
| 475 | '''Picard''': What about my crew?\ |
| 476 | '''Q''': "The [[NegativeSpaceWedgie anomaly]]... my [[CoolStarship ship]]... my [[TheMenFirst crew]]..." I suppose you're worried about your fish, too. Well, if it puts your mind at ease, you've saved humanity... once again. |
| 477 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': |
| 478 | ** This dialogue is possibly the greatest example of this trope ever: |
| 479 | --->'''Anan''': You will be responsible for an escalation that will destroy everything. Millions of people horribly killed. Complete destruction of our culture here and yes, the culture on Vendikar. Disaster, disease, starvation, horrible, lingering death... pain and anguish! \ |
| 480 | '''Kirk''': That seems to frighten you. |
| 481 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efM6qFDHwQ "You're a traitor from a race of traitors, disloyal to the core, rotten like the rest of your subhuman race -- and you've got the GALL to make love to that girl!"]] |
| 482 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': During a holodeck-related episode, light-based aliens assume the Flash-Gordon-esque "Captain Proton" game is real and declare war on the fictional villain. The Doctor, acting as the President, has to get them to trust Paris / Proton and rattles off a list of his character's heroic accomplishments, ending with "and a competent medic, but don't tell him I said so." |
| 483 | * ''Series/StrictlyComeDancing'': When Bruce Forsyth introduces the four judges, complete with witty descriptions, he usually finishes with Craig Revel-Horwood (known for being the nastiest of the judges) and insults him -- recently describing him as "a bitter lemon". |
| 484 | * ''Series/{{Suburgatory}}'': They seemed almost to REFERENCE this trope when Tessa, hearing police sirens, wonders if the crime is "Arson? Murder?" but is disappointed when she finds out some dolls were stolen. |
| 485 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 486 | ** Season 1's episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E09Home "Home"]] had three problems in Jenny's house, where the Winchesters used to live: flickering lights, scratching on the walls and [[spoiler:a ''backed up sink'']]. |
| 487 | ** In the Season 5 TV-parody episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E08ChangingChannels "Changing Channels"]], the commercial for the fictional genital herpes medication, Herpexia, lists the drug's side effects as follows (as recited by Dean): |
| 488 | --->'''Dean (voiceover)''': Side effects of Herpexia include permanent erectile dysfunction, thoughts of suicide, and nausea. |
| 489 | ** In Season 6's [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E15TheFrenchMistake "The French Mistake"]], Sam and Dean are being chewed out by executive producer Bob Singer: "You can't come to work on poppers and smuggle kidneys in from Mexico and make up your own lines as you go! You cannot make up your own lines! Good god, what about your careers?" |
| 490 | --->'''Dean''': Apocalypse apocalypse? Four horsemen, pestilence, five-dollar-a-gallon gas apocalypse? |
| 491 | * ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': [[KillerRobot Cameron]] tends to do this whenever someone [[TheMasquerade reminds her]] to act more like a human. In one scene, she grabs a kid by the collar and lifts him up: |
| 492 | -->'''Cameron''': If you call your mother, that man will use her to find you. Then he'll kill her. He'll kill you. \ |
| 493 | '''Sarah''': Uh, Cameron. \ |
| 494 | '''Cameron''': Would you like a bedtime story? |
| 495 | ** In another episode, the Connors house gets robbed. They interrogate a man who received their stolen goods. They demand that he give back their passports, ID's, credit cards...and Cameron's leather jacket. She's strangely attached to it despite she being a cyborg. |
| 496 | * Happens at the end of "A Hero is Born" episode of ''Series/TheThundermans''. Barb lists the three things that happened in the plot that she missed in this order: "So Max [[spoiler:turned Dr. Colosso back to a human]], Phoebe [[spoiler:told Cherry our family secret]], and Nora has been banned from the baby store? |
| 497 | * ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'': |
| 498 | ** A bit more serious than other examples, but Doggie Kruger reads the charges that Ben-G is accused of: planetary piracy, billions of deaths resulting from the first, and kidnapping an S.P.D. officer [[note]]Swan Shiratori, his assistant[[/note]]. |
| 499 | * ''Series/TheTomorrowPeople1973'': In Monsoon Man, when Middlemas asks if they're allowed to park, Wilkie scoffs, "Double attempted murder AND kindapping. And that's just today! Psh, you're wetting your pants over a parking ticket!" |
| 500 | * ''Series/TheTonightShow'': After advisors failed to wake UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan after the shooting down of Libyan warplanes, Creator/JohnnyCarson famously quipped, "I understand there are only two reasons you wake up Ronald Reagan. One is WorldWarIII. The other is if ''Hellcats of the Navy''[[note]]The only film in which he and wife Nancy appeared together[[/note]] is on the late show." |
| 501 | * ''Series/TopGearUK'': |
| 502 | ** Presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May are teasing each other about famous persons who have owned their classic luxury cars. May's Rolls-Royce Corniche has been the car of Elton John and other CampGay icons... but Clarkson's MB 600 Grosser has been owned by such notables as Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Fidel Castro, "and Music/ElvisPresley." |
| 503 | ** Another example, from the WhatDoTheyFearEpisode in South America: |
| 504 | --->'''Hammond:''' So, uh... all these insects? Where are they?\ |
| 505 | '''Clarkson:''' You're frightened of insects?\ |
| 506 | '''Hammond:''' Yeah, it's like you ''<points at James>'' and heights; you're scared of falling off! It's a phobia.\ |
| 507 | '''James:''' ''<looks at Jeremy>'' So what's yours?\ |
| 508 | '''Clarkson:''' Phobia? Manual labour, you know that. |
| 509 | * ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': Lampshaded when Jack discusses the rehabs that his old partner John Hart had to attend. To the audience, ending with "murder" as the last rehab sounds fairly serious, but apparently it's a joke to the two Time Agents. Just goes to show that a little perspective goes a long ways: |
| 510 | -->'''Jack:''' So, how was rehab?\ |
| 511 | '''John:''' Rehab'''s'''. Plural.\ |
| 512 | '''Jack:''' Drink, drugs, sex and ...?\ |
| 513 | '''John:''' Murder.\ |
| 514 | '''Jack:''' ''[laughs]'' You went to murder rehab?\ |
| 515 | '''John:''' I know. Ridiculous. The odd kill, who does it hurt? |
| 516 | * ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'': Rex Matheson gives us this: "I had a pole through my chest, I was dead, then I wasn't. And then I had to pay for this bridge." |
| 517 | * [[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Prime Minister Julia Gillard]] appeared on the [[Creator/AustralianBroadcastingCorporation Triple J TV]] show for a very tongue in cheek [[MayanDoomsday end of the world]] speech. |
| 518 | -->'''[[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Julia]]''':Whether the final blow comes from [[ZombieApocalypse flesh-eating zombies]], [[HellOnEarth demonic hell-beasts]] or from the total triumph of [[Main/KoreanPopMusic K-Pop]], if you know one thing about me it is this -- I will always fight for you to the very end. |
| 519 | * ''Tugga Bunch'': In this MadeForTVMovie, Bridget finds out that the MacGuffin she's looking for is in the country of Shrugs, causing the other characters to react with fear. When she asks what's wrong with them, Huggins tells her, "Shrugs is a bad place, and scary, and gruesome, and hard to get to." |
| 520 | * In the Season 2 finale of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', The siblings watch the news and find the police are looking for them. Vanya is wanted for the deaths of some FBI agents, Diego is believed to be a Cuban exile and is sought for escaping a sanitarium, Luther is wanted for his mafia ties and is incorrectly referred to as 'King Kong', Allison is accused of being a 'negro radical' responsible for a riot, and Klaus is a tax evader. Five is not wanted for any crimes, but the police believe he is a child being held hostage by the aforementioned 'terrorists'. |
| 521 | * In an episode of ''Series/VeronicaMars'', quoth Cormac, "Between here and Granger, you got... rattlesnakes, coyote traps, scorpions, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hippies doing mushrooms]], all kinds of bad stuff." |
| 522 | * ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'': In "[[Recap/VoyagersS1E1Voyagers Voyagers]]" (the pilot), Bogg is chewing Jeffrey out and listing the events that could happen as a result of him losing his guidebook: empires falling, wars raging, and Bogg losing his job. |
| 523 | * ''Series/WellingtonParanormal'': |
| 524 | ** Wellington's top police officers are always focused on the most important points of any situation: "I was returning the car to its rightful owner, when all of a sudden it started driving itself, um, speaking to me in a ghostly manner, uh, and going 60 kilometres per hour in a 50 k zone." |
| 525 | * ''Series/TheWestWing'': |
| 526 | ** After Danny publishes an article on the weaknesses in the Bartlet Administration, C.J freezes him out of the press loop for a while despite the fact he's the White House's Senior Correspondent. When he eventually confronts her about it, C.J. lampshades the trope by listing that the last of his achievements is by far the weakest. |
| 527 | --->'''Danny''': CJ, I'm not staying in the penalty box forever. I have covered the White House for eight years and I've done it with the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, and the Dallas Morning News! And I'm telling you you can't mess me around like this!\ |
| 528 | '''C.J.''': Danny, I just gotta tell you, that was -- seriously -- that was a turn-on when you said that, though I don't know why you decided to be your most haughty on the Dallas Morning News in that sentence. |
| 529 | ** When Leo returns to work after his convalescence, he is talking to Debbie while waiting to enter the Oval Office and accidentally discovers that she hates being called 'Deb'. When he asks her why she's never told the President, she discusses this trope by pointing out just how weak an issue it is to raise with him considering just what he has to deal with on a daily basis. |
| 530 | --->'''Leo [=McGarry=]''': Ever tell the President?\ |
| 531 | '''Deborah Fiderer''': Hard to work it in. "Sir, the North Koreans just threatened to rain nuclear fire on Japan again, the NASDAQ is tanking, there's a Category IV hurricane making landfall in the Keys, and, oh, don't call me Deb." |
| 532 | * ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'': |
| 533 | ** In one episode, Greg gives the Chief a melon and Vienna sausage sandwich, topped with peanut butter and mayonnaise, on white bread. The Chief is appalled... that he'd use white bread. |
| 534 | ** The full version of the theme song does this, too. After listing a large number of crimes, including stealing Seoul from South Korea and ransacking Pakistan, the last crime mentioned before the final chorus is "her itinerary's loaded up with moving violations." |
| 535 | ** Don't forget "She put the "miss" in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima" after ransacking, scamming, and pickpocketing. |
| 536 | * ''Series/WhiteCollar'': Agent Kramer tries to pull a literal version of this trope in the Season 3 finale: |
| 537 | -->'''Kramer:''' These Marshalls are here to take Neal Caffrey into custody when he returns.\ |
| 538 | '''Peter:''' For what?\ |
| 539 | '''Kramer:''' Public endangerment. I've got a dozen eyewitnesses who saw Caffrey hop that tram. Combine that with evading arrest, obstruction of justice... I may even throw in a ''jaywalking'' charge for good measure. |
| 540 | * ''Series/WhoIsAmerica'': |
| 541 | ** Erran Morad (Creator/SachaBaronCohen) dupes Dick Cheney into signing a "waterboarding kit" that had previously been signed by the likes of Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Music/DemiLovato. |
| 542 | ** Rick Sherman, in a deleted scene, offers food critic Bill Jilla a ham covered in prison tattoos that include a Nazi swastika, the words "White Power", and Ryan Gosling. |
| 543 | * ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': It doesn't quite fit the pattern, but both the British and American versions of this show have the host announcing each of the players, prefacing each of their names with some sort of title, each title being related... until he reaches Ryan Stiles (always last), at which point the title is related but ridiculous. |
| 544 | -->"I think you're a wonderful person: Wayne Brady! I'm just not that into you: Kathy Greenwood! It's not you, it's me: Colin Mochrie! And GET OUT! JUST GET OUT!: Ryan Stiles!" |
| 545 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': |
| 546 | ** Season 2 has an episode entitled "Humbug", about a series of grisly murders in a community of retired and off-season circus sideshow performers. |
| 547 | --->'''Dr Blockhead''': No, in the classical sense The Conundrum is a geek.\ |
| 548 | '''Mulder''': He eats live animals...\ |
| 549 | '''Dr Blockhead''': He eats anything: Live animals, dead animals, rocks, light bulbs, corkscrews, battery cables, cranberries... |
| 550 | ** Episode "Darkness Falls". Mulder's commenting a slide show and Scully asks about a photo of loggers. |
| 551 | --->'''Scully''': Right, but what am I looking for?\ |
| 552 | '''Mulder''': Anything strange, unexplainable, unlikely... boyfriend? |
| 553 | * ''Series/YesDear'': Toward the end of one episode, the Hughes family make amends with the Warner family by giving them things the Hugheses had broken -- a laundry machine, a blender, and... the Warners' oldest son. |
| 554 | * ''Series/YoungBlades'': Siroc lists off the side effects of his LovePotion: |
| 555 | -->'''Siroc:''' I guarantee there will be no permanent harmful side effects. There might just be a little bit of... nausea. And some headaches. And rashes. And diarrhea. And loss of appetite.\ |
| 556 | '''[[BigEater Ramon]]:''' [[FelonyMisdemeanor Loss of appetite?!]]\ |
| 557 | '''Siroc:''' Just kidding. |
| 558 | * ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': When they found a nuclear bomb in their kitchen, Rik wanted to use it to make the Prime Minister "do something for the kids": |
| 559 | -->'''Rik''': Point 1: Abolish poverty! Point 2: Abolish capitalism! Point 3: ''Music/DexysMidnightRunners'' playing free, daily, in the University library! |
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