Line #74 Main/HowIsThatEvenPossible


1	->''"This doesn't seem physically possible!"''
2	-->-- '''[[RunningGag/RedVsBlue Many People]]''', ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''
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4	A StockPhrase that is commonly used as a LampshadeHanging of [[ToonPhysics those occasions when the laws of physics and other scientific laws are blatantly defied]]. This is sometimes caused by AchievementsInIgnorance, when the impossible thing only occurs because the person involved has no idea that what they are doing is supposed to be impossible.
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6	Often PlayedForLaughs, this phrase can be used to tell the audience that the strange or unusual occurrences going on ''aren't'' the norm for the world in which the story is taking place. It can also be used as part of the RuleOfScary for the same reason. Contrast ThisCannotBe, which tends to be more dramatic.
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8	On occasion, this trope will be accompanied by an explanation of how the strange occurrence is impossible. The creators will use this to demonstrate that [[ShownTheirWork they did their homework]]. Alternately, the impossible event will be [[AWizardDidIt chalked up to "magic"]], possibly with an explanation that [[MagicAIsMagicA magic really isn't supposed to work that way]]. If something [[BeyondTheImpossible breaks the story's internal logic]] expect this question to come up.
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10	This is commonly used with TookAShortcut, when a character wonders how another character could have gotten to a place ahead of them so fast.
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12	Compare and contrast with FridgeLogic. May result in someone GivingUpOnLogic.
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16	!!Examples:
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20	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
21	* Beauty's default reaction to ''Anime/BoboboboBobobo'''s antics.
22	* ''Manga/ACentaursLife'': In an early chapter, a flashback has Minami discover her mischievous little sisters have somehow wandered ''twenty kilometers'' from home within five hours of taking their first steps, and can only wonder "How?"
23	* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': Haruko and Amarao have a long and exhausting battle where Haruko fights off all his mooks [[InstrumentOfMurder with a guitar]], destroys half the shop they're in, and finally deflects all his bullets by [[ImplausibleFencingPowers slicing them in half with a box-cutter]]. At that point, Amarao [[GivingUpOnLogic gives up on trying to make sense of it all]].
24	-->'''Amarao:''' ''[flatly]'' You can't be real.
25	* One of the older characters in ''Anime/DieBuster'' reacts to Nono splitting a black hole in half with "That is something that is not allowed in this universe!"
26	* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'', this is the heroes' reaction to the villainess Lilith somehow using her [[BlowYouAway wind attacks]] ''underwater''.
27	* In the ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' episode "One Trick Phony!", this is everyone's reactions to Jessie's Charizard somehow doing moves that logically a Charizard shouldn't be able to do, like [[TunnelKing Dig]]. That said, in the game Charizard can learn it by a TM.
28	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
29	** This is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fkUsUbpZk Vivi's reaction]] when Nami is able to predict when a cyclone will hit while navigating the Grand Line, something regarded as impossible by most pirates. She wonders whether Nami does so less from researched skills and more from innate ability.
30	** During the Alabasta arc, when Usopp and Chopper finds out that the opponents they're fighting are using a ''gun'' which ''ate'' a Devil Fruit, Usopp openly asks how can an inanimate object "eat" a Devil Fruit, with the opponent merely replying that there's a reason why. We later learn that WG scientist Doctor Vegapunk managed to find a way to have item absorb the power of Zoan Devil Fruits.
31	** In the Wano arc, Franky has a major one when his opponent Sasaki, who can transform into a Triceratops, showcase the ability to [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology spin his head frill to fly like an helicopter]].
32	* In the first episode of ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', Yuya defeats his foe by Pendulum Summoning, a technique that was, up to then, unknown. Even Yuya himself has no idea - at the time - how he did it, and is shocked to see that he won. (He'd find out how later, [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne much to his regret.]])
33	* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Goku reveals he has no idea what kissing is. Vegeta incredulously points out that Goku has been married for years and has two children. Goku doesn't see what that has to do with it. This is due to a translation issue. In the original, Goku witnessed Trunks feeding Mai a senzu bean through mouth-to-mouth contact, and when he said he'd never done "that" before, Vegeta asssumes he's talking about kissing.
34	* In ''Manga/NegimaNeo'', Asuna picks up and throws a boat at the vampire Evangeline. While dodging it, Eva is shocked and asks how Asuna is so strong, since she is human.
35	* ''Manga/TimeStopHero'':
36	** People who are unaware that Sekai can freeze time often wonder how he can move so fast.
37	** Leafa sees that a FierySalamander was turned into a vampire and wonders how the vampires were able to bite it since it is covered with flames.
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41	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': The first issue of the reboot had Archie working at an ice cream place and the manager asking "How? '''How?'''" when the former somehow managed to set the ice cream on fire.
42	* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': Atomic Robo occasionally has to ask himself: "Why do we even ''have'' the SquareCubeLaw?"
43	* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'': Batman's StealthHiBye is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d in the epilogue, when Clark bemusedly asks how in the world did he sneak up on ''him'', since he has XRayVision and super hearing. Bruce just states that it was easy thanks to the [[RussianReversal the scenery]] [[ChewingTheScenery chewing everyone]], and that the JLA could be fighting the Legion of Doom in the restaurant and the patrons would assume it's AllPartOfTheShow.
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47	* Creator/CharlesAddams's [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMuDihPPyPA/Sy_Kr3PtRtI/AAAAAAAAMEs/5zh5Gg-2XD0/s400/addams.jpg skier]] cartoon has a non-verbal example where a skier looks in shock at a skier managing to get past a tree in his way just by spreading his skis around the tree.
48	* In one series of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' strips, Opus and Milo are hunting for the Basselope in the forest. In one, Opus thinks he sees him and takes a Polaroid shot, but instead takes a picture of a squirrel blowing a raspberry at them with a loud "Thpptp!" In the last panel, Opus looks at it and says, "How can a picture go 'Thpptp'?"
49	* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' has many, most involving Snoopy:
50	** In one strip, Snoopy is asleep while playing second base, with an alarm clock behind him. It rings, waking him up, and he catches the fly ball coming towards him. A confused Charlie Brown says, "How do you set the alarm for a fly ball??"
51	** In another strip, Snoopy tries to dive into Lucy's wading pool, but she shouts, '''"Oh no you don't!"''' and Snoopy ''turns around in mid-air''. Then he says to himself, "Now how did I do ''that''?"
52	** In another, Snoopy is upset that it's raining on his face, and shouts "Why can't it only rain on my legs?" And it ''does''. When Lucy comes by and asks how that's possible, he says, "There are always ways of working things out."
53	** One strip set in winter has him lying on his doghouse, covered with snow. When Charlie Brown comes out with his supper, he takes his dish, eats it - evidenced by loud chewing sounds - and hands the empty dish back, all ''without disturbing the snow''. "I wonder how he did that?!" muses Charlie Brown.
54	* In ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'', the Spook digs a tunnel out of his prison cell and surfaces through the neck of the Wizard's wine bottle. "This isn't possible!", he says.
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57	[[folder:Fan Works]]
58	* ''Fanfic/RWBYEpicOfRemnant'': When Angra Mainyu sees that Remnant's moon is shattered, he asks, "... what the hell could even DO that?"
59	* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'':
60	** Upon learning Nora and Blake joined the White Fang, a Faunus-supremacy terrorist group, Weiss demands to know "how could you." Blake tries to defend her actions, but Weiss clarifies that she meant it literally: ''How'' did they join the White Fang?
61	--->'''Weiss:''' Nora's not even a Faunus!
62	** Sun has a similar reaction to finding out that Jaune is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-Grimm]], then asks if the Beowolf that Jaune is petting is his dad.
63	** Weiss's reaction to learning that the massive crystals in the Grimmlands are all [[GreenRocks Dust]]. Jaune even claims they ''grow'' this close to Salem's tower, which flies in the face of everything Weiss knows about Dust.
64	--->'''Weiss:''' The largest unrefined piece of Dust in the world is slightly larger than my fist. It's in my father's study.
65	* ''Fanfic/WormGrandOrder'': Taylor Hebert and her Servants kill Leviathan by cutting it open and extracting its core. Hero asks how it is possible they were able to do that, since Leviathan's flesh becomes denser the deeper you go and the area around the core is infinitely dense, meaning it would take more energy than the universe can hold to penetrate it. Da Vinci explains that they made a wish on the Holy Grail to weaken Leviathan and make it possible. [[CassandraTruth He doesn't believe her]] because [[ArbitrarySkepticism he doesn't believe that magic is real]], then says he'll figure out the science behind the feat later.
66	* ''Fanfic/PointMeAtTheSkyrim'': Sevitus cannot believe that Victoria Dallon's world does not generally believe in magic, as the powers that some have seem to be very clear signs to it's existence. Victoria, not knowing that humans in Skyrim are generally stronger than her home universe, is shocked at the fact that the bandits she captured leapt from a thirty-foot tree and simply left once they landed.
67	* ''Fanfic/FateKill'': This is the general reaction everyone has whenever Shirou uses his powers. For example, when he uses Reinforcement on everybody's clothes, and Akame demonstrates her sword cannot penetrate them, everyone is stunned and asking how he did that.
68	* ''Fanfic/GodSlayingBladeWorks'': This is the general reaction everyone in ''Literature/{{Campione}}'' has whenever [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Shirou or Illya]] use their powers, as they can [[WrongContextMagic perform spells without having to invoke the power of a god or other magical being]]. Guinevere and Lancelot are baffled when Shirou Traces copies of the weapons Excalibur, Caliburn, Rhongomyniad, and Arondight. In the Campioneverse, Excalibur belongs to Artus, The King of the End, and no other. Caliburn, Rhongomyniad, and Arondight are mere stories and do not even exist in the Campioneverse, yet their senses tell them they are real. Everybody gets really baffled when Shirou uses [[MentalWorld Unlimited Blade Works]].
69	* Yang has this reaction in ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'' when her MegatonPunch sends Cassidy and Butch into ATwinkleInTheSky.
70	-->'''Yang''': That was so freakin’ surreal! Am I on drugs? Does that aromatherapy stuff have side effects?\
71	'''Weiss''': If you are, we all are, Yang.\
72	'''Casey''': Yeah… Team Rocket just… does that. Like, all the time.\
73	'''Weiss''': Exploding for no reason, or the threatening poetry?\
74	'''Casey''': ...Yes
75	* ''Fanfic/FateStarryNight'': Shirou serves Bazett tea. Even though the tea is still boiling hot, she drinks the whole thing in one gulp. Everyone is baffled, while she doesn't understand what the big deal is.
76	* ''Fanfic/TheVastoOfWhite'': Everyone is baffled by Shirou's ability to copy Zanpakuto. They get even more shocked when [[spoiler:he unleashes the true Unlimited Blade Works to combat Yhwach and this sends everyone to a world of endless swords where the Zanpakuto Spirits can take physical form.]]
77	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12042138/1/Unknown-Legends Unknown Legends]]'': The ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' characters are usually baffled when ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' characters demonstrate their magical abilities. Also, when Link and Lana see a boat made of metal, they are baffled, having only ever seen boats made of wood, and Lana asks how in the world it doesn't sink.
78	* ''Fanfic/KrisPerformsSurgery'': After getting banished into his own ass, Rudy questions how that's even possible, since he doesn't yet know that he's inside a Dark World made from his own body.
79	* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Captain Janeway has this response to seeing a holodeck for the first time, given that people are swimming, boating and fishing in a holodeck ocean, and even eating what they catch.
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83	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': The clerk in the land of the undead starts sneezing around Miguel's dog Dante because he's allergic. Miguel asks how this can even be possible seeing as Dante doesn't even have hair; the clerk adds that he also doesn't even have a nose, then shrugs.
84	* From ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'':
85	-->'''Kuzco:''' No! It can't be! How did you get back here before us?\
86	'''Yzma:''' Ah... ''[looks confused]'' How ''did'' we, Kronk?\
87	'''Kronk:''' Well, ya got me. ''[pulls down a chart displaying the progress of the previous chase]'' By all accounts, it doesn't make sense.
88	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Ming asks this of Mei when Mei manages to resist the CutenessProximity triggering box of kittens.
89	* In ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBearsTheMovie'', Panda asks this when his follower count on an Instagram-esque site [[BrokeTheRatingScale gets to]] [[EpicFail -1]].
90	* Music/TheBeatles affect this reaction in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'' when they see that Sgt. Pepper's Band, encased in a big glass ball, is the spitting image of themselves (or as John explains it, "extensions of our own personalities").
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94	* When a zombie clamps its jaws onto the arm of Mickey from ''Film/CockneysVsZombies'', Katy blows its head apart, leaving the jaws still stuck to Mickey's limb. Everybody gawks at the still-attached jaws, and one of them asks "Is that even actually possible...?" ''while they're looking at it''.
95	* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Dr. [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists Emma Russell]] quotes the StockPhrase almost ''ad verbatim'' when Mancini informs her that the Mothra-holding Yunnan outpost's containment systems are failing and their perimeter alarms are going haywire. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}, as she actually ''knows'' Jonah and his posse are coming, [[EvilAllAlong and she's just asking before they launch their physical attack for show]]]].
96	* ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': Superman and Cyborg get floored by a massive explosion. Cyborg complains that his toes hurt, and wonders how this can be considering almost all of his body, including his feet, is mechanical (and said feet don't have toes!).
97	* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', this is a beat cop's reaction to not only witnessing Trinity leap over a six-lane street, plus sidewalks, to go from rooftop to rooftop, but seeing Agent Brown follow her.
98	* Said almost word for word in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' when the Dread Pirate Roberts reveals to Buttercup that he is in fact her sweetheart, Westley. She wants to know how this is possible, given that the Dread Pirate Roberts has been marauding for twenty years, but Westley only disappeared, presumed dead, five years ago. Westley then explains that the Dread Pirate Roberts is a LegacyCharacter -- the original has been "living like a king in Patagonia for quite some time."
99	* In the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby film ''Film/RoadToBali'', Bob Hope is deep-sea diving when he is attacked by a giant squid. The diving crew pulls him out, only to find his suit is only filled with air; Hope resurfaces without the suit a moment later. When Crosby asks how he got out of the suit, Hope starts to explain, but then [[NoFourthWall notices the camera]] and pulls Crosby away to where the viewers can't hear the explanation. Afterwards, Crosby turns to the camera and shrugs.
100	* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': Scott is very confused by the black censor boxes that pop up on Julie's mouth when she swears, and asks how she's doing that.
101	-->'''Scott:''' How are you doing that with your mouth?\
102	'''Julie:''' Never [BEEP]ing mind how I'm doing it!
103	* In ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'', an all-female soccer team practically flies across the soccer field the way Sing and the others do, prompting this exchange:
104	-->'''Light Weight Vest:''' How do they fly like that?\
105	'''Sing:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Must be special effects!]]
106	* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Doctor Strange separates Spider-Man's astral form from his body to take a magic box back from him. To his total surprise, Spider-Man's Spider Sense takes over and starts swinging his arm around quickly to keep the box away from Strange, while Strange keeps futilely trying to grab at it. Strange protests that Spider-Man should not be able to do this.
107	--->'''Strange:''' How are—you—doing this?\
108	'''Peter:''' I have no idea.\
109	'''Strange:''' You shouldn't—be able—to do that!
110	* From ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'':
111	-->'''Uhura:''' Admiral, I have a signal closing on the whales. Bearing 328 degrees.\
112	'''Kirk:''' On screen.\
113	'''Gillian:''' How can you do... that...\
114	'''Uhura:''' On screen.
115	* Also an ongoing theme in ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', beginning with the evident (but impossible) fact that the ''Enterprise'' fired on the Klingon chancellor's flagship [[ISurrenderSuckers while under a flag of truce.]]
116	-->'''Spock:''' An [[ShoutOut ancestor of mine]] maintained that when you [[Literature/SherlockHolmes eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth]]. If we did not fire those torpedoes, another ship did.
117	** This, incidentally, leads into another iteration of this trope: For another ship to have been in position to launch the attack in question without being detected, it had to be cloaked, and ships in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' setting cannot fire their weapons while cloaked, except for the fact that one ship evidently did just that.
118	* ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'': Superman's Metropolis debut, catching Lois Lane and a falling helicopter in mid-air:
119	-->'''Superman:''' Easy, miss! I've got you!\
120	'''Lois:''' ''[hysterical]'' You've got me? ''Who's got you!?''
121	* Classic example from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'':
122	-->'''Dorothy:''' Oh come now, how can you talk if you haven't got a brain?\
123	'''Scarecrow:''' I don't know! But some people without brains do an ''awful'' lot of talking.
124	** This is probably to underscore the Aesop at the end that all the characters already had what they thought they lacked, they just never realized it before.
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128	* In ''Literature/{{Contact}}'' (the book, not [[Film/{{Contact}} the movie]]), while the characters are moving through the wormhole, one of them, a theoretical physicist, does some calculations and says (paraphrase): "I can almost prove mathematically this can't be happening."
129	* In the ''Literature/{{Elenium}}'' trilogy, Sparhawk at one point declares he's going to reach down a specific enemy's throat and pull his heart out through his mouth. One of his companions, a little unnerved, inquires whether that's even possible. Sparhawk calmly replies that yes, it is, "if your arm is long enough and you know what you're looking for." He never gets the chance to do it, but [[MemeticBadass Sparhawk being Sparhawk]], he almost certainly ''could'' have.
130	* In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' books, Manticore's enemies tend to be quite startled at the Manticorans' technological feats, the fruits of an expensive decades-long secret research program. Starting from ''Mission of Honor'', the Manticorans get a chance to experience that sensation themselves when [[spoiler:the Mesan Alignment attacks their home system with unseen new technologies, without leaving any hard evidence to implicate themselves.]]
131	* As in the film example noted above, Buttercup wants this answered in ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' regarding the Dread Pirate Roberts being Westley.
132	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': At several points in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' characters are bewildered by the various things by which they're menaced. Tash asks a cloning technician droid how the clones are being grown so quickly, but the droid tells her it's classified.
133	* At several points in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' a character notes that the zombies are impossible — not just biologically, but even from elementary physics ([[NoConservationOfEnergy moving endlessly with no energy input.]]) And having waved to reality as it passed, the story carries on as before.
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137	* In the ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "Regional Holiday Music", Mr. Radd somehow manages to play a piano without touching it.
138	-->'''Abed''': How's your piano still playing this song?\
139	'''Mr. Radd''': [[HandWave Glee is the answer when questions are wrong!]]
140	* Played for drama in ''Series/TheExpanse'' when [[spoiler: the infected Eros station zooming away from a crashing ship]] defies all sorts of physics, which signals to everyone in the solar system that something is ''really wrong''.
141	-->'''Holden:''' [[MassOhCrap Uh, okay, so we broke a few laws of physics here.]]
142	%%* ''Series/{{Fringe}}''. Its said pretty much OnceAnEpisode.
143	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In a funny moment for the usually nightmarish Ramsay Bolton, one time, Ramsay's father Roose announces that he has gotten his morbidly obese wife/Ramsay's stepmother Walda pregnant. Ramsay asks ''how'' he was able to have sex with her and ''how'' they are able to tell she is pregnant.
144	* In multiple episodes of ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', Spencer says this after something he makes/fixes spontaneously bursts into flames.
145	* In an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Kelly is hustling pool under Jefferson's tutelage; after a prospective mark comes in with a ''very'' large wager, Al decided to take over from Jefferson. However, to meet the ante, he goes to ''nine'' blood banks to sell blood. Jefferson points out that the human body only contains ''eight'' pints of blood, although the dazed and disoriented Al clearly isn't sure himself how he did it (or how he's still alive).
146	* In an early ''Series/SesameStreet'' sketch, Ernie pours himself a glass of milk while hanging upside down, ignoring Bert's warnings that the milk would spill.
147	* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' season 3 episode "Covenant", Kara flies. Clark Kent, who has never seen this power before (in fact, he doesn't learn how to consciously fly until ''season 10''), is baffled and asks how it is possible.
148	* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Spectre of the Gun". When Spock and [=McCoy=] test their KnockoutGas on Scott, it doesn't work.
149	-->'''Spock''': Captain, you don't seem to understand. It did not function, but it must function.\
150	'''[=McCoy=]''': Nothing could go wrong, Captain. It should work.\
151	'''Spock''': A scientific fact. But if the tranquilizer does not function, which is clearly impossible, then a radical alteration of our thought patterns must be in order.
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155	* Most of the comments on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcjjBU-iNA0 live performance of]] [[AwesomeMusic/TouhouEarlyWindowsEra "Voyage into a Cage"]] are some variant of this.
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158	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
159	* One time, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon claimed he had lost his virginity at age 12. Jonathan Coachman responded by asking, "How is that even possible?"
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162	[[folder:Radio]]
163	* Played for laughs on ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' when panelist Brian Babylon can't believe he's tied with CloudCuckoolander Creator/BobcatGoldthwait going into the final round.
164	-->'''Carl Kasell:''' Roxanne Roberts has the lead, Peter. She has five points. Brian Babylon and Bobcat Goldthwait are tied for second, they both have two points.\
165	'''Peter Sagal:''' Okay. Well...\
166	'''Brian Babylon:''' How is that possible?\
167	'''Peter Sagal:''' I don't know. ''(laughter)''\
168	'''Bobcat Goldthwait:''' Why are you insulted that you're tied with me? ''(laughter)'' "How is that possible? ''(laughter)'' He was in ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' for god's sakes!"
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172	* Played with in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons''. One villager interaction dialogue is them thinking how things don’t make sense on the island, like three kinds of wood from one tree and Tom Nook and the Nooklings buying stuff from you to give you money to pay off your house. But then they decide they’re worrying over nothing.
173	* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' the storytelling hobo Idiot Doom Spiral can tell you the {{Urban Legend\|s}} of the Cocaine Skull, which involves an infamous cocaine abusing graphic designer and his untimely death. Doom Spiral claims that when the graphic designer's body was subject to an autopsy, the coroner discovered "nearly a quarter kilo of coke jammed into his nasal cavity." [[TalkingToThemself Your skills are not quite sure what to make of this.]]
174	-->'''[[TheSmartGuy Logic]]:''' That's... almost certainly anatomically impossible.\
175	'''[[TheHedonist Electrochemistry]]:''' WRONG AGAIN, NERD. Where there's a will, there's a way.
176	* Flipping the super-heavy Elephant tank in ''VideoGame/Halo3'' elicits this response from the game when you try to flip it back over.
177	* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Garrus Vakarian's skill with [[AscendedMeme calibrations]] is ''legendary''. [[RobotBuddy Legion]] calls him out on this.
178	--> '''Legion''': Telemetry indicates that the calibration of Normandy's weapon accuracy could be increased by .32%.\
179	'''Garrus''': You couldn't squeeze .34% out of it?\
180	'''Legion''': Negative. That threshold is impossible.\
181	'''Garrus''': You sure? Take a look now.\
182	'''Legion''': Scanning. [[BeyondTheImpossible Normandy's weapon systems have been improved by .43%]]. ''[[DoubleTake How did you accomplish this?]]''
183	* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', one of Ellis's stories about his friend [[TheGhost Keith]] involves them making their own fireworks and Keith having 95% of his body covered in third-degree burns as a result. Another involves Keith attempting to deep-fry a turkey and getting 90% of his body covered in burns ''on top'' of the ones he had from the prior incident, and his doctor had to call other doctors because they didn't know that was even possible.
184	* In ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'', the Narrator quotes this ''word per word'' when you activate the Real Person ending, somehow making an 'incorrect' decision.
185	* The opening cinematic of ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' shows Gabe and Lian responding to a viral outbreak in a small village in the Himalayas. Gabe comments that their contact in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization WHO]] was correct, and that everyone within a hundred miles is dead. Lian replies that the man she is inspecting is still alive. Gabe asks how it is possible and Lian replies it isn't. This is meant to foreshadow the ultimate reveal that Syphon Filter is a virus that can be programmed only to kill specific people.
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188	[[folder:Webcomics]]
189	* Subverted in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''. Fighter claims that gravity had been slain (since [[InsaneTrollLogic Black Mage had saved them by cushioning their falling airship with a large explosion as it crash landed]]), which would allow them to fly...and to everyone's amazement, takes off. Then it turns out [[AWizardDidIt Sarda the Sage]] decided the best way to bring them to him would be to fly them in at just that moment.
190	** This is generally [[OnlySaneMan Black Mage's]] reaction to the improbable things his much-hated teammates do. By the time the Light Warriors reach the Temple of Fiends again, he's stopped complaining.
191	--->"What I hate about my life... '''Part''' of what I hate about my life is that it '''is''' working."
192	** Fighter tends to invoke this in everyone around him. A prime example comes when he manages to somehow win "Drownball" (a sport parodying ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'''s Blitzball) by being the only player ''not'' to drown; everyone who hears about this feat is left completely stunned.
193	*** There was also the time he saved the Light Warriors from a fatal fall by '''blocking the Earth''', his "logic" being that he blocks things like swords and fire magic all the time. Thief sums it up: "I hate it when the things he says that don't make sense ''make'' sense."
194	** Sarda also invokes this (using a FlatWhat) when Ranger '''[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/27/episode-1087-exalted-feat/ dual-wields his dual-wield]]'''.
195	* ''Webcomic/LolaAndMrWrinkles'': All but said by Brutus after he realizes that Hugo— a 300lb St. Bernard— climbed to the ''top'' of a very tall tree after being spooked by him.
196	* ''Webcomic/{{Pupster}}'': Danny asks Pupster how they managed to build an airplane out of wood and leaves so fast in the thirtysecond page of ''Pup, Pup, And Away''.
197	->'''Danny''': How did we build it so fast anyway?
198	->'''Pupster''': Uh... logic?
199	* Happens to the word in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2133 this]] ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' strip, when an AI appears to be drunk.
200	* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' pokes fun at the ways ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' tend to ignore what we think of as the laws of physics, [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0121.html as below:]]
201	-->'''Blossom:''' You're blocking my scent with yours!? Th- that doesn't even make sense!\
202	'''Marena:''' I'm Exalted! I just smell '''that good'''.
203	* One ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' strip has [=PeeJee=]'s ice cream cone suddenly turn out to be Davan's boneless cat, Choo-Choo Bear. When she complains about the unlikeliness of this, Davan points out that her last storyline was resolved when the antagonist was eaten by a Canadian Trapdoor Aligator.
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206	[[folder:Web Animation]]
207	* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'':
208	-->'''Armed robber:''' You're gettin' mugged, kid!\
209	'''Unarmed kid:''' ''(makes {{Finger Gun}}s with his hands)'' [[NoYou No YOU'RE getting mugged!]]\
210	'''Armed robber:''' Ah! How the hell does that even ''work''?
211	* In the ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' episode "Eggs Benefits", when Nurf and Preston's [[EggSitting egg that they were taking care of]] [[RuleOfFunny runs away offscreen and leaves behind a]] DearJohnLetter, [[OnlySaneMan Max]] yells "He ran away?!" in a tone that evokes this trope.
212	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''
213	** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "virus", when the virus infects Strong Bad's computer, Homestar declares that it "needs words" and proceeds to [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou steal them from the navbar]]. Strong Bad objects that that's not supposed to be possible.
214	** In "4 branches", Strong Bad finds Homestar stuck in the office's water cooler, with one foot hanging out of the nozzle.
215	--->'''Strong Bad:''' Just explain to me what you were ''trying'' to do when this happened.\
216	'''Homestar:''' Well, [[OrphanedSetUp I was in Barbados, hanging a picture on the wall...]]\
217	'''Strong Bad:''' Okay, that tells me everything I need to know.
218	** In "original" Strong Bad explains the incident that caused the original Bubs to quit the show:
219	--->'''Original Bubs:''' Hey! Who ate all the mayo off of my egg salad?! ...And ''how?''\
220	'''The King of Town:''' It's a proprietary technique I can't reveal!
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223	[[folder:Web Original]]
224	* From ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
225	-->'''Church:''' Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement pulled Jimmy's skull right out of his head and beat him to death with it.]]\
226	'''Tucker:''' Wait a second... how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible.\
227	'''Church:''' That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming.\
228	''(flasback to Tex, in black armor, beating Jimmy to death with his own skull)''\
229	'''Jimmy:''' This doesn't seem physically possible!
230	** It later becomes a recurring joke that anything implausible involving skulls (Or skull-like objects) "Doesn't seem physically possible". During Season 4, a contest for Sarge's new ProfessionalButtKisser after Simmons left was held between Donut, a wrench, and a skull. When it's revealed that the skull managed to tie with Donut, Donut responds, "That doesn't seem physically possible!"
231	** When Grif is run over by the Blues' tank in Season 2, Sarge "helps" by turning Simmons into a cyborg, and then using the "leftover parts" to fix Grif. Upon hearing about it, Grif groans, "That doesn't seem physically possible."
232	** During "The Revelation", Tex beats Church over the head with the [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Monitor]] that briefly contained Church's mind. The Reds, safe on the sidelines, once again comment on how that "Doesn't seem physically possible."
233	** And in Season 14 Prequel Episode "Why They're Here" [[spoiler: we learn that Private Jimmy wasn't killed by Tex but instead had the Alpha AI forcibly implanted into him. "AAAAH! WHAT'RE YOU DOING TO MY SKULL!? AAAAAHH! THIS DOESN'T SEEM PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!!"]]
234	** In Season 13, when Katie Jensen causes a five car pileup when just driving five miles an hour, this is Simmons' reaction.
235	** In Season 15 episode "Previously On", sometime after the events on Chorus, The Reds and Blues built a waterpark, which Donut accidentally...burned down.
236	--->'''Grif:''' I MEAN, HOW DO YOU BURN DOWN A WATER PARK, DONUT?!\
237	'''Donut:''' One, lube isn't normally flammable! And B, I didn't burn down the ''whole'' water park, just the ''park'' part!
238	* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Goku obtained a muffin [[spoiler:and the ability to read minds]] by pressing the muffin button of the spaceship... except [[AchievementsInIgnorance there is no muffin button]]. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope However, in the alternate take, it's a cookie.]] Cue BigNo from Goku.]]
239	** King Kai says this directly when Goku [[FakeStatic pretends to hang up on him]] while they were ''communicating telepathically''.
240	--->'''Goku:''' Oh, all right. I promise I will absolutely not ''click-brrrrrrr'' long inhale ''rrrrrrrrr''\
241	'''King Kai:''' He hung up on me! '''How did he even do that?'''
242	* This phrase being said verbatim is a running gag in the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' point-of-view sketches.
243	* Website/{{Danbooru}} has an image pool with this name.
244	* When ''{{WebVideo/Retsupurae}}'' made fun of the Trapped series of flash games, this came up when the third game reveals the protagonist to somehow also be the leader of the villains:
245	-->'''Dialla:''' ''(in the game)'' How is that even possible?\
246	'''Proteus:''' ''(in the commentary)'' Yeah, how ''is'' that even possible?!
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249	[[folder:Web Videos]]
250	* Expressed simultaneously by both WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd during their crossover review of ''[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles The Making of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells]]'' when Leonardo is at one point playing bass guitar ''with only one string:''
251	-->'''Both:''' How the fuck is that POSSIBLE?!
252	* Ellen Rose from ''[[WebVideo/OutsideXbox Outside Xtra]]'' has this reaction to a scene in ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' where [[EldritchAbomination Cerberus]] somehow manages to catch Dante in its mouth when he's going in to kill its final [[MultipleHeadCase head]].
253	-->'''Ellen:''' ''Ahhh!'' How does it even know I was there?! [[EyelessFace It doesn't have eyes]]! [-It just has [[TooManyMouths mouths]]!-]
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255
256	[[folder:Western Animation]]
257	* This line is literally said in several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AlmostNakedAnimals'' where the main character Howie has been catapulted across a room in a cardboard box and continues to surf at top speed throughout his hotel, including going inside an elevator and being taken up to the next level, only to be thrown out by some invisible force to go 'box surfing' on the next floor. However, it is only when he is 'surfing' up the stairs without slowing down that he literally says "How is this even possible?"
258	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
259	** In "The Procrastinators", after Gumball's gravity-defying "moonwalk", Darwin tells him he's "breaking the rules of the game ''and'' the laws of physics!"
260	** "The Responsible": "Look at this! How do you set fire to a swimming pool?"
261	** "The Sidekick": When Gumball sees Darwin's inbox which is so empty the page itself is falling apart, he asks "What the- is that cockroach ''inside'' your inbox?''
262	** "The Sweaters": "How are they clapping without moving their arms?"
263	** In "The Virus", Gumball demonstrates how complete his control over his body is by withdrawing his legs into his chest and floating in the air. Teri is just as baffled as we are.
264	** "Halloween": After Carrie tells Gumball and Darwin she was ''born'' a ghost, Darwin asks "How does ''that'' work?" to which Gumball replies "Duh-actually I have no idea."
265	** "The Internet": Gumball asks this verbatim after an embarrassing video of him gets a hit counter so high the numbers start falling off the screen and leaking out of the computer.
266	** "The Check": "How did she do that?" "And if she ''can'' do that, then why does she need the money to fix the car?"..."Give me the check!! We clearly don't need a car!!"
267	** "The Recipe": When Anton drowns and disintegrates at the same time, but is back in the next scene with no sign of injury, Gumball asks "Am I the only one who finds it weird that he's still ''alive''?"
268	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''
269	** In "Joint Custody", it's explained [[MissingMom what happened to Jeff's mother]]:
270	--->'''Stan:''' Why can't Jeff live with his family?\
271	'''Hayley:''' He hasn't spoken to his dad in years, and [[RuleOfFunny his mom ran away before he was born]].\
272	'''Stan:''' How... how could she do that?
273	** In "A Ward Show", Principal Lewis reacts this way when Roger somehow tracks him down at the Grand Canyon after he kidnaps Steve:
274	--->'''Lewis:''' You! How did you find us?\
275	'''Roger:''' It was simple! [[ThePowerOfLove When you love someone hard enough, you always know where they are.]]\
276	'''Lewis:''' (''{{Beat}}'') That can't possibly be true!
277	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' story "Hooked on a Ceiling", Michelangelo gets angry at the Warner siblings and tries to throw them out of the chapel; he's about to do so, but the scene shifts to the outside of the Chapel, and Michelangelo is the one who is thrown out. As he sits on the ground he scratches his head and wonders how they did that. [[IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime (This gag or variations thereof was used in several episodes afterwards.)]]
278	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'': In "Technology Phooey", the Aardvark pushes a big rock off a cliff towards the Ant's anthill. The Ant uses his breath to blow it back up.
279	-->'''Aardvark:''' I'll say it in two words: Im. Possible.
280	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': Every time Batman pulls a StealthHiBye on Plastic Man, he asks, "How does he do that?"
281	* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', specifically the episode where they tried to sell [[ItMakesSenseInContext expired, uncanned beans]]. A man was walking towards the stand... [[RuleOfFunny and then floated into midair, drifted right over the stand, and then floated back onto the street and continued walking]]. This prompted Raj to ask how that was even possible.
282	** The [[TheStinger end credits]] repeat that scene with other characters doing the same thing.
283	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', Frostbite explains that Danny is developing AnIcePerson powers, and offers to train him. Danny asks how it is possible. Frostbite points out that Danny already has ghost powers and calls him out on his ArbitrarySkepticism.
284	* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', Princess Clara asks Toot and Foxxy not to reveal the secret of her Octopussoir. Before any of them leave the room or even speak, Captain Hero knocks on the door and say Toot told him about it, leading Clara to ask the question verbatim.
285	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In one episode, Cosmo and Wanda are in their fish forms and Cosmo is trying to light candles inside the fishbowl in spite of the water. When Cosmo actually manages to do it, Timmy shows up to ask what's new and Wanda answers, "The laws of physics."
286	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Space Pilot 3000", Bender's arms fall off. A moment later we see the arms, in closeup, pick up and reattach each other. Fry is just as baffled as the audience.
287	** In "The Deep South", Zoidberg's undersea conch-shell home somehow burns down...
288	--->'''Zoidberg:''' How could this have happened?!\
289	'''Hermes:''' [[FridgeLogic That's a very good question.]]\
290	'''Bender:''' ''[picking up his still-lit cigar from the underwater ruins]'' So that's where I left my cigar.\
291	'''Hermes:''' That just raises ''[[VoodooShark further]]'' questions!
292	** When Amy starts criticizing how Fry and Bender's slacker-ness have gotten out of hand, she points out that Bender has gotten so fat his front panel won't close, then points out how that doesn't even make sense.
293	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' episode "The (Un)natural", Scratch has convinced Molly to cheat her softball team's way to a championship game through him possessing her ball, glove, and bat. During the last inning, [[InconvenientSummons he gets pulled away by the Ghost Council]] to discuss his scare quota. Despite Scratch only being gone for a few minutes, by the time he gets back Molly [[EpicFail has somehow blown their 18-point lead against the Skylarks]], who are now only a point behind with the bases loaded.
294	-->'''Scratch:''' You gave up ''seventeen runs'', and the bases are loaded?! ''How?!''\
295	'''Molly:''' (''shell-shocked'') I dunno, man, I dunno... It's a blur... of bats, and balls, and humiliation...
296	* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyStreetKids'': In "Trade Wreck", the Harvey Girls give Pinkeye a forged trading card to get a set of dolls that he and the other Bloogey Boys were planning to destroy, in the process breaking one of the rules of the kids' trading post. This leads to the other kids throwing out the other rules and the trading post devolving into chaos. When Audrey sees what happened, she questions how they could've done all that in the five minutes that the girls were gone.
297	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' was a full-on send off to WesternAnimation/RoadRunner; After the PaintedTunnelRealTrain bit, [[BigBad Bling Bling Boy]] declares, "That completely defies the laws of physics!" He then gets run over by the inevitable truck. "And so does that..." [[FromBadToWorse Then he sees an anvil falling.]] "Oh, come on, an anvil!?" Then he 'protects' his head with an umbrella that’s smaller than his thumb.
298	* During the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Hereafter", the Flash is almost fried by enemy lightning. Wonder Woman saves him by deflecting the lightning with her '''''metal''''' bracelets. Flash's response? "There are so many reasons why that shouldn't have worked." The actual answer is likely that AWizardDidIt.
299	* One sequence in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' is one big homage to ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner''; ComicBook/{{Lobo}} tries to capture ComicBook/TheFlash on a desert planet with a variety of traps, only to fail due to Flash's SuperSpeed. However, when they do the "Cliff crumbles while the ledge stays floating" bit, this is Lobo's reaction.
300	-->'''Lobo:''' Grr, how'd you do that? ''(Falls)'' It defies the laws of physics!\
301	'''Flash:''' ''(Hops onto'' another ''floating ledge)'' [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny I never studied law, doc.]] Meep meep!
302	* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Car Alarm", Ron's attempts to help Kim fix up her [[TheAllegedCar hand-me-down car]] [[RunningGag keep ending up]] with Ron [[UnraveledEntanglement entangled in wires]] and attacked by a flock of crows that emerge from under the hood. Even when he keeps his distance and doesn't touch anything, it somehow happens to him again.
303	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', [[FailureGambit while trying to get ideas for how to make his house look terrible so that it isn't sold]], Hank goes to Bill's house and pulls the switch to the ceiling fan in the kitchen, which causes Bill's microwave to turn on. He even asks out loud how that's possible. (And then replicates it in his own house.)
304	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
305	** In a WesternAnimation/RoadRunner cartoon, Wile E. Coyote falls off a cliff while in pursuit of the Road Runner who, it turns out, is standing on a chunk of rock in mid-air. The bedraggled Coyote looks up from the bottom of the canyon at the Road Runner and holds up a sign commenting that what the Road Runner is doing defies the laws of gravity. The Road Runner responds by holding up his own sign saying it doesn't matter because he's never studied law.
306	** Previously done in the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "WesternAnimation/HighDivingHare", where Bugs is trussed up on a diving board platform and Yosemite Sam is sawing off the board, but the ladder and platform collapse with Sam instead.
307	** 1938's "WesternAnimation/PorkyAndDaffy" has Daffy as a prize fighter and Porky his manager. When Porky tells Daffy to get on his bicycle (a ring term for avoiding the opponent as best as can), Daffy does. He starts riding an invisible bicycle, to which he quips "I'm so crazy I don't know that this is impossible!"
308	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mad}}'' sketch "My Little Warhorse", [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] face-plants into a cake she made that reads "Yay Friends!" spelled out in icing. When she lifts her head, the icing has somehow rearranged itself to spell "[[FandomNod Go bronies]]!", and this is her reaction.
309	* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', Milo's bad luck causes a chemical fire in class to the utter bewilderment of the substitute Chem teacher who notes the chemicals involved can't combust.
310	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Happens A LOT when Pinkie Pie is around.
311	** In the episode "It's About Time!", Pinkie Pie explains that her [[DangerSense Pinkie Sense]] can't help predict the impending disaster Twilight Sparkle is getting worked up about, because it's only good for vague, short-term predictions. Pinkie demonstrates when she gets a "twitchy tail" reaction that indicates a falling object, and a flowerpot lands on Twilight's head... despite both ponies being inside a tent. Pinkie then wonders aloud where the flowerpot came from.
312	** In another episode, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash are hanging out at the beach. When RD wants to take a nap, she asks Pinkie to be quiet; so Pinkie, about to jump into the water (and ''already falling''), slows her descent, and slowly lowers herself into the water in clear violation of gravity. Dash briefly wonders how that was possible, then shrugs it off as Pinkie being Pinkie.
313	** In the ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocksShorts'' short "Perfect Day for Fun", Pinkie Pie makes faces and poses in front of a mirror, but her reflection just stands there. Applejack gives a confused reaction.
314	** When counting the number of new friendships that will form when the Apples and Pies meet each other in "Hearthbreakers", Pinkie comes up with nineteen and holds up nineteen hooves. Applejack is visibly shocked and is looking around to try and see where the extra hooves came from [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background of the next shot]].
315	* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'': In a HalloweenEpisode, the reanimated skeleton of Jerry Driscoll is recognized by a retina scan in spite of, as Viceroy points out, not having a retina.
316	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''; Slimer runs away in an episode after Peter yells at him, and leaves a note behind. Janine finds it first, and angrily reads it to the guys, scolding them. Ray takes the note and asks how she can read it, as Slimer not only has bad penmanship, but got slime all over the paper. Janine simply snarks, "I'm a secretary. I can read anything."
317	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': In "Scooby's Night With A Frozen Fright," the gang has delivered a caveman frozen in a block of ice to Oceanland Marine Park where it is put in the park's Arctic room. Later, when the gang returns to retrieve Shaggy's fishing pole, they find the block of ice melted and the caveman gone.
318	-->'''Daphne:''' But that's impossible!\
319	'''Velma:''' Not if he came to life, it isn't.
320	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
321	** In the episode "The PTA Disbands", Homer gets upset at Lisa for making a working perpetual motion machine because it violates the laws of physics. ("In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!")
322	** In "The Front", Bart and Lisa ask Grandpa what his first name is; he can't remember, but he knows he has it written on his underwear, so he takes them off... ''Without'' taking his pants off. When Bart and Lisa ask how he did that, even ''he'' doesn't know.
323	** In "Homer Goes to College", Homer is put in a truck containing a simulator of his workstation and somehow causes the truck to suffer a meltdown.
324	--->'''Inspector:''' I'm still not sure how he caused the meltdown. There wasn't any nuclear material in the truck!
325	* Asked verbatim by Dr. Eggman in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Chez Amy" when he finds that Dave gave him cold soup and hot salad.
326	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'': In "Stomach On Strike,", Joe says the trope name verbatim after Patricia tells him that [[OrganAutonomy Entree's internal organs left his body on their own.]]
327	* In the climax of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Betrothed", Beast Boy is able to scare some palace guards away by transforming into a giant Tameranian beast, whose statue he had seen earlier:
328	-->'''Cyborg:''' How did you know you could do that?\
329	'''Beast Boy:''' [[HowDidYouKnowIDidnt Lucky guess!]] [[note]]Fans have debated just how Beast Boy's powers work, given that he seems able to turn into any living or extinct member of a planet's natural ecosystem, but not magical creatures like Malchior; [[{{Fanon}} it's now generally agreed]] that if he has ''seen'' the animal, or a depiction of it, he can turn into it.[[/note]]
330	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tigtone}}'' was already an extremely surreal show, but Tigtone killing himself by hanging and then instantly bouncing back to the world of the living while dragging two deceased villains back with him in order to hang them and leaving them hanging forever in the afterlife was BeyondTheImpossible even by the show's standards and causes one of the villains to question how it is even possible, to which Tigtone responds that anything is possible if you believe in yourself.
331	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTrollstopia'' episode "Daylight Ravings Time", Laguna plans to wear an electronic helmet while [=DJing=] her first rave, believing that wearing it improves her [=DJing=] skills, but drops and shatters it when she gets startled activating its laser light function. Later, Synth flashes back to the same thing happening to him, only the pieces of his helmet burst into flames. He then questions how such a thing could happen [[WaterIsAir underwater]].
332	* In one WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoon, the villain is trying to ambush Woody using a rifle with a crosshairs. As he watches Woody approach through the crosshairs, Woody actually ''walks up the vertical line'' of the crosshairs, causing the villain to look up and exclaim, "How did he do ''that''??"
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