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10	->''"You humans are all racist!"''
11	-->-- '''Unnamed Turian''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
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14	A type of gag in which a character's actions or words contradict each other and this is PlayedForLaughs. Tends to run in one of several ways:
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16	* Bob openly makes some kind of statement or declaration and then [[{{Hypocrite}} does the exact opposite.]]
17	* Bob is accused of engaging in a certain behavior or activity, denies it, and then [[DescriptionCut immediately does said behavior or activity]].
18	* Bob criticizes Alice for some fault that is an established part of his own character, or just before or after exhibiting that particular fault himself.
19	* Bob makes fun of a group of people of which [[BoomerangBigot he himself is a member]].
20	* Alice tries to warn Bob of something several times, but he doesn't listen (either by [[NotNowKiddo interrupting her]] or by [[CassandraTruth not believing her]]). Then when that thing happens, Bob turns to Alice and says, "Why didn't you tell me?"
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22	For example, if Alice is an overweight girl deep in denial, she might say, "I don't see why you guys think I have an eating problem"... right before taking a bite out of her fourth consecutive Big n' Tasty. Or if Bob is known a miser, he could exclaim, "What are you talking about? I'm not greedy"... and then swipe every last cent from the take-a-penny/leave-a-penny tray.
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24	It doesn't even have to necessarily be Bob who does the opposite. Half the time it seems like the [[RuleOfFunny entire universe is instantaneously altered just so the polar opposite of Bob's sentence occurs for a gag]]. If Bob is lying to his parents and says that he didn't go to that concert last night, sure enough, the phone will instantly ring and the answering machine will broadcast a friend instructing them to call back, [[InstantlyProvenWrong raving in great detail about how much fun they had at the concert, how glad they are that they snuck out]] and [[TemptingFate how there's no way their parents will ever find out.]]
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26	Often evident (and occasionally TruthInTelevision) when Bob prematurely accuses Alice of engaging in DoubleEntendre or sexual innuendo, thereby indicating that his own thought processes have already walked that crooked line. It drives the point home if Bob accuses Alice ''before'' she herself makes the connection or if she wouldn't have made it in the first place.
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28	The delivery of hypocritical humor in reality-bending situations is usually executed via ContrivedCoincidence.
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30	A standard comic strip tactic, as it makes for a quick and neat four-panel gag.
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32	Sometimes used as a HypocrisyNod, or a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Hypocrisy Nod]] is used for laughs by mixing it with this.
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34	Compare with ImmediateSelfContradiction, BoomerangBigot, TemptingFate, IResembleThatRemark, IWouldSayIfICouldSay, SuchAPhony (when one character talks crap about another but pretends to be nice in their presence), DontBeRidiculous and DescriptionCut.
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36	Some tropes, like ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor, SilenceInTheLibrary, SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX, and SorryOciffer, inherently lend themselves to Hypocritical Humor.
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38	Not to be confused with ''Hippocratic'' Humor, which would be what ''Series/{{MASH}}'', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', and ''Series/{{House}}'' are all about. Also don't confuse with HypocriticalHeartwarming.
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40	Please do not attempt to add examples of people doing this unintentionally (nearly all RealLife examples would fall under that). This trope refers to ''deliberate'' uses of hypocrisy for humor's sake, at least by the writer. The same goes for Administrivia/{{Wick}}s and {{Pothole}}s, so if you catch any, feel free to destroy them without pity.
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42	!!Example subpages:
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44	[[index]]
45	* HypocriticalHumor/AnimeAndManga
46	* HypocriticalHumor/ComicBooks
47	* HypocriticalHumor/ComicStrips
48	** ''HypocriticalHumor/CalvinAndHobbes''
49	* HypocriticalHumor/FanWorks
50	* [[HypocriticalHumor/AnimatedFilms Films — Animation]]
51	* [[HypocriticalHumor/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
52	* HypocriticalHumor/{{Literature}}
53	* HypocriticalHumor/LiveActionTV
54	* HypocriticalHumor/{{Music}}
55	* HypocriticalHumor/{{Theatre}}
56	* HypocriticalHumor/VideoGames
57	* HypocriticalHumor/WebAnimation
58	* HypocriticalHumor/{{Webcomics}}
59	* HypocriticalHumor/WebVideos
60	** ''HypocriticalHumor/TheNostalgiaCritic''
61	* HypocriticalHumor/WesternAnimation
62	** ''HypocriticalHumor/{{Kaeloo}}''
63	** ''HypocriticalHumor/TheSimpsons''
64	** ''HypocriticalHumor/SouthPark''
65	[[/index]]
66
67	!!Other examples:
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69	[[foldercontrol]]
70
71	[[folder:Advertising]]
72	* Advertising/MrWhipple in the Charmin commercials. He spends half a minute warning women not to squeeze the Charmin. Then later on, he is seen squeezing said Charmin himself.
73	* Kotex ads feature a woman talking sarcastically about how other tampon commercials are helpful, while proving them to be just the opposite.
74	--> '''Woman''': And they use that blue liquid stuff so I'm like, 'Oh, that's what it's supposed to look like.'
75	* One State Farm commercial has a mime come up to a State Farm salesman with a woman and her infant son and tell them how beneficial State Farm is. The baby then starts talking about how freaky it was for a mime to talk.
76	* In a Advertising/{{Geico}} spot, a rep is showing the Geico gecko footage of him as a two-dimensional hand-drawn cartoon plugging the product. The CGI-animated gecko does a FacePalm and quips "So you've turned me into a cartoon. Lovely."
77	* The ADT medical alert commercial with the old woman protesting, "That's not for me! That's for some old person!"
78	* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' has an ad on Facebook where Trevor Noah takes turns pandering to and insulting his FB audience.
79	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYFqwx7kv0 In this promotional video]] for her 2018 tour with Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/LindseyStirling admits to being a "casual fan" of the band, saying "I wouldn't say I'm obsessed with them." All the while wearing an Evanescence t-shirt in a room full of Evanescence posters, with a picture of Amy Lee on her cell phone and "Bring Me to Life" as her ringtone. Not to mention the absolute "OMG" look on her face when she receives a text message from Amy Lee reading "What are you doing this summer?"
80	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t08e-KNFBlU announcement ad]] for Disney's ''California Adventure'' park had Buzz Lightyear watching the new park with binoculars and describing it to the other ''Disney World'' characters. When Goofy suggests just walking over and introducing themselves, Buzz scoffs "nobody likes a nosy neighbor."
81	* One station promo for Australian digital radio station MMM Classic Rock complains about how today's music is all about money, drugs and sex... while playing clips from classic rock songs about money, drugs and sex.
82	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0zSU5CAm2o this Credit Karma commercial]] two ladies are sitting on a park bench. One is checking her credit score, and the other snatches her phone and throws it in the lake, out of the belief that checking her credit score lowers it, and tells her to "just be cool". The first lady then explains that checking your credit score with Credit Karma doesn't effect it at all. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in TheStinger, one the second lady retrieves her phone saying "Sorry about that".
83	* A Tostitos ad had featured several former NFL players like Dan Marino, Jerry Rice, Emmett Smith, and Randy Moss, [[BackInTheSaddle un-retiring to play in the NFL again with hilarious results]]. The ad ends with Creator/TomBrady watching them play on TV and saying "Un-retiring? Who would be dumb enough to do that?", a nod to how after the 2021-22 season, [[TenMinuteRetirement Brady announced his retirement from the NFL only to backtrack several weeks later and play one more season before retiring for good after that]].
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86	[[folder:Arts]]
87	* Creator/{{Banksy}} is fond of this trope.
88	** Obvious examples include "We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves."
89	** And his list of people who should be shot -- "Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, and people who write lists telling you who should be shot."
90	[[/folder]]
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92	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
93	* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': As they haven't seen each other in a while, [=BoBoiBoy=] and Tok Aba (his grandfather) [[MistakenIdentity accidentally hug separate people instead of each other]]. Only when Tok Aba calls him out does [=BoBoiBoy=] realise it, and Tok Aba huffs. The kid who Tok Aba mistakenly hugged then says, "Huh, speak for yourself."
94	* In episode 90 of ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'', Wolffy asking Paddi to say something nice to Wilie from inside the candy house is met with a response of "I'm not saying a word!", which directly contradicts itself as he refuses to say anything but still vocalizes this to get his point across to Wolffy.
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96
97	[[folder:Audio Drama]]
98	* In the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''The Sword of the Chevalier'', the Tenth Doctor and Rose meet the Chevalier D'Eon, who they find nice but with a tendency to talk about herself. The Doctor says she can't possibly have met all the people she claims, and Rose sardonically notes that people like that are annoying. Completely ObliviousToHisOwnDescription, the Doctor agrees that he hates name-droppers, and adds that Creator/OscarWilde used to do the same thing.
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101	[[folder:Comedy]]
102	* In one of his stand-up routines Irish comedian Ed Byrne noted that there was an increasing strain of anti-immigration rhetoric entering Irish society ... before pointing out that, given the prominent history of Irish immigration to other countries, the Irish might not have much of a leg to stand on about this:
103	-->'''Ed Byrne:''' You cheeky bastards! What kind of brass balls do you have, as an Irish person, to complain about immigration? We've been populating the globe ever since we worked out how to get into a boat!
104	* Russell himself, from ''Series/RussellHowardsGoodNews''.
105	-->'''Russell:''' ''[after a clip of someone accidentally break their arm]'' What twat breaks his arm like that?\
106	''[cue Russell looking down at his broken wrist and hand]''
107	* From Creator/WoodyAllen's stand-up routines. "My ex-wife was childish. See if you don't think this is childish. She'd come into the bathroom when I was having a bath, and sink my ships."
108	* Bill Engvall on discipline: "Hey!" smack "We do NOT hit!"
109	* "If anyone says he hates war more than I do, he'd better have a knife, that's all I have to say." -- Jack Handey
110	* "An egotist is a person of low taste -- more interested in himself than in me." -- Ambrose Bierce
111	* "There are three things in this world I can't stand. Hatred, bigotry, and midgets." ''(pause for laughter)'' "I'm sorry, I just don't like 'em." -- James Gregory
112	* ''The Watergate Comedy Hour'' was a 1973 comedy album starring the likes of Jack Burns, Avery Schreiber and Fannie Flagg. The lead cut takes the form of a late night show a la Johnny Carson with then-president Richard Nixon as the star:
113	-->'''Nixon:''' My fellow Americans...I wish to speak to you tonight from the bottom of my deeply troubled heart and not from some ghostwritten prepared script. (''softly to stagehand'') Uh, could you raise the cue cards a little higher? Fine. Thank you.
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116	[[folder:Jokes]]
117	* "Tomorrow, I'll stop procrastinating."
118	* "I'm going to start making my own decisions... if that's okay with you."
119	* "I never brag. I'm awesome like that."/"I'm too awesome to brag."
120	* "I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!"
121	* "Thank God I'm an atheist." - Creator/LuisBunuel
122	* "I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."
123	* "Stop being such a narcissist. This should be about me!"
124	* [[LogicalFallacies "All generalisations are false."]]
125	* "95% of all surveys/statistics are made up".
126	* "[[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd Watch your fucking language!]]"
127	* "As a Capricorn, I don't believe in astrology."
128	* "Proponents of eugenics shouldn't be allowed to reproduce".
129	* "All extremists should be killed."
130	* "I have to say, I think I'm especially modest."
131	* "all sentences should begin with a capital letter."
132	* "I am the nicest person in the world. And if there is ever anyone nicer than me, I'll kill them and will be the nicest one once again."
133	* "Why must you always think that I'm ''criticizing'' you?"
134	* "Those who are against freedom of speech should be denied the right to say that."
135	* Redneck dating tip: "Don't be sexist or vulgar. Bitches hate that shit."
136	* "[[UnfortunateImplications Never stereotype entire groups]] [[StopBeingStereotypical based on one member of that group]], that's what [[DeepSouth Southerners]] do."
137	* "Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it."
138	* There's an old joke about a woman whose son and daughter got married within a week or two of each other. A few months later, a friend asks her about how her daughter is doing. The mom gushes about her son-in-law, how he cooks for her daughter, gives her lots of gifts, and sends his wife to a spa once a month. The friend then asks how the son's marriage is, and the mother [[DoubleStandard gets a disgusted look on her face]] and begins going on about how her daughter-in-law doesn't cook, wants lots of gifts, and always wants to go to the spa...
139	* This joke:
140	-->A guy says, "I don't smoke, I don't cuss, and I don't drink." Then, a second later, he says, "Fuck, I left my cigarettes down at the bar."
141	* There’s an old joke about a man who bursts into his son’s room and yells. “Son, if you don’t stop [[SelfAbuse masturbating]], you’re going to go blind,” to which the son replies “I’m over here, dad.”
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144	[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
145	* ''Literature/TheBible'':
146	** ''Literature/BookOfNumbers'' 12:3 goes, ''Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth''. And who is supposed to be the author of Numbers? That's right.[[note]]Well... it's actually a subject of significant dispute among Biblical scholars as to who the original authors of Numbers were, but it is generally agreed among them that the existing text is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestly_source Priestly]] edit of an earlier source or sources, made around the 5th Century BC. Which is some eight centuries or so after the time Moses, or the inspiration for the legend of Moses, is thought to have lived. What we're saying here is that astonishingly, this confluence of ancient history, religion, and academic debate is really quite complex and is not going to be solved in a footnote.[[/note]] Justified, since: the Biblical concept of humility is attributing all success to God rather than your own abilities; he was very resistant to being a prophet and leader multiple times (which gave him vast power), and also the power he initially lost as part of the life he had in the ruling family, to then be a serf, it actually fit his history; and Moses lived in ''humble circumstances'' because he had not used his position to enrich himself, or otherwise enjoy the perks that usually come with power.
147	** ''Literature/TheFourGospels'': The parable of the pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18 is a straight example. The pharisee loudly praises himself for not being like that filthy tax collector over there while the tax collector doesn't even dare to lift his eyes to heaven and simply prays, "God, have mercy on me, a sinner."
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149
150	[[folder:Podcasts]]
151	* In the ''Podcast/HouseToAstonish'' 2012 "Homie" awards, Al Kennedy complains about Creator/BrianMichaelBendis's ''All -New Comicbook/XMen'', because Emma Frost's speech patterns have changed so drastically it's like she's being written with a different accent. This is in between the winners being anounced by big name US comic book professionals [[RunningGag with British regional accents]].
152	* In the Aum Shinrikyo episodes of ''Podcast/TheLastPodcastOnTheLeft'', everyone is disgusted at the fact that the cult's leader Shoko Asahara sold his ''bath water'' to followers... at which point Marcus then takes the opportunity to remind listeners that you can get a bone fragment from his ranch for the low low price of a $25+ monthly Patreon donation.
153	* Timmis the intelligent germ from ''Podcast/MissionToZyxx'' protests that its life is undervalued because it is smaller than the crew. Timmis wears clothing fashioned from smaller germs, whose lives it does not value because they are smaller than Timmis.
154	* The host of the podcast ''Podcast/{{Swindled}}'', A Concerned Citizen, gives a very tongue-in-cheek example in "The Tour", where he delivers a moral to the Music/MilliVanilli story. He appears ready to launch into an anti-consumerist diatribe, only to take a sharp left turn:
155	-->'''Concerned Citizen:''' Listen up, kids. Authenticity is rare. It's important to understand that not everything you see or hear is real. And it is important to understand that sometimes the media targeted at you has no artistic merit. In fact, some media is created with the sole purpose of serving as a vehicle to shove advertisements into your consciousness. It's true of radio, it's true of movies and television, and it's especially true... of podcasts. ''[cut to the Citizen narrating a plug for another podcast]''
156	* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'':
157	** Complaints about the shadowy World Government are often tempered with glowing praise for the town's own Secret Police and totalitarian City Council.
158	** In the ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour'' crossover, [[ScienceHero Carlos]] is fed up with things that are unscientific. Keep in mind, barely an hour before, this man dismissed ''horses'' as being pure (and unscientific) fiction.
159	--->'''Carlos:''' This won't work, according to science! Okay? If no one's going to listen to SCIENCE, then I'm just going to [[ArbitrarySkepticism project myself back into the otherworld desert dimension, where I live]]. Okay?!
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162	[[folder:Print Media]]
163	* ''Sunday Times'' editor Sir Harold Evans once collected the following ten guidelines for written English:
164	## Don't use no double negatives.[[note]] So, do use double negatives?[[/note]]
165	## Make each pronoun agree with their antecedent.[[note]] The pronoun "their" implies a plural antecedent, but it refers to "each pronoun", which is singular.[[/note]]
166	## When dangling, watch your participles.[[note]] The participle "dangling" should refer to "participles"; as written, it refers to the person being instructed.[[/note]]
167	## Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.[[note]] They're not?[[/note]]
168	## Verbs has to agree with their subjects.[[note]] "Verbs" (the subject) is plural, but "has" (the verb) is singular.[[/note]]
169	## About those sentence fragments.[[note]] Yes, about them. This sentence has neither a subject nor a verb, and a complete sentence usually has both.[[/note]]
170	## Try to not ever split infinitives.[[note]] There should be no words in the middle of the infinitive "to split".[[/note]]
171	## It is important to use apostrophe's correctly.[[note]] Start by getting rid of the one in "apostrophe's".[[/note]]
172	## Always read what you have written to see you any words out.[[note]] "... to see ''if'' you ''have left'' any words out" is just one way to fill in the forgotten words.[[/note]]
173	## Correct spelling is esential.[[note]] "Es''s''ential" has a double S.[[/note]]
174	* One of Creator/{{Dave Barry}}'s columns lamented the trend for making things look old, and he took particular exception to superfluous Es, as in "{{Ye Olde\| Butcherede Englishe}} Shoppe". The column in question, naturally, was titled "Ye Olde Humore Columne".
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176
177	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
178	* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
179	** Rather than watch the show, JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf opt to watch television through a set installed in the box, and upon flipping through the channels, find...
180	--->'''Statler:''' What is THAT?!\
181	'''Waldorf:''' Looks like two ancient old guys sitting in a theatre box watching television!\
182	'''Statler:''' That's crazy! [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs No one would watch junk like that]]!
183	** On a ''Tales from the Vet'' section of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' Dr. Van Neuter warns the guests not to overdo it on the eggnog at the Christmas party. Hilarity ensues when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsBIjhBBPx8 doesn't follow his own advice...]]
184	** Another episode, in a Muppet Labs segment, had Dr. Bunsen Honeydew describe his assistant Beaker as a "short stubbly person". Beaker is actually ''taller'' than Bunsen.
185	** And ''then'' there's Miss Piggy, who will tie Kermit into a knot for even looking at another woman in one episode, then go out of her way to hit on any male guest star in the next.
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	[[folder:Radio]]
189	* Digger, a caller on the UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball radio show ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coodabeen_Champions The Coodabeen Champions]]'', had the catchphrase "I never complain about umpires, but...", before immediately launching into a rant about how the umpires had "crucified" his team.
190	* In one episode of ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'', the wildly incomprehensible caricature of sports commentator Eddie Waring is speaking to a German with a mild accent.
191	-->'''Eddie:''' [[FunetikAksent Hah-ar, well, 'e's certainly gorra' fonny accent--]]I'm sure you could understan' what 'e was sayin', and if you can't, well, you'll jus' hafta barra scradley scrive, ya know!
192	* In the surrealish sitcom ''At Home with the Hardys'', Kit and Jeremy are having an argument.
193	-->'''Kit:''' Oh my god -- you are ''such'' a hypochondriac!\
194	'''Jeremy:''' I am not a hypochondriac, and stop shouting at me, you're making me ill!
195	* Sandi Toksvig making jokes about Andy Hamilton's height on ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz''.
196	* A recurring bit on ''Radio/JeremyHardySpeaksToTheNation'', for instance:
197	-->'''Jeremy:''' But nothing alienates the young more than attempts by their elders to understand them. Isn't that right, kids?
198	* ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'':
199	** When General Assistance Department along with Mr. Crawley are planning on giving a petition about the poor quality of Ministry's bathrooms, and Mr. Crawley says that they have to stand up to [[BadBoss Sir Gregory]]. After talking with him about it:
200	-->'''Mr. Crawley:''' I said we just have to stand up to him.\
201	'''Lennox-Brown:''' You can come out from under the desk now.
202	** At one point the Government wants to promote the use of British products and cut down unnecessary imports by distributing "Buy British"-lapel badges... Made in Japan, of course.
203	* Jim Backus' recorded comedy skit ''Dirty Old Man'' is about a happy-go-lucky squire who makes obscene phone calls to women he randomly picks from a phone book (actually, he has his servant Gwendolyn do the dialing). He turns the last names of the women he calls (Melanie Tate, Peggy Percy) into a bleeped-out play on words. When he gets to Peggy and starts his vulgar spiel, Peggy is more than ready for him:
204	-->'''Squire:''' Now don't run off, my dear. How would you like it if I came over and--\
205	'''Peggy:''' Oh, I'd love it! I'd just simply love it! But hurry while I'm still in the mood. I'm not a light switch, you know. ''[Squire quicky hangs up]''\
206	'''Gwendolyn:''' Something wrong, sir?\
207	'''Squire:''' What the ''[sound effects]'' is the world coming to? She was a pervert!!
208	* ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'':
209	** In Series 70 Episode 4, Tim has invented a new game called I Hear With My Little Ear, which doesn't work. He then tries to create I Smell With My Little Nose, at which point Jack has had enough.
210	-->'''Jack:''' Where do you think you are? What do you think people are going to think, tuning in for some sophisticated Radio 4 entertainment, and hearing you and your little nose? We do have standards, don't we, Tim?\
211	'''Tim:''' Yes, Jack.\
212	'''Jack:''' What do we have?\
213	'''Tim:''' Standards, Jack.\
214	'''Jack:''' And don't forget it. Right. On to the next round, and it's a game called In My Pants.
215	** In Series 31 Episode 5, under the original chairman Humphrey Lyttleton:
216	-->''This next round is all about cutting costs. There's nothing that gets my goat more than the senseless waste of licence fee income, which is why I've instructed the BBC to stop putting chilled champagne in my dressing room. There's no point going to the expense of chilling it if it's only going in the bath.''
217	* In the sitcom ''Charlotte and Lillian'' about an elderly lady and her volunteer visitor, Season 3 Episode 1 has Lillian going on about how a personality test shows she's really empathetic and in tune with what other people want, entirely oblivious to Charlotte asking her to use a coaster, or at least not put her cup down on Charlotte's book. In the same conversation, Charlotte accuses Lillian of being a narcissist who doesn't really want to help people, just to ''be seen'' as someone who helps people, and Lillian retorts "I'm, like, super modest. I just want to change people's lives!"
218	* One of the fake archival clips in ''Radio/TheNowShow'''s one-off special about ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' has an expert explaining that Shakespeare was very much the Netflix of his day, and his comedies were very much the sitcoms of their day, which is why they're full of topical references, because Elizabethan audiences needed to relate everything to things they were already familiar with, unlike people in the 21st century.
219	* In the Radio 4 travelogue ''The Trainspotter's Guide to Dracula'', Miles Jupp, having recreated Jonathan Harker's journey in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', is disappointed to find "Castle Dracula" today is in fact a theme hotel with a fake portcullis.
220	-->'''Miles''': I opted not to go into this cynical tourist trap and instead wandered away to be with my thoughts, and also buy a Dracula fridge magnet from a stall.
221	* The central joke of Shooty and Bang-Bang, the SpacePolice in ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' is that they keep insisting that they are not the kind of {{Rabid Cop}}s who are into gratuitously shooting people and mindless violence ... while gratuitiously shooting at the main cast, and saying if they surrender they'll be beaten up, but only a little. And if they ''don't'' surrender, the cops will, regretfully, blow up the entire planet and maybe a couple of others.
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224	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
225	* ''TabletopGame/{{Atmosfear}}'': In ''Nightmare II'', Baron Samedi complains that he hates bad manners, then immediately decides to snort and spit.
226	[[/folder]]
227
228	[[folder:Web Original]]
229	* The ''Literature/BinderOfShame'' depicts a particularly horrifying game master by the name of Biff Bam. Under his house rules for ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' "real men have no fear" so "the less sanity points you have, the more gay you are". He actually forces the players to act this out; "You failed your sanity roll again [...] now your character not only has a limp wrist which gives him a [[FunetikAksent dexterosity]] modifier, but he also speaks with a lisp. You better be lisping when you talk, got it?" Over the course of the game, he shamed everyone into stripping to the waist because it was hot in the room and the window was stuck, and enforced his rulings by physically wrestling complainers into submission.
230	* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18680_political-cartoons-lowest-form-communication.html This]] Website/{{Cracked}}.com illustrates its subject by the way of SelfDemonstratingArticle parody. The hilariously {{anvilicious}} cartoons treating the viewers as morons, "mind reading" and spelling out the assumed strawman points and [[ExpoLabel label everything]]. So it shows examples of these, then treats the readers as morons, guessing and spelling out the assumed points reduced to strawmanship and {{anvilicious}}ly comments on what's where and who's what in each case ''even more''. The point of the article, obviously, ends up perfectly illustrated. By the way, [[RecursiveReality the entry you just read was]] an ExpoLabel...
231	* One [[FauxtivationalPoster Demotivational Poster]] had a picture of a stick figure saying "Demotivators that say exactly what the picture says aren't funny". The poster said "DEMOTIVATORS THAT SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE PICTURE SAYS: They aren't funny".
232	* One bit of porn in Kristen's Archive starts out decrying the unrealistic fantasies in the other porns: ''It makes me sick to my stomach when I read the stories in this archive, so I wrote one myself.''
233	* ''Website/TheOnion'': A recurring aspect of the humor in the mock political cartoons is that Stan Kelly, their fictional author, will happily switch sides on any given argument again and again based on his myopic focus and whether or not things inconvencience him personally. For instance, he will routinely lambast "today's teens" for their various immoral and lecherous habits in contrast to wholesome, all-American children, and then criticize them just as harshly for being teetotallers instead of honoring the American tradition of drinking like fish, since he's a habitual drunkard and doesn't like it when people do anything differently from him. Whether or not he praises or demonizes cops also depends primarily on whether or not he's recently gotten pulled over for drunk driving.
234	* As [[Webcomic/{{Pawn}} Fredrik K.T.Andersson]] [[http://andersson.elfwood.com/Censoring-for-Dummies.3532623.html once]] described CensorBox:
235	--> How can I show this filth to my friends?!\
236	[[CaptainObvious Um... don't?]]\
237	'''Nay!''' For it is too good not to show, but too nude to let me do it without fear nor shame!
238	* ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' uses this, both to underscore the UnreliableNarrator (who denies any interest in her classmates' chests and then mentions being so shocked that she looks up and meets their eyes) and to poke fun at the informal writing style, as when Mackenzie mentions her campaign letter containing barely any ellipses.
239	* ''[[http://twitter.com/Ulysses_Perhero/status/1908013087 Women and children board first. I catch a young man trying to board by way of a lifeboat. Unseemly. I throw him off and take his place.]]''.
240	* [[http://anime-quotes.deviantart.com/art/Ryan-Higa-4-da-win-429504108 This screen cap]] -- "anime is for kids!" (reads ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' manga).
241	* The blog ''[[http://marysueproblems.tumblr.com Mary Sue Problems]]'' has some examples.
242	-->'''Gary Stu Problem #4:''' [[AllLoveIsUnrequited I can't help it if I don't have feelings for a girl who likes me. But if a girl doesn't like me back, then it's obviously because she's a total bitch]].\
243	'''Mary Sue Problem #989:''' "I'm {{not like other girls}}," they chant. Over and over again. They are the legion. They are Many.
244	* The "Almost Politically Correct Redneck" meme often goes this route by having the redneck make an open-minded statement that is quickly contradicted by a blatantly bigoted statement.
245	-->"The TSA is racist. Being a towelhead doesn't make you a terrorist!"
246	* In "Our Dumb World" (an atlas by Website/TheOnion), the entry on Italy describes the nation as a place where "...citizens base their opinions of other ethnicities on appearance and stereotypes alone. But then, what more do you expect from a bunch of greasy, filthy womanizers?"
247	* [[http://d1x7zurbps6occ.cloudfront.net/product/large/34390-1-550x550.jpg This T-shirt.]]
248	--> '''THINGS I HATE!'''
249	## Silly T-shirt slogans
250	## Irony
251	## Lists
252	* "STOP USING ONLY CAPITAL LETTERS!!!!!"
253	* This trope is often used as meme fodder.
254	* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. Kitboga's characters will often chastise the scammers for wasting their time or taking forever, even as Kitboga purposely does stuff to waste the scammers's time and delay them and/or the character follows this up by launching a long, rambling story.
255	* In ''Fanfic/NjalGetsBurned,'' Gunnar mocks Otkel for doing whatever his smarter friend says without questioning it. This is absolutely true and a major source of Otkel's problems, but rich coming from Gunnar, who consults Njal about what colour shirt he should wear.
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259	* John von Neumann quipped, "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin," in a 1951 paper that describes pseudorandom number generators. (Justified, in that his point was that the numbers so generated can't be treated as truly random)
260	* Bobby Kennedy was fond of joking that he would "destroy" anyone who called him ruthless.
261	* UsefulNotes/BarackObama during his spiel at the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner: "One senator who has reached across the aisle recently is Marco Rubio, but I don’t know about [him running for president in] 2016. I mean, the guy has not even finished a single term in the Senate and he thinks he’s ready to be president. (''laughter'') Kids these days."[[note]]Obama was first elected to the Senate in 2004, then was elected president in 2008 before completing his first six year term.[[/note]]
262	* At his high school reunion, Creator/GabrielIglesias was called up to give a speech as the celebrity of the class. He was completely hammered at the time, and went on a drunken tirade that ended with him calling two women who rejected him back in high school fat. One of them pointed out the obvious hypocrisy: Gabriel is also fat. However, he had a comeback for that: "I know, but I was fat back then too. I kept ''my'' figure, how come ''you'' couldn't?"
263	* The ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E13DungeonsDungeonsAndMoreDungeons Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons]]" was based on Creator/AlexHirsch attending a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game after ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' creator Creator/PendletonWard and ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' creator Patrick [=McHale=] invited him during the trio's time on ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack''. According to Hirsch's account, when he asked about the rules, Ward and [=McHale=] said there weren't any -- then Ward and [=McHale=] proceeded to spend an hour and a half bickering about exactly that.
264	* After the Decemberist coup attempt in Russia in 1825, one of the judges over the rebels was Pavel Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a man who participated in the assassination of Paul II in 1801. So the tradition goes that during the trial, he spat out "How could you consider something as terrible as a regicide". One of the accused answered "Well, that wouldn't be the first time, some people got sashes and badges out of it". [[note]] To be fair to Kutusov, he found it ''absolutely freaking hilarious'' and although he found the man guilty, he sentenced him to be the number two to the governor of an obscure Siberian province - a promotion in exile, if you like! [[/note]]
265	* During his 2018 reelection campaign, Sen. Ted Cruz aired [[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/7/17091094/beto-orourke-full-name-ted-cruz-controversy ads attacking]] his Democratic opponent, Rep. Beto O'Rourke, for pandering to Hispanic voters by using the name Beto instead of his actual given name, Robert. Cruz, whose actual given name is Rafael, later backtracked saying the ad was meant in jest.
266	* During the 2019 Italian Grand Prix, Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel spun at the Ascari chicane; his attempt at rejoining caused Lance Stroll of Racing Point to spin out in avoidance, causing Lance to remark that Sebastian "just came back on the circuit like an idiot!" Lance then proceeded to come back on the circuit like an idiot himself, forcing the oncoming Toro Rosso of Pierre Gasly off the track.
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