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  • The Addams Family: Pretty much every time an Addams starts listing something innocuous, they'll end here.
    Morticia: Uncle Knick-Knack's winter wardrobe. Uncle Knick-Knack's summer wardrobe. Uncle Knick-Knack...
  • Airplane! uses the hell out of this trope. To name a few examples:
    Rex Kramer: (reading a newspaper headline) Passengers certain to die? (hands off the paper)
    Steve McCroskey: Airline negligent?
    Johnny Hinshaw: There’s a sale at Penney’s?!
    • Also, when the Chicago airport prepares for a potential crash-landing, a parade of trucks pour out onto the runway, including a Budweiser truck.
    • And when Striker takes over the pilot’s seat and asks Elaine to relay his messages to Rex Kramer:
      Kramer: What’s the weather like?
      Elaine: Rain.
      Striker: And a little ice.
      Elaine: And a little ice.
      Kramer: How’s she handling now, Striker?
      Striker: Sluggish, like a wet sponge.
      Elaine: Sluggish, like a wet sponge.
      Kramer: Alright Striker, you’re doing just fine.
      Striker: It’s a damn good thing he doesn’t know how much I hate his guts.
      Elaine: It’s a damn good thing you don’t know how much he hates your guts.
  • American Pie: After several mundane (and utterly boring) stories from band camp, we are treated to this:
    Michelle: This one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute up my pussy!
  • There's a bit in The Aristocrats (the humor is Squick in its own right) where Sarah Silverman shares her "true story" of working in a theater troupe like the eponymous Aristocrats. Then she shares her account of rehearsing with Joe Franklin, a legendary vaudevillian agent who's been glorified throughout the work...but as the tale goes on, she eventually reveals, "Joe Franklin raped me." Hell, Sarah Silverman's shtick in general often involves this.
  • Played straight and inverted with Austin Powers' list of things to do before he dies:
    Become International Man Of Mystery. [crossed out]
    Save World From Certain Doom. [crossed out]
    Find True Love. [crossed out]
    Go To Outer Space. [crossed out]
    Travel Through Time, Backward and Forward. [crossed out]
    Be Cryogenically Frozen. [crossed out]
    Catch Dr. Evil in the First Act. [crossed out]
    Threesome With Japanese Twins.
    Earn Daddy's Respect.
  • In Batman Forever, Nygma tries to invent a name for his supervillain persona. He comes up with "The Puzzler", "The Gamester" and "Captain Kill".
  • The Blues Brothers: Jake's personal effects, handed back to him after three years in prison. "...One hat, black. One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled..."
    • There's also the brothers' first meeting with Willie Hall. All the more effectful because it's delivered in exactly the same blandly cheerful tone:
    So, Jake! You're out! You're rehabilitated! Where are you going to go? What are you going to do? Do you have the money you owe us, motherfucker?
  • In A Bronx Tale, an eight year old boy sees the local Mafia capo he idolizes kill a man in the street and lies about it to the police. Being a Catholic Italian-American, however, he has to talk about it when he goes to confession. He tries to not call attention to that whole "lying about a murder I saw once" thing by confessing it sandwiched in between much more mundane sins like eating meat on Friday and missing Mass. As you can probably guess, the Priest doesn't go for that routine, leading to a rather hilarious scene.
  • Clue features the characters locking a police officer in a room so they can solve the murders before he figures out what's going on (he just came in to use the phone). When he finds the door locked, he uses a creative means of getting them to open up.
    Officer: I'll book you for false arrest, and wrongful imprisonment, and obstructing an officer in the course of his duty...and MURDER!
    (The door is instantly opened.)
    Wadsworth: (sporting the sickliest "Oh, Crap!" Smile) What do you mean, murder?
    Officer: I just said that so you'd open the door.
  • In Cruel Intentions, Casanova Sebastian Valmont is temporarily forced to help out in an old people's home against his will. While sitting in an armchair and chatting idly with Ms. Sugarman, an elderly sufferer of Senile Dementia, he casually tells her that earlier in the day they played backgammon and that she won three times before adding "And I fucked your daughter." Ms. Sugarman says "What?" to which Sebastian answers with a Cheshire Cat Grin, "I said would you care for some water?"
  • Deadpool has the eponymous hero addressing children with this nugget in its Halloween teaser.
    Deadpool: You may be wondering why I brought you here. At some point we must all join forces and become a team. Now, how many of you have taken a human life?
    • And the Call-Back from Colossus’s "four or five moments" speech in the sequel.
      Deadpool: People think you're a hero 24/7. Wake up a hero. Brush your teeth a hero. Ejaculate into the soap dispenser a hero.
      Colossus: (nervously sniffing his hands.) Bozhe moy...
  • Death Race features a subtle example, when the textual introduction to the race itself warns about "Graphic content including but not limited to violence, coarse language, and death."
  • In The Disaster Artist, as Tommy Wiseau writes The Room (2003), he describes the main character: "He has it all. Good look, many friends, and also maybe Johnny is vampire. We'll see."
  • In Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd persuades Harry why they should return the briefcase to Mary because they have nothing else going for them.
    Lloyd: We've got no food! We've got no jobs! Our pet's heads are falling off!
  • Escanaba in Da Moonlight: The ingredients list for the potion starts out normally enough, with milk, yeast, and barley, but it also apparently contains roasted earthworms, blackflies, squirrel guts and the dried and powdered left testicle of a fully grown moose.
  • Early on in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a magical beast gets loose and bites a non-magical citizen, leaving a former wizard cop to furiously question Newt Scamander, the owner of the beast. Newt tries to reassure her that the bite is mostly harmless and lists off a series of minor symptoms of the bite, until he stutters and tries to avoid the subject before being forced to list the last symptom: shooting fire from the anus.
  • In Full Metal Jacket, Joker explaining to a reporter the motives why he's in The Vietnam War.
    Joker: I wanted to see exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture... and kill them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill.
  • In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, a creepy backwoods tow-truck driver tells our heroes to make themselves at home while he fixes Harold's car:
    Freakshow: Gonna take me a while to fix up your car there, so if you boys'd like to go on inside, get yourself something to drink, worship, fuck my wife, watch TV... anything you want. Mi casa es su casa!
  • From the DVD commentary on Kick-Ass:
    "That's the Marc Quinn blood head, that's a Damien Hirst spot painting, that's a kid killing a man..."
  • Kung Pow! Enter the Fist:
    • Master Tang's flashback.
      Master Tang: "I remember a long time ago when a good friend of mine told me there would be a Chosen One."
      Ling's father: "There will be a Chosen One."
      Master Tang: "And then he told me of the significance."
      Ling's father: "It will be significant."
      Master Tang: "And then he killed the dog."
      (Ling's father farts)
    • The ventriloquist song.
      "I swing a bit more. I swing a bit less. But we both swing if you know what we mean."
  • In L.A. Confidential, down and out actor Matt Reynolds gets roped into a blackmail scheme by having sex with the gay DA but instead ends up dead. The record keeper later tells Ed Exley that Matt's stomach contained a Frankfurter, french fries, alcohol and sperm.
  • A somewhat downplayed and quite snarky example shows up in Lord of War. When the Soviet Union collapses and Arms Dealer Yuri Orlov is first able to access, pilfer, and sell the enormous Soviet arsenal all over the third world, he has a long speech where he waxes poetic about the virtues of the AK-47. At the end of talking about it and its impact on the world, he goes on to note that the AK was Russia's top export after the end of the Cold War, followed by "Vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists."
  • In The Mask, when the eponymous character is being searched by the police. The items: really big sunglasses, Nerf ball, bike horn, small-mouthed bass, bowling pin, mousetrap, rubber chicken, funny eyeball glasses ("I've never seen those before in my life!"), and a bazooka. ((calmly) "I have a permit for that.") The cherry-on-top: a picture of the arresting lieutenant's wife, in lingerie with the words, "Call me lover" hand-written on the bottom.
    The Mask: Uh-oh!
    Calloway: Margaret! You son of a bitch!
    The Mask: Geez, I figured you had a sense of humor. After all — YOU MARRIED HER!
  • Valentine in MirrorMask: "My mother always said, 'It's a dog-eat-dog world, son. You get them before they get you. Eat your greens. Don't embarrass me in front of the neighbors. I think it would be best if you just leave and please never come back again!' (pause) She wasn't even my real mother. She bought me from a man..."
  • The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
    And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chunks...
  • Loretta in Moonstruck, making her weekly confession: "Twice I used the name of the Lord in vain, once I slept with my fiance's brother, and once I bounced a check at the liquor store. But that was an accident really."
  • In The Naked Gun, Frank tells a brainwashed Jane that his love for her has made him see things that he had never noticed before like birds singing, leaves glistening with morning dew and stop lights.
  • In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark suggests to Eddie things he could do for him like give him a snack, refill his eggnog "drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead."
  • Played straight in The Other Guys because the police chief Mauch (played by Michael Keaton) is holding down a second job at Bed Bath N Beyond:
    "First up: the new bath mats are here. Second: there's a serial rapist at Crown Heights...sorry, that's from my other job, ignore that. No wait, don't ignore it, especially if you live in Crown Heights. Walk in pairs."
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt. According to The Shooting Script, when the Real Life Larry Flynt found out about the movie, he met with the writers to go over the script as it was at that point. His objections qualified for this.
    "I would never say 'Jim Dandy'. I never served biscuits and molasses at the Club. The Jackie O issue went to three printings, not four. I never depicted Bestiality."
  • In The Princess Bride, Prince Humperdinck declines Rugen's invitation to observe Westley being tortured:
    Humperdinck: Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.
  • In The Prophecy, Gabriel tries to get Tommy on his side by telling him of the benefits.
    Gabriel: No one tells you when to go to bed. You eat all the ice cream you want. You get to kill all day all night, just like an Angel!
  • The scene in Red Eye where Jack reveals his occupation counts, not so much in that it's a list of things, but because it comes up in the middle of an until that point very pleasant conversation.
  • The song "Chromaggia" in Repo! The Genetic Opera starts as a sad-but-harmless Italian opera song. Then Mag switches to English, declares "Come take these eyes, I would rather be blind!" and tears out her own eyes onstage.
  • The formulas on the wall of Frank's lab in The Rocky Horror Picture Show end with a shopping list for flour, eggs, bread sugar and two hypodermic needles.
  • Schindler's List: Schindler's description of the things Goeth likes, though not by his intent.
    Schindler: He is a wonderful crook. A man who loves good food, good wine, the ladies, making money-
    Stern: Killing.
  • Serenity opens with one of these. "This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode."
  • In Shaun of the Dead, Shaun comes home and asks his friend Ed if they've had any calls. Ed answers that Shaun's girlfriend Liz phoned to make sure that Shaun had made plans to eat out, before adding "...then your mum phoned to ask if I wanted to eat her out."
  • Sleeper - thawed-out-in-the-future fugitive Miles desperately tries to keep Luna from turning him in: "I'm a good person, I've got good life drives! I don't smoke, I don't drink, I would never force myself sexually on a blind person..."
  • In Society, Token Heroic Orc Clarissa offers Bill some tea.
    Clarissa: How do you like your tea? Cream, sugar, or do you want me to pee in it?
  • Star Wars: At the end of Revenge of the Sith, Bail Organa places R2-D2 and C-3PO in the care of Captain Antilles and tells him to treat them well, clean them up, and "have the protocol droid's mind wiped"... while standing right in front of said protocol droid. 3PO is understandably alarmed by the last comment, while R2 lets out a series of tittering beeps about his friend's impending misfortune.
  • Discussed in Taking Lives when Angelina Jolie's character reads to a murder suspect a list of nouns that goes something like "pants, car, house, cat, rape, incest, murder", explaining that a person's brainwaves react in a certain way to words such as the last three unless they are a sociopath.
  • The short film Tattoos has a woman explaining her body art: to remind herself that she can always find her way, of childhood with her father, and the time she killed her boyfriend.
  • Thank You for Smoking: Nick's speech to his colleagues at the MOD Squad after his Heroic BSoD
    Nick: And right there, looking into Joey's eyes, it all came back in a rush. Why I do what I do. Defending the defenseless. Protecting the disenfranchised corporations that had been abandoned by their very own consumers. The logger. The sweatshop foreman. The oil driller. The landmine developer. The baby seal poacher.
    Polly: Baby seal poacher.
    Bobby: Even I think that's kind of cruel...
  • In WarGames, when David unwittingly hacks into NORAD and accesses its Master Computer, WOPR, it brings up a list of "games", both test games and simulation software designed by the Department of Defense. Unfortunately for David and NORAD, WOPR can't tell the difference between a game and real life.
    WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?
    FALKEN'S MAZE
    BLACK JACK
    GIN RUMMY
    HEARTS
    BRIDGE
    CHECKERS
    CHESS
    POKER
    FIGHTER COMBAT
    GUERRILLA ENGAGEMENT
    DESERT WARFARE
    AIR-TO-GROUND ACTIONS
    THEATERWIDE TACTICAL WARFARE
    THEATERWIDE BIOTOXIC AND CHEMICAL WARFARE

    GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR
  • The Wayne's World films contain a few examples of this trope. Almost all of Ed O Neill's character Glenn's dialogue in both films, in fact.
    • From the second film:
      Glenn: So Wayne, I hear you're putting on some kind of concert. That's good. People need to be entertained, they need the distraction. I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die? Why do they come to me to die?"
    • Or, also in the second movie, from super-roadie Del:
      Del: So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweets shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me, and Keith Moon, and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweets shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shop owner and his son...that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business, really. But, sure enough, I got the M&Ms, and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.
    • Also from the second movie, one scene has Wayne chatting with a Swedish secretary. He impresses her with his knowledge of Sweden obtained while writing a report in eighth grade, and then tells her how the next day at school, he had diarrhea on the trampoline in gym class.
  • Played for laughs in The X-Files: Fight the Future-"What do you want to drink, Scully? Coke? Pepsi? Saline solution?"

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