Bread Eggs Milk Squick / Live-Action TV

• On 30 Rock, Kenneth tries to convince Jack not to shut down the NBC page program:
  Kenneth: Think of all the famous people who started as pages: Steve Allen, Regis Philbin, Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, John Wayne Gacy...
• The A-Team:
  • In the episode "Members Only", Murdock starts giving Hannibal a tour of a country club (Murdock goes there often as his psychiatrist's guest) and then discovers a plot point that is (somewhat) nastier than the other normal things:
    Murdock (sounding posh): The tennis courts are night-lit, there's an extra putting green there, that's the front nine, and that's Faceman chasing someone into the rough.
  • In the episode "The Little Town With an Accent", Face and Murdock trail the antagonist of the week back to his home base, where they find gangster Sonny Marlini. Face describes Marlini to Hannibal as tanned, healthy, and homicidal.
• ALF: Alf's list of what to bring for an extended camp-out in the back yard included chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, chocolate pudding and... acne pads.
• All Aussie Adventures: An episode of the 2018 series introduces Russell's 23-year-old niece Chrissie, whose list of credits includes "numerous corporate training videos, community TV presenter and her breakthrough role as Prostitute #4 in Underbelly 3". This detail becomes a lot squickier if you know that Underbelly's third season, The Golden Mile, which does indeed focus partially on prostitution, would have been filmed when she was about 15.
• All That has a cold open where the cast are seen doing strange things by a tour group. Kel is growing big oranges, Alisa is eating lots of pie, Josh is milking a cow, Kenan is sculpting, Angelique and Lori Beth are performing surgery and Katrina is building a bomb.
  Tour guide: "Well, time to go away."
• On an episode of America's Dumbest Criminals, a man's house has been robbed and he calls the police. He lists the various things that have been stolen: his wife's jewelry, his computer terminal, his TV, his VCR, his bag of dope.
• Angel: Doyle's ex-wife Harriet prepares to marry into a family of apparently humanized, peaceful demons who nonetheless make, um, unusual wedding preparations. Harriet's prospective father-in-law reads from the to-do list: "First we greet the man of the hour. Then we drink. We bring out the food. Then we drink. Then comes the stripper, darts, and then we have the ritual eating of the first husband's brains, and then charades." The demon family, of course, objects to the charades.
• Babylon 5:
  • In the episode "Messages from Earth", Marcus Cole is beginning a fairly standard status report but when he notices that Ivanova is not paying attention to it he starts to derail it: "There's always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon. The kind that eats the sun once every 30 days. It's a nuisance, but what can you expect from reptiles? Did I mention that my nose is on fire? And that I have 15 wild badgers living in my trousers?" (Ivanova glares at him) "I'm sorry would you prefer ferrets?"
  • This seems to be Ambassador Mollari's preferred way of convincing people. As a true diplomat, he would give his counterpart a couple innocuous reasons to do what he asks of them, but should they display the unfortunate obstinance, he unsheathes the reason # 3. He uses a particularly vicious variant on his aid Vir, to coerce him into helping him with a very underhanded scheme:
    "You will do it because I asked you. Because it will help our people. Because if you do not, I will reveal everything you have done on Minbar. I will humiliate you, your family and your house. I will drive them from honor and bankrupt them. I will have them stripped naked whipped through the streets of the capital at midday and in the end, I will destroy them."
• In The Big Bang Theory:
  • Sheldon Cooper's answers to the standard Rorschach inkblot test are "A) A bat, B) A bat, C) A bat, and D) My father killing my mother with a hypodermic needle."
  • Sheldon explains to Penny why he is taking it extremely slow with Amy Farrah-Fowler.
    Sheldon: All my life, I have been uncomfortable with the sort of physical contact that comes easily to others: handshaking, hugging, prostate exams...
  • At the end of the Season 12 episode "The Maternal Conclusion", Stuart and Denise try to convince Denise's roommate to move out, arguing that they're deeply in love enough to commit to each other together in the same room. Denise's roommate asks Stuart to tell Denise that he loves her — he does — and then asks Denise to say it back to Stuart (she does), before asking Stuart and Denise to say it to HIM. Cue Stuart and Denise staring back at him in awkward silence.
• Breaking Bad: Gale Boddicker, a brilliant chemist, but a certified Cloudcuckoolander and "nerd's nerd" keeps a notebook full of recipes for vegan brownies, verses from his favorite poems, and sketches for the industrial-level meth-lab he's assembling for the mob.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
  • At one point, Mayor Richard Wilkins III is shown holding a checklist containing several mundane tasks for a mayor (meet with PTA, etc.) with "Become Invincible" thrown in.
  • At the start of Season 3, Larry is excited about Sunnydale High football's prospects.
    "This is our year, I'm telling you. Best football season ever. I'm so in shape, I'm a rock. It's all about egg whites. If we can focus, keep discipline, and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Sunnydale is gonna *rule!*"
  • And of course Principal Snyder. Downplayed, as the first two items are still disturbing, just not in the same way.
    This place has quite a reputation. Suicide, missing persons, spontaneous cheerleader combustion. You can't put up with that.
  • In "Restless", Willow dreams that Giles is a director of a production of Death of a Salesman (or her idea of it). He motivates the actors by telling them to "Stay in focus, keep our heads and if Willow can stop stepping on everyone's cues...
  • Season 7: Nerd-turned-villain Andrew fails to stab a pig for his ritual and has to buy the blood instead, so he tries to disguise the "squick" item by tacking on a regular non-sequitur:
    Andrew: I'd like 12 pork chops, two pounds of sausage, eight quarts of pig's blood, three steaks, um... halibut, and, uh, some toothpaste...
    Butcher: This is a butcher's shop, Neo. We don't sell toothpaste.
• In Burn Notice when Michael explains to his mother how Fiona is doing in jail. "She's tired, she's scared, and she's not eating enough... and somebody's trying to kill her."
  • The first line in the first episode of Burn Notice "Covert intelligence involves a lot of waiting around. Know what it's like being a spy? Like sitting at your dentist's reception area 24 hours a day. You read magazines, sip coffee, and every so often, someone tries to kill you."
• Community:
  Jeff: Yes, and I'm hoping that our friendship will yield certain advantages: academic guidance, moral support, every answer to every test for every one of the classes I'm taking...
  • Also, "Jesus loves marijuana and drinking human blood".
  • Troy and Jeff are shocked to discover the Zen-master gardener/trampoline keeper is a racist, then recall what should have been signs (we only saw the first two): he calls the garden "a place free from darkness" and tells Troy "and some are just natural jumpers". Finally, he has a big swastika tattoo on his chest! "It's going to be a maze."
  • In "Paradigms of Human Memory", Abed remembers all the times that Jeff and Britta had sex in secret. He saw them sneak into the bathroom together during the Halloween party, hear Jeff proposition Britta during the claymation Christmas Episode, and literally walked in on them in their underwear during the Saint Patrick's Day rafting expedition.
  • In "Curriculum Unavailable", there is a course called "Can I Fry That?". The professor tells the students about things that can be fried such as bananas, toast, bubble gum, pancakes and car keys. BUT NOT FRIES.
• The Crank Yankers intro. A shopping list on a refrigerator reads: milk—eggs—drugs. Trope Namer. Sorta. This is pretty much the formula for every call they make; start earnestly well-intentioned and then gradually (or abruptly) take the call Off the Rails.
• Doctor Who:
  • The First Doctor serial "The Romans":
    Vicki: Oh something else I forgot to tell you: I think I've poisoned Nero.
    The Doctor: Really. WHAT?
  • "The Impossible Planet": A food-serving alien under the control of a demonic figure is listing the menu of a space-station canteen when it casually mentions "The Beast and his armies will rise from the pit to make war against God... apologies. I meant I hope you enjoy your meal."
  • The anti-bodies from "Let's Kill Hitler".
    Anti-body: You may experience a tingling sensation and then death.
  • "Closing Time": Regarding Craig's infant son:
    The Doctor: Yes, he likes that... Alfie. Though personally, he likes to be called Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All. [cue ominous musical sting, then the soundtrack continues normally]
• Becky Sharpe, a.k.a. Hazard of the "Luck Be a Lady" episode The Flash (2014) had a really unlucky life. In the span of a single flashback, in no particular order (which implies that it all happened in the course of a single day): the drink she orders from Jitters is not soy but milk (she has severe lactose intolerance), walks into her apartment to find her boyfriend cheating on her, causes a customer who tried to flirt with her to spill his drink which loses her job at the casino, and has her car repossessed. The bad luck seems to have stopped (Becky even lampshades it, although it becomes Tempting Fate in the long run instead) when moving out of her apartment because of her now-ex, she manages to hitch a ride on a bus, except the bus is in the path of the Flash as he busts out of the Speed Force. The passengers of the bus (Becky included) are bathed in antimatter because of their close proximity to the opened Speed Force portal, transforming them into metahumans.
• Daphne Moon in Frasier has a tendency to recall traumatic or unsettling details about her childhood and family life in a cheery, persistently upbeat tone at the climax of long, rambling stories. One excellent example—she decides to impart a lesson about generosity to the brothers Crane by telling them about an encounter with a poor old man on the street. Long story short, she helpfully tells him, "that's not how you spell 'fellatio'."
• Friends:
  • Phoebe Buffay's back story speech in the first episode of .
    Phoebe: You're welcome. I remember when I first came to this city. I was fourteen. My mom had just killed herself and my step-dad was back in prison, and I got here, and I didn't know anybody. And I ended up living with this albino guy who was, like, cleaning windshields outside port authority, and then he killed himself, and then I found aromatherapy. So believe me, I know exactly how you feel.
  • Phoebe uses this one fairly often.
    Phoebe: I also have to find a new video store, a new bank, new adult book store, a new grocery store...
    Monica: What?!
    Phoebe: [slowly] A new g-r-o-c-e-r-y store.
• In Fringe, Walter's lists of required materials for his various experiments are either this trope, Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking, or some other comic mixture of the variously esoteric and the incongruously mundane.
  • The opening credits for each episode flash the names of speculative "fringe technologies" (like "psychokinesis, teleportation, nanotechnology"). In one episode set a generation in the future, the fringe technologies include "dual maternity, chaos structure, clonal transplantation, water, biosuspension, hope".
• The trope appears in a sketch in Full Frontal in which a priest is totally unfazed by something you'd think would count as squick to him. The mild-mannered priest is reading the Lotto numbers and making a Bible reference appropriate for each. "The first number is 10. There were 10 Commandments. 10. The second number is 3. There were 3 wise men. 3. The third number is 12. There were 12 Apostles. 12. The fourth number is 69. Two people having oral sex. 69."
• In season 7 of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow meets Daenerys for the first time. Their negotiations begin to break down because she does not believe in the White Walkers. Cue Davos Seaworth hyping Jon up.
  "All those things you don't believe in? He faced those things. He fought those things for the good of his people. He risked his life for his people. He took a knife in the heart for his people. He gave up (his life)..."
• In Gilmore Girls, the episode about Spring Break had the following exchange between Rory (the daughter) and Lorelai (the mom):
  Rory: It was interesting, you know. We sat on the beach, went to a club, watched the Power of Myths, Paris and I kissed...
  Lorelai: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. You watched the Power of Myths? I hid that from you.
• Glee:
  Finn: Kids are busier than when you went here. We've got homework, football, teen pregnancy, lunch...
• Gotham: Jerome Valeska, one of the Batman prequel show's main takes on the Joker, at one point says that his twin brother was their mother's favorite because he cleaned his room, did his homework, and didn't try to kill everyone.
• The Great British Bake Off: The showstopper in the biscuits episode of series 7 requires the contestants to make a gingerbread scene that contains at least eight different things. Louise decides to depict her wedding, so she explains that her scene will have a church, a gingerbread groom, bride, and vicar, and some gravestones.
• Hang Time:
  • In "Not a D'Amata", Vince, Michael, Teddy and Danny discuss taking Vince's little brother Nicky out camping to get him in touch with his "inner D'Amata" when he comes back more cultured. Michael talks about to doing guy stuff: "we'll build a fire! get dirty! eat bugs!" He loses the other guys with that last one, then suggests they'll bring pizzas instead.
  • A variant in "Goodnight Vince", when Julie, Teddy, Danny and Michael talk about the prospect of traveling to the state championships in Bloomington:
    Michael: It'll be so cool. Living in the college dorms.
    Julie, Teddy, Danny and Michael: Yeah!
    Teddy: Chilling with the college ladies.
    Teddy, Danny and Michael: Oh, yeah!
    Julie: Checking out those cute college guys.
    Teddy, Danny and Michael: Yeah! (beat) No! No-no-no-no!
• In an episode of Happy Endings, a man whose birthday is on Christmas (just like Jane) is rallying others like him in a bar as to all they feel they are owed for.
  "All the late Birthday cards." *cheer* "The combo-gifts." *cheer* "The impotence!" *crickets*
  • In season one's "Bo Fight":
  Penny: In the last week you have dragged me to a karate pilates class, made me test-drive a Yaris, and talked me into seeing a children's production of Hair, which thankfully, got shut down before the second act.
  • In "Your Couples Friends & Neighbors":
    Jane: Your voice always gets so high when you don't wanna do something.
    Brad: What?
    Jane: (high voice) "I love tofu spareribs." "Sure, I'll go to wine country with your parents." "I'll totally take care of you after you finish with me."
  • In "Secrets and Limos", while Penny is making a "vision board" she reveals that she wants:
    Penny: A romantic old-fashioned gentleman. The kind of guy who'll buy you flowers and dinner and look at you during sex.
  • In "The Butterfly Effect Effect", aka "Spring Smackdown":
    Penny: Oh, you know, standard, just cleaning up from a slumber party. Some light dusting, dishes, chipping my unmentionables out of the freezer.
• How I Met Your Mother:
  • Ted recounts his attempt to get his upstairs neighbors to stop "playing the bagpipes," and then losing his nerve when he finds out they're an old couple: "I didn't have the heart to tell them to stop, so I talked with them for a while, had a hard candy, nodded politely at some racist comments, and then I left." A bit of an inversion since Ted, not the neighbors, is the one uncomfortable with the squick part.
  • In the episode "Chain of Screaming", each character is giving Marshall advice on how to deal with his boss, who screams at him when angry. Lilly's advice starts off as a kind, kindergarten teacher approach to things, then ends with Marshall (actually Lilly pretending to be Marshall in a fantasy scene) and his boss talking about nailing his wife.
  • In the episode "Homewreckers" where Ted buys a house that needs a lot of fixing, his contractor mentions the expected: Mold, vermin, and water damage, before mentioning a hobo.
• In How to Get Away with Murder, Wes opens up to Rebecca using this.
  Wes: I'm allergic to peanuts, I have a really bad sense of direction, my mom killed herself when I was twelve...
• In How to Irritate People, John Cleese criticizes the Pepperpots for their lack of subtlety. "It's like, for example, going to a football game and cheering for a team that isn't playing, or wearing fancy dress at a funeral, or setting fire to Julie Andrews. It's irritating, but it's obvious."
• Jessie: Happens towards the end of the episode where Mrs. Kipling imagines everyone switching bodies. Ironically, Luke was actually right about the last thing.
  Luke: I bet all Mrs. Kipling thinks about is Godzilla movies, eating cockroaches, imagining what would happen if we all switched bodies.
  Ravi: Luke, do not be ridiculous. Mrs. Kipling HATES cockroaches.
• Mastery of the form is frequently demonstrated by The Kids in the Hall.
  • "To good friends!" "To good times!" "And to ritualistic murder..." all:"TO REG!"
  • "Whole lotta milk-a. Bell Biv DeVoe. Your mother's cheatin' on me."
  • There's also a sketch in which an actress accepting an award actually does thank Hitler.
• One Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode had John Munch give a strange set of statements, "Yeah, and I want the troops home, the Kyoto Protocol signed, and a Tijuana oil job from Miss February." to a high school girl. He might have been playing up some I Take Offense to That Last One to the "old" part of being called a Dirty Old Man.
• Leverage:
  • Parker's less than stellar attempt at calming down a passenger when she's pretending to be a flight attendant in "The Mile High Job".
    Parker: When you think of it, there are many ways to die besides on a plane. Car crash, electrocution, drowning, auto-erotic asphyxiation.
  • Hardison running through all of the political candidates they can't work with in "The San Lorenzo Job".
    Hardison: Drug dealer, drug dealer, drug addict, embezzler, embezzler-drug-dealer-AND-drug-addict, and my personal favorite...
    [Hardison puts a video of flames on screen that somehow turns into porn]
    Sophie: EW! Ew—what is that??
    Hardison: There's no secrets on the Internet. When will people learn this?
• A Little Britain sketch has a tour guide of a rural area enliven his stories of the place by pointing out where he and his wife had their first kiss and go on to tell where they first had oral and anal sex as well.
• In the first part of "Last Whiff of Summer", the two-part fourth-season premiere of The Middle, the Hecks go to a drive-in where the triple feature is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Fiddler on the Roof, and Serpico.
• Midsomer Murders: Tom reminisces on an unpleasant country club in "The Dogleg Murders":
  "Apart from the snobbery and the extortionate fees, there was the matter of me arresting the treasurer for murdering his mistress!"
• Bob Fossil's frequent examples of this in The Mighty Boosh. One of the best: The Hitcher's massive thumb's backstory, related while driving through the dark and ominous Forest of Death. His long and cheery reminiscence culminates with him smashing in the head of the shaman that helped him, just to get out of the bill.
  • To be fair, it was 5 Euros. And you won't see penny one from me, boy!
• Zoe Lyons on the "Scenes We'd Like to See" segment of Mock the Week, in the category "Unlikely Small Ads": "Respectable middle-aged lady would like to meet gentleman for cozy nights in, country walks, theater visits, and occasional eye-popping anal."
• In Modern Family episode 4, after a speech by Haley's boyfriend revealing his Hidden Depths, her family encourages him to play one of the songs he's written. The innocently titled "In the Moonlight", which he says he wrote for Haley, draws them in with an innocuous first verse before becoming blatant Intercourse with You.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus:
  • The "Lumberjack Song" devolves from a celebration of outdoorsy pursuits to cross-dressing, to the dismay of the chorus.
  • Mr. Figgis's list of immortal composers:
    "Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Panties... I'm sorry... Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Bach."
  • One sketch had a "Summarize Proust" show contestant list his hobbies as "Strangling small animals, golf and masturbating."
    • The BBC cut out the word “masturbating” and crudely edited the line to say “golf and strangling animals”. Apparently, masturbation is far worse than strangling animals.
• In one scene from The Muppet Show, Statler asks Waldorf what he takes in his tea. He answers "Milk, two sugars, one mouse".
• In Muppets Tonight, while Clifford watches a sketch; "Look at those lobsters out there. Aren't they cute? With their little lobster outfits, their little lobster guitars, and their little lobster semiautomatic weapons."
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • From the closing host segment of "Pod People":
    Joel: Y'know, guys, it always hurts to close it all up, strike the set, wipe off the greasepaint, napkin up the blood and entrails, and move on to another town.
  • This riff from "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", when the kids start assaulting Volmar with toys.
    Tom Servo: Hilarity, guys. Not since the pie fight scene in The Great Race!
    Crow: Not since the mudslide scene in McLintock!!
    Joel: Not since the wagon race scene in The Hallelujah Trail!
    Crow: Not since the chess-playing scene in The Seventh Seal!
    Tom: Not since the orgy scene in Calig...u...la.
• Night Court, in the Season 3 episode "Walk Away, Renee", Mac is out in the hall talking to a supplier:
  Mac: We're gonna need a gross of pencils, three dozen typewriter ribbons...
  [From offscreen, Dan is heard screaming and crashing into something, courtesy of ticking off Bull in the scene prior]
  Mac: ...six pints of whole blood...
• In The Office (US), Dwight says that his family believes in a five-finger intervention which at first seems to be a euphemism for getting punched. The steps are composed of awareness, education, control, acceptance and punching.
• Once Upon a Time, Rumpelstiltskin uses this with Belle.
  Rumpelstiltskin: You will serve me my meals and you will clean the Dark Castle... You will dust my collection and launder my clothing... You will fetch me fresh straw when I'm spinning at the wheel... OH! And you will skin the children I hunt. For their pelts.
  [Belle drops a tea cup]
  Rumpelstiltskin: ... That one was a quip. Not serious! [giggles]
• Porridge: According to Fletcher, the prison football team boasts a mixture of "youth, experience, flair and brutality."
• The Psych episode "An Evening With Mr. Yang" does this with the pictures in the Psych office. Picture of Gus, picture of Shawn, picture of Gus and Shawn, TERRIFIED GAGGED VICTIM.
• The "Timeslides" episode of Red Dwarf has this lovely excerpt from the diary of one Adolf Hitler:
  Kryten: I'll switch to translation mode... Stop milk, pay papers, invade Czechoslovakia!
• Rome
  • Season 1 has a scene where Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and Posca are reading Pompey's peace terms.
    Antony: The Senate will ratify your status. You get your Triumph. Stand for Consul. Pompey shall withdraw to Spain. He'll suck Posca's cock if asked nicely.
  • In the season 2 premiere, Mark Antony offers a truce to the conspirators who murdered Caesar. They will not condemn each other and appear as friends in public. Antony will serve out his term as Consul and then retire back to his estates where he can plough his fields and fuck his slaves. Like Cincinattus.
• Saturday Night Live:
  • One series features four men in a bar (or, on occasion, a car) who tell gradually more disturbing tales (all of them treating the stories as perfectly normal events) about where they were when they heard a popular song (such as "Danny's Song," "Garden Party," "To Be With You," and "Breakfast At Tiffany's"), culminating in them committing some unsettling atrocity in whatever setting they occupy.
  • The Bill Brasky sketches utilize this as well, with a group of drunkards telling outlandish stories about Bill, while each of them takes turns interjecting with something uncomfortable and completely unrelated, like "I'm wearing a diaper!" or "My uncle Hal molested me!"
  • Another sketch featured a company asking their employees what they could do to make more money. The employees who answer their questions get increasingly goofier, like a mounted tiger head and a gigantic turkey sub.
  • The theme song of The Ambiguously Gay Duo. "They are taking on evil come what may, they are fighting all crimes to save the day, they're extremely close in an ambiguous way."
  • The "Under Underground Records" commercial sketch series features DJ Supersoak and Lil Blaster hyping up a music festival thrown by their label. The special guests from just the first one include Mark Fuhrman (from the OJ Simpson trial), actor Justin Long, The Snapple Lady, Turtle from Entourage, Ms. Screw Magazine 1997 and NBA legend Dirk Nowitzki.
• In Scarecrow and Mrs. King, a brainwashed Lee begins making daily to-do lists. One of these lists contains, amongst mundane items, the entry "Shoot Billy".
• Screenwipe on the relentlessly horrible nature of the news:
  Charlie Brooker: Which isn't to say the world itself is horrible. It's still full of sunshine and flowers and cuddly creatures you'd like to have sex with, like this rabbit. Cor, look at this rabbit...
• Scrubs:
  • JD's "And Knowing Is Half the Battle" daydream:
    JD: You've had a tough day at the office, so you come home, make yourself some dinner, smother your kids, pop in a movie, maybe have a drink. It's fun, right? Wrong. Don't smother your kids.'
  • Elliot is pretty prone to this. "Maybe we can do something a little less girly, like bowling or paint ball or Fight Club..."
  • Many of her stories of friends and relatives seem normal enough, but then end with the subject abruptly hanging themselves. Her friends have come to expect this.
  • "Possible side effects of kittens may include sneezing, tiny scratches, and erectile dysfunction."
  • The Janitor describing his trip to China and doing the "normal" touristic things: "Visited the Great Wall, ate the food, and had a baby with a local."
  • The Todd giving his reference to Dr. Cox:
    "Dr. Turk should be chief because he's skilled technically, super efficient, he's got an awesome dong, he's great with laparoscopic procedures, patients love him..."
    "What was that middle one?"
    "Laparoscopic?"
  • Elliot advocating for her patient to get a donor heart valve
    Dr. Molly Clock: He a good candidate for surgery?
    Elliot: Definitely. Thirty-five, married, good job, cute little boy, great dog; can't remember
    what kind they said, long time recovering heroin addict, bulldog. That's what it was.
• In Seinfeld's "The Yada Yada", Jerry's love interest Beth (Debra Messing) appears to agree with him on the superfluity of dentists... only to add that dentists were worse than "the blacks and the Jews". Afterwards, when Elaine asks Jerry where Beth is, he answers "she went to get her head shaven".
  • In "The Andrea Doria," George plays Misery Poker for an apartment he had planned to move into against a survivor of the Andrea Doria shipwreck, who was prioritized because the owners felt sorry for him. He reels off a litany of his absurd humiliations from past episodes (getting Chained to a Bed, successfully charming an attractive woman who turned out to be a Nazi, "shrinkage"), concludes his speech and begins to leave an already tearful panel before turning back and adding, "Oh! Also. My fiancée died from licking toxic envelopes that I picked out."
  • A classic from "The Dealership" when a car dealership employee retrieves and eats a Twix bar that had been stuck in the vending machine after George paid for it:
    George: All I want is my 75 cents back, an apology, and for him to be fired.
• In Smallville, Oliver once described Davis as "tall, dark, and doomsday".
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Little Green Men": baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs.
• The Suite Life on Deck: "I'm tired of you always putting me down, being rude to me, and putting live poisonous animals under my pillow while I sleep."
• Supernatural: In "ScoobyNatural", when one of the guests ends up dead, each of the Mystery Inc. gang reacts with their catchphrase... and then Dean chimes in with something a little less family-friendly.
  Velma: Jinkies!
  Daphne: Jeepers!
  Shaggy: Zoinks!
  Scooby: Ruh-roh!
  Dean: ...Son of a bitch!
• Taxi:
  Jim: Now come on, Heather, what's in the brownies?
  Heather: Sugar, eggs, chocolate, marijuana, flour, and walnuts.
  Gordon: [outraged] You've been feeding us WALNUTS?!
• On the season one episode of Titus called "Mom's Not Nuts," Titus names off the three things that will get you out of a mental hospital: "good behavior, a clean psychiatric record, and an axe." (The third of which is what Titus's mom used).
  • Titus used this trope a lot, especially when his mother (a bipolar schizophrenic) is referenced. A season one episode has the cast eating a meal prepared by his mother. He lists his favorite dishes prepared by his mother:
    Christopher: [obviously under the influence of drugs] Nobody makes turkey dinner like my mom. Those little pilgrim cookies with the little chocolate suits, homemade candy, candied yams, yam covered ham, cranberry jam in the shape of a can... (takes a bite of food and then spits something into his palm)... spit a pill into my hand.
• That '70s Show: The episode "Eric's Hot Cousin" has an example that's somewhere between this trope downplayed and Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking. In the beginning, Eric's reminiscing over how his titular cousin Penny was a tattletale when they were little kids. "Eric's stealing cookies, Eric's playing with fire, Eric's touching himself."
• When explaining the risks with meeting yourself while time travelling in The Umbrella Academy, Five lists off the seven stages of paradox psychosis. In order, the stages are denial, itching, extreme thirst and urination, excessive gas, acute paranoia, uncontrolled perspiration, and homicidal rage.
  • In the same episode, Diego watches an orientation movie at the Comission for new recruits, the mascot character, Mr. Briefcase, explains all the wonderful job options the company provides. He tells the recruits that opportunities are open to them no matter their skill, education or comfort level with moral ambiguity.
• In The Vicar of Dibley, Owen asks Geraldine what kind of things he'll teach his goddaughter as she grows up (riding a bike, going on nature walks and teaching her about the flowers, hunting down moles and stoving in their heads).
• In one episode of World's Dumbest..., Chelsea Perretti reveals her New Year's resolutions: "Don't date idiots," "Make new friends," "Recycle more," and "Stop killing hobos."
• Yellowjackets: Shauna kills the man she's been having an affair with She calls her former teammates to help her cover her tracks. The next day at their 25th high school reunion, Shauna hesitate before going in:
  Shauna: How is it possible that is the most scared I've been all day?
  Taissa: [laughs] Right? "Oh, my God! Oh, hey, girl. Hey! It's been forever. What have you been up to? Tell me."
  Shauna: Um, yeah. You know, gardening, PTA, dismembering my lover's corpse.