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Comically Missing The Point: Radio
  • In Old Harry's Game, this is Thomas's usual reaction to Scumspawn's attempts to make him a better person. For instance, when it turns out Thomas once sold a baby to a rag-and-bone man.
    Scumspawm:But you wouldn't do that now, would you?
    Thomas: Of course not! You don't get rag-and-bone men any more.
  • Frequently by Hamish in The Doings Of Hamish And Dougal, for instance when Mrs Naughtie goes missing.
    Dougal: There's only one place she could be. Hamish, tonight we camp out on the moors!
    Hamish: Seems a bit callous when we could be searching for Mrs Naughtie, but whatever you say, old friend.
    • Another one, where evidence is piling up that the Laird is a vampire:
      Dougal: Hamish, does that coffin-shaped wardrobe remind you of anything?
      Hamish: Of course! A coffin-shaped sideboard!
      Dougal Precisely!
    • And another, when the lads are trying to trace a letter.
    Mrs. Mc Allister: There's no postage stamp on the envelopes!
    Hamish: No postage stamp? That means the letters were delivered by... ...magic!
    Dougal: ...Yes. ...Or by hand.
  • In The Gobetweenies, Joe gives a speech about how he was a drug-addicted artist in New York, who was selling "destroyed art", because he'd set fire to his paintings while high.
    Joe: And not long after that, I went to see a movie. All about a dad who was also a fish, with the sea between himself and his lost boy. And then I had my epiphany thought; my own manifesto. Which was that nothing would come good if I didn't wake up in the city where my children sleep. So then I came home.
    Lucy: Wow, I didn't know that about him.
    Tom: Me neither. I thought his favourite film was Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it turns out it was Finding Nemo.
  • In one episode of At Home With The Hardys, Jeremy reminisces to his school days and reveals that he actually stole his beloved cricket trophy.
    Caroline: Jeremy, that's horrible! You mean you didn't win it?
    Jeremy: Winning isn't everything, Caroline.

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