Hypocritical Humor / Live-Action Films

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• From Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: "Don't you know I would never say the word fuck?! I would never fucking ever fucking say that! Ever!"
• Around the World in 80 Days (2004):
  • After meeting General Fang, Lord Kelvin diminishes the idea of women leading men, right before passing by the portrait of Queen Victoria in his wall.
  • Upon reaching San Francisco, Phileas Fogg remarks how happy he is to be back "in civilization", all while the sound of gunfire, broken bottles, and women's screams can be heard nearby.
  • When Phileas asks Lord Kelvin which proof he has that the former has robbed the bank of London, Kelvin retorts that they are in the Academy of Science, which means he doesn't have to proof anything.
• Austin Powers:
  • In International Man of Mystery, Austin is collecting some of his things from a clerk. The clerk gives him a penis enlarger. Austin denies it is his and claims he would never need such a thing. "This sort of thing isn't my bag, baby!" The clerk then proceeds to hand him his credit card receipt of purchase of a Swedish-made penis enlarger... and a photograph of him endorsing the enlarger... and a copy of the book Swedish-Made Penis Enlarger Pumps and Me (This Sort of Thing IS My Bag, Baby) by Austin Powers.
  • In Austin Powers in Goldmember, the eponymous villain is the Dutchman Johann "Goldmember" Van Der Smut, prompting this line from Austin's father:
    Nigel Powers: There are two kinds of people that I can't stand: People who are intolerant of other peoples' cultures... and the Dutch.
• Back to the Future: When Marty goes over the game plan with his father-to-be George to court Lorraine at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance while George hangs up laundry, Marty mentions that he will “take advantage” of Lorraine to get her angry with him and George, holding a bra, asks “You mean you’re going to touch her on her...?” To which Marty quickly responds “no”, and then takes the bra and throws it on the ground.
• Bandolero!: When Pop Chaney boasts about the Evil Virtues his father taught, he mentions not scratching himself, then realizes he's scratching himself, and quickly adds "in front of his ma."
• In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, when Bill and Ted get drafted into Billy the Kid's poker game, Bill gently admonishes Ted to "have a poker face, like me". Not ten seconds later he looks at his cards and exclaims "Woah, three Aces, dude!"
• Blues Brothers 2000:
  Buster: It smells like dog shit in here.
  Elwood: Don't say "shit", kid.
  [Buster attempts to light a cigarette, which Elwood confiscates]
  Elwood: You don't need that shit, kid.
• In Bloody Summer Camp, the Sheriff and his deputy, ostensibly investigating a string of murders at a summer camp, run into the camp groundskeeper Marche, who is covered in what looks to be blood and wielding a machete. The sheriff calmly asks him a few questions, seems to buy his explanation of the red on his clothes being paint, and simply confiscates his knife and lets him go. When the deputy asks about Marche seeming suspicious, the deputy admonishes him about "profiling"... Moments later, Cornbread, the Token Minority of the camp staff, is seen running, unarmed and clearly in distress; the sheriff of course immediately arrests him at at gunpoint.
• In Bob Roberts, the title character performs "Complain", basically an entire song complaining about how much other people complain.
• In The Boondock Saints, detective Paul Smecker is in bed with his gay lover Hojo when he receives an important phone call and has to leave - when Hojo laments that he wanted to stay and cuddle, Paul exclaims "Cuddle? What a fag!".
• Bridesmaids: Rita shouting "Hey! Shut your filthy fucking mouths!" to her children.
• In Bridget Jones' Diary, Bridget has been receiving a series of flirty e-mail messages from her Handsome Lech boss Daniel Cleaver talking about her skirt, and she replies by pretending to take offense. Daniel sends her one final message:
  Mortified to have caused offense. Will avoid all non-P.C. overtones in future. Deeply apologetic.
  P.S. Like your tits in that top.
• A classic version would be from Casablanca, when Chief Inspector Renault shouts "I'm shocked, SHOCKED! to find that gambling is going on in this establishment!" before pocketing his roulette winnings. The juxtaposition is used to illustrate how flimsy a justification there is for shutting down Rick's Café. Compounding the hypocrisy is that it's demonstrated the roulette wheel can be rigged, and briefly stated the 'winnings' he earns are a form of indirect bribery for turning a blind-eye to the illegal gambling in the first place.
• Sally's to-do list, in The Cat in the Hat's Film Of The Book:
  1. make a to-do list;
  2. Practice colouring;
  3. Research graduate schools.
  4. be spontaneous...
• Played unconventionally for awesome in the finale of Chappie. After Vincent guns down his "mummy" Yolandi, Chappie hunts him down to the Tetra Vall offices and delivers a violent Curb-Stomp Battle to him which breaks almost all of his limbs and leaves him near-dead, all the while ranting about how violence is wrong.
• Charlie Wilson's War: Gust, when describing one of his CIA colleagues in negative terms.
  Gust: Harold Hold is a massive tool, Congressman. I mean he's a cake-eater, he's a clown, he's a bad station chief, and I don't mean to cast aspersions on the guy, but he's gonna get us all killed.
• In Clerks:
  • An unscrupulous gum salesman incites a near-riot among Dante's customers by accusing him of being equivalent to the Nazis because, like them, he's 'only following orders' by selling cigarettes. When he's exposed, one of the customers who was previously stirred into self-righteous outrage by this slinks up to the counter and sheepishly asks to buy... a pack of cigarettes.
  • A relatively subtle one: Jay says that his Russian cousin Olaf knows English, but "he don't speak it all good like we do".
• In Clue, this is the basis for a Running Gag: whenever one of the other guests' crimes or indiscretions is revealed, Mrs. Peacock is not at all shy at loudly expressing her moral disapproval. Meanwhile, she spends her days working as a bagman for her husband, a politician who takes bribes in exchange for awarding defense contracts. This is especially pronounced with The Reveal that Colonel Mustard was a war profiteer and Miss Scarlet bribed a police officer to keep her brothel open.
• In The Comedy of Terrors, after Vincent Price's undertaker character learns that the widow of a man he killed in order to bring business to his funeral home has taken her husband's money and split for Europe without paying for the funeral services, he looks skyward and laments "Is there no morality left in this world?"
• Takes a dark turn in Crash: Ludacris' character Anthony is insulted by the sight of a white woman clinging to her husband's arm as she passes him and his friend and proceeds to go on a brief rant about how, being surrounded by over-caffeinated white people and trigger-happy cops who will think the worst of them even though they don't appear the slightest bit intimidating, he and Peter should have more reason to be afraid than anyone else. Why aren't they? Peter replies that it could be because they have guns. Anthony agrees, and the two proceed to carjack the couple.
• In Deadly Advice, Major Armstrong, Mrs. Webster and Dr. Crippen sit in the front row of the church singing along with the hymns after having pushed Jodie to murder her mother.
• Death Race: The warden of the prison (Joan Allen) has a guard beat Jason Statham's character for saying the word "ass." She does this because, for her, "language is an issue." Later in the film, she says the phrase, "Okay cocksucker. Fuck with me, and we'll see who shits on the sidewalk."
• In Die Hard, John finds a pack of cigarettes on one of the terrorists he's just killed, and chidingly tells them "these are very bad for you". One quick cut-away later, he has one in his mouth and is lighting up.
• Doctor... Series:
  • Doctor at Sea: When Captain Hogg tells his crew the new ship rules added to accommodate for Miss Mallet and Helene, one of his rules is "No ruddy swearing".
  • Doctor in Trouble: When the passengers believe the Golden Horn is sinking, Basil chews out Dr. Burke (who can't swim) for taking the only lifejacket, only to snatch it for himself once Dr. Burke takes it off.
• Don Jon explains new technology items to his family and friends, incredulous that they haven't heard of them yet. Then, halfway through the movie, the tables are turned when his girlfriend has to explain that his web browser has a "history".
• In Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Preach lambasts Ashtray and Loc Dog for using "nigga" in their vernacular, arguing that it demeans their entire race. Immediately after this he asks them to remind him that he still needs to pick up his laundry from "that chink motherfucker up the street".
• Don't Think Twice: Miles constantly belittles the TV show Weekend Live, at one point asking "was it ever good?", but he also constantly brags about his audition for it 10 years previously, and is still working on submitting to it as a writer.
• Dr. Strangelove: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
• Duck Soup:
  • After rattling off jokes to Mrs. Teasdale:
    Groucho: You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.
  • Later, during movie's first major musical number, "Hail Freedonia":
    "No one's allowed to smoke, or tell a dirty joke, and whistling is forbidden! [starts whistling]
    If chewing gum is chewed, the chewer is pursued, and in the hoosegow hidden! [starts visibly chewing gum]"
• In Due Date, when Ethan tells Peter that he has his father's ashes in a coffee can, Peter calls him out on how misfitting it is. Then Ethan replies with this:
  Ethan: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. [Ethan then starts to sneeze] I shouldn't have come here. I'm allergic to waffles.
  • Also, when Peter accidentally drops the coffee can:
    Ethan: It's like I'm traveling with a child!
    Peter: Remember to use the bathroom?
    Ethan: Good point. I need to take a pee-pee.
• Dumb Money: Brad the GameStop store manager constantly has to remind his employee Marcos to keep his face mask on since the COVID-19 Pandemic is still ongoing. When Marcos asks him if he knows what a short squeeze is, Brad walks up to his face and lowers his own mask to ask if it's a sex thing.
• In A Face in the Crowd, Marcia is watching Lonesome Rhodes's morning show, on which he is delivering a sermon to an Arkansas couple about the virtue of "An Old-Fashioned Marriage" (accompanied by a sappy song sung by a Lennon Sisters-like trio), when Lonesome's hitherto unacknowledged wife comes up to her penthouse and warns her about his philandering tendencies.
• Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High drives while drunk and stoned. At one point, he gets stuck behind some slower drivers and says "People on 'ludes should not drive!"
• A Fish Called Wanda has this rapid-fire example:
  Otto: You pompous, stuck-up, snot-nosed, English, giant, twerp, scumbag, fuck-face, dickhead, asshole.
  Archie: How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?
  Otto: You're the vulgarian, you fuck!
• Four Lions: In the video prologue, Omar rails against western culture, saying it is spiritually empty and obsessed with technology, escapism and pop-culture nonsense. However he and the rest of the Lions acknowledge and love pop music, Xbox video games, Alton Towers, Disney films, and even reference Rambo while firing off a Kalashnikov in a Pakistani terrorist training camp.
  • Being aspiring jihadists, the Lions are determined to kill non-believers but Barry insists on bombing a mosque, partly because he thinks mosques are full of idiots and sellouts and partly because he thinks blaming it on the kuffar will radicalize the moderates. Later, Waj enters a kebab shop and takes several Muslim hostages - one of the poor sods notes to Waj that his bomb isn't going to kill any unbelievers.
  • The Lions all think of themselves as champions of Islam, but none of them seem particularly pious or even have a strong ideological motive for why they want to commit terrorist activities. Hassan admits that he only visits the mosque once in a blue moon. Omar's family are assimilated Asians who live and act like English suburbanites and Omar laughs off the religious Actual Pacifist appeals of his conservative Muslim brother Ahmed. Waj is too thick to have a coherent religious belief system or political ideology, in fact he doesn't even understand the distinction between facing eastwards and facing Mecca (being in a training camp in Pakistan and not England, he would have to pray facing west to be correct and this has to be explained to him by the terrorists training him). Barry is a racist Ax-Crazy Token White asshole who seemingly only got into fundamentalist Islam as an excuse to hurt people. And even Faisal, the most devoutly Muslim of the Lions, is only really going along with what his friends are telling him and what his father is telling him (and his father has dementia and isn't of sound mind).
• In the surrealist gangster/Samurai movie Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, the Italian mobster's conversation goes off on an incredibly racist tangent about how black guys and native Americans keep naming themselves after animals and mock the silliness of it... and at the end of the conversation:
  Mobster: Go outside, get Sammy the Snake, Joe Eggs and Big Angie.
• In The Hangover Part III, Alan constantly criticizes Stu for being "useless" and "an idiot." Said from the same guy who has caused nothing but problems constantly and is a complete idiot himself.
  Alan: We've been on a lot of adventures together but it seems like you haven't learned anything. Anything!
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle: After stealing the car of the sports junkies hassling them all movie, the two discover the "extreme" guys have amazingly wussy taste in music... and as they drive along, get into said "poser" music. Breaking into full on sing-a-long before it's over.
• Harry Potter:
  • In a deleted scene from the first available on the DVD:
    Hermione: And what, may I ask, do you plan to do if this comes up on the final exam?
    Ron: Copy off you!
    Hermione: No you won't! Besides, according to Professor McGonagall, we're to be given special quills bewitched with an anti-cheating spell.
    Ron: That's insulting! It's as if they don't trust us!
  • Professor Umbridge is a living embodiment of this, in a disturbing sort of way..."here, write into your flesh the phrase 'I MUST NOT TELL LIES' over and over while I spew a continuous stream of lies and misleading propaganda!"
• In the prologue of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Frodo tells Bilbo that people think he's becoming "unsociable". Bilbo scoffs at this, and then orders Frodo to put up the sign "No Admittance Except On Party Business".
• In Horrible Bosses, Kurt yells at Dale for hitting him in the car... before proceeding to smack him repeatedly while Nick holds the wheel.
• Indiana Jones:
  • In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, an early scene introduces us to Indiana as a college professor. Every bit of his lecture to the college class is contradicted later in his search for the grail. "Maps never lead to buried treasure, x never marks the spot."
  • When Indy first meets Mutt in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, he approves of Mutt's leaving school in order to find his own way in the world. Once he learns that Mutt is his son, practically the first words out of his mouth are "You're going back to school!" Indy also raises an amused eyebrow when he learns Mutt chose to name himself after a dog…
• In Jack the Giant Slayer Wicke asks Roderick, after just pushing a soldier to his death, "Why do people always bother screaming before they die?". Ironically, a giant grabs him moments later, and he screams until said giant bites his head off.
• In the beginning of John Tucker Must Die, when a 7th grade Kate spells "anonymous" wrong, the announcer proceeds to spell the word "wrong" as "w-o-r-n-g".
• In A Jolly Bad Fellow, Mrs Pugh-Smith spreads a rumour that Clarinda Bowles-Otterly is a secret drinker, when she is the one who keeps a bottle of gin in her purse, and adds a slug to almost everything she drinks.
• Jojo Rabbit: Deertz tells Elsa not to draw attention to Jojo's "hideous physical deformity."
• Judge Dredd. Fergie's and Dredd's discussion while on the transport to the Aspen Penal Colony.
  Herman Ferguson: Dredd? What are you doing here?
  Judge Dredd: I was convicted of a crime. Wrongly.
  Herman: (laughs) That's kinda weird! What are the odds? Two wrongly convicted guys sitting right next to each other?
  Dredd: You received the sentence the law required.
  Herman: Five years? Just for saving my own ass? That was a mistake!
  Dredd: The law doesn't... make mistakes.
  Herman: Really? Then how do you explain what happened to you?
  (Dredd pauses)
  Herman: You can't, can you? Great. Mr. I-am-the-law can't. So maybe this is some kind of typo. Maybe it's a glitch. Or maybe it's poetic justice.
  (Dredd looks at him in shock)
• In Kaamelott: Premier Volet, Perceval never mentions his brother because, according to him, he's an idiot. Since Perceval himself (unlike Karadoc) is quite self-aware about being The Ditz, it says a lot about Lamorak of Wales.
• In Keep Off My Grass!, the sandalmakers object to You Know's use of the phrase "got laid." One of them says, "A customer could be wanting to buy a pair of sandals, and he hears language like that, and he says 'What kind of fucking store is this anyway?' and he goes away!"
• King of Thieves: Danny and Kenny embody No Honor Among Thieves without a hint of remorse, but are quick to accuse other people of dishonesty and untrustworthiness.
• Kingsman: The Secret Service:
  • Valentine mentions he has a hard time understanding the way Harry and other distinctively British people like him talk. This coming from a man who speaks with a very noticeable lisp.
  • Valentine, who is plotting to murder billions of people, is outraged when Merlin blows the implants of all the people involved in the scheme.
    Valentine: You killed all thothe innothent people!!
• In the World War 2-era propaganda film Know Your Ally Britain, two American servicemen stationed in Britain listen with annoyance at British radio before turning it off and complaining that they can't understand a word the British say... while speaking in indecipherable regional American accents.
• Kong: Skull Island: Bill Randa chides Cole for lighting a cigarette in the Skullcrawlers' domain, pointing out that he could ignite the highly-flammable fog in the air, but Bill himself has no problem continuing to use a camera that has a sparking flash in the same area.
• Lolita (1997). Pedophile Humbert acts like a Boyfriend-Blocking Dad after seeing Dolores talking to a strange man.
  Humbert: Lo, you're very young and you don't realise that people could take advantage of you.
  Dolores: Very hard to imagine.
• The Love Bug: All through the El Dorado race, Thorndyke goes out of his way in cheating in order to make Jim lose. But towards the end, Herbie is leading but also literally falling apart, and is blocking Thorndyke's car, making him say "Rotten sportsmanship if you ask me!".
• In Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, the Gyro Captain, upon learning the man he was planning to ambush and kill has been bluffing him with a unloaded shotgun: "Empty, all this time! That's dishonest! Low."
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In Iron Man 2, Happy calls out Tony for "Dirty Boxing" earlier in the movie, but later takes out a Hammer security guard by biting his ear Mike Tyson-style.
  • In The Avengers (2012), Tony Stark ridicules Loki for being a 'full tilt diva'. He catches himself mid-sentence.
  • Strucker in the second one. Under siege by the Avengers, he assures his men there will be 'No Surrender!' Then he turns to his chief scientist and whispers 'I'm going to surrender.'
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Drax spends the entire movie insulting Mantis's everything, calling her ugly, repulsive, mocking her, getting physically sick at the thought of having sex with her, you name it. Then later when he finds out she doesn't like him we get this exchange:
    Mantis: Drax, I don't like you like that! I don't even like the type of thing you are!
    Drax: Hey! There's no need to get personal!
  • Thor: Ragnarok:
    • Thor talks smugly to Doctor Strange as if he's the one who needs to explain Midgardian technology to the wizard.
    Doctor Strange: You don't have a phone.
    Thor: No, I don't have a phone. But you can send me an electronic message, it's called an email.
    Doctor Strangge: Do you have a computer?
    Thor: No, what for?
    • Thor tells Hulk that he doesn't even like Banner because he's into "numbers and science and stuff". However, when Banner comes to the surface and thinks Thor only wants the Hulk, Thor assures him that he doesn't even like Hulk because he's all "Smash! Smash Smash!"
  • Avengers: Infinity War once again sees Tony engage in this, telling Spider-Man to can it with the pop culture references after a second Alien reference — which Tony is guilty of himself throughout not just the franchise, but in IW itself as he called Ebony Maw "Squidward"—and even after telling Peter to knock it off, Tony himself calls Drax and Star-Lord "Mr. Clean" and "Flash Gordon" respectively.
  • Avengers: Endgame: Thor explains to the team that the Reality Stone isn't actually a stone and tells them to stop calling it that... then calls it a stone himself soon afterwards.
• A small (and possibly justified) one in Mary Poppins. Mrs. Banks comes home from a suffragette rally and sings a song about how the suffragettes are fighting against men for women's rights then immediately tells the maid to hide the sashes since Mr. Banks doesn't approve of them.
• Matinee: Sherry talks about how sweet it is that Stan (supposedly) came to the movie premiere to spend time with a little boy, then immediately snaps at her own little brother for interrupting them to summon her back to the auditorium.
• Mean Girls has Regina George, who gained weight, told to "Watch where you're going, fatass!" by a very tall and fat girl.
• Mexican Hayride: When Bascom is interviewed after becoming a goodwill ambassador, the reporter is a Motor Mouth who constantly interrupts and talks over him... and at the end of the scene, tells him "Next time a reporter asks you for an interview, don't talk so much!"
• In Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, the frequently adulterous Delysia and another equally adulterous friend are complaining about the friend's fiancé breaking it off after only suspecting her of having an affair:
  Delysia: Men are so untrusting. I can't think why.
• Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme has a scene where Peter Piper criticizes Gordon Goose and Little Bo Beep for speaking in alliterations, when he had been using alliterations before they started doing so.
• Mutiny on the Buses:
  • A jealous Olive calls Nymphy Norah a fat cow, despite the fact that her own weight has always been a source of humour throughout On the Buses.
  • Mrs. Butler calls Nymphy Norah so common, before letting out a belch.
  • When a bus cruises by without stopping for Stan at a bus stop, he shouts "Lousy rotten buses!". A jump cut to later shows him and Jack practicing darts instead of driving their route.
• In Mystery Team, Jason, Duncan, and Charlie are attempting to prove to Kelly that they're adult and professional enough to solve her parents' murder:
  Jason: We are mature and legitimate detectives.
  Kelly: What the hell is that smell?
  Duncan: I drank dog urine.
• The Naked Gun:
  • Used to hilarious effect in the first movie. After Officer Nordberg (O.J. Simpson) narrowly survives an attempt on his life, Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) assures Nordberg's wife that the men responsible for the attack will be brought to justice.
    Lt. Drebin: Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute until he's behind bars. [turning, to his partner Ed] Now, let's grab a bite to eat.
  • And in the second movie, Drebin and his boss Ed Hocken are making police inquiries in a sex shop:
    Drebin: We're looking for Hector Savage. Where is he?
    Woman behind the counter: Why should I tell you, copper?
    Drebin: Because I'm the last line of defense between sleaze like this and the decent people of this town.
    Male shop assistant: [emerging from the stockroom] Oh, hi, Frank. Say, we finally got that model D83 Swedish sure-grip suck machine that you ordered.
• Office Space has Tom Smykowski, in a conversation with a group of interviewers asking what he actually does at the company. Turns out, his "job" consists of relaying instructions from customers to engineers—but he doesn't actually really do that, he mostly leaves that work to his secretary. When they question his purpose, he starts shouting "I have people skills! I am good at working with people! What the hell is wrong with you assholes?" Yes, he just called the people who get to decide if he keeps his job "assholes", right to their faces.
• A film version of Oliver Twist has the Work House's owners stuffing their faces full of rich food while whining about how the poor people are so greedy, with their talk of wanting more than one bowl of porridge and a bit of dry bread! How dare they!
  • Similar scenes (with varying degrees of subtlety) can be found in most media dealing with the rich-vs-poor dynamic.
• Once Bitten uses this to punctuate a "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  Robin: Mark doesn't want you, because you're mean and evil! He wants me, because I'm nice, and sweet, and pure... so FUCK OFF!
• OSS 117: Lost in Rio: 117 believes that All Germans Are Nazis, but criticizes his love interest for believing that all Nazis are members of the SS. "Don't generalize!"
• Out Cold:
  Luke: Guys! A little sensitivity here. God! Can't you see this is a dejected man? Well, Rick get your dejected head out of your ass.
• From The Pink Panther (2006), with Steve Martin as Clouseau:
  Nicole: Would you like me to stay behind and help you?
  Clouseau: That is a generous offer, Nicole. But I am quite sensitive to office gender politics. And in today's world, the slightest gesture can be misinterpreted as harassment. And it is late, and I would prefer not to put you or me into that delicate situation. Agreed?
  Nicole: Yes, I agree.
  Clouseau: [kisses Nicole] Well, lets seal it with a kiss. And I'll get back to work. [he casually slaps Nicole on her buttocks a moment later]
• Pirates complaining about the pirateness of other pirates is a Running Gag throughout the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow's crew steals the Pearl in the final battle. The event is witnessed by two pirates, Rigetti and Pintel.
  Ragetti: Our ship's sailing away! Is it supposed to be doing that?
  Pintel: They're stealing our ship!
  Ragetti: ...BLOODY PIRATES!
• In Please Turn Over, Gladys tells Edward that television is very bad for the eyes, right before holding her copy of Diet & Exercise for the Growing Girl right up to her face to read it.
• The President's Analyst: A self-described "liberal" character mentions that his next-door neighbors are "real right-wingers, American flag up every day. Real fascists. Ought to be gassed!"
• In the film of The Princess Diaries Clarice gives Mia a Genovian ornament. Mia says "don't worry, I will take good care of it"... exactly as she is haphazardly stuffing it into her school bag.
• In Hitchcock's Rear Window, Stella (Thelma Ritter) spends most of the film helping Jeff (Jimmy Stewart) and Lisa (Grace Kelly) prove that neighbor Raymond Burr, who they've been snooping on from afar, has murdered his wife. In the film's penultimate scene, after a cop asks Stella if she'll help them dig up the body, she replies: "No thanks, I don't want any part of her!" (This might also be a Double Entendre, since the implication is that the body has been dismembered and possibly decapitated.)
• In the Tony Hancock film The Rebel, Hancock has escaped from his office job to try and make it as an artist in Paris. He complains that everyone in his office dressed identically in pinstripe suits... to a group of identically dressed goth types who react with horror to the idea of a place where everyone dresses the same.
• The Room: "I cannot tell you, it's confidential. Anyway, how's your sex life?" As with everything else in this movie, it's very unclear if it was meant to be funny.
• Whilst inside the theater in the first Scary Movie, Brenda warns the rest of the audience not to talk during the movie, while merrily doing so herself. Her behaviour is so obnoxious that they resort to murdering her so they can enjoy the remainder of the presentation.
• In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, where Wallace and Scott are waiting outside Knives' school:
  Wallace: I hate you. Even I would think twice before dating a 17-year-old.
  [...]
  Knives: (upon learning that Wallace is gay) Do you want to know who in my class is gay?
  Wallace: Yes. Does he wear glasses?
• Scream 2: Lois and Murphy talk about how offended they are about the stereotype that sororities are just places where girls who like giving blowjobs gather, then pause to agree that "harmonica style is ok."
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
  • Holmes tells Watson to 'save your bullets', moments before he empties his own revolver at a wall multiple times in an attempt to subdue Blackwood.
    Watson: What was that about saving bullets?
  • In the sequel, Holmes accuses Watson of showing poor manners towards Simza after she offers them hospitality; Watson takes umbrage with being lectured on manners by the man who threw his wife out of a speeding train and into a lake (he timed it perfectly).
  • Holmes tells Watson not to drink anything their gypsy hosts give them... then takes a swig from the bottle of alcohol they've just handed him.
• Sister Act, when the three main nuns are having a midnight snack of ice cream in the kitchen with Mary Clarence.
  Mary Clarence: I know we shouldn't be doing this.
  Mary Lazarus: It's a sin, a wicked indulgence. (looks in the cartons in disappointment) Didn't they have any butter pecan?
• Superman: The Movie: Lex Luthor plans to name various places after himself, and has gone so far as to make a map of the new geography. He chews out his henchman Otis when he notices an "Otisburg" label scribbled onto the map.
• There's Something About Mary focuses on the titular Mary, who is so compelling that basically any man she spends significant time with falls in love with her and becomes an obsessive stalker. Main character Ted Stroehmann ends up escalating the actions of her other stalkers through his own efforts to find Mary after their potential prom date was ended by an embarrassing zipper accident. In the final confrontation with all of Mary's potential love interests, Ted is declared "the worst stalker of us all", even though Ted is the Only Sane Man whose only lie was that he ran into Mary by chance rather than hiring a detective to find her; other stalkers include said detective tapping her phone to find out what she was looking for in a man, a pizza delivery boy who's been posing as a crippled architect and lying about Mary's other love interests to keep her to himself, and an ex-boyfriend who was so obsessive Mary had to get a restraining order against him.
• In Spaceballs, while the group are escaping from the prison complex, Vespa is tossed a gun, but says that she hates guns. Then her hair is singed by stray blaster fire. She then proceeds to gun down all of the mooks trying to stop them.
• Towards the end of St. Vincent (2014), Oliver shows Vincent how to get two snacks out of a vending machine when you only pay for one. Vincent tells him that it's technically stealing, but Vin is hardly one to talk given his previous antics in the film, including a scene where he steals medicine to sell to a drug dealer to get money to keep his wife in medical care.
• Theodora Goes Wild: Lynnfield’s literary circle, consisting of almost all the most puritanical women in town, condemn a salacious serial, called The Sinner, running in their local newspaper. However, they all privately buy the newspaper to find out what happens next, reading it out loud during their meetings, much to their secret enjoyment.
• The Three Stooges: In Shivering Sherlocks, the boys get a job at a diner, and the owner tells them she's had trouble with people signing their checks but not paying. Moe and Shemp see Larry's name on several and chastise him. Then they see Shemp's name on several more and Dope Slap him. Finally they get to the last batch.
  Moe: This guy musta had a tapeworm! "Moe Howard", "Moe Howard", "Moe—" [Larry and Shemp point accusingly at him] What are you guys lookin' at? [slaps them both]
• Time Bandits: When the other bandits start trying to decree what the group will do, Randall reminds them that they all agreed to no leader, so they should shut up and do what he says.
• In The Truman Show:
  • At the end of an interview, the interviewer thanks Christof for his time, noting how he values his privacy, which is, in fact the one thing (besides honesty) he has denied Truman his whole life, constantly broadcasting Truman's life to the whole world without Truman's knowledge, let alone consent.
  • In the 'behind the scenes' clips, the actors and producers stress how the appeal of the show is how 'real' Truman and everything around him is, when even a surface glance at Truman's life reveals it to be almost entirely artificial, engineered and programmed. In fact, throughout the movie whenever Truman expresses his true self and doesn't follow the choices the producers have preconditioned him to make things fall apart very quickly and chaos results.
• Up Pompeii films:
  • Ludicrus Sextus from Up Pompeii wants to stamp out debauchery in Pompeii yet has no problem throwing lavish orgies.
  • Midgeley from Up the Front complains about how unhygienic it is to have cockroaches in the kitchen, before dumping the one he just killed into the stew.
• An unusual Played for Drama example from Vertigo. Scottie, who's spent the second half of the film obsessively sentimentalizing Madeleine, telling Judy "You shouldn't have been that sentimental!"
• The malt shop in Voyage of the Rock Aliens is full of graffiti, including "Please don't write on the walls!! Mgmt."
• In the first Wayne's World, the two main characters say that it's wrong to sell out...while eating Pizza Hut pizza, Doritos, and covered in Reebok clothes.
• In What a Carve Up!, Janet complains about Ernie being at the will reading; saying that he is obviously only there for Uncle Gabriel's money. This ignores the fact that the money is also the only reason she is there.
• Daffy Duck and Donald Duck in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. At the Ink and Paint Club, Daffy, despite talking with a lisp, vows to stop playing music with someone whose speech is hard to understand:
  Daffy: "This is the latht time I work with thomeone with a thpeech impediment!"
  Donald: "You darned stubborn little... why, I oughtta...
• In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Violet comments "Spitting's a dirty habit!" with her finger up her nose. Immediately lampshaded by Willy: "I know a worse one."
• In The Woman, after the feral woman Chris is keeping locked in his cellar bites off one of his fingers, he yells at her to tell her that what she did was uncivilized. Coming from the man who's keeping a woman locked in his cellar.
• X-Men: Days of Future Past:
  Charles Xavier: I'm just not very good with violence.
  [the elevator opens, Magneto inside]
  Erik Lehnsherr: Charles...
  [Charles knocks him out]
• Yellowbeard Tommy Chong does his best scenery chewing as "El Nebuloso", then says:
  El Nebuloso: Anyone caught overacting, I will personally scare to death!

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