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** Done by Chip Whistler in "Friend Con" when showing his disgust at BigTech replacing deliveries with "drones that deliver food right to your door".

* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': Ziggzagged. Not only Taiga Hanaya usually mocks people with one handed quote while he is holding either a [[CoolGun gun]] or [[TransformationTrinket gashat]] in the other hand, he is making ''english quotes'' on ''japanese sentences''.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace uses air quotes when reminding Ellen that she was "homeschooled" (is a greater chimera who was raised in a lab). Ellen points out you really shouldn't airquote your cover story.

* On ''Series/{{Monk}}'', a hot dog vendor tells Lt. Disher that his hot dogs are made of "meat". He explains that he is required by law to put it in quotes. Later, Monk tells one of the vendor's employees it's been a "pleasure" talking to him.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the turian Councillor makes sarcastic air quotes ("Ah yes, 'Reapers'...") when dismissing your claims of an army of robotic {{Eldritch Abomination}}s making their way towards the Milky Way. This quickly became a MemeticHandGesture among the players, as literally the first thing that happens in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' is the Reapers descending upon the galaxy and tearing it a new one. Part of what makes this funny is the fact that turians only have three fingers, so he's only able to represent two apostrophes instead of four.

* There's a wireless commercial in which a salesperson for a competitor uses air quotes when he mentions whenever minutes. The customer lampshades the trope, so the salesperson tries to hide the air quotes. The customer still notices them.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': From ''[[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/content_page/item/654-i-don-t-think-we-re-in-kansas-anymore-pt-2 I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (Part 2)]]'', used to emphaize the legal fiction nature of the statement:

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', when Dave says he's "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006610 stepping out to do a thing]]" to avoid an awkward conversation with Karkat,

* ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'': In [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-92/ Level 8: #92]], Mimic tries to do them, but can only do a pale imitation, due to not having hands. As Roxy points out in the last panel:

* Some languages avert this in that they don't even have native " " quotes. Therefore, it makes the use of this schtick unnatural, foreign to local culture. Try to air Japanese quotes [[note]] they look like brackets without one of the horizontal lines [[/note]], and you'll look like you're checking out scenery for photography.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Fiona asks Shrek and Donkey about Lord Farquaad; after the two crack some jokes about Farquaad's short stature, Fiona tells them that they are just jealous because they cannot measure up to a great ruler like Farquaad. Shrek responds to this while doing the air quotes that she may do the "measuring" when she meets him tomorrow.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', the Turian Councillor makes sarcastic air quotes ("Ah yes, 'Reapers'...") when dismissing your claims of an army of robotic {{Eldritch Abomination}}s making their way towards the Milky Way. This quickly became a MemeticHandGesture among the players, as literally the first thing that happens in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' is the Reapers descending upon the galaxy and tearing it a new one. Part of what makes this funny is the fact that turians only have three fingers, so he's only able to represent two apostrophes instead of four.

* ''VideoGame/{{XCOM2}}'' has Dr. Tygan list a few alien species, miming the quotes around one:

* In one ''ComicStrip/ApartmentThreeG'' strip, Margo sarcastically refers to Tommie's friends Lucy and Ted as "The perfect couple", making air quotes as she does so. This led to MemeticMutation on Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon site as "Finger-Quotin' Margo".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', Onceler does this when being confronted by Lorax about cutting down all the Truffula trees.

* ''WebVideo/FreshyKanal'': In "Bear Grylls vs. Steve Irwin", while the subtitles doesn't add any quote marks, Grylls makes air quotes when admitting Irwin made some "valid" opinions about nature, implying he doesn't think highly of Irwin's words.