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Some tropes, like SorryOciffer, SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX, and ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor, inherently lend themselves to Hypocritical Humor.

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Some tropes, like SorryOciffer, SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX, and ComplainingAboutThingsYouHaventPaidFor, SilenceInTheLibrary, SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX, and SorryOciffer, inherently lend themselves to Hypocritical Humor.
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** ''Literature/BookOfNumbers'' 12:3 goes, ''Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth''. And who wrote Numbers? That's right. Justified, since: the Biblical concept of humility is attributing all success to God rather than your own abilities; he was very resistant to being a prophet and leader multiple times (which gave him vast power), and also the power he initially lost as part of the life he had in the ruling family, to then be a serf, it actually fit his history; and Moses lived in ''humble circumstances'' because he had not used his position to enrich himself, or otherwise enjoy the perks that usually come with power.

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** ''Literature/BookOfNumbers'' 12:3 goes, ''Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth''. And who wrote is supposed to be the author of Numbers? That's right. right.[[note]]Well... it's actually a subject of significant dispute among Biblical scholars as to who the original authors of Numbers were, but it is generally agreed among them that the existing text is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestly_source Priestly]] edit of an earlier source or sources, made around the 5th Century BC. Which is some eight centuries or so after the time Moses, or the inspiration for the legend of Moses, is thought to have lived. What we're saying here is that astonishingly, this confluence of ancient history, religion, and academic debate is really quite complex and is not going to be solved in a footnote.[[/note]] Justified, since: the Biblical concept of humility is attributing all success to God rather than your own abilities; he was very resistant to being a prophet and leader multiple times (which gave him vast power), and also the power he initially lost as part of the life he had in the ruling family, to then be a serf, it actually fit his history; and Moses lived in ''humble circumstances'' because he had not used his position to enrich himself, or otherwise enjoy the perks that usually come with power.
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** Likewise, an eerily similar phrase has gone {{memetic|Mutation}} after Obi-Wan Kenobi said it in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', apparently without realizing the irony: "Only a Sith deals in absolutes."
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** On a ''Tales from the Vet'' section of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' Dr. Van Neuter warns the guests not to overdo it on the eggnog at the Christmas party. HilarityEnsues when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsBIjhBBPx8 doesn't follow his own advice...]]

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** On a ''Tales from the Vet'' section of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' Dr. Van Neuter warns the guests not to overdo it on the eggnog at the Christmas party. HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsBIjhBBPx8 doesn't follow his own advice...]]
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* A Tostitos ad had featured several former NFL players like Dan Marino, Jerry Rice, Emmett Smith, and Randy Moss, [[BackInTheSaddle un-retiring to play in the NFL again with hilarious results]]. The ad ends with Creator/TomBrady watching them play on TV and saying "Un-retiring? Who would be dumb enough to do that?", a nod to how after the 2021-22 season, [[TenMinuteRetirement Brady announced his retirement from the NFL only to backtrack several weeks later and play one more season before retiring for good after that]].
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Compare with ImmediateSelfContradiction, BoomerangBigot, TemptingFate, IResembleThatRemark, IWouldSayIfICouldSay, SuchAPhony, DontBeRidiculous and DescriptionCut.

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Compare with ImmediateSelfContradiction, BoomerangBigot, TemptingFate, IResembleThatRemark, IWouldSayIfICouldSay, SuchAPhony, SuchAPhony (when one character talks crap about another but pretends to be nice in their presence), DontBeRidiculous and DescriptionCut.
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* The central joke of Shooty and Bang-Bang, the SpacePolice in ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideOfTheGalaxy1978'' is that they keep insisting that they are not the kind of {{Rabid Cop}}s who are into gratuitously shooting people and mindless violence ... while gratuitiously shooting at the main cast, and saying if they surrender they'll be beaten up, but only a little. And if they ''don't'' surrender, the cops will, regretfully, blow up the entire planet and maybe a couple of others.

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* The central joke of Shooty and Bang-Bang, the SpacePolice in ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideOfTheGalaxy1978'' ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' is that they keep insisting that they are not the kind of {{Rabid Cop}}s who are into gratuitously shooting people and mindless violence ... while gratuitiously shooting at the main cast, and saying if they surrender they'll be beaten up, but only a little. And if they ''don't'' surrender, the cops will, regretfully, blow up the entire planet and maybe a couple of others.
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* The central joke of Shooty and Bang-Bang, the SpacePolice in ''Radio/TheHitchHikersGuideOfTheGalaxy1978'' is that they keep insisting that they are not the kind of {{Rabid Cop}}s who are into gratuitously shooting people and mindless violence ... while gratuitiously shooting at the main cast, and saying if they surrender they'll be beaten up, but only a little. And if they ''don't'' surrender, the cops will, regretfully, blow up the entire planet and maybe a couple of others.
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* ''Website/TheOnion'': A recurring aspect of the humor in the mock political cartoons is that Stan Kelly, their fictional author, will happily switch sides on any given argument again and again based on his myopic focus and whether or not things inconvencience him personally. For instance, he will routinely lambast "today's teens" for their various immoral and lecherous habits in contrast to wholesome, all-American children, and then criticize them just as harshly for being teetotallers instead of honoring the American tradition of drinking like fish, since he's a habitual drunkard and doesn't like it when people do anything differently from him. Whether or not he praises or demonizes cops also depends primarily on whether or not he's recently gotten pulled over for drunk driving.

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