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Flanders: "You ugly, hate-filled man..."
Moe: " Hey! Now I may be ugly and hate-filled, but... wait, what was that last one?"
A form of Hypocritical Humor: Alan makes a criticism of Bob. Bob denies this criticism, but does so in a way that validates the statement.
Perhaps the most common criticism for this is being violent or short tempered, perhaps because it allows a response of comedic violence, but other criticisms, including stupidity, crudity, inattentiveness, vanity and pompousness are possible.
See also Description Cut for the inverse of this. Compare Not Helping Your Case, I Take Offense To That Last One, I Would Say If I Could Say, and contrast with Insult Backfire. The line itself (which is often attributed to Groucho Marx) is, of course, a play on "I resent that remark."
Examples:
Anime
Comic Books
- In Calvin And Hobbes, Calvin does a rant about how violence on television doesn't have any effect on the watcher, and concludes with "I'd like to shoot the idiots that think this stuff affects me."
- Calvin also ranted about a television show which made no sense. When Hobbes remarked that it was targeted at the average American's fifteen-second attention span, Calvin's response was only, "You're still talking about that?"
- One homebrew Knights Of The Dinner Table strip had Bob ranting about how he like to kill those media pundits who claimed role-playing games promoted violence.
- Deadpool actually says the trope name quite often when insulted. Sort of a running gag of him brushing off criticism with it.
- A very nice example: In one Asterix album, Julius Caesar scolds his senators:
Caesar: "Look at you! You have become decadent! All you think about nowadays is eating and sleeping!"
Senator (waking up): "What? It's lunchtime already?"
- In a Garfield strip, when Jon is on the phone with a woman:
Jon: I'm immature?!! Well excuse me, miss poopie head! (puts the phone down and sucks his thumb)
- From Wanted. Wesley Gibson tries to give an even evil has standards speech to psychotic hedonist Joker expy Mr. Rictus. It doesn't work:
Wesley Gibson: Enjoy your goat fucking Mr. Rictus.
Film
- In Face/Off, one of Castor Troy's signature lines:
Castor: You watch your fucking mouth!
- In The Big Lebowski
The Stranger: Do you have to use so many cuss words?
The Dude: What the fuck are you talking about?
The Stranger: OK, Dude. Have it your way.
- Subverted in this exchange:
The Dude: You just wanted a sap to pin it on! And you'd just met me, and you thought, "Oh, a loser! Somebody the square community wouldn't give a shit about!"
Lebowski: Well, aren't ya?
The Dude: Well, yeah!
- In A Fish Called Wanda
Archie: How very interesting. You're a true vulgarian, aren't you?
Otto: You're the vulgarian, you fuck!
- In Plan Nine From Outer Space (after several remarks about humans' folly and warlike tendencies)
Eros: [with disgust] Stronger. You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Jeff Trent: That's all I'm taking from you! [pistol-whips Eros upside the head]
- A serious version from The Rock. General Hummel (Ed Harris) has captured John Mason (Sean Connery) and is justifying his threat to launch poison gas at San Francisco.
Mason: Frankly, General, I don't see how you can honor the memory of the dead by killing another million.
Hummel: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
Mason: "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde.
Hummel: (Rifle butts Mason)
Mason: Thank you for proving my point.
- In The Hangover
Phil "You are literally too stupid to insult."
Alan (smiling) "Thanks!"
- "I'm not feminine? I'M NOT FEMININE!?" She says as she kicks him in the face...
- In Clue:
Wadsworth: We're trying to find out WHO killed him, and WHERE, and WITH WHAT!
Professor Plum: There's no need to shout!
Wadsworth: I'M NOT SHOUTING!
- —> Wadsworth: ALL RIGHT I AM! I'M SHOUTING! I'M SHOUTING! I'M SHOUT—
- In Office Space, Tom says with increasingly panicked and loud voice:
Tom: I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Literature
- From Christopher Moore's 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun:
Kimi: You're a mean, nasty, Chevy-driving, Milk-drinking, American dog fucker!
Tucker Case: I don't drink milk! (Thinking: Ha! Won that round.)
- Paraphrased from the newest Dragaera book Jhegaala after the hero Vlad, a former assassin and gangster, has been mistaken for a thug: "I hate when people do that. It makes me want to break their legs".
- This massive Dragaera fan would like to point out that Kiera the Thief makes a similar comment in Orca on the subject of how everyone assumes she's going to steal their purses.
- From Alice In Wonderland:
"You never had fits, my dear, I think?" [the King of Hearts] said to the Queen.
"Never!" said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke.
- Pyp and Grenn have a habit of doing this in A Song of Ice and Fire. One early example:
Pyp: You're too stupid to be craven.
Grenn: I am not.
Pyp: Are too. If we ran into a bear in the forest you'd be too dimwitted to run away.
Grenn: I would not. I'd run faster than you. ...Hey!
- An early example: In Laxdoela saga (The Saga of the People of Laxardal), Thord accuses his wife Aud of wearing breeches (ie being a transvestite) so that he can divorce her and marry Gudrun. When Aud comes into Thord's bed-chamber to get revenge, she is wearing breeches.
- In Spellsinger: The Day of the Dissonance, Mudge utters the following line when Roseroar comments on his bad language: "I'll have you know, me elephantine kitten, that my language is as fucking refined as anyone's!"
- In Dan Abnett's Gaunts Ghosts novel Blood Pact, Blenner laughing says, "I resemble that remark," after a comment.
Live Action TV
- In 3rd Rock From The Sun
Man: [to Dick] You look capable of violence!
Dick: [raising a chair] I'll show you who's capable of violence!!!
- An example from Corner Gas:
Brent: [After Oscar says that a traffic light will "tear the town apart"] Bearing in mind Oscar has a tendency to overstate things.
Oscar: What? How dare you, I've never overstated anything the entire history of creation!
- The Britcom Not Going Out has a good one:
Tim : (reading a question from a personality quiz) Are you the kind of person who jumps into decisions without properly considering all the available options?
Lee: (firmly) No.
Tim: Hang on, it's multiple choice.
- Subverted in the first sketch with Gustavo the Euro Guy on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Gustavo complains that Americans are too violent and promptly gets punched out. When Conan points out this proves his point, the guy who punched him out replies "No worries, mate - I'm Australian!"
- In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of Werewolf:
Yuri: You callin' me a psychopath?
Crow (as Yuri): I'll kill your whole family if you call me that again!
- In Monk:
Adrian Monk: He's completely obsessed - and not in a good way, like me.
- 30 Rock:
Kenneth: Don't worry, Miss Lemon, I never get sick! I have the constitution of an ox! * throws up* I must have ox fever!"
- Mr. Roper of Three's Company: "I'm not paranoid! Why is everybody against me?"
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Ted Baxter wants to serve as Grand Marshal in a circus parade, but Lou Grant won't let him:
Ted: He treats me like a little child, Mary. He bosses me around as though I were ten years old.
Mary: Ted, that isn't true. He may boss you around but he doesn't think you're a kid. He respects you as a mature adult.
Ted: (whining) Then why won't he let me go to the circus?!!
- Non-verbal example from The Muppet Show. In the lead-up to a sketch involving Horny Vikings, Kermit describes them as "cruel, heartless, Scandinavian Marauders". The Swedish Chef comes up and hits him with a frying pan, leading Kermit to change his description to "quaint, old world charmers".
- In Coupling, though he only proved half the remark,
Patrick:What Kind of illness was I supposed to have?
Sally:I don't know. Whatever it is that connects a limp dick with a limp brain!
Patrick:There is no connection between my dick and my brain!
- From Arrested Development:
Lindsay: I'm a "combative, entitled princess?" I'm going to hire someone to kick your ass for that!
- Frasier:
Niles: Don't you DARE call me irrational! You know that makes me crazy!
- From one of Marcus Brigstocke's stand-up comedy routines
 :
"Computer games don't affect kids. If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
- Friends, after Joey gets offended that Monica and Chandler didn't ask him for a character reference letter:
Monica: Sorry Joe, we didn't think you were so much... with the words...
Joey: Wha-huh? Hey! Whoa, I'mean, tchhh!
- In an another episode:
Joey: He made Rachel cry!
Monica: Rachel always cries!
Rachel: That’s not true! (Starts to cry.)
- Cheers:
Frasier: So now you're saying that I'm redundant, that I repeat myself, that I say things over and over again!
- Reaper:
Sally: You are an ass!"
The Devil: I am the dark lord of asses!"
- Scrubs:
Elliot: Todd, face it. You're gay, and overcompensating for it.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer:
Giles:Um, Anya, while, while I completely trust you uh, uh, to take care of the inventory and the money, um ... dealing with people requires a certain, uh ... finesse.
Anya:I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom! I can completely lie to the health inspector. I can, you know, distract him with coy smiles, and, and bribe him with money and goods.
- Done seriously on Law And Order Special Victims Unit when Eliot’s son Dicky was caught using the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique on a man he suspected was responsible for the disappearance of his friend. After his father took him into the station and complained about him doing that. When Richard responded that he was not the first member of his family to act like that Eliot attacks his son in the middle of the squad room, both proving his son’s point and showing why he got the Fan Nickname Unstabler
- Kelly from Misfits is repeatedly accused of being a Chav *
just a note for non-UK residents - "chav" is a derogatory term given to young, working-class people who dress in a certain way, and are perceived as crude, anti-social and aggressive (a common backronym is "Council Housed And Violent") and she eventually responds to this by screaming at another girl: "If you call me that one more time I'll kick you so hard in the c*nt your mum will feel it!"
- Also, when Nathan's father calls him a "wanker", Nathan responds by being snarky and rude, and then blithely attacking someone with a stapler (although many viewers considered this a Crowning Moment Of Funny, he was kind of proving his father's point).
Machinima
- Red Vs Blue
Washington: Quit bickering! You guys are the most immature soldiers I have ever met! Griff: Yeah well, your face is immature!
Theatre
- Played for drama in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill. The main character attempts to prove that just because he's poor doesn't mean he's a brute, and tries to do this by beating up the girl he thought insulted him. He gets killed by an ape instead.
Video Games
Western Animation
- Foghorn Leghorn from Looney Tunes is the Trope Namer.
- In Futurama
Leela: Be careful. Many robots are stupid and violent. Bender: I wish I was stupid and violent. Then we'd see what's what — I'd pound their face in! Fry: They said I was stupid, but I proved them! Dwight: I heard alcohol makes you stupid. Fry; No I'm... doesn't!
Prof. Farnsworth: And Fry, you've got that brain thing.
Fry: I already did.
- The Simpsons uses this trope a lot.
Kent Brockman: Scientists say they're also less attractive physically and while we speak in a well-educated manner, they tend to use low-brow expressions like 'oh yeah?' and 'c'mere a minute.'
Homer: Oh yeah? They think they're better than us? Bart! C'mere a minute!
Bart: You c'mere a minute.
Homer: Oh yeah?
- Another Simpsons example:
Smithers: Frankly sir, the people see you as something of an ogre.
Burns: Why, I ought to club them and eat their bones!
- Yet Another Simpsons example: In one episode, Homer is called slow at a poker game. He takes so long to mentally process the remark that by the time he spits out his indignant denial, everyone else has left—except for Lenny, whose house it is; he's getting a midnight snack. It almost happens again in the same episode.
- "I've been called a greasy thug, too. And it never stops hurting. So here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna grease ourselves up real good, and trash that place with a baseball bat!"
- Then there's this classic example (which was an actual mistake by voice actor Dan Castellaneta):
Homer: (singing) I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T!
- On one of the show's DVD commentaries, Simpsons writer Al Jean refers to this kind of gag as a "Stan Daniels Turn", named after the late writer/producer Daniels, of Taxi and Mary Tyler Moore Show fame.
- And of course the page quote from Hurricane Neddy
- Avatar The Last Airbender
Toph: You're not my mom, and you're not their mom. Katara: I don't act that way. What do you think, Aang? Do I act like a mom? Aang: Well, I... Katara: Stop rubbing your eye and speak clearly when you talk! Aang: Yes, ma'am!
- And in the second season:
- Drawn Together has this exchange:
Wooldoor: I don't feel comfortable doing that.
Captain Hero: Would you feel more comfortable if I broke your arm in three places and then wrapped it in $100 bills?
Wooldoor: Are you threatening me... or bribing me?
Captain Hero: What an insulting accusation! Take that back before I tear out your spleen and then drive you to the hospital in your brand new car!
- The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto does this with Velvet Von Black. "What the fuck did you just call me? You're the one who's fuckin' coherent and shit!"
- In the Phineas And Ferb episode "Greece Lightning":
Dad: Asperagus defeated [the Minotaur] using the head of Medusa, a creature so ugly she could turn men to stone with just one look.
Phineas: Kinda reminds me of Candace.
Candace: (making a face like Medusa's) It does not look like me!
Web Comics
- In Penny Arcade
Tycho: It says here you made 'Crude sexual references a number of times throughout a Mech Assault match'.
Gabe: Oh, yeah? Well, his mom gives lousy head! ...I mean, that guy's a fucking liar.
- 8BitTheater had Red Mage face his inner demon, who would not leave until Red Mage conquered his hubris. Red Mage denied his hubris in the most arrogant way possible, including adding humility points to his character sheet while saying things like...
Red Mage: Let this sheet bellow unto the heavens themselves that Red Mage is the most humble man to walk upon Earth! EVER!
Demon: Literal adherence to a law means little without respect for the spirit of that law.
- This strip of Bobwhite.
- In No Need For Bushido, Ken responds to an accusation that he's not the most agreeable sort...by punching his accusor in the face.
Ken: THAT'S FER SAYIN' I WASN'T AGREEABLE!
Web Original
Real Life
- The Danish caricature of prophet Muhammad with a bomb as his turban offended a large part of the Muslim community, as it implied that Islam is a religion of violence. Subsequently, violent riots broke out in protest. That'll teach 'em!
- Although what may be the full story of that incident, as reported by some paper(s), is that that caricature and others were published and a handful of people felt offended. They tried to rouse some Muslim anger beyond their own, but no-one cared. Then they came up with a collection of pictures including the ones they'd been originally been offended by and a bunch of much worse ones they just, uh, got somewhere and claimed to have been from the Western media or something, and it was at that point others got offended as well. In addition to this, some have questioned whether the rioting was all that spontaneous or organised by the governments of the countries in question. But yes, regardless of what the real story is, the commonly known version gives an example of this trope.
- So in response to an implication by some cartoonists that the leaders of Islam incite their followers to violence, some Islamic leaders... incited their followers to violence? Sounds like they resemble this trope!
- I don't think they realized the irony of the violence. They were protesting and rioting over the fact the cartoon was of the Prophet Muhammad, which isn't allowed to be depicted in the Islamic faith. Most probably didn't even see the cartoon, thus didn't know it was saying Islam encouraged violence. So Yeah. This trope was brought to its most extreme when a car bomb blew up the Danish Embassy. That'll teach 'em for saying Islam breeds violence!
- Even more ironic was the case when the Pope, while giving a lecture, quoted a 14th century Byzantine Emperor: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached". After that, two Christians were stabbed in Iraq, and several chuches were bombed in Palestine - including Anglican ones.
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