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* Slightly clunkily done in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' in which Lanie asks the police detectives to remind her who the "Westies" are. While not ''entirely'' unlikely, you'd kind of expect a city medical examiner to have some passing awareness with TheIrishMob.

* In ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}'' the player can invoke this trope pretty much anytime anyone explains anything to Ness, as often as necessary.

-->'''King Arthur:''' This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere! Tell me again how sheeps' bladders can be employed to prevent earthquakes.

* ''{{Film/Zoolander}}'', having already prompted an entire flashback exposition scene, the titular protagonist has failed to get it and has to repeat his prompt: "But why male models?"

* ''Film/Zoolander'', having already prompted an entire flashback exposition scene, the titular protagonist has failed to get it and has to repeat his prompt: "But why male models?"

-->'''Sir Bedevere:''' And that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped."

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'''Max:''' And because we get to use ''these'' babies! (''brandishes a flamethrower'')

Compare ShallIRepeatThat, which serves as an inversion and is mostly exclusive to video games.

* Slightly clunkily done in ''Series/{{Castle}}'' in which Lanie asks the police detectives to remind her who the 'Westies' are. While not ''entirely'' unlikely, you'd kind of expect a city medical examiner to have some passing awareness with TheIrishMob.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': A scene will sometimes start with numb skull Charlie asking for the gang's new scheme to be repeated to him for the zillionth time.

* Another place where this trope was used in a good way was in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode where the Flash and Lex Luthor have switched bodies. The Flash is [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain pretending to be in charge of a crew of villains]]. Since he has no idea what their nefarious plot is, he informs them that they are to tell ''him'' how everything goes so he can "be sure they know what they're doing." They're rather annoyed at having to go over a plan that he introduced to them that very morning.

Often, the first discussion is not included in the narrative, and the audience is only receives the information through this second conversation. The trope is often used this way because the second explanation would be much shorter than the original discussion, since the characters have already gone over it before. The requester can also pipe in with details on his own rather than be passively lectured the entire time.

A subcategory of AsYouKnow is Tell Me Again, as in when two characters are driving somewhere in a car, and the passenger says to the driver, "Tell me again why we're going to the pillow factory." The only reason the passenger asks to be told again is so that the audience can know.

Can sometimes be justified in two ways. One; there's a GambitRoulette going on and the character giving the explanation originally wasn't very clear. Two: For snarking purposes. The latter is particularly common when the character knows why they're going there, but doesn't want to.

This is TruthInTelevision, as many real-life {{Deadpan Snarker}}s will employ option two. Compare LetMeGetThisStraight.