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->''"It's called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites, and now you end with the one that's not like the others."''
-->-- '''Toby Ziegler''', ''Series/TheWestWing'', "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail"

A dialogue trope where a character makes a list of items, groups, or individuals and then deviates from the pattern established with the last one. Usually PlayedForLaughs.

In literary criticism, this is called a syllepsis, or semantic zeugma.

Typically used for comedy, the last item is normally a focus of insult or ButtMonkey status. However, it is possible to just delight in the subversion of the theme listing.

A SubTrope of NonSequitur.
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!!Tropes:
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* AndADietCoke: A character orders a diet soda after they just ordered a ton of unhealthy food.
* AndTheRest: When several characters are deemed important enough to call them by name, except for a few unworthy others who are dismissed as the "rest".
* AndSomeOtherStuff: Summarizing ingredients, but keeping the last few a mystery.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Listing strong, serious examples and then a weak, trivial finale.
** ArsonMurderAndAdmiration: Naming evil things, then mentioning something complementary.
** ArsonMurderAndLifesaving: Naming evil things, then mentioning a good deed.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Naming nice, good, or mundane things, save for the last one, which is horrible or has a greater weight than the rest.
* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Naming three things, the third being a combination of the first two things.
* ClueEvidenceAndASmokingGun: In a crisis, two things of small importance to said crisis followed by a ''very'' big one.
* FamousFamousFictional: Naming famous real-life people or things, only to have the last one be of fictional origin.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Separating your friends from one individual, with the implication that the individual doesn't belong.
* TheTriple: Two normal items followed by a non sequitur or humorous third item.
** TheThreeCertaintiesInLife: Three things are sure to happen: death, taxes, and whatever third thing they picked to be the punch line.
* UniformityException: The one member of a group that sticks out in the end.
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!!A SuperTrope to:

* UniformityException: The one member of a group that sticks out.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* In one Advertising/{{Progressive}} commercial Flo is the band manager for The Dizzcounts, whose members are Safe Driver, Paperless, Paid in Full, Multi-Car, and [[Music/{{NSYNC}} Joey Fatone]].
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* At the start of Volume 17 of ''Literature/AccelWorld'', the leadership of Nega Nebulus gives Haruyuki the following instructions for their meeting with the other Legions.
-->"You absolutely cannot say a single word."\\
"[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment You absolutely have to be quiet right up to the end]]."\\
"[[RuleOfThree You absolutely must stay quiet]]."\\
"You absolutely cannot get mad no matter what happens."
* During the tenth episode of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', Yuu suggests that meteorology is more useful than astronomy or geology. Chikage rebuts that geology helps predict earthquakes and aids in mining... and "some stones [[PowerCrystal have the power to make people feel happier and more at peace]]."
-->'''Ao''': [[LampshadeHanging The last one got a little pseudoscience-y]].
-->'''Mira''': Agreed.
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', at the start of the battle for the fake Karakura Town, the four pillars that switched the real Karakura Town with a replica in the Soul Society come under attack by four of Barragan's Fracciones, and four strong Soul Reapers defend them. Yumichika, Kira and Hisagi all win their fights, but then Ikkaku, who's the strongest of the four, loses just after Hisagi's fight concludes, because he was holding back his Bankai.
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': The titular note's "How to Use" mostly explains its rules and usage, except for the last three ones (revealed only in the GrandFinale), which are philosophical and relate to humanity as a whole.
* Digimon is a fan of this trope regarding lineups of minions:
** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': The twelfth and final Deva to be introduced, Antylamon, is the only Deva who does not actively attempt to attack humans. Not only that but she becomes friends and even partners with the first human she ever meets, defying her master until he sets aside his vendetta against humans. She is the only surviving Deva, and the only Deva who reforms.
** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': The fifth Evil Legendary Warrior, Duskmon, who is the last to confront the Digidestined, turns out to be [[spoiler:Koji's brother Koichi, who, like the protagonists, can transform into a Digimon. He's the only Evil Legendary Warrior to reform and survive, though the spirits of the other Evil Legendary Warriors help the Digidestined out later.]]
** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'': The seventh and final of Lord Bagra's Dark Generals, Apollomon, is not actually evil, he only pretends to serve Bagra as part of a plan to defeat him. [[spoiler: Turns out, the true Dark General is Apollomon Whispered, an evil program implanted inside Apollomon that acts as a dark version separate from him but using the same body, though Apollomon is eventually able to destroy him and be free of him forever.]]
* Chapter 40 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' has a list of stereotypical things that can happen during summer vacation. All of them are standard and within the realms of reality... except the last one, which is "time travel or being summoned to another world".
** The Shinomiya family creed states (emphasis added), "If you are a Shinomiya, do not rely on anyone. Instead, use them. Do not receive anything. Instead, take. Do not love anyone. ''There is no instead.''"
** The chapters showing the lead-up to exams have various characters lying through their teeth about how hard they're trying and/or how much they care about their results, with the narrator repeatedly saying, "[[RunningGag That was a lie]]." The one exception is Fujiwara, whom the narrator says is being honest.
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Of the Seven Great Youma, the first six reside inside humans, while the seventh resides inside a cat.
** In ''Sailor Moon R'', both the last Cardian and the last Droid die differently than the others. The former is the only Cardian to not be killed by Sailor Guardians (instead being killed by the Makai Tree), and the latter is the only Droid to not be killed by Sailor Moon's Moon Princess Halation, instead by the Sailor Planet Attack.
** In [[Manga/SailorMoon the manga]] and ''[[Anime/SailorMoonEternal Crystal/Eternal]]'', the Amazoness Quartet send their minions after the other four Sailor Guardians. The first three, who go after Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Jupiter, are circus animals turned human, the Amazon Trio. The ones who are sent after Sailor Venus to conclude this arc within the Dream Arc are knife-throwing twins, Xenotime and Zeolite, whose origins are unknown.
* In ''Manga/ShiNiAruki'', the Kurosus are introduced at the morgue after the death of family patriarch Tokimune. All of the Kurosus are affected in some way by the death, feeling sorrow, anger, or concern... but not Tokiko, who's shown on the far left and is happily reading the book she found near her adoptive father's corpse.
* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', all of the salon employees assume last names that are slightly different from their real names while on the job; for example, Kanoko Mamiya becomes Kanoko '''A'''mamiya on the job. The one exception is Nene Nishidera, the last employee to be introduced; her assumed name at the salon is Nene [[spoiler:Saionji]]. As you can see, her assumed last name is nothing like her real name, [[spoiler: apart from including the kanji comprising "Nishidera"]].
* ''Manga/ZatchBell'': Dr. Riddle challenges Gash and Kiyomaro to a fight against his henchmen, a group of superpowered people. He dramatically introduces each one and their powers to Kiyomaro's increased concern... then shows Big Boing, a busty blonde woman... and then introduces some more supermen. Riddle then asks Kiyomaro which among them is the odd one out. Kiyomaro glares at Big Boing for several seconds and picks her, causing Riddle to comically declare defeat and run for the hills with his group.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* One panel has several superheroes reacting to a warning of doom for them and anyone they've touched -- the rest worry about their female significant others; Batman worries about Robin. Of course, what makes it funny is the insinuation that the last one ''[[HoYay/{{Batman}} isn't]]'' really all that different...
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}} and ComicBook/{{Robin}}'' #10 (Jun 2012) has a subplot where a villain assembles a bunch of {{Mooks}} who have been permanently given [[CrossesTheLineTwice Hideously]] AmusingInjuries in their encounters with Batman: a guy with a footprint across his face from a kick, another guy who has permanent ligature marks from being [[UnwillingSuspension strung up in the air]] a long time, a girl who got a Batarang stuck in her ear (and enhanced it with other piercings), the guy who tried to [[BoomerangComeback throw a Batarang back]] at Batman and got it stuck in his ''head''... oh, and the three guys who were knocked into a vat of toxic waste and fused into some kind of [[{{Squick}} gawdawful]] [[BodyHorror monstrosity]]. Wait, what?
* ''ComicBook/LaffALympics'': Yogi's reasons for Monty Cristo not to arrest Hokey: "He's my friend! He's my buddy. And besides, I need him to skate in the last event!"
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Every member of Villainy Inc is driven by one of the SevenDeadlySins ([[DrivenByEnvy Envy]]-ComicBook/{{Cheetah}}, Gluttony-Zara, Greed-Snowman, Lust-Clea, Pride-Dr. Poison, Sloth-Eviless, [[UnstoppableRage Wrath]]-Giganta), except Hypnota whose turn to villainy was driven by brain damage, paranoia, enjoyment of manipulating others and a desire for revenge.
* ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' was originally released as a 4-issue limited series. The covers of issues #1 to #3 followed a pattern: a large group at the background, lighted from below, and a central figure at the foreground, lighted from above; issue #4 features Superman alone, under a red lighting and surrounded by smoke.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Happens in Chapter Five of "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9492424/1/The-Boredom-of-Yoto-Yokodera The Boredom of Yoto Yokodera]]" where Yoto remembers his day:
-->''Ugh, what a non-so-fabulous day. I'm late for track and field club, I still taste musty lemons on the roof of my mouth, it's raining, I got expelled from school and arrested for public drunkenness and I got soy sauce on my school shirt!''
* When Bella is describing the Cullens in ''Fanfic/{{Luminosity}}'':
-->''[N]ow I had identifications for all five: Emmett the bear, Jasper the lion, Rosalie the Aphrodite, Alice the pixie, and Edward, the one who expected something to happen with or to or near me that wasn't[.]''
* ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'': When Twilight is performing a Sherlock-esque ass-kicking on [[TheDragon Esteem]] and his troops, she lists the special abilities of herself and her friends as she uses the bond granted by the Elements of Harmony to copy them: Unicorn power, mastery of pegasus martial arts, unnatural strength, instant translocation, skill with blade, whatever it is Pinkie Pie does...
* In ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' fic ''[[http://dresden-kink.dreamwidth.org/1288.html?thread=483848#cmt483848 A Bird in the Hand]]'', Ivy tells Billy's fortune:
--> '''Ivy:''' You're stubborn, but smart enough to ask for aid and guidance when you are in over your head. And your car is about to be towed. They're writing up the ticket now.
* In ''Fanfic/NerveDamage'' Shirou summons Arturia Pendragon] [[DarkMessiah Arturia 'Alter' Pendragon]], Arturia 'Lily' Pendragon and.... [[MsFanservice Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus]]
* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/939623?view_full_work=true Officium Est Electionem]]'', [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Feferi]] invokes this when trying to distract an unwanted suitor.
-->''After fifteen minutes of his endless, self-centered prattling, Feferi finally shuts him up by launching into her longest speech at him since he arrived. She talks ceaselessly about reforms, the election, and the likelihood of rain tomorrow.''
* ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'': One of the protagonists asks the station computer to give the top five results from a list of 447 possible explanations it came up with for a tachyon burst.
--> '''ComputerVoice:''' Microsingularity interacting with gravity wave. Nadion inversion field. Cloaked starship entering normal space. Quantum flux--\\
'''[=OS2.=] Kybok:''' Repeat the third item.
* ''Fanfic/PersephonesWaltz'': Upon escaping their captor, Sayaka and Madoka break into Kyousuke's hospital room. He is understandably confused.
-->"H-how did you do that? What's happened to you? ...Why are you in a ''cape''?"
* An [[http://themysticmusegallery.tumblr.com/post/117191149920/access-granted in-universe file]] on [[spoiler:Molly]] [[Literature/DresdenFiles Carpenter]] warns:
-->''Do not threaten subject. Do not antagonize subject. Do not refer to subject as "fairy", "[[Literature/PeterPan Tinkerbell]]", or "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]]".''
* In ''[[Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook Disorienuptials]]'', [[Franchise/DragonAge Leliana]] uses the penultimate variant when slipping some very important news into the school's morning announcements. It's {{played for laughs}} when one of the students pretends to then be very excited about the ''last'' announcement - that there will be pudding at dinner.
* In ''Fanfic/NewHopeUniversityMajorInMurder'', the "Fall Break" chapter shows twelve fairytale-like stories that allude to the twelve remaining characters' backstories and possible futures, and are generally at least a few paragraphs long. For example, one story about a princess who ripped out her own tongue is implied to be about [[CuteMute Lucina]]. Eleven of the stories are about princes and princesses, but the last one simply says:
-->"Once upon a time there was a pauper."
* The second chapter of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/MallRats'' is titled "Kindness, Friendship, and Shoes".
* In a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CXWvHbztbYS/ fancomic]], the characters are saying they love their favorite food (Tikki with Galette and Plagg with cheese) and then Marinette says she loves Adrien. During the awkward silence, Plagg ask if she really meant loving Adrien as her favorite food, while Tikki argues that can't be the case. Then {{Subverted|Trope}} as Marinette [[IAmAHumanitarian seems to be considering it]], much to Tikki's horror.
* ''Fanfic/CrimsonAndNoire'': In chapter 26, after Alya and Marinette tell Kagami about the old fox hero Citrine Húlí and how he's based on the Chinese fox spirit Húlijīng, Kagami and Marinette start listing the different AsianFoxSpirit from Japanese and Chinese mythology respectively, which finishes with Alya saying Feunard[[note]]The French name of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' Ninetails[[/note]]. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Marinette finds herself bursting out in laughter]].
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[[folder:Films — Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'':
-->'''Milo:''' What else have you got in there?\\
'''Vinny:''' Oh, you know: gunpowder, nitroglycerin, notepads, fuses, wicks, glue, paper clips (big ones). You know, just office supplies.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'', the Tasmanian devils that save the group are called Lucifer, Beelzebub, and Dave.
* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':
--> '''Lewa''': But what will come out of this? Some claw-tooth monster? A new MaskOfPower? A Matoran marching band?
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIITheGreatValleyAdventure'', after the kids nearly [[QuicksandSucks sink in quicksand]] and are saved by their angry parents, Cera asks if they all got the same lecture as her:
-->'''Petrie''': Me too young to wander fall.\\
'''Ducky''': We[[note]]her and [[HappilyAdopted Spike]][[/note]] are not grown-ups and should remember it.\\
'''Littlefoot''': There are many dangers. I must always be careful.\\
'''Cera''': [[SkewedPriorities Don't hang around with]] [[FantasticRacism longnecks, beakfaces and spiketails!]]\\
''({{Beat}} as the others stare at Cera)''\\
'''Cera''': ''(Meekly)'' Well, it was ''mostly'' the same lecture.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'', Skipper repeatedly subjects [[BigBad Dave]] to AccidentalMisnaming. All of them are names that still start with "D", up until the end where he calls him Ramirez.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker, and Spider-Ham all simultaneously give the other Spider-People (and the audience) a rundown of their SuperheroOrigin. Spider-Ham's is a little... ''unique''.
-->'''Spider-Man Noir:''' I was bitten by a radioactive spider.\\
'''Peni Parker:''' I was bitten by a radioactive spider!\\
'''Spider-Ham:''' I was bitten by a radioactive pig!\\
(''Noir and Peni do a DoubleTake at Spider-Ham's panel'')
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', King Candy is the last character shown in ''Sugar Rush'' and his design, name, and age are noticeably different than the rest of the characters in the game. [[spoiler:There is a reason for this.]]
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[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin'', Andy reads out the names of some of his porno tapes, such as ''Hairy Twatter''.
-->'''Dave''': And this is...''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''. You know, that's not supposed to be in there. It's just a good show.
* In ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'', Curt, who is underage, attempts to purchase a pint of whiskey at a corner store by casually mentioning it in the middle of a list of other items that he asks the owner to get for him. It doesn't work; after the other items are bagged up, Curt is asked for proof of age.
* Oliver Warbucks does in the 1982 film version of ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'' when he tells Annie that he's going to start looking for her parents:
-->'''Warbucks''': Grace![[note]]Grace Farrell, his secretary who brought Annie to his mansion.[[/note]] Get me [[UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement J. Edgar]] on the phone! Drake![[note]]His butler.[[/note]] Get me the Chief of Police! Asp![[note]]One of his two bodyguards.[[/note]] Get me [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell Walter Winchell]]! Punjab![[note]]His other bodyguard.[[/note]] Get me [[Creator/KingFeaturesSyndicate William Randolph Hearst]]! And Saunders, get me [[spoiler:a drink]]!
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'' features a scene of comic relief [[ChekhovsGag (albeit with serious consequences later on)]] about a third of the way through, during Music/DannyElfman's "Batman Versus the Circus" suite. Batman is surrounded on the street by four members of the Penguin's [[CircusOfFear Red Triangle Circus Gang]]: three males in clown makeup and wielding lethal or at least heavily injurious weapons, plus the Poodle Lady, a woman with only "normal" glamour makeup and not carrying any weapon at all. Batman calmly programs his computerized Batarang to hit all four criminals and releases it; it quickly cuts down the first three enemies, but never reaches the Poodle Lady because her pet poodle jumps up and catches it in his jaws. The Poodle Lady then [[StaringDownCthulhu just smirks at Batman]] and she and her dog run off. [[{{Foreshadowing}} (Embarrassingly, this would be only the]] ''[[{{Foreshadowing}} first]]'' [[{{Foreshadowing}} time that evening that Batman would be outsmarted by a woman!)]]
* The Tagline to ''Film/AClockworkOrange'':
-->Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven.
* ''Film/FourChristmases'' has an example near the end of the movie. After three dysfunctional divorced parents and their siblings, they finally reach Kate's father, who revealed that he and his wife divorced because he was so committed to his job that he couldn't make the time. Also, unlike the other three parents; he is actually very remorseful of the decisions he made and regrets them daily. Surprisingly somber for a comedy movie.
* ''Film/TheGayDivorcee:'' When [[Creator/FredAstaire Guy]] finally catches up with [[Creator/GingerRogers Mimi]] in the park, he pulls out a picnic basket and props it on the running board of her car.
-->'''Guy:''' Can I offer you anything? Frosted chocolate? Cointreau? Benedictine? Marriage?\\
'''Mimi:''' [[RepeatWhatYouJustSaid What was that last one?]]\\
'''Guy:''' Benedictine?\\
'''Mimi:''' No, the one after that.\\
'''Guy:''' Oh, marriage?
* Played with brilliant subtlety in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' when Peter Venkman introduces his team at the library:
-->'''Roger Delacorte:''' I'm Roger Delacorte. Are you the men from the university?\\
'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Yes, I'm Dr. Venkman, Dr. Stantz, Egon...
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'':
-->'''Quill:''' I come from Earth, a planet of {{outlaw}}s: Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, [[Series/FullHouse John Stamos]]...\\
'''Drax:''' Sounds like a place which I would like to visit.
* In ''Film/TheNakedGun'', Frank, trying to break Jane's sensory-induced hypnosis, says "Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before... birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf... stoplights."
* An unintentional one in ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'', though not at the end of the list.
-->We once laughed at the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the telephone, the electric light, VITAMINS, radio, and even television!
:: For clarification, vitamins are technically not an invention, since they can and do occur naturally.
* ''Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment'': The owner of a lamp shop closes up for the night by shutting the security gates, padlocking the doors, setting a bear trap, and placing a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Film/DirtyHarry at the door.
* ''Film/{{Predators}}'' is a movie about incredibly dangerous people being brought into an extra-terrestrial game preserve on another world. This vicious band of misfits is comprised of a former black ops mercenary, an IDF sniper, a drug cartel enforcer, Spetsnaz commando, a convicted murderer/rapist, a death squad leader, a Yakuza mafioso... and a nerdy, bespectacled doctor. [[spoiler: Guess who's the most cold-blooded killer of them all.]]
* In ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short "Fight Night", Moe and Larry watch Shemp in a boxing match BehindTheBlack:
-->'''Moe:''' There goes Shemp with a left jab! There goes Shemp with a right uppercut! There goes Shemp with a haymaker! ''[OffscreenCrash]'' There goes Shemp...
* In ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', while brainwashing Derek into assassinating the prime minister of Malaysia, Mugatu warns him not to be distracted by "beautiful celebrities". The training room then offers cardboard cutouts of such examples like Lance Bass, Fred Durst, Lil Kim, and...Garry Shandling.
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[[folder:Game Shows]]
* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'' has "Paint The Best Picture Of This Still Life" which gives an example of The ''First'' Of These Is Not Like The Others. Teammates must direct a blindfolded member of their team to paint a still life, using only the words BANANA, DOWN, LEFT, LESS, MORE, PICK, RIGHT, UP, WHOOPS. Naturally, they use the word banana more than any other word.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', the slogan of the Party has three key concepts: "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength." The latter is the only one in which the two terms are not polar opposites.
* In ''Literature/ABadCaseOfStripes'', the Specialists determine that Camilla does not have mumps, measles, chicken pox, or a sunburn, the latter one not being a virus.
* ''Literature/AnimalInn'': Val's rabbits are named [[ShoutOutThemeNaming Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail]]... and Sam. (Which is apparently a retcon, since he's referred to as Peter in the first book.)
* ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'' states that, at the time of the Suez Crisis, major international crises were also happening in "Hungary, Poland, Lebanon, and the quiz-show industry."
* Creator/DaveBarry, in the column "Daze of Wine and Roses":
-->There were 12 sommeliers from around the country in the contest; they got there by winning regional competitions, and earlier in the day they had taken a written exam with questions like: "Which of the following appellations belong to the Savoie region? (a) Crepy; (b) Seyssel; (c) Arbois; (d) Etoile; (e) Ripple." (I'm just kidding about the Ripple, of course. The Savoie region would not use Ripple as an insecticide.)
* The ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' short story "Walkin' City Blues" by Joffy Brown has the Doctor describing a FemmeFatale's "glamour implants" to his companion "A subtle combination of exotic pheromones, AI wetware wit-routines, genetically-enlarged pupils, and a spray-on tan."
* In ''Demon Haunted World'', Creator/CarlSagan laments how people often choose pseudoscience over science when [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome science discovers so many more cool things]]: UsefulNotes/QuantumPhysics! The building blocks of life floating in space! Colliding continents! ''Ancient Syrian beer advertisements!''
* ''Literature/GravityFallsJournal3'': The comments on the back of the book. The first two are genuine praises from Creator/GuillermoDelToro and Creator/RLStine and the other comment is Grunkle Stan saying "This book is amazing! [=BUY IT TWICE!!=]"
* One of the sections of ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' is titled "A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan." Admittedly, at that time Japan was almost completely closed off to foreigners and thus almost as fantastic as said other countries.
* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'':
--> The coffee shops were doing a brisk business, and street musicians filled the air with the sounds of guitar, lyre, panpipes, and armpit noises.
* In [[Literature/HolmesOnTheRange Steve]] [[Literature/TarotMysteries Hockensmith]] short story "I Killed Santa Claus" the eponymous dead Santa Claus (a mall Santa who was working as a burglar and died trying to murder an elf who caught on to him) is named in the newspapers as William 'Big Buck' Thomerson, aka William Thompson, aka Thomas Williams, aka William Williamson, aka Vincente Benito de la Rosa III.
* [[Creator/BrandonSanderson Brandon Sanderson's]] short story ''I Hate Dragons'':
** Skip is trying to explain the pain that his [[MediumAwareness ability to hear the spelling of words]] brings him.
--->'''Skip:''' Why, just today, I've heard the word dragon spelled 'dragoon,' 'daragon,' 'dragen,' 'deragin,' and 'blarsnaf.'\\
'''Sorceress:''' [[LampshadeHanging Er... 'blarsnaf?]]\\
'''Skip:''' That was from Pug the cook. He speaks Lukarvian, but the word should actually be spelled 'blarsnef' in his language.
** Also, Skip's three magical powers: hearing spelling, hearing punctuation, and smelling so delicious to dragons that they go crazy with the desire to eat him.
* In ''The Invisible Man'', a Literature/FatherBrown story by Creator/GKChesterton, we get this:
-->Flambeau ... received him in a rococo artistic den behind his office, of which the ornaments were sabres, harquebuses, Eastern curiosities, flasks of Italian wine, savage cooking-pots, a plumy Persian cat, and a small dusty-looking Roman Catholic priest, who looked particularly out of place.
* In ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', the narration uses this trope. Tatsuya walks into Azusa's classroom and starts speaking to her in a very insistent manner. Onlookers comment, respectively; "Surprisingly forceful...", "So fierce..", and "[[CasualKink That might be nice]]."
* ''It All Started With Columbus'':
-->The United States did not get Cuba out of the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar, but it got Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, Typhoid, and Malaria.
* In ''[[Literature/JunieBJones Junie B.: First Grader]]: BOO... and I MEAN It!'', Junie B. is scared of Halloween because of five secrets that Paulie Allen Puffer told her and said that she mustn't tell anyone else. The first is that real monsters and witches [[ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself go out trick or treating on Halloween]], but everyone thinks that they're just in costume like everyone else. The second is that you mustn't carve pointy, sharp teeth into your pumpkin or else it will roll into your room while you are sleeping and eat your feet. The third is that bats like to land on your head and live in your hair. The fourth is that black witch cats can claw you into shreddle. The final secret is that candy corn isn't really corn. Junie B. eventually comes to the conclusion that there's no way the last one can be true.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The [[SparseListOfRules three simple rules]] designed by the [[MagicLibrarian Librarians of Time and Space]] to ensure those with access to [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything L-space]] don't [[TimeCrash destroy the space-time continuum]]:
## [[SpookySilentLibrary Silence.]]
## Books must be returned by the last date stamped.
## Do not [[TemporalParadox interfere]] with the [[TimeyWimeyBall nature of causality]].
* The narrator of ''Literature/MidnightsChildren'' plays with this when he describes the LoveTriangle of his childhood:
-->[[LampshadeHanging To save time, I shall place all of us in the same row at the Metro cinema]]; Robert Taylor is mirrored in our eyes as we sit in flickering trances -- and also in symbolic sequence: Saleem Sinai is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Evie Burns who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with Sonny Ibrahim who is sitting-next-to-and-in-love-with the Brass Monkey who is sitting next to the aisle and feeling starving hungry.
* From ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'': "No spitting, sneezing, singing, sniffling, swinging, swearing, slapping, sleeping, or urinating in the Flowerground."
* In the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' guidebook ''Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide'', the Meta's character profile lists his "notable attributes" as:
-->Snarling. Growling. Glowering. Skulking. Lurking. Stealing. Murdering. High tolerance for pain. Audio editing.
* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'': In "Let's Go Hiking, Roys Bedoys!", Mr. Bedoys tells the boys the rules they must follow. The first three are serious rules, but the last one is simply "have fun".
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheITCrowd'':
-->'''Douglas:''' Ah! The IT department. Run by a dynamic go-getter, a genius, and a man from Ireland.
* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'':
** When the Solomons try persuading an alien why he should spare humanity:
--->'''Dick:''' You are missing the real Earth, like the happiness in a child's eye, when a loving parent tucks him in at night.\\
'''Sally:''' Or the wonder of two young lovers as they stroll down the beach, dreaming of what is yet to be.\\
'''Tommy:''' Or the quiet contentment of a couple in their autumn years as they sit and reflect on a life well spent together.\\
'''Harry:''' Or hookers. ''[{{beat}}]'' Cheap painted hookers.
** When Dick's ego causes him to lose his job, the others tell him he should just apologize to his boss:
--->'''Dick:''' Apologize?!?! Should the Art/VenusDeMilo apologize to the brute who tore her arms off? NO! Should Art/TheSphinx apologize to the desert winds for eroding its nose? NO! Should Jim Carrey apologize to America for ''Film/TheCableGuy''? [[TakeThat Perhaps]].
* ''Series/AllThat'': The original series' Ask Ashley sketches would have the host read three questions, usually sent by people who are just extremely incompetent or sometimes TooDumbToLive, and then drop her kindly demeanor to answer them in an exasperated manner. The third question would generally throw a curveball, e.g. the sender doesn't speak English, the sender is a vampire, the sender is a kangaroo, the sender is a professor at MIT who asks Ashley a long, biology-related question (which she somehow knew the answer to), the sender doesn't know how to send mail and shows up to ask Ashley his question in person, and on one occasion, the sender [[ComicallyMissingThePoint missed the point entirely]] and sent something that wasn't a question at all.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': This conversation about Angel's SoulJar:
-->'''Willow:''' There's lots of jars in the world -- can't shatter them all. I mean, you could, but good things come in jars. Peanut butter, jelly, those two-headed fetal pigs at the natural history museum. (Wes doesn't respond) Come on, everybody loves fetal pigs.
* ''Series/BarneyMiller'', ("[[Recap/BarneyMillerS2E20 The Psychiatrist]]"): All the disturbing newspaper headlines, according to Harris. Civil War in Angola, Oil Spills Off the Coast, Bribes Revealed, Suede and Leather Prices Going Up.
* From ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
-->'''Rajesh Koothrapali''': Doctor Gablehauser.\\
'''Eric Gablehauser''': Doctor Koothrapali.\\
'''Leonard Hofstadter''': Doctor Gablehauser.\\
'''Eric Gablehauser''': Doctor Hofstadter.\\
'''Sheldon Cooper''': Doctor Gablehauser.\\
'''Eric Gablehauser''': Doctor Cooper.\\
'''Howard Wolowitz''': Doctor Gablehouser.\\
'''Eric Gablehauser''': ''[[RunningGag Mister]]'' Wolowitz.
** Also, when Sheldon temporarily becomes a CrazyCatLady, he names all of his cats after physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project -- except for the last cat, "Zazzles", who is "just so zazzy".
* On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' when after much agonizing, Rebecca decides to turn Robin in for insider trading and the guys encourage her on her way out.
-->'''Frasier''': Give him hell Rebecca.\\
'''Cliff''': Yeah. Give him what for Becky.\\
'''Norm''': We're proud of you.\\
'''[[{{Troll}} Carla]]''': Snitch.
* From ''Series/CovertAffairs'': After losing a lot of money at craps, intentionally [[spoiler: and, ironically enough, almost failing to do so as she suddenly won 30.000 dollars betting on snake eyes; Auggie's astonished expression is gold]], Annie is talking to the woman they're hoping will try to turn her:
-->'''Annie''': My sister's husband lost his job a couple of months ago, so they... they burnt through all their savings, I don't have anything, I don't have anyone to go to... ''[increasingly emotionally]'' I'm totally screwed, God! And if I can't leave the country, I'll probably lose my job, -- I mean I have to tell them why I can't come back, ''and my TOOTH hurts!''
* ''Series/TheDailyShow''
** In October 7, 2008, while analyzing the "stupid" vote, John Oliver broke it down into twelve sections: paste eaters, numbskulls, nitwits, fucktards, people whose hands get stuck in pickle jars when they eat pickles, people who lose arguments to babies, douchenozzles, tiger petters, people who jump up and down on frozen lakes, shaved gorillas who've somehow managed to acquire a driver's license, the voluntarily lobotomized, and [[TakeThat Cubs fans]].
** In their commentaries on the television news media, they'll often show the news media's hive-mind collective latches onto a particular key-word or -phrase and repeats it incessantly by means of a montage. They'll show sometimes upward of a dozen clips of different news anchors, reporters, and pundits repeating the same catch-phrase about an item, then end it with one of the talking heads saying something ... really bizarre, though still on-topic.
** Jon Stewart demonstrated some pre-made protest signs for his Rally to Restore Sanity, including, [[GodwinsLaw "I Disagree With You, but I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler"]], "Got Competence?", "9/11 Was an Outside Job!" and "Legalize Pot".
--->'''Jon''': I don't know how that last one got in there, we didn't write it. I think this is what happens when signs breed.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', "The End of the Curse". Dorothy insists that the minks have to go. Rose counters:
-->'''Rose''': We are not giving away Fluffy, Muffy, Buffy, and Joanne.\\
'''Dorothy''': Rose, they are non-breeding minks who eat their weight in food every day—Joanne?
* ''Series/HappyEndings'', "Barefoot Pedaler":
-->'''Max:''' ''(singing)'' Penny, Penny, Penny, you're my closest friend.\\
'''Penny:''' Oh, you wrote a song about me!\\
'''Max:''' ''(singing)'' Want to be with you 'til the bitter end.\\
'''Penny:''' That is so sweet.\\
'''Max:''' ''(singing)'' Got the biggest calves I've seen on a man.
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'': The ''Kamen Sentai Gorider'' special pulls multiples of this, with varying degrees of zig-zaggery. Emu Hojo (''Series/KamenRiderExAid'') finds himself in a ClosedCircle mystery along with several other Kamen Riders: [[Series/KamenRiderAgito Kaoru Kino]], [[Series/KamenRiderBlade Kazuma Kenzaki]], [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Kaito Kumon, Yoko Minato]], and his friend Kiriya Kujo. The group realizes that what they have in common, aside from being Riders, is that [[KilledOffForReal they all died]]...except for Emu, which makes them suspicious of him.
* ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'': In his NRA TV segment, Oliver noted that the app had yet to be dropped on devices from "big tech companies" like Apple, Amazon, and Roku. Oliver then impersonates a Roku employee, cheering, "Get in here! Someone just called us a big tech company!'" For comparison, in 2018 Apple and Amazon had their market caps reach $1 trillion, while Roku was a relatively pedestrian $5 billion.
* One ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode had JustForFun/JohnMunch give a ''strange'' set of statements, "Yeah, and I want the troops home, the Kyoto Protocol signed, and a Tijuana oil job from Miss February." to a high school girl. He might have been playing up some ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne to the "old" part of being called a DirtyOldMan.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': They loved this trope. Many sketches feature odd lines or characters that come across as being totally out of place.
** For instance, in the sketch where German and Greek philosophers play a game of soccer the German team also has Franz Beckenbauer playing along, who wasn't a philosopher but a famous soccer player. The commentator notes: "A bit of a surprise there".
*** The punchline to the sketch also uses it. After Socrates scores a goal the Germans dispute it, Hegel and Kant both lodge complex philosophical arguments as to why the goal shouldn't count while [[Creator/KarlMarx Marx]] argues that it was [[UsefulNotes/FootyRules offside]].
* The ''Series/NoSoapRadio'' skit "House of Lies" features [[LiteralMetaphor a store that sells perjuries, alibis, innuendos, tall tales, short tales, fibs, fabrications, contradictions, vicious rumors,]] and ladies' luggage.
* Used from time to time on ''Series/OurMissBrooks''. This example comes from "Hawkins Travel Agency"; Miss Brooks is trying to sell Mr. Stone on a trip to France:
-->'''Miss Brooks''' ''(speaking with a French accent)'': Oh, there is nothing like [[GayParee Paree]] in the summer. The Arc De Triomphe, the Louvre Palais, the Place de Concorde... and Piccadilly Circus.\\
'''Mr. Stone''': Miss Brooks, Piccadilly Circus happens to be in London.\\
'''Miss Brooks''' ''(speaking with a Cockney accent)'': Right-o governor, but if you were so nearby, you wouldn't want to miss that now, would you?
* On ''Series/{{QI}}'', Alan is always treated as the ButtMonkey of the group and there are several running gags to this effect. For instance each episode has a theme for the buzzers and then Alan will always reveal his one last as something comically different; e.g., the first three together are sections of the Westminster Chimes and his is a cuckoo clock; the first three get a cowbell, a bicycle bell, a tea bell and then Alan gets Creator/LesliePhillips going "[[CatchPhrase Ding Dong!]]". They also are often introduced with some extraordinary adjective or other theme and then a similar twist for Alan e.g.
-->'''Stephen''' (''introducing the panel as "four people who look a bit like other people"''): Please welcome Tony Blair (Rory Bremner)... Tommy Cooper (Phill Jupitus)... Ruby Wax (Ronni Ancona)... and... Alan Davies.
** "Keys":
--->'''Stephen''': The city of Toronto has given its key to the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Mickey Mouse.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
** An inversion of FamousFamousFictional featured Jonah Hill as a [[ParallelPornTitles porn-ified]] version of Martin Scorsese, director of such shining films as ''Raging Boner'', ''Gangbangs of New York'', ''The Departed (Hymen)''...and ''[[ItsNotPornItsArt The Wolf of Wall Street.]]''
** The 40th Anniversary special featured a segment that paid tribute to [[InMemoriam all the cast and crew members who have passed away]]...and Creator/JonLovitz. Cut to Lovitz in the audience looking bewildered.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Dr. Cox often makes long lists of things he dislikes or doesn't care about, and usually ends with, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlMWVwAHll0 and Hugh Jackman]]."
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' has Kramer's alter-ego H.E. Pennypacker: wealthy industrialist, philanthropist, and bicyclist.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'' is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, more or less. Played straight, as a teaching routine; viewers were asked, in this game of same and different, to identify the odd item out of a group of (typically) four, such as three boxes having different breeds of cats, and the fourth having a dog. At times, actions were depicted and the object was to pick the box with a different type of action (such as three kids dancing or sports activity, while the fourth kid is engaged in a sedentary activity such as reading). The song that played during all this was "One Of These Things," with the lyrics sometimes varied due to the subject.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In "[=ScoobyNatural=]", Sam and Dean end up in an episode of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. To be precise, they end up in a retelling of the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "A Night of Fright Is No Delight". But things go even further off the rails when one of the houseguests ends up dead, and the Mystery Inc. gang rattle off their catchphrases... with Dean chiming in at the end.
-->'''Velma:''' Jinkies!\\
'''Daphne:''' Jeepers!\\
'''Shaggy:''' Zoinks!\\
'''Scooby:''' Ruh-roh!\\
'''Dean:''' ...Son of a bitch!
* ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'': While trying to cheer up/distract Jeffrey during "[[Recap/VoyagersS1E6CleoAndTheBabe Cleo and the Babe]]", Bogg lists three examples of ManlyTears occurring during history: Napoleon at Waterloo, George Washington at Valley Forge, and General Eisenhower at Bunker Hill. Jeffrey, as intended, reacts in surprise, knowing that the third is inaccurate.
* Similarly, the US version of ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' introduces each of the four panelists with a related non-sequitur, ending in Ryan Styles, who gets a phrase that is comparatively more mundane, insulting, or [[DamnedByFaintPraise damnation by faint praise]]. For example, one episode introduced Wayne, Jeff, and Colin as famous landmarks, and introduced Ryan as a Cleveland bus stop.
* ''Series/ZondagMetLubach'': On the topic of daylight saving time:
--> '''Lubach:''' ''"In what time do we want to live? Till when can we sit outside in June? Is it still dark when our kids go to school in February? What do our grandchildren think of jazz?"''
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[[folder:Music]]
* [[Music/{{UTAU}} Sukone Tei]]'s ships are mostly focused on Yanderes until you get to [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Tension]]; in which she is [[FromBadToWorse shipped with]] Music/HatsuneMiku.
* "The Genius Next Door" by Music/ReginaSpektor:
--> In the morning the film crews start arriving\\
With donuts, coffee, and reporters
* "Music/WeAreTheWorld" (the original one from the 1980s, not the remake made in light of the earthquake in Haiti) had an all-star cast of musicians ... and Creator/DanAykroyd.[[note]] To be totally fair to Dan, he is a fine singer in his own right, and Creator/QuincyJones insisted on him being on the record for all the hard work Dan had done in persuading some of the musicians to contribute to the record [[/note]]
* "Major Denial" by Bowling for Soup:
--> Would you like to hang around and get to know me?\\
Tell me things you'd like to show me?\\
Tie me up like I'm a pony?
* The 1812 Overture list of instruments seems fairly ordinary until you get to the percussion section:
--> Timpani, a bass drum, a snare drum, cymbals, a tambourine, a triangle, a carillon, and a cannon.
* Music/HankWilliamsJr's cover of [[Music/HankWilliams his dad's]] "Mind Your Own Business" featured Music/WillieNelson, Music/RebaMcEntire, Music/TomPetty... and New York evangelist Reverend Ike.
* A RunningGag in the Music/JohnnyCash song "The One on the Right Is on the Left" is that The Guy in the Rear always does something to contrast the rest of the band. When the song talks about the political affiliation of the other band members it just mentions that he was a Methodist and burned his drivers license. When the other three get into a fight on stage he just says "oh, dear". Finally at the end while the other three went on to have decent non-musical careers he got [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar drafted]].
* Music/TheMonkees' album ''Music/PiscesAquariusCapricornAndJonesLtd'' In what part of the year are Joneses born again?
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[[folder:News Broadcast]]
* Australia's ''Today Tonight'' ran a story in early 2007 about a man who was, quote, "an armed robber, drug trafficker, and shonky builder."
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* A ''ComicStrip/PiranhaClub'' strip has several solicitors, each for different charities: "Save the Condors", "Save the Polar Bears", "Save the Whales", "Save the Pandas", "Save the Rain Forest", "Save the Elephants", and finally "Save the Leftover Spaghetti Sauce".
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[[folder:Pinball]]
* Bigfoot's cave in ''Pinball/WhiteWater'' houses five items, discovered in this order:
--> "Hey, a flashlight!"\\
"Hey, a map!"\\
"Hey, a key!"\\
"Hey, a camera!"\\
"Hey, a... COW?!"
* The Truth multiball in ''Pinball/TheXFiles'' has the player unscramble four messages in order: [[ArcWords "Deny everything," "the truth is out there," "trust no one"]], and "Super Jackpot".
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* When describing the Avengers, Joel Zammit of ''Podcast/PlumbingTheDeathStar'' intentionally leaves Black Widow and Hawkeye at the end of the sentence to make a point of how out of place they are in the group.
-->''"As I said so many episodes ago, the Avengers is like strong guy, strong guy, strong guy, ''very'' strong guy, bow and arrow, guns."''
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* On an episode of ''WWE Raw'', Wrestling/TheNewDay showed up to protest Wrestling/TheDudleyBoyz. Wrestling/XavierWoods was holding a sign that said 'Save a table. break a Dudley.' Wrestling/KofiKingston was holding a sign that said #givetablesachance. Wrestling/{{Big E|Langston}} just held up a sign that said 'Booty'.
* At the 2014 edition of ''WWE Payback'' Wrestling/TheShield faced Wrestling/{{Evolution}}. The Shield's outfits were all black, Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/RandyOrton wore black with white designs, even the referee was in black and white, but then Wrestling/{{Batista}} came out in a blue outfit. It caused "#bluetista" to trend during the whole match.
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[[folder:Recorded and Stand-up Comedy]]
* An old Creator/JeffDunham skit with a "dead Osama" (who would eventually become Achmed the Dead Terrorist) has this when Osama describes his camp's activities.
-->'''Dead Osama''': Hand-to-hand combat training, explosives training, arts and crafts.
* Creator/GeorgeCarlin, on his early album ''Take-Offs & Put-Ons'', during the "Wonderful WINO (Top 40 Disc Jockey)" routine:
--> "Of course, they've got a great Technicolor teen tune fest for ya, a great flick to click out there with six of your super favorite stars: Sandra Dee, Peggy Lee, Brenda Lee, Bobby Vee, Molly Bee and Oscar Homolka....in ''Sex Bed Teen Bikini Virgin Surf Beach Ball Bash''!"
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheCompleteHistoryOfAmericaAbridged'' uses this twice in the FilmNoir parody:
** An audio montage of assassination victims of the 1960s includes snippets, each followed by a gunshot, of the voices of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy ("Ask not what your country can do for you"), Martin Luther King ("I have a dream"), Malcolm X ("By any means necessary"), Robert F. Kennedy ("To follow in the footsteps of my brother"), and Music/AnneMurray ("Spread your tiny wings and fly away").
** When the UsefulNotes/ColdWar ends, the PrivateEyeMonologue pronounces Communism dead except in China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, Angola, Mozambique, North Yemen, and Vermont.
* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': After Cyrano [[SwordFight wounds Viscount De Valvert]] [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask while singing a ballad in his honour]], Burgundy Theater's public comments about the duel:
--> ''(Acclamations. Applause in the boxes. Flowers and handkerchiefs are thrown down. The officers surround Cyrano, congratulating him. Ragueneau dances for joy. Le Bret is happy but anxious. The viscount's friends hold him up and bear him away.)''\\
'''The Crowd''' ''(with one long shout):'' Ah! \\
'''A Trooper:''' Tis superb!\\
'''A woman:''' A pretty stroke! \\
'''Raguenau:''' A marvel!\\
'''A Marquis:''' A novelty!\\
'''Le Bret:''' O madman!
* In the opening scene of ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'', Cleo describes what her customer left on her table:
-->"Seven million crumbs and a gravy spot,\\
Teaspoon stuck in the mustard pot,\\
Napkin on the floor,\\
Ashes in the cup\\
And--''one Canadian dime!''"
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' both do this when introducing the characters and their classes. In the first game, we have Mordecai as The Hunter, Lilith as the Siren, Roland as The Soldier and Brick as Himself. The next game does Axton as The Commando, Maya as The Siren, Salvador as The Gunzerker and Zero as A Number.
** In the first game's "The Secret Armory of General Knoxx" DLC, the Crimson Lance drone enemies will occasionally quip that their contents can poison small pets, livestock, and people named Jason.
** ''[[VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel The Pre-Sequel!]]'' continues this tradition with Wilhelm as The Enforcer, Athena as The Gladiator, Nisha as The Lawbringer and Claptrap as A Mistake.
** [[VideoGame/Borderlands3 The third game]] does this with [=FL4K=] as The Beastmaster, Moze as The Gunner, Amara as The Siren and Zane Flynt as [[DoppelgangerAttack Himselves]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} V'' had the tendency to sneak a strange or humorous city name at or near the end of the long city list, one that would be seen by few players during a normal game. There were, say, "Mumbles" (a district in Swansea) for England and "Lebam" (a tiny place in Washington state) for America. There's a Steam achievement for getting the Celtic city of "Llanfairpwllgwyngyll" (a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales, and too long to be named manually). Mods often continue this trend; for instance, one based on ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' includes "Wilde Times" as the last city, which only appeared in an alternate draft of the script.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''
** In ''VideoGame/CrashTagTeamRacing'', in one of Cortex's lines when he's separating from a car he's currently clashed with, he claims to be "a lone wolf, a bald eagle, a burrowing hamster".
** In ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant'', Coco plans to turn the eye of the destroyed Doominator robot into an entertainment system that will play games, watch movies, and dispense butter.
* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': As the various named dragons of the setting are defeated, the Tarnished will be able to obtain incantations known as Dragon Communion incantations that conjure up the heads of these slain dragons to use their various breath weapons that all scale off of the Arcane stat. The last likely to be obtained [[spoiler: Placidusax's Ruin is not considered Dragon Communion at all and instead scales off of Faith which is fitting in a way considering Placidusax's status of Elden Lord long before the Erdtree came to be.]]
-->He's suave! He's debonair! He's DEAD!
* Dramatic, multi-layered example near the beginning of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'': Barret delivers an inspiring speech to the other members of Avalanche, reassuring them that "I'm here for you! To help take the load off your shoulders! Your fears... Your worries... Your concerns... And yes, your ''fees''..." That last one is justified as it's directed at sword-for-hire Cloud Strife, who's NotInThisForYourRevolution but is rather OnlyInItForTheMoney -- which, coupled with a few other things, ultimately results in Barret [[spoiler: deciding ''against'' taking him along for the bombing run on Mako Reactor 5, contrary to the original game's plot.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses''
** During Hubert and Edelgard's A support, Edelgard insists that Hubert not keep secrets from her, referring to the covert actions that Hubert took to eliminate Edelgard's enemies. Hubert then yields, leading to his LoveConfession to Edelgard.
--->"Very well. You have me beaten. I will tell you as much as I am able. From the assassins I've eliminated, to the gold I've spent on bribes...to the identity of the one I love."
** Hubert, Dedue, and Hilda are the retainers of their respective houses' leaders. However, while Hubert and Dedue are unable to be recruited into other houses, Hilda is the sole exception as she ''can'' be recruited to other houses outside the Golden Deer, perhaps because she's far more easygoing than the two guys deeply devoted to their superiors. Furthermore, she's also the only retainer who has Support conversations with some students of other classes (and not just Church of Seiros members, whom Hubert and Dedue can support with outside their own houses), and her paralogue battle is the only one that can be done either in Part 1 or Part 2 (barring Anna's, who must be downloaded).
** There are six great noble families in the Adrestian empire. Duke Aegir, the Prime Minister, is Ferdinand's father. Count Bergliez, Minister of Military Affairs, is Caspar's father. Count Hevring, Minister of Domestic Affairs, is Linhardt's father. Count Varley, Minister of Religious Affairs, is Bernadetta's father. Marquis Vestra, Minister of the Imperial Household, is Hubert's father. Duke Gerth, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is the only one who does not have a child at the academy.
* One of the promos for ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' had an interesting description of its main character, Manny Calavera.
* ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'' involves Yuna playing "yuri cupid" to help various lesbian couples get together. The last couple to be introduced- track team captain Matsuri Amishima and vice-captain Miyu Inamoto- is unique in that the two are already together, but the relationship between them has grown strained.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', the modern "Champions" are all related to the previous Champions who were murdered by Ganon. All except for Teba, who has no blood ties to Revali. He also is the only one of the batch who is already an adult with a family, while the rest of the lineup are teenagers or young adults at best by their people's standards; for example, Mipha's younger brother Sidon is a young adult when the game begins, and was a baby 100 years ago.
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty5'': The minigame Pop-Star Piranhas has all the characters witness a pop dance performed by five Piranha Plants, each having come into the stage from Warp Pipes. In each round, all Piranha Plants are dancing in the same style and at the same speed... except for one which is dancing differently in either criterion or even both. The objective is to figure out which Piranha Plant is dancing differently and pinpoint it by pressing the button that is marked onto its associated pipe. After three rounds, the character who makes the most guesses wins.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty6'': The minigame Odd Card Out has all players participate in a spot-the-difference contest. Three cards showing the same mook (Goomba, Koopa Troopa, Piranha Plant, Shy Guy or Bob-omb) will be displayed, but in one of them the mook will show something different (for example, if the cards show a Koopa Troopa, then maybe one of them will have its eyes or mouth open, or its shell will be red instead of green). Each card can be selected with a specific button, and the first character to press the button corresponding to the different card will earn a point; the next three cards with a different mook are then shown and the process is repeated. If a player chooses a wrong option, then a Thwomp will crush them, making them lose the next round. Whoever scores two points first wins, but if nobody manages to do so after ten rounds the minigame will end in a tie.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
** In ''[[DownloadableContent Citadel]]'', there's this little gem in the casino.
--->'''Jonah Ashland:''' Look at them down there. Twenty years ago you'd have never seen a shindig like this. Humans and turians together like it's nothing. Council species all concerned about the fate of batarians... [[BoldlyComing Everybody trying to have sex]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe with the asari]]...\\
'''Shepard:''' That's not new.\\
'''Jonah Ashland:''' Just seeing if you were awake.
** When questioned why GirlyGirl Diana Allers was chosen to host the military-sponsored war program ''Battlespace'' she has this to say:
--->'''Diana:''' Girly sells, Commander. It was focus-grouped. [[OneGenderRace Asari]] identify more with a female host, [[TheGreys salarians]] enjoy higher pitched voices...\\
'''Samantha:''' And the turians?\\
'''Diana:''' Turians are nuts! A civilization of war nerds: loyal viewers, but they send the ''creepiest'' fan-mail.
* In ''VideoGame/NeoTheWorldEndsWithYou'', almost all of the fashion brands have a clear animal ThemeNaming to them much like in [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou the first game]]. Black Honey Chili Cookie is the one exception to this, as it serves as ProductPlacement for the real brand of the same name.
* The Four ghosts in Pac-Man are named "[[RhymesOnADime Blinky, Pinky, Inky]] and [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion Clyde]]".
* ""VideoGame/PajamaSamInNoNeedToHideWhenItsDarkOutside'': One of the Brain Tickler questions in the Ancient Egypt category asks what the Egyptians called their sun god. The first three answers are Egyptian-sound names, while the last one is just "Bob".
* In the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' series, [[OnceAnEpisode every game]] has Professor Layton's nemesis at the time- Don Paolo in the original trilogy and Jean Descole in the sequel trilogy- disguise himself as a character.[[labelnote:The List(Spoilers)]]Inspector Chelmey in ''Curious Village'', Flora Reinhold in ''Diabolical Box'', Layton himself in ''Unwound Future'', the Triton family butler in ''Last Spectre'', Angela Ledore in ''Miracle Mask'' and Professor Sycamore in ''Azran Legacy''[[/labelnote]]. Of those six characters, [[spoiler:Professor Desmond Sycamore]] from ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'' is the only character who has never appeared before or after being impersonated, [[spoiler:due to being a past alias of Descole's]].
* ''VisualNovel/ShinraiBrokenBeyondDespair'' has the ThisIsAWorkOfFiction disclaimer, which says that "Any resemblance to real, people, events, locations and supernatural beings is purely coincidental."
* In ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'', there are six Krazoa Shrines. In the first five, you go through three hallways full of obstacles and complete a challenge at the end to obtain the Krazoa Spirit. In the sixth, however, the usual Krazoa Shrine theme is replaced by a very different, creepier song, and instead of three hallways full of obstacles, there is a battle arena, and when you enter it, an enemy barrier with a single enemy icon on it blocks the only way out. In this arena you face the game's BigBad, General Scales. [[spoiler:Or try to, before [[HijackedByGanon Andross]] intervenes, forcing Scales to give you the final Krazoa Spirit and die [[TheUnfought before you can even fight him]], and thus on top of everything else, you don't really even have to do anything but walk onto the arena and draw your staff to get this Krazoa Spirit.]]
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' there's a quest which has players delivering a package containing compressed blasting powder, a tempered mithril bomb casing, and some safety goggles. If you don't understand why this qualifies, then you don't know [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblins]]. They are fans of StuffBlowingUp but are not very big on safety.
** Of the five pillars of creation, four of them are named after Titans[[note]]The Aegis of Aggramar, Hammer of Khaz'goroth, Tidestone of Golganneth, and Eye of Aman'thul[[/note]] but the fifth is named after Elune, whose nature is unknown.
** During the Nighthold dungeon in ''Legion'', you can come across the Secret Chambers of Grand Magistrix Elisande, a RoyalHarem of handsome Nightborne Elf paramours. For reasons never explained, there is also a ''[[OurGnomesAreWeirder Gnome]]'' among them.
* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', Zanza has three disciples. The third to be revealed is [[spoiler:Alvis, who, unlike Lorithia and Dickson, is not only the only disciple to not be fought, as well as the only one to survive, but also the only one who is actually on Shulk's side rather than Zanza's, and has secretly been helping Shulk defeat Zanza so he could become the new god and change the world for the better.]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/TheDailyDerp'': [[http://dailyderp.tumblr.com/post/39939626637/derpy-and-winter-break-is-over-some-may-not-like "Best wishes for all of you in college/work/mars"]]
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' the librarians [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160203#.Xx9fEed7mMo list]] the various secret writings Van Rijn used in his book. Most of them are [[MadScientist sparky]] stuff like phasing ink and four-dimensional cryptograms. The last one is lemon juice.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': The tapestries displaying the elemental symbols of the four kids hanging in the white castle read thus:
-->They wait for he who would [[Creator/LaRochefoucauld extinguish candles whilst fanning a fire]].\\
They wait for she who would [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} thaw solid flesh and resolve it into a dew]].\\
They wait for she who would [[Literature/TheWasteLand breed lilacs out of the dead land]].\\
They wait for he who would [[Music/SnoopDogg drop it like it's hot whilst the pimp's in the crib]].
* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': The Seven Black Emperors all have BossSubtitles provided by the narration, which always finishes their list of accolades and accomplishments with "and God of the Seven-Part World". And then in ''Breaker of Infinities'' we finally get Jagganoth's, whose BossSubtitles end with "and ''[[DestroyerDeity Destroyer]]'' of the Seven-Part World".
* In ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'', possible reasons a given person can see ghosts are [[http://paranatural.net/chapter-1-page-64/ a near-death experience, prolonged exposure to supernatural phenomena, or a diet obnoxiously high in citrus.]]
* ''Webcomic/RealLifeComics'' extrapolates the generational evolution of electronic technology in popular music [[http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=title-2645 here]]: In order, characters complain about music being used without instruments (synthesizers being introduced), without actual singing (autotune), without actual people (computers procedurally generating music), and finally the ability of music to be played at all (due to oppression by robot overlords). Counts as a FamousFamousFictional, among other things.
* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/1148/ listed all the fluids in a human body,]] ending with gin. Although, since it's riffing on a famous UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill speech, gin should probably be higher on the list.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* WebAnimation/ASDFMovie:
-->'''Girl:''' I like singing!
-->'''Boy:''' I like dancing!
-->'''I Like Trains Kid:''' I like trains. '[Gets run over by train]''
* In ''WebAnimation/BonusStage'', the last of the {{Cool And Unusual Punishment}}s that Joel gets to choose from when going to hell is eating {{Satan}}'s mom's spaghetti when the first two were related to watching something 24/7.
* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded: Mortal Kombat'' has the free-for-all confrontation between Liu Kang, Scorpion, Shang Tsung, and ... a guy with a gun.
* In the fifth episode of ''WebVideo/AnyoneButMe'', Jonathan, Vivian, and Sophie are all late to class. Their reactions?
-->''(bell rings)''\\
'''Jonathan''': Fuck!\\
'''Vivian''': Shit!\\
'''Sophie''': ''Aw.''
* This quote from [[http://shitmystudentswrite.tumblr.com/ Shit My Students Write]]
-->Napoleon a great leader had three main keys to his success as a leader, the terror he brought, his military, and he was a go-getter.
* From Website/{{Cracked}}:
** "Martha Stewart, for that two percent of Cracked readers who don't know, is a media mogul known for her cooking, gardening, etiquette, arts & crafts and pure evilness."
** From [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-common-movie-arguments-that-are-always-wrong "6 common movie arguments that are always wrong,"]] we face a turn from the classical to pop cultural:
--->-There's really only so many basic stories that can exist. The main character is trying to get somewhere (the Odyssey), get something (the legend of the Golden Fleece), win someone's heart (the Iliad), get revenge (Cain and Abel) or save the world (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure).
* On Reddit, a fan of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' tried to [[http://www.reddit.com/r/dresdenfiles/comments/2ekts0/spoilers_all_harrys_titles/ compile]] all of the titles [[TheHero Harry]] had gained in-universe. They were all suitably regal and dramatic [[note]]even the 'burger king' one, which [[ItMakesSenseInContext makes sense in context]] [[/note]], except for the last one:
-->''[[spoiler:Father of Two]]''.
* The Onion published a list of [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/those-we-lost-in-2011,26896/ those we lost in 2011]]. Unless you have a particular hatred for the author of Family Circus, this trope is in full effect, [[DontExplainTheJoke since boring cartoons are not akin to mass murder.]]
* The news aggregator website Drew Curtis' Fark.com allows viewers to submit news articles for discussion with new, (hopefully humorous), headlines, many of which follow this trope.
* When the ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' were trying to play the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames'' games they accidentally ordered a German version of ''Link: The Faces Of Evil''. They tried to make it work, hoping there was a setting for English or that they could maybe bluff their way through the menus, but they couldn't get past the menu screen because, to quote Dan:
--> '''Dan:''' Yeah! Our options were like "Bleurnken", "Fhyurnken", "Schvurnken", "Sturnken", and "Save"!
* The ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' cartoon "Why Come Only One Girl?" has a montage of scenes towards the end showing what might happen if any of the planned female characters were ever put in a cartoon. Cue Strong Bad...
--> --'''Strong Bad''': ...my style. ''(gets slapped, cut)'' ...my types. ''(gets slapped, cut)'' ...my stuff. ''(gets slapped, cut)'' ...The Cheat. ''(gets slapped, cut)''
* ''WebVideo/JonTron'' once was putting decoration on his house, but feeling something is off with the picture he hung up: four pictures depicting [[Music/TheBeatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison]] and... Series/{{Alf}}.
* The "differenze linguistiche" meme. It involves taking a word and translating it into different languages, with the last one, usually German or Finnish, sounding very different.
* ''WebVideo/MapMen'': The episode about parts of maps that are deliberately left blank demonstrates a East German map that leaves West Berlin blank for political reasons, the Google Maps display of North Korea which is blank because no cartographers had at the time been able to get into North Korea, and a map of central Greenland... which is blank because it's a featureless frozen wasteland with nothing to map.
* WebVideo/MatthewSantoro:
** In ''20 Haunting Halloween Facts'', Matt says, "Pumpkins also come in blue, green, and white. This is great for kids that might want to carve their favourite childhood character. Like [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Papa Smurf]], or [[Series/TheMuppetShow Kermit the Frog]], or... Music/MichaelJackson!"
** In ''20 Valentines Day facts'', Matt says, "It's almost February 14th, and that means it's almost Valentine's Day! A day where people show they love each other with diamonds, roses, chocolates, and... other things."
** In ''I'm Probably on a Plane or a Ship Right Now'', Matt tells the audience that if he doesn't upload a vlog the day after, then it'll be because he choked on a chicken wing, he got stabbed, the ship he's going on sank, or he got attacked by a rabbit sloth.
** In ''20 Haunting Halloween Facts'', Matt says, "The most common costume for male adults is a vampire. For female adults, it's a witch. For Music/EltonJohn, it's a pack of fudge. [{{Beat}}] What?"
** In ''20 Jolly Christmas Facts'', Matt references Music/MichaelJackson's alleged pedophilia. He says that, according to legend, St. Nicholas would bring gifts for good children, coal for bad children, and [[TakeThat Michael Jackson]] for ''really'' bad children.
** In ''20 Lucky St. Patrick's Day Facts'', Matt says that a good classification for a leprechaun would be a troll, a gnome, or Creator/SethGreen.
** In ''The A.D.D Test'', Matt expects instant news, instant coffee, and instant porn.
* [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Wily Shorts]]:
-->'''Top Man:''' I want to be in the Indy 500!\\
'''Quick Man:''' I want to break the sound barrier!\\
'''Turbo Man:''' I just want to sit at home and eat chips.
* In [[http://diamonddmgirl.deviantart.com/art/Na-Na-Na-507473245?ga_submit_new=10%253A1421437836 this weird story]] Guenevere "asked out Jimmy Wherever and Ilya Muromets and Maid Marian but they all said no and then England was at war with Canada and Russia and England."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZtBCpo0eU "If Quake was done today"]] (a satirical video by Kai Moosmann) begins with a parade of logos for id Tech 2, Bethesda Game Studios, Face FX, Scaleform, Speedtree, and Aldi Süd, which is not a middleware company but a German supermarket.
* ''WebVideo/{{Petscop}}'': The pause menu before the ArtShift shows Resume Game, Options, Pets (for Bios about pets caught) [[BreadMilkEggsSquick and Book of Baby Names.]]
* A {{meme|ticMutation}} that started on Tumblr and migrated to other social media takes the form "Reblog/retweet/share if you are [minority group], support [minority group], or [extremely mundane trait]". The joke is that the last trait makes it a blatant {{Push Poll|ing}}.
* An uninintentional, yet still funny (if not for the intended reason) example happens in the ''Mann Shorts'' video "Dungeons And Dragons: Liberal Edition". As with the Conservative Edition, everyone in the skit is a StrawmanPolitical except the DM, who's portrayed as the OnlySaneMan. At the start, he says 'All right gang, election season is approaching, so we've gotta-" and the players each interrupt by saying, respectively "Stop Russian Hacking", "Raise taxes on the rich" and... "Let the state control everything". Yes, we are apparently meant to think all 3 suggestions are equally ridiculous.
* WebVideo/TheUnluckyTug: At the start of the Sodor's Finest episode about James, he says he's already covered engines 4, 2, 3, and 1 -- those being Gordon, Edward, Henry, and Skarloey. The last is part of a different CastHerd.
* ''WebVideo/TheWarpZone'': ''Is "The Last Jedi" Bad? (Fanboy Court)'' has the Hater present three clips of particularly bad dialogue from Canto Bight from ''Film/TheLastJedi''... and Anakin's infamous sand rant from ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''.
-->'''Fanboy''': OBJECTION!\\
'''Hater''': Oh. Sorry about that. I don't know how that got in there. I guess all the bad lines sort of blur together.
* WebAnimation/WelcomeTo Website/{{Tumblr}} when it gets on the videos:
--> "Do you upload videos? Great! Just make sure you upload them to Website/YouTube, Daily Motion or [[TheInternetIsForPorn xvideos.com]] first, because the Tumblr player is [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch absolutely terr— s absolutely terr— s absolutely terr— ible-ible-ible-ible! Absolutely terr—]]"
* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' loves to do these in the animation. In the ''VideoGame/LANoire'' review, there is a mention of the main character "hopping around between four different police departments", which is illustrated with four doors marked Traffic, Homicide, Vice and Biscuits.
* ''WebAnimation/ZsdavAdventures'': In the ''Út ami hazavisz'' (''Road that leads you home'') arc, Zsdav and Vinmar collect three medals. The first two are represented by ender pearls but the last one is a fireball.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' episode "Lack of Brains vs. Brawns", Whiskers states that he and Brandy go together like peanut butter and jelly, bacon and eggs, and donkeys and trombones.
* Happens to Scrooge [=McDuck=] while he's reading the paper in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Robot Robbers":
-->'''Scrooge:''' "[=McDuck=] Assets Top $200 Bajillion" -- delightful. "[=McDuck=] Stock Reaches All-Time High" -- wonderful. "[=McDuck=] Loses Construction Bid to [[ArchEnemy Flintheart Glomgold]]"... DAH!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Berry Scary", Bloo repeatedly calls [[{{Yandere}} Berry]] [[AccidentalMisnaming other names that rhyme with hers]], up until the end where he calls her Heather.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' in "A Head in the Polls":
-->'''Morbo:''' "I now present: puny human #1, puny human #2, and Morbo's good friend [[PresidentEvil Richard Nixon]]."
** From the pilot:
--->'''Professor Farmsworth:''' Let me show you around. That's my lab table, and this is my work stool, and over there is my [[CoolSpaceShip intergalactic spaceship]], and here's where I keep assorted lengths of wire.
* The ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Hobo 13" features Zim requesting extra ordnance from his leaders, The Tallest. His malfunctioning robot GIR adds a few items to the list, managing to combine ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, BreadEggsMilkSquick, ''and'' BreadEggsBreadedEggs.
-->'''Tallest Purple''': Plasmaran battle tanks, maim bots, death-wave cannons... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking A sack of taquitos?]]\\
'''Zim''': Just a few supplies I need to complete my mission.\\
'''[[CloudCuckooLander Gir]]''': You get my taquitos yet... Taquitos! [[BreadEggsMilkSquick And a clown with no head]]... how 'bout [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs clown taquitos?]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Secret Society" had this:
-->'''Gorrila Grodd:''' [We are not in it for the money] Sinestro has a blood oath against all Green Lanterns, Parasite simply hates Superman, Giganta is totally devoted to me.\\
'''The Shade:''' And the other one?\\
'''Gorrila Grodd:''' Killer Frost? She just likes to kill things.
* In an episode of the French cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' parodying ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', the main four decide to each say the same thing in a different language (Kaeloo in English, [[TheUnintelligible Quack Quack in "quacks"]], Mr. Cat in German and Stumpy in Spanish:
-->'''Kaeloo:''' The grass is green!\\
'''[[TheUnintelligible Quack Quack]]:''' Quack!\\
'''Mr. Cat:''' Das gras ist grün!\\
'''[[TheDitz Stumpy]] (singing):''' [[GratuitousSpanish Tapas! Paëlla! Real Madrid, Ibiza! Movida! Conchita, corrida!]]
** The show also has a RunningGag where Mr. Cat, attempting to justify his actions, will say two things related to what he did and a [[RuleOfThree third]], completely unrelated statement.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PickleAndPeanut'' episode "Busted Arm", Peanut's fake cast dissolves in a water slide, which results in a clogged pipage. While getting on the second slide, the water buildup sends him flying into a snack shack, a sign, and an acid tank. End result: [[spoiler: He is [[{{Squick}} left as a head with veins sticking out at the bottom of his neck]].]]
* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Detective Mindy":
-->'''Sydney''': How does [the black hole] do that?\\
'''Mindy''': And how did it get there?\\
'''Jet''': [[WeirdAside And how]] [[TheTriple does my hair look today?]] (beat) Oh...not the right time?
** This happens again in ''Galileo, Galileo!'', where Sean is listing his heroes: Galileo Galilei, Neil Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Madame Curie, and Music/PattiSmith.[[note]]All of Sean's heroes are scientists, except for Patti Smith, who is a punk singer[[/note]]. Even Sunspot seems confused.
** In "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E22MarsRockForMomSeanHasACold Sean Has A Cold]]", when Jet explains why he chose Earth for his Best Buddy kite, he explains that Earth is round, has air and water, trees, and pie.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': When listing what makes her a valuable asset to The Horde, and later the Princess Alliance, Scorpia says she is "strong, brave, fierce, loyal, [[CuddleBug and she gives great hugs]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Bart Gets an Elephant" Lisa asks someone if they're an ivory dealer, with the reply "Well, little girl, I've had lots of jobs in my day: whale-hunter, seal-clubber, [[BitingTheHandHumor president of the Fox network..."]]
** In the "Treehouse of Horror IV" segment "The Devil and Homer Simpson" when Satan brings out his jury, we get two examples. Halfway through, we get Richard Nixon and Nixon objects that he's not dead yet, to which Satan replies, [[DealWithTheDevil "Hey, I did a favor for YOU!"]] Then, at the end, the final members consist not of infamous historical figures, but "the starting lineup for the 1976 Philadelphia Fliers" (AKA the "Broad Street Bullies").
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "Pickles", Squidward serves as the replacement fry cook when [=SpongeBob=] loses his confidence, and doesn't do a very good job of it.
--->'''Customer:''' He burnt my Krabby Patty!\\
'''Second Customer:''' He burnt my fries!\\
'''Third Customer:''' [[EpicFail He burnt my shake!]]
** In "Imitation Krabs", [=SpongeBob=]'s BluffTheImpostor attempt has him asking Mr. Krabs and Plankton (piloting a robot Mr. Krabs) three questions:
--->'''1.''' What time does the Krusty Krab open?\\
'''2.''' How much does a Krabby Patty cost on Wednesday?\\
'''3.''' [[ARareSentence If they're discussing the Krabby Patty secret formula on the third Wednesday in January and it's not raining outside after they've gargled with vanilla pudding]], what do they do?
** In "My Pretty Seahorse", while observing the wild seahorse [=SpongeBob=] considers a number of names for her.
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Because of her mysterious nature, I have decided to name her "Mystery". Hmm, now that I think of it she's also very graceful and majestic. Perhaps I should name her Grace, or Majesty, or Debbie.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** "Catch and Release": Steven is getting ready for bed, and says goodnight to his stuffed animals: "Good night, happy bear. Good night, sad bunny. Good night, playful kitty. Good night, ominous triangle at the foot of my bed." The "ominous triangle" turns out to be Peridot, who kidnaps Steven and tries to get him to help fix the Galaxy Warp.
** "Back to the Moon": Steven names the Rubies based on the placement of their gems: Army (arm), Leggy (leg), Navy (navel), Eyeball (eye), and... Doc (chest).
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In one of the final scenes of the "World's Finest" crossover with ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Harley Quinn rants as she is loaded into a police van: "I want a lawyer! I want a doctor! I want a cheese sandwich!"
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': The engines' various problems in "Victor Says Yes" are as follows: 'Arry and Bert need their valves checked, Edward's boiler is broken, Percy needs a new coat of paint, Gordon's valves are blocked, Thomas' footplate is loose, and Emily wants her buffers polished.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheXs'', [[BigBad Glowface]] sees the family at the laundromat and thinks they're plotting against him, so he thinks all of their things are weapons in disguise.
-->'''Glowface''': Hand grenades disguised as lint brushes! Explosives disguised as detergent! Armed personnel carriers disguised as laundry carts! {{Killer Robot}}s disguised ''as that bush''!
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* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Separating your friends from one individual.

*** The puncline to the sketch also uses it. After Socrates scores a goal the Germans dispute it, Hegel and Kant both lodge complex philosophical arguments as to why the goal shouldn't count while [[Creator/KarlMarx Marx]] argues that it was [[UsefulNotes/FootyRules offside]].

* In ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob'', all of the salon employees assume last names that are slightly different from their real names while on the job; for example, Kanoko Mamiya becomes Kanoko '''A'''mamiya on the job. The one exception is Nene Nishidera, the last employee to be introduced; her assumed name at the salon is Nene [[spoiler:Saionji, meaning she used to be Sumika's schwester]]. As you can see, her assumed last name is nothing like her real name.

* WebVideo/TheUnluckyTug: At the start of the Sodor's Finest episode about James, he says he's already covered engines 4, 2, 3, and 1 -- those being Gordon, Edward, Henry, and Skarloey. The last is part of a different CastHerd.

-->'''I Like Trains Kid:''' I like trains. *run over by train*

* ''Series/BarneyMiller'': All the disturbing newspaper headlines, according to Harris. Civil War in Angola, Oil Spills Off the Coast, Bribes Revealed, Suede and Leather Prices Going Up. ("[[Recap/BarneyMillerS2E20 The Psychiatrist]]")

* From ''Series/CovertAffairs'': After losing a lot of money at craps, intentionally [[spoiler: And, ironically enough, almost failing to do so as she suddenly won 30.000 dollars betting on snake eyes; Auggie's astonished expression is gold]], Annie is talking to the woman they're hoping will try to turn her:

* In ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'', the narration uses this trope. Tatsuya walks into Azusa's classroom and starts speaking to her in a very insistent manner. Onlookers comment, respectively; "Surprisingly forceful...", "So fierce..", and "[[CasualKink That might be nice.]]"

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'' takes place in the fictional otome game ''Fortune Lover'', in which the heroine can court one of four men, each of whom has a rival character. Katarina (the protagonist in the actual series) is the rival for Prince Geordo and Keith, respectively her fiance and adoptive brother, and ends up being exiled in the good ending and killed in the bad ending; the series itself is about her efforts to avoid those fates (or rather, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} her complete obliviousness to the fact that she already has avoided those fates]]). Mary is the rival in Prince Alan's route, and gets together with him in the bad ending. Sophia, as the rival in her older brother Nicol's route, is a special case, since the heroine must [[BestFriendsInLaw befriend Sophia in order to get together with Nicol]].

* In ''Fanfic/NerveDamage'' Shirou summons [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask Arturia Pendragon]], [[DarkMessiah Arturia 'Alter' Pendragon]], Arturia 'Lily' Pendragon and.... [[MsFanservice Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus]]

--->'''Dick:''' Apologize?!?! Should the Venus de Milo apologize to the brute who tore her arms off? NO! Should the sphinx apologize to the desert winds for eroding its nose? NO! Should Jim Carrey apologize to America for ''Film/TheCableGuy''? [[TakeThat Perhaps]].

* ''Comicbook/LaffALympics'': Yogi's reasons for Monty Cristo not to arrest Hokey: "He's my friend! He's my buddy. And besides, I need him to skate in the last event!"

* ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame'': When Twilight is performing a Sherlock-esque ass-kicking on [[TheDragon Esteem]] and his troops, she lists the special abilities of herself and her friends as she uses the bond granted by the Elements of Harmony to copy them: Unicorn power, mastery of pegasus martial arts, unnatural strength, instant translocation, skill with blade, whatever it is Pinkie Pie does...

* ''FanFic/PersephonesWaltz'': Upon escaping their captor, Sayaka and Madoka break into Kyousuke's hospital room. He is understandably confused.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'':

** [[Videogame/Borderlands3 The third game]] does this with [=FL4K=] as The Beastmaster, Moze as The Gunner, Amara as The Siren and Zane Flynt as [[DoppelgangerAttack Himselves]].

* In the ''VideoGame/ProfessorLayton'' series, [[OnceAnEpisode every game]] has Professor Layton's nemesis at the time- Don Paolo in the original trilogy and Jean Descole in the sequel trilogy- disguise himself as a character.[[labelnote:The List(Spoilers)]]Inspector Chelmey in Curious Village, Flora Reinhold in Diabolical Box, Layton himself in Unwound Future, the Triton family butler in Last Spectre, Angela Ledore in Miracle Mask and Professor Sycamore in Azran Legacy[[/labelnote]]. Of those six characters, [[spoiler:Professor Desmond Sycamore]] from ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'' is the only character who has never appeared before or after being impersonated, [[spoiler:due to being a past alias of Descole's]].

*** The puncline to the sketch also uses it. After Socrates scores a goal the Germans dispute it, Hagel and Kant both lodge complex phiosophical arguments as to why the goal shouldn't count while [[Creator/KarlMarx Marx]] argues that it was [[UsefulNotes/FootyRules offside]].