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** When ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' actually averts this, he posits that the Decepticons managed to conquer Cybertron thanks to Megatron's diabolical and unorthodox scheme to "...make guns that actually kill people".

** Lampshades how by the ''Voyager'' era of Trek, the [[ScienceHero scientifically-minded]], enlightened crews of Federation starships immediately respond to pretty much every dangerous spacial anomaly they encounter by ''[[FiveRoundsRapid shooting]]'' them.

* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: The EMH calls dibs on Tom's {{Music/Creed}} collection in "Threshold." Thanks, Doc.

** Shows up again in "Scientific Method" where this time, the tarantula has taken Shoulder Cowboy's hat (and identity). Janeway can't tell the difference.

* GoodAngelBadAngel: Janeway in "Year of Hell", though she's too agnostic to recognize angels, and the devil is too dimwitted. Instead, she winds up with "Shoulder Atom", "Shoulder Cowboy" (Who just wants to get out of there and he never comes back), "Alternate Shoulder Cowboy" (obviously the devil again, except [[PaperThinDisguise wearing a stetson hat]]), and a tarantula who suggests [[ImAHumanitarian eating everybody.]]

** In his review of "Ties of Blood and Water", after Weyoun demonstrates the Vorta poison immunity by drinking some poison wine, Chuck mentions that a few months prior to the release of the review, scientists discovered that there is a creature that can actually counteract poisons naturally, even those of creatures it never came in contact with. Which creature? The possum. As Chuck puts it "Yes, Weyoun has an ability found in a creature that [[CloningBlues appears to die but you'll wind up seeing him walk around later]]".

* IdiotPlot: [[invoked]] Not Chuck himself, but he WILL rip into any episode that ''does'' have one, especially if [[AcceptableTargets Kenneth Biller]] had anything to do with it. His review of the early season seven Voyager episode "Repression" is especially brutal for Chuck deconstructing why its plot about a rogue Bajoran vedek somehow managing to hack a Project Pathfinder transmission to ''Voyager'', a recording of Tuvok's son, so he could subliminally activate brainwashing he did to Tuvok years before, so Tuvok can in turn brainwash the rest of the Maquis crew via Vulcan mind meld (which it has never been able to do before) into reverting into their pre-series selves as Maquis freedom fighters and restart the Maquis and fight the Cardassians, is brutal (bear in mind this episode takes place only a year or two after the end of the Dominion War, which left the Cardassian Union a shattered husk of its former, and Voyager is still stuck in the Delta Quadrant where they can't meaningfully do anything about it anyway).

-->"People have their limits, period. Picard had his in 'Family', or Sisko had his in 'Emissary'. Given the choice between watching your crew die one after the other--year after year--with home still decades away and [[HurtingHero a self-imposed isolation]], or thinking that she could've resigned and taken a job on Earth with a husband and a pile of dogs, well... There's a lot of days where the former makes the latter look pretty damn good."

* IncompetenceInc: Reenactments of B&B behind closed doors. Berman is convinced that Brannon's name is "[[MyNameIsNotDurwood Brandon]]" despite working with him for decades, and the duo refuse to field suggestions from any writer besides each other.

--->'''Chuck:''' [Quinn] brings Janeway down to the mess hall and creates a fancy lucnh for her, as a way of thanking her for getting him out of the comet in which he'd been imprisoned. He rambles a bit, revealing that the one thing he wants more than anything is to die. Well, if that's your wish, I suppose Neelix's kitchen is the best place to go.

* IdiotPlot: [=Invoked=] Not Chuck himself, but he WILL rip into any episode that ''does'' have one, especially if [[AcceptableTargets Kenneth Biller]] had anything to do with it. His review of the early season seven Voyager episode "Repression" is especially brutal for Chuck deconstructing why its plot about a rogue Bajoran vedek somehow managing to hack a Project Pathfinder transmission to ''Voyager'', a recording of Tuvok's son, so he could subliminally activate brainwashing he did to Tuvok years before, so Tuvok can in turn brainwash the rest of the Maquis crew via Vulcan mind meld (which it has never been able to do before) into reverting into their pre-series selves as Maquis freedom fighters and restart the Maquis and fight the Cardassians, is brutal (bear in mind this episode takes place only a year or two after the end of the Dominion War, which left the Cardassian Union a shattered husk of its former, and Voyager is still stuck in the Delta Quadrant where they can't meaningfully do anything about it anyway).