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* ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' has one which doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny:

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* ''Film/ThorRagnarok:'' In the Asgardian play that Loki commissioned (and, judging from his knowledge of the script, wrote) himself, the in-universe actor who portrays him apologizes for his attempt to [[TakeOverTheWorld subjugate Earth]], for stealing the [[MacGuffin Tesseract]] to open a portal and bring in the army of [[AlienInvasion alien invaders]].. and for [[NoodleIncident turning his brother Thor into a frog]].
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* ''Film/GleahanAndTheKnavesOfIndustry:'' Seen toward the end of the movie.
--> '''Judge''': First degree assault. Seven counts of involuntary manslaughter. Numerous criminal violations of labor laws including wage violation. Failure to maintain a safe work environment. Interfering with the rights of employees to act together. And the city prosecutor would like it noted that if Duluth had laws on jaywalking, [[LampshadeHanging you would be accused of that as well]].
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* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Hawkeye lampshades his role on the team:
-->'''Hawkeye:''' The city is flying, we're fighting an army of robots... and I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense.
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* ''Film/SurLaPisteDuMarsupilami'' has this prophecy of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:

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* ''Film/SurLaPisteDuMarsupilami'' ''Film/HoubaOnTheTrailOfTheMarsupilami'' has this prophecy of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
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* The {{tagline}} on posters for ''Film/FightClub'' was "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap." [[spoiler:This, however, is a subversion: the soap is made out of discarded fat from liposuctions]].

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* The {{tagline}} on posters for ''Film/FightClub'' was "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap." [[spoiler:This, however, is a subversion: the soap is made out of discarded fat from liposuctions]]. A straighter example are some of Project Mayhem's antics: among acts of threatening people at gunpoint, massive acts of arson and vandalism, and headlines like "Police Seize Excrement Canon" and "Performance Artist Molested", one simply reads "Power Outage At Local Mall".

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* In ''Film/MagnumForce'', Harry, delivering his TheReasonYouSuck speech to the [[VigilanteMan vigilante cops]], tells them they will eventually start shooting neighbours for letting their dogs piss on their lawn.
* ''Film/SuddenImpact''. Film/DirtyHarry delivers a long monologue about all the rotten things he sees as a homicide cop (babies abandoned in dumpsters, etc.) but says the thing that really gets to him, that really makes him sick to his stomach, is the fact that his partner puts ketchup on his hot dog!

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* The ''Film/DirtyHarry'' film series:
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In ''Film/MagnumForce'', Harry, delivering his TheReasonYouSuck KirkSummation speech to the [[VigilanteMan vigilante cops]], tells them they will eventually start shooting neighbours for letting their dogs piss on their lawn.
* ''Film/SuddenImpact''. Film/DirtyHarry ** In ''Film/SuddenImpact'', Harry delivers a long monologue about all the rotten things he sees as a homicide cop (babies abandoned in dumpsters, etc.) but says the thing that really gets to him, that really makes him sick to his stomach, is the fact that his partner puts ketchup on his hot dog!
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* From ''Orgy Of The Dead'':
-->'''Shirley:''' "There're so many wonderful things to write about."
-->'''Bob:''' Sure there are--and I've tried them all. Plays, love stories, westerns, dog stories.
** Possibly not deliberate of this trope since the film was written by Creator/EdWood.
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* In ''Film/MagnumForce'', Harry, delivering his TheReasonYouSuck speech to the [[VigilanteMan vigilante cops]], tells them they will eventually start shooting neighbours for letting their dogs piss on their lawn.
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* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheQalaxyVol2'': Right before the final showdown between Peter/Star-Lord and Ego.

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* ''FilmGuardiansOfTheQalaxyVol2'': Right before the final showdown between Peter/Star-Lord and Ego.

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* ''FilmGuardiansOfTheQalaxyVol2'': Right before the final showdown between Peter/Star-Lord and Ego.
-->'''Peter:''' You shouldn't have [[spoiler: killed my mom and squished my Walkman!]]
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-->'''Martin:''' ''[Upon having freed Koen out of prison and then seeing on t.v. that Koen is wanted for murder and rape]'' ...Jesus. I thought the dude was in prison for unpaid parking tickets.
-->'''Bennie:''' ''[[DeadpanSnarker That too, yes]]''.
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* Combined with InsultBackfire in ''Film/TheBorrowers''. [[EvilLawyerJoke Potter]] overhears Arrietty calling him every synonym for "evil" in the book, but only takes offense to being called ugly.

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* Combined with InsultBackfire in ''Film/TheBorrowers''.''Film/TheBorrowers1997''. [[EvilLawyerJoke Potter]] overhears Arrietty calling him every synonym for "evil" in the book, but only takes offense to being called ugly.
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* Combined with InsultBackfire in ''Film/TheBorrowers''. [[EvilLawyerJoke Potter]] overhears Arrietty calling him every synonym for "evil" in the book, but only takes offense to being called ugly.
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::Conan replies in kind.

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* ''VetHard'': Koen is in prison for murder, ([[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]) rape, and unpaid parking tickets.

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* ''VetHard'': Koen is in prison for murder, ([[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]) rape, and unpaid parking tickets.
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*** Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' could give it a run for its money. Its official MPAA rating is PG, for "fantasy action and violence including scary images and situations and a smoking caterpillar." Well, alright then. They might get in even more of an uproar if they knew what he was smoking. Give you a hint: [[spoiler: It's not tobacco.]] Despite mixed reviews, The Dove Foundation took a image of Alice (holding the White Rabbit), added a few ideas and VOLIA! A FAMILY-APPROVED CLASSIC!

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*** Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' could give it a run for its money. Its official MPAA rating is PG, for "fantasy action and violence including scary images and situations and a smoking caterpillar." Well, alright then. They might get in even more of an uproar if they knew what he was smoking. Give you a hint: [[spoiler: It's not tobacco.]] Despite mixed reviews, The Dove Foundation took a image of Alice (holding the White Rabbit), added a few ideas and VOLIA! A FAMILY-APPROVED CLASSIC!
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* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':

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* In ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', Hedley Lamarr gives out a long list of evil people that he wants to recruit as {{mook}}s, topping it off with a triumphant, "...and ''Methodists!''". There's no given reason why Methodists are lumped in with such villains. This coincides with a later line where the people of Rock Ridge announce they will accept "the niggers and the chinks, but we ''don't want the Irish!''" pointing out archaic prejudices against seemingly generic groups.

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* In ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', ''Film/BlazingSaddles'':
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Hedley Lamarr gives out a long list of evil people that he wants to recruit as {{mook}}s, topping it off with a triumphant, "...and ''Methodists!''". There's no given reason why Methodists are lumped in with such villains. This coincides with a later line where villains.
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the film the bigoted people of Rock Ridge face being completely overwhelmed by Lamarr's EvilArmy unless they accept the help of a large group of railroad workers, and in return give some of local land to these workers. (Said workers are mostly black and Chinese.) After a bit of discussion the people announce they will accept "the "Ok, we'll give some land to the niggers and the chinks, but we ''don't want the Irish!''" pointing out archaic prejudices against Irish!''." This is a deliberate attempt to show how meaningless prejudice and racism is, and how what are now seemingly generic groups.groups were once a major target of such prejudice.
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* In a deleted scene of ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'', Jack Black and Kyle Gass are checking out at an army/navy supply store with a grocery cart full of items that make it increasingly apparent that they intend to do some Hollywood-style breaking and entering, including walkie-talkies, grappling hooks, smoke bombs, a pair of {{Spy Catsuit}}s, poison darts... and a bag of Funyuns. The Funyuns are actually the second-to-last item though.

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* In a deleted scene DeletedScene of ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'', Jack Black and Kyle Gass are checking out at an army/navy supply store with a grocery cart full of items that make it increasingly apparent that they intend to do some Hollywood-style breaking and entering, including walkie-talkies, grappling hooks, smoke bombs, a pair of {{Spy Catsuit}}s, poison darts... and a bag of Funyuns. The Funyuns are actually the second-to-last item though.



* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Take the Money and Run'' uses this trope twice in the same way. At the beginning, the narrator says that Virgil is wanted for robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of a wart. Later, as Virgil assembles a gang to rob a bank, the narrator reveals what each of them has served time for. One was "bank robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, murder, and '''getting naked in front of his in-laws'''," another was just "'''dancing with a mailman'''," and the third was "arson, robbery, assault with intent to kill, and '''marrying a horse'''."

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* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Take the Money and Run'' ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'' uses this trope twice in the same way. At the beginning, the narrator says that Virgil is wanted for robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of a wart. Later, as Virgil assembles a gang to rob a bank, the narrator reveals what each of them has served time for. One was "bank robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, murder, and '''getting naked in front of his in-laws'''," another was just "'''dancing with a mailman'''," and the third was "arson, robbery, assault with intent to kill, and '''marrying a horse'''."
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* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'': The warning of the dire consequences of their being incarcerated as Gozer prepares to manifest:

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* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'': ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'': The warning of the dire consequences of their being incarcerated as Gozer prepares to manifest:
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*** Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' could give it a run for its money. Its official MPAA rating is PG, for "fantasy action and violence including scary images and situations and a smoking caterpillar." Well, alright then. They might get in even more of an uproar if they knew what he was smoking. Give you a hint: [[spoiler: It's not tobacco.]]

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*** Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' could give it a run for its money. Its official MPAA rating is PG, for "fantasy action and violence including scary images and situations and a smoking caterpillar." Well, alright then. They might get in even more of an uproar if they knew what he was smoking. Give you a hint: [[spoiler: It's not tobacco.]]]] Despite mixed reviews, The Dove Foundation took a image of Alice (holding the White Rabbit), added a few ideas and VOLIA! A FAMILY-APPROVED CLASSIC!
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* Inverted in ''Film/{{Super}}'': "You don't butt in line! You don't sell drugs! You don't molest little children! You don't profit off the misery of others! The rules were set a long time ago! They don't change!"
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** "I'm looking for the owner of that horse. He's tall, blond, he smokes a cigar and he's a pig!"
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* In one scene in ''Film/TimesSquare'', the protagonists perform an angry punk song on the air in which Pamela calls her father out and accuses him of calling her some very offensive names before projecting that very image onto him via the airwaves:
-->''Spic! Nigger! Faggot! Bum!''\\
''Your daughter is one!''
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* From ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'': "Fooling Around on the Course, Bad Language, Smoking Grass, Poor Caddying."

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* In ''Airplane 2'', the stewardess makes an announcement to the passengers (in a Space Shuttle-like spacecraft). The passengers only freak out with the last announcement.
-->'''Stewardess:''' We're going to crash into the Sun at 1/2 lightspeed, the pilots are incapacitated and... we're out of coffee.

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* In ''Airplane 2'', the ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'', stewardess Elaine makes an announcement to the passengers (in a of the film's Space Shuttle-like spacecraft). spacecraft: they're half a million miles off course, missing a navigational system, and being bombarded by asteroids. The passengers only freak out with the last announcement.
-->'''Stewardess:'''
remain calm, until...
-->'''Passenger''': Miss, are you telling us absolutely everything?\\
'''Elaine''': Not exactly.
We're going to crash into the Sun at 1/2 lightspeed, the pilots are incapacitated and... we're also out of coffee.\\
''[riot breaks out]''
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* ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'':
-->"First Floor Dungeon: Assorted simple tortures. Molten lead, chopping blocks, and hot boiling oil.\\
Second Floor Dungeon: Jewelry Department."
:: But subverted with the very next line...
-->"Leg chains, ankle chains, wrist chains, neck chains, thumb screws and nooses of the very finest rope!"
* Newspaper headlines in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'':
-->'''Rex Kramer:''' Passengers certain to die!\\
'''Steve [=McCroskey=]:''' Airline negligent.\\
'''Johnny:''' There's a sale at Penney's!
* In ''Airplane 2'', the stewardess makes an announcement to the passengers (in a Space Shuttle-like spacecraft). The passengers only freak out with the last announcement.
-->'''Stewardess:''' We're going to crash into the Sun at 1/2 lightspeed, the pilots are incapacitated and... we're out of coffee.
* Subverted in ''Film/BillyMadison'' (combined with a compressed BrickJoke) by Billy's father after learning that Billy was telling the truth the whole time. He proceeds to describe what happened, and then adds in offhand that Eric's secretary is in a coma,
-->"First the psycho goes on TV, lies, then retracts it, and now Eric's secretary is in a coma."
* From ''Film/SevenSeconds'', an officer who's just been kidnapped:
-->"All right, you're in a heap of trouble now: armed robbery, kidnapping of an army officer, and ''speeding''!"
* At the beginning of ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'', Marty [=DiBergi=], describing the eponymous band, says: "I remember being knocked out by their, their exuberance, their raw power... and their punctuality."
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** At the end of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', the bailiff is reading out the [[LongList (long) list]] of [[ListOfTransgressions charges that Jack Sparrow has been found guilty of]], including "impersonating a cleric of the Church of England", which prompts a fond little smile of remembrance from Jack.
** In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'', Jack has a suggestion of what to do with Barbossa that starts as BreadEggsBreadedEggs and then becomes ArsonMurderAndJaywalking. "Shoot him! Cut out his tongue! Then shoot his tongue! And trim that scraggly beard."
** "You are charged with piracy, treason, and the theft of a hairy, well-used right leg!"
* Creator/GaryOldman's terrorist character in ''Film/AirForceOne'': "When you talk to the President, you might remind him that I am holding his wife, his daughter, his chief of staff, his national security adviser, his classified papers -- ''and his baseball glove!''"
-->"Dammit! Nobody does this to the United States! The president will get his glove back and play catch with this guy's balls!"
* Ivan Ooze in ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' announces the evil things he'd missed while he was SealedEvilInACan: "'''''The Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition!''''' ''Series/TheBradyBunch reunion!''" This was an [[ThrowItIn ad-lib]].
* Helen Sharp (Creator/GoldieHawn) talking about Madeline Ashton (Creator/MerylStreep) in ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': "She was a homebreaker. She was a man-eater. And she was a ''bad actress''."
* ''Film/PootieTang'':
** The title character's dying father, mauled to near death by a gorilla, tells his son about the horrors of the world: Drugs, crime, and gorillas.
** From the same movie, Pootie is listing the cast list, saying it also stars Trucky, Bad Bidi, Dirty D, Lacey, Jay Bee, Biggy Shorty, and Creator/RobertVaughn.
* Our MoralGuardians' attempts to give us a measure of some or other work against their serious verified and absolute morale standards all too often will include funny items:
** The Website/IMDb parental guides have a lot of these. Laundry lists of terrifying violence and brutality followed by "A man and a woman argue about parking tickets." A great example [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/parentalguide is for]] ''Caligula'', where the Violence section has, along with gems such as "A man is suffocated with a cloth and he dies." and "A machine with huge blades cuts peoples heads off lots of blood and heads roll"... "A woman is slapped."
** Critics have fun with this when writing good reviews:
---> This was a brilliant film, one of my all time favourites as it had everything, rebellion, violence, horror, adventure, religion, death, slavery '''and bad language'''.
** Nothing can beat [[http://www.capalert.com/ CAP-Alert]] for this: "This film contains murder, blasphemy, and bare male chests."
** The MPAA is similarly ridiculous when rating films.
*** ''Sydney White'' is rated PG-13 for "some language, sexual humor and partying". ''17 Again'' lists similar reasons.
*** [[http://screenit.com/all_titles.html Screenit.com]] also judges whether films are family-friendly using categories like Sex/Nudity, Violence, Blood/Gore, and Suspenseful Music. They also consider an unclothed female mannequin to belong in the Sex/Nudity section.
*** Their rating of ''Film/StarTrek'' had the last entry under imitative behavior, including swearing and driving a car over a cliff, as:
--->"Some kids might imitate the Vulcan hand gesture of spreading apart the two adjacent fingers on each side of the hand."
*** Tim Burton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' could give it a run for its money. Its official MPAA rating is PG, for "fantasy action and violence including scary images and situations and a smoking caterpillar." Well, alright then. They might get in even more of an uproar if they knew what he was smoking. Give you a hint: [[spoiler: It's not tobacco.]]
* In ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', Hedley Lamarr gives out a long list of evil people that he wants to recruit as {{mook}}s, topping it off with a triumphant, "...and ''Methodists!''". There's no given reason why Methodists are lumped in with such villains. This coincides with a later line where the people of Rock Ridge announce they will accept "the niggers and the chinks, but we ''don't want the Irish!''" pointing out archaic prejudices against seemingly generic groups.
* ''Film/{{Dogma}}''
** Rufus the 13th Apostle is talking to Bethany about Jesus Christ, and lists off some of the things being done in his name that he doesn't like. "Wars! Bigotry! Televangelism!"
** Loki kills a bunch of board members for (among other things) adultery, disowning a gay son, incest, and he tried to kill one woman for not saying "God Bless You" when he sneezed, and he almost shoots her before Bartleby pulls him away.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** ''Film/GoldenEye'' has this funny little exchange:
--->'''Q:''' Need I remind you, 007, that you have a license to kill, not to break traffic laws.
** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', "R" concludes his run-down of the features of Bond's car with "six beverage cup holders".
* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'': The warning of the dire consequences of their being incarcerated as Gozer prepares to manifest:
-->'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.\\
'''Mayor:''' What do you mean, "biblical"?\\
'''Dr. Ray Stantz:''' What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.\\
'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Exactly.\\
'''Dr. Ray Stantz:''' Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!\\
'''Dr. Egon Spengler:''' Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...\\
'''Winston Zeddemore:''' The dead rising from the grave!\\
'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
* In the Spice Girls' movie ''Film/SpiceWorld'', the group is about to be late for their first major live show. Their driver is nowhere to be found, so Posh Spice frantically drives their tour bus across London and jumps across Tower Bridge as it is rising to let a boat through. When they arrive at the venue, they are confronted by a policeman who wants to arrest them for "dangerous driving, criminal damage, flying a bus without a license ... and frightening the pigeons!"
* Played with in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. As far as [[EvilOverlord he]] is concerned, these offenses are in the proper order:
-->'''Thulsa Doom:''' You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief!\\
(''cut to [[TheBrute Thorgrim]], who is making a {{narm}}y little frown'')
::Conan replies in kind.
-->'''Conan:''' You killed my mother! {{You killed my father}}, [[DoomedHometown you killed my people]]! You TOOK MY [[AncestralWeapon FATHER'S SWORD!!]]."
* From ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'':
-->'''Emily Cratchit:''' I suppose that on the blessed day of Christmas one must drink to the health of Mr Scrooge. Even though he is odious...\\
'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\\
'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and stingy...\\
'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\\
'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and wicked...\\
'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\\
'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and unfeeling...\\
'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!\\
'''Emily Cratchit:''' ...and ''badly dressed''...\\
(''the twins gasp in horror'')
* Inverted in ''Film/{{Clue}}'', when the guests locked up the police officer who asked to use the phone.
-->'''Cop:''' Let me outta here! Let me outta here! You have no right to shut me in! I'll book you for false arrest, and wrongful imprisonment, and obstructing an officer in the course of his duty... and ''murder!''\\
'''Wadsworth:''' (''Wadsworth opens the door, feigning innocence, while other guests gather around'') What do you mean... murder?\\
'''Cop:''' I just said it so you would open the door.
* ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'' has it when the Sleaze Brothers are pulled over while trying to escape after kidnapping Big Bird (who they realized had escaped thanks to Big Bird jumping off the truck onto Gordon and Olivia's car... [[ItMakesSenseInContext just watch the movie]]):
-->'''Sam Sleaze:''' What seems to be the problem, officer? What's the charge?\\
'''State Trooper:''' (''looks through his notebook'') What about counterfeiting, extortion, fraud, impersonating a dentist, ''stealing an apple from a kid''? (''the latter occurred earlier in the movie'')\\
'''Sam Sleaze:''' Oh, about that apple, officer, I can explain that. We was just holding it for a friend.\\
'''Sid Sleaze:''' Yeah, for a friend.\\
'''State Trooper:''' You can tell that to the judge.
* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Tuco's rap sheet goes from murder and rape down to transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes, and "contrary to the laws of this state, the accused has been found guilty of using marked cards in a poker game!"
* ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': Back then, it certainly counted as this trope, as Christmas as we now view it [[AnachronismStew didn't come to England until Victorian times]]. If the story took place in modern times, though, then it would be justified.
-->'''Sheriff of Nottingham:''' Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!
* Somewhat {{lampshaded}} in ''Film/LastActionHero'': Jack Slater, upon rescuing his daughter from thugs and escaping several attempts on his life, including the destruction of a good part of his ex-wife's house, breaks into the antagonist Mr. Benedict's mansion, and begins kicking him around, [[AndThisIsFor listing a reason for every blow he lands]], with the ''exception'' of his ex-wife's house, during which, he stands Mr. Benedict up, straightens out his suit, takes his hand, and gently slaps him on the wrist.
* ''Film/{{Clerks}}'': A mother and small child come into the video store to order "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup". Randal phones the distributors and orders a long list of increasingly disturbing porn titles, ending by turning to the mother and saying "Uh, what was that called again?"
* The opening scene of ''Film/RomancingTheStone'' comes from the romance novel that Kathleen Turner's character is writing:
-->That was the end of Grogan... the man who killed my father, raped and murdered my sister, burned my ranch, shot my dog, and stole my Bible!
* In a deleted scene of ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'', Jack Black and Kyle Gass are checking out at an army/navy supply store with a grocery cart full of items that make it increasingly apparent that they intend to do some Hollywood-style breaking and entering, including walkie-talkies, grappling hooks, smoke bombs, a pair of {{Spy Catsuit}}s, poison darts... and a bag of Funyuns. The Funyuns are actually the second-to-last item though.
* ''Film/GroundhogDay'' has a scene where Phil exploits his [[GroundhogDayLoop temporal vacuum]] to [[BigEater indulge heretofore inconceivable appetites]]. A (quite rightly) concerned Rita asks, "Don't you worry about cholesterol, lung cancer, love handles?"
* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Take the Money and Run'' uses this trope twice in the same way. At the beginning, the narrator says that Virgil is wanted for robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of a wart. Later, as Virgil assembles a gang to rob a bank, the narrator reveals what each of them has served time for. One was "bank robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, murder, and '''getting naked in front of his in-laws'''," another was just "'''dancing with a mailman'''," and the third was "arson, robbery, assault with intent to kill, and '''marrying a horse'''."
* ''Film/AmericanGangster'': Frank Lucas wants to get heroin directly from the producers, who live deep in the South Asian jungle. His cousin really doesn't want to go: "There's snakes, [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Viet Cong]], and ''mosquitoes that'll fuckin' kill yo' ass!''"
* One of the taglines for the film of ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' was [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed "Being the adventures]] of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultraviolence and Beethoven."
* ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'': [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Neal's hissy fit in Wichita]] [[JerkassHasAPoint enumerates several things]] Del has done to tick him off: dousing half the only bed in their hotel room in beer, [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking smoking]], creating a mess in the bathroom, not paying for his share of the stay ... and talking nonstop on the plane from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York]].
* ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'' was marketed as "a tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood."
* ''Film/AustinPowers'': When he learns Dr. Evil has hijacked nuclear weapons, Austin says that only two things scare him, and one is nuclear war. When asked what his second fear was, he says "carnies."
* Used and toyed with in ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'' when the family comes to Debbie's house to visit Fester:
-->'''Morticia:''' You have gone too far. You have married Fester. You have destroyed his spirit. You have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But Debbie?\\
'''Debbie:''' What?\\
'''Morticia:''' (''reproachfully, eying the decor'') Pastels?
* This shows up in ''[[http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/whos_the_woman_whos_the_man.htm Who's the Woman, Who's the Man]]'' in the form of a tirade directed by Fish against a woman whom O, the lesbian he has a crush on, is flirting with:
-->'''Fish:''' If you go with a lesbian, you'll break your parents' hearts, and your grandparents'; your friends will look down on you, relatives will avoid you, society will give up on you, you can't have children... and you won't be able to find a seat on the subway!
* One of the taglines for the movie ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'' was;
-->"A burglar, a spy, a fugitive, a delinquent, a hacker, and a ''piano teacher''... and these are the good guys."
* In the 2008 version of ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', the PowerTrio encounters a volcanic pipe filled with minerals.[[note]]Slightly adverted in that feldspar is used in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldspar#Production_and_uses many products]], so a source of it would be enriching.[[/note]]
--> '''Sean:''' Rubies!\\
'''Hannah:''' Emeralds!\\
'''Trevor:''' Feldspar!
* In the Disney Channel movie ''Minutemen'', several government officials run in flashing badges and screaming the name of their respective organizations. "FBI!" "CIA!" "Bureau of Weights and Measures." They tell the last guy that he should go in first next time.
* In ''Film/NationalTreasure'', the film's antagonist is arrested on the charges of "kidnapping, attempted murder, and trespassing on government property."
* In ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'', the eponymous pirate has committed a long list of [[FelonyMisdemeanor heinous]] [[ListOfTransgressions crimes]], but he was finally convicted for tax evasion. This is almost certainly a reference to Al Capone.
* In ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', arrested [[spoiler: Sam Lowry]] is presented with a long and painstakingly accurate [[ListOfTransgressions list of his transgressions]], from high treason to overexpenditure of stationery. Because he lives in a dystopia of bureaucracy gone mad, it's actually played for drama.
* The ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' movie has the line "Toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering." OneOfTheseThingsIsNotLikeTheOthers.
* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie''
** Segment "United Appeal for the Dead".
--->'''Henry Gibson:''' ...everyone can acquaint himself with the three early warning signs of death: one, rigor mortis; two, a rotting smell; three, occasional drowsiness.
** Segment "A Fistful of Yen"
--->'''Pennington:''' Klahn has been connected with every sort of nefarious activity. You name it: opium, weapons traffic, assassination, motion picture distribution...
* Near the end of W. C. Fields' ''Film/TheGolfSpecialist'', we briefly see J. Effingham Bellweather's wanted poster which includes such things as manslaughter and homicide. The next shot is a ten-second pan down a list of his other offenses:
-->Bigamy,\\
Passing as the Prince of Wales,\\
Eating spaghetti in public,\\
Using hard words in a speakeasy,\\
Trumping partner's ace,\\
Spitting in the Gulf Stream,\\
Jumping board bill in seventeen lunatic asylums,\\
Failure to pay installments on a strait-jacket,\\
Possessing a skunk,\\
Revealing the facts of life to an Indian.
* The {{tagline}} on posters for ''Film/FightClub'' was "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap." [[spoiler:This, however, is a subversion: the soap is made out of discarded fat from liposuctions]].
* ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'': The Architect is discussing with Cindy the evil of his daughter Tabitha. "We loved our daughter but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. Hid the remote. Really sick shit."
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'': "Burglary, arson... and sexual assault with a concrete dildo?!" (In the Italian dub, it's: "Burglary, arson... and sexual harassment to a concrete statue?!") Normally this wouldn't be a jaywalking type example, but the previous scene made it obvious that Drebin had no intention of committing rape and was merely MistakenForPervert by a complicated series of hijinks.
* The tagline for ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'': "Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas."
* In ''Film/{{Fathom}}'', Ms. Harvill describes her problems as: "Treason, arson, murder and a parking ticket."
* ''Film/SuddenImpact''. Film/DirtyHarry delivers a long monologue about all the rotten things he sees as a homicide cop (babies abandoned in dumpsters, etc.) but says the thing that really gets to him, that really makes him sick to his stomach, is the fact that his partner puts ketchup on his hot dog!
* In the opening scene of ''Film/RawDeal'' Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger is seen chasing an apparent motorcycle cop, who turns out to be a crook dressed up as one so he can shake down speeders. The man claims to be on his way to a fancy dress party and merely stopping the motorist to ask for directions. Arnie charges him with extortion, resisting arrest, reckless driving, impersonating a police officer, and lying to the sheriff.
* Kent in ''Film/HotShots'' doesn't trust Topper because his father bailed on Kent during flight. Yet offhandedly forgives the other members of the team who were more involved in his death, including one who ate him for dinner after he was mistaken for game and shot.
* From ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'':
-->"Gangsters have [[FelonyMIsdemeanor stolen my secret recipe for egg salad]]. And not only that, they kill, they maim, and they call Information for numbers they could easily look up in the phone book."
* In ''How High'', the black supremacist Reparation Technical Institute offers students a wide variety of courses, such as Hatred Towards the White Devil, ADVANCED Hatred Towards the White Devil, and Volleyball.
* ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' has one which doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny:
-->'''Albert:''' Fuck. FUCK! Fuck, fuck, fuck AND FUCK! Fuck, fuck AND BUGGER! Bugger, bugger, BUGGERTY BUGGERTY BUGGERTY, fuck, fuck, ARSE! Balls, balls, FUCKITY, shit, shit, FUCK AND WILLY. WILLY, SHIT AND FUCK AND... tits.
* In ''Film/TheNewGuy'', Dizzy tries to get himself expelled from school to go to a new one. His first attempt is to reveal his teacher is wearing a toupee, yell the answers to the test out loud and bribery. The school therapist responds by giving him more medication. His second attempt is to film the school's principal going to the bathroom. That does not work either. Finally, Dizzy remembers what Luther the inmate told him. Dizzy then gets ready to break the mop and use it against the principal. As soon as he breaks it, however, the principal turns around and expels him for destroying school property.
* ''Film/UndercoverBrother''. Smart Brother's description of his interrogation of White She-Devil. He starts by analyzing her brainwaves, then unlocks her subconscious with hypnosis, gently brushes her hair, and finally finds the information on a list in her pockets.
* ''Film/TradingPlaces'':
** Winthorpe's descent into criminality is summarized as: "pilfering in our club, embezzling funds, selling drugs, and now he's dressing up like Santa Claus."
** Also, when Valentine gets Winthorp's job, exiles him from his house, and basically takes over his life, Winthorpe seems most upset by Valentine wearing Winthorpe's Harvard tie.
* In ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', Sean is planning on traveling.
-->'''Jerald:''' Where will you go?\\
'''Sean:''' India, China... and Baltimore.
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', after meeting the Cerberine Fluffy while wandering after curfew, Hermione chastises Harry and Ron, saying, "We could have been killed... or worse, EXPELLED!" Ron mentions that Hermione needs to get her priorities straight.
* In ''[=CB4=]'', politician Virgil Robinson says of the titular rap group "Their record of incitement, lewdness, and poor grammar will see them jailed, banned, and- and- and with their feelings hurt".
* ''Film/MenInBlack'':
** Agents Jay and Kay are accosting an alien pawnbroker/armsdealer about dealing illegal alien weapons and tech, and some stolen Rolexes.
-->'''Kay:''' All right... That's confiscated. All of it. And I want you on the next transport off this rock or I'm gonna shoot you where it don't grow back.\\
'''Jay:''' Yeah and... and... and I'm gonna be back to talk about them Rolexes.
** Later, when Zed is listing off the professions of the candidates: "Marines, Navy SEALS, Army Rangers... NYPD."
* Dr. Pax from the Danish film ''Film/OperationLovebirds'' only has three interests in life: money, power and pigeons.
* A composite quote from the ''Film/InspectorGadget'' trailer and the film proper: "Robo-Gadget apparently has gone berserk in the downtown Riverton area. Reports indicate that he's already caused a major traffic accident, destroyed private property... and set fire to an elderly man's beard." (Cue the EvilLaugh from Robo-Gadget.)
* In ''Film/NapoleonDynamite'', Napoleon angrily orders Uncle Rico to get out of their house because, "You've been ruining all our lives and eating all our steak!"
* After giving Derek a long list of what he's supposed to do as an assassin in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'', Mugatu adds: "Obey my dog!"
* ''Film/TankGirl''.
-->'''Tank Girl:''' The Rippers are a demonic army of bloodthirsty, human-eating, purse-snatchin', mutant creatures.
* The ''Film/ReeferMadness'' movie musical has this trope at the start of the song "Mary Jane/Mary Lane".
-->''There's blood on my hands\\
And mud on my name\\
My Id threw a party and everyone came\\
My innocence ravaged\\
My virtue devoured\\
I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!''
* A wordless example from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', when Gordon observes of the Joker that there was "nothing in his pockets but knives and lint", we see a cop laying out various sizes and shapes of knife on a table. The last is a potato peeler, emphasised by a perfect piece of silent comedy as the handler does a brief double-take. Could also double as FridgeHorror.
* In ''Film/DumbAndDumber'':
-->'''Lloyd:''' We've got no food! We've got no jobs! [[ItMakesSenseInContext Our pet's heads are falling off!]]
* In ''Film/HocusPocus'': As they prepare for battle against the witches, Max and his girlfriend Allison go to get a container of salt. They look at the label on the container and Allison reads that salt protects against "zombies, witches and old boyfriends." (To which Max quips, "What about new boyfriends?")
* In ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'', after his partner's been stabbed, Popeye Doyle wants to run the suspect in for that, for drug possession, "and for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!"
* In ''Film/{{Hugo}}'', Hugo's crimes are listed as: "Trespass, theft, pilfering, littering... [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped mmmmlering]]... walking about... playing..."
* ''Film/MouthToMouth'' as summarized by the crew: ''"How Sherry loses her virginity, her illusions and her lip ring in one trippy road trip across Europe."''
* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', during Pilate's address in Jerusalem, the people were mocking his [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome speech impediment]]. When he questioned one of the fake prisoners they requested to be set free:
-->"He's a wobber!"\\
"And a wapist!"\\
"[[ComicallyMissingThePoint And a pickpocket]]!" (''the one saying it being shouted down'')
* In ''Film/MacGruber'', Piper gives a long and detailed list of the title hero's accomplishments, noting his distinguished military service and the astonishing number of medals he has been awarded, and ends it with "...and starting Tight End for the University of Texas-El Paso." That must've been some team.
* A classic from ''Film/{{Moonstruck}}'':
-->I took the name of the Lord in vain, I slept with the brother of my fiancee, and I bounced a check at the liquor store.
* In ''Film/{{Mirrormask}}'', a trio of {{Mooks}} ask the Dark Queen what they should do with their new prisoner:
-->'''Mook 1:''' Shall we lock her up?\\
'''Mook 2:''' Extort a confession?\\
'''Mook 3:''' ''Deny her ice cream?''
* In ''Film/BurkeAndHare'', a woman is executed for "Prostitution, Thievery, Public Drunkeness and a Bad Attitude."
* ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the Penguin was furious that he failed to kill Batman when he rigged his car.
-->'''Penguin:''' He didn't even lose a limb! An eye ball! Bladder control!
* In ''Film/BadBoys'', a convenience store clerk mistakes Detectives Burnett and Lowrey for robbers and holds them at gunpoint. When they turn the tables on the clerk and draw their own guns, they say the following:
-->'''Mike Lowrey:''' Now back up, put the gun down, and get me a pack of Tropical Fruit Bubblicious.\\
'''Marcus Burnett:''' And some Skittles!
* ''Film/ZorroTheGayBlade'' features the hero reading his late father's request to take up his mission, with "this sword, with which to fight injustice; this mask, with which to deceive tyranny; and this hat, which needs reblocking".
* Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/{{Rope}}'':
-->'''Janet:''' Well, now, you don't really approve of murder, Rupert? If I may?\\
'''Rupert:''' You may... and I do. Think of the problems it would solve: unemployment, poverty, standing in line for theatre tickets...
* ''Film/TheNewGuy'' has Principal Undine confront the protagonist with the consequences of his showboating at the football field:
-->'''Principal Undine:''' It's a bill for manure clean-up, resodding the football field, and to top it all off ''somebody'' urinated all over Mrs Campanella's rose garden!
* The head of the ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' states that the dead remaining on Earth are the cause of "global warming, the Black Plague, and bad cellphone reception."
* The ''42nd Street Forever'' ExploitationFilm trailer compilation [=DVD=]s are prone to this due to featuring trailers from all kinds of movies. ''42nd Street Forever Volume 2: The Deuce'' includes trailers for ''Film/{{The Texas Chainsaw Massacre|1974}}'', ''Film/{{Ms 45}}'' and...''[=Skatetown=] USA'', a roller disco movie with Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Ruth Buzzi, "And Introducing Creator/PatrickSwayze."
* ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' has one with just two items after Prof Hilbert tells Harold that he should accept that he will die soon and he should do what he wants in the meantime, like eat nothing but pancakes:
-->'''Harold:''' I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?\\
'''Professor Hilbert:''' Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.
* Dramatic example from ''Film/TheIdesOfMarch''. To a man who will likely soon be running for president: "You can lie, you can cheat, you can start a war, you can bankrupt the country, but you can't [[spoiler:fuck the interns]]."
* In ''Film/TheAsphaltJungle'', Commissioner Hardy is dissatisfied with one of his officer's performance on duty and has three options for him: Reduce him to patrolman, bring him up for trial on charges of incompetence or ... give him one more chance to make good on his responsibilities.
* ''Film/MorningGlory'' plays this straight when star reporter Mike Pomeroy enters the set and declares: "I've won eight Peabodies, a Pulitzer, sixteen Emmys, I was shot through the forearm in Bosnia, pulled Colin Powell from a burning jeep, laid a cool washcloth on Mother Teresa's forehead during a cholera epidemic, had lunch with Dick Cheney." Becky takes him down a peg by responding "You're here for the money."
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'':
** Katniss has conditions for agreeing to be the mockingjay. They are as such: Peeta, Johanna, and Annie will be rescued at the earliest opportunity; they will receive full pardons for any crimes they have been forced to commit by the Capitol, and Primrose gets to keep her cat.
** Creator/JoshHutcherson sums up his character Peeta's trials and tribulations as such:
--->'''Hutcherson:''' I've been captured. The Capitol has me. And I'm being tortured. And I'm blonde.
* Film/RunawayBride: Ike holds Maggie responsible for his life going downhill. He lost his job, his reputation was ruined, and her friends messed up his hair!
* Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark:
-->'''Sarah:''' (''to Ian'') I've worked around predators since I was 20 years old. Lions, jackals, hyenas... you.
* In the 1976 version of ''Film/TheBadNewsBears'', Tanner drops this gem when Amanda joins the team:
-->'''Tanner:''' Jews, spics, niggers, and now a ''girl''?
* A running gag in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', during the stateroom scene:
-->'''Otis:''' Now, some roast beef, I'll have rare, medium, well done and overdone...\\
'''Fiorello:''' And two hard-boiled eggs.\\
'''Otis:''' And two hard-boiled eggs. (''Tomasso honks his horn'') Make that three hard-boiled eggs. And I'll have eight pieces of French pastry.\\
'''Fiorello:''' And two hard-boiled eggs.\\
'''Otis:''' And two hard-boiled eggs. (''Tomasso honks his horn'') Make that three hard-boiled eggs. (''honk'') And one duck egg.
* ''Film/SurLaPisteDuMarsupilami'' has this prophecy of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
-->'''Payan Queen:''' The world will fall into chaos. The birds will sing wrong. The jaguar will be eaten by the rabbit. The tree will cut the lumberjack. And everything will taste like passion fruit.
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