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** And it's not the first time The Eleventh Doctor did that. in Season 5, near the end, [[Spoiler: When the doctor finds out that he had survived the "Big Bang two"]] he quickly verifies if he is OK, going through his life priority list, of course. "Legs, yes. Bow tie, cool. *Touches hair* ...I can buy a fez". Although two of the items are silly, we'd already expect the bow tie, so the fez makes pretty much the same effect.

* Inverted once in an episode of Monk. Randy and Captian Stottlemeyer are discussing why this guy cannot be a suspect and Randy names off two less important reasons (both would remove any motive for the suspect to kill the victim), before saying "Number 3, he's dead." The really funny thing about that is, he starts continuing to list them even after that one, but Stottelmeyer stops him.
** In his defence, it wouldn't be the first time Monk had solved a case with a man believed to be dead.

* During an episode of the first season of the original ''{{Get Smart}}'' series, a variation occurs between Max and a KAOS agent. Max: "Harvey Satan? Wasn't he convicted of arson, insurrection, treason and mass murder?" KAOS agent: "He got time off for good behavior."

-->In season six's ''The French Mistake'', Sam and Dean are being chewed out by executive producer Bob Singer: "You can't come to work on poppers and smuggle kidneys in from Mexico and make up your own lines as you go! You cannot make up your own lines! Good god, what about your careers?"

* When the character Q appeared on ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', he bemoaned the fact that Earth had been much more "interesting" in the past. "Crusades...Inquisitions...Watergate..."
* Q appears again in a variation of this from the last episode of StarTrekTheNextGeneration.

* Rasmussen, a time-travelling historian from the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "A Matter of Time", chatted with Geordi about his visor:

* During a holodeck-related episode of ''StarTrekVoyager'', light-based aliens assume the Flash-Gordon-esque "Captain Proton" game is real and declare war on the fictional villain. The Doctor, acting as the President, has to get them to trust Paris / Proton and rattles off a list of his character's heroic accomplishments, ending with "and a competent medic, but don't tell him I said so."

* During an episode of the first season of the original {{Get Smart}} series, a variation occurs between Max and a KAOS agent. Max: "Harvey Satan? Wasn't he convicted of arson, insurrection, treason and mass murder?" KAOS agent: "He got time off for good behavior."
* ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'': Principal Snyder states that there are things he won't tolerate in his school - students on the grounds after dark; horrible murders with hearts ripped out; and also smoking.

* {{iCarly}}: "Made of a super-soft, thick luxurious fabric of some sort, the Sack comes in: rash red, mucus green, pus yellow and blue."
* Smartly subverted (sort of) by Only Fools and Horses. While on holiday in Spain, Del and Rodney get a call from Grandad that he has been arrested. They visit him in his cell and he tells them that during the Spanish Civil War he was a mercenary who used to smuggle guns for both sides (or in his words 'the ones that paid us the most'). He believes that they are going to put him on trial for these past crimes so Del bribes the guard to turn a blind eye and let them walk out. After taking Del's money, the guard tells Del that the charges have been dropped and Grandad is free to go. Flabbergasted, Del points out Grandad's past to which the guard replies that Grandad was actually arrested for... jaywalking.
* During the fifth season of ''{{Angel}}'' ("Underneath"), Illyria recounts all the different worlds she walked through when she was Demon King: she saw worlds of pain and destruction, worlds full of opulent beauty, "...and one world filled with nothing but shrimp. I tired of that one quickly." (This is actually a reference to the many times Anya talked about alternate worlds in ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', and kept bringing up worlds without shrimp and worlds filled with shrimp.)

*** This becomes the subject of a BrickJoke in a later episode where, after having her power level significantly dropped, she muses to herself, while stroking an office plant, "I can no longer hear the song of the green." (Lorne's pretty sure she's not talking about him.)
**** And is revisited in the Season 8 comics, where the power actually helps her.

* {{Chuck}}:

* During the opening sequence of ''TheColbertReport'', a list of words describing Colbert fly past him ("Courageous", "Exceptional", "Relentless", etc.) but always ends with something like "Grippy", "Lincolnish", "Megamerican", "Purple-Mounted" or "Factose-Intolerant". They even threw in a whole sentence for a while: "President Bush Have A Hotdog With Me". Debuting with the new opening credits animation, his most recent is "Applepious".

** Both ''TheColbertReport'' and ''TheDailyShow'' use this trope in their introduction scenes to news segments, showing two or more examples of something serious, then something completely not serious. For example, on Colbert's theoretical doomsday scenario, the intro shows hurricanes, terrorists, atomic bombs and gay couples.

* ''BlackBooks'' does this depending which way you look at it:

* On ''{{Friends}}'' Ross has asked Rachel to make a list of things that she doesn't like about him (it's a long story). While she's initially reticent, he finally ticks her off enough:

* From 'Back to Reality' in season 5 of ''RedDwarf''.

* During an episode of {{Roseanne}}'s final season, Bev rants about how her ex-husbsand was rude to her children, cheated on her, had horrible table manners...''and made her drive an old car with bald tires! The bastard!''

* {{Scrub}}s

* In ''{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'', Blackadder, after sleeping with someone he suspects of being a spy, asks her whether her boyfriend had been to one of the great universities: Oxford, Cambridge or Hull. (Later, when he points out that "you failed to spot that only two of those are great universities", Melchett remarks: "That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!")

* The CharlieBrooker series {{Screenwipe}} did an AcceptableTargets version of this when reading off people who "will be punished" when Charlie takes over:

* In a ''SavedByTheBell'' episode when Slater's girlfriend Jessie discovers he is asking for an old girlfriend's number.

* When the {{Mythbusters}} were testing a myth that a refrigerator could stop bullets and it fails, it's stated that the ballistics gel is riddled with bullets, plastic, and glass...and mustard.

* CriminalMinds:

* They semed almost to REFERENCE this trope in ''Suburgatory'' when Tessa, hearing police sirens, wonders if the crime is "Arson? Murder?" but is disappointed when she finds out some dolls were stolen.

* ''{{Community}}'', "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps": In Shirley's story, the devil arrives and announces the schedule of tortures: "At 10, you'll be buried neck-deep in scorpions, at 11:15, lava enemas, followed by Pilates!" Quickly subverted when the devil adds, "Pilates is a demon that eats your genitals."

* Season 2 of ''{{TheX-Files}}'' has an episode entitled "Humbug," about a series of grisly murders in a community of retired and off-season circus sideshow performers.

* ''{{Supernatural}}'': In the Season 5 TV-parody episode "Changing Channels," the commercial for the fictional genital herpes medication, Herpexia, lists the drug's side effects as follows (as recited by Dean):

* In the ''{{Law and Order}}'' episode "Turnstile Justice," Lt. Van Buren orders the detectives to arrest two young girls who have been caught on a store surveillance video buying clothes with a credit card stolen from a murder victim. She tells them to add a charge of "felony bad taste" because the girls are wearing white after Labor Day.

* At the end of an episode of ''Saved By the Bell: The College Years'' when asked if she cheated on a test, Alex cracks and wails "I cheated! I cheated and I lied. I cheated and I lied and I left the cap off the toothpaste! I'm a horrible person".
* In a ''Saved by the Bell'' episode when Slater's girlfriend Jessie discovers he is asking for an old girlfriend's number.

* A ''Saturday Night Live'' episode hosted by Rob Lowe (from the first episode of the 2000-2001 season [season 26]) inverted this in a news report regarding a lawsuit being filed against the Scooby Doo gang (Lowe played Shaggy and voiced the creepy Scooby Doo puppet used in the sketch, who advocated the "Reath Renalty" for numerous criminals). The attorney representing the plaintiffs noted that the gang had been repeatedly charged with numerous criminal acts, all of which were variants on "meddling". And then he got to the final charge, "sodomy". (He then noted that he was mistaken, and that the actual final charge was "meddling".)

* When Lane Pryce is fired in "Mad Men":

* In ''{{The Big Bang Theory}}'' episode "The Apology Insufficiency", Sheldon accidentally mentions Howard's crashing the Mars Rover - inside a rambling list of complaints - to an FBI agent who is investigating Howard's background for a security clearance, making it more of a "Jaywalking, Murder and Shoplifting" moment. For a moment, it seems as though the agent was not even listening anymore... but she was.

* In a first season episode of ''Stargate: Atlantis'', Rodney is about to receive gene therapy, prompting the following exchange with Dr. Beckett:

* Lampshaded in ''{{Torchwood}}'' when Jack discusses the rehabs that his old partner John Hart had to attend. To the audience, ending with "murder" as the last rehab sounds fairly serious, but apparently it's a joke to the two Time Agents. Just goes to show that a little perspective goes a long ways.

** Mekhi Phifer's character Rex in ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' gives us this: "I had a pole through my chest, I was dead, then I wasn't. And then I had to pay for this bridge."

'''Clarkson:''' You're frightened of insects?
'''Hammond:''' Yeah, it's like you ''<points at James>'' and heights; you're scared of falling off! It's a phobia.
'''James:''' ''<looks at Jeremy>'' So what's yours?
'''Clarkson:''' Phobia? Manual labour, you know that.

* In an episode of ''{{Castle}}'', a reality show star discovers that her dog has been bugged, and someone's been watching her more than she thought. Quoth she, "Oh my ''god''. He could have seen me in the shower, he could have seen me and Ritchie in bed together... ({{Beat}}) He could have seen me without my makeup."

* Season 2 of ''{{TheX-Files}}'' has an episode entitled "Humbug," about a series of grizzly murders in a community of retired and off-season circus sideshow performers.

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-->'''Dr Blockhead''': He eats anything: Live animals, dead animals, rocks, light bulbs, corkscrews, battery cables, cranberries . . .

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* In the StargateUniverse episode Hope, when looking at possible consequences of transplants using Ancient technology, one of the characters lists off, "...infection, high blood pressure, erectile dysfunc... tion..." Cue uncontrollable laughter.

* They semed almost to REFERENCE this trope in ''Suburgatory'' when Tessa, hearing police sirens, wonders if the crime is "Arson? Murder?" but is disappointed when she hears "Dolls!"

* In the HalloweenEpisode of ''AccordingToJim'', Jim's three children (Ruby, Gracie, and Kyle) pick up their own Halloween costumes. Ruby goes as a cowgirl, Gracie is Lady Liberty, and Kyle dresses as... Cinderella.

*** Given that part of her demon powers seems to have included altering the universe so that the persona she'd assumed had always been part of it (no one questions her presence as a student, and she is able to do things that would require a social security number, driver's license, birth certificate, etc.), and considering that the alias she gets stuck in was one designed to move in Sunnydale High's [[TheLibby Libby]] clique, it's possible that she's failing math not because she herself is bad at it, but because it's something the person she was pretending to be would fail.