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* ''Series/WhoIsAmerica'': Erran Morad (Creator/SachaBaronCohen) dupes Dick Cheney into signing a "waterboarding kit" that had previously been signed by the likes of Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Music/DemiLovato.

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* A number of shows have used this joke where someone will list the crimes and/or atrocities they've committed, and the last one is (to this extent) retransmitting a televised sporting event without expressed written consent of the sports league (opting instead for implied oral consent) — a TakeThat on the warning ''every single'' major sports league gives during their game broadcast.

** Coulson wondering what was in "The World's Most Conspicuous Briefcase" - "Could be anything: nuclear launch codes, hush money, girl scout cookies..."

** There's also a dialogue early in season 2 that features this trope:

** Early in season 3, Principal Snyder's reasons for not letting Buffy back into Sunnydale High are her poor grades, spotty attendance record, and, above all else, "tingling pleasure" that he didn't have to put up with her anymore.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': From "Veritas," the season 6 opener:

** Doug tries to console Mark over his ex-wife's remarriage by admitting that he never liked her and listing all of her negative traits — "demanding, unsupportive, hypercritical, skinny legs ..." This backfires slightly as Mark mock-angrily demands to know "what are you doing looking at my wife's legs?"

** Every night in The Bad Place is "classic torture - flying piranhas, lava monsters, college improv. And there was always jazz music playing."

** In Season One's Halloween episode, Ted wants to reunite with a girl he hasn't seen in four years. Barney warns him, saying, "She could be engaged, or married, or- God forbid- fat."

** When Barney was planning his revenge on Marshall in season 6; the board he was working on listed four options: "Poison, cut brakes, frame for treason, and... crank call really late at night."

* ''Series/TheIncreasinglyPoorDecisionsOfToddMargaret'': Features this approximately OnceAnEpisode - the intro for each episode shows the title character in a courtroom, where the judge recites a different snippet each week from the ''many'' crimes Margaret is being accused of. For instance, in one episode, the charges include "Insurance fraud, breaking and entering, espionage, forgery, embezzlement, perjury, bribery, rubber checking, unnecessary public nudity", and in another, "antisocial behaviour, disruption of national solemnity, money laundering, lewd sexist behaviour, failure to pay for a cranberry juice".

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'': In season 2, episode 3, the eponymous character comments on the state of the body of a murder victim:

** Season 3 episode 10 Lucifer and Maze are discussing the torture of their captive.

--->'''Lucifer:''' (S4 E3) Normally I'd go straight to punishment - fire, brimstone, public humiliation via [=YouTube=].

* In the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "Out of Gas", the Korean BlackMarket crooks double cross Major Winchester and Father Mulcahy, rob them of their goods (including the wine and gourmet food Winchester donated), their jeep, Winchester's uniform and coat - humiliating him by making him leave with the Chaplin in his long underwear - refuse to turn over the much-needed pentothal they came for, ''and'', ticking off Winchester further, they drink the red wine with stuffed caprons!

** Played straight in the season three episode "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", when Natalie lists the consequences of Monk not staying in the car like she told him to: she, Monk and Captain Stottlemeyer are under WitnessProtection and stuck in a little woodland cabin with Agent Grooms in the middle of nowhere; Natalie's daughter Julie has to stay with Natalie's parents and miss a whole week of school; drug lord Tommy Winn has a price on Monk's head, and... Monk broke someone's car radio antenna trying to straighten it out.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the final episode of season 10, "Danger: Diabolk", part of the "To Earth" song has Crow singing about some of the dreadful things on Earth.

-->'''Gus:''' Some people are just born evil--the kid from ''The Omen'', ''[[Creator/StephenKing The Children of the Corn]]'', Creator/ChadMichaelMurray.

** And from Season 4, episode 12, when Shawn confronts the killer he lists the following:

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': From "Back to Reality" in season 5:

** One 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".)

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2efM6qFDHwQ "You're a traitor from a race of traitors, disloyal to the core, rotten like the rest of your subhuman race - and you've got the GALL to make love to that girl!"]]

* ''Series/StrictlyComeDancing'': When Bruce Forsyth introduces the four judges, complete with witty descriptions, he usually finishes with Craig Revel-Horwood (known for being the nastiest of the judges) and insults him - recently describing him as "a bitter lemon".

** In season six's [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E15TheFrenchMistake "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?"

-->'''[[UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics Julia]]''':Whether the final blow comes from [[ZombieApocalypse flesh-eating zombies]], [[HellOnEarth demonic hell-beasts]] or from the total triumph of [[Main/KoreanPopMusic K-Pop]], if you know one thing about me it is this - I will always fight for you to the very end.

* In the season two finale of ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'', The siblings watch the news and find the police are looking for them. Vanya is wanted for the deaths of some FBI agents, Diego is believed to be a Cuban exile and is sought for escaping a sanitarium, Luther is wanted for his mafia ties and is incorrectly referred to as 'King Kong', Allison is accused of being a 'negro radical' responsible for a riot, and Klaus is a tax evader. Five is not wanted for any crimes, but the police believe he is a child being held hostage by the aforementioned 'terrorists'.

'''C.J.''': Danny, I just gotta tell you, that was - seriously - that was a turn-on when you said that, though I don't know why you decided to be your most haughty on the Dallas Morning News in that sentence.

* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': Agent Kramer tries to pull a literal version of this trope in the season three finale:

** Also: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy [[SubvertedTrope and with a fried egg on top and spam]].

* ''Series/{{CNNNN}}'': The first episode, aired early in ''UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror'', has a poll asking viewers to tell them which country needs to be attacked . The "Evil Top 5" consists of UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, UsefulNotes/NorthKorea, UsefulNotes/{{Iran}}, UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}, and UsefulNotes/SaintKittsAndNevis.

** The TV series features a classic example in the form of ListOfTransgressions in the episode ''The Joke’s on Catwoman, part 2''. At Joker and Catwoman’s court trial Batman lists their crimes as: “Robbery, attempted murder, assault and battery, mayhem, and overtime parking.”

* The ''Series/HorribleHistories''' "Words we get from the Vikings" skit: "Scare!", "Anger!", "Berserk!", "Die!", "Cake!".

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'', E20/S14, ''"Consumed":

* Jim Brass on the original ''Series/{{CSI}}'' gets one too, listing the charges and ending his arrest statement to the dirty undersheriff who killed Warrick with "...And violating seven articles of scumbag."

* ''Series/TheBarbarianAndTheTroll''

* In the first episode of ''Series/TheBarbarianAndTheTroll'', when prodded by Kyle at the Queen's Goiter, Brendar laments that she was kicked out of the Royal Order, lost her favorite sword, had to fight a band of goblins for a new one, hasn't slept in four nights, and doesn't like a lot of sauces.

* In an ''Series/AllThat'' ColdOpen, the various cast members had ordered food from somewhere called Rogan's, who royally screwed their orders, including spaghetti with golf balls and a human foot. Kenan complained, even though the only change to his order was getting Brown Mustard instead of yellow mustard

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBarbarianAndTheTroll'', when prodded by Kyle at the Queen's Goiter, Brendar laments that she was kicked out of the Royal Order, lost her favorite sword, had to fight a band of goblins for a new one, hasn't slept in four nights, and doesn't like a lot of sauces.

** Season 1's episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E09Home "Home"]] had three problems in Jenny's house the Wicnhesters used to live: flickering lights, scratching on the walls and [[spoiler:a ''backed up sink'']].

** 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 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?"

* In ''Series/{{Jessie}}'', after giving a speech about how toys are important and should be treated with care and not just to sell for money, Jessie tells the bad things Simon Sneed did to her childhood doll, Mary: he traded her doll for a cheap movie which is already out of poop and lied about its real value. And Ravi adds that he didn't provide a seat for it, which even the crowd thinks sounds silly.

--->Mitre: You are all invited to (Joseph's) house for dinner.
--->Judah: Is it about the silver we found in our sacks?
--->Dan: He must want to punish us! He'll take us as slaves and keep our donkeys!

* A Brazilian version of the Biblical version of Joseph fell into this at one point, on the brothers' second trip to Eygpt.

** Late in another Season 4 episode "The Kiss", Maria suggests that Rachel should get back together with [[YourCheatingHeart Ryan after he kissed Mary-Beth]], but not before making him pay:

** The heroes of the ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' get together for [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry Allen and Iris West's]] WeddingDay. The special guests arrive in the same place at the same time: the time-travelling [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow Legends]] on their CoolShip the ''Waverider'', ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' and her sister (from [[AlternateUniverse another Earth]]) through a breach/portal, and the [[Series/{{Arrow}} Mayor of Star City]] and Felicity Smoak by motorcycle.

** In one episode, two DJ's try to make a career out of [[BreakTheHaughty publicly humiliating]] Frasier. He refuses to sink to their level and will only counter them by quoting famous authors. After all the ridicule, one of them manages to hit his BerserkButton by [[FelonyMisdemeanor correcting his pronunciation of]] "Creator/LaRochefoucauld."