History Main / AmusinglyShortList

'''Al''': That'd definitely true. Let's just quickly revisit the list of all the women who've ever written ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' out of the Brevoort office.\\

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* In one of the ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' comics, Bender says that all he needs is "[[HookersAndBlow booze and floozies]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', the secret "bean club" devoted to looking for magic beans has only one rule, not to talk about it, which is [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment stated twice]].

* In ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'', after Blackadder comments that being Lord Executioner is itself a death sentence, Melchett says he has a list of candidates. He announces "Candidates for the position of Lord High Executioner", unrolls a scroll, says "Lord Blackadder", and then rolls the scroll up again.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the title characters have a game called "Calvinball" (which [[{{Calvinball}} named a trope]]) that only has two permanent rules: you can't play the same way twice, and everyone has to wear a mask.

[[caption-width-right:161:He has a point, [[UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi Musashi]]. How do you [[EpicFail forget your sword to a swordfight]]?]]

* ''Series/RedDwarf'', "Nanarchy": Dave Lister deals with [[AnArmAndALeg a loss of his arm]] and Kryten and Kochanski try to comfort him, saying that there are ''countless'' people who have lost an arm, and then gone on to lead a perfectly normal life. Thousands. More than thousands. Millions. They have trouble naming them, but the gang collaboratively manage to find five. Five could be a decently long list, but considering the names... You be the judge of that: Lord Nelson, the Art/VenusDeMilo, the one-armed man from ''The Fugitive'', Creator/VicentVanGogh [[note]]according to Cat, that dude managed to cut off his own ear with just one arm[[/note]] and Dave Lister.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'', "Nanarchy": Dave Lister deals with [[AnArmAndALeg a loss of his arm]] and Kryten and Kochanski try to comfort him, saying that there are ''countless'' people who have lost an arm, and then gone on to lead a perfectly normal life. Thousands. More than thousands. Millions. They have trouble naming them, but the gang collaboratively manage to find five. Five could be a decently long list, but considering the names... You be the judge of that: Lord Nelson, the Venus de Milo, the one-armed man from ''The Fugitive'', van Gogh [[note]]according to Cat, that dude managed to cut off his own ear with just one arm[[/note]] and Dave Lister.

* ''Series/{{Community}}''
: When the Dean goes insanely over-the-top in his attempts to make the new Greendale commercial.

* ''Series/{{Community}}: When the Dean goes insanely over-the-top in his attempts to make the new Greendale commercial.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' ChristmasEpisode, [[SpoiledBrat Princess]] discovers that she is the ''only'' person on SantaClaus' naughty list. When Santa realizes just how rotten she is, he moves her over the "Permanent Naughty List", which has four names. Among them is [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler someone named Adolph.]]

* ''Series/MASH'': Used during one of the morning announcements when they list volunteers for fitness program.

### If we knew this, we'd never have bothered writing this stupid book.)

*** Being orgasmed to death
*** That's about it, really.

*** (If we knew this, we'd never have bothered writing this stupid book.)

* ''Series/MASH'': Used during one of the morning announcements

* ''Series/Mash'': Used during one of the morning announcements

-->--Number Two, ''Literature/TheMysteriousBenedictSociety''

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Parasite", Gumball and Darwin write a list of pros and cons to them snooping through Anais' diary. The pro side is only two items ("There might be something [they] need to know" and "[They] could eventually learn things about life") while the cons [[LongList run off the paper and stretch across the town]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'' episode "So Long Boys", a CutawayGag of Josh and Emily weighing the pros and cons of the former getting a vasectomy shows their (still numbered) list only has one thing per each side:
-->'''Pros:''' 1. We can't afford any more kids.\\
'''Cons:''' 1. Possible dong injury

** Liz Cheney (played by Kate [=McKinnon=]) expressed dismay at being hated by fellow Republicans, saying "I'm everything a Republican woman should be: blonde, mean."