History Main / AnythingButThat

* From the ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand episode "Stranger Invasion", this was Zurg's reaction upon seeing Buzz's shuttle crash-land on the planet he just invaded.

---> Not 42! Any number, but 42! Why does this always have to happen to me?! Lightyear is here! (''sotto voice'') And I was having such a good day.

* Br'er Rabbit is possibly an ur-example (at least in American folklore) -- then Subverts it. [[spoiler: [[BriarPatching Turns out, he's quite at home in the briar patch.]]]]

-->'''Scar:''' Sing something with a little... bounce in it.
-->'''Zazu:''' (sings) [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks It's a small world after all...]]
-->'''Scar:''' [[BitingTheHandHumor NO! No. Anything but that!]]
** Even funnier in the theater version, where Zazu starts singing "Be Our Guest" from ''Theatre/BeautyAndTheBeast'', which was also on Broadway at the time. When that ended, he switched to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from ''Film/MaryPoppins'', which also went on Broadway. Which then switched to "Let It Go" from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''.

-->'''Dragon:''' Won't it do your heart good to think of one of your paintings...in Mr. Pope's hands?
-->'''Hemlock:''' Dragon, you have a talent for describing the indescribable.

* In ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' this is Jeremy's response to the laundry rope line that his stepfather uses to tie him up while he whips/rapes him, and not to the necessarily to the abuse itself (although he doesn't want that either.) In his defense, that is the rope with which Greg's first wife Lilya [[spoiler: hung herself]] and Jeremy knows this.

* Regularly happens for comedic effect in the ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon comics - often when a new secret entrance to HQ is to be used or an invention by Dr Bacterio is to be tested. And Mortadelo and Filemón have good reasons for their reaction.

* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' FanFiction ''Fanfic/OathkeepersAwakening'', [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa]] reacts this way when Anna attempts to sing ''Let It Go''.

* In the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' CrackFic ''FanFic/PleaseStopEatingTheHellButterflies'', Yamamoto promises to give the Vizards an official apology, publically and in writing. Hell, he'll even give them a hundred years' worth of backpay as compensation for the troubles Soul Society has caused them, ''but for the love God'' he does not want them joining the Thirteenth and Three Quarters Division! [[spoiler:They end up joining anyway]].

* In the Joe Oriolo ''[[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Felix the Cat]]'' episode "Stone Making Machine", Felix is trapped inside of The Professor's greenhouse, and Professor reveals that he's trapped in there with his man-eating plant, Leopard Lilly, news that Rock Bottom reacts with horror to.

** This was a recurring gag in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts ''[[http://fliiby.com/file/595627/7faipxbjp7.html It's Hummer Time]]'' and ''[[http://www.jogyjogy.com/watch.php?id=19703 Early To Bet]]'', both directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson. The unnamed cat protagonist is put by his bulldog antagonist through a series of bizarre punishments, each of which he recoils from with a "No, no! Not that! Not '________'! Not that! NOOOOT THHAAAATT!"

* In the episode "Scared A Lot In Camelot" from WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow, Clarence the caretaker screams this line when the ghost of Merlin sentences him to suffer the curse of Camelot.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

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* The Trix of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' begged for any punishment, as long as they weren't inflicted the [[TastesLikeDiabetes overdose of happy and cute things reserved for the inmates of Light Rock]].

-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic'''

[[caption-width-right:350:Well, would ''you'' want to taste his armpit?]]

* In addition to the above quote, Music/WeirdAlYankovic wrote a song called "Don't Wear Those Shoes", where the singer pleads his spouse to do several terrible and annoying things because he can't stand the thought of her wearing shoes that he apparently finds atrocious in appearance.
** Al's pretty fond of this trope. In "The Brady Bunch" (a parody of Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance"), he makes it very clear to his listeners that they may watch anything they want to on TV (even till their eyes fall out of their head), ''except'' ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. And in "Achy Breaky Song'' (a parody of Billy Ray Cyrus's guess what), he'll tolerate Donny and Marie, Yoko Ono, Debby Boone, or being tied to a chair and then kicked down the stairs, but "if you play that song, that Achy Breaky song, I might blow up my radio."
* Just don't step on Music/ElvisPresley's blue suede shoes.

* On the first ''WesternAnimation/ScrewySquirrel'' cartoon, Screwy is listening to Sammy Squirrel drone on about his RidiculouslyCuteCritter friends and goes "Oh, brother! Not that! ''Not that!''", then takes Sammy behind a tree and beats the daylights out of him. It is said again by [[spoiler: Screwy, Meathead and their twins]] when Sammy appears at the end.

* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'': Littlefinger's reaction to the prospect of having [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Stannis]] as a King.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "[[Recap/MonkS4E15MrMonkGoesToTheDentist Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist]]," when a crooked dentist prepares to torture Monk by extracting a healthy tooth with no anesthetic, what freaks Monk out the most, and what he begs the dentist not to do, isn't the extraction itself but the dentist's performing the operation ''without washing his hands beforehand''. Monk puts up such a fuss that the dentist actually gives in on that point and agrees to wash his hands.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "[[Recap/MonkS4E15MrMonkGoesToTheDentist Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist]]," when a crooked dentist prepares to torture Monk by extracting a healthy tooth with no anesthetic, what freaks Monk out the most, and what he begs the dentist not to do, isn't the extraction itself but the dentist's performing the operation ''without washing his hands beforehand''. Monk puts up such a fuss that the dentist actually gives in and agrees to wash his hands.

* ''WebVideo/LouderWithCrowder'': Crowder subjected himself to watching a full 16-hour news cycle of Creator/{{CNN}} as a holiday special. At the end he said that he would rather be waterboarded again.

** The Milk Chocolate M&M, aka "Red" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFC7BSHnwtk his 2013 commercial]] sings the song to Creator/NayaRivera of Glee, and then HIS list of things he won't do are: get into a piñata, be part of a sundae, be a birthday cake topping or baked as part of a cookie. Though this list began when she licked the back of his head and he got an OhCrap moment. Then her other girlfriends enjoy savoring Red and he goes, "It hurts but I kinda like it!"
** Referenced in ''Film/SpiceWorld'', where Mr. Loaf plays the girls' bus driver, Dennis. The toilets on the bus have all broken down, and the manager demands Dennis to fix them.

** The Milk Chocolate M&M, aka "Red" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFC7BSHnwtk his 2013 commercial]] sings the song to Creator/NayaRivera of Glee, and then HIS list of things he won't do are: get into a pinata, be part of a sundae, be a brthday cake topping or baked as part of a cookie. Though this list began when she licked the back of his head and he got an OhCrap moment. Then her other girlfriends enjoy savoring Red and he goes, "It hurts but I kinda like it!"

-->'''Alpha 5:''' No! Not that! Not ''teenagers''!

** "No, '''not''' the mind '''probe'''!"-Castellan Jerricho in 'The Five Doctors' episode, which has gone viral for it's AccentOnTheWrongSyllable pronounciation

* In 1940's ''Crimes at the Dark House,'' the DastardlyWhiplash VillainProtagonist Sir Percival Glyde (Tod Slaughter) declares to the blackmailing lawyer, Isidor Fosco, "Oh, I've been longing to sink my fingers in your fat, greasy little throat!" to which Fosco replies, "No! No! No! Not that! Not that!"