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* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRunDawnOfTheNugget'': Ginger and Rocky's daughter, Molly, has been kidnapped by Fun-Land Farms. Rocky launches himself into the compound to rescue Molly, getting zapped by the electric fence, attacked by the robotic animal "guards", and sucked into a vent in the process. [[TheSmartGirl Mac]] ventures that at least they know some necessary details about the place now.
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' got into an accident that totaled the family car. She breaks the news to Dagwood by informing him that the car's Airbags are in working order.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930'': In one strip, Blondie Bumstead got into an accident that totaled the family car. She breaks the news to Dagwood by informing him that the car's Airbags are in working order.
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* In ''Film/MuppetsFromSpace'', Miss Piggy tells Kermit she has great news; Gonzo's been kidnapped by the government! Of course, the reason ''she'' thinks it's good news is because covering the story will help her burgeoning career as a TV news journalist.
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* In ''Film/TheBadSeedReturns'', VillainProtagonist Emma Grossman decides to take a test on the internet to find out if she is a psychopath, In the end the test ends by telling her "Congratulations, you are a psychopath", as if it were a good thing.

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* A variant. In ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', Vimes receives note that one of his officers was killed, and asks who was sent to inform the family, hoping it wasn't Nobby Nobbs -- he doesn't want a repeat of the "bet-you-a-dollar-you're-the-widow-Jackson" nonsense.

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A variant. In ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', Vimes receives note that one of his officers was killed, and asks who was sent to inform the family, hoping it wasn't Nobby Nobbs -- he doesn't want a repeat of the "bet-you-a-dollar-you're-the-widow-Jackson" nonsense.nonsense.
** In ''Literature/GoingPostal'', Moist doesn't ''threaten'' Hugo the hairdresser with legal action over the stolen letters. Instead he loudly declares, in front of the man's customers, that he has good news; he thinks they can ''probably'' resolve things ''without'' legal action.
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* In ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', Robbie and Cat briefly make a business of singing bad news to people to make it easier to take. It works fine until they're hired to tell Trina her date cancelled on her.

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* In ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', Robbie and Cat briefly make a business of singing bad news to people to make it easier to take. It works fine until they're hired to tell Trina her date cancelled on her.her, who takes Robbie's guitar and smashes it into pieces.

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