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* One of ''[[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} The Twelve Tasks of Asterix]]'' involves being able to resist the hypnotic gaze of Iris the Egyptian magician. Iris tries to hypnotize Asterix into believing he's a boar, but keeps getting distracted by the Gaul's comments about his GlowingEyes like "How do you do that?", "Can you make them light up one at a time?" and "They must be handy for reading in bed." Eventually Iris becomes so confused he resorts to RepeatAfterMe.
-->'''Iris:''' Repeat after me, "By Osiris and Apis, I am a wild boar. I am a wild boar!"
-->'''Asterix:''' You are a wild boar, you are a wild boar.
-->'''Iris:''' Yes! I'm a wild boar, a wild boar! ''(runs out of the tent on all fours)''

* One of ''[[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} The Twelve Tasks of Asterix]]'' involves being able to resist the hypnotic gaze of Iris the Egyptian magician. Iris tries to hypnotize Asterix into believing he's a boar, but keeps getting distracted by the Gaul's comments about his GlowingEyes like "Can you make them light up one at a time?" and "They must be handy for reading in the dark." Eventually Iris becomes so confused he resorts to RepeatAfterMe.

-->'''Iris:''' Yes! I'm a wild boar, a wild board! ''(runs out of the tent on all fours)''

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie uses this trick on Roger in order to get him to take a shot of liquor, and thus use [[GargleBlaster Roger's usual violent reaction to the stuff]] as a distraction so he and Roger can escape Judge Doom and his goons.

-->*[[AmusingInjuries Gets bill blown off, again]]

A rarer example will be the use of props with sound effects (i.e. a light switch) that will be turned on and off each time the sound effect is used. The pretender makes a (usually very bad) mimicking of the sound and will trick his opponent into switching the device to rivaling position.

Among Atheists who debate Creationists online, this is called "Daffy Ducking." Getting your debate opponent to "Daffy Duck" themselves is a mark of great skill and ability in online atheist circles.

* Is there a parent of a toddler anywhere who didn't try this at least once, if only to see if it'll work?
** Does it?
*** No, it really doesn't. Contrary to popular belief children aren't idiots.
** Also used by older siblings against younger ones. Winning arguments has never been so easy! (and never will again, once they grow older)
*** ''If'' it works, it only works once.

* Used in a rather darker fashion in AlanMoore's ''[[WildCats WILD.C.A.T.s]]'' run as [[ManipulativeBastard Tao]] repeatedly switches positions in a debate with Fuji leading to Fuji's being psychologically crippled.

* AlanMoore claims to have done this in promoting Comicbook/LostGirls:

* Adorably used [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsBon3DTwIY here]] to get a child to walk. The boy wanted to go in the car and things turned into just "Yes! No! Yes! No!". When the father then said yes, they'd go in the car, the boy objected and they walked off happily.
* A version that uses this mentality, ie. unthinking repetition, involves asking a question over and over again, then asking the opposite, so that the arguer unthinking supplies the previous answer, which now has an opposite connotation. For example: "Can I do this?" "No." "Can I do this?" "No." "Really?" "No." It, however, tends not to fool them for long. [[TheGadfly It's still highly amusing.]]

-->"If we’d have come out and said, 'well, this is a work of art,' they would have probably all said, 'no it's not, it's pornography.' So because we're saying, 'this is pornography,' they're saying, 'no it's not, it's art,' and people don't realise quite what they've said."

** In another Creator/CartoonNetwork commercial, a man tried to use this when his boss was firing him. After a minute of "No I'm not." "Yes you are." the man finally switched to "Yes I am." Unfortunately, it didn't work and the boss replied with "Yes... you are." The {{Tagline}}: "[[RealityEnsues You are not Bugs Bunny.]]"

*** There's a variation of that in a Bugs Bunny cartoon: "The Wind-Blown Hare". Bugs is at the bottom of a staircase and the Big Bad Wolf is coming down to get him, and Bugs keeps turning off the light. What's different from the Tom and Jerry version is that there is an audible sound when the light gets turned on or off, so when Bugs invokes the trope, he simply ''says the word "Click"'', whereupon the Big Bad Wolf goes back up the stairs, turns off the light and falls down the stairs.

--> Riggs: No,''you're'' driving!

--> Riggs: No,''you'r'' driving!

* Toyed with in "Film/LethalWeapon":
--> You're driving!
--> I'm driving!
--> No, "you're" driving!
--> No, "I'm" driving!

* Used in ''[[GantzAbridged Gantz: The Abridged Series]]'' in episode [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgllKQZ2_U&feature=PlayList&p=8695D5171FD2C5AD&index=7 08 & 09]].
* BugsBunny[[hottip:* :Actually WoodyWoodpecker in disguise]] does this to WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd in an attempt to entice him to play ''The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2''.

** Used during the anime adaption of the Impel Down arc. After Bon Clay breaks into the control room for the gate, he turns into Warden Magellan and orders the gates to be opened. Just then, the REAL Magellan shows up and orders them to be shut. The two then go back and forth with 'DO IT!' 'DON'T DO IT!' while shouting this at a confused lackey before he just decides to shut it. Then Bon switches back and simply breaks the controls, keeping it open.

** Another WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes example is Bugs' argument with the fake umpire in the 1946 cartoon, ''Baseball Bugs''. This gag predates ''Rabbit Fire'', released in 1950.