History Main / DudeNotIronic

* A running gag in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" is Bender correcting the Robot Devil on his use and abuse of the word "irony". However, the first instance of the Robot Devil's use of irony is actually a form of situational irony. You think the wheel is going to land on Bender's name, but it hits the Robot Devil's instead: Bender's statement "It's not ironic, it's just coincidental!" is not only incorrect as it is in fact ironic, but it is not coincidental. However, Bender is still correct from his point of view, since the characters had no inclination on where it was going to land, and without narrative causality, it was just a coincidence.

** Which is more of a fitting definition of ''sarcasm''. And the example he's referring to (the Robot Devil revealing that he's taking Leela's hand in marriage, not her actual hands) is really a metonym.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

** Which is more of a fitting definition of ''sarcasm''.

* From ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''. DumbassHasAPoint, though -- that ''was'' an obsolete definition of "irony"...

'''Baldrick:''' Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron.

* Many comedians (in particular Irish comic Creator/EdByrne) observed that the Music/AlanisMorissette song "Ironic" did not contain a single thing that was ironic, but that may be the point of the song. Herbert Lindenberger, professor of comparative literature and English at Stanford, went on Creator/{{NPR}} to explain that the Morisette song had perfect examples of situational irony and cosmic irony. So apparently, it's pretty (drumroll please) ''ironic'' when people claim that the examples in the song are not ironic. According to people who are a lot more educated than most of us.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/MandatoryFun Irony is not coincidence...]] Music/{{Alanis|Morissette}}.]]

* Comedian Sabrina Matthews on the song:
-->"Now that you have a billion dollars, perhaps you'd like to buy yourself a dictionary because irony is not a black fly in your chardonnay. Irony is a Scotsman cloning a sheep. Irony is renaming the national airport after [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan the president]] that fired all of the air traffic controllers."

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* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': Shawn is a little unclear on the definition. One exchange from "We'd Like to Thank the Academy":
-->'''Conforth:''' I can't believe you get out of the bed in the morning without hurting yourselves.\\
'''Shawn:''' Oh, but we do! And injury-free since June of last year, when Gus broke his finger flipping the injury countdown calendar. Wait, that's irony, right?\\
'''Gus:''' Irony is you asking what irony means every time you say it.
* Jason Alexander as host of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' hosted the ShowWithinAShow "Tales of Irony", during which he complained that none were ironic.
* An episode of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' had Doug call something ironic and Arthur insists that that's not what irony is. [[BrickJoke At the end of the episode]], Arthur wakes Doug up in the middle of the night claiming he looked up ironic in the dictionary, and admits he was wrong: he thought "ironic" meant "made entirely of iron".

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':
** Inversion: Castle and Beckett are able to identify a murderer because he sends someone to retrieve the victim's mail, which contains evidence that points to him as the killer. Beckett notes that it's ironic that the murderer's efforts to cover for himself got him caught since the cops weren't planning to check the victim's mail and would never have found the evidence. Castle immediately thanks her for using the word ironic correctly.
** In another example, Castle has this comment for a suspect whose shrink was murdered:
--->'''Castle:''' It's a common mistake, but it's not ironic that Dr. Cosway's not here for you to lean on. It's just simply tragic. It would be ironic if her death made you feel better.
* An episode of the short-lived series ''Series/TheGeorgeWendtShow'' contains an example. When someone said something sarcastic, George responded as if he took him seriously. Someone else then said condescendingly, "He was being ironic," to which George replied, "Actually, he was being sarcastic. But it's ironic that you didn't know that."

* In [[http://nonadventures.com/2008/05/17/asp-hat/ this]] strip of ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'', Wonderita saws off a mummy's head and is cursed to wear an Egyptian headdress until Titania points out that it isn't ironic. So she gets another curse that is ironic, but [[CursedWithAwesome isn't a curse at all.]]

* In ''Webcomic/AllenTheAlien'', Bonnie says that she is so "ironic". Somebody offscreen points out that that's not what irony is. She says instead that she's "[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs unironic, vain, unironivain, vainunironic]]".

* In the movie ''Film/RealityBites'', Lelaina was refused a job because she was unable to define irony. She then complains to Troy that nobody knows what it means, and he promptly replies with a clear and succinct definition. Though it seems even Troy doesn't know what it is, since his definition "when the actual meaning is the complete opposite of the literal meaning" is contradictory to the point of bordering on paradox.

[[caption-width-right:350:Irony is not coincidence... Music/{{Alanis|Morissette}}.]]

* In the season 2 finale of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', Grif comments on the irony of the two rival teams [[EnemyMine being forced to work together]], which prompted an argument over whether the scenario fit the definition of "ironic."