History Main / LastPlaceYouLook

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* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': In "Saving Omi", Raimundo suggests finding the Yang Yo-Yo in the last place they would think of, but Clay suggests second to last place and says that not even Dojo would hide it in the last place. It turns out it was in Dojo's ear all along. In another episode the Shen Gong Wu were secretly shrunken and hidden in Dojo's nose and replaced with fakes without his knowledge.

* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': In "Saving Omi", Raimundo suggests finding the Yang Yo-Yo in the last place they would think of, but Clay suggests second to last place and says that not even Dojo would hide it in the last place. It turns out it was in Dojo's ear all along.

* In the InteractiveFiction game ''VideoGame/{{Shade}}'', there are several possible places your tickets can be (in your coat, in your luggage, among the papers on your desk). The game makes sure that whichever order you search in, they're always in the LastPlaceYouLook.

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* The Polish poem for children ''Pan Hilary'' is about this.

* From ''[[EmmetOttersJugBandChristmas Emmit Otter's Jugband Christmas]]'':

* Bernard in ''Series/BlackBooks'' is about to go on holiday, naturally he doesn't remember where he put it other than "It's in the house!". He put it somewhere safe so he spends 5 hours putting everything off the walls before walking over to his desk and saying I remember i put it over here but no, I can't find it. Cue "Did you check your desk Bernard?, Yes of cour-oh here it is."

* This line is said in an episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'' when the son Jake loses his NintendoDS. He spends the entire episode looking for it and finally finds it on his front lawn when he is about to take a whiz.

* In one chapter of ''KeroroGunsou'', Momoka falls out of a tree and lands on Chiruyo while both are [[StalkerWithACrush trying to take pictures of Fuyuki]]. Chiruyo loses her glasses, and [[BlindWithoutEm fruitlessly looks for them]], apparently unaware that she's still wearing them and they've just been pushed up onto her forehead.

* ''{{Spaced}}'' used the glasses variation in the second episode with Daisy.

* In comic strip ''{{Zits}}'', Jeremy's mom has done this with her car keys on occasion.

* Bernard in ''BlackBooks'' is about to go on holiday, naturally he doesn't remember where he put it other than "It's in the house!". He put it somewhere safe so he spends 5 hours putting everything off the walls before walking over to his desk and saying I remember i put it over here but no, I can't find it. Cue "Did you check your desk Bernard?, Yes of cour-oh here it is."

* Grandpa from ''TheBoondocks'' does this immediately after delivering a "I've been around a long time, so don't think you can ever pull one over on me kid. I'm too smart for you" talk.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'', Dora and group must travel to the Big Red Chicken's party to help him find his cake... which was balanced on his head. [[RuleOfperception At least the camera angles concealed this fact]].

* In the PoliceProcedural parody chibi episode of ''ThePrinceOfTennis'', Inui misplaces his glasses and just about everybody gets hauled into the "office" as a potential thief... until he remembers that he'd simply forgotten to put them back on when he took them off to wash his face.

* In te ''WebAnimation/PonyDotMov'' series, the Elements of Harmony were up Spike's nose the entire time.

* This line is said in an episode of ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' when the son Jake loses his NintendoDS. He spends the entire episode looking for it and finally finds it on his front lawn when he is about to take a whiz.
* In one episode of ''TheMuppetShow'', Hilda the wardrobe lady asks Fozzie where her glasses are. (They're on her head) Fozzie is too busy practicing his 'Jokes on any subject' to be any help, and Hilda finds her glasses by herself.

If someone loses an object, it will always be found in the last place they look. FridgeLogic maintains that this is because once they find it, they aren't looking for it anymore, thus it's ''always'' in the last place they look. What they really mean is that it's the last place they ''would'' look.