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* A good example can be found in the movie ''Grumpier Old Men,'' in which an extremely old man brags about his outlasting diet and health experts on a diet of bacon and beer, ending the story with the phrase "just goes to show you." When asked what, exactly, it goes to show, the old man admits he had no point; he just "likes that story."
** Funny, I would've thought it was obvious: He wanted to tell that the doctors aren't always right. Or that God has forgotten to take him.

** ''{{Airplane}}'', too. "I don't know where I'll be then, doc, he said... I won't smell too good, that's for sure."
*** Nah, that one's just DeadBabyComedy.

* ''{{Saturday Night Live}}'''s Celebrity ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleyxyhcoj1x41x Jeopardy!]]'':
-->'''Sean Connery:''' Trebek, I've a conundrum for yeh: a riddle, if yeh will.\\
'''Alex Trebek:''' Fine, what is it?\\
'''Sean Connery:''' What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold? One's a sick duck... I can't remember how it ends, but [[YourMom your mother's a whore]].
** [[DontExplainTheJoke This is also an example of a dirty]] StealthPun: If the mallard with a cold is a sick duck, Trebek must then be a [[spoiler:[[{{Spoonerism}} dick suck]]]].
*** One's a sick duck, the other [[spoiler: sucks dick]]. Classic {{Spoonerism}}.

* In ''BetrayalAtKrondor'', the book Titful's Bird Migrations ''starts'' with a discussion on birds, but since the author simply cannot keep on topic, it becomes the only book to provide bonuses to every skill in the game.

*** Or, Trebek's a [[spoiler: sick fuck]].

** ''{{Airplane}}'', too. "I don't know where I'll be then, doc, he said... I won't smell too good, that's for sure,"

-->'''Patrick''': Maybe a story will cheer you up. It's called "{{The Ugly Barnacle}}" Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that [[KillEmAll everyone died]]. The end.

-->"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the ''crap'' out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a ''zoo''! (Beat) ''Unless it's a farm!''"

->"...Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
->-— '''The Principal''', ''BillyMadison''

The CloudCuckoolander is often prone to this.

*** One's a sick duck, the other [[spoiler: sucks dick]]. Classic [[Spoonerism]].

[[caption-width-right:252:Taking it [[{{Understatement}} a bit literally]].]]

* [[TeamFortress2 The Soldier]] has a memorable one in [[http://www.teamfortress.com/soldier.htm Meet The Soldier]]:

* WeirdAlYankovic's "Albuquerque" and "Everything you Know is Wrong".

* "You know, something just like this happend [[TheGoldenGirls back in St. Olaf...]]"

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* WeirdAlYankovic's "Albuquerque" and "Everything you Know is Wrong".

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* A good example can be found in the movie ''Grumpier Old Men,'' in which an extremely old man brags about his outlasting diet and health experts on a diet of bacon and beer, ending the story with the phrase "just goes to show you." When asked what, exactly, it goes to show, the old man admits he had no point; he just "likes that story."
** Funny, I would've thought it was obvious: He wanted to tell that the doctors aren't always right. Or that God has forgotten to take him.
* The climax of ''BillyMadison'' has the titular character trying to compare the changes in literature brought on by the Industrial Revolution with a children's story called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way". We never get to hear most of it but what ''is'' heard appears to be pretty impressively mangled.
* Leslie Nielsen's characters are prone to doing this in films such as ''TheNakedGun'' and ''SpyHard''.

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* [[http://picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=151 This]] {{pictures for sad children}}.

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* [[TeamFortress2 The Soldier]] has a memorable one in [[http://www.teamfortress.com/soldier.htm Meet The Soldier]]:
-->"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the ''crap'' out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a ''zoo''! (Beat) ''Unless it's a farm!''"
* In ''BetrayalAtKrondor'', the book Titful's Bird Migrations ''starts'' with a discussion on birds, but since the author simply cannot keep on topic, it becomes the only book to provide bonuses to every skill in the game.
* In ''MetalGearSolid2'', Otacon takes over as Snake's VoiceWithAnInternetConnection, and takes all the roles of Snake's former team. However, he does [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW8QPIId6E8&feature=related not that great of a job imitating Mei-Ling's quoting of classic literature]].
-> '''Otacon:''' ''Remember the Deep family's fish, Snake!''

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** Pretty much everything GrandpaSimpson says