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-->There are two kinds of people in this world, Chris. There are bullies and there are nerds. And there are hot Asian chicks. They'll do what you want. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You better believe it, buddy. They will do what you want because they know, they know what you want. Oh, oh, oh, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. I won't hurt you. Me big American man.

* In TheBBC Radio 4 comedy ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' (but not the TV version) Charles Prentiss has a variety of poetic versions to put down Maurice the waiter (usually after Maurice has corrected his [[AccidentalMisnaming pronunciation of Maurice]]).

* In ''[[{{Peanuts}} It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]'', Charlie Brown's party invitation prompts Lucy to say there are two kinds of people; people to invite and people not to invite. She assumes Charlie Brown was put on the wrong list.

* A disgruntled cook in ''JadeEmpire'' says it in a way that I still like to say loudly during motivational speeches: "In this world, there are heroes, and there are people who clap as heroes walk by." Guess which one you are? No, seriously, guess. It says a lot about you.

# Meta-jokes: Also common are jokes based on either binary, counting, or some other pun playing off of the structure of the joke. A classic example is "There are three types of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't."

* Here's one for cynics: There are two types of people in the world: [[ThisLoserIsYou people who suck]], and [[SubvertedTrope wait a minute, there is no second category]]-- ''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Everybody]]'' [[HumansAreMorons sucks]].

* In ''[[TheStormlightArchive The Way of Kings]]'', Kaladin's father, a surgeon, told him that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who save lives, and those who take lives. When he asks about people who save lives by taking lives, his father tells him, "That’s like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can’t protect by killing." Later in life, at his DespairEventHorizon, he concludes that there is a third kind of people: the victims whose lives exist to be killed or saved.

* In TheBBC Radio 4 comedy ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' (but not the TV version) Charles Prentiss has a variety of poetic versions to put down Maurice the waiter (usually after Maurice has corrected his [[MyNameIsNotDurwood pronunciation of Maurice]]).

* Who can forget the classic line in "What About Bob" by the titular character himself?: "There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't. My ex-wife loves him."

-->'''Domino Harvey:''' There are [[TakeAThirdOption three]] kinds of people in the world: the poor, the rich, [[TakeAThirdOption and everyone in between]].[[note]]Also a pretty useless observation. What she's literally saying is "[[CaptainObvious everybody fits]] ''[[CaptainObvious somewhere]]'' [[CaptainObvious in terms of wealth]]".[[/note]]

* ''MyImmortal'' seems to divide the entire population of its derailed HarryPotter-verse into "Goths" and "Preps." (And, occasionally, posers -- preps who pretend to be goth but really aren't.) That there could be living, breathing people who neither belong to nor care about ''either'' of these two social groups simply never occurs to the author.

* Subverted in ''HarryPotter'', where Sirius Black points out that the world isn't divided into good people and Death Eaters when Harry's suspecting Dolores Umbridge of being a Death Eater.

*** "There are 11 types of people in this world: those that don't understand binary, those that kind of understand binary, and those that are 0001 0011 0011 0111

->'''Vertu:''' Mankind is divided into two categories: Those who overestimate Condeezza, and those who don't know her. Natural selection quickly removed those who underestimated her.

->'''Joker:''' Y'know, there are three kinds of people in this world: The optimistic who find the glass half full, and the pessimistic that see it as half-empty. Then there's the paranoid; they just think someone's drinking out of their glass.
->'''Corrigan:''' Which one are you?
->'''Joker:''' I'm the one that [[ChaoticEvil knocks the glass over]].

* There are two kinds of women in the world: Sluts and my Mother.

** Detritus gives the same line a go in ''Discworld/MenAtArms'': "Only ... twoer things come from Slice Mountain, rocks an' ... an' other kinds of rocks!"

->'''Joker:''' Y'know, [[ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld there are three kinds of people in this world]]: The optimistic who find the glass half full, and the pessimistic that see it as half-empty. Then there's the paranoid; they just think someone's drinking out of their glass.

* ''{{Preacher}}'' includes a scene where it is suggested that a person who likes Laurel and Hardy and hates Charlie Chaplin is a "stand up guy" while a person who prefers Chaplin "probably rapes sheep". This is supposed to parody a Tarantino line about whether you prefer Elvis to the Beatles.
** And from [[{{Comicbook/Hitman}} another]] GarthEnnis [[{{Comicbook/Hitman}} series]]: "...People who like ClintEastwood movies, and dweebs."

* Manga/DragonBall Z: "There are only two kinds of people: those who obey Freiza, and those who do not obey Freiza!"