History Main / ThereIsNoRuleSix

---> Rule Number Two: "First learn Rule Number One."

** ''Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway'' had a double-layered use of the trope: in the American Constitution, Article I Section 8 reads "Section 8 has been intentionally left blank." This becomes doubly funny if you know that [[LateToThePunchline Section 8 is the part of the Constitution that gives Congress all of its legal power]].

* The TropeNamer is the Bruces Sketch from ''[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where "Rule six: There is ''no'' rule six" is sandwiched between "Rule five: No poofters" and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "Rule seven]]: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial no poofters"]].

* The manual for ''{{Lemmings}}'' paid homage to Monty Python in the Hints and Tips section with "6. There is no tip number 6."

* ''KarateKid II'' had a textbook example:

* The MontyPython version of {{Fluxx}} has a card called "MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels." Two people playing the game must each choose a number between one and four. One is subtracted from the sum of those two numbers, and a rule corresponding to that resulting number must be followed. ThereIsNoRuleSix.

* The ''CowAndChicken'' episode "Night of the Ed!" has Cow reading about what to do when their pet jackal turns vicious. Step one is "Panic". Step two is "There is no step two".

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* The TropeNamer is the Bruces Sketch from ''[[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where "Rule six: There is ''no'' rule six" is sandwiched between "Rule five: No poofters" and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "Rule seven]]: [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial no poofters"]].

* ''KarateKid II'' had a textbook example, but played straight.

* From the ''Freakazoid!'' episode "Normadeus"

* The Laws of Anime include #43- Law of Triscaquadrodecophobia: There is no Law 43

* Question 17 of the 2011 British Census: "This question is intentionally blank"[[hottip:*:In England only. In the Scottish and Welsh Censuses Question 17 asked about proficiency in Scots/Gaelic/Welsh languages.]]

-->There is no Miss Zarves. [[MissingFloor There is no nineteenth story]]. Sorry.

* A sort-of example, from ''EndersGame'': Rose tells Ender that there are only three rules, "Do what I tell you and don't piss in the bed." When Ender asks what the third rule is, as he was clearly meant to, Rose replies that that ''was'' three rules - "We don't do too good in math, here."

** As a practical matter, sections within a title or chapter are often "reserved" so that entire chapters don't need to be re-numbered when a new section is added. Normally, the hundreds digits and up within a section number indicate the chapter, while the tens digit of a section indicates a particular topic within a chapter. Thus, §521 might deal with 1st degree murder, §522 with second degree murder, §523 with felony-murder, and then §524-530 are "reserved", with §531 being, say, voluntary manslaughter. If a new degree of murder is added (capital murder, perhaps), it would be §524, rather than having to renumber everything, having to make it §523A (which is ''really'' confusing), or having to put it at the end of the chapter, which may be several hundred sections later (which is just as bad). This does result in there being no §524....for the time being, at least.

--> Mike: "Just remember these three little words: ''Don't. Argue.''"

* Question 17 of the 2011 British Census: "This question is intentionally blank".

-->Rule 2: The TacComp always knows more than you do.

* Page 128 of the [[DungeonsAndDragons 3.5 Dungeon Masters Guide]] has a list of traits to flesh out NPCs. Number 26 is [[strike: blank]] ''missing entirely'', and Number 100 reads "No sense of humor (See #26)".

* From "South Park"

--> Step 3: Profit

** It was originally a rule involving assigning trample damage that became obsolete, but the number was kept because it would mess with the numbering of the other rules. It was finally removed when Eighth Edition was released.

->Rule 502.9d: Ignore this rule.