History Main / ThereIsNoRuleSix

* ''[[Film/TheKarateKid The Karate Kid Part II]]'' had a textbook example:

---> Rule 1: No poofters.\\

---> Rule 1: No poofters.
---> Rule 2: No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos (derogatory term for Aboriginals) in any way... if there is anyone watching.
---> Rule 3: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment No poofters]].
---> Rule 4: I don't want to catch anyone ''not'' drinking in their room after lights out.
---> Rule 5: [[RunningGag No poofters]].
---> Rule 6: There is '''no Rule 6'''!
---> Rule 7: [[OverlyLongGag No]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial poofters]].

* An unusual non-(intentionally)-comedic example once appeared in MagicTheGathering's comprehensive rulebook:

* 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)".

* During one of the debates between candidates for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, Governor Rick Perry declared, "And I will tell you, it is three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, Education, and the... what's the third one there?" After an awkward pause (during which a few of the other candidates and the debate moderator tried to prompt him), he finally concluded, "I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops."

* A minor variation from ''{{Bottom}}'' Live, when Richie “What have [I] got to live for? […] Everyone would prefer it if you were dead!”:

* In an episode of the TV series ''{{Porridge}}'', chief warden [=McKay=] tells Fletcher that there only two rules in Slade Prison. The first rule: "You do not write on the walls." The second: "You obey all the rules." Oddly, he'd just mentioned a rule against prisoners congregating in cells.
* A minor variation from ''{{Bottom}}'':
--> '''Richie''': "Well, well, well, it's interesting because A, I said it and anything I say is interesting per se, and B, er, well, there isn't a B because the A was so great."

* A variation from ''TheXFiles'', episode "Bad Blood":
-->'''Scully:''' First of all, Mulder, if the family of Ronnie Strickland does sue the FBI for, I believe the figure is 446 million dollars, you and I will almost certainly be named co-defendants. And second of all ... I don't even have a second of all, Mulder. 446 million dollars.

---> Rule 6: There is no Rule 6!

--> [[StepThreeProfit Step 3:]] [[MemeticMutation Profit!]]

* 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.]]

* "First rule of Film/FightClub is: you do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club."

In comedies, {{Long List}}s and even shorter ones will include not only [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant repetition of unnecessary items]], but also items which assert their own nonexistence.

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* There are no examples from radio shows.

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

---> Rule 2: No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos (derogatory term for Aboriginals) in any way, if there is anyone watching.
---> Rule 3: No poofters.

---> Rule 5: No poofters.

---> Rule 7: No poofters.

** That's similar to JSBach's ''Third Brandenburg Concerto'', which has only First and Third Movements -- no Second Movement (though the Third Movement is sometimes wrongly called the "Second", even though it's definitely in the style of a Third Movement rather than a Second).

* ''TheKarateKidPartII'' had a textbook example:

** That's similar to JSBach's ''Third Brandenburg Concerto'', which has only First and Third Movements -- no Second Movement (though the Third Movement is sometimes wrongly called the "Second").

* From ''SouthPark'':

* Implied in Vorkosigan's rules for space warfare:

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* The MontyPython version of ''TabletopGame/{{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.

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* A [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080409184724/http://www.highbattalion.com/commandments.htm joke list]] of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' Space Marine Commandments features a variation on this: