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* In ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]'', devils are boiling out of a [[CoolGate gate]], Thunder swears, and her father, Black Lightning, rebukes her. She wonders that he worries about her language ''then'', and he says that fighting demons is exactly when you don't want to offend Heaven.

* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'': Welkin Gunther, the militia officer in charge of Squad 7, is a huge nature geek. His subordinates will often get exasperated that he seems to have forgotten about the mission in favor of some interesting animal or plant, except that at least half the time he turns out to have discovered useful tactical information from it.
** During the Kloden Wood mission, for example, he excitedly crouches over a pile of droppings left by a wild goat. Rosie, Largo, and Alicia think he's just getting sidetracked until he points out an animal trail he noticed because of the droppings, which will allow the soldiers to proceed through the woods more easily.

* ''VideoGames/ValkyriaChronicles'': Welkin Gunther, the militia officer in charge of Squad 7, is a huge nature geek. His subordinates will often get exasperated that he seems to have forgotten about the mission in favor of some interesting animal or plant, except that at least half the time he turns out to have discovered useful tactical information from it.

* ''ValkyriaChronicles'': Welkin Gunther, the militia officer in charge of Squad 7, is a huge nature geek. His subordinates will often get exasperated that he seems to have forgotten about the mission in favor of some interesting animal or plant, except that at least half the time he turns out to have discovered useful tactical information from it.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The ThreeAmigos are fighting pirates on a ship about to go over the InevitableWaterfall. Aang suddenly stops fighting and blows the "broken" whistle he bought earlier in the episode. Sokka screams, "Have you lost your mind? This is no time for flute practice!" before learning (along with the viewers) that [[ChekhovsGun it's a bison whistle]] Aang can now use to summon Appa to save them.

->''"Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love!"''
-->-- '''Short Round''', ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''

'''Herbert 'Daring' Dashwood:''' It's not what he's taking out, my dear, but rather [[PineappleSurprise what he's putting in]]! DUCK AND COVER!\\

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation:''' Leslie, Ben and Tom have an important presentation to give to the Pawnee Chamber of Commerce for the Parks Department's Harvest Festival plans, as they doesn't have the sufficient funds to pull it off themselves. As Ben and Tom get to work, Tom immediately abandons him to hang out with a group of older friends of his at the spa and only appears again right before the presentation. Ben scolds him, but Tom reveals that his spa buddies actually own truck companies and, after Tom discussed the plans with them while relaxing, they've agreed to donate a fleet of vehicles for the festival.

** "Swarm of the Century": Pinkie Pie spends most of the episode gathering musical instruments while Twilight and the rest of her friends are trying to get rid of the parasprites, without even telling them why. Just after Twilight's last desperate attempt to get the parasprites to stop eating all the food [[NiceJobBreakingItHero backfires spectacularly]] and she gives up in despair, Pinkie saves the day by leading the parasprites away from town with a one-pony band.

* PlayedForDrama in "Literature/TheSixSwans" by Creator/HansChristianAndersen - it is indeed literally a time for knitting, since that is the only way the heroine can break her brothers free of their BalefulPolymorph, but because one of the provisos of the CurseEscapeClause is that she cannot speak until her work is done, she can't explain why her activity is the solution to the problem...which leads to her almost being burned as a witch for her strange behavior. She continues knitting till just before they light the flames, then tosses the shirts over the swans' heads, [[BigDamnHeroes and her brothers save her]]. The shirt of the youngest brother, however, isn't quite finished - she still needed to finish the sleeve, but had no time left to do so. For the rest of his life, he had a wing where that arm should've been. Some versions say that the shirt didn't have sleeves at all, so people thought he was an angel when he turned back.

* People whose work is secret may face this. Charles Fraser-Smith — who worked for the British Ministry of Supply in [=WW2=] procuring secret items and ended up becoming Creator/IanFleming's real-life inspiration for [[Characters/JamesBondQ James Bond's Q]] — once had an invoice from one of his suppliers, marked simply "razor blades", rejected as too expensive more or less in the terms "There's a war on, this is no time for fancy razor blades." The blades were magnetized, and when floated on a leaf functioned as a compass, which was a design feature intended to help [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive SOE agents]] with escape and evasion. After taking an official from the obstructing department and signing him into secrecy, a complete audit showed that the supplier had in fact not taken the full allowed percentage of profit. Smith tore up the invoice on the spot and insisted it be re-submitted with the full margin of profit. Understandingly, Fraser-Smith never had a bill queried by HM Treasury after that.

** "Swarm of the Century": Pinkie Pie spends most of the episode gathering musical instruments while Twilight and the rest of her friends are trying to get rid of the parasprites. Just after Twilight's last desperate attempt to get the parasprites to stop eating all the food [[NiceJobBreakingItHero backfires spectacularly]] and she gives up in despair, Pinkie saves the day by leading the parasprites away from town with a one-pony band.
** In "Rarity Investigates" after Rainbow Dash is framed for misleading Spitfire from the Wonderbolts, Rarity goes and investigates, but seems repeatedly distracted by the most trivial clothing and decor details, greatly annoying Rainbow Dash. However in doing so, Rarity is actually finding the clues she needs to solve the case.