History Main / ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting

* In ''[[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.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode, "Past Prologue", there are Bajoran terrorists up to no good on the station. In the middle of surveilling them, Bashir is baffled by Garak completely switching the topic to discuss Bashir coming to the shop to get a new suit. What Garak was really doing was giving a Federation officer a cover story to be in his shop when a clandestine meeting occurred to pass on vital information to the Federation about the Bajoran terrorists via unofficial back channels because Cardassia couldn't officially ask the Federation for help in apprehending them.

* A politician, a priest and two boy scouts are in a plane. Suddenly, it runs out of fuel and begins dropping to the ground. The politician immediately grabs one of the only two parachutes from the wall, and makes ready to jump out. --> '''Priest:''' Wait! Shouldn't we be giving those parachutes to the children?!

--> '''Priest:''' *{{Beat}}* [[PaedophilePriest I don't think we have time for that]].

->''"[[NotWhatItLooksLike Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love!]]"''

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* In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', when Indy has his hands near Willie's breasts, he is reprimanded by Short Round, who says, "Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love!" He was actually searching for the antidote for a poison that she had hidden in VictoriasSecretCompartment.
* In the second ''[[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed Scooby Doo]]'' movie, after springing a trap and getting stuck in it, when Velma sees the fingerprint scanner needed to get out (it was withing their reach), Daphne started to get into her makeup kit. As it turns out some of the stuff there were essential in activating the lock so they could get out.

* The [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]] is ''ChickenRun'', taken from a scene in which Bunty, the barnyard cynic, finally gets fed up with Babs' love of knitting after [[spoiler: it's been revealed [[FakeUltimateHero Rocky the rooster]] had been lying about his ability to fly, and is actually just an escaped circus act rooster whose gimmick was "flying" by being shot out of a cannon]]. The trope-naming scene, however, is NotAnExample, because it does indeed come at a time where knitting would be of no help whatever.

* In the ''DragonHunters'' movie, Gwizdo berates [[TheBigGuy Lian-Chu]] for knitting, and later [[TagalongKid Zoe]] (thinking the needles she found were Gwizdo's) points out that it's not very knight-like to knit, yet in the end, [[spoiler:Lian-Chu uses his knitting needles to blind the [[EldritchAbomination world-eating monster]] they were after]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': The Simpsons have to flee an angry mob and they make it to Bart's treehouse. Then they don't know how to get out of there, but Maggie keeps pointing to the sandbox.
-->'''Marge:''' Maggie, not now! *''Maggie keeps pointing''* We'll play later. *''{{Facepalm}}''*\\
''*Maggie then jumps into the sandbox and appears on the other side of the dome where the mob can't see her.''*\\
'''Marge''': The sinkhole! *''They all jump after her into safety.''*

* ''TheWildThornberrys'':

* This was a brick joke in DubiousCompany. [[BadassInDistress Tiren]] is kidnapped by TheMole. After getting the tech needed to find her, [[GadgeteerGenius Walter]] goes on a drinking binge, much to [[LeeroyJenkins Leeroy's]] chagrin. Several strips later, Walter reveals to the QuirkyMiniBossSquad that the engine [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum runs on drunkenness]]. So Walter needed to be sufficiently plastered to work with it.

* ''Maggie then jumps into the sandbox and appears on the other side of the dome where the mob can't see her.''*\\

* ''Maggie then jumps into the sandbox and appears on the other side of the dome where the mob can't see her.''*\\

* ''Maggie then jumps into the sandbox and appears on the other side of the dome where the mob can't see her.''*\\
'''Marge''': The sinkhole! *''they all jump after her into safety.''*

-->'''Marge:''' Maggie, not now! *Maggie keeps pointing* We'll play later. *''{{Facepalm}}''*\\
''Maggie then jumps into the sandbox and appears on the other side of the dome where the mob can't see her.''\\
'''Marge''': The sinkhole! *they all jump after her into safety*

Then Maggie jumps into the sandbox and appears on the other side of the dome where the mob can't see her.\\

* PlayedForDrama in "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sixswans/index.html The Six Swans]]"--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.

* In ''{{Lumberjanes}}'' #2, when the girls are attacked by a river monster, April reaches for her scrunchie. Jo protests that this is no time for a new hairdo, only for April to shoot the elastic into the monster's eye.

** In the episode "Robot" (the first TomBaker episode), the Brigadier, Harry Sullivan and the Doctor are investigating the scene of a robbery, only to have the Doctor play a seemingly inordinate amount of attention to a squashed flower on the lawn. However, the Doctor explains that he is investigating an important clue, considering that flower was near pulverized by being stepped on by something that apparently weighed a quarter ton, a piece of information that the officers definitely find interesting.

* ''TheOffice'', "Traveling Salesmen": Jim and Dwight are on a sales call together. While Jim is talking to a prospective client, Dwight asks if he can use the phone and subsequently starts yelling numbers loudly into the phone. At first, this seems like Dwight's usual bizarre behavior, perhaps even ''more'' bizarre than usual -- [[BunnyEarsLawyer however weird he is, he's always appeared to be a good salesman]]. However, when it comes time for Jim to demonstrate Dunder Mifflin's phone customer service, we find out that Dwight has been demonstrating [[ForInconveniencePressOne a rival company's phone customer service]] the whole time. Jim then proceeds to call Dunder Mifflin's customer service line, and has Kelly on the line within a couple seconds, thus successfully demonstrating the difference between a large impersonal company and a smaller company.

* ''TheOffice'', "Traveling Salesmen": Jim and Dwight are on a sales call together. While Jim is talking to a prospective client, Dwight asks if he can use the phone and subsequently starts yelling numbers loudly into the phone. At first, this seems like Dwight's usual bizarre behavior, perhaps even ''more'' bizarre than usual. However, when it comes time for Jim to demonstrate Dunder Mifflin's phone customer service, we find out that Dwight has been demonstrating a rival company's phone customer service the whole time. Jim then proceeds to call Dunder Mifflin's customer service line, and has Kelly on the line within a couple seconds, thus successfully demonstrating the difference between a large impersonal company and a smaller company.

* In an episode of ''TheWildThornberrys'', Marianne gets irritated with Nigel when they are supposed to filming a documentary on the bird-eating spider and he keeps being distracted by a series of seemingly unrelated activities. He eventually explains that everything he was doing was to actually help him locate the spider so they could start filming. Except for spinning around on the ropes. That really was just for fun.
** In "Flood Warning", despite warnings of said disaster occuring, Nigel begin working his cabalito even when Marianne informs him on what's happening including the lives of their children being in danger. However, Nigel revealed that he had known about and cabalito was another word [[spoiler: boat]], which was he was working on.

* In an episode of ''TheWildThornberrys'', Marianne gets irritated with Nigel when they are supposed to filming a documentary on the bird-eating spider and he keeps being distracted by a series of seemingly unrelated activities. He eventually explains that everything he was doing was to actually help him locate the spider so they could start filming.
** Except for spinning around on the ropes. That really was just for fun.

* How do we not have Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom here after using it as the page quote? Indy is fishing around in Willy's top when Short Round utters the above line. Actually, he's looking for the antidote to the poison!

** The Doctor pulls this on ''himself'' in the finale of season 2. While encountering the Cybermen and Daleks, he repeatedly dons a pair of 3D glasses to look at them. Eventually he demands to know why no one has asked what is up with the glasses yet - they allow him to see the "void stuff" surrounding the invaders, which provied the key to sending them back where they came from.