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Not to be confused with ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'', [[GurrenLagann Who The Hell Do You Think We Are?]], ThisIsSparta.

* "[[LargeHam WHHHAAAT!?]] Am I holding a crock of shit? Tell me something: is [[GarthMarenghisDarkplace this hospital]] called St. Crock of Shit?"

Not to be confused with ''[[{{Ptitlemb4rmuge064t}} Who Do You Think You Are]]?'', [[GurrenLagann Who The Hell Do You Think We Are?]], ThisIsSparta.

* Used in ''YuYuHakushoAbridged''. "Pokemon? Grrrr...this is YuGiOh town [[CurseCutShort mother-!]]"

* In Gotham City [[BadCopIncompetentCop the police are corrupt]], [[GangBangers the streets are ruled by thugs with guns]] and [[{{Understatement}} the government is somewhat ineffective]]. ''GothamCentral'' was a series set amongst the people who actually ''live'' in Gotham, instead of the superheroes who just fight crime there, and they full-well realize that their city [[WretchedHive is a hole]]. And not a particularly tolerant one, at that.

* DoctorWho: 'The King's Demons' (not sure of exact quote, but near enough)

Not to be confused with ''[[{{Ptitlemb4rmuge064t}} Who Do You Think You Are]]?'', [[GurrenLagann Who Do You Think We Are?]], ThisIsSparta.

-->Messenger: "This is blasphemy! This is madness!"
-->Leonides: "Madness? (long pause) ''[=~This! Is! SPARTA!~=]''"

'''Cox:''' ''*looks around and realizes he's at the cemetery for Ben's funeral*''

-->'''Cox:''' Ready for the party? People singing happy birthday to my son, who've never even met him before?\\
'''JD:''' Where do you think we are right now?\\

Compare with ThisIsReality. Not to be confused with ''[[{{Ptitlemb4rmuge064t}} Who Do You Think You Are]]?'', [[GurrenLagann Who Do You Think We Are?]] or ThisIsSparta.

Compare with ThisIsReality. Not to be confused with ''WhoDoYouThinkYouAre''?, [[GurrenLagann Who Do You Think We Are?]] or ThisIsSparta.

Compare with ThisIsReality. Not to be confused with [[GurrenLagann Who Do You Think We Are?]] or ThisIsSparta.

* [[TheLeagueOfGentlemen "This is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here."]]

* Used dramatically in {{Scrubs}}, as Cox comes to terms with his denial/grief over Ben's death and forgives himself and JD.

* SeriouslyWeird does this, Hugo wanted ice-cream and was in Heaven at the time.
* TwilightZone, typical [[TwilightZoneTwist Twist]]. Small-time crook dies, and everything is wonderful, he always wins when he gambles, has women around, then admits he should never have been allowed into heaven, he wants to go to "the other place." "Heaven? What makes you think this is heaven? This IS the other place!"
* "[[TheWire This is West Baltimore,]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch.]]"

* [[Left4Dead "I hate Canada so much." "Francis! We're in Pennsylvania!]]

* Used in YuYuHakushoAbridged. "Pokemon? Grrrr...this is YuGiOh town [[CurseCutShort mother-!]]"

* At the end of ''Maid to Order'', the main character asks the fairy godmother whether she was going to fly off in a bubble. The fairy godmother replied that this was the 20th century (the film was made in TheEighties), so her car flies off in a bubble.
* In ''[[{{Yu-Gi-OhTheAbridgedSeries}} Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series]]'', Tea sees a museum of ancient history, and wonders whether "they will have [[DanceDanceRevolution DDR machines]] in there." Yami says, "Tea, this is Japan. Of course they will."
** Also used was the following quote from ''KungPow: Enter the Fist'': "I'm sure on some planet your skills are quite impressive. Your weak link is, ''this is Earth''."
*** And let's not forget: "Can't we just call the police to get this guy locked up?" "This is Japan, card games are the only law."
* ''GetSmart'': Siegfried's MadLibsCatchphrase "This is KAOS! We don't ____ here!"
* In the second case of the first ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' game, the primary (or rather the only) evidence incriminating suspect Maya Fey in her sister's murder is a receipt with her name written in blood. Phoenix Wright asks Detective Gumshoe whether murder victims often identify their killer this way, and Gumshoe asserts that it happens all the time in detective novels. The detective's certainty wavers a little when Wright points out that this isn't a detective novel.
* ''{{Dr Strangelove}}'''s famous line: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the ''war'' room!"
* In Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', Prince Philip tells his father, "You're living in the past. This is the 14th Century."

* When the Losties find the Black Rock at the end of the first season of ''{{Lost}}'', Hurley wonders aloud how it got to the middle of the jungle. Rousseau replies, "Are you living on the same island as I am?"
* TwilightZone, typical [[TwilightZoneTwist Twist]]. Small-time crook dies, and everything is wonderful, he always wins when he gambles, has women around, then admits he should never have been allowed into heaven, he wants to go to "the other place." "Heaven? What makes you think this is heaven? This IS the other place!"
* [[{{Troll2}} "This is MYYYY housssssssse!"]]
* [[StrawDogs "This is where I live. This is me. I cannot allow violence against this house."]]

* The TV series ''This is Wonderland'' had it right there in the title.
* SeriouslyWeird does this, Hugo wanted ice-cream and was in Heaven at the time.
* [[TheLeagueOfGentlemen "This is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here."]]
** [[NeatFreak "In this house..."]]
* {{Discworld}} has: "We don't need to be patriotic. This is [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]]. We don't need to tell everyone we're the best. We just ''know''."
** It also parodies the famous ''DrStrangelove'' line with:
-->"It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground."\\
and:
-->"Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war."

* [[FiddlerOnTheRoof "And now I have some advice for you: This is still my land. Get off my land."]]

* [[TheWickerMan "We're a deeply religious people. We don't commit murder here."]]'
** "No apples? On Summerisle?"
* In ''WorldOfWarcraft'', if you ask an Ironforge guard if there's a mining trainer around, he asks [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame "Where do ye think ye are?!"]] before giving you the directions.
** Malygos also asks this of players when they invade his inner sanctum, claiming that he's omnipotent in it. The raid generally goes on to prove him wrong.
* Funcoland's final ad campaign before they went bust: "Where do you think you are? ''Funcoland?!''"
* "[[LargeHam WHHHAAAT!?]] Am I holding a crock of shit? Tell me something: is [[GarthMarenghisDarkplace this hospital]] called St. Crock of Shit?"
* Used dramatically in {{Scrubs}}, as Cox comes to terms with his denial/grief over Ben's death and forgives himself and JD.
-->'''Cox:''' Ready for the party? People singing happy birthday to my son, who've never even met him before?\\
'''JD:''' Where do you think we are right now?\\
'''Cox:''' ''*looks around and realizes he's at the cemetery for Ben's funeral*''

* In ''{{Holes}}'', Mr. Sir often reminds the "campers" that they are not, in fact, at Girl Scout camp. There is a sweet bit of irony when, after the novel ends and the villainous Warden is forced to sell the property, it is turned into a Girl Scout camp.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU "I'm on a boat, motherfucker! Don't you ever forget!"]]
* [[Left4Dead "I hate Canada so much." "Francis! We're in Pennsylvania!]]
* Adam on ''{{Mythbusters}}'': "Basically, now I'm about to pour the dog wee on the pile of baking soda, which, if the myth is correct, should cause a small explosion, or, if we're actually ''on Earth'', will do absolutely bupkis."
* In the beginning scene of ''Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'', Link wakes up and mistakes Marin for Princess Zelda, thinking he is in the kingdom of Hyrule. She corrects him and explains that he is now on Koholint Island, which is soon after reaffirmed by a mysterious owl.
* A short story by KimNewman, deconstructing WilliamShakespeare's ''TwelfthNight'', ends with Viola confronting TheChessmaster responsible for all the events, and demanding to know why such things were done. The response is an IronicEcho of the first thing the ship's captain said when they arrived. "This is Illyria, lady".
* On '{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}', Willow shares the news that she'll be enrolling UC Sunnydale
-->'''Buffy:''' There are better schools.
-->'''Willow:''' Sunnydale's not bad. A-And I can design my own curriculum.
-->'''Buffy:''' Okay, well, there are safer schools. THERE ARE SAFER PRISONS! I can't let you stay because of me.

* Ain't no Jesus in [[{{Fell}} Snowtown.]]
* Forget it, Jake. It's {{Chinatown}}.
* "[[TheWire This is West Baltimore,]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch.]]"
* In Gotham City [[BadCopIncompetentCop the police are corrupt]], [[GangBangers the streets are ruled by thugs with guns]] and [[{{Understatement}} the government is somewhat ineffective]]. ''GothamCentral'' was a series set amongst the people who actually ''live'' in Gotham, instead of the superheroes who just fight crime there, and they full-well realize that their city [[WretchedHive is a hole]]. And not a particularly tolerant one, at that.
-->''This isn't [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Metropolis]], Captain, and not just because [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} our guy]] works at night. [[WhereDoYouThinkYouAre This isn't the city of tomorrow, it's not San Francisco, it's not New York]].''
-->-- '''Renee Montoya''' to '''Maggie Sawyer'''
** Batman also uses this on thugs who think it's okay to use guns or hurt children.

* Used a few times in ''ShanghaiNoon'' to point out contrasts between the east (ie China) and the west (ie TheWildWest)

** Also used was the following quote from ''KungPow: Enter the Fist'': "I'm sure there's some world where your strategy is considered powerful. The problem is, ''this is Earth''."

* Played with in ''StarTrek'' III. Uhura shoves Mr. Adventure into the closet with "This isn't reality, this is ''fantasy''."

* ''{{Firefly}}'' [[TropeOverdosed does it]]:
-->'''Wash:''' That sounds like something out of science fiction.\\
'''Zoe:''' We live in a spaceship, dear.\\
'''Wash:''' So?
** Wash actually has a point: to the people watching the show, living in a spaceship is science fiction. To the people living in a spaceship, it's just kind of...normal.

* Combined with IAmNotLeftHanded in ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Q-Pid":
--> '''Sir Guy of Gisbourne''': I am the finest swordsman in all Nottingham!
--> '''Captain Picard''': I am not from Nottingham.

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* In the first season of ''{{JAG}}'', a soldier was beaten up and put in a coma. It turned out he was a gang member who turned his back on them after he signed up, but in the course of the investigation, Rab wondered whether this was a code red. Someone replied that this wasn't the movies (since ''{{A Few Good Men}}'' made that famous).

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Someone makes a comment about X. Someone else replies, "This is Y," indicating that X wouldn't happen in/at/during Y. Or they would say "This isn't Y," meaning that X would happen there, but this isn't there.

* [[RedViking This troper]] forgets where the following is from, but remembers seeing a program/movie where an American gets tossed into a Mexican jail. When he demands his phone call, the policemen all have a good laugh before telling him that this is Mexico and he doesn't ''get'' a phone call.
** ''FamilyMatters''?

-->Messenger: "This is madness!"

* ''ThreeHundred''

* A minor example in ''TalesOfSymphonia'': After reaching the elven storyteller in the Latheon Gorge, he offers to tell the party about [[spoiler: Mithos's origin]]. Lloyd is suprised, since it was established earlier that the elves have forbidden[[spoiler: stories celebrating Mithos as a hero]] in their village, Heimdall. The storyteller replies "This isn't Heimdall."

* A minor example in ''TalesOfSymphonia'': After reaching the elven storyteller in the Latheon Gorge, he offers to tell the party about [[spoiler: Mithos's origins]] Lloyd is suprised, since it was established earlier that stories celebrating Mithos as a hero