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** Apu, seeing Homer looking through magazines at the Kwik-E-Mart, throws him out, scolding "This is not a library!" We then see him getting thrown out of a library, hot dog and soft drink in hand, with the librarian saying "This is not a convenience store!"
*** "A Mounds bar is not a sprinkle. A Twizzler is not a sprinkle. A Jolly Rancher is not a sprinkle, sir. Perhaps in Shangra-la they are, but not here."

** And in an early scene in the ''Chinatown''-like ''Mulholland Falls'' (which is set in Los Angeles sometime in the early 1950s), a suspected criminal warns a gang of [[CowboyCop renegade cops]] that they can't just throw him off a cliff, because "This is America." The gang leader retorts with "This isn't America. This is L.A." Cue screaming guy being thrown over the cliff.

* TheUntouchables: Upon getting chastised by the Canadian Mountie on his interrogation techniques.

'''Eminem:''' This is the MotorCity, and this is what we do.

* A short story by KimNewman, deconstructing Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/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".

** [[TheWizardOfOz "Toto...I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore..."]]
* ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]'':

* [[TheBigLebowski "Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."]]

* [[StrawDogs "This is where I live. This is me. I cannot allow violence against this house."]]

* [[{{Troll2}} "This is MYYYY housssssssse!"]]

* DueSouth: On a stolen ship drifting north across one of the Great Lakes, Fraser and Ray are trying to stop a bad guy from blowing up the ship. The bad guy boasts that they will soon be at the bottom of the lake, and he in the South Pacific. Fraser's response:

* ''DrStrangelove'''s famous line: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the ''war'' room!"

* [[TheWickerMan "We're a deeply religious people. We don't commit murder here."]]'

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

* 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.

* On 'BuffyTheVampireSlayer', Willow shares the news that she'll be enrolling UC Sunnydale

-->'''Leonides''': "Madness? (long pause) ''This! Is! SPARTA''!"

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

** The Doctor saying that "You think you can just shoot me?", causing River to reply "THEY'RE AMERICANS!". This is a RunningGag in the episode. Also, one of the upcoming episodes has the gem "everyone who's not American put down your guns"; Amy then proceeds to accidentally shoot all over the place.

* [[BloodDiamond "DIA. This is Africa".]]

** The Doctor saying that "You think you can just shoot me?", causing River to reply "THEY'RE AMERICANS!". This is a RunningGag in the episode. One of the upcoming episodes has the gem "everyone who's not American put down your guns." Amy them proceeds to accidentally shoot all over the place.

* Used in this scene from ''ToyStory'':

Not to be confused with ''Series/WhoDoYouThinkYouAre'', [[GurrenLagann Who The Hell Do You Think We Are?]], or a certain WhamLine from ''{{Scrubs}}''.

* A short story by KimNewman, deconstructing WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/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".

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

* ''TwilightZone'', typical [[KarmicTwistEnding 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!"

* 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.

* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', 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."

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-->'''Narrator:''' Now we're from America, but this isn't NewYorkCity, or [[TheWindyCity the Windy City]], or [[VivaLasVegas Sin City]]. And we're certainly no one's [[TheWizardOfOZ Emerald City]].\\

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* [[TheBible "My temple should be a house of prayer! But you have made it a den of thieves!"]]
* {{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''."

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* "This ain't the Garden of Eden/There ain't no angels above/And things ain't like they used to be/And this ain't the Summer of Love!" - BlueOysterCult, 1976

* TheUntouchables: Upon getting chastised by the Canadian Mounty on his interrogation techniques.
-->'''Mounty:''' Mr. Ness! I do not approve of your methods!

* ''{{Dr Strangelove}}'''s famous line: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the ''war'' room!"

-->"Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war."

* 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

** The Doctor saying that "You think you can just shoot me?", causing River to reply "THEY'RE AMERICANS!". This is a RunningGag in the episode. One of the upcoming episodes has the gem "everyone who's not American put down your guns." Amy them proceeds to accidentally shoot all over the place.

* ''SeriouslyWeird'' does this, Hugo wanted ice-cream and was in Heaven at the time.

* A minor example in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'':

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* A minor example in ''TalesOfSymphonia'':

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

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

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

* [[BloodDiamond "TIA. This Is Africa".]]

** The Doctor saying that "You think you can just shoot me?", causing River to reply "THEY'RE AMERICANS!". This is a RunningGag in the episode.

* ''GetSmart'': Siegfried's MadLibsCatchphrase "This is KAOS! We don't ____ here!"

* In ''{{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."