History Main / WontTakeYesForAnAnswer

** There was also an episode where, for some reason, the family was walking through the desert. Both Bart and Lisa repeat (paraphrased) "Are we mad yet?" over and over, until Homer stops, flinches and screams "I already said YES!".

** A common example on Website/NotAlwaysWorking is the cashier who keeps telling the underage customer that they can't buy alcohol, even though the customer is not actually trying to or has already agreed to put the beer back on the shelf.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'', [[CuteMonsterGirl Mavis Dracula]] is practising a speech for her [[{{Dracula}} father]] on her 118th Birthday (in front of a mirror, despite the lack of reflection, and literally pacing around the room, including walls and ceiling) that he has promised to let her out of the castle when she turned 118. Dracula walks in, and Mavis starts her tirade for real, not noticing when her father calmly says "ok". However, it's all a trick. He wants Mavis to see the human world for real and decide to stay at the castle of her own will by [[spoiler:creating a fake human village with his zombie lackeys dressed as humans with torches and pitchforks]].

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Hagrid does this when trying to defend Harry in Dumbledore's office (while waving a dead rooster he happened to have on him). Only [[Film/HarryPotter the film version]], however, includes the actual verbal backstep part.

* ''{{Series/Mash}}''

* In ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', Nyarko is asking her friend Tamao for romantic advice on how to move things along with her love interest Mahiro. Eventually Tamao says "[[WhyDontYaJustShootHim Why don't you just kiss him?]]". Nyarko says that she already did, and Tamao first reacts as if she said something like "No way, I'm too embarassed!" and starts thinking of an alternate idea before the realization sinks in and she gives a BigWhat.

* In ''{{ComicStrip/FoxTrot}}'', Peter's first attempt to ask Denise out is like this. He launches into a prepared speech about she probably doesn't remember him, completely oblivious to fact that she keeps telling him she knows who he is. She eventually tells him to put down the script.

* In ''TommyBoy'', Tommy does an unbelievable sell... then the guy he's selling to says he'll buy from Tommy, and Tommy starts to act like he says no, then both he and business partner Richard do a DoubleTake and yell "What?"

* ''FullHouse'' when D.J. is petitioning for her own room.

* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', BlondeRepublicanSexKitten Ainsley Hayes has been invited to the White House to meet with Chief of Staff Leo [=McGarry=]. Expecting she's going to be chewed out for having beaten Sam on a talking-heads TV show, she begins defending herself, not stopping to notice that Leo has just offered Ainsley a job. When she does figure that out ([[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with Leo's "here it comes..."), she starts objecting to the offer. Despite wanting it pretty much more than anything else in life:

** This happens to Daniel a few times when he underestimates the General's GenreSavvy-ness. In another episode, he's ready to go in with rhetorical guns ablazin' to convince Hammond to act on a tip he got from a {{Prophetic Dream|s}}, when the General agrees instantly on the basis that that's hardly the weirdest thing he's heard while in command of the SGC.

* ''{{Series/MASH}}''

* An early clip on ''SesameStreet'' had Ernie going over to his neighbor Herbert Birdsfoot to borrow his vacuum, and starting to muse on how Herbert usually takes a bath about this time. He worries about Herbert getting mad over having to get out of the bath and answer the door, and will probably bad-mouth him to his friends, etc. By the time Herbert does answer the door, completely dressed, dry, and in a good mood, Ernie's too worked up to notice.

* Variation in ''[[{{Series/Merlin}} Merlin]]''. Gwen has been kidnapped and Uther refuses to send a search party for her. Morgana starts hassling Arthur, calling him a coward and expressing disbelief that he would leave a friend to die...while Arthur is clearly packing to go after Gwen. It takes several tries before Arthur can get Morgana to stop yelling at him long enough to realize that he's already on her side.

* In the episode "Dogs On A Wire" of the 2010 version of ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies]]'', [[TheSmartGirl Strudel]] snaps after her pleas to go out on a mission are ignored. Team leader Lucky then gives her the opportunity to accompany a show dog back to the circus, after which she complains ''about being chosen'' for a few seconds before she realizes that's exactly what she wanted.

** It's more complicated than that. His mental disorder makes him think the answer is no in order to justify doing what we wanted to do, [[spoiler:kill his father]].

-->''Bounty Hunter'': Then saddle up, kid, let's go.
-->''Mako'': I...I'm good with a blaster, and [[MentorOccupationalHazard Braden]] was like a father to me, so it's not fair for you to... did you just say yes?

'''Emily:''' And therefore, I'm gonna raise you RIGHT off the pavement and... what?

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* Variation in ''[[Series/Merlin Merlin]]''. Gwen has been kidnapped and Uther refuses to send a search party for her. Morgana starts hassling Arthur, calling him a coward and expressing disbelief that he would leave a friend to die...while Arthur is clearly packing to go after Gwen. It takes several tries before Arthur can get Morgana to stop yelling at him long enough to realize that he's already on her side.

* Variation in ''Series/{[Merlin}}''. Gwen has been kidnapped and Uther refuses to send a search party for her. Morgana starts hassling Arthur, calling him a coward and expressing disbelief that he would leave a friend to die...while Arthur is clearly packing to go after Gwen. It takes several tries before Arthur can get Morgana to stop yelling at him long enough to realize that he's already on her side.

* In Taketo Kanzaki's "[[MultipleEndings Happy Ending]]" in ''VisualNovel/ClassTripCrush'', Taketo confesses his feelings to the protagonist and tells her he wants to go out with her. However, he's convinced that she's in love with his twin brother Yasuto, and he gets a good ways into a speech about how he understands and won't get in the way before it gets through his head that she just said 'yes'.

* ''{{Series/Mash}}''

* ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''

* The Chief Blue Meanie from ''YellowSubmarine'' will not take "yes" for an answer. All his yes/no questions must be answered with "no."

* TruthInTelevision, as anyone who has ever worked with the general public can attest. You tell a customer that yes, they can have whatever freebie they've asked for, and they'll still spend 20 minutes ranting about how they deserve it before they click that you've said yes. Browsing NotAlwaysRight will reveal more than a few of these.