Line #47 Main/WorseWithContext


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11	-> '''Carlton:''' Will, you had us stop to talk to every pretty girl.\
12	'''Will:''' So?\
13	'''Carlton:''' We were on the freeway!
14	-->-- ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''
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16	When a character describes a supposedly unpleasant situation, but it doesn't seem that bad. When the other characters don't understand what the big deal is, the character begrudgingly blurts out an additional detail, allowing the audience and/or other characters to grasp the gravity of the situation. For example, there's a big difference between your aunt being cut from her position, and her being cut from her position with a machete.
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18	There are many ways this trope can occur, but these are some common examples:
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20	* Alice lambasts Bob for making a mistake or instigating an incident. Bob defends himself by downplaying the situation to make it seem like Alice is overreacting, but Alice counters by disclosing an aggravating factor that makes the incident much more dire or severe.
21	* A character mentions an expected punishment or undesirable outcome of a situation which, while unpleasant, is still relatively benign. A detail is subsequently added that turns it into TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment.
22	* A character reveals that [[HopeSpot something good is going their way]], usually excited about the outcome. Then the actual context is shown, giving way to the same character noting ThisIsGonnaSuck, sometime by repeating what they just said in as a bit of an IronicEcho. Can be done dramatically or for comedy.
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24	As a ComedyTrope, the gag is that the character didn't reveal the critical detail in the first place, even though they were trying to make a point. Can be PlayedForDrama if a character is using it to try to conceal their own mistakes or flaws.
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26	The verbal version of a RevealShot. If multiple details are revealed in succession that make the situation progressively worse, EscalatingPunchline also applies.
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28	Can be a type of BaitAndSwitchComment of FromBadToWorse situation. Compare IfYouThoughtThatWasBad and LessDisturbingInContext.
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33	[[foldercontrol]]
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35	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
36	* The first episode of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' starts with a ColdOpening that may be shocking, but isn't quite disturbing until seen in the context of the arc. And then becomes more disturbing the more context is revealed after the arc.
37	* In ''Manga/YuushaGojoKumiaiKouryuugataKeijiban'', the forum regulars react to a hero's description of their party with scorn when they realise that it's a harem situation. They're a little more sympathetic when they learn that the heroines hate each other, and the only thing they can agree on is their hatred for the hero, but only a little (after all, some guys ''like'' that sort of thing). It's only when the hero reveals that she's a girl that they realise just how bad the situation is.
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40	[[folder:Comic Books]]
41	* In the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' story "ComicBook/GyrosFirstInvention", Donald and Scrooge explain the events of "Christmas for Shacktown" to Gyro and how it will take 272 years, 11 months, three weeks, and four days to get all of Scrooge's money out of the hole it's trapped in (all umpteen fantasticatillion, three multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixteen cents of it), culminating with this exchange:
42	-->'''Gyro:''' ''(smiling)'' No, Mr. [=McDuck=]! You miscalculated! It'll take six months...\
43	'''Scrooge:''' ''(cheering up)'' Really! '''Not''' 272 years? Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!\
44	'''Gyro:''' No, no! You had the '''years''' correct! Just a tad off on the ''months!''
45	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': In the ''[[Recap/SonicTheHedgehogIDWFangTheHunter Fang the Hunter]]'' miniseries, Bean the Dynamite has this reaction twice in the span of Issue #2, and are [[BookEnds both the first and last bits of dialogue from Bean in the issue]].
46	** The first time, Bean and Bark are tied up and hanging above a pit of sand, Fang tumbles down after fighting Knuckles, with Bean initially happy to see him, until Fang berates them for getting captured.
47	--->'''Bean:''' ''[happily]'' ''Hooray!'' He found us!\
48	'''Fang:''' You useless mooks! Do you know how much I've gone through to get here?!\
49	'''Bean:''' ''[dejectedly]'' Hooray. He found us.
50	** The second time, Bean, Bark, and Fang seem like they're about to drown, until a claw comes down and saves them both. Bean cheers for them being rescued... until it's revealed that it was Eggman who came to rescue them.
51	--->'''Bean:''' Hooray! We've been rescued!\
52	'''Fang:''' Aw, no...\
53	'''Dr. Eggman:''' What are you three doing in my territory!?\
54	'''Fang:''' Hey doc, fancy meeting you here.\
55	'''Bean:''' Hooray. We've been "rescued."
56	* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': The line "With corpses, I prefer to go through the eye sockets" is already bad enough. The fact that the bot giving the line (Chromedome) is referring to mnemosurgery, a method of viewing[=/=]altering a Cybertronian's memories responsible for everything from [[ManchurianAgent shadowplay]] to straight-up ''mutilation'', cranks it from slightly to exceedingly disturbing.
57	* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': No, the Chitauri are not planning to destroy Earth. They will destroy ''the whole solar system''.
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60	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
61	* In one ''ComicStrip/BeauPeep'' strip, Beau asks Sergeant Bidet why he and Dennis have been thrown into the brig, having been too drunk the previous night to remember anything. The Sergeant tells Beau that he threw a glass through a window, which Beau doesn't think is too bad...until he learns that the colonel was holding the glass at the time.
62	* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'':
63	** In [[https://fborfw.com/strip_fix/sunday-september-5-1982/ one]] comic, Michael tells his half-asleep mother that Elizabeth just went outside with her new umbrella and wearing her new boots, which just gets a series of grunts. Then he adds she's ''only'' wearing the boots. Elly runs outside to chase down her daughter while a grinning Michael muses that he likes telling the best part last.
64	** Another strip shows Elizabeth retaliating after Michael puts soap on her toothbrush. When she tells him she used his toothbrush, it doesn't faze Michael in the slightest. Then Elizabeth tells him she didn't use it for her teeth, but for ''[[BigFriendlyDog Farley's.]]''
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67	[[folder:Fan Works]]
68	* ''Fanfic/LuckyNumberThirteen'' has an example PlayedForDrama rather than comedy. Sharon gives a hypothetical context to Ana when they're talking about the submissive contract. When Sharon brings up that potential Doms and Masters complaining about a person's hard limits is a red flag, Ana questions why (Christian having done the same thing with her). Sharon says the following: ''"Because if he starts arguing with you and demanding something you don't want over, say, dinner, you can keep saying no. You can get up and walk away [...] You can't do that when you're gagged and bound to a table."'' As it turns out [[spoiler:this is pretty much exactly what happened to Sharon when she was with Christian]].
69	* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38732601/chapters/99572769#workskin Give Not Into Sorrow]]'' elaborates on why [[VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus Charm]] quit the Galaxy Team. The game implies that she resented having to [[LazyBum work for a living]]. Charm here elaborates that she was a refugee the Galaxy Team exploited for child labor; the Galaxy Team's policy of 'no freeloaders' extended to children, and she was expected to risk her life every day in the Survey Corps because they didn't owe her food or shelter.
70	* ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'': Father Maxwell brings his crusaders to the battlefield, initially signaling their arrival as a force of good for its citizens, until he starts murdering them. A man can only whimper in fear as he realizes what's about to happen.
71	-->'''Maxwell:''' Yes, my fellow Christians, we've come to save you--\
72	'''Citizen:''' [[HopeSpot Hooray, it's the Catholic Church!]]\
73	'''Maxwell:''' ''(sneering)'' --FROM ''YOURSELVES!''\
74	'''The Same Citizen:''' ''(resigned)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh no, it's the Catholic Church...]]
75	* In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', when Cross called the crew together for a meeting, Usopp tells him that Soundbite made his voice come out of Merry's toilet. Cross admits that it sounds funny and doesn't see what the problem was. Usopp then reveals that he was using it at the time.
76	* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'':
77	-->'''[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]:''' What is the punishment?\
78	'''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]]:''' Banishment...\
79	'''Phoenix:''' Well, that isn't so bad compared to--\
80	'''Twilight:''' To the moon...[[HurlItIntoTheSun or even the sun]].
81	* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': In the episode "To Kill a Firebird", the immortal Princess Celestia describes one of her prior {{Mayfly December Romance}}s:
82	-->'''Celestia:''' And that was the day I met my 43rd True Love. His name was Washington Carbohydrate. And my, was he cute! [...] Anyway, the point of my story is, if I'm immortal, then really, age shouldn't be a problem for either of us. Of course, his kindergarten teacher wouldn't have any of it...
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85	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
86	* Deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''. Right before "Love is an Open Door," [[spoiler:Prince Hans]] casually dismisses Anna's shocked reaction at his family ignoring him as "what brothers do," indicating that he has a warped view on how family relationships work. The creators have confirmed he was indeed neglected in youth, and the BroadStrokes TieInNovel ''Literature/AFrozenHeart'' reveals that the abuse was far worse than what he described.
87	* In ''WesternAnimation/RoverDangerfield'', when Rover encounters his old dog act trope, he finds that one dog, Flappy, had been kicked out. Rover figured that, stating that Flappy was dumb, before going into a monologue of stupid things he had done, capping it off with:
88	-->'''Rover:''' When Carmine paper-trained him, that was something. He went right on the paper. The only trouble is...Carmine was reading it!
89	* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeWorld'': Searcher mentions an incident when arguing with his father about what it was like growing up with him.
90	-->'''Searcher:''' You gave me a ''machete'' for my birthday!\
91	'''Jaeger:''' ''(chuckles)'' Classic Jaeger Clade.\
92	'''Searcher:''' I was ''two!''
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95	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
96	* ''Film/TenCloverfieldLane'': There's a scene where [[Creator/JohnGoodman John Goodman's]] character Howard shaves and puts on some nice clothes before preparing dinner for a nice young woman, even offering some ice cream. Seems innocent enough out of context. ''In'' context it's one of the most horrifying scenes in the entire film because of the sheer implications; [[spoiler: Howard is an unhinged murderer and possible rapist who just murdered the only other man in the bunker the characters are in, seems unhealthily obsessed with the woman in question and keeps [[ParentalIncest comparing her to his possibly dead daughter]]. The implication of the whole scene is that he's on the verge of raping and/or killing her.]]
97	* ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. While masquerading as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sheriff Bart tells Hedy (THAT'S HEDLEY!!) Lamarr why he should be a part of Lamaar's criminal army.
98	-->'''Lamaar:''' Qualifications?\
99	'''Bart:''' Stampeding cattle.\
100	'''Lamaar:''' That's not much of a crime.\
101	'''Bart:''' Through the Vatican.\
102	'''Lamaar:''' Kinky! Sign here.
103	* ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene''. While waiting for a train, Irene tells Charlie about her past as an aspiring actress.
104	-->'''Irene:''' I got this eating disorder where I gained, like, twenty pounds.\
105	'''Charlie:''' That's not that bad.\
106	'''Irene:''' [[BigEater In a week.]]
107	* ''Film/ThereWillBeBlood'': Most people who see the infamous "[[MemeticMutation I drink your milkshake]]" clip expect the whole scene it appears in to be bizarre and silly. In reality, the context in which it's said is deadly serious and the line itself is a part of a ''massive'' KickTheDog moment. It's also immediately followed by [[spoiler:[[NightmareFuel Daniel savagely bashing Eli's skull in with a bowling pin]].]]
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110	[[folder:Jokes]]
111	* A man talking to a friend:
112	--> I think my wife is trying to kill me.\
113	How so?\
114	She got me a swim club membership...\
115	Sounds like she's worried about your health.\
116	...and [[CementShoes a pair of ankle weights.]]
117	* A man encounters an old friend. The old friend has blood on his clothes:
118	--> Where are you coming from?\
119	From my mother-in-law's funeral.\
120	And why the blood?\
121	Because the old lady wasn't up to it...
122	* My father was the town drunk. Normally that's not ''too'' bad... but of New York City?
123	* "When I die, I want to go [[PassedInTheirSleep quietly in my sleep]], like my grandfather... not screaming, [[FellAsleepDriving like his passengers]]."
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126	[[folder:Literature]]
127	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
128	** ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'': The D'Regs feel that 71-Hour Ahmed broke their SacredHospitality rules when he beheaded a man before the three days were up, just because he poisoned El-Ysa. The victim's actions seem pretty bad already, but when Vimes asks who El-Ysa was, he's told it was a village.
129	** ''Literature/GuardsGuards'': Vimes gets this when he starts asking about a diner's terrible coffee.
130	--->'''Vimes:''' How long has it been since the last time you cleaned the coffeepot?\
131	'''Harga:''' What day's today?\
132	'''Vimes:''' Grune 28, I think.\
133	'''Harga:''' What year?
134	** ''Literature/TheLastHero'': One of the wizards explains that when Cori Celesti explodes, the effects will last a few years. So when one non-wizard asks if they just need to bunker down and get back to life as usual once that's over with and enjoy a world free of magic and wizards...
135	--->'''Ponder:''' The seas will boil. The sun will burn out and crash. The elephants and the turtle may cease to exist altogether.\
136	'''Downey:''' And that'll all happen in two years, will it?\
137	'''Ponder:''' No, sir. That'll all happen in the first ten minutes. You see, magic isn't just lights and fireballs. Magic holds the world together.
138	* In ''Literature/TheElenium'', at one point Vanion says that someone besides Kalten should forge a document, because Kalten's spelling is so bad that he once got every letter of a six-letter word wrong. Darellon points out that some words are hard to spell, and Vanion responds that the word in question was ''Kalten's own name.''
139	* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Harry ends up in detention with the sadistic Professor Umbridge. When Ron later asks him what his punishment was, he replies he just had to write lines. Ron understandably notes that that wasn't too bad, expecting something worse. What Harry chose to leave out not to worry him or Hermione is that he had to write said lines with a magic quill that uses ''his blood'' as ink and carves what he writes onto the back of his hand. He ends up in detention so much that year that the lines he writes eventually permanently scar the back of his hand, on top of bleeding profusely after each detention (which is how Ron finds out the truth, he's suitably horrified).
140	* ''Literature/HollowKingdom2019'': At one point, S.T. observes his neighbor Nargatha eating Triscuits. The next line clarifies that "Triscuits" is the name of Nargatha's dog.
141	* ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn'':
142	-->'''Schmendrick:''' He had me juggling teacups. With tea in them!
143	* In ''Literature/TheLostFleet'', Captain Desjani reassures Captain Geary that even though Admiral Otropa outranks him, there's no chance of him trying to usurp Geary's command of the fleet because no one would accept 'Otropa the Anvil' in his place. Geary comments that [[RedBaron 'The Anvil' sounds like a strong nickname]], but Desjani tells him that Otropa got it by being beaten so often.
144	* ''[[Literature/MichaelVey Rise of the Elgen]]'': When Michael's group finds Tanner in lockup, they ask what he did to end up punished. Tanner says that he tried to crash a plane, which confuses them as that's why Hatch keeps him around. [[DrivenToSuicide Then Tanner clarifies that he and Hatch were]] ''[[DrivenToSuicide on]]'' [[DrivenToSuicide the plane.]]
145	* ''Literature/TressOfTheEmeraldSea'': Hoid reveals that the Sorceress' {{Curse}} on him took away his sense of taste, then later clarifies that he means "the important one. And with it went my sense of humor, my sense of decorum, my sense of purpose, and [[IdentityAmnesia my sense of self]]."
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148	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
149	* One ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' episode ("Charity Drive") has Gob request George Michael and Maeby break into a municipal office and sneak a file into their file cabinet. This conversation occurs after Maeby sticks her gum on the side of the file cabinet:
150	-->'''George Michael:''' What are you doing?\
151	'''Maeby:''' Leaving my calling card.\
152	'''George Michael:''' But they're going to know we were here.\
153	'''Maeby:''' Uh, they already know that. Our fingerprints are all over the office.\
154	'''George Michael:''' You said they wouldn't check for fingerprints!\
155	'''Maeby:''' I said, "Don't wear your mittens." They look ridiculous on the security camera.\
156	'''George Michael:''' THERE'S A SECURITY CAMERA?
157	* During the first season finale of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', Jimmy explains that his previously shown arrest in Chicago was giving a guy he disliked a "Chicago sun roof": climbing on top of his car and crapping through the open sunroof. [[spoiler:Then he noticed that the man's ''children'' were inside the car, which caused the man to try to get Jimmy labeled a sex offender.]]
158	* In one episode of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', when Elly May is bathing her dogs in the 'cement pond', she explains to Jed that she has no choice as Granny had gotten mad the last time Elly used her tub to bathe them.
159	-->'''Jed:''' I don't blame her. You shoulda waited until she climbed out.
160	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In "The Donation Oscillation", Bernadette takes offense to her husband inviting someone else to a "Vomit Comet" excursion. Howard argues that she wouldn't enjoy it, pointing out that she got sick because of the Teacup Ride at Disneyland. Bernadette says that a lot of people do...and Howard mentions that she was still in line.
161	* In the ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'' episode "Private Plane," the full extent keeps getting worse as Melchett tries to justify it.
162	-->'''Melchett:''' Now George, you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper, for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit, beautiful little thing, do you remember?\
163	'''George:''' Flossie!\
164	'''Melchett:''' That's right, Flossie! Do you remember what happened to Flossie?\
165	'''George:''' You shot him.\
166	'''Melchett:''' That's right! It was the kindest thing to do after he'd been run over by that car. \
167	'''George:''' ''Your'' car, sir.\
168	'''Melchett:''' Yes, but that too was an act of mercy when you remember that dog had been set on him.\
169	'''George:''' ''Your'' dog, sir.\
170	'''Melchett:''' Yes, yes, my dog. But what I'm trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossie was in after we'd scraped him off my front tyre is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now. If not very nearly dead, then very ''actually'' dead.\
171	'''George:''' But surely, Sir, you must allow me to at least try and save him.\
172	'''Melchett:''' No, George. It would take a superman to get him out of there, not the kind of weed who blubs just because somebody gives him a slice of rabbit pie instead of birthday cake.
173	** And in the first season, it's up to Edmund, newly named Archbishop of Canterbury, to convince a dying noble to leave his lands to the Crown instead of the Church. Unfortunately, the guy is convinced that he's going to Hell, as he has committed the sin of adultery...over a thousand times...[[ParentalIncest with his mother.]] Edmund convinces him via HellOfAHeaven in the end.
174	* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'':
175	** We get this line when [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Profesor Jirafales]] chastised Don Ramón for threatening El Chavo.
176	--->'''Chilindrina:''' This is the first time that my dad has threatened to hit El Chavo.\
177	'''Prof Jirafales:''' Really?\
178	'''Chilindrina:''' Yes, he always hit him without warning.
179	** At the end of another episode, Chilindrina finds El Chavo crying and he confesses that he had thrown, dirtied and stomped on Quico's clothes, Chilindrina tries to calm him down saying he had it coming as he and his mother had done the same to her father's clothes, but Chavo adds that Quico was ''still wearing them'' (cut to a beaten and unmoving Quico laying on the floor).
180	* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'':
181	** In one episode, Woody refuses to bowl because he once injured a bowling alley maintenance man, leaving him unable to work there anymore:
182	--->'''Woody:''' The last I heard, he was a clown at children's parties.\
183	'''Sam:''' Well, that's not so bad, is it?\
184	'''Woody:''' He wasn't invited to them.
185	** When Sam and Henri are talking about their sexual exploits, Sam possibly inverts this:
186	--->'''Henri:''' So, what's the strangest place you've ever made love?\
187	'''Sam:''' That would be the back of a car.\
188	'''Henri:''' That doesn't sound so strange.\
189	'''Sam:''' No, it was on the assembly line.
190	* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'':
191	** In "[[Recap/TheDickVanDykeShowS1E3SallyAndTheLabTechnician Sally and the Lab Technician]]", Laura tries to matchmake Sally with her cousin Thomas, a lab tech, despite their differing personalities. While discussing how Sally spent the entire evening launching zingers at her prospective boyfriend, Rob tells Buddy that near the end of dinner, she told him he was witty and should do a lecture tour. Buddy can't see what the problem with that is, until Rob reveals that [[ShrinkingViolet Thomas]] stayed quiet the whole evening.
192	** In one episode, Rob tells Laura that during a high school dance, a girl slapped him for telling her that her slip was showing.
193	--->'''Laura:''' Well, is that all?\
194	'''Rob:''' Well, I said it [[IsThisThingStillOn over a loudspeaker.]]
195	* In ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode "Switched at Birth", after it looked like [[SwitchedAtBirth Baby's egg]] had been [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mixed up with a child]] belonging to the Molehills, the Sinclairs and the Molehills swap the kids. Within a single day, Mrs. Molehill can't stand [[EnfantTerrible Baby's behavior]] and brings him back, saying one of the things he had done was spitting up on her carpet. Earl[[note]]not really wanting to swap the babies back[[/note]] tries to tell her that a lot of toddlers do that. Mrs. Molehill then screams that Baby had eaten the family cat first.
196	* ''Series/DogWithABlog'' episode "How I Met Your Brother And Sister."
197	-->'''Tyler:''' You're the girl who got me detention!\
198	'''Avery:''' You're the kid who did a bike jump in school and ran over my backpack!\
199	'''Tyler:''' You can get another backpack.\
200	'''Avery:''' I was ''wearing'' it!
201	* This exchange between Laura and Steve about Myra in ''Series/FamilyMatters''
202	-->'''Steve:''' Last week, she signed up for my chemistry class!\
203	'''Laura:''' Well, what's wrong with that?\
204	'''Steve:''' She doesn't go to our school!
205	* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Frasier and Niles need to fake their opinion on a play they haven't seen, and Frasier reminds Niles that it didn't go so well for him last time, when Niles had claimed another play had third act problems. Niles asks him why he considers that to be such a blunder, and Frasier replies that the play had no third act at all.
206	* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'':
207	** Carlton complains one time about a long drive:
208	--->'''Carlton:''' Will, you had us stop to talk to every pretty girl.\
209	'''Will:''' So?\
210	'''Carlton:''' We were on the freeway!
211	** In "Blood Is Thicker Than Mud", this trope is used again when Carlton's Hell Week is more extreme than the others':
212	--->'''Will:''' Carlton, you seem to be getting it worse than the rest of us.\
213	'''Carlton:''' Come on, Will, everyone had to re-tar the parking lot.\
214	'''Will:''' Yeah, but the rest of us got to wear shoes.
215	** In "PS I Love You", Uncle Phil tries to defend Judge Robertson's erratic behavior to avoid running against him:
216	--->'''Vivian:''' I asked him to pass the salt. He told me "Go long".\
217	'''Phil:''' I'm sure he was just joking.\
218	'''Vivian:''' He broke a window.
219	* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': Gilligan is going off on another one of his stories about the people he grew up with and mentions that Skinny Mulligan got in trouble for [[AppleForTeacher giving the teacher an apple.]] When the Skipper says people don't get in trouble for doing that, Gilligan reveals that [[WormInAnApple the apple had a worm]].
220	* A large number of the gags in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' used this trope. In [[https://youtu.be/S30I21KK4wQ?t=25 one scene,]] Dorothy is under the impression that they have no cheesecake left because Blanche ate it all to cope with the stress of discovering gray hairs.
221	-->'''Dorothy:''' Didn't we buy one yesterday?\
222	'''Blanche:''' Yes, but I found two gray hairs.\
223	'''Dorothy:''' Blanche[...]finding two gray hairs is no reason to eat a whole cheesecake.\
224	'''Blanche:''' I found the two gray hairs ''in'' the cheesecake.
225	* In the episode "The Samurai" of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', Hideo Koto warns Duncan about what happens to foreigners like him in Japan.
226	-->'''Hideo:''' No matter, you are barbarian. If they see you, you will be crucified.\
227	'''Duncan''' [[NighInvulnerability Yeah...]]\
228	'''Hideo:''' [[DecapitationRequired And then BEHEADED!]]
229	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'':
230	** Jill has Tim take a test of how good a husband he is from [[PanderingToTheBase her magazine]] and he scores in the eighties range...out of three hundred. Tim retaliates with his own test, giving her a score in the nineties.
231	---> '''Jill:''' Outta what?\
232	'''Tim:''' Seventy million!
233	** Tim and Al get arrested for scalping hockey tickets and Tim asks another guy at the police station [[WhatAreYouInFor what he was arrested for]]. The guy says he gave somebody a tattoo.
234	--->'''Al:''' That doesn't sound so bad.
235	--->'''Guy:''' Well, he didn't ''want'' one.
236	* In one episode of ''Series/{{Hooperman}}'', the title detective finds out that a criminal he put behind bars is getting out.
237	-->'''Hooperman:''' He gave me the finger.\
238	'''Betty:''' So? A lot of criminals do that.\
239	'''Hooperman:''' Yeah, but he cut his off and [[FingerInTheMail mailed it to me.]]
240	* ''Series/ICarly'': When Freddie is talking about his newfound freedom after his micromanaging overprotective mother is too busy taking care of Lewbert after being injured twice.
241	-->'''Freddie:''' Last night, slept with my socks on.\
242	'''Sam:''' So?\
243	'''Freddie:''' ''Just'' my socks.
244	* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' uses this when Frank tries to make people think he's a veteran.
245	-->'''Frank:''' Look, I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me.\
246	'''Dee:''' You went to Vietnam in 1993 to open up a sweatshop.\
247	'''Frank:''' And a lot of good men died in that sweatshop!
248	* In one episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', on the subject of Parker's past:
249	-->'''Eliot:''' [[DrivesLikeCrazy Parker, where'd you learn to drive?!]]\
250	'''Parker:''' Before I stole cars, I was a getaway driver.\
251	'''Hardison:''' Before?! You stole cars when you were ''twelve!''
252	* ''Series/NickyRickyDickyAndDawn'' has this at the beginning of "Quad-ventures In Babysitting" while they're complaining about their babysitter that stayed the night:
253	-->'''Anne:''' How was your night with Tanya?\
254	'''Ricky:''' We were up half the night.\
255	'''Dawn:''' She sang us lullabies.\
256	'''Anne:''' Well, that sounds sweet.\
257	'''Dawn:''' About all the things they put in sausages.
258	* In one episode of ''Series/NightCourt'' Bull discusses a defendant who's accused of performing surgery without a license. Turns out it was also without anesthetic, or permission.
259	* ''Series/RedDwarf''
260	** Rimmer in the episode "Marooned," when he learns Lister lost his virginity at age twelve:
261	--->'''Rimmer:''' The only thing I lost when I was twelve were my shoes with the compass in the heel and the animal tracks on the soles. Porky Roebuck threw them in the septic tank behind the sports ground. I cried for weeks. ''({{Beat}})'' I was wearing them.
262	** When Lister learns the prison satellite will analyze his mind for any crimes he's committed in the episode "Justice," he's worried about going "scrumping" as a kid. Kryten assures him that the satellite will hardly care about stealing apples, and Lister clarifies that he and his mates scrumped ''cars''. He also worries about the time he [[StealingFromTheHotel took stuff from a hotel]]. Again, Kryten tries to reassure him, but Lister explains it wasn't towels, it was all the furniture.
263	* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' season 1 "Dad's Back", when Carey gets mad at Kurt for making their home a mess and letting Zack and Cody watch a horror movie:
264	-->'''Kurt:''' I know, you're mad.\
265	'''Carey:''' No, no, I was mad when you sold our car to buy a new guitar. [[BroughtHomeTheWrongKid I was mad when you came home from the playground with the wrong twins.]]\
266	'''Kurt:''' It was an honest mistake.\
267	'''Carrie:''' They were girls.
268	* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck''. Models come on the boat in one episode, so Zack suggests to Marcus they throw a party. Marcus's response:
269	-->'''Marcus:''' If we throw a party and Mr. Moseby finds out, he'll make us clean the propeller--while it's on.
270	* ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'': The subplot for "Don't Have a Cow" sees Cory and William's trick-or-treat expedition ruined when William's working remote costume sets off every remote-controlled device in town.
271	-->'''Cory:''' All we got was a stupid pack of breath mints.\
272	'''William:''' And three pennies.\
273	'''Cory:''' They threw those at you.
274	* ''Series/ThreesCompany'':
275	** One episode starts with the trio dancing to music. A neighbor calls the police to complain about the noise.
276	--->'''Police Officer:''' She's also upset because she can't get her husband off the roof.\
277	'''Jack:''' Well, she can't blame us for that.\
278	'''Police Officer:''' Oh, yes, she can. He's up there with binoculars, watching these girls dance.
279	*** Moments later, Chrissy realizes that the police officer is actually a distant relative of hers, Jay Garfield, and invites him to stay for coffee. He declines, as he would get in trouble with his Sergeant.
280	--->'''Jay:''' If the Sarge found out I was on a social call, he'd go through the roof.\
281	'''Chrissy:''' But we haven't seen each other for so long, I'm sure he'll understand.\
282	'''Jay:''' Not Sergeant Hamilton. He's had it in for me ever since I lost something once.\
283	'''Chrissy:''' What did you lose?\
284	'''Jay:''' My patrol car.
285	** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] when Mr. Furley says that he's written many {{Strongly Worded Letter}}s to his brother Bart, complaining about not being provided with enough funds to maintain the building. When the tenants are surprised that Mr. Furley would stand up to his brother that way, Mr. Furley says that if Bart doesn't shape up soon, he's going to [[DeliveryNotDesired start mailing them.]]
286	* ''Series/TrueJacksonVP'', when Oscar and Amanda are discussing why Amanda keeps losing assistants.
287	-->'''Oscar:''' You made your last assistant [[YouGetMeCoffee pick up your dry cleaning.]]\
288	'''Amanda:''' So?\
289	'''Oscar:''' It was in Canada.
290	* ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'': The 'not-so-harmless' punishment version occurs in one sketch when Lance tells one of the kids to remove his shoes as he is grounded. The kid takes off his shoes but says that being barefoot won't stop him leaving the house. Lance says that he misunderstood, and that now he has removed his rubber soled shoes he is 'grounded' and then hands him a live electric cable, leading to HarmlessElectrocution.
291	* ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'': Quinn is arguing with her dorm advisor and Zoey and Lola ask her what's wrong. Quinn tells them that the advisor put her in room 36D. They don't see why that's so bad, then Quinn tells them there ''is'' no room 36D [[note]]It turns out Coco (the advisor) was ordering a bra online and accidentally put its size down as Quinn's room number [[/note]].
292	[[/folder]]
293
294	[[folder:Radio]]
295	* A common joke structure in ''Radio/TheGoonShow''> One example:
296	-->'''Neddie:''' How did you know he was dead?\
297	'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' He's been lying on his back for three days.\
298	'''Neddie:''' That doesn't mean a man's dead.\
299	'''Grytpype-Thynne:''' In this case it did. <{{beat}}> He was on the bottom of the lake.
300	[[/folder]]
301
302	[[folder:Theatre]]
303	* ''Theatre/NextToNormal'': The song "There's A World" is a slow, calm SomewhereSong, where the singer is telling someone about a place where they can go where they will be happy. In context, the song is actually about [[spoiler:the embodiment of a mental illness convincing a woman to ''slit her wrists'']].
304	[[/folder]]
305
306	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
307	* The Stretching Room portraits in Ride/TheHauntedMansion start seemingly innocent. Then the portraits slowly stretch to reveal something bizarre, and then something terrifying before the Ghost Host does his "There's always my way" line.
308	** The classic group:
309	*** There's a lady...walking a frayed tightrope...over an alligator's jaws.
310	*** A distinguished official...wearing no trousers...standing on a powder keg being set alight by a candle.
311	*** An old woman...sitting on a tombstone...of the husband she murdered.
312	*** A businessman...on the shoulders of another man...on the shoulders of another man waist-deep in quicksand.
313	** Phantom Manor's original portraits were of Melanie Ravenswood, with the same effects:
314	*** Melanie having a picnic with her fiance....as ants raid the picnic...along with a rattlesnake, scorpion, spider and beetle.
315	*** Melanie holding a parasol...in a boat...about to go over a waterfall.
316	*** Melanie picking roses...from above a tombstone...from which a zombie skeleton is emerging.
317	*** Melanie outside...wading through a stream...as a water monster reaches for her foot.
318	** Phantom Manor's 2019 portraits start as portraits of Melanie Ravenswood with her first four suitors. Then Melanie is erased from them and they stretch:
319	*** Barry Claude...sitting on a tree branch...missing one of his shoes...while an angry bear and her cub roar at him from below.
320	*** Sawyer Bottom...straddling a log...being sawed in half by a huge industrial buzzsaw.
321	*** Captain Rowland Falls...riding in a rowboat...about to head over a huge waterfall.
322	*** Ignatius "Iggy" Knight...standing atop several crates of TNT...and a barrel of dynamite being licked by flames.
323	[[/folder]]
324
325	[[folder:Video Games]]
326	* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has a very dark version of this. A minor plot throughout the game is the pursuit of the Ansem Report, written by a man who was studying TheHeartless. Across the game, Sora and his friends gradually collect the odd-numbered Reports, which offer insights into an individual who is curious and concerned about these dark beings. [[spoiler:The last boss before the whole game increase in difficulty is ''[[WhamLine Ansem himself]]'' (possessing Sora's friend Riku). On the return trip to that world, you obtain the even-numbered Reports. These reveal that he '''made''' the Heartless via deliberate experimentation with darkness itself, was willing to expose living beings to them, realized that they were after hearts of both people and worlds, started manufacturing Heartless ''en masse'', and voluntarily turned himself into a Heartless in order to help the Heartless find what they're looking for.]] For better or for worse, the second game reveals [[spoiler:that 'Ansem' was a stolen name, and the guy responsible was unrelated to the wise ruler that the name belonged to.]]
327	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has an optional scene where all of your party members ([[DevelopersForesight including the ones you'd need to deliberately put off the sidequest for]]) take a test that [[TheSmartGuy Genis]] has been challenged to. Lloyd's score is 25 points, and [[BookDumb he remarks that it's the best score he's ever gotten]]. Turns out the test is out of 400. Sheena is the only other party member to score less than 100 points.
328	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate:'' One of the collectibles you can seek out is vintage beers, the motive being that [[MissionControl Shaun]] is synchronizing with the sense memory of tasting each. It's really says something about how bad they can get that his review of "Leaping Fox Lager" ''starts'' by comparing it to stomach acid and ends on this note.
329	-->'''Shaun:''' Going by the scale of the other beers we've tried on this project, I'd say "3 out of five stars - would definitely order again".
330	[[/folder]]
331
332	[[folder:Webcomics]]
333	* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': [[StarfishAliens Sam Starfall]] made a list of [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything that tried to eat him]] before he got a complete environment suit. Winston reads it and discovers one item on the list is ''papilio rutulus'' - the western tiger swallowtail butterfly. Sam clarifies that technically, it was the ''caterpillars'' that found him tasty.
334	* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Agatha tries to reason with a ravenous intelligent locomotive by asking it what it wants:
335	-->'''The Beast:''' What do ''I want''? '''I want to travel the world and see the rich diversity of wonders which fill it--'''\
336	'''Agatha:''' Oh, now ''that'' sounds--\
337	'''The Beast:''' AND '''CONSUME THEM! HAHAHAHAHAHA!'''
338	* In ''Webcomic/GreasySpaceMonkeys'', Lieutenant Ash recognizes the monsters that Nathan is describing to the Captain. He says that long ago, his species designed a creature to be a fast, stealthy LivingWeapon that could wipe out squads of soldiers effortlessly...and that Nathan has encountered the creatures that ''ate'' them.
339	* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' after [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/855.html Steve is bitten by a snake]]:
340	-->'''Terry:''' That's a red mamba! The 301st most venomous snake in the world!\
341	'''Jane Goodall:''' 301st? That can't be too bad then.\
342	'''Terry:''' The top 300 all [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife live in Australia]].
343	* ''Webcomic/KickTheFootballChuck'' does not outwardly state that Charlie Brown has cancer. Without this context many of the strips look like normal ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' comics.
344	* ''{{Webcomic/Nodwick}}'': [[BewareTheNiceOnes When pushed, Piffany]] threatens to give a man [[http://comic.nodwick.com/?comic=2009-01-26 religious literature every day for the rest of his life.]] In suppository format.
345	* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Inverted in [[https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3531 this strip]]:
346	-->'''Momo:''' I think Faye is doing her a lot of good.\
347	'''May:''' They gonna fuuuuuck\
348	'''Momo:''' You have been saying that about every group of two or more people we have seen today.\
349	'''May:''' Are you tellin' me that bus full of soccer players ''isn't'' gonna bang the limousine full of models?\
350	'''Momo:''' That was a ''traffic accident!''\
351	'''May:''' ''They were pouring champagne on each other!''
352	* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', when Kevyn (who had earlier prepared a contingency plan to assassinate King Lota; a secret plan, he thought) suggests modifying a particular set of Credomar's systems, Lota angrily responds that:
353	-->'''Lota:''' Those systems house Lota's consciousness. They are not to be tampered with. More to the point, in consideration of your previous assassination plan, should any of you so much as approach those systems Lota would be required to fire you.\
354	'''Kevyn:''' Okay, I get it.\
355	'''Lota:''' Out an airlock.
356	* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'', the Duke of Fenwyck came out of a clash with TheFairFolk having the fae princeling's entire accumulated hoard transferred to him. He knew as soon as he saw it that the treasure in that room would spread GoldFever over a three-duchy radius (and his formerly-destitute duchy had no real army), but when he asked his seneschal how much there was, he was told that what he was seeing was just some of the stuff they hadn't shifted to the dungeons yet.
357	-->'''Duke:''' Ah, good. I'd hate to think this rising feeling of panic wasn't entirely justified...
358	* In ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'', [[CardCarryingVillain the plant AIs']] sentence for Vexxarr's theft of services is forcing him to degauss their ship's engines. Vexxarr comments that hard labor seems a bit lenient for them, and is told that when he is finished they will ''activate'' the engine.
359	* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'':
360	** After Doc repaired a player's thoroughly trashed paintball marker:
361	--->'''Customer:''' Wow, it looks great. What all did you have to replace?\
362	'''Doc:''' Well, I checked it carefully, and...see this fitting? And the trigger? [[CutASliceTakeTheRest Those I kept. Everything else I had to replace.]]
363	** After one spectacularly well-turned-out match, Bandit told Bruno that he'd run out of propellant, having only gone in with one small tank. Bruno suggested that now was the time to get out another, and Bandit said that he had only brought one 12-gram ''for the day'' (usually he doesn't need more) and that he'd had to finish the match using a blowgun.
364	** One player suspected that another was shooting hot, because his paintballs really stung and left big welts...even after punching through a metal bunker.
365	[[/folder]]
366
367	[[folder:Web Original]]
368	* From Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous, Janel accuses Jessica of being far too into cannibalism as a topic and that eventually she's going to start offering recipes, to which Jessica responds that she has a cannibal cookbook close at hand. Not because she carries it on her person, no, she was just recording near the kitchen today.
369	* This trope stuctures most stories on [[http://www.fmylife.com/ FMyLife]].
370	* At some point in ''Series/{{Noob}}'', Arthéon and Omega Zell overhear their guildmate Sparadrap trying to form a PickUpGroup for a quest from afar. Due to the fact that Sparadrap is actually walking around while making an announcement, he eventually bumps into them:
371	-->'''Sparadrap:''' Don't you want to help me with my quest?\
372	'''Arthéon:''' Let me remind you, we've already done that quest. You were with us!
373	* Inverted with the "Ordinary Muslim Man" and "Successful Black Guy" ImageMacro; the first caption is about something stereotypically bad about the Muslim or the black guy, and the second caption turns the first one better in context.
374	* In the Creator/TeamFourStar version of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub3pgNSL0S4 Dead Zone]]'', Garlic Jr. berates his henchmen for bringing back a dragon ball with the toddler it was on. Son Gohan then says his father will come for them, the mooks just laugh saying that they ganged up on and beat Piccolo. Gohan says his father fought against him and won as well, and he was alone.
375	-->'''Garlic Jr.:''' [[OhCrap Oh God your father's Goku.]] Oh my God you morons stole Goku's kid?! How?! How did you steal Goku's kid?!\
376	'''Cinnamon:''' Well, first we beat up his wife...\
377	'''Garlic:''' Oh my shit.
378	* ''Blog/TextsFromSuperheroes'' once had Spider-Man volunteer for street patrol on Black Friday:
379	-->'''ComicBook/{{Spiderman}}:''' Great. Aunt May plans on shopping and I need to keep an eye on her.\
380	'''ComicBook/IronMan:''' You're a good kid.\
381	'''Spider-Man:''' Thanks. I really want to see what she's getting me for Christmas.\
382	'''Iron Man:''' You're a mediocre kid.\
383	'''Spider-Man:''' If she gets me [=DVDs=] I'm making her return them. I keep telling her, Blu-Rays or nothing!\
384	'''Iron Man:''' You're not a good kid.
385	[[/folder]]
386
387	[[folder:Western Animation]]
388	* PlayedForDrama in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. When Finn asks Marceline why she's on such bad terms with her [[HalfHumanHybrid demonic biological father]] Hunson Abadeer, she bitterly says that he ate her fries, which sounds hilariously petty. [[spoiler:Later on you learn he did this back when Marceline was a young kid... which was ''right after [[CataclysmBackstory the nuclear apocalypse]]''. Marceline was a little girl probably on the verge of starvation, both scavenging to survive and mourning over her recently-deceased mother. And Hunson still felt the need to [[KickTheDog steal his daughter's food, likely the first food she had found in days, despite being an immortal demon that does not have to eat]]. Needless to say, with ''that'' context, Marceline's anger sounds a lot more justified.]]
389	* In the season four finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', ISIS must stop [[WesternAnimation/{{Sealab2021}} Captain Murphy]] from launching nerve gas missiles on the Eastern Seaboard.
390	--> '''Lana:''' So how many men does Murphy have?\
391	'''Cecil Tunt:''' About two...\
392	'''Lana:''' That's not so bad.\
393	'''Cecil Tunt:''' ...Score. Two score. So, forty.
394	* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E6RivalBusker Rival Busker]]", Anya does not want to marry her fiance because his family is normal while her family does bad things. Molly tells her every family has issues, until Anya reveals her family deals with [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking murder, arms dealing, and fixing]] [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward the Oscars.]]
395	* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'': When he realizes that he doesn't have the right comic book, Timmy Turner wishes that he was at the comic store. [[DidntThinkThisThrough Forgetting that he was in the bathtub when he made the wish]], he ends up being poofed to the comic book store [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]], and has this reaction.
396	-->'''Timmy:''' Cool, I'm at the comic store. ''[looks down at himself]'' Not cool, I'm naked at the comic store!
397	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
398	** The pilot episode "Space Pilot 3000" gives us TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment variety:
399	--->'''Fry:''' What if I refuse?\
400	'''Leela:''' Then you'll be fired.\
401	'''Fry:''' Fine!\
402	'''Leela:''' ...out of a cannon, into the Sun.
403	** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E3ATaleOfTwoSantas A Tale of Two Santas]]," Santa has become frozen in the ice, leaving him stranded at the North Pole. Fry and Leela decide to bring back the Xmas joy to everyone, with Santa pointing out it's practically impossible for a human to keep up with Santa's delivery schedule. Bender agrees, stating they'd need some sort of robot in order to keep up. Everyone stares at Bender, and [[ExplainExplainOhCrap then he realizes he's a robot who could be up for the task]].
404	--->'''Santa:''' Ha! No human could do all that.\
405	'''Fry:''' Evil Knievel could!\
406	'''Santa:''' Nuh-uh!\
407	'''Bender:''' Santa's right. We need some sort of robot. ''[{{Beat}}, as the Neptunians, Santa, Fry and Leela stare at Bender]'' Aw, crap! I'm some sort of robot.
408	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield dreams he and Jon have switched roles with him being the owner and Jon being the cat. One of the things he deals with is a neighbor coming to the front door to tell him Jon tried to eat his "Fern".
409	-->'''Garfield:''' Well, that's no big deal. A cat trying to eat a plant.\
410	'''Neighbor:''' Fern is not a plant. ''(holds out a bandaged bird on his finger)'' She's a toucan!
411	* In ''WesternAnimation/MikeTysonMysteries'', "Jason B. Sucks", Mike and the gang go to Jason B.'s house where Mike demands Jason B. to take down his negative review on his mystery business.
412	-->'''Jason:''' Why? You ruined my life!\
413	'''Mike:''' Oh, my goodness! Exaggerate much?\
414	'''Jason:''' My wife died because of you.\
415	''(Marquess and Yung gasp)''\
416	'''Mike:''' Well, in that case, maybe it's not exaggerating.
417	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
418	** In "Midnight Towboy", Flanders comes to Homer to pick up the church bus he towed...with the children still in it!
419	** In "Marge In Chains", [[AmbulanceChaser Lionel Hutz]] has an OhCrap moment when he finds out which judge their case is to appear before:
420	--->'''Lionel Hutz:''' Uh-oh, we've drawn Judge Snyder.
421	--->'''Marge:''' Is that bad?
422	--->'''Hutz:''' Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog.
423	--->'''Marge:''' You did?
424	--->'''Hutz:''' Well, replace the word "kinda" with the word "repeatedly", and the word "dog" with "son."
425	** The "Hungry Are The Damned" segment from the first ''Treehouse of Horror'' special does a wildly ZigZaggingTrope version when Lisa finds an alien cookbook called [[ToServeMan 'How To Cook Humans']]. The alien blows some dust off the show the title 'How to Cook For Humans'. Lisa blows more dust off for 'How to Cook Forty Humans'. The alien finally blows the last bit of dust off to reveal 'How to Cook for Forty Humans'. According to the [[WordOfGod DVD commentary]], Creator/MattGroening wanted a final reveal for the book to be 'How to Cook for Forty Humans and Then Eat Them'. Luckily, he was overruled.
426	** In "D'oh-in' In The Wind", Mr. Burns' instructional video featuring Homer doesn't go so well:
427	--->'''Homer:''' Well, there were script problems from day one.\
428	'''Lisa:''' It doesn't look like anyone ''read'' the script.\
429	'''Homer:''' That was the problem.
430	** In the "Treehouse Of Horror XVI" segment "Survival Of The Fattest", [[BlackComedyCannibalism Homer turns to cannibalism, eating Professor Frink]], after just ''six hours'' of [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame being hunted by Mr. Burns]].
431	--->'''Lenny:''' There's bananas in that tree up there.
432	--->'''Homer:''' Oh, they look a little green.
433	** In "Dangerous Curves", Homer is driving with Marge and [[ObnoxiousInLaws her sisters]], where he argues with them.
434	--->'''Patty:''' I can't believe Homer ruined another family picnic.\
435	'''Homer:''' Hey! Everybody pees in the pool!\
436	'''Selma:''' Not from the diving board!
437	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "No Free Rides", after [=SpongeBob=] finishes his boating test.
438	-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Okay, Mrs. Puff. How many points was that?\
439	'''Mrs. Puff:''' Six.\
440	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Whoooo! And how many points do I need to pass?\
441	'''Mrs. Puff:''' Six.\
442	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Whooooo...\
443	'''Mrs. Puff:''' ...hundred.\
444	'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Wha?\
445	'''Mrs. Puff:''' Six hundred. You need six hundred to pass. You got six.
446	* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', Omi loses the Heart of Jong to Jack and Wuya. [[MentorArchetype Master Fung]] tries to cheer them up:
447	-->'''Master Fung:''' While we should endeavor to win all the Shen Gong Wu, it is not [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the end of life as we know it]] if we occasionally lose one. So, Omi, which Shen Gong Wu did you lose?\
448	'''Omi:''' The Heart of Jong.\
449	'''Master Fung:''' ''({{Gasp}}s, turns deathly pale)'' But that means...the end of life as we know it!
450	[[/folder]]

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