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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has this little gem in episode seven, at least in the Japanese version—Ichigo yells "It's a flying huge radish!" and actually throws a radish from one of her shopping bags into the air, in order to distract Bu-Ling. It doesn't work very well.

* [[Beyblade Metal Fusion]]: Done by Tetsuya while he was in an [[Austin Powers]]-esque disguise to learn more about a new device Madoka created. "Hey look, are those rainbow colored crabs in the sky?" [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]], as he ended up pointing to multi-colored crab balloon-banners actually floating in the air behind them.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In one ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' strip, Dave is sent on an elaborate and extremely convoluted snack run to get him out of the house while the others eat a pizza in his absence.

* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Nodwick]]'', employed whenever Arthax and Yeagar needs to get Piffany out of the way so they can do something horrid to Nodwick behind her back.

 

== Fanfiction ==

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Shrek]]''

** After Shrek is... uh, wounded by an arrow, Fiona tells Donkey to get blue flowers with red thorns so he would leave them alone. Donkey then stumbles upon a ''field'' chock full of blue flowers with red thorns... and subsequently complains that his task would be easier were he not colorblind.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Heidi]]'' there is a scene where Mr. Sesemann wants to speak about Heidi with his daughter Klara, so he (somewhat clumsily) makes up an excuse by asking Heidi to bring him a glass of water. This errand turns then into a real adventure for Heidi.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]''

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* In the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' tabletop roleplaying game, characters who are lawful and/or good tend to be especially susceptible to this... especially Paladins or Monks, who MUST keep to the straight and narrow or lose their powers. Often, the player will realize it is in their best interests to be easily distracted when their friends want to do something immoral that will benefit them in some way, leading to a sort of selective ADD.

* Played with in ''Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising''—played straight early on, with the party distracting their paladin so the rest of the group can do some [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]] on a captured badguy. Later, after learning to trust the players a bit more, the DM has his paladin [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog|wander off intentionally]] to allow the party free rein.

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Half Life|Half-Life 2: Episode Two]]'', Eli Vance sends his daughter Alyx to make some tea for him, so that he can privately talk to [[Player Character|Gordon Freeman]] about their "mutual friend," the G-Man. Unfortunately, just when it looks like we're coming up on [[The Reveal]], Alyx comes back with the tea, and Eli promises Gordon that they'll talk more later. {{spoiler|"Later" never comes, as the next time we see Eli, he's rather unpleasantly killed by a Combine Advisor.}}

* ''[[Monkey Island]]''

 

== Webcomics ==

* Seen in the webcomic ''[[Narbonic]]'' during the "Lovelace Affair" storyline.

{{quote|'''Dave:''' I'm back. Artie, can you explain why we need vegan burritos right ''now''?}}