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'''George:''' You're ''damn'' right it's me!|''[[Seinfeld]]''}}

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Joked with in ''[[One Piece]]'', Chapter 489/Episode 381.

'''[[Cyborg|Franky:]]''' You're one hell of a catch, but I'm so friggin' super, I'm out of your league, babe. }}

* Mixed with {{spoiler|[[Sins of Our Fathers]]}} in [[Mawaru Penguindrum]], when {{spoiler|Shouma cuts off contact with his friend/potential love interest Ringo.}}

== [[Film]] ==

* Subverted and inverted in ''[[Eurotrip]].''

* Played straight in ''[[Hot Tub Time Machine]]'', when Adam dumped his girlfriend. {{spoiler|And also in the [[Alternate Timeline]], when ''she'' dumped ''him''}}.

* Jacob does this in the film version of [[New Moon]], when he tries to distance from Bella after discovering he's a werewolf.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Farscape]]'' plays it straight, sort of:

* Used repeatedly on ''[[Sex and the City]]'', in both of the ways described above. One scene showed the same bland guy being dumped by a series of women using the exact same lines.

* Prue in ''[[Charmed]]'' uses this line repeatedly when her boyfriend Andy gets upset that she's keeping secrets from him and missing dates, and also when she eventually breaks up with him.

* Ellen of ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'' gives this line to her much younger boyfriend Sloan shortly after he asks her to marry him, saying that he deserves better than a middle-aged woman caught up in a drama-filled world (the theatre) that she can't let him into.

* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' plays with this when Douglas discovers that his [[Temporary Love Interest]] is a [[Transsexual]]:

* Subverted in ''[[Coupling]]'' when Patrick tries to break up through her answerphone with one of his numerous conquests :

** Steve does it in the first episode to Jane, who of course asks him why she's getting dumped instead of her dumping him. Steve runs with this, telling her to dump him, to which she replies "Noooooo! We can work on your problems!'

* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One with the Thumb", the characters discuss "dating language":

* Caroline in ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' manipulates her boyfriend Matt into breaking up with her since, as a young vampire, she lacks the self-control to not rip his throat out in an intimate moment.

* Simone of ''Dårfinkar & dönickar'', masquerading as a boy, uses this line on a girl who's interested in her. The truth is, of course, that the attractive boy Simon is really a she.

** Also referenced [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01142005.shtml here].

* [http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20100308.html Used] in ''[[Head Trip]]'', without any romantic connotations to a demon.

* In a ''[[Speedbump]]'' cartoon (by Dave Coverly), he gives an example of the worst use of this line, in which an angel tells this to her devil boyfriend.

* This is [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' where this phrase is used to [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/10212004/ start a relationship.] The inversion is then promptly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded.]]