The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Difference between revisions

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A dialogue trope where a character makes a list of items, groups or individuals and then deviates from the pattern established with the last one, sometimes the penultimate one. Usually [[Played for Laughs]].

Typically used for comedy, the last item is normally a focus of insult or [[Butt Monkey]] status. However it is possible to just delight in the subversion of the theme listing.

 

 

 

* [[And a Diet Coke]]

* [[And the Rest]]

* [[And Some Other Stuff]]

* [[Ladies and Germs]]

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]

* [[The Triple]]

 

 

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Bionicle]]'':

* Played with brilliant subtlety in ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' when Peter Venkman introduces his team at the library:

'''Dr. Peter Venkman:''' Yes, I'm Dr. Venkman, Dr. Stantz, Egon... }}

Vinny: Oh, you know: gunpowder, nitroglycerin, notepads, fuses, wicks, glue, paper clips (big ones). You know, just office supplies. }}

** Well, they're office supplies for him.

* In the [[Three Stooges]] short "Fight Night", Moe and Larry watch Shemp in a boxing match [[Behind the Black]]:

* In ''[[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]'', Andy reads out the names of some of his porno tapes, such as ''[[Hairy Twatter]]''.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The ''[[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]'' short story "Walkin' City Blues" by Joffy Brown has the Doctor describing a [[Femme Fatale]]'s "glamour implants" to his companion "A subtle combination of exotic pheromones, AI wetware wit-routines, genetically-enlarged pupils, and a spray-on tan."

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* On ''[[QI]]'', Alan is always treated as the [[Butt Monkey]] of the group and there are several running gags to this effect. For instance each episode has a theme for the buzzers and then Alan will always reveal his one last as something comedically different e.g. the first three together are sections of the Westminster Chimes and his is a cuckoo clock; the first three get a cow bell, a bicycle bell, a tea bell and then Alan gets Leslie Phillips going "[[Catch Phrase|Ding Dong!]]". They also are often introduced with some extraordinary adjective or other theme and then a similar twist for Alan e.g.

'''Harry:''' Or hookers ([[Beat]]) Cheap painted hookers. }}

* ''[[The Daily Show]]'': In October 7, 2008, while analyzing the "stupid" vote, John Oliver broke it down into twelve sections: paste eaters, numbskulls, nitwits, fucktards, people whose hands get stuck in pickle jars when they eat pickles, people who lose arguments to babies, douchenozzles, tiger petters, people who jump up and down on frozen lakes, shaved gorillas who've somehow managed to acquire a driver's license, the voluntarily lobotomized, and [[Take That|Cubs fans]].

** In their commentaries on the television news media, they'll often show the news media's hive-mind collective latches onto a particular key-word or -phrase and repeats it incessantly by means of a montage. They'll show sometimes upward of a dozen clips of different news anchors, reporters, and pundits repeating the same catch-phrase about an item, then end it with one of the talking heads (usually a Fox News pundit) saying something ... really bizarre, though still on-topic.

* From [[The Big Bang Theory]]:

'''Eric Gablehauser''': ''Mister'' Wolowitz. }}

* One ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' episode had [[John Munch]] give a ''strange'' set of statements, "Yeah, and I want the troops home, the Kyoto Protocol signed, and a Tijuana oil job from Miss February." to a high school girl. He might have been playing up some [[I Take Offense to That Last One]] to the "old" part of being called a [[Dirty Old Man]].

* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', "The End of the Curse". Dorothy insists that the minks have to go. Rose counters:

'''Dorothy''': Rose, they are non-breeding minks who eat their weight in food every day—Joanne? }}

 

== Music ==

* "The Genius Next Door" by [[Regina Spektor]]:

With donuts, coffee and reporters }}

* "We Are the World" (the original one from the 1980s, not the remake made in light of the earthquake in Haiti) had an all-cast of musicians...and [[Dan Aykroyd]].

== Theater ==

* [[Cyrano De Bergerac]]: After Cyrano [[Sword Fight|wounds Viscount De Valvert]] [[Excuse Me While I Multitask|while singing a ballade in his honour]], Burgundy Theater's public comments about the duel:

'''Le Bret:''' O madman! }}

* In the opening scene of ''[[The Most Happy Fella]]'', Cleo describes what her customer left on her table:

And--''one Canadian dime!''" }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': The tapestries displaying the elemental symbols of the four kids hanging in the white castle read thus:

They wait for he who would [[Snoop Dogg|drop it like it's hot whilst the pimp's in the crib]]. }}

 

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' "Bart Gets An Elephant", Lisa ask someone if they're an ivory dealer, with the reply "Well, little girl, I've had lots of jobs in my day: whale-hunter, seal-clubber, [[Biting the Hand Humor|president of the Fox network..."]]

* ''[[Futurama]]'' in "A Head in the Polls":

* The [[Justice League]] episode "Secret Society" Had this:

'''Gorrila Grodd:''' Killer Frost? She just likes to kill things. }}

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

Turbo Man: I just want to sit at home and eat chips. }}

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Australia's ''Today Tonight'' ran a story in early 2007 about a man who was, quote, "an armed robber, drug traffiker, and shonky builder."

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]