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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Mr. Burns''': ''Relax, Simpson. I just brought you in here for a friendly hello...''
''(Phew.)''
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{{examples}}
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* The [[Archie Comics]] panels displayed above.
* [[Garfield]]'s reply to Arlene telling him she loves him was telling her that it was a coincidence because... he also loves him.▼
== [[Film]]
* Near the start of ''[[Tangled]]'', Flynn notices himself on a [[Wanted Poster]]. His reaction is to say:
{{quote|Oh, no, this is bad... [[Facial Composite Failure|they just can't get my nose right!]]}}
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** The second time it's a magazine, and his face is covered by the bar code.
{{quote|I don't believe it... I'm on the cover of a magazine!}}
* ''[[Up the Creek]]'': As a [[Running Gag]], every time the hero made love to his new girlfriend, he asked her "Was it as good for for you as it was for me?" and she replied "No..." . Then something happens to distract them. This happened three or four times, until at the end of the movie, when he asked the question she responded "No, it was better."
* ''[[Love Actually]]'': Old rock act Billy Mack puts on a [[Public Service Announcement]]:
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* [[The Princess Bride]]. Count Rugen: "You've been chasing me all these years only to fail now? I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard...how marvelous!"
* ''[[Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory]]'':
{{quote|'''Wonka:''' The
:Which, like a lot of Wonka's dialogue, is a quote -- in this case, from [[Oscar Wilde]].
== [[
* Ebeneezer Scrooge in [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' does this to Bob Cratchit at the end, scolding him for coming in late the day after Christmas and making it look like he's going to be fired, only to conclude, "therefore I am about to raise your salary."
** Some film and TV adaptations modify the line to something along the lines of "Therefore you leave me no alternative... but to raise your salary!"
* ''[[Stardance]]'' by [[Spider Robinson]] directly invokes one of those variants of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' twice -- once when the narrator is considering how to spring a surprise on someone -- and then when he has a surprise sprung on him much later in the book:
{{quote|"Now you come before me on two legs. You still limp, but you’re not a cripple any more. Fat Humphrey the telepath doesn’t give you wine with your meal, and when I kiss you at the studio I notice you didn’t have a drink on the plane. You buy me dinner and you babble about being rich and powerful and you try to sell me some crack-brained scheme for dancing in space, you have the goddam ''audacity'' to lay all this on me and ''never once say the word 'love' with your mouth'' and ask me to be your other half again." She snatched the roach out of my hand. "God dammit, Cratchit, you leave me no alternative..."
And she actually paused and toked and held it and exhaled before she let the smile begin.
"...but to raise your fucking salary."}}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Parks and Recreation]]''
{{quote|'''Leslie''' : Can I speak to you about a personal matter?
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** Also:
{{quote|'''Leslie''' : Look, I don't like to throw around the word "butthead" often. If you call everyone a butthead, it kind of loses its impact. But I can say, without hesitation... that Tom is being a real dick.}}
* Very common in competition cooking shows. For example, "I have one big complaint about your dish... I can't stop eating it!" shows up a few times on [[
▲* Very common in competition cooking shows. For example, "I have one big complaint about your dish... I can't stop eating it!" shows up a few times on [[Master Chef]].
{{quote|'''Gideon (Key)''': (tries the dish) Unbelievable...Well, Drew, I have a huge problem with this dish. It's that you haven't made it for me sooner.
▲** This is parodied on [[Key and Peele]] in their "Gideon's Kitchen" sketch:
▲{{quote|'''Gideon (Key)''': (tries the dish) Unbelievable...Well, Drew, I have a huge problem with this dish. It's that you haven't made it for me sooner.
'''Drew (Peele)''': Thank you, Chef.
'''Gideon''': Because if you had, Drew, then I would know how good you are at cooking food...that is bad.
'''Drew''': I'm sorry, Chef.
'''Gideon''': And when I say 'bad', I mean Michael Jackson 'bad'.
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'''Gideon''': You know how he looked really really bad at the end of his life.
'''Drew''': Chef, I'm sorry. I don't know if you like the dish or not.
'''Gideon''': You don't know if I like the dish or not? Well, let's put it this way; pack your knives, get out, you're off the show.
'''Drew''': Sorry, Chef.
'''Gideon''': Because...you should be working in the finest restaurant ''in the world''.
'''Drew''': Thank you, Chef.
'''Gideon''': Just not in any world that I live in.}}
* In an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Ted is on a date with a girl who keeps drinking wine
▲* In an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Ted is on a date with a girl who keeps drinking wine midsentence. She keeps saying things that can be perceived as racist remarks, confessions of fratricide, etc., then finishes the sentence after the wine sip so that it takes on a completely different meaning. As Ted is imagining literal baggage appear around the room every time she says something and it disappears when she finishes her sentence, the scene culminates with her saying something particularly bad and a suitcase appears labeled "LET HER FINISH HER DRINK, TED."
** By the time she says "That reminds me, I killed my brother (''sip'') with this joke I told him", it's hard to believe she's not doing it on purpose.
* On ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', Roy and Moss are pranking Jen into believing she's holding onto The Internet so she can present it to the shareholders:
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** When Mac and Dennis argue about whether to hit him with a trashcan or if he's ready for a chair, Charlie breaks them up. "Guys, guys, guys... I can handle a chair."
** When Mac starts calling everyone around him a "jabronie," Charlie stops him. "You keep using that word... and it's ''awesome''!"
* The live-action segment of ''[[The Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' had one episode where the President ate a pizza at Mario and Luigi's place (No, really). He said it wasn't good. It was
* One sketch on ''[[Key and Peele]]'' invokes this repeatedly, where a master chef manages to keep switching back and forth as to whether or not he likes a quiche being presented to him, multiple times, in a single sentence. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpzJAzdpTU Observe.]
* In one of the last episodes of ''[[Friends]]'', Joey asks how he managed to lose 50 coin tosses against Rachel in a row. "It was heads she wins, tails I lose!" The others stare at him as he [[The Last Horse Crosses the Finish Line|slowly figures out]]... that he forgot to pick up his dry-cleaning.
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''I don't like reggae, no no/I love it!''
''Don't like Jamaica, oh no/I love her!'' }}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
▲* [[Garfield]]'s reply to Arlene telling him she loves him was telling her that it was a coincidence because... he also loves him.
== [[Radio]] ==
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{{quote|'''Humphrey Lyttelton:''' Local Leeds celebrities include Jimmy Saville, Melanie Brown, and of course, our own ''Barry Cryer''! ...Has seen them on the telly.}}
* From an episode of the ''[[Wayne and Shuster]]'' radio show:
{{quote|You know what he's full of - [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare|sound and fury, signifying nothing]]!}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Erfworld]], Prince Tramennis greets his fallen brother, (formerly Prince) Ossomer, after Ossomer had been killed and Decrypted by Wanda, just like Ansom was.
{{quote|'''Tramennis''': Brother, it pains me to see you like this.
'''Ossomer:''' Yes, I imagine it...
'''Tramennis''': Ansom! Now, Ansom could, admittedly, pull off the [[Evil Is Stylish|scarlet-and-black.]] But I'm sorry, that is an ''atrocious'' look on you. }}
* ''Toonhole'', on [http://toonhole.com/comic/realistic/ realism of a scene].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* This is a not uncommon format for ''[[Cracked.com]]'' article titles, such as "[http://www.cracked.com/article_17093_10-awesome-ads-for-traumatizing-children.html 10 Awesome Ads (For Traumatizing Children)]".
* From the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon "The Baloneyman:
{{quote|'''Homestar''': Strong Sad, you've had some bad ideas in your time, but this is the best idea you've ever had!}}
* There are several [[Memetic Mutation|Advice-Animal-style memes]] based around this, where the top line follows a stereotype of some sort and the bottom line changes the meaning. For instance, Successful Black Man ("I got Arrested... [[Arrested Development (TV series)|Development]] on DVD"), Ordinary Muslim Man ("We are going to blow up... a bouncy house for my daughter's birthday"), or Dating Site Murderer ("I will slice you... a delicious piece of this Thanksgiving turkey").
** The world of ''[[My Little Pony:
* Some [[Troll]] [[copypasta]] such as [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/5ever 5ever] have the intended recipient of the comment tragically dying after the bait but before the switch. [
* ''[[SF Debris]]'' said he had one complaint about Picard confronting Sarek in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', which was it made him want to see them have more scenes together.
* [[Scott Adams]]' blog explains ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170908045550/http://blog.dilbert.com/post/165009907411/why-north-korea-and-the-united-states-are-near-war Why North Korea and the United States are Near War]'':
{{quote|For example, North Korea doesn’t want the U.S. to invade their country. The United States, on the other hand, [[Oh, No, Not Again|wants to invade North Korea about as much as we want rabid porcupines shoved up our asses]]. }}
* [[David Langford]]'s "[//ansible.uk/sfx/sfx067.html It's a Fix-Up]" in SFX magazine used several of these:
{{quote|Dangerous in the hands of beginners, the [[Trapped by Mountain Lions|fix-up]] can nevertheless be employed by trained professionals to produce seriously crappy SF. }}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[My Little Pony:
{{quote|'''Fluttershy:''' Uh-oh, she doesn't like it...
'''Rarity:''' No, I don't like it...I ''love'' it!! }}
** See also, Twilight's line from Lesson Zero: "Rainbow must be angry with Applejack! She must hate her guts! <hoofclap> How wonderful!"
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' does a similar thing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWJe5fHGMs here.]
** Actually used a
** Another ''Family Guy'' example.
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Lois! Remember how you always said you wanted a diamond ring?
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031035049/http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/02/23/if-teachers-are-mere-babysitters-pay-them-accordingly/ This] article on teachers' wages is one long variety of this, used to point out the [[Analogy Backfire]] of comparing teachers to babysitters.
{{quote|Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or 10 months a year. It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do – babysit. We can get that for less than minimum wage. That’s right. Let’s give them $3 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan– that equals 6 1/2 hours). Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day . . . maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 {{=}} $585.00 a day.}}
* Done negatively by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who says things like:
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