But This Is Ridiculous: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' Episode 192, "Goku's Decision" has King Kai invoke this when Goku, with no other food around, starts eating the clouds.

* Episode 15 of ''[[Sonic X]]'', when one of Eggman's main serving robots comments on Sonic's widespread destruction of the attackers:

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* This is one of Judge Anderson's stock phrases in ''[[Judge Dredd]]''.

* In a ''[[Felix the Cat]]'' comic, Felix gets away from The Professor and Rock Bottom by hiding in a mailbox. When Rock Bottom reaches in, Felix bites him.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''Noises Off...''

* ''Role Models''

* ''[[Shocker]]''

* ''[[The History Boys]]''

* ''The Thief Lord''

* ''The A Team''

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Wheel in Space''.

'''Jamie McCrimmon:''' I've heard of a square meal, but this is ridiculous! }}

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode "Lost Continent"

* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "Small Game for Big Hunters"

* ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'' episode "The Return of Bigfoot"

* There's a scene in a ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' episode where a drunken guy is standing on the deck of a yacht when Lady Penelope, in fancy dress, drives by in the amphibious FAB1.

** Also, from the episode "Vault of Death".

* From a ''Donny & Marie'' sketch in which [[Patty Maloney]] wanted real estate agent Paul Lynde to sell her very small house:

* From a James Bond sketch on Australian comedy show ''[[Fast Forward]]'', James Bond has just shot Oddjob with a trick cigarette that's actually a gun, hitting Oddjob in the heart.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* In 1964, [[Julie Andrews]] won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in ''[[Mary Poppins]]''. Her first reaction:

* It was rumored that when the ''Titanic'' struck the iceberg in 1912 that passenger John Jacob Astor snarked, "I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous."

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Gabriel Knight]] 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned''

* A variation occurs in a level of ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'', by Sonic ([[Pungeon Master|who else?]]):

* ''[[Quest for Glory II]]: Trial by Fire''

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Lampshaded in one of the ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' Halloween specials, which features a wall of lamenting souls. The soul of Krusty the Clown is among them, and says, "I've heard of a wailing wall... but this is ridiculous!" The other souls momentarily stop lamenting to point out how corny the joke is.

* ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' episode "Ee! Tea!"

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Doctor's Disorders"

* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''

* From a "Wing Dings" skit on ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'', after Klunk showed Zilly a new way to dry laundry:

** From the ''Magnificent Muttley'' short "Start Your Engines", during Muttley's [[Imagine Spot]]:

* On ''[[Scooby Doo]], Where Are You!'', Velma gives one of these when at a dance, Shaggy leaves her to dance with Scooby (it could serve as [[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc|potential foreshadowing of what was to come years later]]).

 

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