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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"I started to walk down the street when I heard a voice saying: 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd.' I turned, and there was [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend|this big white rabbit]] leaning against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that, because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name."''
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Compare [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]], [[Bait and Switch Comment]], [[Cloudcuckoolander]], [[Failed a Spot Check]], [[Not Actually the Ultimate Question]], [[I Take Offense to That Last One]], [[The Ditz]], [[Dramatically Missing the Point]].
{{noreallife|Real Life is not comedic.}} Not even instances where Person A says to Person B "You just completely missed the point of what I said," unless Person B deliberately does it for comedic effect (and makes it clear this was their intention). Without authorial intent, who is missing what point often relies on personal interpretation resulting in [[Dramatically Missing the Point|heated arguments]] rather than being [[Played for Laughs]].
{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* The Chase credit card company
== [[Anime]]
▲* The Chase credit card company runs a series of commercials in which couples relay outrageous travel tales to their friends; we became fast friends with Chevy Chase, our son discovered a dinosaur, etc. The friends are stunned...because the couple was able to use its frequent flier miles on a whim, over a holiday and to a desirable destination.
* Sagara Sōsuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' does this. A ''lot''. With pretty much anything that ''isn’t'' military-involved. This causes [[Even the Guys Want Him|many of his admirers]] [[Oblivious to Love|great amounts]] of [[All Love Is Unrequited|frustration and anguish]].
* Two [[Breast Expansion]] fetish mangas explore this concept with hilarious or saddening results:
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{{quote|'''Roark:''' Hey, Dad, you'd better look over there.
'''Byron:''' Closer examination reveals this hole was dug by a machine.
'''Roark:''' ''CAN'T YOU SEE ALL OF YOUR FOSSILS HAVE BEEN STOLEN''?!?!
* One ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' omake ends with the [[Greek Chorus|narration box]] commenting, "that isn't what's wrong here" when Edward complains that [[Animated Armor|Alphonse]] [[Impossible Task|lost too much weight]].
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': A demonic witch kidnaps Kagome so she could use her to transfer her spiritual power into a copy of Kikyo (Inu Yasha's late love interest) made from dirt and her buried ashes. When a part of her soul is transferred back into Kagome's body, she wakes up visibly shaken - not because she just had her soul temporarily torn out of her body, but because she had a bad dream that involved failing her math test. Cue looks of disbelief from Inu Yasha.
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* In ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', [[Camp Gay|Fire Emblem]] declares that he, Blue Rose, and Dragon Kid are about to demonstrate some serious Girl Power. Blue Rose points out that one of these is not like the others.
{{quote|'''Dragon Kid:''' It's because I'm a [[Bokukko|tomboy]], isn't it?}}
{{quote|'''Keith''': Why, you ask? It's because this place has the most delicious lemonade in the city!}}
* [[Idiot Hero|Natsu]] from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' is liable to do this. For example, at one point all of the denizens of a cursed village uncovered their arms and legs, which were developing into talons. Natsu was more impressed by the headman's large sideburns.
** Juvia constantly to the point any female (except Erza) interacts with her will immediately be entered into her imaginary [[Love Chart]]
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'''Panty:''' [[Big "What?"|WHAT?!]] Serious?! So it was just [[Direct to Video]]?! Well that explains why it hadn't won an Oscar yet! }}
==
* On his first album, ''Shame Based Man'', [[Kids in The Hall|Bruce McCulloch]] had a recurring bit with a radio call-in show. The last of these is some happy idiot calling to say all the lonely people should "pair up". The host then gives her a list of reasons this is a dumb idea, all of which are [[The Ditz|lost on her]].▼
* Comedian Mike Williams bases a comedy routine around McDonalds drive-throughs having a sign saying that they have Braille menus (for people who can't see) and picture menus (for people who can't read). To repeat, this is in the DRIVE-THRU. He claims to go up to the window in dark shades to ask for a Braille menu, to be told, "Sorry, we're out of Braille menus; would you like a picture menu?"▼
* A skit goes with a person walking into a restaurant and ordering a drink and a sweet roll. The waiter informs them that they are out of sweet rolls. The person thinks that apparently ordering different combinations of "sweetroll + drink" will eventually get them one, and they continue to order a sweet roll despite the waiter's increasingly angry responses that they don't have any. Eventually, the waiter gives up and walks off. The person then says "I wonder how long it'll take my sweet roll to get here."▼
* On the soundtrack album to ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', John Cleese plays a logician commenting on the 'witch burning' segment, citing the same logical lapses that his wife commits:▼
{{quote|Given the premise "All fish live underwater", and "All mackerel are fish", she will conclude not that all mackerel live underwater, but that if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her anymore.}}▼
* [[Jimmy Carr]], after his delayed reaction to the audience after this joke:▼
{{quote|"People like to smoke a cigarette after sex, but you can't buy cigarettes until you're sixteen, so I have to buy them for ''both'' of us. [To audience] You think it's wrong I'm buying a 15 year old cigarettes? [Realizing] You think it's wrong I'm ''fucking her?''"}}▼
** In many countries the age of consent for sex is 15 to 18, but the minimum age required to buy alcohol or tobacco is 18 to 21 ([[Sarcasm Mode|this including a certain large country we all know about...]]) - so it's 100 percent legal to have sex with a 15 year old, but illegal and punished by fines to give her cigarettes or a glass of beer.▼
* [[Jeff Foxworthy]] describes how, growing up, the mailbox outside his family's house had the letters "male" painted on the side of it. By the time he was in the eleventh grade Jeff realized "That ain't right. That M's supposed to be capitalized, innit?"▼
* German comedian Otto Waalkes once made this joke: "In the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted: 'And in the year of 1985, a red-haired young man from Leimen named [[wikipedia:Boris Becker|Boris]] will win the final in Wimbledon' - which is complete nonsense: First, my name is Erwin,<ref>Otto's persona</ref> not Boris; second, I'm blond, not red-haired; third, I'm not from Leimen, but from Emden; and fourth, if I had won the 1985 Wimbledon, I'd definitely remember that."▼
* The basis of one of [[Dave Chappelle]]'s jokes, from ''Killing Them Softly,'' detailing a restaurant waiter telling him "blacks and chickens are quite fond of one another." Dave comments on the incident:▼
{{quote|''"All these years I thought I liked chicken 'cause it was delicious. It turns out I'm genetically predisposed of liking chicken!"''}}▼
* This exchange from ''[[Starman (comics)|Starman]]'':
{{quote|'''Jack''': This one isn't about collectibles but it's the same kind of thing. I'm in a book store ... for new books. I've gone a little bit crazy and I'm about to spend a couple of hundred bucks. I murmur under my breath "money's too tight to mention". Now the guy behind the register, he hears this. He looks at me, nodding his head knowingly like we're in some "club of cool" together. He says, "Yeah, Simply Red" like it's a password, and now we do the secret handshake. And I'm thinking "Simply Red"? Lame English band. More soul at a polka convention. And the book store guy thinks he's on some kind of inside loop with that.
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"Mm-hm."
Dr. Possible glanced at his wife, who still appeared a little stunned. "Well, if this means I don't have to worry about you chasing any boys, that's good enough for me." }}
* In chapter 35 of the ''[[RWBY]]'' alternate universe story ''Service With a Smile'', just before Jaune's first date:
{{quote|"Use protection!" Nora yelled.
"Nora!" Ren rebuked.
"Sorry. Don't use it if you don't want. Just make an informed decision!"}}
== [[Film
* In ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', Jack tries to explain Christmas by way of talking about gifts and stockings. The other citizens of Halloween don't quite get it. In fact, Nightmare's ''entire plot'' hinges on the fact that the [[Halloweentown]]'s citizens don't quite get the point of Christmas.
{{quote|'''Jack:''' We pick up an oversized sock, and hang it like this on the wall.
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{{quote|'''Mr. Tweedy:''' Mrs. Tweedy! THE CHICKENS ARE REVOLTING!
'''Mrs. Tweedy:''' ''(not looking up)'' Finally, something we agree on. }}
* One of the few things played straight in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'', and even then verging on parody. Jay's monkey is kidnapped and driven away in a van with a poster on the back that clearly shows its destination. After about 3 minutes of stupidity, "Silent" Bob is forced to set his friend straight.
{{quote|'''[[Silent Bob]]:''' The ''sign''! On the ''back'' of the ''car''! Said ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|Critters! Of HOLLYWOOD!]]'' You ''[[Precision F-Strike|dumb fuck!]]''}}
* Cannon Films had a major case of the trope when they wrote a ''Spider-Man'' film script, which would have been very [[In Name Only]]. Said script centered around Peter Parker getting kidnapped by a Mad Scientist and being mutated into a large spider beast which craved death. Understandably, Stan Lee was not pleased with this treatment and ordered a rewrite - just the start of a long [[Development Hell]] for the wall crawler.
* In the movie ''[[Half Baked]]'', Thurgood is telling his friends not to spend any money, as they have to save it. Then:
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'''Dr. Evil''': No, you got here right on time.
'''Frau Farbissina''': No, I mean, ''I'm late''. }}
{{quote|'''Vanessa Kensington:''' Mr. Powers...let me be perfectly clear with you, perhaps to the point of being insulting. I will never have sex with you, ever. If you were the last man on Earth and I was the last woman on Earth, and the future of the human race depended on our having sex simply for procreation, I ''still'' would not have sex with you.
''[Beat]''
'''Austin Powers:''' What's your point, Vanessa? }}
{{quote|'''Vanessa:''' You know, I sometimes forget you’ve missed out on the last thirty years: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first female British prime minister, the end of apartheid...
'''Austin:''' Yeah, and I can't believe Liberace was ''gay.'' I mean, women ''loved'' him! I didn’t see that one coming! }}
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'''Earl:''' You mean that's not enough? Oh Burt, don't tell me it's not enough!
'''Burt:''' ''Not enou...'' Never mind, just run! ''Run!'' }}
{{quote|'''Earl:''' You left the radio ''on the ground''?!
'''Grady:''' Sorry, I forgot... }}
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'''Mary:''' I'd say more like... one out of a million.
'''Lloyd:''' So you're telling me there's a chance? YEAH! }}
{{quote|'''Bikini girl:''' Hey, guys. We're going on a national bikini tour and we're looking for two oil boys who can grease us up before each competition.
'''Harry:''' You're in luck... There's a town about three miles that way. I'm sure you'll find a couple guys there.
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'''Chad''': (''laughing'') You think that's a Schwinn? }}
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Great Expectations]],'' Herbert tells Pip about his fiance's elderly father. When Pip asks, "What does he live on?" Herbert replies, "The first floor." [[Don't Explain the Joke|Pip was actually inquiring after the source of his income.]]
* A short poem by [[Shel Silverstein]] is about a boy coming to school and saying, "Durn, I growed another head." The teacher corrects his poor grammar.
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* ''Divine Diva'' by Daniel Gagnon. The famous singer Iolanda is dying; the President, corrupt head of a corrupt and crumbling government, repeatedly calls her, pleading with her to return to the stage and revive both of their glory days, and making a thousand excuses as to why the political situation isn’t his fault. Iolanda tells him she’s rejected her earlier life of hedonism and extravagance and at last found love, in the person of Francesca, the humble young woman who cares for her. Francesca bluntly tells the President his faults. The President, denied Iolanda by death, tries to instead win over Francesca, but without ever admitting wrongdoing: having completely missed the point of what Iolanda values in her, he tells her that he’ll gladly listen to her talk of corruption and starvation if she’ll only have dinner with him at a fancy restaurant. He gets the only possible response when Francesca hangs up on him.
* In the Tiffany Aching subset of ''[[Discworld]]'' books, Tiffany's father takes great care to keep the clock on the mantelpiece set properly. He does this by looking at the clock tower in town each time he visits the market, remembering how it looked all through the slow, miles-long trek home, and then adjusting the Achings's clock to match what he'd seen. (It's mentioned that, since he gets up at dawn and works until it's dark, it doesn't really matter what time it is, but then, why try to set it at all?)
** A running gag in ''[[
** Here's an exchange between Vetinari and Colon in ''[[
{{quote|'I should imagine they'd give you a cigarette.'
'A cigarette?' said Fred.
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'I think they prefer you to stand up straight, sergeant.'
'Fair enough. No need to be sloppy just because you're a prisoner.' }}
{{quote|'''Moist:''' Yes, I think I shall put that off for a day or two, dangerous people to tangle with.
'''Wizard:''' Indeed. I understand some of those sopranos can kick like a mule. }}
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* A [[Running Gag]] in the ''[[Adrian Mole]]'' books is self-proclaimed intellectual Adrian completely missing the point of whatever book he's reading. For instance, after finishing ''[[Animal Farm]]'' he declares "From now on I'm treating pigs with the contempt they deserve. I am boycotting pork of all kinds."
* The Sci Fi novel ''[[Malevil]]'' has an amusing example: Fulbert of La Roque and Emmanuel of Malevil are having a pissing contest over who has authority in the region after [[World War III]]. Religion is their primarily weapon, Fulbert appoints himself priest of La Roque and so Emmanuel is elected as priest of Malevil. When Fulbert announces he is appointed as ''Bishop'', Emmanuel decides to respond with sarcasm and his own ridiculous claim. He digs out ''600 year old documents'' from the [[Hundred Years' War]] claiming that the Lord of Malevil is [[Feudal Overlord]] over La Roque and that he inherits the title and power by virtue of owning the property before the war. His friends unfortunately rally under the idea that they now have the "legal" right to overthrow the evil priest.
* In ''[[
{{quote|'''Ron:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|She needs to sort out her priorities]].}}
* In ''[[High Fidelity]]'', Rob tries to figure out what his ex meant when she said she hadn't had sex with her new boyfriend ''yet'', and asks a friend for help figuring it out with a different example. It doesn't go well.
{{quote|'''Rob:''' What would it mean to you? That sentence? "I haven't seen ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' yet?"
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* Elizabeth Bathory in ''[[Count and Countess]]'' thinks she's being generous when she offers to let her closest servants have a nice, relaxing dip in her [[Blood Bath]]. She doesn't understand why they hastily decline.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Community]]'', the entire group (except Jeff and Abed) have various adventures that teach them about themselves, and at the end of the episode proclaim what they don't like about themselves and start crying and group hugging, and then Pierce cries out "Let's never let Jeff divide us again!". ''whoosh''
** At the end of the Halloween episode, after {{spoiler|everybody has had their minds erased of the incident}}, Troy listens to a voicemail that not only reveals that Shirley and Senor Chang had sex, but that the school was infested with zombies. His reaction? "Why did they call me?"
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'''Cliff:''' Well, you see, Woody, that's showing how cows act when humans are not around.
'''Woody:''' I mean my hometown newspaper doesn't carry ''The Far Side''! But thanks for making me feel like a one-year-old! }}
{{quote|'''Kelly:''' Don't make excuses, Woody. Now I see what's going on. You're busy every night and you won't tell me why, I walk in here and find the two of you kissing in the backroom of a bar. It all adds up! You're in a play and you didn't even tell me!}}
* This was the whole schtick of Gilda Radner's classic ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' character Emily Litella... Oh, you mean it wasn't? It was based on [[Mondegreen]]s instead? um... never mind.
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'''Leonard:''' You let him take nude photos of you?
'''Penny:''' That's what you took from that?! }}
{{quote|'''Leonard:''' You convinced me. Maybe tonight we should sneak in and shampoo her carpet.
'''Sheldon:''' You don't think that crosses the line?
'''Leonard:''' Yes... For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?
'''Sheldon:''' You have a sarcasm sign? }}
{{quote|'''Raj''': I love music. Do you love music?
'''Howard''': You really wanna ask her that?
'''Raj''': Oh, you're right. Everyone loves music. }}
* A ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' episode had Dick catch one of his students drawing a doodle of him with antlers and a tail. Dick thought it was brilliant and praised the student for effectively picking up "the essence of my rugged good looks".
* James May, on ''[[Top Gear]]'', about rally driver Kenny Block: "The man is completely useless, he can't drive in a straight line."
** Earlier, Jeremy Clarkson was being teased by the other presenters about his...rather enthusiastic interview with Will Young, culminating in Hammond singing "Jeremy's in looooove" and all he got out of it was "Are you suggesting Will Young is ''gay''?"
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{{quote|'''Ted:''' So ''these'' guys think I chickened out. What do you think?
'''Barney:''' I...can't believe you're ''still'' not wearing a ''suit''! }}
{{quote|'''Ted:''' So how many people are in on this Party School Bingo thing?
'''Barney:''' Oh, it's just me.
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'''Ted:''' And what do you get when you get five in a row?
'''Barney:''' I get Bingo. }}
{{quote|'''Barney:''' Hey, ''[[The Karate Kid]]'s'' a great movie. It's the story of a hopeful, young karate enthusiast whose dreams and moxie take him all the way to the All Valley Karate Championship. Of course, sadly, he loses in the final round to that nerd kid. But he learns an important lesson about gracefully accepting defeat.
'''Lily:''' Wait, when you watch ''The Karate Kid'' you actually root for that mean blonde boy?
'''Barney:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|No, I root for the scrawny loser from New Jersey who barely even knows karate.]] When I watch ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' I root for the ''karate kid'', [[Draco in Leather Pants|Johnny Lawrence from the Cobra Kai dojo]]. Get your head out of your ass Lily. }}
{{quote|'''Barney:''' I dump her, and she says, "no hard feelings." She's a psycho, what other explanation is there?!}}
* In ''[[Friends]]'', when Rachel realizes that she still loves Ross, and the rest of the group knew that, she asks Phoebe, why didn't they tell her:
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'''Rachel:''' What?!
'''Phoebe:''' Oh, please! She's always got a broom in her hand! }}
{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' I also have to find a new video store, a new bank, new adult book store, a new grocery store.
'''Monica:''' What?!
'''Phoebe:''' ''(slowly)'' A new g-r-o-c-e-r-y store. }}
* ''[[The Class (TV series)|The Class]]'': Yonk Allen. A lot. For example, on their first anniversary, Nicole gets him a newspaper from the day of the '75 Sugar Bowl, at which point he exclaims, as though to inform Nicole, "Why, I played in that!"
* ''[[The Nanny]]'':
*
** Niles should know better. When it comes to that subject, those two are morons. He's lived there for years and he makes this same mistake over and over. He's not as smart as he seems, obviously.
* In the Season 29/Series 3 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Smith and Jones": the Doctor has just absorbed a lethal-to-humans dose of radiation and is trying to expel it via his foot into his shoe.
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'''Martha Jones:''' You're completely mad.
'''The Doctor:''' You're right. I look daft with one shoe. ''(pulls other shoe off)'' Barefoot on the moon! }}
{{quote|'''Sally Sparrow (on realizing the Doctor was speaking to her through the DVDs):''' The 17 DVDs, they're all the DVDs I own. The Easter egg was for me.
'''Larry Nightingale:''' ...You've only got 17 DVDs? }}
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' She was frightened, I was frightened... But we survived, and the relief of it and... so, she kissed me.
'''Rory:''' And you kissed her back?
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* Alisha from ''[[Misfits]]'' gives us this gem:
{{quote|"Maybe he's on crystal meth - that stuff makes you crazy! My friend Chloe did it one time and she nearly [[Brother-Sister Incest|shagged her brother]]! And he's ''really'' ugly."}}
* Many games on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' which involve someone trying to guess someone else's identity. A lot of times the guess will be ''nowhere'' close.
** Subverted in one game, where the panelist guesses that the other person's just a complete and utter git, which the host readily agrees is correct. The other person is, naturally, pretending to be the first panelist.
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'''Alan:''' Shhh! Lower your voice!
'''Kandi:''' ''(deeper voice)'' BOOOTY CAAAALLL! }}
{{quote|'''Kandi:''' Wow. Alan, you really make history fun.
'''Alan:''' Well, thank you.
'''Kandi:''' So when did it start meaning 'casual sex'? }}
* An ''[[ER]]'' moment when Doctor Greene reminisced about his first job to his teen-aged daughter. He was probably doing it on purpose.
{{quote|'''Greene:''' I got $1.25 per hour.
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'''Greene:''' What? You know, records. LPs? Vinyls? Those funny big black things that your hip-hop heroes likes to rip off for their songs. }}
* In "[[Chuck]] Vs. the Mask", Morgan and Ellie are talking about Chuck's secretive behavior:
{{quote|'''Morgan:''' I had an [[Epiphany (trope)|epiphany]] last night.
'''Ellie:''' What’s that?
'''Morgan:''' A sudden intuitive realization...
'''Ellie:''' I know what an epiphany is, Morgan! I'm asking what epiphany you had. }}
* In the first episode of ''[[My Family]]'', Ben's assistant Brigitte criticises him for not making the time to treat his own wife and children, comparing him to the story of "The [[The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes|cobbler's children who had no food]]." Ben corrects her, and she replies that "That makes no sense, their dad was a cobbler."
* Vila of ''[[Blake's 7
* In ''[[Castle]]'', a psychiatrist has been found dead with lots of ranted gibberish scrawled over her.
{{quote|'''Lanie''': Looks like a patient lost their patience.
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'''Beckett''': Do you really think ''that's'' the take-away here, Castle?
'''Castle''': I'm just saying, whoever killed her also murdered the English language. }}
* Anya from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Oh god, Anya.
** Also this wonderful exchange:
{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Chasing a bus naked - that's a dream. An army of vicious vampires - that's a vision.
'''Principal Wood:''' A bus to where? }}
{{quote|'''Cordelia:''' I wish us into bizarro world and you guys are ''still'' together? I cannot win!}}
* ''[[The West Wing]]'': The Leadership Breakfast. Following a series of snafus, the President is being asked to speak to a reporter. He wants to know why, and focuses on the most politically esoteric of the bunch.
{{quote|'''Bartlet:''' Donna wants me to call Karen Cahill and make it clear she wasn't hitting on her when she gave her her underwear.
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'''Anita''': Bob, think about it. I sleep all day, I'm out all night and it's not unusual for me to have two or three dates an evening.
'''Bob''': Okay, okay, I get it. You're too busy to help me, I'll do it alone. }}
* In an episode of ''[[Blue Heelers]]'', Kelly is suspicious of a teenager's report of an armed robbery, noting the incredibly detailed description of the robber's outfit.
{{quote|'''Kelly''': Most armed hold-up victims are so freaked out that all they see is the gun. But George has got these guys down to their "blue on white high-cut joggers."
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{{quote|'''Declan:''' (on a student who failed a pop quiz) One of the questions was, "Name the 20th century Canadian communications theorist who stated that media will create the global village." His answer? "[[Star Wars|Yoda]]."
'''Miranda:''' Yoda's Canadian? }}
* Invoked regularly in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.
* ''[[Campion (TV series)|Campion]]'': A visitor is astonished to learn that Albert Campion never locks his door.
{{quote|"Is that wise?"
"If I lock my door, people can't get in." }}
* This gem of a conversation between Cat and Lister in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'':
{{quote|'''Lister:''' This is crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?
'''Cat:''' You're right, we're nuts. This is an ''insane'' conversation.
'''Lister:''' She'll never leave Fred and we know it. }}
{{quote|'''Lister:''' All those people are gathered around that giant pizza.
'''Kryten:''' [[Squick|That's...not a giant pizza, sir]].
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** "The Camel", in which the Parks Department is trying to create a mural design. Initially, every worker (plus Ann) makes their own design, but after everyone votes for their own design, leading to a tie, Leslie suggests merging all of the ideas. {{spoiler|The end result is predictably awful.}}
{{quote|'''Leslie''': It's like if you got Michelangelo and Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock and Jim Davis from Garfield to do one painting. ''Imagine how good that painting would be!''}}
{{quote|'''Tom''': Maybe Ron {{spoiler|shot himself.}}
'''Leslie''': He has seemed really depressed lately.
'''Mark''': He was {{spoiler|shot in the ''back'' of the head.}}
'''Leslie''': You're right. Ron loves {{spoiler|the back of his head,}} he'd never {{spoiler|shoot himself there.}} }}
* On an episode of ''[[My So-Called Life]]'', Rayanne and Sharon are in the bathroom discussing whether or not Angela is afraid to have sex. Two other girls in the bathroom start talking about how they'd like it even though they've obviously never done it, and Rayanne, deciding to have fun with them, brags about someone running an ice cube down her body, and that Mickey Rourke did it (in 9 1/2 Weeks, though she doesn't mention that part). As Rayanne and Sharon leave the bathroom, continuing to talk about Angela, one of the two girls asks if Mickey Rourke goes to the school.
* Occurs in [[Drake and Josh]] when they suspect their dad of having an affair.
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* ''[[Supernatural]]'s'' Castiel is made of this trope, at least whenever dealing with the quote-happy smartass Dean.
{{quote|'''Castiel''': I don't understand that reference.}}
* ''[[Get Smart]]'' had a recurring character, Agent 13, who was always disguised as something (not someone) that could be expected to be seen in the area where Maxwell Smart was carrying out his mission. Agent 13 shows up at headquarters, in the Chief's wall safe, in the episode "Bronzefinger":
{{quote|'''Maxwell Smart''': What's 13 doing in there?
'''Agent 13''': The Chief said I've been out on field trips too long. So he gave me this nice, soft office job.
'''Maxwell Smart''': It's awfully small. Tell me, 13, how did you get in there?
'''Agent 13''': The Chief gave me the combination.}}
== [[Music]] ==
* The late [[Jim Steinman]]'s monologue "Love and Death and an American Guitar", released on the [[Meat Loaf]] album ''Back Into Hell'' as "Wasted Youth", catalogues the adventures of a boy who murders people with his guitar. Finally, he attacks his parents:
{{quote|"... and just as I was about to bring the guitar crashing down upon the centre of the bed, my father woke up screaming 'Stop! Wait a minute! Stop it, boy! ''That's no way to treat an expensive musical instrument!"''}}
* Jaron and the Long Road to Love gives us this gem in "Pray for You":
{{quote|''Haven't been to church since I don't remember when
''Things were goin great, til they fell apart again
''I listened to the preacher as he told me what to do
''He said you can't go hating other who have done wrong to you
''Sometimes we get angry but we must not condemn
''Let the good Lord do his job and you just pray for them
(beat)
''I pray your brakes go out running down a hill... }}
* [[The Velvet Underground]]'s song "Sister Ray". The narrator's entire reaction to somebody getting shot is "You shouldn't do that/Don't you know you'll stain the carpet."
* The radio-play censors appear to have succumbed to this, in airplay versions of Aerosmith's "Janie's Got A Gun": in a song about [[Parental Incest]], the one line they feel obliged to alter is "put a bullet in his brain". Right, ''that's'' the one thing about the song that makes its subject matter mature...
* Comes up at the end of [[The Lonely Island]]'s "I Threw It On the Ground"; The singer is an over-the-top [[Jerkass]] who keeps throwing things people give him on the ground because of his [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] leading him to proclaim he's "not part of your system!" When his behavior pisses off a pair of actors who proceed to taze him for it, he concludes "the moral of this story is...''you can't trust the system, man!''"
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Candorville]]'' gives us [http://candorville.com/2007/06/19/kevorkian/ this] little gem.
* A ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' strip involves Calvin looking for a movie to watch. He finds one that contains "adult situations", to which he asks Hobbes what that means. Hobbes replies "You know, paying the bills, going to work, that sort of thing." Calvin wonders how they make money.
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'''Hobbes''': But there are only 5 boxes.
'''Calvin''': I know. These idiots make you write real small. }}
{{quote|'''Calvin:''' Yeah. Trusting mom can be hazardous to your health.}}
* Zero in ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' lives this trope. Usually.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], [[Myth and Legend]] ==
== Radio ==▼
* [[Older Than Feudalism]], from ''[[The Bible]]'':▼
* In ''[[Old Harry's Game|Old Harrys Game]]'', this is Thomas's usual reaction to Scumspawn's attempts to make him a better person. For instance, when it turns out Thomas once sold a baby to a rag-and-bone man.▼
** It is a common theme for a prophet to accuse religious leaders of doing this because they were more interested in being [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]s than in being [[Good Shepherd]]s.▼
{{quote|'''Micah 6:7-8:''' ''Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? ''}}▼
{{quote|'''1 Samuel 15:22'''
::: Samuel then went to the Amalekite king Agag and "hewed him in pieces," saying (implicitly), "''this'' is the point, you idiot! Just ''why'' did I ever make you king?"▼
▲== [[Radio]] ==
▲* In ''[[Old Harry's
{{quote|'''Scumspawm''':But you wouldn't do that now, would you?
'''Thomas''': Of course not! You don't get rag-and-bone men any more. }}
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{{quote|'''Dougal''': There's only one place she could be. Hamish, tonight we camp out on the moors!
'''Hamish''': Seems a bit callous when we could be searching for Mrs Naughtie, but whatever you say, old friend. }}
{{quote|'''Dougal''': Hamish, does that coffin-shaped wardrobe remind you of anything?
'''Hamish''': Of course! A coffin-shaped sideboard!
'''Dougal''' Precisely! }}
{{quote|'''Mrs. Mc Allister:''' There's no postage stamp on the envelopes!
'''Hamish:''' No postage stamp? That means the letters were delivered by... ...magic!
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'''Tom''': Me neither. I thought his favourite film was ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', but it turns out it was ''[[Finding Nemo]]''. }}
==
▲* On his first album, ''Shame Based Man'', [[Kids in The Hall|Bruce McCulloch]] had a recurring bit with a radio call-in show. The last of these is some happy idiot calling to say all the lonely people should "pair up". The host then gives her a list of reasons this is a dumb idea, all of which are [[The Ditz|lost on her]].
▲* [[Older Than Feudalism]], from ''[[The Bible]]'':
▲* Comedian Mike Williams bases a comedy routine around McDonalds drive-throughs having a sign saying that they have Braille menus (for people who can't see) and picture menus (for people who can't read). To repeat, this is in the DRIVE-THRU. He claims to go up to the window in dark shades to ask for a Braille menu, to be told, "Sorry, we're out of Braille menus; would you like a picture menu?"
▲** It is a common theme for a prophet to accuse religious leaders of doing this because they were more interested in being [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]s than in being [[Good Shepherd]]s.
▲* A skit goes with a person walking into a restaurant and ordering a drink and a sweet roll. The waiter informs them that they are out of sweet rolls. The person thinks that apparently ordering different combinations of "sweetroll + drink" will eventually get them one, and they continue to order a sweet roll despite the waiter's increasingly angry responses that they don't have any. Eventually, the waiter gives up and walks off. The person then says "I wonder how long it'll take my sweet roll to get here."
▲{{quote|'''Micah 6:7-8:''' ''Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? ''}}
▲* On the soundtrack album to ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', John Cleese plays a logician commenting on the
▲** Samuel does this in a big way when Saul spares some of the Amalekites and their livestock (which God had previously ordered completely destroyed for their crimes against the Hebrews during the Exodus). Saul says, more or less "[[Cartoon History of the Universe|I offered the usual sacrifices]]," and then Samuel more or less flies at him:
▲{{quote|Given the premise "All fish live underwater", and "All mackerel are fish", she will conclude not that all mackerel live underwater, but that if she buys kippers it will not rain, or that trout live in trees, or even that I do not love her anymore.}}
▲{{quote|'''1 Samuel 15:22'''-Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in hearkening to the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice!}}
▲* [[Jimmy Carr]], after his delayed reaction to the audience after this joke:
▲::: Samuel then went to the Amalekite king Agag and "hewed him in pieces," saying (implicitly), "''this'' is the point, you idiot! Just ''why'' did I ever make you king?"
▲{{quote|"People like to smoke a cigarette after sex, but you can't buy cigarettes until you're sixteen, so I have to buy them for ''both'' of us. [To audience] You think it's wrong I'm buying a
▲** Jesus said it very well when speaking of the Pharisees who forgot the meaning of the law was to show mercy and faith in Matthew 23:24 'Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.'
▲
▲* [[Jeff Foxworthy]] describes how, growing up, the mailbox outside his family's house had the letters "male" painted on the side of it. By the time he was in the eleventh grade Jeff realized "That ain't right. That M's supposed to be capitalized, innit?"
▲* German comedian Otto Waalkes once made this joke: "In the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted: 'And in the year of 1985, a red-haired young man from Leimen named [[wikipedia:Boris Becker|Boris]] will win the final in Wimbledon' - which is complete nonsense: First, my name is Erwin,<ref>Otto's persona</ref> not Boris; second, I'm blond, not red-haired; third, I'm not from Leimen, but from Emden; and fourth, if I had won the 1985 Wimbledon, I'd definitely remember that."
▲* The basis of one of [[Dave Chappelle]]'s jokes, from ''Killing Them Softly,'' detailing a restaurant waiter telling him "blacks and chickens are quite fond of one another." Dave comments on the incident:
▲{{quote|''"All these years I thought I liked chicken 'cause it was delicious. It turns out I'm genetically predisposed of liking chicken!"''}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' has a Chaos God of, among other things, Atheism. ''He has followers''. When dealing with Chaos Cultists, do not expect an overabundance of anything resembling sanity or logic. Of course, [[Logic Bomb|a god of Atheism is made weaker through worship]].
** There is a reason he tries to keep any and all material regarding him hidden from mortal eyes as much as possible.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In Christopher Durang's ''Beyond Therapy'' when Bruce makes a reference to horses in the play "Equus" and his blind date (through the personals) Prudence says he should be a vet, Bruce rebukes her for missing the metaphor and says he could never respect anyone who missed a metaphor.
** For those not in the know: The play ''Equus'' concerns a young man whose religious/sexual obsession with horses drives him to ''blind six of them by driving a metal spike into their eyes.''
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'''Le Bret:''' Your courage and your wit! }}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Touhou|Phantasmagoria of Flower View]]'', quite a few characters miss the point of what Sikieiki's trying to tell them, even when Siki's being direct. Even Reimu and Marisa are guilty of this.
** In the manga ''[[All There in the Manual|Wild and Horned Hermit]]'', Kasen Ibara puts up a sign saying "Only those who '''[[Bold Inflation|want to die]]''' should come here!" in an area filled with poisonous gases and infested with evil spirits. Reimu and Marisa take this literally, reasoning that ''everyone'' dies sooner or later, and cheerfully mine the area for [[Gold Fever|gold]] (which turns out to be made from the evil spirits's greed).
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* Grobnar Gnomehands, resident [[Spoony Bard]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander]] of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'', is the ''king'' of this trope. One memorable incident has him meet [[Neverwinter Nights|the previous game's]] bard, the kobold Deekin Scalesinger. It's fairly well known in the D&D mythos that [[Fantastic Racism|kobolds hate gnomes]]. Deekin sings a piece of doggerel about butchering gnomes, and ''Grobnar turns into a music critic''. [[Neverwinter Nights 2/Funny|The exchange has to be read to be believed.]]
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* Masayuki occasionally in ''[[A Profile]]'', though it's not always played for laughs. But one that ''is'' goes like this:
{{quote|Masayuki: So, you have multiple personalities, huh? Awesome, I can have a threesome this summer!}}
* Shirou in ''[[Fate/stay night
* The Judge from the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games falls into this trope many, ''many'' times. From case 5 of this first game, this is his response to being told that a witness was using another character as his "puppet"...
{{quote|'''Judge''': Wait, you mean [[Manipulative Bastard|the witness]], a man of his stature... [[Literal-Minded|plays with puppets]]?}}
{{quote|Oh you mean someone who uses someone else, nevermind.}}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''
** Miko
{{quote|'''Roy Greenhilt:''' It's like she has that Monk ability that lets you jump as far as you want, only for her, it applies to conclusions.}}
{{quote|'''Haley:''' Boy, you give a guy a crown and it goes straight to his head.
'''Elan:''' Where else would a crown go?}}
{{quote|'''Vaarsuvius''': As the size of the explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero.
'''Blackwing:''' [[Unsound Effect|Whisper whisper whisper whisper whisper.]]
'''Vaarsuvius:''' [[And That Would Be Wrong]]. }}
{{quote|'''Tarquin:''' At any rate, I'm happy to put at your disposal any or all resources of this kingdom.
'''Elan:''' ''(looking at carpet)'' How do you control it?
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'''Elan:''' [[Beat Panel|(Horrified look)]]
'''Tarquin:''' Or did you mean the carpet? Just pull on one of the tassels. }}
* Ben Winchester from ''[[Loserz]]'' meets and befriends a girl who's much like his old (platonic) friend Jodie—a bisexual girl hot for [[Anything That Moves]]. The conclusion he makes... see for yourself [https://web.archive.org/web/20110222022145/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/303 here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110222022150/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/318 here].
* ''[[Pokémon-X]]'' does this when Brendan describes May to Professor Birch, saying that she's 5'4", 100 lbs, brown hair, and then mumbles "nice... firm... breasts..." while drooling ([[Naked First Impression|it's a long story, okay?]]). Professor Birch looks shocked. After Brendan leaves, Birch gets excited... because he thinks May is cooking chicken breasts for dinner.
* ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' loves this joke - e.g. [http://explosm.net/comics/1583/ this] comic, and [http://explosm.net/comics/1595/ this].
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"Guys ... shut up." }}
* [http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2008/3/3/how-to-explain-something-to-someone-who-doesnt-get-it.html This] ''[[Basic Instructions]]'' strip. For added fun, it seems that both of them are missing the point in different ways.
* Taisei from ''[[Sakana]]'' does this [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616164455/http://sakana.smackjeeves.com/comics/1113764/091/ rather] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130321205844/http://sakana.smackjeeves.com/comics/1220903/107/ often.]
* The [[Science Fair]] arc of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' features two layers of this. Kat's peers (and most of her teachers) focus on the anti-gravity chamber that she invented, completely ignoring the protein crystal growth experiment that was Kat's entire reason for inventing said gravity chamber. And Kat fails to understand why anyone would be more interested in anti-gravity than protein crystals.
* ''[[Blur the Lines]]'' features a stip where Rick Rick is kicked out of a ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' round because he keeps trying "bluff" has way into the pants of his fellow players; [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820233258/http://www.blur-the-lines.com/?p=216 he thinks they kicked him out just because he's gay].
* ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'': [http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20051102.html Mitch confronts Autumn].
* In ''[[Freefall]]'':
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{{quote|'''Police Robot:''' We are being trained as a police force to help solve conflicts among the planet's non-human population.
'''Mayor's Assistant:''' Our non-human population consists of one person. Sam. Do we really need an entire police force for one alien squid?
'''Police Robot:''' Sir, I believe if you look past the obvious answer, you'll see one that's even more obvious.
* ''[[xkcd]]'':
** In [http://xkcd.com/776/ #776], the [[Alt Text]] has the character reject the squirrel's advice. Not because the squirrel is obviously a hallucination, but because "What do squirrels know about mental health?"
** ''xkcd'' also provides [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030220351/http://xkcd.com/asmarterplanet/ another example], that, coincidentally, also focuses on squirrels.
** Another ''xkcd'' example:
{{quote|''[http://xkcd.com/1014/ "Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture?"]''
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''The chromatic aberration suggests you bought your camera because it had "the most megapixels"''
'''THE CAR IS ON FIRE!'''}}
{{quote|"Nah, I've never seen ''[[Star Wars]]''.
"[[Flat What|What.]] ...''How?!''
"Uh, it was easy? It was literally the default option."}}
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
*
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110615 Also...]
{{quote|'''Tarvek:''' If we threw in every minion we have, we might take out ''one'' of them.
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'''Gil:''' There's another twenty of them! We don't have enough minions!
'''Minion:''' Er... }}
:* Zeetha gets to play in [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140113 this filler strip]:
* [http://schworld.deviantart.com/art/Rule-34-168115499 This] Schworld History comic on [[Rule 34]] has a disturbing example.▼
{{quote|'''Agatha''': By my calculations, we're now about ten millimeters tall.
'''Zeetha''': Ooh, tough size to shop for.}}
▲* [http://schworld.deviantart.com/art/Rule-34-168115499 This]{{Dead link}} Schworld History comic on [[Rule 34]] has a disturbing example.
* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', when Nip misses the point, he [http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0062/ seriously misses the point.]
* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'': [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF071-Weeaboo.gif "Did someone just say 'Weeaboo?'"]
* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', Functionally, most of the older students to Tess. Especially Jessica and Rachel, since the lot of them bullying her is a bit hypocritical at best.
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' does this about
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Tedd misses the definition of "uniform" [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-08-17 here].
* In ''[[Dork Tower]]'' we have [http://www.dorktower.com/2006/06/09/comics-archive-793/ missing the point entirely.]
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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19990527 here]:
{{quote|'''Parody villain:''' You better hurry. There's a vampire there with orders to drop your friends into a vat of boiling oil at midnight exactly!
'''Sam:''' My God! They'll drown!
* In ''[[Voodoo Walrus]]'' Grymm is pretty bad about this. But it could just be him being difficult on purpose.
{{quote|'''Creepnight:''' And remember, this time we run a background check. We don't want another basketcase in our lives.
'''Grymm:''' "I like picnics." }}
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20111214003511/http://www.shoeboxblog.com/?p=11549 this] strip of ''[[Webcomic/Chuck And Beans|Chuck And Beans]]'', a discussion about Hitler goes south fast.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [
* [[Ethical Slut|Joe]] from [[Dumbing of Age]] stats rating Danny's ex-girlfriend who had just broken up with him. [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/seven/ He misconstrues Danny's distraught face completely.]
* ''[[Virtual Shackles]]'': Upon being told of the horrific things done by a ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' player, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140330061540/http://www.virtualshackles.com/141 Jack's response] is shock - at the fact that people still play it.
* In ''[[Greg (webcomic)|Greg]]'', Ted misses the point of Greg's biting sarcasm, leaving Greg [http://gregcomic.com/2011/11/14/storyline-teds-place-part-7/ speechless in frustration].
* Black from ''[[Grey Is...
** For example when White says that he's pondering the strength of the human heart Black assumes he's talking about peoples actual hearts and tells him that mending a few cuts doesn't make him a doctor.
* ''[[Unwinder's Tall Comics]]'': Director Nathan Blaine makes a sequel to ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', named ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140214033915/http://tallcomics.com/?id=56 K2: The Death of Kane]''. There's enough references to the original film's plot and dialogue to prove that Blaine's a big fan of the original ''Kane''... yet somehow he still manages to turn his sequel into a generic action movie with a lot of explosions.
{{quote|'''[[The Rant|Eli Parker]]:''' Anyhow, one of the funny results of this is that Nathan Blaine has clearly, CLEARLY seen ''Citizen Kane'', and he is clearly trying to get everything right, and throw in a lot of references to ''Kane 1'', but he's still completely missing the point.
He's a pretty crazy director. }}
* One ''[[Mountain Time]]'' comic has two guys being held captive on an island. Their cunning escape plan involves [http://mountaincomics.com/2012/03/06/mountain-time-338/ using their boat to kill their captor so they can float home on his corpse].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170922080314/http://vagabondstarlight.com/comic/ghosts/ This] ''[[Vagabond Starlight]]'' has Oliver completely miss the point of Geoff's expression of sympathy to Oliver's recounting of his own backstory.
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic!]]'', [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/4046.html strip #4046]: The Martian would love to meet [[The Men in Black|the Man in Black]]. {{spoiler|He loves "[[Johnny Cash|Ring of Fire]]".}}
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'', with Padma [//questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2009 confused] about Momo.
* Comically Missing the Point [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Small Reference Pools]] in [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-11-23 this] ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' strip:
{{quote|'''Thurl''': What is fuller's soap?
'''Ennesby''': It's an alkali used for whitening wool prior to dying it. I don't think it's seen use since the invention of bleach.
'''Thurl''': What does [[Bleach|twenty-first century anime]] have to do with whitening wool?}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' video [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/325/Son-of-a-Bitch "Son of a Bitch"] features this.
* [[The Ditz|2D]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20140108013541/http://gorillaz.com/profile/2d attempts at Sudoku] on the ''[[Gorillaz]]'' website. Also, according to ''Rise of the Ogre'', the band once attempted to write a script for a movie. After much nagging from Murdoc, Russel suggested one in which "a bullying egomaniac bass-player" gets what's coming to him. The other band members elaborated on the idea, and Murdoc never noticed that they were talking about him.
* In [http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20050911.html one] of the least NSFW (but not least disturbing) pages of ''[[
{{quote|[[Fangirl Japanese|Baka Ecchi Mizu-Boy's Manga Is Too Angry]]. Freddy Fix It [[Genki Girl|Genki]] Style!}}
* There's an entire subset of the [[Fauxtivational Poster]] that combines this with [[Ignore the Fanservice]].
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* After seeing [[Phelous]] hanging himself from the horror of ''Caligula'', [[The Cinema Snob]] is shocked that the camera turned itself off!
** [[80's Dan]] is prone to this, like his verdict on Mrs. Crabtree's Halloween outfit.
{{quote|I'm [[Battlestar Galactica
That is the worst [[Battlestar Galactica
* [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8VBxSmHMS1w/ThkdL7mRwbI/AAAAAAAAPXE/Oumc5W6d-H0/s1600/redact.jpg There's a Post Secret about someone whose mother bought them a Post Secret book, but blacked out all the "inappropriate" parts.]
* [[The Onion]] uses this trope in probably over half their work, especially their [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413185133/http://www.youtube.com/show/intheknow "In The Know"] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120818101701/http://www.youtube.com/show/todaynow "Today Now!"] segments.
** The columns by Jean Teasdale are '''made''' of this trope. A sterling example comes from ''Ad Nauseum Vol. 14'', where one column has her discuss how a local magazine called her the worst columnist ever; she reprints the magazine's slams against her, and then ''immediately afterwards'' says that she doesn't know why they hate her. [[Hypocritical Humor|And then proves the magazine completely correct.]]
* [[EPICMEALTIME]] has of late featured one fellow who digs into their crazy preparations politely with a knife and fork. [[Muscles Glasses]] has a tendency to give him reproachful looks.
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* 4Chan's [[Tabletop Games|Traditional Games]] board had a thread whose original post was [[Damsel in Distress|a hot naked woman chained to a rock with a dragon approaching]], with no text. The following posts were all about what type of rock it was, whether they could determine the area from the flowers nearby, whether the dragon could fly with its displayed wingspan, and so on, while largely ignoring the naked woman. Largel
{{quote|'''[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9434393/#9434575 9434575]''': Her vagina is leaking. I think she might have a medical condition.}}
* The ''[[Bastard Operator From Hell]]'' does this on a regular basis. One particularly funny (and long) example is the first half of [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/25/bofh_2019_episode_10/ "Judge us not by the size of our database, but the size of our augmented reality"]: saying cloud computing is risky because of wind shear, global warming, and "the ozone layer thing"; complaining about rusty blockchains; claiming they already have Big Data because the converted everything from 8 bits to 16 bits; and this gem:
{{quote|"What about nanotechnology?" [the Boss] asks, moving on.
"Apple discontinued them in 2017," I say.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In a ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode, Lois is shown several drawings that Stewie has done. All of them have Lois dying in a particularly gruesome fashion. Lois realizes that this can mean only one thing: "His father's not in any of these pictures; they should spend more time together." The teacher concurs with her.
** Peter misses the point pretty much every other minute.
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{{quote|'''Meg''': If I can't drive, I'll never have any boyfriends, I'll never get married and then I'll have to adopt a kid like Rosie O'Donnell!
'''Peter''': "Meg, are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can't drive?" }}
{{quote|'''Mrs. Lockhart''': Basically what [[George Orwell|Orwell]] was saying was it's not perfect, but I'll take it.}}
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''
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{{quote|'''Squidward''': Mr. Krabs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but ''how'' could you sell Spongebob for '''62 cents?'''
'''Mr. Krabs''': You think I could have gotten more? }}
{{quote|'''Mr. Krabs''': Neptune preserve her!
'''Squidward''': How long can she stay like that?
'''Spongebob''': I dunno!
'''Patrick''': [[Samus Is a Girl|Sandy's a ''girl''!?]] }}
{{quote|'''Cop 1''': Barnacles! Did you see that?!
'''Cop 2''': Yeah! That guy had no front license plate! LET'S GET 'IM! }}
* Dale in ''[[King of the Hill]]'' manages to do a single-person version of this by relating to Hank about how 9 months before the birth of his son, he was watching aliens while his wife was with some other guy. Hank says, "Your wife loves you," but then Dale comes to the conclusion that his son is an alien, and asks Hank if there's any better explanation. Obviously there is, but Hank decides to refrain from pointing out the obvious.
** Even better, in the episode where Dale's wife ends the affair, Dale notices that every time she gets a headache, she calls in John Redcorn to give her a massage, and comes to the obvious conclusion: her headaches are a cry for attention, and he's been selfishly pawning her off on someone else instead of taking care of herself.
* The reason that the [[Muggles]] of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' are such [[Dying Like Animals|Bats]]. Despite admitting many, many times that he is an alien intent on conquering Earth, Zim is dismissed as talking about something completely different.
** But he's so bad at it.
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{{quote|'''Marge:''' Homer, the plant called and said if you don't come in tomorrow, don't bother coming in Monday.
'''Homer:''' Woohoo, four day weekend! }}
{{quote|'''Homer:''' They said that if I come in late one more time I'm fired. I can't take that chance!}}
{{quote|'''Flanders:''' (''quietly'') Homer... you are the worst human being I have '''''ever''''' met. (''walks away'')
'''Homer:''' Hey, I got off easy... }}
{{quote|'''Marge:''' Homer, didn't John seem a little "festive" to you?
'''Homer:''' Couldn't agree more, happy as a clam.
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'''Marge:''' ...Sexual!
'''Homer:''' AAAAHHH! }}
{{quote|'''Marge:''' He's going to need, uh… you know, protection.
'''Guy:''' Sure… one helmet coming up.
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'''Guy:''' Cup, could you spell that?
'''Marge:''' C - U - P I wanna C - U [[Fun with Acronyms|…oh my god!]] }}
{{quote|'''Lisa:''' I was in the library at the time, but Janey told me Principal Skinner and...what's her name? Bart's teacher?
'''Marge:''' Mrs. Krabappel?
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'''Marge:''' GASP! Oh my goodness!
'''Homer:''' Wait a minute...Bart's teacher is named Krabappel? I've been calling her Crandall! Why didn't someone tell me? Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself! }}
{{quote|'''Burns:''' All right, Spielbergo, I want you to do for me what Spielberg did for Schindler.
'''Spielbergo:''' But, Schindler es bueno! Burns es diablo!
'''Burns:''' Oh, pish tosh! Oskar Schindler and I are like two peas in a pod! We're both factory owners, we both made [artillery] shells for the Nazis - ''but mine worked, dammit!'' }}
{{quote|'''Homer''': Wait a minute... there's something bothering me about this place... I know! '''''This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit!''''' Enjoy your death trap, ladies.}}
{{quote|'''Homer''': Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
'''Lisa''': That's spacious reasoning, Dad.
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'''Homer''': Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
[Lisa refuses at first, then takes the exchange] }}
* Captain Hero of ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is notorious for missing the point, as illustrated by the following example.
{{quote|'''Unusually Flexible Girl:''' I missed you more than a retard misses the point!
'''Captain Hero:''' What do you mean? }}
* ''[[
** In addition to this, we had the "Major Boobage" episode with the sub-plot of Cartman rescuing the cats from being put into the pound (eventually taking in around 100) - even going so far as to suggest that Mr. Kitty "Write a journal.", as well as replying "They're innocent victims in this! They have to hide or they'll be put to death. Something you just can't understand." when asked why the cats are in his attic. By the end, we have this exchange between Cartman and Kyle
{{quote|'''Cartman''': But ya know, we've all learned something, you guys. We can never persecute living beings and force them into hiding. It's wrong.
'''Kyle''': And you don't see any parallel between that and anything else in history?
'''Cartman''': Hmmm, nope. I have no idea what you're talking about Kyle. }}
{{quote|'''Chef''': Don't you children see? Kenny's turned into a zombie, along with everyone else in town!
'''Stan''': Oh my God! That means..
'''Kyle''':...if everyone has been turned into Zombies...
'''Cartman''':...[[Serious Business|then there won't be anyone to give US CANDY!!!!!!!!!]] }}
{{quote|'''Sgt. Lou''': They just found another body! That means a fifth copycat killer is on the loose! Where's my psychic?!}}
* There are many, ''many'' instances of this in ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]''.
** In Beavis and Butthead Do America, Butthead is woken from his dream by Beavis with the alarming news that their TV has just disappeared and he can't work out why. After looking at the broken in door, the muddy footprints leading to the door, and the two people talking about how they're going to sell a TV for about a minute, Butthead finally says "Hey Beavis, I've figured something out... this sucks!"
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'''Pleakley''': Because of that horseshoe shape on his head?
'''Lilo''': Because he needs shoes. He doesn't have any. }}
{{quote|'''Lilo''': I think I'm gonna name him...Link.
'''Myrtle''': Because he links people together?
'''Lilo''': No, silly. It's short for Linkenstein, the zombie president. }}
{{quote|'''Lilo''': Hmm...you look like a hairy hairball. And you seem to like to eat hair, and you're made of hair, so I'm gonna call you...
'''Stitch''': Hairy!
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'''Katara''' ''(reading the note)'': "If you wanna see your daughter again, bring five hundred gold pieces to the arena..." It's signed Xin Fu and The Boulder.
'''Sokka''': I can't believe it... ''(grabs the paper from Katara)'' I HAVE THE BOULDER'S AUTOGRAPH!" }}
{{quote|'''Zuko''': ...and I never should have sent that Fire Nation assassin after you. I'm gonna try to stop--
'''Sokka''': Wait, you sent Combustion Man after us!?
'''Zuko''': Well, that's not his name... }}
{{quote|'''Suki:''' I lost someone I care about. He didn't die, he just went away. I only had a few days to get to know him, but he was smart, and brave, and funny...
'''Sokka:''' (offended) Who is this guy? Is he taller than me?
'''Suki:''' No, he's about your height.
'''Sokka:''' Is he better looking?" }}
{{quote|'''Bumi''': Wait! Someone's missing from your group! Someone very important! Where's Momo?!
'''Sokka''': He's gone. And so is Aang.
'''Bumi''': Oh, well. So long as they have each other, I'm sure we have nothing to worry about. }}
{{quote|'''Katara''': What happened?
'''Sokka''': Zuko's gone crazy! I made a sand sculpture of Suki and he ''destroyed it!'' [beat] Oh, and he's attacking Aang. }}
* On the ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' episode "Arthur Goes Crosswire," Arthur gets paired with his class's shallow [[Rich Bitch]], Muffy Crosswire to work on a project, and he quickly begins to act like her. At the episode's climax, all of Arthur's friends start acting like Muffy to show him how obnoxious he's being. Muffy thinks they're trying to flatter her:
{{quote|'''Muffy''': I didn't mind when Arthur started acting like me, but I'm sorry, there's only one me, and that's enough.}}
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Greece Lightning," Dr. Doofenshmirtz, the nemesis of superspy Perry [[Everythings Better With Platypus|the Platypus]], watches an old educational film and finds out that [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|due to the effects of encroaching development]], "the enemy of the platypus is Man!" So . . . he builds a giant robot man, complete with business suit, to defeat Perry the Platypus with.
** In the episode "The Doof Side of the Moon," Doofenshmirtz plans to rotate the moon so that [[Artistic License Astronomy|the "dark side" always faces the Earth]]. At the end of the episode, he realizes his mistake (moonlight is reflected sunlight), and chastises himself, "[[Gratuitous German|Dummkopf!]] I should have rotated the ''sun''!"
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{{quote|'''Maurice:''' Do you, uh, notice anything different about Mort?
'''Julien:''' Well yes, he's obviously doing something different with his hair! It's nice actually. }}
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In ''[[The Critic]]'' episode "Miserable":
{{quote|'''Jay's # 1 Fan''': Whenever I get into a relationship with a man, they tend to get dominating and overcritical.
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** Done once again by Scootaloo in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles":
{{quote|'''Scootaloo:''' Argh! These namby-pamby stories aren't getting us any closer to our cutie marks! They're all about 'finding out who you are' and boring stuff like that!}}
{{quote|'''Pinkie Pie:''' Something strange is definitely going on around here, Gummy. Sure Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had to house-sit for that vacationing bear, but what are the chances all my other friends would have plans this afternoon too? Rarity ''(the fashionista)'' has to wash her hair? Applejack ''(the farmer)'' has to pick apples? Twilight ''(the student)'' is behind on her studies, and has to hit the books? The more I think about it, the more those are starting to sound like… (gasps) excuses!}}
* In an episode of the 2010 ''[[Pound Puppies]]'', McLeish attempts to keep his mother from finding out he's a dog catcher, but when his ruse fails, his mother threatens to cut him out of her will, remove him from the family scrapbook, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and disinvite him from Thanksgiving]]. McLeish's comment: "But the turkey!"
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* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Professor Farnsworth says the crew is about to be attacked by an albino humping worm.
{{quote|'''Fry:''' Why do they call it an albino humping worm?
[<nowiki></nowiki>[[Beat]] as the worm starts humping the ship]
'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Because it lacks pigment. }}
{{quote|'''Joey Mousepad:''' This guy's an ox! He's got oxen-like strength. Hey, he needs a nickname, right? Let's call him Clamps!}}
* In ''[[The Oblongs]]'', Pickles tries to teach Milo that she's cool because she married a great guy and had great kids. Milo reaches the conclusion that he must marry his father.
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{{quote|'''Terrorist:''' When you are forbidden to drink, dance or touch yourself, your afternoons are pretty much free.
'''Roger:''' You can't touch yourself? How do you masturbate? }}
* Happened a lot in ''[[Histeria!]]''. For example, in the scene spoofing the assassination of Julius Caesar, where Brutus gives the daggers to the other senators:
{{quote|'''Brutus:''' Caesar is heading this way. We will stab him in the Rotunda.
'''Other Senator:''' Couldn't we just stab him in the back?
''Cut to [[Dramatic Timpani]] from Toast.''}}
* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Ms. Roger's Neighborhood", the foursome have determined, while exploring the title characters house, that their quarry is a powerful demon named Wat. Eventually, the PKG Meter seems to find it, but when they open fire, they find it was only Mrs. Rogers' dress - which is still picking up a strong reading from the Meter.
{{quote|'''Ray:''' You mean... Mrs. Rogers' dress is Wat?
'''Egon:''' No, Ray, [[Captain Obvious|''Mrs. Rogers'' is Wat]].}}
:* This quickly becomes an [[Explain, Explain, Oh Crap]] moment, seeing as they told Mrs. Rogers to go to the Firehouse, where they assumed she'd be safer...
* In the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Harliquinade", a manager of a department store is justifiably concerned when Harley brings Bud and Lou (her pet hyenas) into the store and tells her to remove them. Harley tells her, "Don't worry, they're housebroken."
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