"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal: Difference between revisions

'''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Hugh]]''': I know, son, [[Metaphorgotten|but if all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them]]? I don't think you would.|''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron|Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]''}}

The first rebuttal the parent makes in defense will inevitably be, "So, if the whole world/ your whole school/ all your friends were going to jump off a bridge, would you jump, too?"

== Fan FictionWorks ==

* In the Harry Potter fanfic ''Fire Burns'', Katherine and Remus have an arguementargument over Katherine having killed someone on Voldemort's orders.

* The movie ''[[Heathers]]'' asks the question, "If the coolest kids in school committed suicide, would others follow?" with a resounding, "Yes!" A dark way to address [[Truth in Television]], but [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]].

** [[Life Imitates Art]]: In 2006-2008, a lot of teenagers in Bridgend, Wales decided to commit suicide on Bebo for no reason other than the fact that [[What an Idiot!|everyone else was doing it]].

* ''[[Coneheads]]'': Beldar Conehead's reaction at his daughter, Connie's fake tattoo on her cone.

* ''[[Suicide Club]]'': Proven. The whole movie is about a wave of suicides among schoolchildren all over the country for seemingly no apparent reason. A group of school-kids are on the roof talking about the recent wave of suicides. One says, "We should kill ourselves too!" Guess what happens? The whole lot of them end up jumping off the building. One girl left who's too scared ends up dragging a friend along screaming "Now we have to! We have to!" Turns out {{spoiler|the current hot idol band is sending subliminal messages in their songs encouraging young people to kill themselves}}. They never explain why, but it's Japanese cinema, what do you expect?

* There's a joke which responds to the question with "I'm a lifeguard."

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''Ghostmaker'', Bragg is asked if the Ghosts would jump off a cliff if Gaunt told them to and says yes, of course, is that a trick question? {{spoiler|Bragg, while not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is deliberately playing up his [[Big Guy]] role to convince them he's [[The Fool]] because he knows one is [[The Mole]].}}

* ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' subverted this in one episode:

* [[El Chavo Deldel Ocho]] from all, have the most intelligent response.

{{quote|'''Chavo''': [[Literal -Minded|You told me to do that]]<br />

'''Don Ramón''': You're so obedient.(El Chavo shows pride over this). And if I tell to jump off a bridge, you would do it?<br />

== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==

{{quote|'''Gardevoir''': ''[[Squick|You threw jars of your own urine at people?]]''<br />

'''Sniper''': ''Saxton Hale said it would be cool.''<br />

'''Gardevoir''': ''If Saxton Hale jumped off a cliff-''<br />

'''Sniper''': ''Like he did in "Saxton Hale vs the Red Cliffs of Doomver"?''<br />

{{spoiler|'''Gardevoir's split personality'''}}: 'Has that cliff jumping question ever worked?'' }}

** In another episode, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|he]] [[Lampshade|lampshadeslampshade]]s [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|this]].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100503135809/http://www.outpostnine.com/gaijin_smash/2009/01/japanese-people-say-the-darndest-things---version-xp.html This post] on [[Gaijin Smash]] discusses the cultural gap on date excuses.

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