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Second Floor Dungeon: Jewelry Department." }}
** But subverted with the very next line: "Leg chains, ankle chains, wrist chains, neck chains, thumb screws and nooses of the very finest rope!"
* This line from Kent Mansley's "goldarned security" rant in ''[[The Iron Giant]]'':
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* From ''[[Seven Seconds]]'', an officer who's just been kidnapped:
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* At the beginning of [[This Is Spinal Tap]], Marty DiBergi, describing the eponymous band, says: "I remember being knocked out by their, their exuberance, their raw power... and their punctuality."
* At the end of the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie, the bailiff is reading out the [[Long List|(long) list]] of [[List of Transgressions|charges that Jack Sparrow has been found guilty of]], including "impersonating a cleric of the Church of England", which prompts a fond little smile of remembrance from Jack.
* [[Gary Oldman]]'s terrorist character in ''[[Air Force One (
* Ivan Ooze in ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (
* Helen Sharp ([[Goldie Hawn]]) talking about Madeline Ashton ([[Meryl Streep]]) in ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'': "She was a homebreaker. She was a man-eater. And she was a ''bad actress''."
* On ''[[Atlantis:
* In the [[So Bad It's Good]] film ''Pootie Tang'', the titular character's dying father, where worked at a steel mill where he was suddenly beaten to near death by a <s>gorilla</s> man in a gorilla suit, tells his son about the horrors of the world: Drugs, crime, and gorillas.
* [[Moral Guardians]]' attempts to give us a measure of some or other work against their serious verified and absolute morale standards all too often include funny items:
** The IMDB parental guides have a lot of these. Laundry lists of terrifying violence and brutality followed by 'A man and a woman argue about parking tickets.' A great example [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/parentalguide is for] ''[[Caligula]]'', where the Violence section has, along with gems such as "A man is suffocated with a cloth and he dies." and "A machine with huge blades cuts peoples heads off lots of blood and heads roll"... "A woman is slapped."
** Critics have fun with this when writing good reviews:
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** Nothing can beat [http://www.capalert.com/ CAP-Alert] for this: This film contains murder, blasphemy, and bare male chests.
** The MPAA is similarly ridiculous when rating films.
*** ''Sydney White'' is rated PG-13 for "some language, sexual humor and partying". ''17 Again'' lists similar reasons.
*** [http://screenit.com/all_titles.html Screenit.com] also judges whether films are family-friendly using categories like Sex/Nudity, Violence, Blood/Gore, and Suspenseful Music. They also consider an unclothed female mannequin to belong in the Sex/Nudity section.
*** Their rating of ''[[Star Trek (
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*** Tim Burton's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (
**** They might get in even more of an uproar if they knew what he was smoking. Give you a hint: {{spoiler|It's not tobacco.}}
* In ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'', Hedley Lamarr gives out a long list of evil people that he wants to recruit as [[Mook|mooks]], topping it off with a triumphant, "...and ''Methodists!''". There's no given reason why Methodists are lumped in with such villains. This coincides with a later line where the people of Rock Ridge announce they will accept "the niggers and the chinks, but we ''don't want the Irish!''" pointing out archaic prejudices against seemingly generic groups. Or even earlier in the movie, when addressing the townspeople:
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** Rufus the 13th Apostle is talking to Bethany about Jesus Christ, and lists off some of the things being done in his name that he doesn't like. "Wars! Bigotry! Televangelism!"
** Loki kills a bunch of board members for (among other things) adultery, disowning a gay son, incest, and he tried to kill one woman for not saying "God Bless You" when he sneezed, and he almost shoots her before Bartleby pulls him away.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
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'''Mayor''': What do you mean, "biblical"?
'''Dr. Ray Stantz''': What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
'''Dr. Peter Venkman''': Exactly.
'''Dr. Ray Stantz''': Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
'''Dr. Egon Spengler''': Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
'''Winston Zeddemore''': The dead rising from the grave!
'''Dr. Peter Venkman''': Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! }}
* In the Spice Girls' movie ''[[Spice World]]'', the group is about to be late for their first major live show. Their driver is nowhere to be found, so Posh Spice frantically drives their tour bus across London and jumps across Tower Bridge as it is rising to let a boat through. When they arrive at the venue, they are confronted by a policeman who wants to arrest them for "dangerous driving, criminal damage, flying a bus without a license ... and frightening the pigeons!"
* Played with in ''[[
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(Cut to [[The Brute|Thorgrim]], who is making a [[Narm|narmy]] little frown.)
Conan replies in kind: "You killed my mother! [[You Killed My Father]], [[Doomed Hometown|you killed my people]]! You TOOK MY [[Ancestral Weapon|FATHER'S SWORD!!]]." }}
* From ''[[The Muppets|Muppet]] [[Christmas Carol]]'':
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'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!
'''Emily Cratchit''': ...and stingy...
'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!
'''Emily Cratchit''': ...and wicked...
'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!
'''Emily Cratchit''': ...and unfeeling...
'''The twins:''' Mm-hm!
'''Emily Cratchit''': ...and ''badly dressed''...
''The twins gasp in horror'' }}
* Inverted in ''[[Clue (
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'''Wadsworth''': [Wadsworth opens the door, feigning innocence, while other guests gather around] What do you mean... murder?
'''Cop''': I just said it so you would open the door. }}
* ''[[
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'''State Trooper''': [looks through his notebook] What about counterfeiting, extortion, fraud, impersonating a dentist, ''stealing an apple from a kid''? (The latter occurred earlier in the movie)
'''Sam Sleaze''': Oh, about that apple, officer, I can explain that. We was just holding it for a friend.
'''Sid Sleaze''': Yeah, for a friend.
'''State Trooper''': You can tell that to the judge. }}
* In ''[[Shrek]] 3'', The Witches run people down on their broomsticks, the living trees knock stuff over, and the cyclops... pulls letters out of mailboxes, peels off the stamps, and puts them back.
* From ''Shrek 2'' the Fairy Godmother's tirade:
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* In ''[[
* ''[[Robin Hood]]: Prince of Thieves'':
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** Back then, it certainly counted as this trope, as Christmas as we now view it [[Anachronism Stew|didn't come to England until Victorian times]]. If the story took place in modern times, though, then it would be justified.
* Somewhat [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Last Action Hero]]'': Jack Slater, upon rescuing his daughter from thugs and escaping several attempts on his life, including the destruction of a good part of his ex wife's house, breaks into the antagonist Mr. Benedict's mansion, and begins kicking him around, [[And This Is For|listing a reason for every blow he lands]], with the ''exception'' of his ex-wife's house, during which, he stands Mr. Benedict up, straightens out his suit, takes his hand, and gently slaps him on the wrist.
* ''[[Clerks]]'': A mother and small child come into the video store to order "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup". Randal phones the distributors and orders a long list of increasingly disturbing porn titles, ending by turning to the mother and saying "Uh, what was that called again?"
* The opening scene of ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' comes from the romance novel that Kathleen Turner's character is writing:
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* In a deleted scene of ''Tenacious D And The Pick Of Destiny'', Jack Black and Kyle Gass are checking out at an army/navy supply store with a grocery cart full of items that make it increasingly apparent that they intend to do some Hollywood-style breaking and entering, including walkie talkies, grappling hooks, smoke bombs, a pair of [[Spy Catsuit|spy catsuits]], poison darts... and a bag of Funyuns. The Funyuns are actually the second-to-last item though.
* [[Woody Allen]]'s ''Take the Money and Run'' uses this trope twice in the same way. At the beginning, the narrator says that Virgil is wanted for robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of a wart. Later, as Virgil assembles a gang to rob a bank, the narrator reveals what each of them has served time for. One was "bank robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, murder, and '''getting naked in front of his in-laws'''," another was just "'''dancing with a mailman'''," and the third was "arson, robbery, assault with intent to kill, and '''marrying a horse'''."
* ''[[American Gangster]]'': Frank Lucas wants to get heroin directly from the producers, who live deep in the South Asian jungle. His cousin really doesn't want to go: "There's snakes, [[The Vietnam War|Viet Cong]], and ''mosquitoes that'll fuckin' kill yo' ass!''"
* One of the taglines for the film of ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
* ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' was marketed as "a tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood."
* When he learns Dr. Evil has hijacked nuclear weapons, ''[[Austin Powers]]'' says that only two things scare him, and one is nuclear war. When asked what his second fear was, he says "carnies."
* Used and toyed with in ''[[The Addams Family
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'''Debbie:''' What?
'''Morticia (reproachfully, eying the decor):''' Pastels? }}
* This shows up in [http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/whos_the_woman_whos_the_man.htm Who's the Woman, Who's the Man] in the form of a tirade directed by Fish against a woman whom O, the lesbian he has a crush on, is flirting with:
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* One of the taglines for the movie ''[[Sneakers]]'' was;
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* In the 2008 version of ''[[Journey to
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'''Hannah''': Emeralds!
'''Trevor''': Feldspar! }}
* In the Disney Channel movie'' Minutemen'', several government officials run in flashing badges and screaming the name of their respective organizations. "FBI!" "CIA!" "Bureau of Weights and Measures." They tell the last guy that he should go in first next time.
* In ''[[National Treasure]]'', the film's antagonist is arrested on the charges of "kidnapping, attempted murder, and trespassing on government property."
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Brazil (
* The ''[[Watchmen (
* ''[[Kentucky Fried Movie]]'' segment "United Appeal for the Dead".
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* Near the end of W. C. Fields' ''[[The Golf Specialist]]'', we briefly see J. Effingham Bellweather's wanted poster which includes such things as manslaughter and homicide. The next shot is a ten-second pan down a list of his other offenses:
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Passing as the Prince of Wales,
Eating spaghetti in public,
Using hard words in a speakeasy,
Trumping partner's ace,
Spitting in the Gulf Stream,
Jumping board bill in seventeen lunatic asylums,
Failure to pay installments on a strait-jacket,
Possessing a skunk,
Revealing the facts of life to an Indian. }}
* The [[Tagline]] on posters for ''[[Fight Club]]'' was "Mischief. Mayhem. Soap." {{spoiler|This, however, is a subversion: the soap is made out of discarded fat from liposuctions}}.
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'' Edna Mode does this twice while demonstrating the new super suits she designed for Helen Parr and her children:
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"Your suit can stretch as far as you can without injuring yourself, and still retain its shape. Virtually indestructible, yet it breathes like Egyptian cotton." }}
* ''[[Scary Movie]] 3'': The Architect is discussing with Cindy the evil of his daughter Tabitha. "We loved our daughter but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. Hid the remote. Really sick shit."
* ''[[
* The tagline for ''[[Army of Darkness]]:'' "Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas."
* In ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]:''
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'''Leia Organa''': My...! Why, you stuck up, ...half-witted, ...scruffy-looking... nerf-herder!
'''Han''': [[I Take Offense to That Last One|Who's scruffy-looking?]] }}
* In ''[[
* In ''Fathom'', Ms. Harvill describes her problems as: "Treason, arson, murder and a parking ticket."
* ''[[Heavy Metal (
* ''Sudden Impact''. [[Dirty Harry]] delivers a long monologue about all the rotten things he sees as a homicide cop (babies abandoned in dumpsters, etc) but says the thing that really gets to him, that really makes him sick to his stomach, is the fact that his partner puts ketchup on his hot dog!
* In the opening scene of ''[[
* Kent in ''[[Hot Shots]]'' doesn't trust Topper because his father bailed on Kents during flight. Yet offhandedly forgives the other members of the team who were more involved in his death, including one who ate him for dinner after he was mistaken for game and shot.
* From ''What's Up, Tiger Lily?'':
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* In ''How High'', the black supremacist Reparation Technical Institute offers students a wide variety of courses, such as Hatred Towards the White Devil, ADVANCED Hatred Towards the White Devil, and Volleyball.
* ''[[The King's Speech]]'' has one which doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]:
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* In ''The New Guy'', Dizzy tries to get himself expelled from school to go to a new one. His first attempt is to reveal his teacher is wearing a toupee, yell the answers to the test out loud and bribery. The school therapist responds by giving him more medication. His second attempt is to film the school's principal going to the bathroom. That does not work either. Finally, Dizzy remembers what Luther the inmate told him. Dizzy then gets ready to break the mop and use it against the principal. As soon as he breaks it, however, the principal turns around and expels him for destroying school property.
* ''[[Undercover Brother]]''. Smart Brother's description of his interrogation of White She-Devil. He starts by analyzing her brainwaves, then unlocks her subconscious with hypnosis, gently brushes her hair, and finally finds the information on a list in her pockets.
* In ''[[Trading Places]]'' Winthorpe's descent into criminality is summarized as: "pilfering in our club, embezzling funds, selling drugs, and now he's dressing up like Santa Claus."
* In ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'', Sean is planning on traveling.
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'''Sean:''' India, China....and Baltimore. }}
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (
* ''[[
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* In ''CB4'', politician Virgil Robinson says of the titular rap group "Their record of incitement, lewdness, and poor grammar will see them jailed, banned, and- and- and with their feelings hurt".
* ''[[Men in Black (
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'''Jay''': Yeah and... and... and I'm gonna be back to talk about them Rolexes. }}
* A composite quote from the ''[[Inspector Gadget (
* In ''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'', Napoleon angrily orders Uncle Rico to get out of their house because, "You've been ruining all our lives and eating all our steak!"
* After giving Derek a long list of what he's supposed to do as an assassin in ''[[Zoolander]]'', Mugatu adds: "Obey my dog!"
* ''[[Tank Girl (
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* The ''[[Reefer Madness]]'' movie musical has this trope at the start of the song "Mary Jane/Mary Lane".
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''And mud on my name''
''My Id threw a party and everyone came''
''My innocence ravaged''
''My virtue devoured''
''I can't count the strangers with whom I have showered!'' }}
* A wordless example from ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', when Gordon observes of the Joker that there was "nothing in his pockets but knives and lint", we see a cop laying out various sizes and shapes of knife on a table. The last is a potato peeler, emphasised by a perfect piece of silent comedy as the handler does a brief double-take.
* In ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]'':
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* In ''[[Hocus Pocus (
* In ''[[The French Connection]]'', after his partner's been stabbed, Popeye Doyle wants to run the suspect in for that, for drug possession, "and for picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!"
* In ''[[Hugo]]'', Hugo's crimes are listed as: "Trespass, theft, pilfering, littering... [[Even the Subtitler Is Stumped|mmmmlering]]... walking about... playing..."
* ''Smallfoot'' has one when {{spoiler|Percy}} is arrested.
{{quote|You're under arrest for disturbing the peace, destruction of public property, discharging fireworks within the city limits...internet fraud, loitering, looking weird...}}
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