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** Mocked in an episode where House stops a surgery by spitting all over the sterile equipment; in case [[Viewers are Morons|the dimmer members of the audience]] didn't get the significance, [[Mr. Exposition|Nurse Exposition]] points out "There's no way we can do the surgery now!" The exasperated surgeon gives her a withering look and yells "YA THINK?!?"
** And then for some more metaphors. But these are lampshaded quite often.
* On ''[[Law &
** Pretty much the entire franchise does it, ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|SVU]]'' the most painful at it, almost always using it in an As You Know/[[Idiot Ball]]/[[Writer on Board]] combo.
** Somewhat justified—lawyers have to be able to distinguish the case's meaning from the facts, and then apply it to their particular situation. And they have to be able to challenge arguments that the case they just cited shouldn't apply. And in the case of the judges, it's often done as a method of interpreting the law based on the arguments of the lawyers (and playing Devil's Advocate in the process by challenging their interpretation), which is partly what judges are ''supposed'' to do.
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* Mercilessly parodied in ''Brass'' whenever one of the characters needs to remind viewers of the plot.
* Used in the season 2 finale of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', in which the [[Big Bad]] and Veronica take a 5 minute timeout before he tries to kill her, for them to confirm yes, she knows everything. [[Shout-Out|Veronica Mars is smarter than me]], so I was [[Tropes Are Not Bad|thankful and disbelief-suspending]], for the explanation
* On ''[[The X-Files]]'', Mulder would often explain the definition of various medical conditions to Scully. Actually, he was explaining it to the audience, but that didn't make it any less silly when one considered that Scully was a ''medical doctor'' and Mulder wasn't.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'' has a scene with Dewitt explaining how a rich psycho got out of a bunch of crimes, followed by Boyd saying "And by that, do you mean..." and she responds with what she was actually hinting at. After he does it twice she hangs a lampshade on it with "There is no need to continue to translate me."
* Done a fair amount by Winston in ''[[Human Target]]'', although tends to be of the form "Now, remember..." or "Here's the plan..." although it's something the putative listener wouldn't forget or already knows.
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