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* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]]'', there are a number of cases:
** "Seriously, who reads this stuff?" "You."
** When told that [[Harry Potter and
** When {{spoiler|Bellatrix Black}} incredulously says "I'm... alive...?", Harry is tempted to say "no" just to see how she reacts.
* In ''[[Through a Looking Glass Darkly]]'', Jack provides some choice answers.
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{{quote|'''Man walking by:''' Hello, Gerald, building a dog house?
'''Gerald:''' No, I'm up in a balloon milking a chicken. }}
* ''[[Peanuts]]'':
** In
{{quote|'''Charlie Brown:''' What happened Joe? You were really smoking. Did you miss a turn?
''Cut to Snoopy, limping, dragging part of a fence on his leg.''
'''Snoopy:''' No, I always wear this snow fence around my leg!}}
:* In one old series of Sunday strips, some birds build a nest on Snoopy’s doghouse, requiring him to vacate and sleep on the mailbox until the baby birds hatch. In the second part, he goes to check on them, and is astounded to see they have, indeed, hatched.
{{quote|'''Snoopy:''' Fantastic! I wonder if they’re hungry?
''(Looks very close, and the baby birds both try to eat his nose.)''
'''Snoopy:''' I think they’re hungry!}}
:* In one strip, Linus is watching Charlie Brown fly a kite (which as fans of the strip know, he has ''never'' been able to successfully do):
{{quote|'''Linus:''' Charlie Brown, once you have a kite in the air, do you ever have a problem getting it down again?
''(Charlie Brown loses control of the kite and it crashes with the impact of a missile.)''
'''Charlie Brown:''' [[Sarcasm Mode|''That’s'' one problem I’ve never had to worry about]].}}
* [[Popeye]]'s ''very first spoken line'' from a 1929 ''[[Thimble Theater]]'' strip occurred in an arc where Castor Oyl (Olive's brother and the original protagonist) was looking for a crew for his ship (in case you don't know how Popeye tends to dress, by the way, it's doubtful he'd be mistaken for anything but a sailor):
{{quote|'''Castor Oyl:''' Hey, are you a sailor?
'''Popeye:''' Ja think I'm a cowboy?}}
== Puppet Shows ==
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* In an ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' strip, Merlin responds to Lancelot's "Do you think this is wise?" with "Why, no. I woke up this morning and decided to do the least wise thing that occured to me."
* ''Triggerhappy'' from Kukuruyo answers "[https://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/where-are-her-organs-2/ Where are her organs?]".
* ''[[xkcd]]'', [https://xkcd.com/852/ "Local g"]: "Crap! How did the pole vaulters get up to our balcony?"
== Web Original ==
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''(Zoom out, showing dozens of empty beer cans around them in the room.)''
'''BoJack:''' [[Flat Yes| Yes]].}}
* From the pilot episode of ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'', this is used as Sprig's [[Establishing Character Moment]]:
{{quote|'''Hop Pop:''' Polly's got more responsibility in her little flipper that ''you'' have in your entire body!
'''Sprig:''' Ridiculous, what makes you think I'm irresponsible?
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''(Cut to [[Flashback]]s showing Sprig causing the contents of a cauldron to explode, crashing through the wall of Hop Pop's bedroom riding an angry [[Mix and Match Critter|snake-cow]], and leaving the lights on in their house, causing giant lightning bugs to attack it.)''
'''Sprig:''' Okay, [[Not Helping Your Case|so yesterday was a bad day...]]}}
* From ''[[The Critic]]'', Jay reviews a movie called ''The Nightmare Before Hanukkah''. The
{{quote|'''Jack:''' Excuse me, is this Hanukkah Town?
'''Sarcastic Jewish Guy:''' No, it's the Vatican and I'm Pope Shlomo. Oy!}}
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{{quote|'''Peter:''' You okay Egon?
'''Egon:''' Do I ''look'' okay??}}
* From ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]''; in an episode where a brutal battle between Supergirl and Livewire is broadcast on the news and seems to result in Supergirl's death (she survived, but the public believes otherwise) Kara gets a text from [[Superman| her cousin]] asking if she is dead. She's not in the mood to give a snarky reply and simply replies "No".
* From an episode of ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' episode "The Great Escape"; while infiltrating a zoo (where the animals are magical beings who have been subjected to [[Baleful Polymorph]]) June is confronted by a guy who she assumes is the zookeeper:
{{quote|'''June:''' Uh, are you the zookeeper?
'''Zookeeper:''' No, I'm a creepy old man who lives with animals and likes the smell of dung.
''(Blank stare from June.)''
'''Zookeeper:''' [[Captain Obvious|''YES'' I'm the zookeeper]]!}}
* In the ''[[Rick and Morty]]'' episode "Jurassic Rick", the super intelligent dinosaurs are holding a keynote address to deal with humans' problems with reduced accountability:
{{quote|'''Brontosaurus:''' I see someone is eager to speak.
'''Guy in audience:''' Uh hi, what do you do when you want to kill yourself?
'''Triceratops:''' You ''don't'' do that, thank you for asking, though, very important.}}
== Real Life ==
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