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== [[Film]] ==

* From ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'':

* Classic example from the [[Marx Brothers]] film, [[Horsefeathers]]:

'''Chico:''' [[Insane Troll Logic|He don't have to take me to work, I no got a job]]. }}

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* On ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Kryten was fond of these:

'''Kryten:''' An excellent suggestion, Sir, with just two minor drawbacks. One, we don't have a power source for the lasers, and two, we don't have any lasers. }}

'''Kryten:''' An excellent idea sir, with just two small problems: First, we don't have any jet-powered rocket pants. And second, there's no such thing as jet-powered rocket pants outside of the fictional serial 'Robbie Rocketpants'. }}

'''Kryten:''' An excellent idea, sir, with just two small problems: First, we don't have any defensive shields. Second, we don't have any defensive shields. I realise that technically speaking that's only one problem, but it's such a big one that I thought [[Department of Redundancy Department|it was worth mentioning twice]]. }}

* On ''[[The West Wing]]'', Toby points out that the problem with jokes about the Vice President's mediocrity is that "He doesn't think they're funny, and everyone else doesn't think they're jokes." An earlier episode, "The Fall's Gonna Kill You", referenced the Butch Cassidy exchange. The series uses this joke form in numerous other instances to point out how short their various successes fall of actually fixing massive social injustices.

* An especially long version done in the "Bookshop" sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. A customer has put the bookstore clerk through an incredible ordeal in finding a book. Eventually he finds one the customer likes ("Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying") and the clerk slams it onto the counter:

'''Clerk:''' You can't read? Fine, sit down! Sit! Are you sitting comfortably? Right! "Ethel the Aardvark was hopping down the river valley..." }}

* [[Blackadder|Blackadder II]] - Money, Edmund is £1000 in debt...

'''Baldrick''': You'll have to get murdered. You'll never raise that sort of money. }}

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Terror Island]]'' [[Creepy Twins|the Unity]] refuses to be complicit in Stephen's scheme in [http://terrorisland.net/strips/147.html theorem 147] because:

'''Blue/Yellow Unity''': And we are not a plumber. }}

* From [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=5&issue=3 this strip] of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'':

** Later:

* In [http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2004-02-20 Mac Hall]:

'''Matt:''' Because we don't have either. }}

* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' '''loves''' this trope.

* [http://xkcd.com/765/ One] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip has, as its alt text, two problems with a recent issue of a homeopathy magazine:

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Futurama]]''

* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]''

'''Ben''': Or a licence, I was wondering if you could give us a ride. }}