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{{trope}}
{{quote|The rest of the family's job was to humanize [[Donald Trump|the bigoted billionaire]]. No. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That insult is unfair, and unproven. I meant of course, the bigoted ''alleged'' billionaire.
|Samantha Bee|[[Full Frontal with Samantha Bee]]}}
First, [[Self-Demonstrating Article|I'm sorry]] that you have no life and [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|spend all day editing tropes]].
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* In the English dub of '[[Seto no Hanayome]]'', Mawari apologizes after cockblocking two guys, saying "I'm sorry you guys thought you had a chance with them."▼
== Fan
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged|Team Four Star's DBZ Abridged]]'': Vegeta gets one in at the end of the first season, due to Goku's insistence that if Vegeta says he's sorry, he can leave Earth unmolested. The result?▼
{{quote|'''Vegeta:''' I'm sorry. Yep. ''Totally'' sorry. I just feel terrible. Yes, I'm very, very, "very" sorry...(capsule door shuts) THAT YOU'RE ALL STILL ALIVE! SUCKERS!}}▼
▲* In the English dub of [[Seto no Hanayome]], Mawari apologizes after cockblocking two guys, saying "I'm sorry you guys thought you had a chance with them."
== Film ==
* In ''[[Donnie Darko]]'', when the independent-minded teacher complains to the head about being fired, all he says is "I'm sorry you have failed."
* ''[[Zoolander]]'': Though it's entirely possible that in Derek's case, he was [[Too Dumb to Live|being genuine]].
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{{quote|'''Gretchen:''' I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can't help it that I'm so popular.}}
* The title character's apology in ''[[Patton]]'' for slapping a soldier under his charge, which is based off something Patton did in real life.
* Some guy just has been finally convicted. A reporter asks him what he thinks the reason is. The convict snarls: "Because half of the jury are assholes, that's why!" The judge interferes: "You will take this back immediately, or I'll take measures!" The convict: "OK, I take it back. Half of the jury ain't assholes!"▼
** A similar one with headlines: "HALF OUR NATION'S POLITICIANS ARE CROOKS". Outraged phone calls and [[Strongly Worded Letter]]s ensue. The next day, the paper prints this correction as a headline: "HALF OUR NATION'S POLITICIANS ARE NOT CROOKS".▼
* "Bobby, you apologize to your brother this instant!" "I'm sorry you're an idiot, Tommy."▼
== Literature ==
* ''[[The Carpet People]]'':
{{quote|'''Owlglass''': He was sentenced to death for telling the Emperor that he was a blithering idiot who didn't have the brains of a meat pie.
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* [[Plato]]'s ''[[Apology (Plato)]]'' appears to be one of these, considering that Socrates spends most of his speech lamenting how stupid everybody is. But the definition of "apology" at the time also meant "a reasoned argument in justification of something". So Socrates's "apology" was him explaining to the people of Athens his beliefs and methods.
* In Kai Lung's story about the discovery of tea, the Emperor is advised to confess his sins in order to bring an end to a drought:
{{quote|“No complete record of Ming Wang’s confession now exists, all those who accompanied him having entered into a deep compact to preserve a stubborn silence. It is admitted, however, that it was of inordinate length, very explicit in its details, and that it implicated practically every courtier and official of any standing. In a final access of self-reproach the Emperor penitently admitted that he was the guilty head of a thoroughly decayed and criminal autocracy, that he weakly surrounded himself with greedy and incompetent officials, and that he had thoughtlessly permitted sycophancy, bribery and peculation to abound.”
|pp. 39-40 of Ernest Bramah, ''Kai Lung unrolls his Mat'' (1928; repr. Penguin, 1937).}}
== Live
* ''[[House]]'' is forced to apologize to Cuddy's mother: "I'm sorry...that we saved your life", he starts, and then steers it back to a straight apology: "...in the way that we did". Wilson gives the apology a B+.
* ''[[Bewitched]]'': Maurice and Endora are not known to fully admit they're in the wrong.
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* The "Soup Nazi" episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' spawned one of these. Apparently, Jerry Seinfeld and several writers went to the restaurant of the man (Al Yeganeh) that the character had been based on. He recognized them and launched into a rant about how the episode had "ruined his life" and demanded an apology. Seinfeld stood up and gave, to quote, "the most sarcastic, insincere apology" he'd ever heard. Yeganeh then yelled "No soup for you!" and threw them out of the restaurant.
* In ''[[Frasier]]'', Niles bears some animosity towards Frasier's ex-wife Lilith after she sniggered during Maris' wedding vows. When Frasier tries to get the two to reconcile, Lilith responds along the lines of "If Niles is so insecure that he needs an apology for something so minor, then fine, I apologise." Niles joyfully accepts.
== Music ==
* In the Christine Lavin's song "Regretting what I Said" includes "And I'm sorry for all the nasty things I said about your mother, even though we both know they're true".
== Newspaper Comics ==
* After a reader with the surname Dork complained about a ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip using
* ''[[Non Sequitur (comic strip)|
{{quote|'''Danae:''' Sorry if you mistook something I said as somehow being offensive. Now everyone should stop dwelling on the past and just get over it.}}
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* This is a stock part of [[Trash Talk]] in professional wrestling, with Heath Slater's "apology" to [[Chris Jericho]] being one of the more recent ones.
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
▲* Some guy just has been finally convicted. A reporter asks him what he thinks the reason is. The convict snarls: "Because half of the jury are assholes, that's why!" The judge interferes: "You will take this back immediately, or I'll take measures!" The convict: "OK, I take it back. Half of the jury ain't assholes!"
▲** A similar one with headlines: "HALF OUR NATION'S POLITICIANS ARE CROOKS". Outraged phone calls and [[Strongly Worded Letter]]s ensue. The next day, the paper prints this correction as a headline: "HALF OUR NATION'S POLITICIANS ARE NOT CROOKS".
▲* "Bobby, you apologize to your brother this instant!" "I'm sorry you're an idiot, Tommy."
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', after Luvbi trash-talks the Mario brothers, Jaydes (her mother) forces her to apologize. So she replies. "I am sorry... that [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|thy]] noses are so large." (The last part said very quickly and apparently unnoticed by Jaydes, though Mario reacts.)
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* ''[[Sinfest]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209174247/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1242 1242].
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040224c Oh, I'm sorry. Were you done?]
* ''[[Basic Instructions]]'' provides instructions on [http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2007/2/25/how-to-apologize-without-accepting-any-blame.html How to Apologize Without Accepting Any Blame].
== Western Animation ==
* A closing gag on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Homer being chased by the mob. He then screams that he's sorry, [[Rule of Funny|causing them to stop and decide to leave him be.]] [[What an Idiot!|He then invokes this trope and the chase resumes.]]
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'':
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Mel Gibson's "apology" to the Jews, and also:
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Hey, hey, hey. Easy, fella. That's my kid. Now apologize.
'''Douchebag:<ref>who looks like a guy but is really a stupendously ugly fat chick</ref>''' Okay. I'm sorry your kid's a brain-dead stinking blue cheese, fatass. }}
* Squirt and Shimmer do this to each other in "Stumped" on ''[[Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends]]'' after having a fight over a hollyberry. Holley demands that they stop fighting and apologize to each other. "Sorry your ugly scarecrow won't have a head," shouts Squirt and Shimmer retorts "And ''I'm'' sorry that you're the world's worst berry thief!" Later, the two apologize to each other for real after they cool off and realize the pettiness of their earlier behavior.
== Real Life ==
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* [[Dave Barry]] once wrote a column about telemarketers which included the phone number of a major telemarketing company. Over the course of the following week, that company got swamped with so many calls from people complaining about being harassed by telemarketers that they couldn't get any work done. Dave Barry's next column covered this reaction, and ended with a highly sarcastic apology to the telemarketing company for the trouble he caused them, which included the phrase "I probably should not say that your new phone number is..."
* Following a tweet by Chris Brown, Andy Levy made a comment about domestic abuse. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOjUKwoHUyw Here] is his apology to said comment.
* [[Orson Welles]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho_9XTnlJKM apology] for the
* First rule of PR
** Late 2011 presented an archetypal example from Paul Christoforo of Ocean Marketing who, in the course of publicly abusing some customers, did not believe that one of the people he was talking to ran [[Penny Arcade]]. [http://www.popehat.com/2011/12/27/outsource-your-marketing-outsource-your-reputation-and-ethics-applies-to-every-industry/ Hilarity ensued.] The [http://www.popehat.com/2011/12/28/internet-justice-and-paul-christoforos-awful-non-apology/ series of non-apologies was summarized] as "Sorry, I wouldn't have done that if I had known I couldn't get away with it."
* When [[Countdown with Keith Olbermann|Keith Olbermann]] was removed from Current in March 2012, he released a statement on Twitter which began with this:
{{quote|I'd like to apologize to my viewers and my staff for the failure of Current TV.}}
▲* [[Dragon Ball Abridged|Team Four Star's DBZ Abridged]]: Vegeta gets one in at the end of the first season, due to Goku's insistence that if Vegeta says he's sorry, he can leave Earth unmolested. The result?
▲{{quote|'''Vegeta:''' I'm sorry. Yep. ''Totally'' sorry. I just feel terrible. Yes, I'm very, very, "very" sorry...(capsule door shuts) THAT YOU'RE ALL STILL ALIVE! SUCKERS!}}
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