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[[File:breadeggsbreadedeggs 5285.jpg|link=Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|
{{quote|''"Celestia might banish you from Equestria! Or throw you in a dungeon! Or banish you, and then throw you in a dungeon ''in'' the place that she banishes you to!"''
|'''Twilight Sparkle''', ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', "A Bird in the Hoof"}}
A sub-department of the [[Department of Redundancy Department]] that produces lists. While listing pretty much anything, the third item (typically the third, as per [[Rule of Three]], but it can be longer) on the list will be a combination of two or more previous items. Sometimes, this makes sense. Sometimes, it's just confusing, or outright impossible, or [[Self-Demonstrating Article|impossibly confusing]], [[Overly Long Gag|or quite possibly confusingly impossible]].
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Compare [[Shaped Like Itself]] and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]].
Not related to "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dxTsJHzvI Scotch Egg]" a [[Web Animation]] created by ''[[Weebl and Bob|Weebl's Stuff]]'' in salute to [[w:Scotch egg|''actual'' breaded eggs]].
{{examples|Examples, sections, examples in sections:}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* It's a pillow... it's a pet... It's a Pillowpet!
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* In a Reese's candy commercial that was airing on several cable channels in July 2019, the announcer muses, "Cups. Chips. Cups ''with'' chips!"
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[Soul Eater]]'', Death the Kid realizes that a person he assumed was a tourist is actually a witch, then wonders if she wasn't a witch tourist.
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* The fanfic ''[[Desperately Seeking Ranma]]'' has a moment when, in a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', Nabiki muses on "the things, the people, and the things that are also people" she's seen during her vacation off Earth.
* The ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLjwVVNq4s ''End of the Line''] has a kitten store, an orphanage, and a kitten orphanage.
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9594080/1/Sail-Smarter-Not-Harder Sail Smarter, Not Harder]'', a ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanfic by "fringeperson", has this moment in its third chapter:
{{quote|"There ''is'' something suspicious going on here," Chiba noted with a quiet, horrified awe. "But... it makes no sense! Why, and for that matter, ''how'' is this happening?"
"I'm going to ascribe it to either magic or aliens, or possibly alien magic," Usagi answered in a quiet grumble with an unhappy shake of her head.}}
* In [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/a-twelve-step-program-to-omnipotence-mcu-si.645007/threadmarks Chapter 45] of the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] [[Self-Insert Fic]] ''[[A Twelve Step Program to Omnipotence]]'' by "Bakkughan", Michael "Hyperion" McCole peeks into the delivery room where a massively-augmented [[Jessica Jones (TV series)|Jessica Jones]] is giving birth to their triplets, then pulls right back out before he can finish asking the doctors how long the birth will take.
{{quote|"Uhm... Mr. McCole? Are you quite alright?"
"Fire. Blood. Flaming blood. Coming from... ''there''." I mumble, causing Jeri to roll her eyes.}}
* The ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanfic ''[[Isekai by Moonlight]]'' mentions, while describing a canon scene that isn't re-told in the story, "Zoicite. Sewers. Rats. Zoicite covered in sewer rats."
== [[Film]] ==
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'''Tector''': Fuck!
'''Both''': Shitfuck! }}
* In ''[[Bill and
{{quote|'''Bill:''' This armor's heavy.
'''Ted:''' Like metal.
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* In ''Zen Ghosts'', Karl can't decide whether to be a pirate or an owl for Halloween. Stillwater, his panda friend, suggests going as an owl-pirate, but Michael protests that there's no such thing. Though not mentioned in the story, the illustrations show that Karl took Stillwater's advice.
* [[Isaac Asimov]] was often criticized for the absence of extraterrestrial life and sexuality in his works. So he wrote ''[[The Gods Themselves]]'', which contains aliens, sex and ''alien sex''.
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
* In ''[[Harold and The Purple Crayon|Harold's Fairy Tale]]'', Harold encounters an enchanted garden that's barren. The king tells him this is due either to a witch or a giant, but he doesn't know which. Harold later finds that the trouble is being caused by a giant witch.
* ''[[Hank the Cowdog]]'':
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* The opening lines of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Super Crazy's]] entrance music during his [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] tenure: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqYmbb_8CRs "I am super! I am crazy! I am Super Crazy!"]
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In one of the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' RPG sourcebooks, a trader from the pacifistic and community-oriented Abbai race is explaining why she always checks the cargo she's hired to carry thoroughly: because there might be something "awful" in there..."Like weapons, or drugs. Or weapons ''and'' drugs!"
* One ''[[Shadowrun]]'' sourcebook contains a section on "Armor and Clothing". The first sub-section in the next page is "Armored Clothing".
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''; a Fusion of [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Humanoid_Slime Humanoid Slime] and [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Worm_Drake Worm Drake] is a [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Humanoid_Worm_Drake Humanoid Worm Drake].
== [[Theater]] ==
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'''Bartender''': "You idiots are staring into the mirror again!" }}
* ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' has Ethan debating on whether to drink beer or soda, and promptly invented Beersoda.
* ''[[Memoria (2010 webcomic)|Memoria]]'', [
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0125.html strip #125] Belkar lists several halfling games: "Throw the Rock, Throw the Stick, Throw the Rock and then the Stick Shortly Thereafter..."
* From the ''[[Basic Instructions]]'' on [http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2007/3/11/how-to-eliminate-clutter.html how to eliminate clutter]:
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'''PFY:''' Or people who don't work here.
'''BOFH:''' Or disappearances of people who don't work here. }}
* A review of the [[PlayStation 2|PS2]] game ''[[Ring of Red]]'' on the website [
{{quote|Sending them out a second too early might convince the computer to spray them with shrapnel, flammable liquids, or even the dreaded shrapnel drenched in flammable liquids!}}
** He's not kidding. Your mechs can in fact be armed with Incendiary shells (burninate a single squad), Shrapnel shells (hit both squads), or Incendiary Shrapnel (burninate both squads).
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** In one of the movie trailer parodies, this one parodying ''[[Inglorious Basterds]]'', Deadpool plays the sergeant. He gives us "And the skrull will grow to fear the pain they will feel at our hands, and at the edge of our knives, [camera switch to Wolverine] and the edge of the knives that come from our hands."
* [http://memebase.com/2011/10/26/internet-memes-picture-is-unrelated-i-welcome-our-undead-otherworldly-overlords/ This] Memebase picture (read from bottom to top).
* On the ''[[Riff Trax]]'' of ''[[Harry Potter and
{{quote|OK, what has Draco sent them this time? A bird? An apple? A horrible bird apple that pecks your eyes out with each delicious bite?!?}}
** In the ''[[Riff Trax]]'' for ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' we get this gem as Edward is reading people's minds: "Sex...cats..." "Cat sex..."
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{{quote|"Love! And PINK things! And babies! And pink babies! Made from love!"}}
* Christopher Torres, who designed the web animation Nyan Cat, said that after one person requested him to draw a Pop-Tart, and another requested a cat, he created a cat with a Pop-Tart for a body.
* The [[Xzibit]] meme in general, poking fun at ''[[Pimp My Ride]]'' and their extravagant car modifications, though [[
* Some ''[[Cracked.com]]'' authors love this one.
** [http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-animals-that-could-take-over-world-if-they-wanted-to/ "Animals that could take over the world if they wanted to"]
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[DuckTales (2017)]] often combines aspects of the original comic and [[DuckTales (1987)|the first cartoon]]. which makes for some meta cases. For example:
▼
** From "Burns' Heir":
** In the original duck tales comic, Flintheart Glomgold was South African. In the original cartoon, he was Scottish. In the 2017 reboot, he is a {{spoiler|South African pretending to be Scottish}}.▼
▲* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Burns' Heir":
{{quote|'''Mr Burns:''' I suggest you leave immediately.
'''Homer:''' Or what? You'll release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths [[Bee-Bee Gun|and when they bark they shoot bees at you?]] }}
{{quote|'''Homer:''' If you've been good, pizza. If you've been bad... uh... let's see... poison.
'''Lisa:''' What if one of us has been good and one of us has been bad?
'''Bart:''' Poison pizza.
'''Homer:''' Oh no, I'm not making two stops. }}
{{quote|'''Homer:''' I am so screwed. I can't drive to work, I can't drive to the store, and I certainly can't drive to the store at work.}}
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': "Do you like beans? Do you like George Wendt movies? Do you like eating beans with George Wendt?" Thus begins a survey that goes on to add a few more unique questions and [[Overly Long Gag|combine them all in every conceivable way]].
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'': "Whoa, it's a salmon! It's as big as a moose! Hey, maybe it's a [[Monty Pythons Meaning of Life|salmon moose]]!"
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'',
*
** In ''Wade, You're Afraid'', while thinking that the bull is loose, Wade says "Oh, terror! Oh, danger! Oh, terror and danger!"
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': In the episode where Peter owes the Mafia a favor:
{{quote|'''Peter:''' What are you gonna make me do, whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? 'Cause I'm married.}}
* ''[[Tuff Puppy]]'':
** Kitty tries to convince people not to eat the muffins the [[Big Bad]] has offered.
{{quote|'''Kitty:''' They could be poisoned! They could be bombs! They could be poisonous bombs!}}
{{quote|'''Keswick:''' I'm a pretty pirate princess who's late for the woodpecker ball, '''HA-GI-GI'''!}}
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'':
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* ''[[King of the Hill]]'', when Dale tries to figure out [[Camp Gay|the new persona]] Bill adopts for his job at a hair salon.
{{quote|'''Dale:''' Pirate! Waiter! Pirate waiter!}}
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]''
**
** Another moment is in "Party Of One", when Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash engage in some [[Stereo Fibbing]].
{{quote|'''Pinkie Pie''': ''(referring to a made-up bear that Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash have said that they're house sitting for)'' He's vacationing at the beach?
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''(Repeat, reversed. Beat.)''
Play seashells!/Collect volleyballs! }}
{{quote|'''Applejack''': Rainbow Dash, what's going on with this rain? I mean, chocolate milk? I mean, chocolate milk rain?}}
** During the musical number in "May the Best Pet Win":
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* In ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'' when [[Bugs Bunny]] finds his personal items destroyed.
{{quote|'''Bugs Bunny:''' AHH! My glamour shot! AHH! My tennis trophy! AHH! My glamour shot ''of'' my tennis trophy! [[Big No|NOOOO!]]}}
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'',
*
** Another from Doof, regarding his solar-powered Evaporator-inator in "De Plane! De Plane!": "Its green ''and'' evil! I call it 'greevil'."
*** In the same episode, Candace says there's been a lot of talk about diving, snakes, and diving with snakes.
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'''Phil:''' Or bat drool!
'''Both:''' Or mashed peas ''and'' bat drool! }}
{{quote|'''Lil:''' Or eyeballs!
'''Phil:''' Or worm guts!
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{{quote|'''Waitress:''' You never call! You never write! You never call ''saying'' that you're gonna write about calling.}}
* Ron in ''[[Kim Possible]]'': "This is beyond sick and wrong! This is wrongsick!"
* ''[[American Dad]]'',
** Done indirectly in an episode
** A visual version happens in another episode. In an [[Imagine Spot]], Stan threatens Francine first with a chainsaw, then with a leopard, then with the leopard holding the chainsaw.
** Played straight in [[Dungeons & Dragons|''Dungeons And Wagons'']], where Steve and his friends are playing an [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] in the vein of [[World of Warcraft]] or [[EverQuest]]. When Haley and Jeff break up, he starts playing the game too, and comes to idolize Steve's character [[Knight in Shining Armor|"Agathor."]] When Haley joins the game and kills Agathor with his [[Weaksauce Weakness]], Jeff builds him a shrine in the game, with the epitaph: "Here lies Agathor--Warrior, Friend, Warrior-Friend"
* In ''[[Johnny Test]]'', when Dad gets trapped in a Tinymon game, he says "I blame Johnny! No, the sisters! No, Johnny and the sisters!"
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', Numbuh 2 accuses Tommy, his [[Annoying Younger Sibling|younger brother]], of stealing candy and soda from his room and demands an explanation:
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{{quote|'''[[The Snark Knight|Daria]]:''' Only [[Lovable Libby|Quinn]] could turn being smart into a fad.
'''[[Cool Loser|Jane]]:''' Don't worry. Today it's brains, tomorrow pierced tongues, then the next day, pierced brains. }}
* On ''[[South Park]]
▲* [[DuckTales (2017)|The 2017 reboot of ''DuckTales'']] often combines aspects of the original comic and [[DuckTales (1987)|the first cartoon]]. which makes for some meta cases. For example:
▲** In the original duck tales comic, Flintheart Glomgold was South African. In the original cartoon, he was Scottish. In the 2017 reboot, he is a {{spoiler|South African pretending to be Scottish}}.
* In a first season episode of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', Jeremie is angry at Odd for dropping candy on his computer, until he finds out the candy has rebooted and somehow fixed the materialization program:
{{quote|'''Jeremie:''' Odd, you're a genius!
'''Odd:''' So what am I, a genius or a creep?
'''Jeremie:''' You're a creepy genius!}}
* ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'', a scene with the anti-heroine looking through her contacts for an imformant:
{{quote|'''Harley:''' Nope, he’s dead, missing, hates me, hate him, dickhead, ''dead'' dickhead…}}
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** China is similar; the numbers after ten are ten-one, ten-two, ten-three, etc.
** [[w:Pashto|Pashto]] is also like this. Eleven is one-ten, twelve is two-ten, and so on.
** So is English: Ten, eleven, twelve, three-ten, four-ten, five-ten, six-ten, seven-ten, eight-ten, nine-ten. We've just changed the spelling ("ten" to "teen", plus a few other tweaks) to hide that fact.
* Listing compass directions: north, east, northeast, north-northeast, north by east, northeast by north...
* The commonly combined Ninjas and Pirates into Ninjapirates. Or [[Insistent Terminology|pirate-ninjas]].
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* One of the orientation videos at Boston University, when listing rules for dorm life, states: "No smoking. No gambling. No waterbeds. No smoking on waterbeds while gambling."
* Taking the trope literally: [[wikipedia:Bread|Bread]], [[wikipedia:Egg (food)|Eggs]], [[wikipedia:Scotch egg|Breaded Eggs.]]
* Also a potential problem in object oriented programming: if you have multiple inheritance, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_inheritance#The_diamond_problem diamond problem] happens when both bread and eggs override a behavior. [[Artificial Stupidity|Computers need to know which behavior breaded eggs should have]].
* In version control, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(version_control) "merge"] is an operation that applies the changes of one branch into another, turning bread and eggs ''into'' breaded eggs.
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