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{{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|My Little Pony~~ Friendship Is Magic]]'', "A Bird in the Hoof"}}

{{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 ~~subdepartment~~ 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]].

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]].

Sometimes this happens as a consequence of [[Stereo Fibbing]].

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* It's a pillow... it's a pet... It's a Pillowpet!

* Chunky's a soup! It's a meal! It's the soup that eats like a meal!

== [[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.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

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* In the [[Kingdom of Loathing]] comic, Jill's dad tells her to not talk to "boys, or strangers, or strange boys".

* In a [[What the Duck]] comic, a duck attempts to find the right camera setting. In addition to several other settings, there's "Moving Water mode, Pregnant Woman mode, Pregnant Woman In Moving Water mode..."

== [[Film]] ==

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'''Drover''': Both. They were pretty and brown. And pretty brown. }}

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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', Zack and Cody enter high school and Cody notices the posters for clubs: chess club, robotics club, robots-who-play-chess club. "Checkmate," he says in his impression of a robot.

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

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* In [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]], Zack and Cody enter high school and Cody notices the posters for clubs: chess club, robotics club, robots-who-play-chess club. "Checkmate," he says in his impression of a robot.

* ''[[The Daily Show]]''

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** When listing off the number of categories of towels Monica has, Joey and Chandler note that she has "fancy", "guest", ''and'' "fancy guest."

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', Season7 Episode8: "You don't want to propose at a wedding; emotions running high, people on edge. You want to try somewhere like a Buddhist temple. Or an aquarium. Or a Buddhist aquarium."

* On [[Mock the Week]]:

* On ''[[Mock the Week]]'':

{{quote|'''Frankie Boyle''': I get you a boy, Brown, I get you a girl, I get you a boy/girl! Four arms, four legs, it's like making love to a man spider! }}

* From ''[[Drake and Josh]]'' we have when they wanted to know Megan's next prank

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* On ''[[Dead Like Me]]'', Daisy describing George to George's (Millie's) co-workers:

{{quote|'''Daisy:''' I'm looking for a girl. She's about yay big, brown eyes, pretty... angry... pretty angry, actual—Oh! That's her.}}

== [[Magazines]] ==

* One ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's review on [[Kylie Minogue]]'s ''X'' says she has "songs about sex, dancing and sexed-up dancing."

== [[Music]] ==

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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* The opening lines of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Super Crazy's]] entrance music during his [[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".

== [[Theater]] ==

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* [[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]: the traveling actors have a huge repertoire:

{{quote|"We can show you rapiers!" ''Cue a man and woman fencing'' "Or rape!" ''Cue the woman jumping on the man's crotch.'' "Or both!" ''([[Black Comedy Rape|Cue the woman raping the man]] while fencing another man.)''}}

== [[Video Games]] ==

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** In "The House That Gave Sucky Treats", Strong Bad gives this insult if you give him an apple while trick-or-treating: "What are you, a dentist? Or a hippie? Or some kind of hippie dentist?"

** In another email, entitled "web comics", Strong Bad describes web comics as being "all about video games, gamernerds, webgeeks, dorknerds, gamewads, nerdgames, webwebs, and elves."

== [[Web Comics]] ==

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'''[[Cool Loser|Jane]]:''' Don't worry. Today it's brains, tomorrow pierced tongues, then the next day, pierced brains. }}

* On ''[[South Park]],'' the boys are doing the school news and want to give it higher viewership. They realize they need to add lots of sex and lots of action, and wind up renaming it Sexy Action News.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Counting in binary from zero upward.

* Counting in binary from zero upward. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Zero, One, One-Zero]]...

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Zero, One, One-Zero]]

** Babylonian numerals probably count as well - while they used a base sixty system, their numerals were built from base ten and base six subglyphs.

** Really, ''all'' numerical systems are like this. Binary is just the most obvious example because it only uses two digits.

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* Laws are written this way to prevent [[Off on a Technicality]].

* 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."

* [[wikipedia:Bread|Bread]]. [[wikipedia:Egg (food)|Eggs]]. [[wikipedia:Scotch egg|~~Scotch~~ ~~eggs~~.]]

* Taking the trope literally: [[wikipedia:Bread|Bread]], [[wikipedia:Egg (food)|Eggs]], [[wikipedia:Scotch egg|Breaded Eggs.]]

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