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* In the American version of ''[[The Office]],'' Michael Scott misuses this trope constantly at his improv class. Any time he is called to act in a scene, he pulls out a gun to increase drama because "you can't top it". Of course, nobody can top it and it ruins every improv exercise the class attempts.

** In fact, improv classes usually state as one of the first rules of scenework that pulling a gun is a "weak choice"—as pointed out above, it keeps everyone else in the scene from contributing anything. Not to say it never happens, of course.

* [[Jim Henson]] once commented on his pre-Muppet puppet sketches that when he couldn't think of how to close a sketch, he'd either have an explosion or have one character eat the other. It's pretty clear that this carried over to [[The Muppet Show]].

* ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' has Alan, while writing a movie in a coffee shop, geting writer's block several times and solving it by having a meteor hit the characters.

 

== [[Music]] ==

* ''[[Trapped in the Closet]]'' by R. Kelly follows this trope so much it goes from [[Once an Episode]] to [[Drinking Game]] pretty quickly.

** Parodied in the ''South Park'' episode of the same name, where R. Kelly is ''constantly'' pulling out his gun, usually for no reason at all.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==