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This is what happens when [[Finagle's Law]], [[Tempting Fate]] and the human tendency to spout hyperbole when a simple "never" would suffice all get together and have a drunken party with [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious results.]]

* Subverted in ''Angels in the Outfield''. Roger's dad tells him that he'll take him out of foster care and they'll be a family again "when the Angels win the pennant" -- meaning never, only Roger [[Innocent Inaccurate|takes it literally]] and [[Achievements in Ignorance|makes it happen]], with the aid of supernatural beings. [[Tear Jerker|His dad leaves him in the custody of the state anyway.]]

** In the ''[[Cracked]]'' spoof, Roger's friend quips "[[Take That|It could be worse, he could of said the Padres!]]"

{{quote| '''General Craham Chapman:''' It's all very well to laugh at the military, but when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself. And without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could, quite simply, disappear! That is why we'll always need an army, and may God strike me down were it to be otherwise. ''[Is promptly struck by lightning]''}}

 

* In ''[[Visual Novel/Memory Sorrow And Thorn|Memory Sorrow And Thorn]]'', [[Rebellious Princess|Miriamele]] tells Cadrach she will trust him again "when the stars shine at midday!" {{spoiler|Of course, during the Storm King's attempt to return to the world at the end, the midday sky appears as the night sky did on the night of his death, and Miriamele trusts Cadrach enough to walk across his invisible magic bridge during his [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}

* A variant in ''Chrome Circle'', by [[Mercedes Lackey]] and Larry Dixon, when Shar insists to herself that she had purely practical and impersonal reasons for expending magical energy to Heal Tannim ... and then admits mentally, "And pigs were certainly flying in tight formation over LaGuardia at this very moment."

* Justified in the Emily Rodda novel ''Pigs Might Fly''. The story is set in a parallel universe where a weather pattern called the Unlikely Events Factor, or UEF Storm, causes all manner of unlikely events, most commonly flying pigs. One occasion, the government foolishly attempted to stop these by tying pigs down, which meant the next UEF Storm was completely unanticipated and impossible to detect until it was over.

{{quote| '''Rachel''': (looking toward the window) Is that a flying pig? Because that's the only way I would ever go out with you.}}

 

 

* When [[The Eagles]] got back together in 1994, they named the tour and the new album "Hell Freezes Over".

* Brad Paisley's "Come on Over Tonight" takes this attitude toward falling in love. "Come on over tonight, we'll sit on the swing / Watch the pigs fly by, flapping their brand new wings..."

* [[Tom Petty]], "It's Good to Be King":

{{quote| Yeah I'll be king when dogs get wings}}

== Tabletop Games ==

 

 

 

== Video Games ==

 

* [[Blizzard]] celebrated the release of a long awaited patch for ''[[Diablo]] 2'', with [http://www.planetdiablo.com/images/image.asp?/diablo2/gallery/wallpaper/official/hellfrozenover-text.jpg a wallpaper] featuring the Chaos Sanctuary frozen over, and Diablo himself leaning over a campfire to keep himself warm.

* A conversation in [[Vagrant Story]] has a soldier claiming that swine will take wing before soldiers dabble in black magic, and his friend retorting that with a Grimoire's power, a sow could outfly a falcon. It later turns out that the Cardinal, as well several soldiers under his employ, are proficient in the Dark Arts.

* The web comic ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'' has done both the "flying pigs" and the "hell frozen over" version.

* Invoked straight in an early ''[[Coga Suro]]'', where a pug literally flies across the panel as Steve reailses that he is right and [[Smart Guy|Jerry]] is wrong- at the time, an unusual situation indeed.

** Note that Fluffy is sitting in a [[Visual Pun|handbasket]].

*** That is a [[Brick Joke]] referencing [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_225.php this page]

* [http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=590 Happens] in [[PHD]].

* ''[[Bruno the Bandit]]'' does this literally. The pig's name is Wingham.

* ''[[Sinfest]]'' [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3586 "The day you change is the day '''pigs fly.'''] Cue Squigley (A pig) soaring by...on a [[It Makes Sense in Context|toilet.]]

** But before that, the [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=700 Hell froze over].

 

 

== Web Original ==

 

{{quote| '''Nostalgia Critic:''' The apocalypse has finally begun, pigs are flying, Satan is skating his way to work, and I'm pretty sure I just became a monkey's uncle.}}

 

** A small girl asks her mother if her curfew can be midnight. Her mother replies "only when pigs fly". The daughter then launches her pet pig out of a catapult to get her mother to change her curfew.

* ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'': There's a crazy example in the first season finale, where the narrator is being carried away to fuel the narrator-powered ray gun, he begs to himself that it's all just a dream, then the flying pig appears and says it's real, or else he won't have wings. Cue [[Big No]].

{{quote| '''Smithers:''' Will you be donating that money now, sir?<br />

'''Burns:''' No, I'd still rather not. }}

'''Smithers:''' Uh, I don't see one, sir.<br />

'''Burns:''' Of course not. The very notion of a talking banana is absurd. But still.... }}

** Though the flight part was caused by the rooster accompanying the pig.

* Played with in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Crowing Pains", where Foghorn Leghorn gets halfway through the phrase when an ominous rumble of thunder and a lightning bolt appearing behind him forces him to reconsider.

{{quote| I'm every bit as cool as Larry, and if I'm not, may I be struck by... (thunder) ...a flying ice-cream truck. ([[Shadow of Impending Doom]], accompanied by [[Bomb Whistle]] and ice-cream truck chimes) ''AND LIVE!''}}

* ''[[Garfield]]'': Consciously averted by Garfield: "Don't get me wrong, I love dogs. I'd never hurt a dog. And if I'm lying, may lightning... *pause* ... [[Genre Savvy|strike the dog next door]]." (Crack) "Yipe!"

* ''[[South Park]]'': [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] when Cartman is not hit by lightning when he says he has never done anything just for the money, although Butters does moves out of the way.

* ''[[The Boondocks]]'': Huey, after a number of odd schemes, fails to prevent the execution of an obviously innocent man on death row. Uncle Rukus, struck by lighting in the beginning of the episode, claims to have spoken to God and creates an televangelical craze by claiming that hatred of black people, including self-hatred, can get one to heaven. As Rukus makes the standard 'may i be struck by the Lord himself' a lighting bolt strikes the microphone in his hand. The electrical blast causes a blackout moments before the electric chair for the execution is activated. This is followed by the Governor finally calling to stay the execution.

** In one episode, Stan called the CIA and they told him that it's almost complete and it shows a pig with only one wing.

* On ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', when Susie says Farrah Fawcet is her cousin, Johnny notes "Yeah, and pigs fly." Then he looks up in the sky...

* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when [[Satan|Lucius]] tells the story of how he won his bowling trophy, it involves him telling his father if he makes the strike, [[Human Popsicle|he gets to freeze him]]. Lucius VI agrees, muttering "And pigs will fly." Of course, Lucius makes it. Flash forward to the present where he's frozen, and his son is holding a flying pig on a leash, saying "He was always making crazy bets."

** More specifically, said minute, 12 years old blind girl is a master Earthbender.[[Don't Explain the Joke|The majority of Earthbenders are burly men.]]

* On ''[[South Park]]'', Kyle's parents will only allow him to go to a concert when he cleans out the garage, shovels the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. His parents explain that he wasn't actually supposed to accomplish the last one but he expressed more concern about shoveling the whole driveway.

* Appropriate headlines were done when Apple switched to Intel processors.

* James Randi presents Pigasus Awards (Pig + Pegasus) each year for paranormal fraud in several categories.

* The New Orleans Saints for the most part were one of the worst NFL teams; some exclaiming that "Pigs Would Fly" if the Saints went to the [[Super Bowl]]. Recently though, the Saints' fortunes have changed for the better and in 2010, the Saints finally got the right to play in the Super Bowl, which Saints announcer Jim Henderson then exclaimed: ''"Pigs have flown! Hell has frozen over! The Saints are on their way to the Super Bowl!"'' [[It Gets Better]]...making sure that "Pigs Were Flying" in [[New Orleans]], the Saints would go on to win the Super Bowl.

** A popular radio sportscaster in New Orleans once said that if the Saints ever made it to the Super Bowl he would wear a dress. He died before he got the opportunity, so former Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert led a drag parade in memory of this trope. It managed to be [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|all]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|three]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|types]] of Crowning Moment at once.

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