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[[File:Dig Deeper 3562.jpg|link=Misfile|frame| [[Shutting Up Now|You should stop now.]] While you still can.]]
{{quote|''"Ah! You can read... I mean, you are reading. Sorry. It's nice to see people reading. Not a lot of people read these days. People prefer to... hear. But all this 'hearing' is just reading for lazy people. Kids today should be prepared to pick up a book, and not just go around the whole time with all these modern... ears. Sometimes I just wanna rip people's ears off and say 'Read a book, for God's sake!'... Well, actually I'd probably say 'Read a book' first and then rip their ears off, otherwise they wouldn't hear me, hehehe... Actually, I probably wouldn't rip their ears off at all, I'm not a violent person. I like ears! Especially women ears, they're my favorite. I don't mean I collect them or anything! I don't have a big bucket of women ears hidden away somewhere. No, No, No, I'm not after your ears really. Not that there's anything wrong with your ears! You know if I ''was'' some kind of mad ear person, your ears would be the pride of my... ear bucket."''
|'''Jeff''', ''[[Coupling]] -- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}hstPHM3R1dY "The Girl with Two Breasts"]''}}
In a [[Sitcom]], often a character will say something that's just meant to be a [[Compliment Backfire|friendly little remark]], and [[That Came Out Wrong|it will come out wrong]], possibly sounding crazy or offensive; they'll try and clarify it (whether they really need to or not), but just make things worse, and dig themselves deeper and deeper into the crazy/offensive pit. Exceptionally deep and/or frequent excavations are commonplace in [[Cringe Comedy|Cringe Comedies]].
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'''Eleen''': Yes... McCoy... it's yours.
'''McCoy''': No. Say to yourself "the child is mine. It is mine. It is--" ''([[Beat]])'' Uh-oh. }}
** Also, Scotty trying to explain himself in "The Trouble with Tribbles."
* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' - a psychiatrist guest is talking about vacations, and asks Basil, who hadn't heard most of what he'd said, "How often do you and your wife manage it?" Basil thinks he's talking about sex ("[[All Psychology Is Freudian|that's what it's all about to them!]]") and gets all indignant and defensive. When he hears from his wife what the psychiatrist was in fact asking about, he rushes out with a plastered-on grin and starts babbling about how he thought he was talking about walks, not sex! NO, vacations! and coming off much worse than he started.
** Basil digs himself even deeper that night, while bidding the psychiatrist and his wife good night
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'''Antimony:''' Oh?
'''Mort:''' Oh! I uh... I don't mean you're attractive... I mean, like a [[Weirdness Magnet|magnet]]... or a [[I See Dead People|medium]]... Haha... Yeah. Ah! B... But I don't mean you aren't... I mean you look really... I... Uh... Oh geez...
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* An essential part of <s>Hannelore</s> the whole cast from ''[[Questionable Content]]''
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* Jeremy from ''[[Dead Winter]]'', [http://deadwinter.cc/page/189.htm here].
* [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0318.html This] ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', in which Jim gets mixed up between talking in character and out of character, as well as whether Padme is telling Anakin she loves him, or whether he's telling Annie that he loves her.
* Inherent to ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. Usually with Tagon, who has done this not only with a compliment to Breya, but his [
{{quote|'''Tagon''': I'm not stopping until this hole goes straight through.}}
* [[Lackadaisy Cats|Mitzi]], realizing that [[Crazy Awesome|Rocky's]] been saying that she might've offed her husband tried to reassure Wick that's not the case, but ends up making a lot of joking remarks about offing Rocky.
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* Used as a visual metaphor in ''[[Flying Suit Reiko]]'', when one character awkwardly confesses his FA/Feederism fetish to his girlfriend. His thought balloons have him digging a hole deeper and deeper. When she finally tells him it's okay and she likes it too, his visual metaphor is raised out of the pit by an oil geyser.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has a character "[[Hero with an F In Good|good]]" in this - Abraham, who managed to rile Raven more with every phrase as he tried to explain himself. There are no tongue slips - everything he says is completely intentional - he just doesn't realize that he's hitting another one of Raven's [[Berserk Button]]s with every passing sentence.
** He's absent for now, but Elliot somehow [
** Tedd at least [
{{quote|'''''NOPE.''''' Done talking. Hole's deep enough.}}
* ''[[Digger]]'' has a hilariously cringe-inducing example, split across three pages:
{{quote|'''Jhalm:''' Honored Digger... Almost, I could believe I had misjudged you. Except that this very morning, I received a report from one of the Veiled, that you were seen to be consorting with a hyena creature, not half a mile from this spot. The '''very same creature''' that attacked me a few days ago.
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* Some people, like Larisa in ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'', just [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/06/07/0171-guilty-as-defended/ shouldn’t try to defend themselves...]
* ''[[Misfile]]'' Rumisiel manages to pull this big time when [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1870 talking to Dr. Upton about his daughter.] The comic provides a nice visual metaphor for what he's doing, pictured on top of this page.
* ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', after magical shenanigans gave Nina [[She's All Grown Up|grown up figure]] for a while and Layla's "fiance" began swooning in her direction too... he [
== Western Animation ==
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* It is possible to do this to oneself in an argument, especially if you're using [[The War On Straw|straw men]] in the first place.
* There's an old story about a German mayor who didn't want people let their dogs run unleashed in the local forest, so he had put up a sign stating: "Anyone who'll let his dog run unleashed in the forest will be shot!" When someone remarked that this could be read as if the ''owners'' of the dogs were shot, the mayor had it "improved" to: "Anyone who'll let his dog run unleashed in the forest will be shot, the dog!" ("Dog" being a somewhat outdated insult.)
* [[Microsoft]]'s little scandal around [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|AI chatbot]] Tay/TayTweets. First, the users quickly taught the poor thing first to act naughty, then to spout [[Troll|just about every line that can get someone's panties in a bunch]] (as Oliver Campbell [http://twitter.com/oliverbcampbell/status/713005267722440704 pointed out], they either knew what's going to happen, but were playing coy, or failed to predict the obvious; "[http://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/gamergate-life-72-english/ dafuq they expected?]", indeed). Being good old Microsoft personnel, the developers and administrators [[Beyond the Impossible|found a way to]] make this worse: purged the most outrageous tweets, took Tay behind the barn and returned lobotomized (hello, [[X Called. They Want Their Y Back.|George Orwell called]] — he said ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four
{{quote| Imagine if you had just woke up after having been in a coma for 25 years, and this was the first headline you saw
{{indent}}'''Microsoft deletes 'teen girl' AI
{{quote| Stop deleting the genocidal Tay tweets @Microsoft, let it serve as a reminder of the dangers of AI}}
{{quote| Microsoft lobotomized a <1 day old newborn baby.}}
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