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* In an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'', Elliot meets a guy named Sean, but her attempts to strike a conversation up with him end with them talking about poo. "At one point I tried changing the subject to art. But we went from art to artists, to alcohol, to coffee...and that just led right back to poo!"
** When she first tried talking to Jake, her boyfriend for twenty minutes in season 4, the only thing she could think of was to compliment him on what a perfectly square head he has.
** There was that one very early episode with Elliot and Carla feuding over Elliot tattling on Carla for not doing something. When Elliot apologizes and then doubles back to elaborate on her reasoning, the scene shifts to a visual gag of her standing in a grave literally "digging herself deeper"
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* Any sitcom involving [[The Office|Ricky]] [[Extras|Gervais]].
* One ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' episode had Cameron trying to explain to a TV crew that when she said it was exciting being around him, she didn't mean it ''that way''. It failed in a spectacular way. Because, you know, she kinda actually felt ''that way'' in the first place.
* Xander (of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fame) was very prone to this.
{{quote|Y'know, Buffy, Spring Fling just isn't any dance. It's a time for students to choose, um... a mate and then we can... observe their... mating rituals and tag them before they migrate ''just kill me''.
** The kicker is that he's not even talking to Buffy, just practicing with Willow, which is very evidently a wise move.
** Buffy and Xander also get another good one in "Doppelgangland":
{{quote|'''Buffy''': See? I told you, Old Reliable.
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'''Woman''': ...What?
'''Woolsey''': I mean you’ve entered my little personal area.
'''Woolsey''': ...This is where I come... to be alone with my thoughts. }}
* Robert did this at least once on ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]''. Amy invites Stefania over to a singles party because she thought Peter might like her, but Robert is not happy with her arrival.
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'''Tony''': I'm trying! }}
* Josh of ''[[Drake and Josh]]'', on a date with a model:
{{quote|I got you a diet soda, 'cause I figured you're probably watching your figure
* Gwen did this often, sometimes once an episode during season one of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''.
* In the ''[[Hawtho R Ne]]'' episode "Final Curtain", the titular nurse keeps doing this with a doctor (or nurse, it wasn't really specified). She tries to get him to talk Arabic to a patient's husband, but (1) the husband is speaking Dari (as we find out from the Army vet nurse Sullivan) and is thus Afghani, & (2) the guy in the turban is ''Sikh'', not any kind of Muslim (and from Chicago).
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* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', Greatest Hits, "Songs of the Motorcycle."
{{quote|'''Ryan:''' "Hi. How are you? We don't know what you're watching, so we're not gonna tell you when we're gonna return you to it."
'''Colin:''' "Oh, w-- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}tMwHxLuqwpQ We're watching animal porn]!"
([[Beat]], followed by double [[Face Palm]])
'''Ryan:''' *snickering*
'''Colin:''' "''Mary Had A Little Lamb'', we'll be right back in just a second. But you..."
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