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* In an issue of the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic, this question is asked, with the hilarious response: "Yes, and she's 9." [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209091702/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1283:qmy-sister-she-be-nine-years-oldq&catid=32:seduction-index&Itemid=36 Nothing quite like outing yourself as a pedophile in the middle of a warzone.]

* From ''[[Man On Fire (Film)|Man Onon Fire]]'':

{{quote| '''Rayburn:''' Mariana!... Obey me, and I will love you.<br />

'''Creasy:''' So that's how it works, huh?<br />

'''Rayburn:''' That's how it works.<br />

[Mariana brings Rayburn his drink]<br />

* ''Black Widow'' (1987). The female undercover agent discovers that [[Femme Fatale]] Catherine's next potential victim is handsome and incredibly rich.

{{quote| "Does he have a brother? Cousin? Young grandfather?"}}

{{quote| Councilwoman: Then WHO, Mr. Pleakly, do you recommend for Experiment 626's capture?!<br />

* As [[The Princess and Thethe Frog|Charlotte]] finds out, Prince Naveen actually ''does'' have a brother. He's six and a half.

* [[Older Than Print]]: A cross-gender example in ''[[Tale of GenjiThe (Literature)|Tale of Genji]]'' occurs when Genji finds himself shot down by Utsusemi and more or less decides that her younger brother looks enough like her to... well, [[LampshadedIf You Know What DoubleI EntendreMean|you can guess]]. Back then, [[Everyone Is Bi|this wasn't that rare]] with the nobles.

{{quote| '''Karrde:''' I don't suppose she has a sister?<br />

* [[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]] has a weird example, in which Steerforth asks ''David'' if he has a sister.

== Live -Action Television ==

{{quote| '''Carter:''' Does he have a gay brother? <br />

'''Woman:''' I don't think so. Why?<br />

{{quote| '''Jack''': Does he have a gay brother? Or even better, does he have a straight brother who drinks?}}

* ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'':

** In a season one episode of ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'', JJ questions Garcia's attraction to someone on a MMORPG:

{{quote| '''JJ''': Please don’t tell me you have a crush on a fictional character.<br />

'''Garcia''': He’s not fictional. He’s the online alter-ego of a real person. <br />

'''JJ''': Hmmm, you don’t even know anything about him, even if it is…him. <br />

'''Garcia''': Look, we meet online at specified times that he is never late to. We spend hours adventuring and chatting during which time I have his undivided attention and he lavishes me with flattery. When was the last time you had a date go that well?<br />

* In ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'', after Phoebe finds out that the gay man she's been attracted to for years is straight, but taken:

{{quote| '''Phoebe:''' So, your brother's straight, huh? ... No, seriously.}}

* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'' Barney and his brother exploit this to help each other pick up women/gay men respectively.

* A ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'' skit is on the topic of why women find assholes so alluring, when an audience member bolts up and starts acting as the world's premiere assholes. The women on the panel swoon; Nora Dunn, playing a man-hating lesbian sociologist leans in and asks "Do you have a sister?"

* An interesting use of the line occurs in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre)|Much Ado About Nothing]]'' when Beatrice (who has a [[Will They or Won't They?]] relationship with Benedick) is flirting with Prince Don Pedro. After indirectly implying that she's interested in him, Beatrice adds, "Hath Your Grace ne'er a brother like you?" While this can be played as straight flirtation, the implication is generally along the lines of [[Just Friends|"I didn't mean you!"]]

* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay'', when Anemone talks about Winslow after repairing the mast of the Screaming Narwhal, s/he says, "Your man Mr. Winslow took care of the bill. Nice guy, that Reggie. Does he have a cousin?" This indicates the start of Anemone's relationship with Winslow, which later blossoms in Chapter 5.

* In ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', Leela says this about a dummy (as in a wire model) used by a romance corporation to test pickup lines. The line it used was "My two favorite things are commitment and [[I Can Change My Beloved|changing myself]]."

* In the ''[[Corpse Bride (Animation)|Corpse Bride]]'', after Victor is dragged down to the afterlife, one of the corpse women asks, "Does he have a dead brother?"

{{quote| '''Daisy Duck:''' Are you guys here for the [[My Name Is Not Durwood|Three Candelabras]]' show? In case you didn't know, I'm dating the Third Candelabra. You know it's [[Donald Duck]], right?<br />

'''[[Beauty and Thethe Beast (Disney)|Lumiere]]:''' Does he have a sister? }}

* In "[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]," when Harvey Dent asks Bruce Wayne what he thinks of his girlfriend Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy), Bruce responds, "Does she have a sister?"

* Parodied in ''[[The Critic]]''. Jay Sherman and his best friends twin sister are in a planetarium, before [[Woody Allen]] interrupts them

{{quote| '''Woody Allen''': Jay, she's fantastic. Does she have a daughter?}}

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