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* ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' - Hell yes, the bomber has a chance to make it through!

* ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''

'''Cap:''' [[We ARE Struggling Together!|To tear us apart]].<br />

'''Tony:''' Yeah, divide and conquer... but, he knows he has to take us out for him to win, right? [[Glory Seeker|That's what he wants! He must beat us, he must be seen doing it...]] it's kinda obvious.<br />

* In ''[[Timeline]]'', one character is trying to convince the others that it is possible to travel to the past via a wormhole. Another character points out that it is impossible for a physical body to safely go through one. The first character retorts that the same can be said about a fax machine. The second character launches into trying to explain that the fax machine first has to convert the scanned data into a "stream of electrons", before realizing that the first character is talking about the same for the wormhole with a big "[[Oh Crap|Oh shit!]]".

* A comedic version in the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''The Traitor's Hand''. Cain is discussing [[Mauve Shirt]] "Jinxie" Penlan with the command staff when her reputation comes up, and...

My brain finally caught up to what I was saying and I trailed off rather lamely. "Well, you know how soldiers exaggerate these things." }}

* [[Discworld|Vimes]] does one of these in ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'' when he works out how 71-hour Ahmed got his name.

* In the second season episode of ''[[White Collar]]'' called "By the Book" there is a [[Let Me Get This Straight...]] moment when Peter points out the flaw in the Perfect Exchange but later when Mozzie figures it out its more of one of theses as he exclaims 'There is no middle man!'

* ''[[Firefly]]'' plays with this in the episode "Out of Gas". The crew of Serenity is in a dire situation with the life support system failing. They are in a deserted region of space with little chance of any ships wandering around there. Wash has lost all hope, when Mal suggests a way to boost the SOS signal.

{{spoiler|'''Jayne''': [enters the room] What the hell do you two think you're doing? Fighting at a time like this? (...) You'll use up all the air!}} }}

* Happens once in ''[[Frasier]]'' where the eponymous character tried to set Daphne up with his co-worker, only to later find out that there had been a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48A450ilF98light slight fault in communication.]

'''Niles:''' Yes, you're dating your boss. }}

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "A Good Man Goes to War", the Doctor runs into this when it turns out that {{spoiler|Amy and Rory's daughter is part Time Lord, which the supporting cast assume was a result of it being conceived on the TARDIS.}} He insists that it can't be possible as, between the various cosmic retcons that went on the previous season, {{spoiler|the first time they were on the TARDIS together in this version of reality was the night after their wed - oops.}}

* ''[[That 70s Show]]'': In one episode, Kitty drags Hyde to a jewelery store to see the ring she thinks that Red is buying for her behind her back. The jeweler shows her an engagement ring on reserve from a Mr. Forman. There's an inscription, "To Donna..."

''[She looks at Hyde in complete horror]'' }}

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' does this in the episode "Out Of Time". The cast are going through unreality pockets, making them believe different things. One makes them believe Lister is actually a droid. A droid less advanced than Kryten, and therefore lower ranking. Kryten takes advantage of this to give him humiliating orders. Then comes this exchange:

'''Kryten:''' No. }}

* In ''The Blind Banker'' episode of ''[[Sherlock]]'', the eponymous character is looking through an apartment and talking to [[The Watson|John]] (well, sort of- John's left grumbling outside the door, can't hear a thing and might as well not be there).

'''Sherlock:''' Why didn't he close it when he left-? *''[[Beat]]''* [[Eureka Moment|Stupid. Stupid. It's obvious!]] [[Oh Crap|Because he's still in here]]. }}

* [[Stargate Atlantis]]: The Team is on another planet and has found a crashed Wraith ship. Sheppard wants to know if one of the Wraith could still be alive.

'''McKay:'''''(horrified)'' Oh, my God. It is possible. We've got to get out of here. }}

 

 

* [[Eminem]]'s "Stan."

''Come to think about, his name was... [[Fridge Horror|it was you]].''<br />

''[[Oh Crap|Damn...]]'' }}

* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', you can meet an [[Outlaw Couple]] who think that an antique machine gun makes them dangerous enough to go on a crime spree through the Strip. If the Courier sarcastically says it's the most brilliant plan he/she has ever heard, the Bonny of the duo starts gloating about how they've got it all worked out, gradually noticing all the holes in the plan until she realizes they have no idea what they're doing and hands the gun over to you.

* In ''[[Psychonauts]]'', after a training session gone awry in Sasha's mind, Raz asks him what would happen if one were to block off all of a mind's censor outlets, which needless to say he did because it was what he'd just done.

* [[Mad Scientist|Mordin Solus]]' introduction and [[Establishing Character Moment]] in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' begins with Mordin performing a [[Sherlock Scan]] on the newly-arrived Commander Shepard and his/her team, while [[Thinking Out Loud|verbalizing his inner monologue]]; assuming the player doesn't interrupt him, he determines that the characters aren't from the area, too well-armed to be refugees, too informally-dressed to be any of the local mercenaries, and that they aren't there to wipe out the Vorcha or to investigate [[The Plague]]'s usefulness as a bioweapon. Eventually, he decides that they must be looking for someone important, someone with secrets... and then realizes that they're almost certainly looking for him.

** It happens ''again'' a minute later when Shepard explains that he/she was sent by a privately-funded human group to recruit Mordin. Immediately, Mordin starts sorting through a long list of possible candidates for the aforementioned group. After disregarding the [[The Federation|Alliance]], the [[Space Police|Spectres]], [[Those Wacky Nazis|the Terra Firma Party]], he finally realizes (with some shock) that the most likely candidate is Cerberus, a terrorist group with human-supremacist leanings.

 

* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode "Brinky," Pinky's genetic material accidentally gets introduced into Brain's cloning experiment, essentially resulting in their having a child together.

'''Brain:''' Pinky, that's absurd! You are nothing of the kind. Its chromosomal makeup just happens to include both of our genetic building blo... AAAH! ...Oh my Lord, you ''are'' its mommy. }}

* ''[[Futurama]]'', "A Clone Of My Own", with Prof. Farnsworth's clone, Cubert:

'''Cubert:''' Wait a minute. That means ''I'' also take after you! AAAH! }}

* Similar to the ''Futurama'' example, one scene from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has Homer asking why he's such a loser. Bart replies, "Your father was a loser, and his father, and his father - it's genetic, man!" ([[Beat]]) "[[Borrowed Catchphrase|D'oh!]]"

** Plus, in "I'm Going To Praiseland", Ned finds out that the citizens that were having "visions" were actually the effects of a gas leak in his Christian amusement park. Homer tells Ned to ignore it because his park spreads a positive message of equality. Then comes this...

* In the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Clean Slate", Dr. Drakken starts describing how he drove all the soldiers off a military train by activating an overload alarm... and then reveals/realizes that he caused an ''actual'' engine overload rather than a false alarm.

* In one episode of [[Sonic Underground]], Robotnik creates a potion that gives it's taker super-speed, which allows his minions Sleet and Dingo to catch Sonic. Later, Robotnik sees Sleet's feet expand to the point where he can't move.

 

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