Go Look At the Distraction: Difference between revisions

* Used in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (the movie), when the love interest distracts a vampire with, "Look, air!"

* ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' has this exchange:

'''Galloway:''' Certainly, sir. }}

* In ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', Dumbledore points out various pieces of landscaping to Fudge in order to keep him from noticing Harry and Hermione sneaking behind him to rescue Buckbeak.

* In ''Gray Matters'', when it's in the middle of the night and Sam tries to get Gray to go to bed so that he can be alone with Charlie:

'''Gray:''' ''Oh'', that big meeting! }}

* In the 2009 [[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]] movie, Sherlock sends the policemen inside the recently deceased Sir Thomas's home to look for bath salts while he continues searching by his lonesome for a secret compartment where Thomas kept his occult paraphernalia.

* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has the most common variant of this trope be asking someone to "go get some water".

* On ''[[El Chavo Del Ocho]]'' had a little conversation that ended outsmarted.

'''Don Ramon''': Why don't you see the hour at the [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Big Ben]] Clock.<br />

'''Chavo''': It is 2:30<br />

* ''[[Community]]'': Oh, look, is that a reason to leave? And [[Ax Crazy|Chang]] [[Butt Monkey|falls]] [[Too Dumb to Live|for]] [[Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket|it.]]

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]''

 

 

 

* Seen in the webcomic ''[[Narbonic]]'' during the "Lovelace Affair" storyline.

* ''[[Emergency Exit]]'': Played hilariously straight in [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=891 this] strip.

'''Eddie:''' Ooh! Where?! I collect those! }}

* ''[[Freefall]]'' strip [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00228.htm #228] provides the current trope image:

'''Helix:''' Where?! I don't see any obvious distraction. }}

* ''[[Mac Hall]]''. "Quick, run home! Your mother is on fire!"

== Web Originals ==

* Used hilariously in ''[[Naruto the Abridged Series]]''.

'''Kakashi:''' What are you- Oh hey, a tree. }}

* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged]]'' uses and possibly subverts this at the same time:

'''Yusuke:''' Really, I could've sworn it was right there, wait a minute I was supposed to do something, run that was it, aw f$%k, I don't suppose you'll fall for that again would you? }}

* ''[[The Legend of Neil]]'' has a drunken Neil distract some moblins by pointing behind them and shouting, "I'm disctracting you!". It works.

** Bart gets the Red Hot Chili Peppers out of Moe's by telling Moe to look at a wall. Moe does so and isn't sure what it is he is supposed to be seeing, but continues looking regardless. He even charges Homer to do the same.

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'''Skinner''' Bart! Stop creating a diversion and get out of here! }}

** After receiving a hospital bear, Homer shouted about a bear and tried to run away. He didn't go far, given the reason he needed medical help in the first place. [[Subverted Trope|There really was a bear]].

** Lois gets Brian to leave the room by throwing a ball through the doorway. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Brian's a dog.]]

** In "Wasted Talent", in order to win a piano competition Lois takes Peter drinking at a teenager's house, when the cops catch the two of them.

[Cops run away] }}

*** Doubly funny in that they weren't doing anything illegal.

* From ''[[The Tick]]'': "Hi, I'm Arthur, and this is my diversion."

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':

'''Mai:''' (completely deadpan) Sounds pretty serious. }}

::To clarify, even as she lampshades it, Mai leaves, because Azula was basically reminding her that she is her commander.

** Also lampshaded and parodied in "The Ember Island Players."

'''Not!Zuko''': "WHERE!?" }}

* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Jimmy is about to discover one of [[Stalker with a Crush|Heloise's]] Jimmy dolls. In order to distract him, she quickly shouts "Look, a meteor!" It works.