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Compare and contrast with [[Fridge Logic]].

* Beauty's default reaction to [[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'s antics.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', this is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fkUsUbpZk Vivi's reaction] when Nami is able to predict when a cyclone will hit while navigating the Grand Line, something regarded as impossible by most pirates. She wonders whether Nami does so less from researched skills and more from innate ability.

* [[Atomic Robo]] occasionally has to ask himself: "Why do we even ''have'' the [[Square-Cube Law]]?"

* From ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'':

{{quote|'''Uhura:''' Admiral, I have a signal closing on the whales. Bearing 328 degrees.

* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', this is a beat cop's reaction to not only witnessing Trinity leap over a six-lane street, plus sidewalks, to go from rooftop to rooftop, but seeing Agent Brown follow her.

* From ''[[Through the Looking Glass]]:

{{quote|'''White Queen:''' Now ''I’ll'' give you something to believe. I’m just one hundred and one, five months and a day.

* Seeing as he can do impossible things, Mr. Impossible - from the ''[[Mr. Men]]'' books - gets this a lot.

* In an early ''[[Sesame Street]]'' sketch, Ernie poured himself a glass of milk while hanging upside down, ignoring Bert's warnings that the milk would spill.

* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Spectre of the Gun". When Spock and McCoy test their [[Knockout Gas]] on Scott it doesn't work.

Spock: A scientific fact. But if the tranquillizer does not function, which is clearly impossible, then a radical alteration of our thought patterns must be in order. }}

* [[Charles Addams]]'s [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QMuDihPPyPA/Sy_Kr3PtRtI/AAAAAAAAMEs/5zh5Gg-2XD0/s400/addams.jpg skier] cartoon... specifically, the other skier's reaction.

* ''[[Peanuts]]'' has many, most involving Snoopy:

** In one strip, Snoopy is asleep while playing second base, with an alarm clock behind him. It rings, waking him up, and he catches the fly ball coming towards him. A confused Charlie Brown says, "How do you set the alarm for a fly ball??"

** One strip set in winter has him lying on his doghouse, covered with snow. When Charlie Brown comes out with his supper, he takes his dish, eats it - evidenced by loud chewing sounds - and hands the empty dish back, ''all without disturbing the snow.'' "I wonder how he did that?!" muses Charlie Brown.

* Subverted in ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]''. Fighter claims that gravity had been slain (since [[Insane Troll Logic|Black Mage had saved them by cushioning their falling airship with a large explosion as it crash landed]]), which would allow them to fly...and to everyone's amazement, takes off. Then it turns out [[A Wizard Did It|Sarda the Sage]] decided the best way to bring them to him would be to fly them in at just that moment.

** This is generally [[Only Sane Man|BlackMage's]] reaction to the improbable things his much-hated teammates do. By the time the Light Warriors reach the Temple of Fiends again, he's stopped complaining.

* Happens to the word in this [[Questionable Content]] strip, when an AI appears to be drunk. [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2133\]

* From ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'':

{{quote|'''Church:''' Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy's skull right out of his head and beat him to death with it.

* [[Danbooru]] has an image pool with this name.

* The [[Trope Namer]] was ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'', specifically the episode where they tried to sell [[It Makes Sense in Context|expired, uncanned beans]]. A man was walking towards the stand... [[Rule of Funny|and then floated into midair, drifted right over the stand, and then floated back onto the street and continued walking]]. This prompted Raj to ask how that was even possible.

* ''[[Futurama]]'': In one episode, Bender's arms fall off. A moment later we see the arms, in closeup, pick up and reattach each other. Fry is just as baffled as the audience.

* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''; Slimer runs away in an episode after Peter yells at him, and leaves a note behind. Jennine finds it first, and angrily reads it to the guys, scolding them. Ray takes the note and asks how she can read it, as Slimer not only has bad penmanship, but got slime all over the paper. Jennine simply snarks, "I'm a secretary. I can read anything."

* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-5", Father's [[Evil Plan]] involves constructing an ice-cream cake the size of the Death Star; due to his [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] situation, Numbuh 19th Century thinks combining a cake with ice cream is a culinary impossibility and tries to figure it out while babbling incoherently. "This kid doesn't get out much, does he?" Father asks Numbuh 86.

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