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** "A Pest in the House" has [[Daffy Duck]] as a hotel bellhop who repeatedly awakens a tired, ill-tempered guest, leading to said guest repeatedly coming down to the lobby and punching desk clerk Elmer Fudd in the nose. At one point Elmer comes up to the man's room himself to muffle a whistling heat register, and Daffy gives him a dressing-down that gets louder and louder, as the sleeping man begins to stir and Elmer begs him to be quiet:
{{quote|'''Daffy''': So! A fine kettle of fish! Here I work myself down to the skin and bones trying to keep this guy asleep, and what do ''you'' do? Blow whistles! Just when I've got things so quiet you could hear a pin drop, you bust in here and bust out with a whistle, and you snafu the whole works! How in the name of all that's reasonable do you expect a guy to get his slumber, when a goof like you goes around making noises like a one-man Fourth of July celebration? He needs PEACE, and QUI-YEEETT! IT'S POSITIVELY OUTRAGEOUS!!!}}
* [[Tex Avery]]'s short "Rock-a-Bye Bear" has a hibernating bear repeatedly yelling at Spike the dog to be quiet, in the loudest voice imaginable.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Futurama]]'' alike have used this more times that it's possible to keep track. Just expect it to be used [[Rule of Three|thrice]] per episode on average.
{{quote|'''Fry (when told alcohol makes people stupid)''': "No I'm... doesn't."
'''Robot Devil''': "Your lyrics lack subtlety. You can't just have your characters ''announce'' how they feel! [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|That makes me feel angry!]]" }}
{{quote|'''Fry''': "Is he genetically engineered?"
'''Professor''': "Oh please, [[What We Now Know to Be True|that's preposterous science fiction mumbo jumbo]]. Guenther's intelligence actually lies in his electronium hat, which harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation." }}
{{quote|"I am The Man With No Name...Zapp Brannigan at your service!"}}
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** Lampshaded in "Homer The Vigilante": the captured [[Gentleman Thief]] makes a charming speech and the townspeople want to release him, however...
{{quote|'''Wiggum''': Oh, sorry folks. [sarcastic] Gee, I really hate to spoil this little love-in, but Mr. Malloy broke the law. And when you break the law, you gotta go to jail.
'''Quimby''': Uh, that reminds me, er, here's your monthly kickback.
'''Wiggum''': ''[Utterly dumbfounded]'' You just...you couldn't have picked a worse time! }}
{{quote|'''TV''': We now return to "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones."
'''Bart''': Uh oh. I smell another cheap cartoon crossover. (Jay Sherman from [[The Critic]] enters) }}
{{quote|'''Homer''': Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.}}
{{quote|'''Homer''': Bart, son? You want to play catch?
'''Bart''': No.
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'''Homer''': Get the hell out!
'''Abe''': I'm gone. }}
{{quote|'''Bum''': Got any spare change, man?
'''Abe''': Yes! And you're not getting a penny of it! ''(continues walking)'' Everybody wants something for nothing. ''(walks into a Social Security office)'' I'm old! Gimme, gimme, gimme! }}
* ''[[South Park]]'' does this a few times.
** In the episode "The Passion of the Jew", members of Kyle's synagogue are protesting [[Mel Gibson]]'s ''[[The Passion of the Christ]]''. "It turns Jews into stereotypes," says a guy with an extremely stereotyped "Jewish" accent.
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{{quote|'''Kyle''': You're not my friend. All you ever do is call me names and rip on me for being Jewish.
'''Cartman''': Kyle... when have I ever ripped on you for being a Jew. *cue [[Overly Long Gag]] [[Clip Show]] montage* Okay except maybe for that one time... }}
{{quote|'''Butters''': Let me tell you somethin', fellers! You always take advantage of me, and after reading ''[[The Catcher in The Rye]]'', I've learned you're nothing but phonies! I'm not letting you trick me this time! So the four of you can just suck on my wiener!
'''Cartman''': [After Butters walks away] That inconsiderate jerk! }}
{{quote|'''Cartman''': Wow, this is gonna be great! A whole new word!
'''Kyle''': It's NOT NEW!! I'm gonna look "shit" up in the encyclopedia and PROVE it!!
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'''Kyle''': THERE'S NO SAND IN MY VAGINA!!!
'''Ms. Choksondik''': Boys, watch your language! Shit! }}
{{quote|'''Goth Kid''': If you wanna be one of the nonconformists, all you have to do is dress just like us and listen to the same music we do.}}
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' makes frequent use of it, right from the very first episode:
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'''Huey''': Granddad, you said the word nigga 47 times yesterday. I counted.
'''Granddad''': Nigga, hush! }}
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'',
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** From the opening scene of the first episode: Their chef offers them a bottle of wine, to which Nathan replies "We never drink before a show. NEVER." Except the other 4 are already drinking, and Nathan joins them.
** The members of Dethklok all agree "Pickles really has a [drinking] problem." True, but this is said while each of them is nursing like twenty beers.
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* Mojo Jojo in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "Los Dos Mojos": "I do not talk like that! The way I communicate is much different! I do not constantly reiterate, repeat, recite the same thing over and over again! I am clear! Concise! To the point..."
** Hypocritical humor is one of its staple comedies. Regular offenders include the Mayor, the Professor, and the Girls themselves.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
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** ...Except for Toph. The entire first half of the episode is clearly setting up a Hypocritical Humor moment for her, since she found everyone else's (fairly insulting) portrayals to be spot on and was laughing her ''ass'' off at everyone's reactions to the actors' performances -- except that when the actor who plays her turns out to be a huge, well-muscled guy, she declares that she couldn't have cast it better herself.
** There's also a scene in the episode "City of Walls and Secrets" where Toph criticizes the rest of the Gaang's lack of proper manners while picking her nose and belching. When called on it, she points out she was taught high class manners and ''chooses'' to ignore them.
** In "The Waterbending Scroll" when the pirates' ship gets stolen by the Gaang, Zuko finds it hilarious. When the pirates steal ''his'' ship in turn, he is far less amused.
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'':
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** In one instant of the G1 cartoon series, Megatron allies the Decepticons with another villainous group, who decide to betray them later on. Cue Starscream yelling 'TRAITORS!!' Cue immense laughter at the irony.
* Subverted in ''[[The Mighty B!]]''; the first part of a segment is Bessie's dog, Happy, getting treatment from a vet for a skinned knee. After the usual kicking and screaming, they head next door for the doctor to treat Bessie's skinned knee. Turns out that she's just in time for a booster shot. After fighting much worse than her dog did, she finally gets the shot while trying to escape through the sink. After the shot, she launches into the usual "See Happy, that didn't hurt a -- okay, yeah, that ''hurts''..."
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** In "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", Cleveland criticises the ''[[Scrubs]]'' cutaways for being stupid and irrelevant, even though stupid and irrelevant cutaways make up a good amount of any ''Family Guy'' episode (which they lampshade a moment later with a cutaway of Hitler juggling fish while on a unicycle).
*** However, the cutaway later gets worked into the show properly, and Peter points out the subversion, saying "See? We had a plan for that all along."
** The first ''Star Wars'' [[May the Farce Be with You|parody episode]] includes Peter as Han Solo/[[Harrison Ford]], saying he's the "only actor whose career wasn't destroyed by this movie." This despite the fact that Carrie Fisher was voicing a recurring character in other episodes. [[Fridge Brilliance|That could just be]] a very subtle and [[Genius Bonus]] form of [[Self-Deprecation]], another form of humor ''Family Guy'' revels in.
** The Thanksgiving episode where Brian asks Ida Quagmire how she's feels about Kevin Swanson's {{spoiler|desertion from the army}} saying "she's the only one who understands what it is truly like. We get this little gem.
{{quote|'''Ida''': No, Brian, I do not understand Kevin's choice and I do not support it.
'''Brian''': Okay, well that's just some dumb drag queen. }}
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Look, I can be insulting sometimes, [[At Least I Admit It| I admit it!]] But so what? I'm just a guy from Rhode Island! ''You're'' the President of the United States!
'''[[Donald Trump]]:''' You're not just a 'guy from Rhode Island', you're Peter Griffin from ''[[Family Guy]]''. Many children have learned their favorite Jewish, black, and gay jokes by watching ''your'' show over the years.
'''Peter:''' In fairness, [[Not Helping Your Case| we've been trying to phase out the gay stuff]].}}
* In ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League Unlimited]]''
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** In the same episode, [[Cloudcuckoolander|Trickster]] prefaces his plan to kill Flash by saying it's "nothing as stupid as a giant boomerang," a direct jab at Captain Boomerang's just-failed plan. Instead it involves four hundred greased cases of fake dog vomit, and Plan B involves [[Noodle Implements|fifty thousand rotten eggs and a chainsaw]].
** In another episode, Flash and [[Elongated Man]] were complaining about not being taken seriously by everyone else. While playing [[Bland-Name Product|Brawlin' Bots]].
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{{quote|'''Patrick:''' Are you going to listen to a big dummy, or are you going to listen to ''me''?
'''Spongebob:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Err....]] }}
* A running gag in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' is that Dot always makes disparaging comments to her brothers' [[Hello, Nurse!]] routine... when she's every bit as bad as Yakko (maybe worse) when an attractive man walks by.
* [[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]] once starred in an adaptation of "[[Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves]]", in which Bluto portrayed the leader of the thieves. At one point, Bluto is snacking on his dinner while Wimpy snatches some chicken from one of his plates. Upon seeing it's missing, Bluto shrieks, "Hey!! There must be thieves around here!"
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* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' has [[The Caligula|Lucius]] telling his son "There's just some things you can't make happen." Immediately afterward he has the mountain outside his window moved to the left, and then ''orders the destruction of one of the [[Alien Sky|three suns]]'' because three is too many.
* In the ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' movie ''Abracadabra Doo'', Daphne asks Velma why she doesn't hang out with her sister more often and she replies that she finds her too nerdy and that she over analyzes everything, after she says that she notices a powder on the floor mistaking it for a clue and Daphne replies that its for her feet.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'',
** Memorably done in an episode
** The latter also happens in the earlier episode "Joker's Favor." When faced with an explosives-wielding Charlie Collins who seems poised to give him an utterly inglorious death, the Joker exclaims "You're crazy!" Charlie replies, "I had a good teacher!"
* On ''[[King of the Hill]]'', after Hank's been [[Mistaken for Racist]], the church congregation tries to tell Hank that bigotry and intolerance is wrong by singing around a cross on Hank's lawn.
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{{quote|'''[[Ethnic Scrappy|Di Lung]]:''' [[Asian Drivers|Watch where you're ''going'', ya ''fool!'']]}}
* ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]'' gives us Timon turning Pumbaa's brain back on and then getting ''very'' mad at Pumbaa due to the fact that Pumbaa has become massively smarter than him and therefore [[Insufferable Genius|is acting as if he is massively smarter than him]] during ''[[Fantastic Voyage Plot|Beetle Romania]]''.
* ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'',
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** Overlaps with [[Black Comedy]] in "New Gotham"; when Harley takes brutal, bloody revenge on the Penguin, Killer Shark says, [[Horrifying the Horror|"That was ''definitely'' more 'yikes'."]] Shark seems to have forgotten that he killed two of the Penguin's henchmen not five minutes ago by ''biting them in half.''
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