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* ''[[Dirty Work]]'': "I have to go...lift weights. ''[[Lampshade Hanging|What]]?!''"
* In ''[[Better Off Dead]]'', Lane uses one of these to get away from a tenacious paperboy.
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* In ''[[National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'' this is played more or less straight by Rusty, who isn't making up excuses to allow his parents to talk, he just wants the hell outta the situation. "I gotta get to bed. I still gotta brush my teeth, feed the hog, still got some homework to do, still got those bills to pay, wash the car..."
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', we see a [[Wheel of Fortune]] -esque wheel of various flimsy excuses in Scott's head, and the needle [[Heads-Tails-Edge|lands on the line between]] "I have to pee" and "Who, her?" and he ends up saying "I have to pee on her."