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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |
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* In ''[[Futurama]]'', the Robot Devil challenges Leela in a violin contest, with her having to use a [[Made of Temptation|solid gold fiddle]]. Fry does point out that a solid gold fiddle "would weigh like a hundred pounds and sounds really cruddy." The Robot Devil admits to this, stated that it's "mostly for show". Leela does beat him though - over the head with the extremely heavy fiddle. |
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', the Robot Devil challenges Leela in a violin contest, with her having to use a [[Made of Temptation|solid gold fiddle]]. Fry does point out that a solid gold fiddle "would weigh like a hundred pounds and sounds really cruddy." The Robot Devil admits to this, stated that it's "mostly for show". Leela does beat him though - over the head with the extremely heavy fiddle. |
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** In the episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Number 1.0 (the head honcho at the Central Bureaucracy) orders Hermes to file and sort the Master In-Pile, a literal mountain of thousands of backlogged files, stating Hermes will be fired unless he completes this task before closing time, which is in only four minutes. (At 1PM, one of many reasons the Central Bureaucracy is an inefficient mess.) Hermes not only succeeds, he manages to do a musical number while doing so; unfortunately, since he manages this with 2 seconds to spare (and a good bureaucrat ''never'' finishes his task early) Number 1.0 demotes him one rank. |
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* A modern parody may be the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure." Kyle's mom tells him he can't go to a concert unless he cleans out the garage, shovels the snow out of the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Of course he succeeds at all three. |
* A modern parody may be the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Wacky Molestation Adventure." Kyle's mom tells him he can't go to a concert unless he cleans out the garage, shovels the snow out of the driveway, and brings democracy to Cuba. Of course he succeeds at all three. |
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** He still doesn't get to go, being told specifically that they never expected him to be able to pull off that last one. Kyle decides this is unfair and applies some [[Cutting the Knot|lateral thinking]]: calling child services and telling them his parents molested him so they'll get arrested and he therefore won't need their permission. It works. |
** He still doesn't get to go, being told specifically that they never expected him to be able to pull off that last one. Kyle decides this is unfair and applies some [[Cutting the Knot|lateral thinking]]: calling child services and telling them his parents molested him so they'll get arrested and he therefore won't need their permission. It works. |
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