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* From ''[[Backbeat]]'': John Lennon goes off on a tirade against artistic types in one of his first run-ins with Klaus and Astrid. Astrid asks Stu Sutcliffe, "Is he always like this?" Stu replies, "No, he can get really bitter and cynical."

* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]''. After swinging in through the window in a castle, rescuing his dad, shooting a team of Nazis, getting captured, tied up, setting fire to a room (and nearly being been burned to death in the process) and going through two hidden passages, Indy and his father are trying to escape from a Nazi stronghold.

'''Henry Jones Jr:''' No! But better than most. }}

 

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''Sky Pirates!'' new companion Roz reflects that her first adventure with the Doctor ended with the possibility her friend could turn into a mindless berserker with no warning, her career in ruins, assassins searching for them, a destroyed city, and asks old-hand companion Benny for reassurance that not all of their adventures will end like that. Benny is suddenly reluctant to continue the conversation.

* There's one lesser known of Grimm's [[Fairy Tales]] about a man who wants to visit the godfather of his last child. When he comes to the house, the first thing he finds are a broom and a dustpan fighting on the stairs. He asks them for the godfather, the broom tells him "next floor". There he finds a lot of dead fingers - they also tell him "next floor". There he finds [[Nothing but Skulls|a heap of death's heads]]; again, "next floor". On that floor, a bunch of fish are busy [[Let's Meet the Meat|frying themselves in a pan]] - they too tell him, "next floor". There's a door, he looks through the keyhole, and sees the godfather with long horns on his head. (Hmm, [[Horny Devils]]?) He walks into the room, but the godfather has already hidden in his bed. Then, this dialogue ensues:

Godfather: "[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Hey, that's not true!]]"<br />

And the man is leaving very fast. }}

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' would bring this up every time there was a significant visitor to the station. Usually a visiting oversight officer would comment on how strange behavior was a sign of inadequate leadership before leaving.

* From the end of the premiere of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Encounter at Farpoint" (which involved giant space jellyfish, their first encounter with the god-like entity Q putting [[Humanity on Trial]], and Counselor Troi clutching her head and reeling off every emotion in the book):

'''Picard''': Oh no, Number One. I'm sure most will be much more interesting. }}

** Similarly, in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'', Captain Janeway remarks "We're Starfleet officers; weird is part of the job."

* Riley asks this in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.

** And later, from an exasperated Xander...

* The fact that his family is horribly dysfunctional is part of Justin's plan in ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' to dump a clingy [[Girl of the Week]]. When she asks if his family is always that weird, he tells her yes, and that quickly causes her to reconsider the relationship.

* Something like this is invoked at least once on [[Match Game]], during one of Betty White's recurring instances of rolling up Gene Rayburn's pant leg.

 

 

** And again in a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080305 more recent] page, after Gil's rant about how he tries to be civil, but simply gets ignored.

* ''[[Killroy And Tina]]'':

'''Tina''': Sometimes I have homework, too. }}

* ''[[Narbonic]]'':

'''Dave''': (looking at Helen) Hell no. Usually she just wears jeans. }}

* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' the recently introduced character Molly asks this upon the first appearance of the [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20060912.html Halloween Monster.]

* [[Whateley Universe]] example: new girl Misty asks this question of her roommate She-Beast when she sees the madness that is Melville Cottage at Whateley Academy... and is assured that this was a calm day.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' during the incident with "[[Inkblot Test|Ink Blot]] [[The Illegible|Handwriting]]":

'''Nanase''': It's common sense not to. }}

 

== Western Animation ==

* The kung fu dinner theatre sequence from ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'':

'''Art:''' No, last night we had meatloaf. }}

* Jazz in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' also asks this during a battle with renegade police drones.

'''Prowl:''' Pretty much. }}

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Fry determines when he needs to brush his teeth based on when the last [[Alien Invasion]] happened.

* [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" "Again??"]]

* Rocket to Zatanna in ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'', after the team gets ambushed and cornered by a small team of super-villains only to come out on top. Later, after they pull one over on {{spoiler|Lex Luthor himself}},

'''Zatanna:''' Told ya. }}