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A [[Stock Phrase]], and a staple of surrealistic comedy, this trope effectively combines a [[Watsonian]] [[Hand Wave]] with a [[Noodle Incident]] to explain the presence of something bizarre or otherwise impossible for the given setting.
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== Film ==
* In ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'', Egg Shen disappears after the fight in the assembly hall, then abruptly reappears to throw his friends an escape rope through a hole in the ceiling. When asked how the he got up there, Egg just says "It wasn't easy!"
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== Literature ==
* From ''[[The Culture/Consider Phlebas|Consider Phlebas]]'' by [[Iain M Banks]]:
{{quote|"Unarmed, you killed an Idiran in full battle armour and toting a laser?" Horza said sceptically. Balveda shrugged again.
"Horza, I didn't say it was easy." }}
== Live-Action TV ==
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* Garrus utters one in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', when you find out that HE'S the one who's pissed off every major mercenary/criminal organization in the Terminus Systems to the point where they're all working together to bring him down. The line goes, in his usual sarcastic (albeit tired) tone:
{{quote|''It wasn't easy... I reaaaallly had to work at it.''}}
== Western Animation ==
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