Just Smile and Nod: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]''. Dimitri is convinced he's Yugi Muto.

'''Chumley Huffington:''' Just smile and nod Sy, smile and nod. }}

 

* Brought up in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' on how to respond to the Doctor explaining something that makes no sense to...[[Last of His Kind|anyone else]]. Specifically in "Blink", Martha notes you should just nod when he takes a breath.

* Also brought up in ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'', when Will and Carlton are about to have a meeting with some record company executives:

'''Will''': [beat] Even better. }}

* In [[Numb3rs]], The FBI gang do this when Charlie explain some very complicated math theories.

* Used as a joke in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode ''[[Horror of Party Beach]]'', in reference to an [[Only Sane Man]] black maid:

** In general, this is the reaction the bots give Mike whenever he begins a [[Sanity Slippage]] or a [[Thousand-Yard Stare]].

* In one episode of [[Sharpe]] the titular hero ends up at dinner with Mad King George (the third, to be precise), who starts telling the tale of one of Sharpe's earlier adventures to his guests. One of the other gentlemen present kindly explains the situation:

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In the first ''Sonny'' game, when Sonny and Veradux meet up with the paladin who's trying to take down Baron Brixius, the paladin mistakes them for two members of the three-soldier team meant to back him up (Sonny and Veradux killed them on the way to the paladin's location).

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==