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'''Ted''': ''(waving at the car)'' I hope you wouldn't think it'd be anything of a racial nature! Thanks for being so understanding, see you again, bye! }}
* Subverted in ''[[Castle]]'': After having a big fight the night before, Beckett gives Castle a frosty reception when he shows up at her desk the next day. Castle claims he's just looking for his sunglasses. Beckett sneers that that has to be the lamest excuse she's ever... she doesn't get to finish, because Castle icily lifts his sunglasses off her desk and shows them to her, leaving her with some egg on face.
** Played with in another episode, after Beckett's apartment has been blown up and Castle has invited her in to stay the night; Castle's mother Martha encounters Beckett cooking breakfast in her pajamas, and in order to forestall [[UST|the obvious alternative explanation]], Beckett blurts out that she's there "on orders from the FBI." It's the truth, sort of, but it certainly ''sounds'' like a
{{quote|'''Martha''': Darling, I'm not one to judge.}}
* The Dead Parrot sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' is a good example that a bizarrely large segment of the audience misses. <s> Graham Chapman</s> Michael Palin knows the parrot is dead, so virtually everything he says is a
** This is the whole point of the sketch; the shopkeeper's providing
* In an episode of the ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Ms Piggy asks one of the other members of the cast to watch her dog while she's out on the stage. Each person there proceeds to invent a lame excuse to fob the task onto someone else.
** Possibly subverted with Gonzo's excuse [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog|"Oh My God! I left an anvil in the oven!"]], as given the nature of some of his acts, his excuse might actually have been true. Though the question of what he was planning to do with [[Noodle Implement|a freshly baked anvil]] was never answered.
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