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* ''[[Young Justice (Comic Bookcomics)|Young Justice]]'' #2 contains one of the most bizarre examples of this trope, visually anyway, as the team has come into possession of a sentient motorcycle dubbed "The Super Cycle" and soon they come into contact with the original owner and invoke this trope which involves Robin and the gigantic New God Rip Roar, motioning, whistling and chanting for this enormous bike to choose one of them.

* In [[The Movie|the movie]] version of ''[[Bewitched (Filmfilm)|Bewitched]]'', one scene in the [[Show Within a Show]] has Darrin and his ex-wife arguing over custody of their dog. They decide to [[Let Him Choose]]. Samantha/Isabel does her bit, and the dog [[Take a Third Option|ignores both Darrin and the ex to go flying into Samantha/Isabel's arms instead]]. She comments, "Thank God you didn't have a Great Dane!" to much laughter.

* Seen in the film ''[[As Good Asas It Gets]]'', with the twist that both participants want the dog to pick the original owner. The new-comer later admits that part of the reason the dog warmed to him so quickly (and maybe even why he picked him when given the choice) was that he had been carrying bacon in his pocket as a doggy treat.

* Played with in the movie [[AIA.I.: Artificial Intelligence]] with teddy choosing between David and Martin, but averts this by going to Monica who walks in.

* Parodied on ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'', where J.D. and Turk do this with Rowdy, a stuffed lab. Or rather, they stage the scene and wait for someone to walk in so they can act it out (it's a stuffed dog after all).

* At the end of [[Bertolt Brecht (Creator)|Bertolt Brecht]]'s play ''The Caucasian Chalk Circle'' there is a contest for a child between his birth mother, a noblewoman who abandoned him during the siege of her castle, and the woman who rescued and raised him. It's more of a tug of war than letting the child choose, but the judge decides based on what the child and the adoptive mother do: the adoptive mother won't tug the child too hard for fear it will hurt him and because she is in distress, whereas the noblewoman just yanks him around, so the adoptive mother gets him in the end even though by the strictest rules of the contest she didn't win.

** Subverted in a "Treehouse of Horror" episode. As [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|Earth's population faces destruction]] due to the Y2K bug, Lisa is offered passage to Mars, with a select group of geniuses, but can take only one parent with her. The flight coordinator begins to talk about how agonizing a decision this must be when Lisa interrupts by calmly and unhesitatingly choosing Marge.

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* In an episode of ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Spongebob gets jealous of Gary wanting to go stay with Patrick, and decide to Let Him Choose. Gary chooses Patrick {{spoiler|because of a cookie in Patrick's back pocket.}}

* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' "Can I Keep Him?" Starfire and Killer Moth call to Silkie in this manner. Killer Moth is generally baffled as to what is going on.