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* Holly and Kryten in ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]''. Note the redundancy; the producers did, and when they needed to get rid of a character for the sixth season, Holly was [[Put On a Bus]] with the rationale that the exposition could be given to Kryten. The writers later found themselves in the same position again, when the newly-introduced Kochanski became Ms. Exposition, and Kryten was relegated to the servile mother-figure that he'd grown out of over the course of the series.
* Joel and the Robots of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' humorously pointed this out while watching a movie, labeling two cop characters "Sergeant Exposition" and "Captain Backstory".
* In ''[[
** Notoriously, the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy used to hand off the technobabble to his assistant, Ace, who would deliver the exposition in the form of a question, allowing the Doctor to a) avoid learning his lines, and b) nod wisely and say "That's right, Ace. You're learning."
* Alfred Gogh and Miles Millar cast Allison Mack as Chloe Sullivan on ''[[Smallville]]'' because of her "rare ability to deliver large chunks of expositionary dialogue conversationally."
* Col. Tigh in ''[[
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'':
{{quote| '''Colin Mochrie:''' Finally, I caught up with you! I'm a mob hitman... They call me Jimmy the Exposition.}}
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* [[Impro Fanfiction]]'s Do-Gooders's Sailor Exposition is a parody of this; she defeats monsters by talking to them.
* Any of the time travelers from ''[http://www.tru-lifeadventures.com TRU-Life Adventures]''.
* In the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', a lot of the teams at [[Super
** This makes sense, because Ferret is the information-finder and inventor for his team, while Stopwatch is the information-collector and inventor and obsessive control-freak leader of his team. Foxfire has the problem that several members of her group are much bigger expositors than she is, so she has to cut them off just to get in her own exposition.
** And Phase, for Team Kimba. If there's an answer to be given, especially in a class, you ''cannot'' shut him up.
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