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Line 1: {{trope}} A character goes on a [[Rant -Inducing Slight\|rant, presumably induced by some slight]], and is caught up in a spot of [[Angrish]]. Or maybe they are giving a stirring speech, and are really on a roll, when they let out some [[Non Sequitur]]. When the rant or speech ends, the person being chewed out or preached to, with a perplexed tone, ignores 99% of the speech in order to single out the [[Non Sequitur]]. Compare [[I Take Offense to That Last One]], where the target (if being lambasted) only disagrees with one of the insults, implying that they admit the others are correct. Also compare [[You Make Me Sic]], where in a situation you expect someone to have a strong reaction to a statement or insult they single out bad spelling and grammar. {{examples\|Examples:}}▼ ▲{{examples~~\|Examples:~~}} == [[Comic Books]] == * Kitty Pryde provides us this example from ''[[Astonishing X Men]],'' though in this case what Kitty points out ''was'' the thing she was most concerned over. {{quote\| '''Emma Frost:''' Three students were missing from my ethics class. Seventeen overall. Logan had to break up two fistfights and a mystical swordfight. And that dreadful Guatemalan crab-boy is at Benetech telling reporters this is every mutant's only chance to avoid burning in everlasting hellfire. This is eating us from the inside out.~~<br />~~ '''Kitty:''' Oh my God ... you teach ''ethics?'' }} Line 14: == Live Action TV == * In an episode of ''[[Titus]]'';, Erin is chewing Ken out for being a bad father, at one point calling him a "Motard". When her rant ends, he just looks at her funny and says "Motard?" * On an episode of ''[[Barney Miller]]'' a riot breaks out in front of the precinct station. Barney gives an impassioned speech to a representative, saying among other things "Maybe we are all going to hell in a handbasket." When things quiet down, [[Deadpan Snarker\|Dietrich]] says to Barney "Hell in a handbasket?" * This is a stock gag on ''[[Top Gear]]''. with Jeremy Clarkson (and occasionally Richard Hammond) going off on a long-winded, over-the-top rant at one of the others (usually James May), at the end of which May will react to only one small part of the entire rant. * In one episode of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', the gang is auditioning mural ideas. Jerry starts to give a touching speech about how his idea was influenced by his mother, but he accidentally calls the mural a "murinal." Seeing as how he's the [[Butt Monkey]], nobody lets him live it down. * In ''[[Supernatural]]'' after Castiel [[Molotov Cocktail~~\|Molotov Cocktails~~]]s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6nCBQXJdRg#t=0m36s St. Michael], Dean calls Castiel on his choice of epithet. {{quote\| ''"Ass-Butt?"''}} == [[Web Original]] == * ~~One~~On one of the [[Image Board]] forums, someone told the story about how his mother's bakery was broken ~~in to~~into, and to protect the merchandise, she had him store all the cakes on hand at his ~~apartment--about~~apartment—about forty of them. He laments that he already housed<ref>ate the whole thing by himself</ref> one of them, and didn't know what else to do. This was the immediate response: {{quote\| '''Lex Luthor''': ''(face lit up)'' "[[Memetic Mutation\|CAKES?!]] [[And That's Terrible\|FORTY OF THEM?!]]"}} {{reflist}} [[Category:Dialogue]] [[Category:Comedy Tropes]] [[Category:~~Non Sequitur Distraction~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Word Salad Tropes]] [[Category:Trope Names from Latin]]