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* On ''[[QI]]'', giving the obvious-but-incorrect answer causes an alarm to ring and the panelist to forfeit points. Obvious riffs such as these sometimes trigger the klaxon as well.
* ''[[Castle]]'' uses the "tied up right now" variant when the eponymous character had bound himself to a chair [[It Makes Sense in Context|to see whether he could free himself]]. [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in another episode [[The Coroner|Lanie]] finds out that the recent victim, who had been burnt in a pizza oven, has the last name "Burns". She tells Castle, who had started to look excited, to make the Obligatory Joke...but it turns out that Castle had actually recognized the name.
* After the first act of the Jaye P. Morgan episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', where Morgan wears a ruffled bird outfit:
{{quote|'''Statler:''' Ooh, Jaye P. Morgan is terrific!
'''Waldorf:''' Yeah, but that last number was for the birds!
'''Statler:''' You had to make that joke, did you?
'''Waldorf:''' Well, one of us had to, and I lost the toss!}}
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