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'''Wonder Woman''': Well, I'm sort of missing Flash's obligatory joke about Grodd having made a monkey out of us.
'''Superman''': [[You Just Had to Say It|''Just'' couldn't let it go unsaid]].
'''Wonder Woman''': Obligatory!
|''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]] Unlimited'', "Dead Reckoning" }}
In certain situations, characters (and writers, it seems) just ''have'' to make certain puns. And they're usually the same ones. But [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], as in many cases the audience may feel disappointed or even slightly confused if the obligatory joke fails to come up.
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* Any time electricity is involved, you know someone will quip about a "shocking" situation.
* Similarly, expect [[An Ice Person]] to be surrounded by an abundance of "Ice to meet you," "Take a chill pill," etc. jokes.
* Whenever identical twins appear as part of a main cast or as recurring characters, someone ''will'' eventually ask who the older one is, even though this is only truly important if they are royalty.
See also [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], [[Bond One-Liner]], [[Quip to Black]], and others, which have considerable overlap. [[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost]] is one subtrope. A [[Punny Name]] or [[Unfortunate Name]] resulting in this may make someone a [[Phrase Catcher]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' had Green Goblin do the "tied up" joke, chuckling to himself that you gotta love the classics.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Sirius Black taking every opportunity to make "serious"/"Sirius" puns in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfics, to the point that in many later works, the characters ''start out already tired of them''.
== [[Film]] ==
* Meta-example, [[Stan Lee]] is certain to make a [[Cameo]] in ''every'' [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] movie for as long as he is able.
* Every film (and some [[Expanded Universe]] stories) in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' franchise will have someone [[Tempting Fate]] by saying, "I have a bad feeling about this."
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* 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, we have this exchange between [[Statler and Waldorf]]:
{{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!}}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee's]] review of ''[[No More Heroes]]'' opened with the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4pkNcE8nsM "No More Heroes"] by The Stranglers, which he cut short stating it was too obvious.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] did [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924142911/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/21604-the-care-bears-movie a review] of the ''[[Care Bears]]'' movie, and when the leader of the Care Bear Cousins said his name, Braveheart, Critic showed a clip from ''[[Braveheart]]'', asking how could he ''not'' do that joke. Later, he opened a review of the film ''Alaska'' with "[[Sarah Palin]] is stupid. That's my obligatory [[Sarah Palin]] reference out of the way. Now, ''Alaska''..."
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* The page quote was used in ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' after the heroes foiled Gorilla Grodd's plot to turn all of humanity into gorillas.
* In one episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Kim discovers that the villain keeps electric eels, to which she replies, "The puns just write themselves. Shocking, isn't it?" Of course, the villain says the very same line later when he reveals his electric eels.
* In the ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' (''U.S. Acres'' segment) "Secrets of the Animated Cartoon", Orson explains that it is required by law to do a [[The Take|a take]] whenever you're scared, and then goes on to explain [[Double Take]]s, [[Spit-Take]]s, and [[Late to The Punchline|Delayed Reaction Takes]]. In the next scene he claims that a chase scene in a cartoon also requires the [[Painted Tunnel, Real Train]] gag.
* In ''every'' version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', someone will, at least once, use the word "rat" in a negative way, and then [[Insult Friendly Fire| have to apologize to Splinter.]]
== [[Video Games]] ==
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'''Homestar''': ''"Just hangin' around."'' }}
* ''[[Starcraft]]'' has a meta-example. If you claim it's ''[[War Craft]]'' [[In Space]], someone is sure to counter this claim by saying, "it's far more sophisticated!"
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