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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.
* 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]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* 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!"
▲== [[Multiple Media]] ==
▲* 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.
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