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Characters who tend to suffer from this:
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] - when you tell them that [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]] - when you tell it to [[Get Out!]]
* [[The Cat Came Back]] - when you ask it to [[Stop Helping Me]]
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* There are probably many of these in ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'', but one of the best known is when Homer and Bart are working the ringtoss booth at the carnival. Wiggum tries to get Homer to bribe him, but after three tries (one of which includes mentioning his friend "Mr. Bribe"), Wiggum decides "screw this", and shuts the booth down.
** Later in the episode, Wiggum refuses to help the Simpson family when the owners of that booth took over their house. Homer STILL doesn't get it.
* In ''[[The
* [[The IT Crowd|Why are you giving me the secret signal to shut up?]]
* ''[[Three Amigos]]'' has Lucky making all manner of noisy bird-like calls to get the attention of Dusty and Ned. When they're sitting only a few feet away. He finally gives up and shouts at them.
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* In an episode of ''[[Deal or No Deal]]'', Howie Mandel tried to show a contestant and her family that her sister had flown in from Boston to play one of [[Lovely Assistant|the show's models]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGR7hh0se2k\]
* [[George Carlin]] complained about this in his last show, ''It's Bad For Ya''. He discusses at people's inability to take a hint that they're boring the crap out of him, when he finally rants.
{{quote| '''George:''' And while all of this is going on, you're searching through your mind for something gracious and diplomatic you can say to bring the conversation to a close; and all I can ever come up with is, '''''[[Precision F
* When Mrs. Bennet in ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' wants to leave Jane and Bingley alone together, she starts winking conspicuously at Elizabeth and Kitty so they'll leave. Elizabeth ignores her, knowing she's being tactless and stupid. Kitty, after a few minutes, [[I Do Not Speak Nonverbal|asks why Mrs. Bennet keeps winking at her]].
* This exchange between the [[Big Bad]] and her sidekick in ''[[Men in Black (Film)|Men in Black II]]'', when the former hears a suspicious noise in the kitchen:
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