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Line 4: Lesson learned, kids: If you refuse a good offer because you expect something better to come along, you may regret it. This occasionally occurs as a rejection of [[Sweet and Sour Grapes]]. Related to [[Last Second Chance]] and [[~~Heel~~Deadly ~~Face Door Slam~~Change-of-Heart]], if the villain is offered one more chance to repent and either refuses, or accepts too late. {{examples}} == [[Film]] == * ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'': After Susan turns into a [[Attack of the ~~Fifty~~ 50-Foot Whatever\|50-foot woman]] (well, 49-foot, 11 and 1/2-inch woman) on what was to be her wedding day, her fiance breaks it off with her. Later, after she helps save the world, he offers to "forgive" her and take her back (largely to further his own career as a newscaster). Cue the ([[Jerkass\|much deserved]]) [[Humiliation Conga]]. == [[Live Action TV]] == * [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer\|Buffy]] got in a rebound relationship after Angel left. The guy, Parker, dumped her after they slept together, and Buffy got depressed. When she gets turned into a cavewoman, she saves his life (almost exactly the way she fantasized about doing to earn his affection earlier), and when he tries to apologize for how he treated her and offers to start dating her again, cave-Buffy hits him on the head with a stick. {{quote\| Buffy: "Parker ''BAD''"}} * Practically every lawyer show will use this trope as one side (knowing something the other side does not know) makes a transparently bad settlement/plea-bargaining offer to the other side, sometimes even saying "Decide quickly, because we're only offering this until I walk out that door," and usually followed after the refusal by "See you in court." * A TV movie adaptation of ''The Lost World'' (by Arthur Conan Doyle) had the hero snubbed by a girl he liked at the beginning of the movie, only to have her try to chat him up after he comes back from the titular country with a pterosaur and lots of fame. He blows her off. Line 28: == [[Theater]] == * In [[Shakespeare]]'s ''The Merchant of Venice,'' the merchant Antonio defaults on a loan to the moneylender Shylock, and Shylock demands the promised ~~collateral -- a~~collateral—a pound of Antonio's flesh. Antonio's friends come up with twice the amount of the original loan, offering it to Shylock to forgo the pound of flesh, but Shylock refuses. [[Pound of Flesh Twist\|When it is then pointed out to him]] that the agreement specified only a pound of ''flesh'', and if he were to spill a single drop of Antonio's ''blood'' while extracting the flesh, he would be executed in accordance with the laws of Venice at the time, Shylock tries to accept the previous offer of the money, but that offer is now off the table, so the trope is played both ways. == [[Western Animation]] == * One early use was in a 1930s [[Popeye]] short "Beware of Barnacle Bill", which has Olive rejecting Popeye's marriage proposal, Popeye beating up Barnacle Bill (the person Olive was in love with), and then rejecting Olive's proposal out of spite. * ''[[Doug]]'': One episode begins with Patty being turned down from the school baseball team for being a girl, ends with Patty turning down school coach's offer to let her join after he saw what she could do (or rather, could have done: Roger's game-winning catch for the school was all that prevented her from driving in Doug as the game-winning run for her team the Pulverizers). * ''[[~~The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)\|~~The Powerpuff Girls]]'' has fun with it, and gave the trope its original name "Turning The Other Cheek": Buttercup tells Bubbles that they shouldn't be "turning the other cheek" on an offer from a league of superheroes, and that offer has a twist: They're not asking the PPG to join (as the PPG has been trying to do, and were rejected simply for being girls) as Bubbles expected (and she was planning on rejecting the offer of course), ''they're'' asking to join the PPG. ** Also done in the episode with the flying squirrel: Blossom and Buttercup are initially pleased that Bubbles has talked the squirrel into rejoining, but are then flabbergasted to hear that Bubbles is willing to let the squirrel stay in the forest. * ''[[The Buzz ~~On Maggie (Animation)\|The Buzz On~~on Maggie]]'', with Rayna and Maggie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090328161758/http://psc.disney.go.com/disneychannel/buzzonmaggie/characters/index.html Click on Rayna at this page to see her make her offer], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20071010110616/http://psc.disney.go.com/disneychannel/buzzonmaggie/videos/video3/index.html see her un-offer it in this video]. Ouch! * ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents (Animation)\|The Fairly Odd Parents~~OddParents]]'', "Love Struck!" features a romantic variant on it. Timmy has been pining for Trixie Tang for the longest time (since season 1's "A Wish Too Far!"). At the end of this story, Tang asks Timmy to be his Valentine, which is what he's always wanted. It looks as if Timmy will accept, but then he suddenly sees Tootie (who he learned earlier in the episode is who he's supposed to be with) crying over a photo of himself on a bench. He says he knows he'll be kicking himself for this, but he actually rejects Tang's offer and asks Tootie instead. * In ''[[The Simpsons (~~Animation~~animation)\|The Simpsons]]'', Flanders sells his possessions when he needs money in ''When Flanders Failed''. Homer wants to buy Ned's new grill cheap; Ned is reluctant but eventually agrees. At this point, Homer says he will only pay that price now if Ned throws in several other items. * In the pilot of ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'', Leonardo Leonardo offers the clerks a very generous payment (including college scholarships) to sell the Quick-Stop minimarket. Dante immediately and vehemently refuses. Randall tries to accept ''the moment Dante stops talking'' but Leonardo states that the offer is no longer on the table. == [[Real Life]] == * Real Life example: [[~~The White Stripes (Music)\|~~The White Stripes]] made the ''Fell In Love With A Girl'' music video entirely out of Legos and stop-motion. Jack White consulted with the Lego company about having Lego figures of Meg and himself packaged with the release of the single. Lego refused, claiming they wouldn't cater to a market that wasn't children. When the video was a hit, Lego changed their minds, only for Jack to refuse. ** [[Fridge Logic\|Right]], because the [http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2007/09/5000-piece-lego/ 5000+ part Millenium Falcon], which costs $500, [[Sarcasm Mode\|is totally intended for kids.]] * [[Bill Cosby]] summed it up in this famous quote: "When you're poor, people won't give you five cents for a hot dog. When you're a millionaire, people will pay through the nose to have lunch with you." Line 49: [[Category:Drama Tropes]] [[Category:Older Than Feudalism]] [[Category:~~Off The Table~~{{PAGENAME}}]]