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* Used as the [[Punch Line]] in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQqDTN9g_i8 this commercial] for Nickelodeon Magazine. |
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Revision as of 14:48, 19 May 2018
Someone is given an option he doesn't like, and promptly rejects it. The person who made the suggestion returns with something far worse, and On Second Thought, the first suggestion was just fine.
Summed up well by the following joke:
Genie: I can give you one wish. |
Advertising
- Used as the Punch Line in this commercial for Nickelodeon Magazine.
Anime and Manga
Light: Can you stop calling me Light? |
Film
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, when Ron breaks the Szalinskis' window:
Russ: Look, we'll get it fixed, okay. We'll take it out of his allowance. |
- Evolution: An alien bug has entered the body of Harry Block.
Dr. Paulson: We might have to amputate. |
Live-Action TV
- Lost:
Hurley: Let me ask you something, Arnzt -- |
- Desperate Housewives. Rex asks Bree to pick a "control word" for the sexual roleplay they're planning to do:
Bree: How about "Boise"? |
- Friends. Phoebe has suggested that they should have a cleansing ritual, to lose the curse of bad boyfriends:
Phoebe: "Okay. We can, um, we can burn the stuff they gave us." |
Stan: I have tickets to a Dodgers spring training game. Want to come? |
Baby New Year 2009 and Jon Stewart discuss the assault of Israel on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. |
- Subverted in Doctor Who when the Doctor's companion actually prefers the second alternative to her Overly Long Name,[1] but he continues to use the first one anyway:
The Doctor: I'll call you 'Romana'. |
- Seinfeld: In the final episode, NBC bigwigs have rekindled their interest in Jerry's pilot.
Kimbrough: And Elaine! I wouldn't mind seeing something happening between those two! |
'Angel: Youre my secretary? |
Web Comics
Noelle: "So what is your name?" |
King Pentagon: Come now, there is much to discuss between us two lords. Won't you join me for tea? |
Web Original
- Red vs. Blue, when O'Malley approaches Blue Team's base.
O'Malley: It's quiet... too quiet." |
- Also, during the Blue Team's first surrender:
Sarge: Alright, blues! First off, we want your flag... |
- The Angry Video Game Nerd, when cornered by Jason Voorhoes
Nerd: Don't kill me! |
Western Animation
- The Simpsons, when Homer became the Grim Reaper in a Halloween episode:
(Homer wakes up in the morning, puts on the Grim Reaper robe) |
Zoidberg: So do your worst. Because no punishment could be worse than denying my freedom. |
- In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Iroh and Zuko ponder which is worse, the Earth Kingdom, or the Fire Nation.
Zuko: If the Earth Kingdom discovers us, they'll have us killed. |
- At the end of the Danger Mouse episode 100 Million Years Lost, the narrator turns the mic over to Henry V who drones on about the Battle of Agincourt before he switches to the weather forecast.
- ↑ Romanadvoratrelundar