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'''Guy''': Oh. Okay, [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast|I wish I could understand women]].<br /> |
'''Guy''': Oh. Okay, [[Mars and Venus Gender Contrast|I wish I could understand women]].<br /> |
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'''Genie''': ...Define "peace". }} |
'''Genie''': ...Define "peace". }} |
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* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'': |
* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'': |
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{{quote| '''Light''': Can you stop calling me Light?<br /> |
{{quote| '''Light''': Can you stop calling me Light?<br /> |
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'''Homer:''' ...what was that first one again? }} |
'''Homer:''' ...what was that first one again? }} |
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* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', when O'Malley approaches Blue Team's base. |
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', when O'Malley approaches Blue Team's base. |
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{{quote| '''O'Malley:''' [[It |
{{quote| '''O'Malley:''' [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet|It's quiet... too quiet.]]"<br /> |
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(''a sniper round whizzes past his head'')<br /> |
(''a sniper round whizzes past his head'')<br /> |
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'''O'Malley:''' Now it's suddenly too loud. I preferred it when it was quiet. }} |
'''O'Malley:''' Now it's suddenly too loud. I preferred it when it was quiet. }} |
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'''Romana''': Fine, call me 'Fred'.<br /> |
'''Romana''': Fine, call me 'Fred'.<br /> |
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'''The Doctor''': All right. Come on, Romana. }} |
'''The Doctor''': All right. Come on, Romana. }} |
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* ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'', when cornered by [[Friday the |
* ''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'', when cornered by [[Friday the 13th (Film)|Jason Voorhoes]] |
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{{quote| '''Nerd''': Don't kill me!<br /> |
{{quote| '''Nerd''': Don't kill me!<br /> |
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'''Jason''': *Shows the ''[[Friday the 13 th (Video Game)|Friday the 13 th]]'' NES cartridge, silently telling him to play it*<br /> |
'''Jason''': *Shows the ''[[Friday the 13 th (Video Game)|Friday the 13 th]]'' NES cartridge, silently telling him to play it*<br /> |
Revision as of 22:00, 8 January 2014
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. |
Light: Can you stop calling me Light? |
- 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. |
- 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." |
- The Simpsons, when Homer became the Grim Reaper in a Halloween episode:
- 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:
- Evolution: An alien bug has entered the body of Harry Block.
Zoidberg: So do your worst. Because no punishment could be worse than denying my freedom. |
- 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'. |
- The Angry Video Game Nerd, when cornered by Jason Voorhoes
Nerd: Don't kill me! |
- Seinfeld: In the final episode, NBC bigwigs have rekindled their interest in Jerry's pilot.
- 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. |
'Angel: Youre my secretary? |
- 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