On Second Thought
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. |
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.
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." |
- 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.
'Angel: Youre my secretary? |
Web Comics
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:
- 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:
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