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* A very unusual musical version is done in the little-seen French film ''[[Les jolies choses]] (Pretty Things)'' (2001): towards the the end, Lucie {{spoiler|who is really Marie pretending to be her famous sister, as Lucie committed suicide}} performs in a concert and sings the title song, the lyrics of which include her addressing someone named "Lucie" angrily ("tu peux partir, je ne t'aime pas"—you can leave, I don't love you) and then eventually saying "mais toi, c'est moi" (but you are me) and ending on a bittersweet loving note: "les jolies choses, c'est la mort...maintenant Lucie dort, maintenant, Lucie, dors" (the pretty things are death; now Lucie is sleeping, now, Lucie, sleep). The audience is cheering and singing along, thinking it's just a hypothetical song referring to herself and employing poetic license, entirely missing the [[Lyrical Dissonance]] and not realizing she's really talking about {{spoiler|her twin's suicide, first expressing anger at her selfishness and then realizing her love for her and forgiving her and finally wishing her peace.}} It's actually really powerful.

* Used repeatedly, between varying people, in ''[[Ruthless People]]'', to glorious effect. A [[Gold Digger]] thinks she send her boyfriend a blackmail tape with him murdering his wife, but it's a man having loud sex with a prostitute. So the boyfriend calls the girlfriend thanking her for sending him the tape and promising to do the same thing to her. This makes the girlfriend fear for her safety and send the tape to a judge... who turns out be the exact man having sex, and while she thinks she's just helping him with his investigation, he thinks she's blackmailing him with the tape to arrest her boyfriend.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', Mrs. Jennings watches a conversation between Colonel Brandon and Elinor and assumes he is proposing to her, and has a conversation with Elinor afterwards, congratulating her. The colonel had actually been offering a living to Edward. Elinor and Mrs. Jennings don't realise they're on different pages until their second conversation about it.

* A short-lived one in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' occurs when Ron accidentally eats a candy laced with love potion by Romilda Vane (originally meant for Harry, but Harry was wise enough not to eat it.) Ron then starts going on about how amazing "she" is, and Harry assumes he's talking about his current girlfriend, Lavender, until Ron lets slip that "she doesn't even know who I am".

== Newspaper Comics ==

* In one ''[[Zits]]'' comic strip, teenage Jeremy is explaining to his friend Hector how he's Googled everybody he knows. Hector is somewhat startled (perhaps at the fact that Jeremy now knows everything he'd need to know about everybody), as Jeremy goes on: "Friends, teachers, neighbors... you name 'em, I've Googled 'em." All the while, Jeremy's dad is standing behind them with an increasingly alarmed look on his face, until he runs over to Jeremy's mom to learn that Google is actually an internet search, and not, [[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|well]]...

 

== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==

{{quote|'''@fart''': in all sincerity i really did believe we were talking about Edward Scissorhands }}

 

* Most of the Alan Ayckbourn play ''Relatively Speaking''.

* ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'': Tevye and Lazar Wolf meet up in a bar in one scene. Lazar Wolf wants to talk about potentially marrying Tevye's daughter Tzeitel. However, Tevye doesn't know that, believing that Lazar Wolf wants to buy one of his cows. Cue an awkward conversation between the two with [[Double Entendre]]s and innuendos abound.

 

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