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See also [[Prepositional Phrase Equals Coolness]] to compare with.
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* In ''[[Beavis and Butthead]] Do America'', Agent Flemming admonishes a fellow ATF agent for doing this. That agent then ties his sentences in knots trying to get around this.
* In ''[[Designing Women]]'' Charlene tells this old anecdote:
{{quote| "I asked this Northern woman, 'Where are ya'll from?' And she said, 'I'm from a place where we don't end our sentences with prepositions.' So I said, 'Okay, where are ya'll from, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]?'"}}
* There's an episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' where Martin is writing someone a letter and Niles, reading over his shoulder, corrects him for ending a sentence with a preposition. We see Martin, rather annoyed, writing something on the paper and underlining it, gesturing to Niles, to which Niles replies, "Not to be technical, but 'off' is a preposition too."
** In another episode Frasier corrects a caller who uses the word "literally" in the complete wrong way, bringing said caller to get angry about people who "nit-pick on your grammar when they come to you for help".
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** Of course, this also serves to further shine a light on the fact that the show has [[Aliens Speaking English]].
* This is what sparks the [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]] in ''[[Downfall (Film)|Downfall]] [[Gag Sub|of Grammar]]''.
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* ''[[Y the Last Man]]''. Yorick, as an English major, is somewhat pedantic about language usage. Even during his final declaration of love.
{{quote| '''Yorick:''' "I knew I wanted to keep living in any world that you were a part of. But that was hard to admit to myself, and not just because it ended with a preposition."}}
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{{quote| Simon Wilder: Which door do I leave from?<br />
Proffesor Pitkannan: At Harvard we don't end our sentences with prepositions.<br />
Simon Wilder: Okay. Which door do I leave from, [[Precision F
** A similar exchange occurred in some greeting card:
{{quote| Woman 1: Where's your birthday party at?<br />
Woman 2: Don't end a sentence with a preposition.<br />
*inside the card*<br />
Woman 1: Where's your birthday party at, ''[[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]''? }}
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* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', a fifteen-year-old North Korean physics genius who has only been speaking English for one and a half years pulls this one out. Leonard tells him he speaks English well, and he responds by condescendingly saying that Leonard does as well, except for the fact that he regularly ends his sentences with prepositions. Then Leonard asks, "What are you talking about?"
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