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* Dagwood in ''[[Blondie]]'': Always making his decuple-decker sandwiches, always running into the mailman on his hurried way out the door.
* In ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', whenever General Halftrack sends his officers a written instruction, it will always have one tiny spelling error that completely changes the meaning of the orders ("buns" instead of "guns", "gag masks" instead of "gas masks", etc.). Someone will point out what the general ''meant'' to say, but then someone else will - ''always'', ''invariably'' - ask: "But who dares to tell the general that he's done a mistake?" Nobody dares, and in the end, the officers always do exactly what it says in the instruction, even though it makes no sense.
** Often, General Halftrack is depicted witnessing the end results of his subordinates' interpreting his orders in some absurd way, and his reaction is always the same: "Now what?" often rolling his eyes in the process.
*** If Halftrack himself acts in an odd way, his wife is the one who says it.
* In ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'', whenever Robin would state the obvious, another character would say, "[[Captain Obvious|Obviously]] you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." If memory serves, even Batman got one in once.
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