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== Jokes ==

* After the Russian space station "Mir" was scuttled, the following joke immediately arose, with the head of mission control center commenting on the event: "At this moment the station is entering the dense atmosphere. The remains will sink into the Pacific Ocean. Tomorrow our brave austronauts are going to...oh, fuck, the austronauts!"

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* A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch where a white, ghetto-speaking pizzeria waiter named Mark Payne (played by feature player Bobby Moynihan) has a part where just as a couple leave their table, Mark realizes that he left his kid on a bus and runs out (but not before yelling at the couple who just left about not leaving a tip). It doesn't help that [[What Happened to the Mouse?|the next time Mark appears, the kid was never mentioned]].

* One contestant on ''[[Legends of the Hidden Temple]]'' reached the episode's Artifact forgot he didn't have to complete each room's challenge to move on. While he was smashing pots to [[What an Idiot!|open a door that was already open]], he dropped the artifact and made it all the way to the temple gates, empty-handed.

* In an episode of the new ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor is celebrating how everybody lived that episode, until Rose reminds him that Jack was still trapped on a spaceship that was about to explode. They saved him, though.

* ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'': In "People Who Love Peepholes", Alan moves out of the house and leaves Jake behind.

* In an episode of ''[[iCarly]]'', Sam is left inside a luggage bag and ends up in Malaysia.

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* In the VGA remake of ''[[Space Quest]] I'', if you forget to set the [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] on the superweapon before escaping ("You can't ignore, however, a nagging feeling that you've forgotten something important. Now what could that be?"), the bad guys use it to blow up your home planet. And then terrorize the rest of the universe. Oops.

** Likewise, in the same game you can leave the Star Generator data cartridge in a reader on planet Kerona. The ending victory ceremony will then tell you that while it's good that the bad guys didn't get it, it sucks that the planet is now spinning around a rapidly cooling star... [[You Suck|Oh well, you're just a Janitor.]]

* ''[[Pikmin|Pikmin 2]]'': Olimar collects enough money, starts his ship, heads for Hocotate... and realizes that he left behind Loui on the Pikmin Planet. Cue second part of the game having the {{spoiler|secondary}} goal to find and rescue him.

* ''[[Cave Story]]'' gives the optional task of bringing "Mr. Little" (a miniscule man) from the Mimiga graveyard back to his home in the outer wall. Once you've picked him up, he appears as an inventory item and it's possible to forget about him. But if you do, and beat the game without bringing him home, he will appear before the credits roll to ask "aren't you forgetting something?"

** He will do this even if your actions have [[Fridge Horror|caused]] {{spoiler|the island to fall to earth, presumably killing his family and everything else within.}}

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* [http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4236/nanorr99tr.png This strip] in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] R'r'' [[Fan Web Comic]] by [http://www.entropymax.com/ Entropy Max], which [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the tendency of Zafira getting ignored by both the writers and the fandom.

* From ''[[DM of the Rings]]'': [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=834 "Uh. Guys?"]

* ''[[Catena Manor]]'' has a beach-visit storyline. It ends with one character harmlessly but solidly trapped under exercise equipment...and completely forgotten by the others.

* ''[[Narbonic]]'' has another example of some''one'' being forgotten: Seth, a gamer who gets sucked into hell during one storyline and at the end of the arc is trying and failing to find someone who'll get him out. Much later, he shows up again in [[Badass]] fashion, having put his gaming skills to good use and [[Like a Badass Out of Hell|fought his way out]].

** There was also the part when Dave was brought back to life as a zombie. Helen and Mell left his head on a city bus, and forgot all about it. It wound up in the Lost and Found, and got claimed by Madblood (who needed a spare brain for an experiment).

* In ''[[Rhapsodies]]'' this happens to Kevin [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=313 once] or [http://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/?p=742 twice].

* One arc of ''[[Nodwick]]'' has the title character captured by an evil priest hoping to use him as a sacrifice. After thwarting the villain, the party forgets to release Nodwick, who mentions that he'll probably need to find a way to break the top off the altar he's shackled to and roll the coin-shaped top back home.

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* Used in an episode of ''[[Tale Spin]]'' - they forgot Wildcat at a mansion at the end of an episode.

* Used in an episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' - they forgot to free a bunch of supporting characters from a dungeon.

** Happens in "Escape to the House of Mummies Part 2" as well. Dr. Venture is the only one small enough to escape and get help, but he gets caught up in a contest with Orpheus and completely forgets about his family.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' subverted it, too, in one of the Treehouse of Horror short "[[The Shining|The Shinning]]".

{{quote|''[screen shows "Tuesday"]''

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''[more silence, Homer keeps driving]''

'''Lisa''': ...what about Grandpa? }}

** This is something of a [[Running Gag]] for Milhouse- the first time was an early episode when Homer and Bart left him buried under a pile of chairs after a Spinal Tap concert.

*** And again, when Bart and Lisa attend the school in Waverly Hills for a short period of time. Bart suddenly remembers at the end that he has to go back because he was playing hide and seek with Milhouse. Cut to a view of the garbage can next to the Kwik-E-Mart with Milhouse's voice saying, "Two weeks! This has gotta be a record!'

** It happened again with Grandpa in "Fear of Flying": when the family returns home after Marge's panic attack on the plane, Bart mentions "You know, I have this feeling that we forgot something...". Cut to Grandpa still on the plane screaming ''[[Home Alone]]'' style. We cut back to Homer who says "Eh, I'm sure it's nothing."

*** Another Grandpa example has them in [[Witness Protection]] leaving him locked out of the house. "Hello? Hellooo? ...I'm cold, and there are wolves after me!" ''[wolf howls]''

** Also shows up in the episode where the teachers go on strike. Everyone rushes out of the school so fast a little girl is left stranded on the rings in the gymnasium. "Hello? Mrs. Pommelhorst? I'd like to get down now..."

** As well as Whacking Day, where Principal Skinner locks Bart, Jimbo, Kearney, Dolph and Nelson in the school's basement. At the end of the episode, Skinner finally remembers that the bullies are still locked in the basement.

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'''Moe''': All right, that does it! I'm looking at his cards! Aw, crap. I fold. }}

** In the episode "E-I-E-I-D'oh", Homer is inspired by a ''Zorro'' movie to go around getting whatever he wants from people by slapping people with a glove and challenging them to duels. Much to his surprise, a Southern colonel accepts and he and his wife move into to the Simpsons' doorstep with his RV. He and the rest of the family flee the city and move into Grandpa's old farm, setting the plot into motion. After the climax of the episode, they move back to their house, with Homer saying "I don't even remember why we left." Of course, the colonel is still there waiting for him. The duel takes place, the colonel shoots Homer in the arm (which doesn't cause [[Only a Flesh Wound|any significant damage]]), and the episode ends.

* ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~]]'':

* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'':

** Leaving Tootie locked in the closet (boarded up, no less).

** The time they leave Vicky in the stocks.

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* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode, "The Last Roundup", ends with Applejack finally coming back to Ponyville with her friends, with everyone celebrating her return. We then cut to Rarity and Pinkie Pie trying to make their way back to Ponyville via handcar, having been forgotten about by everyone else after they had fallen off the cart they were using during an earlier [[Chase Scene]].

* At the end of [[The Rescuers (Disney film)|''The Rescuers Down Under'']], Cody, Jake, and Marahute fly both Bernard and Miss Bianca back to the United States, but leave Wilbur Albatross behind. The last thing we hear before the film finally ends is Wilbur realizing that he was left behind and starts wondering where everyone went.

* [[Harmless Villain|Abis]] [[Punny Name|Mal]] at the end of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|''Aladdin: The Return of Jafar'']].

{{quote|'''Abis Mal''': (still dangling from a tree branch) But does this mean that I can't get my third wish?}}

* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Stewie beats up his babysitter's boyfriend and looks him in the trunk of a car so he can make a move on her himself. After failing to win her over, we see him sitting on the couch with Meg during the credits:

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