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'''Assistant''': No thank you sir, I'd rather have a pineapple violently inserted into my rectum.
'''Eddie''': ...You've been working here too long, mate. }}
* In an episode of ''[[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'', while the lads are working on relocating the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, Dennis consults their structural engineer:
{{quote|'''Dennis''': You know that dismantling sequence you showed us? What do you call it, you know, when it’s the other way round? You know, when you put the bridge back up again?
'''Calhoun''': An erection sequence.
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* In the first episode of ''[[Yes Minister]]'', Jim Hacker is introduced to [[The Humphrey|Sir Humphrey]], the Permanent Secretary and Bernard Woolley, Hacker's Principal Private Secretary. Humphrey then explains that the Permanent Secretary also has a Principal Private Secretary, and that the Department contains 10 Deputy Secretaries, 87 Under Secretaries and 219 Assistant Secretaries. The Prime Minister will appoint two Parliamentary Under Secretaries, and Hacker will appoint his own Parliamentary Private Secretary. Hacker asks how many of them can type, and suggests opening an agency, before adding "I suppose all new Ministers say that." Sir Humphrey smoothly replies "Of course not, Minister. Not ''quite'' all."
* Doubly Subverted in the ''[[Leverage]]'' episode "The Reunion Job": Nate deduces that their mark Duberman has been called "Doucherman" countless times and incorporates that name into his impersonation of the popular boy who tormented Duberman in high school.
* In ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1
* [[The Office|Michael Scott]], being such a bad comedian, falls into this one often:
{{quote|'''Michael:''' And this is Oscar... Oscar the Grouch. Can you believe he never heard that one before working here?
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