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{{quote|''"Fetchez la vache!"''|'''Frenchman''', '''''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'''''}}
Originally coined by the members of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', on the subject of sketch
This usually works because of the [[Rule of Funny]]. If humour isn't your thing, see [[Chandler's Law]] for the [[Rule of Drama]] version.
For other gratuitous uses of cows, see [[Everything's Better with Cows]]. Also, note that this trope is not [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
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* Dramatic example (really!): [[Sergio Leone]] felt a scene near the end of ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' was too melodramatic, so he [[Enforced Method Acting|released a small dog onto the set without telling Eli Wallach]] and then left his reaction in the film; of course, it's followed by ten minutes of pure [[Melodrama]].
* [[The Three Stooges]] films conformed to a strict two-reel time limit. Rather than cut out funny bits to resolve the plot, many shorts end with a threatening man chasing the Stooges away or something similarly abrupt.
* The film ''[[Rat Race]]'' parodies
* Used [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|literally]] and [[Overly Long Gag|ENDLESSLY]] in the comedies of [[Friedberg and Seltzer]], especially ''Disaster Movie''.
* A cow is literally dropped in [[Dog Soldiers]]; in a subversion of the comedic intention of the trope, it hits the ground just as one of the characters is warming up a joke, in order to take the edge off a (spooky and rather gruesome) story told by another character. It even serves the plot; just what was the cow running from so hard that it ran straight off a cliff and landed in a campfire? {{spoiler|Werewolves,}} as it turns out.
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