I'm Standing Right Here: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''Buffy:''' You think I don't watch your movies? You always come back.

''Dracula disintegrates. Mist swirls and coalesces.''

''Mist dissipates.'' }}

** [[Joss Whedon]] and his staff really like this, and play it both for comedy and drama.

{{quote|'''Groo:''' You are truly a goddess.

'''Cordelia:''' Well, demonness, anyway. Sure beats horns and a tail.

* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' has an episode where Blair equates Chuck sleeping with Vanessa (or, as Blair puts it, "the dregs of DUMBO") to she herself sleeping with Chuck's evil uncle. With Vanessa standing right next to them.

** Amusingly enough, Chuck never objects to Blair's point. [[Lampshade Hanging]] of the fact that the viewers [[The Scrappy|hate Vanessa]]?

* ''[[Firefly]]'' plays with this in the pilot.

{{quote|'''Jayne:''' Testing. Captain, can you hear me?

'''Jayne:''' [into radio] You're comin' through good and loud.

'''Jayne:''' Yeah, well, but... the transmitter's... }}

* This happens to Rose in the second episode of the relaunched ''[[Doctor Who]]''. When the Doctor tells Jabe that he and Rose aren't married, she makes some more guesses, ending in "prostitute?".

'''Fred:''' "That thing" should not be discussed in the third person when it's present. }}

* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', during Schlocktoberfest 2005, [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-10-24 Shodan comments] on the competence of the local constabulary.

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-12-20 a girl laments that Justin is gay] [[Not That There's Anything Wrong with That|because she can't ask him out]] despite having her boyfriend standing right next to her.

{{quote|'''First girl:''' Don't you already have a boyfriend?