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Actually, the new example is the Trope Namer for The Cat Came Back, so it *does* have something to do with it -- copyedit.
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{{trope}}
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''Last week it was funny, but now the joke's wearing thin''
''Cos everyone knows now that every night now''
''Will be Stephen's last night in town.''
|'''Ben Folds Five''', "Stephen's Last Night In Town"}}
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''It has shown no intention of going away.''
|'''[[Edward Gorey]]''', ''The Doubtful Guest''}}
Everyone wants to be polite. Especially to a guest in your home. Unfortunately courtesy is not always reciprocated and to your horror you can find yourself trapped with ''The Thing That Wouldn't Leave''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Ageha in ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]''. {{spoiler|She kisses Ren}} and begins ignoring her own butler, makes him train, takes up all his time and attention, obstructs his duties and makes him cook dinner. While not quite to comedic lethal chef levels, he's never cooked before.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Northern Italy]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' is this to Germany initially, hanging around, irritating him and generally being useless. Despite Germany's attempts to throw him out, then ''give'' him away, he [[The Cat Came Back|always returns]]. Eventually the two become close friends, however ([[Ho Yay|if not more]]).
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* And the Tim Wilson song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCSLFx4l5qU Brother In Law].
* [[Jake Thackray]]'s song ''Leopold Alcox'' is about a [[Walking Disaster Area]] relation who comes for a (long, long) visit.
{{quote|''Leopold Alcox, my distant relation
''has come to my flat for a brief visitation.
''He's been here since February, damn and blast him,
''my nerves and my furniture will not outlast him! }}
* There is a song about [[The Cat Came Back|a cat that wouldn't be got rid of
{{quote|''But the cat came back
''The very next day,
''The cat came back,
''Thought he was a goner - but
''The cat came back 'cause he couldn't stay away . . . }}
** And every time someone tried to kill the cat, they got killed. With the exception of the meat grinder verse in which "the town's hamburger tasted furry for several weeks" but, with no attached human deaths, cue the chorus (quoted above).
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