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'''Wonder Woman''': Well, I'm sort of missing Flash's obligatory joke about Grodd having made a monkey out of us.
'''Superman''': [[You Just Had to Say It|''Just'' couldn't let it go unsaid]].
'''Wonder Woman''': Obligatory!
|''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]] Unlimited'', "Dead Reckoning" }}
In certain situations, characters (and writers, it seems) just ''have'' to make certain puns. And they're usually the same ones. But [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], as in many cases the audience may feel disappointed or even slightly confused if the obligatory joke fails to come up.
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See also [[Incredibly Lame Pun]], [[Bond One-Liner]], [[Quip to Black]], and others, which have considerable overlap. [[You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost]] is one subtrope. A [[Punny Name]] or [[Unfortunate Name]] resulting in this may make someone a [[Phrase Catcher]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' had Green Goblin do the "tied up" joke, chuckling to himself that you gotta love the classics.
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* On ''[[QI]]'', giving the obvious-but-incorrect answer causes an alarm to ring and the panelist to forfeit points. Obvious riffs such as these sometimes trigger the klaxon as well.
* ''[[Castle]]'' uses the "tied up right now" variant when the eponymous character had bound himself to a chair [[It Makes Sense in Context|to see whether he could free himself]]. [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] in another episode [[The Coroner|Lanie]] finds out that the recent victim, who had been burnt in a pizza oven, has the last name "Burns". She tells Castle, who had started to look excited, to make the Obligatory Joke...but it turns out that Castle had actually recognized the name.
* After the first act of the Jaye P. Morgan episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', where Morgan wears a ruffled bird outfit, we have this exchange between [[Statler and Waldorf]]:
{{quote|'''Statler:''' Ooh, Jaye P. Morgan is terrific!
'''Waldorf:''' Yeah, but that last number was for the birds!
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