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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'': Kyon walks into the classroom and sees Ryoko was the one who had arranged to meet him. He asks if Taniguchi set this up as a prank.

 

 

{{quote| '''Noah''': How come you want me to do all these weird things?<br />

'''God''': I'M GOING TO DESTROY THE WORLD.<br />

'''God''': I'MA MAKE IT RAIN FOR A THOUSAND DAYS AND DROWN 'EM RIGHT OUT.<br />

'''Noah''': Riiiiiiiight. Listen, do this, you'll save water-- let it rain for forty days and forty nights, and wait for the sewers to back up.<br />

* Used by Ryan in the first ''[[High School Musical]]'' film, when it turns out that there are callback auditions for the lead parts in the school musical, which has never happened before:

{{quote| '''Ryan:''' Maybe we're being Punk'd. Maybe... we're being filmed right now. Maybe we'll get to meet Ashton!}}

** This occurred in the book as well.

* Asked by name in [[Spy Kids]] by Juni, after being instructed on the blue and green buttons, and opening the door {{spoiler|1=to the SpyGuppy}} to find... a closet.

* The tribunal in the original ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' dismiss Taylor's claim of being from another planet as "a joke."

* [[Liam Neeson]] says this line early on in ''[[Unknown]]''.

* [[Subverted]] in the 1971 adaptation of ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]''. Two scientists are dispatched to try and find out how an entire town in Arizona died overnight. One of them, while checking over a corpse, excitedly calls the other over to "look at this man's anus!" His partner tells him to stop being juvenile, but it does turn out to be an important clue to the virus' nature.

 

* Standard answer for any of strange events of every other episode of the original ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''.

* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "New Order", Dr. Weir's reaction to the Stargate program was to think it was a joke. She was then handed a letter from the President reading simply "This is not a joke." It was also stated that this was the President's reaction to learning of the Stargate program, as well, hence his ability to predict her response.

{{quote| '''Kyle Gwydion:''' "I bet one of my brothers put you up to this, right?"}}

* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' does this in the [[Pilot]].

'''Mrs. Waltham:''' Am I on the radio? }}

* ''[[Waiting for God]]'': Diana(who, for those not familiar with this show, is about seventy) tries to get a job in a trendy clothing store. The young clerk doesn't quite understand it, until she "figures out" it must be some kind of prank show, and tries to find where the host is hiding.

{{quote| "Okay, seriously, I'm being Punked, right?"}}

* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' miniseries, Colonel Tigh initially tries to dismiss the Cylon attack as a retirement prank played by the Fleet on Adama.

* On an episode of ''The Later Show With David Letterman'', where Letterman was interviewing Mike Myers, Letterman asked Myers if Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving. Myers explained that Canadian Thanksgiving is on a different day than Thanksgiving in the U.S., but Letterman kept asking if Canadians nevertheless still observed the U.S.'s Thanksgiving. Myers eventually got exasperated at that line of questioning and asked if he was being Punked.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In the ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]];'' episode "Half Baked," Jake replies, "I'm glad that everyone bought that ''You've been punked'' story we feed them." Then again, this is [[New York City]] we're taking about here. If you've ever been to New York, you know that you have no chance of being able to justify ''everything'' you see.

{{quote| "Are we being punked? I hate that."}}

** Aunt May says the exact same thing when she is confronted about Peter's identity as Spider Man.

* In ''[[Regular Show]]'' (and ''The Man From Lolliland''), this is the reply Pops normally gets after giving lollipops as payment. Benson also says it to Mordecai and Rigby when they come up with a half-baked unorthodox solution for something.

 

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