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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Arfur Daley in ''[[Minder]]'' always says his back hurts in order to get Terry to do all the hard work.
* Mr Lucas of ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'' tries to fake being sick so he can go watch a movie. Among other things, he tries the trick of sticking soap in his mouth. It was supposed to go under his tongue, but he swallowed it instead. He persuades Captain Peacock to send for the medical staff, as bubbles from his hiccups float by, prompting Captain Peacock to add:
{{quote| '''Captain Peacock:''' ...and a loofah.}}
* Basil Fawlty, the lead character of ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', often uses the excuse of "the old leg wound playing up" to get out of dealing with difficult customers.
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* In the [[Rooster Teeth]] Short 'Catch', Matt tries to reverse the order they throw the ball in, because he's sick of baseballs being thrown at his head by Nathan. Joel insists they can't switch because the rotation of the earth doesn't allow for it.
* Also in a [[Rooster Teeth]] creation, ''[[Red vs. Blue|Red vs Blue]]'', the character Caboose says, "I am allergic to things I do not want to do." The way he says it with complete seriousness might even suggest he believes it himself (his intelligence is certainly faulty enough for it to seem plausible to him).
* [[Tree Fog (Web Video)|It's my cousin. He can talk now. It's actually miraculous.]]
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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