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'''Rut''': Hey, are you okay?<br />
'''Tuke''': *cough* Ah, no! *cough* *cough* That bear *cough* *cough* over there *cough*! *cough* He's crazy! *cough* }}
* Used by Naveen in ''[[The Princess and Thethe Frog]]'' to call Tiana a "killjoy" and a "stick in the mud".
* Inverted in the 2005 film ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory''. Whenever a guest to the factory says something that Willy Wonka doesn't want to hear, he accuses them of mumbling, even though they are speaking clearly or, in one memorable case, outright yelling at him.
* In ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'', when Prince John tries to blame all his misdeeds on the Sheriff, the entire audience at the wedding coughs "Bullshit!" in unison.
* Also inverted in ''[[Wild Wild West]]'', in which the coughing is pointedly absent:
{{quote| '''Gordon:''' Someone, who will remain nameless - *turns and shouts in the opposite direction* '''''JIM WEST!''''' - decided to jump over the wire, thereby providing us with that exhilarating romp through the cornfield, and that death-defying leap into the abysmal muck!}}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'', Marshall coughs out ''an entire sentence'' - a sentence about how he's insinuating something about Robyn and he isn't really coughing.
** Also:
{{quote| '''Barney:''' *cough* Lesbian.<br />
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'''Andy:''' *cough* Nice comeback. *cough*<br />
'''Dwight:''' *cough* I was *cough* making fun of your comeback. *cough* That's why it *cough* worked! [Andy walks away and Dwight turns to the camera] Well, it looks like I got the best of that interchange. [Starts coughing uncontrollably.] }}
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode ''Some Assembly Required'':
{{quote| '''Cordelia:''' Why are these terrible things always happening to me?<br />
'''Xander:''' *cough* Karma! *cough* }}
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'''Shawn:''' *cough* Sorry! }}
* Happens once on ''[[Reba]]'' when Van says "*cough* baloney!" But because it's aimed at his wife, an argument ensues.
* Was something of a running gag in the early episodes of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' whenever Mr. Kaft was announcing something. A random student would cough "Loser".
* ''[[Friends]]'' had it at least twice: when Monica's correcting the title Ross was buying at the comics shop as a kid ("Seeing what kinda trouble Spider-Man got into that week" "*cough* [[Wonder Woman]]") and once when an old hater of Rachel reacts to her table manners ("*sneeze* Typical")
* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'': When Cody was creating a laser for the science fair, Arwin "innocently" told him how to build it correctly. He wasn't supposed to tell him.
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{{quote| '''Zack:''' I've got something special with Maddie. I love her, and she loves me. She just...doesn't know it yet. <br />
'''Cody:''' *sneeze* Doofus! }}
* Charles Ingram of the British Army once won (the original, UK version of) ''[[Who Wants to Be Aa Millionaire?]]'' with the help of a friend in the audience feeding him answers through coded coughs. Although these just took the form of ''numbers'' for the options, invariably for the many parodies this spawned he was shown to be using this trope.
* ''[[The Big Bang Theory (TV)|The Big Bang Theory]]''
{{quote| '''Amy:''' Your mother thinks you might be losing your mind over me. As a neurobiologist, I was curious.<br />
'''Sheldon:''' Well, rest assured I am in full possession of my faculties.<br />
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'''Sheldon's Mother:''' Oh, God bless you, dear. }}
* [[Morecambe and Wise]] did a sketch in which Eric was supposed to be a 'Memory Man' who could answer any question put to him, but Ernie had to feed him the first answer (Arsenal - a soccer team) disguised by a cough. This became a [[Running Gag]] in which any time someone coughed, Eric would shout "Arsenal!"
* Izzie Stevens of ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy]]'' says ''"sexual harassment!"'' in a sneeze when [[Handsome Lech|Mark Sloan]] refers to her as a "hot blonde."
* The ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "After School Special" starts with a girl in high school getting taunted with "*cough* Slut *cough* Slut *cough* Slut *cough*...", which leads her to take out her anger on a less popular girl [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|for showing her some sympathy]], which leads to {{spoiler|her death at the hands of the [[Bully Hunter]] ghost possessing the unpopular girl.}}
* In [[My Name Is Earl]], a friend of Earl does this while calling him a snitch about three times without Earl catching on, so he just says it out loud. He then coughs for real and blames Earl for making him sick.
 
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* Matthew Buck from ''[[Bad Movie Beatdown]]'' gave his opinion to ''[[The Patriot]]'' like that.
{{quote| *cough* Rule Britannia!}}
* [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] has done this once or twice regarding his comic ''Revolution of the Mask'', usually to imply that whatever comic cliche he's finding in the professional comic he's reviewing is ''not'' present in his own.
* In this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8lj3dg5-o parody of "Blame It" by Jamie Foxx], [[Barack Obama]] says, "Repubs blamin' me! *cough* [[Bill O Reilly|O'Reilly]]."
* One ''Half-Life 2'' machinima, ''Combine Nation'', has a [[Deadpan Snarker|Vortigaunt]] [[Out-of-Character Moment|using this trick]] to call a [[Gas Mask Mooks|metrocop]] an asshole. When the cop asks what was that, the Vort denies that he said anything.
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"No, sir, my church doesn't have these confessional dealies. I go to Reverend White's church."<br />
"*cough* Pedophile *cough*" }}
* [[Warning! Readers' Advisory|Warning! Readers Advisory]]'s review of Necroscope, describing the plot: "...and *mumble* extradimensional vampire semen... *cough*"
* In [[Mike J]]'s review of ''[[Son of the Mask]]'', he says that Bob Hoskins had ruined his career years before, just before sneezing into a DVD box of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (Filmfilm)|Super Mario Bros]]''.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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