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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.<br />
'''Superman''': ''[[You Just Had to Say It|Just]]'' [[You Just Had to Say It|couldn't let it go unsaid]].<br />
'''Wonder Woman''': Obligatory!|''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|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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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider -Man]]'' had Green Goblin do the "tied up" joke, chuckling to himself that you gotta love the classics.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* To hear [[The Dresden Files (Literature)|Harry Dresden]] tell it, he's the original this. He claims that he's now so well known that if he isn't flip and punny to every supernatural being of a distinctly higher weight class than him, they'll be insulted, because they expect him to be. Note that this was a retrospective excuse to Sigrun for pissing off {{spoiler|''Odin's''}} secretaries.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* 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 Withwith 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.
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee's]] review of ''[[No More Heroes]]'' opened with the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4pkNcE8nsM "No More Heroes"] by The Stranglers, which he cut short stating it was too obvious.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] did [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/21604-the-care-bears-movie a review] of the ''[[Care Bears]]'' movie, and when the leader of the Care Bear Cousins said his name, Braveheart, Critic showed a clip from ''[[Braveheart]]'', asking how could he ''not'' do that joke. Later, he opened a review of the film ''Alaska'' with "[[Sarah Palin]] is stupid. That's my obligatory [[Sarah Palin]] reference out of the way. Now, ''Alaska''..."
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Doctor's Disorders", Penelope Spectra tries to get a sample of Danny's DNA to make a perfect body for herself. When she's not looking, Danny swaps it out with something from his dad's uses hankerchief. The result is Spectra turning into a Jack Fenton-shaped snot monster. Danny comments, "There's a 'You blew it' pun here somewhere, but I'd rather not." When the fight begins, Spectra growls, "Let's boogie!" to which Danny replies, "That's ''exactly'' the kind of pun I was trying to avoid with the 'You blew it' comment!"
* In a particularly silly episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|The New Batman Adventures]]'', Robin and Batgirl are fighting genetically altered giant cows. Batgirl lampshades the fact that Robin couldn't resist yelling [[Mythology Gag|"Holy Cow!"]]
* The page quote was used in ''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]]'' after the heroes foiled Gorilla Grodd's plot to turn all of humanity into gorillas.
* In one episode of ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|Kim Possible]]'', Kim discovers that the villain keeps electric eels, to which she replies, "The puns just write themselves. Shocking, isn't it?" Of course, the villain says the very same line later when he reveals his electric eels.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* It's lampshaded in ''[[Strong BadsBad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'' episode 5. Homestar is in a dungeon suspended by his "arms". Strong Bad asks him what's up:
{{quote| '''Homestar''': ''"Oh, you know, not much..."''<br />
'''Strong Bad''': ''(sighs) "You can say it, Homestar..."''<br />
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