You Never Did That for Me: Difference between revisions

 

== Film ==

{{quote| '''Lucy''': "You never picked up ''my'' brother from the airport!"<br />

'''Logan''': "But, you never asked me to!"<br />

{{quote| '''Cordelia''': "There you go, off to save the great Buffy again... I bet you'd never do that for me..."}}

** which is quasi-ironic, since things threatening Buffy in Sunnydale routinely would have become huge problems for everyone else really quickly. So Xander was, in fact, saving Cordelia at the same time as Buffy.

{{quote| '''Janeway''': *mock indignant* You never brought ME tea!}}

* In the episode of ''[[Monk]]'' where Sharona and Natalie meet, Sharona finds out that Monk pays Natalie a lot more than he paid her. Thus she complains that Monk never paid her that much.

* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', in the episode where Barney puts together the super-date in order to bang J-Lo, Robin laments that he never went to similar lengths for her, even though they had been in a relationship together. When Barney meets his {{spoiler|father, and sees that he has another son for whom he acts as a typical boring, suburban dad to, Barney is extremely hurt because, if he was just going to be normal and regular, why couldn't he have been normal ''with Barney?''.}}

* Though the exact stock phrase isn't used, the concept appears several times in [[Coupling]]. Jane's reaction to this trope feeds her story arc in the "Inferno" episode.

** Subverted in the episode "The Cupboard of Patrick's Love" when Steve is watching what he believes to be Patrick's sex tape with Susan. [[Hilarity Ensues|It turns out to not be her.]]

* In an episode of [[Two and A Half Men]], Charlie spends most of the episode teaching Jake how to behave at his first "boy-girl party". Eventually, Alan complains about how Charlie never taught him anything, and basically left him on his own, and suffered socially for it. Charlie does seem remorseful for this, but mentions how he was just a stupid teenager at the time, and didn't want to hang out with his little brother.

* The first season of ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' has an example. Jimmy is [[Like a Son to Me|like a son]] to [[Villain Protagonist]] and [[Corrupt Politician]] Nucky Thompson. When Jimmy gets in trouble with the law in a way that could potentially blow [[The Roaring Twenties|Nucky's interest in the illegal alcohol trade]], Nucky doesn't directly help Jimmy but he doesn't cut him loose either, instead offering Jimmy a little cash and a chance to jump town. After Jimmy leaves, Nucky's brother/[[The Dragon|Dragon]] Eli rhetorically wonders if he would get the same slack. {{spoiler|Later in the season Eli is seriously wounded and publicly exposed as a [[Dirty Cop]]. Nucky fires Eli from his position as Sheriff... at least until after the election is over, when he immediately hires Eli back. Too bad Eli has already become [[The Starscream]] and joined a conspiracy against Nucky by then.}}