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{{quote|''No river is shallow to a man who cannot swim.''|Paladin, ''[[Have Gun — Will Travel]]''}}
Bob, who is unable to swim, falls into the water and starts flailing around, calling for someone to help him. Alice arrives on the scene, but simply tells him to, "Stop Drowning and Stand Up." Much to Bob's chagrin, he does so and thus finds out the water was only waist deep at best.
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* Used in ''[[Ice Age]]'', with small proto-elephants in a tar pit (they were doing it on purpose).
* Muk and Luk do this in ''[[Balto]]'', leading to a whole speech about the "shame of the polar bear that fears the water".
* In ''[[Predators]]'', Edwin falls into a pond and flops around before discovering it's waist-deep.
* A [[Three Stooges]] short had them breaking into a bad guys' hideout through the basement - in a scuffle the lights go out and there's a big splash. Curly starts crying "Moe, Larry, I'm drowning!" and keeps saying it as the lights come on and we see he's standing in a washtub in about six inches of water. Moe growls "Hey, porpoise!" and smacks him.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Invoked (in a meta sort of way) in a clip from some 24-hour news station (perhaps CNN) shown on [[The Daily Show]]. A reporter was at some community that had recently been hit by a hurricane and had decided that the best way to add gravitas and veracity was to report from a canoe, implying that the water is deep enough that boats were necessary for getting around. Not long after starting her report two men in galoshes walk in front of her and the water is not more than an two or so inches above their ankles.
* The beginning of an episode of [[Sliders]] had the group hanging on to a building on a flooded world. The group had to fall in order to get to the portal. Remy did and found himself in water. He screamed that he was drowning until one of his friends told him to stand up. He realized that he is in a much dryer world but landed in a fountain.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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