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Compare: [[Ironic Echo]], [[Ironic Echo Cut]], [[Brick Joke]], [[Phrase Catcher]].
Not quite related to [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]].
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* In all of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'', the only person who actually seems to think alike and see eye-to-eye with Sousuke seems to be Atsunobu Hayashimizu, the president of the Student Council. The guy agrees with Sousuke's weird, [[Cloudcuckoolander|outlandish conclusions]], and supports his [[Trigger Happy|violent]], [[Person of Mass Destruction|destructive ways]].
* During the climax of the fourth ''[[Detective Conan]]'' movie, "Captured In Her Eyes", when a (currently amnesiac) Ran asks Conan why he's protecting her, he proclaims that he "loves her, more than any other person on this Earth." Once her memory returns, Ran came to the conclusion that Conan was [[Invoked Trope|intentionally]] [[Chekhov's Gun|mimicking how they'd been told]] Ran's father proposed to her mother. Conan is just a little disgusted with himself to realize it was, in fact, this trope.
** In the series proper, the fact that Kogoro and Eri actually are more alike then they're willing to admit (both preferring the same food, liking the same color, remembering their first date by dressing up in the clothes they wore etc) is used to show [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]].
* At the beginning of one episode of ''[[Di Gi Charat]]'', Dejiko is plotting to make a naughty doujinshi using two of the store's customers (both [[
* One example occurs in ''[[One Piece]]'' where [[It Makes Sense in Context|Luffy manages to smuggle Princess Shirahoshi]] out of the castle, having hid her in her pet shark's mouth. Brook argues that since he only saw Luffy and Megalo leave the castle, Luffy couldn't have kidnapped her. King Nepture immediately suggests that he might have hid Shirahoshi in Megalo's mouth. Everyone in his court bursts out laughing at the incredulity of the thought.
** From the same story arc, Luffy explains why he doesn't want to be a Hero by claiming that, if there was a huge piece of meat, a hero would share it and a pirate would eat it, and Luffy wants to eat meat! Near the end of the arc, Zoro applies the exact same logic, only substituting booze for meat.
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'''Secret Policeman''': "That's ''traffic control''."|{{spoiler|However the whole "Back to Reality" scenario is a collective hallucination of the Dwarfers caused by the despair squid, so it's really Kryten who's calling himself a traffic warden rather than a cowboy cop}}}}
** In "Back To Earth", the sci-fi shop owner is unphazed to have [[Refugee From TV Land|fictional characters]] walk into his shop, because reality incursions are very common this time of year (Rimmer: "Oh good, he's a nutter"). He phones the head of the Red Dwarf Fan Club for them and says "Yeah, reality incursion ... Yeah, that's what I said..."
* ''[[
** Justified in one episode, after Kenneth and Liz both independently mention ''The Pelican Brief'' as an example of dirty dealing:
{{quote| '''Jack''': Why is everyone talking about that movie?<br />
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** And in the season 4 premiere. Jenna finds out that TGS is auditioning new cast members, and with typical self-centered rage she cries "If it's a blonde woman ''I will kill myself!''" Later, when Tracy hears the same news he immediately has the same response.
** And twice in another fourth season episode: When Jack and Danny need a name for their prank crew, they both simultaneously pick the "most handsome animal on Earth: The Silver Panthers." Jenna and Tracy simultaneously decide to deal with their Kenneth nightmares: "We have to [[Nightmare On Elm Street|Elm Street]] this. We have to go to sleep and kill Kenneth in our dreams!"
* In the ''[[Police Squad!]]!'' episode "Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)", Detective Drebin asks Dr. Olsen if he can trace a rock that was thrown through a window, and Dr. Olsen proceeds to give a geology lesson. Drebin later confronts the criminals who threw the rock, asking them, "Oh yeah, where did ''this'' come from?" They start to give exactly the same geology spiel.
* In an episode of ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'', Dr. Cox is irritated by Molly's relentlessly optimistic worldview. After she expresses it with an increasingly strained metaphor comparing people to chocolates, he responds that people are actually "bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling." Later, Dr. Cox mentions Molly's attitudes to Dr. Kelso; he doesn't bring up the chocolate metaphor, but Kelso still responds that "people are bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling."
* This happened frequently on ''[[Green Acres]]'', with Lisa spouting some nonsense early on in the episode (often involving a [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]), and another character referencing it again later on, to Oliver's alarm. Just another typical day in [[Cloudcuckooland]], but even Mr. Drucker, the [[Only Sane Man|only sane native]], was known to get in on this one.
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* ''[[Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' uses this a few times. In the episode "The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover Edition," Charlie, in his quest to make a girl a taco-themed bed for which he already has all the supplies for, asks Dennis "What does a little Mexican girl love more than anything in the world?" Dennis immediately responds "Tacos."
** In "Mac and Charlie Write a Movie," it is common knowledge that the most underrated actor is Dolph Lundgren.
* This seems to have become a trend on ''[[Family Feud (TV)|Family Feud]]'' ever since Steve Harvey became host in 2010. A contestant gives a slightly off-kilter answer to a question (e.g. "Name something that gets passed around." "A joint."), Steve lays into the contestant with a "[[What the Hell, Player?]]" attiude, then is taken aback when said answer is on the board.
** This happens throughout the show's run. Richard Dawson responded to one by saying "If that answer's up there, I'm quitting." When it was, [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|he threw up his hands and started off the stage]].
** From the British version, ''[[Family Fortunes]]'': the question was to name a way of toasting someone. One woman said "over a fire", to which the host replied he'd give her the money himself if it was up there. It turned out twelve people said "grill".
* From ''[[Community]]''"
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** Later still, Mrs Naughtie herself serves up grated pie at a picnic.
** In "Inverurie Jones and the Thimble of Doom", Hamish sarcastically says "Brad bloody Pitt!" when Dougal asks who's at the door. For the rest of the episode, ''everyone'' mistakes Hamish for Brad Pitt, for no reason at all.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in a [[
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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
** And then it's continued [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/05/10/episode-551-so-close-and-yet-so-far/ here] and [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/05/12/episode-552-tis-a-fine-vessel/ here]
** Then, the gross misuse of geometry, starting with the hypercube (a sphere of some sort), moving on to summoning circles (squares), and to the datasphere (a cube)... finally reaches its conclusion with the Stube.
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* In ''[[User Friendly]]'', a guy with what appears to be punk hair applies for a job [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070502 here] and says the hair was due to an accident with a soldering iron and a ceiling fan. [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070507 Later], two of the techs say that this was their first assumption.
* In ''[[Cheer|The Wotch: Cheer!]]'', there are the recurring set of [[Noodle Implements]]: Two geese, a roll of duct tape, 23 toothpicks, and some sodium benzoate. [http://www.cheercomic.com/?date=2005-10-27 First used by Tamara], then later by [[Cloudcuckoolander|Jo]] and [[No Name Given|Agent 32]].
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', when Queen Valerie asks Torg his name, thinking he's a random peasant, he goes for the really lame [[Line
* A ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' comic has Donovan, whose Orkcsh translations are all of [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]] quality, say something about doing taxes in autumn, followed by the orc he's talking to saying "Close enough. Let's get moving." Meanwhile, an orc who's not too good with the Callanian language translates Dominic's rant as being something about taxes in autumn... prompting the same response. It turns out that Donovan and the orc had the same phrasebook.
** Also, near the beginning of the comic's run, Sigfried meets both Lady Tavoria and Dominic. Both are hung up on his name, and ask him if they can just call him "Siggy."
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** This is based in truth, however. The green spots on a potato contain solanine and chaconine, both glycoalkanloid toxins. Deep frying tends to leach these toxins out of the potato, and it would take fairly excessive number of green chips to make one ill.
* In an episode of ''[[The Critic]]'', during a [[Scrabble Babble]] moment, Duke invents the word "Quzybuk" (meaning, "a big problem") which he pays Webster to add that word in the dictionary. Later, a research scientist uses that newly invented word.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Party of One", Pinkie invites the others to Gummy's after-Birthday party that afternoon. Twilight, Applejack and Rarity all have the same response: "''This'' afternoon? As in, 'This afternoon' this afternoon?" Pinkie [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it for Applejack and Rarity ("It's so strange. Everypony keep saying that.") and interrupts Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, saying "Yes! As in '''This'' afternoon,' this afternoon!"
* In an early episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Bobby accidentally hits Willie Nelson in the head with a golf club. When Hank asks if he's okay, Nelson says "Am I bleeding from the ears?"; when Hank says no, he responds "Then I'm probably alright". In the next scene, Hank is telling Peggy about the incident and the first thing she says is "Was he bleeding from the ears? Well he must be okay then."
* In ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'' episode "Eligible Bachelor", Daffy and Lola both think "literacy" has something to do with litter.
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