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{{trope}}
{{quote|It’s called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites and now you end with the one that’s not like the others.
|Toby Ziegler, ''[[The West Wing]]'', "Somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail."}}
A dialogue trope where a character makes a list of items, groups or individuals and then deviates from the pattern established with the last one, sometimes the penultimate one. Usually [[Played for Laughs]].
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* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]]
* [[The Triple]]
Compare [[Step Three: Profit]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [http://dash.ponychan.net/chan/files/src/133284200120.jpg This panel]{{Dead link}} has several superheroes reacting to a warning of doom for them and anyone they've
== [[
* When Bella is describing the Cullens in ''[[Luminosity]]'':
{{quote|''[N]ow I had identifications for all five: Emmett the bear, Jasper the lion, Rosalie the Aphrodite, Alice the pixie, and Edward, the one who expected something to happen with or to or near me that wasn't[.]''}}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is a quest which has players delivering a package containing compressed blasting powder, a tempered mithril bomb casing, and some safety goggles. If you don't understand why this qualifies, then you don't know [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|Goblins]].
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'': The tapestries displaying the elemental symbols of the four kids hanging in the white castle read thus:
{{quote|They wait for he who would extinguish candles whilst fanning a fire.
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Quick Man: I want to break the sound barrier!
Turbo Man: I just want to sit at home and eat chips. }}
* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' loves to do these these in the animation. In the ''[[
* In ''[[Bonus Stage (web animation)|Bonus Stage]]'', the last of the [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|Cool And Unusual Punishments]] that Joel gets to choose from when going to hell is eating [[Satan]]'s mom's spaghetti, when the first two were related to watching something 24/7.
* ''[[How It Should Have Ended]]: Mortal Kombat'' has the free-for-all confrontation between Liu Kang, Scorpion, Shang Stung, and ... a guy with a gun.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' has this with SCP-586
{{quote|Results: "It it", "Is is", "If is", "Illinois", "I hiss", "Titties", "Ibis", "Iris", "Italy", "[DATA EXPANDED]".}}
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Onion published a list of [http://www.theonion.com/articles/those-we-lost-in-2011,26896/ those we lost in 2011]. Unless you have a particular hatred for the author of ''[[Family Circus]]'', this trope is in full effect, [[Don't Explain the Joke|since boring cartoons are not akin to mass murder]].
* Australia's ''Today Tonight'' ran a story in early 2007 about a man who was, quote, "an armed robber, drug traffiker, and shonky builder."
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