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== [[Board Games]] ==▼
* Found in the rules for the Steve Jackson board game ''Globbo.''▼
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Karate Kid]] II'' had a textbook example:
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* An old Usenet humor post titled [http://groups.google.com/group/net.lang.prolog/browse_thread/thread/e181a0750397fa2c/60e03b09967b6a42?hl=en&q=%22There+is+no+feature+6%22#60e03b09967b6a42 "The Australian Fifth Degeneration Project"] had a numbered list of "features" for a rumored new computer including "Feature number 6: There is no feature 6." The ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch was cited in a subsequent footnote.
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* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Private Eye]]'':▼
* The [[Trope Namer]] is the Bruces Sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where "Rule six: There is ''no'' rule six" is sandwiched between "Rule five: No poofters" and [[Department of Redundancy Department|"Rule seven]]: [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|no poofters"]].▼
{{quote|'''Full list of things that fit a ridiculously narrow definition'''▼
1. The only example.▼
2. Er...▼
3. That's it. }}▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* The [[Trope Namer]] is the Bruces Sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where "Rule six: There is ''no''... rule six" is sandwiched between "Rule five: No poofters" and [[Department of Redundancy Department|"Rule seven]]: [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|no poofters"]].
* Also in the "Monkee vs. Machine" episode of ''[[The Monkees]]'' as Peter prepares for a job interview:
{{quote|
'''Mike''': [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Just remember these three little words]]: ''Don't. Argue.''
'''Peter''': That's ''two'' words.
'''Mike''': See? You're doing it already!}}
* In an episode of the TV series ''[[Porridge]]'', chief warden McKay tells Fletcher that there only two rules in Slade Prison. The first rule: "You do not write on the walls." The second: "You obey all the rules." Oddly, he'd just mentioned a rule against prisoners congregating in cells.
* A minor variation from ''[[Bottom]]'':
{{quote|'''Richie''': Well, well, well, it's interesting because A, I said it and anything I say is interesting per se, and B, er, well, there isn't a B because the A was so great.}}
▲* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Private Eye]]'':
▲{{quote|'''Full list of things that fit a ridiculously narrow definition'''
▲1. The only example.
▲2. Er...
▲3. That's it. }}
== Music ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲=== [[Board Games]] ===
▲* Found in the rules for the Steve Jackson board game ''Globbo.''
=== [[Card Games]] ===
* An unusual non-(intentionally)-comedic example once appeared in [[Magic: The Gathering]]'s comprehensive rulebook:
{{quote|Rule 502.9d: Ignore this rule.}}
** It was originally a rule involving assigning trample damage that became obsolete, but kept to avoid renumbering the rest of the rules. It was finally removed when Eighth Edition was released.
* [[Dungeons & Dragons]]: Page 128 of the 3.5 Dungeon Masters Guide has a list of traits to flesh out NPCs. Number 26 is <s> blank</s> ''missing entirely'', and Number 100 reads "No sense of humor (See #26)".▼
* The [[Monty Python]] version of ''[[Fluxx]]'' has a card called "[[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels]]." Two people playing the game must each choose a number between one and four. One is subtracted from the sum of those two numbers, and a rule corresponding to that resulting number must be followed. There Is No Rule Six.
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▲* [[Dungeons & Dragons]]: Page 128 of the 3.5 ''Dungeon Masters Guide'' has a list of traits to flesh out NPCs. Number 26 is <s> blank</s> ''missing entirely'', and Number 100 reads "No sense of humor (See #26)".
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Dramatic example from ''[[Fiddler on the Roof]]'', when Tevye is mulling over whether to accept Chava marrying a non-Jew: "On the other hand... there ''is'' no other hand!"
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(bot 2 studies the memo) (beat)
'''Bot 2''': There ''IS'' no step 2.
'''Bot 1''': ([[Face Palm|puts a manipulator to its camera]])}}
== [[Web Original]] ==
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