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[[File:weirdness-censor buffy 145.png|link=Buffy the Vampire Slayer|frame| "This is our year. If we can focus, keep discipline, and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|not have quite as many mysterious deaths,]] Sunnydale is gonna rule!"
{{quote|''"Your species has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity [[In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves|when trying to destroy itself]]."''
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* In the 2008 ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'', the only one to make the connection is the Mayor. Other than that, Whoville makes [[Buffy|Sunnydale look like a highly alert town.]]
** Though, the members of the city council help to actively enforce the Weirdness Censor, which helps a little to justify this. Not by much, but still...
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' parodies this hilariously. The Griffins ignore the giant squid that destroys their home, [[Elephant in
* Officer Barbrady does this a lot in the early episodes of ''[[South Park]]'', whether it's political corruption or alien plots.
* Played straight and subverted in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bETCusT5kNM Cat Came Back cartoon] when the old man takes the cat for a ride into the mountains on a train trolley. Along the way, he runs over or passes several women tied to the train tracks, unfazed. But when he spots a ''cow'' tied to the tracks...
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